skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Freedom of Association: An individual's right to join or leave groups voluntarily, the right of the group to take collective action to pursue the interests of its members, and the right of an association to accept or decline membership based on certain criteria.

There is clear conflict with how our society views the roles of private companies vs. individuals, the technology driven communication platforms they provide, and how individuals and groups use those platforms.

However, it is not a forgone conclusion that censorship by private organizations and individuals via platforms they control is a violation of freedom of speech.

No one has the right to forcibly silence someone else, with governments being only one of many traditional perpetrators with means and motives to do so. But individuals and groups cannot forcibly enlist others to help spread their message. My local church can't force me to espouse my love for their god, nor am I forced to listen to a random passerby on the street.

These 2 principals can be easily agreed with in theory, as requirements for a well functioning society. But with technology, comes the ability to convert capital into speech, and those 2 principals come into natural conflict. The written language, the printing press, the internet, etc. are all tools that can be used in conjunction with capital to amplify speech, and drown out the speech of others via shear volume. It isn't necessary to silence someone else, if yelling over them achieves the same effect.

Thus continues the ever-lasting compromise and conflict between our rights as individuals. There is no free lunch, no easy solution.
You will appreciate this article then https://eand.co/they-werent-rioters-they-were-fascists-it-wa...
Yes. And it’s beyond ridiculous when these are imported and translated literally to be used as propaganda tools in countries with very different issues. Like the European ramifications of Qanon or some versions of identity politics...
It is still something that everyone using the language have to deal with, regardless how little it is.

Whereas with automatic memory management languages, if and only when it becomes an hurdle, the performance expert can pick up a profiler and only optimise what is required.

Using .NET as example, then one can think about struct vs class, new vs stackalloc vs Marshal.AllocHGlobal, direct arrays vs Span<>.

Or based on experience, already pick the right data structure and memory location right from the start.
Thanks. Sure.

> and if you keep creating accounts to abuse HN we will ban your main account as well.

What do you mean by my main account?
At the risk of massively overgeneralising, your conclusion is generally how free speech is generally aligned with how non-US western nations approach free speech.

IMO, nobody gets it 100% right 100% of the time, but the USA model isn’t the perfect or only solution.

Legislation has a place in limiting the power and reach of social media, which would naturally diffuse the kind of problems people have with big tech.
I don’t think it’s bragging; I think it’s to establish credibility (“ethos”)
No, I completely understand that, but like I wrote, evidence of any form of inciting violence is enough, I just need something to point to to stop people from falsely claiming that people on the left are lying about their reasons for banning orange Hitler
Go Language at 13 Years: Ecosystem, Evolution, and Future
> On this occasion, we launched a fundraising campaign, with the aim of financing the €60,000 that this development would cost us.

It's amazing how much was achieved with so little money. Compared to many startups that raised 1M for a year and barely have a product after that.
That is the whole point. No one is going to pay foreigners 2x if the local is available at 1x. Markets work better than any paperwork.
https://archive.is/X4x7d
It's a paid network. https://siasky.net/ is free for the moment, but will be switching to a freemium model in the near future. As a portal, siasky will have the ability to ratelimit and block abusers.

If you "abuse" the network using your own node, you will have to pay for everything you upload and download, which means the people storing it won't really think of it as abuse, you're just another paying customer.
If he's in Russia, he gets paid in rubles. It's easier to just put out USD values everyone can understand considering how international HN is. Also,not sure if that's still the case but US dollars used to be tightly woven into day to day lives of Russians because of ruble's instability.
Internet infrastructure was actually built with a lot of public money and the internet is already accepted as the way that communication between people is done. You’re a little late with this comment, I’m afraid.

If the internet were publicly owned, wouldn’t it actually be _considerably harder_ to cut someone off from it because of the government’s responsibility to ensure equitable access to utilities (like you propose the internet will become)?
Not according to the supreme court.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
Nonsense. You can make this working as a cashier at Magnit (grocery chain). Average salary for non-skilled labor outside of Moscow is $500 per month. Probably higher when you consider the gray/black market (tax avoidance is huge here).

A competent software developer in Russia working remotely for western countries is making at least $20 per hour, and in many cases much more. Even a developer working for local companies is going to make several grand per month.
And what's that got to do with Trump constantly lying and falsely claiming that the election was somehow "rigged"?

In the time since this article on disinformation was written Trump has incited a mob to invade the Capitol Building, again based on his false claims that the election was "stolen".

He's not making America great, he's making it worse. He's trying as hard as he can to turn America into a banana republic.

It's not that it's a deliberate goal. It's worse than that. He simply doesn't care.
For me, closing down “bad enough” actors is a good thing, but the big question is “Who’s going to decide who are those, and what’s ‘bad enough’?”.

I don’t think the answer to that should be “a few people at large companies that are, at best, kept at bay by rich people buying or selling the company’s shares” (their customers have too little choice to exert much pressure. I also don’t see protests at BigCo’s headquarters or angry mobs storming BigCo HQ to force them to change course (other ways to exert pressure), but maybe I’m not looking far enough into the future)

These large companies act as judge, jury and executioner, and don’t allow appeals.
Yes, it very much is an issue with squats for many people.

If your posterior chain is too tight, you will round your back to compensate for an inability to hold your legs in the right position while hinging your hip enough.

Low bar if anything requires you to be able to keep your back tight while hinging more at the hip.

A lot of people can't do that without a few weeks of stretches first, thanks to years at a desk.
https://archive.is/qOo1c
Accountability for lies, deceit, fraudulent accusations, thuggery, incitement to mob rule and stopping a cult, are worthy goals.

Politics need moderation from falsehoods and slander, and should be about policy, goals and reasons behind the projects.
There are meshnet projects out there. As for devices, you could try the Freedombox?

https://freedombox.org/#get
Atul Gawande wrote a book (Being Mortal) about geriatric care in which he has interviews with researchers who emphasized the importance of the elderly being in an environment they are most comfortable and familiar with.

So spending your last days in your home would actually be a better proposition even if you are in hospice care.
I miss 5-6 years ago when "fake news" wasn't a thing and that term didn't exist in the mainstream conversation.
protip: they never actually believed anything they were saying, they just want to use the opportunity to criminalize and ban their political opposition
As pointed out by fang's pinned comment. Sites, companies and services have rules of engagement which if broken even in the flimsiest sense (e.g snark, I've been snarky here and have been rightfully warned). Break those rules of engagement and expect the consequences. I think for those who have issues with this latest outcasting of Parker by the big three, you will have to encourage your government to treat them as utilities and support anti trust cases against them. I predict that suggestion to clash with the libertarian nature of those concerned.
How do you handle the notability requirement? Or are your topics too obscure for anyone to care?
The POTUS has an official website, whitehouse.gov. He has an entire media and communications team to promulgate his views.

The newspaper/TV/radio industry has operated as a curated medium, with editors and journalists operating, mostly, according to professional standards.

The internet/web has enabled people, organizations, and governments to bypass those media, but public education, particularly for those who finished their K-12 education prior to the web (basically anyone over the age of 45), didn't educate people on how to evaluate unfiltered, uncurated information.
I think the word "intolerant" has become such a loaded term that phrasing it this way will simply invite people to twist the words around. They'll just take whatever position they're opposed to and declare it to be "intolerance" and therefore worthy of suppression.
Joe Biden tried to introduce the infamous Clipper Chip in 1991 (see page 63):

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/28754/5982256...

Now that Silicon Valley corporations fall over themselves to appease the Democrats, perhaps he has a second chance.
Are you fucking kidding me?

They were chanting "Hang Pence", they had guns, they killed a police officer, they setup a fucking gallows. They were seeking hostages and a few guards and chair barricade were the only thing preventing them from stopping the certification process for the the first time in our countries history.

Are you really this disconnected from what is actually happening right now or do you have you head so far up your ass that you can't see the difference between civil rights protests and an armed coup at the capitol of the United States?
Re 3), at least in my circles (finished uni past few years) plenty folks got junior positions at Google, Amazon, and MS (a good chunk through internships, but not only)
> async/await in 1995

Unix had fork and wait before 1979.

Unix shell:

# run some commands asynchronously

$ command1 &
$ command2 &
$ command3 &

# wait for all of them

$ wait
Well of course they get RUB, the question is -- whether the sum in RUB fluctuates along with exchange rate or stays fixed and they eat the cost of denomination.
Think about it this way. To be able to find who is hosting the file, we need a mutable shared data structure which can be updated with this information as it changes over time. In IPFS, this is fulfilled by the DHT, whereas in Skynet/Sia the blockchain takes over the role.
This is kind of the problem: Twitter will invite a revolution whether your country needs it or not.
Trump can put out whatever bullshit he likes on whitehouse.gov. The public servants/administration staff that do that have to understand that if they disagree with what he wants to put out, they can object through official channels, and if that is not enough, quit.
Always-On Time-Series Database: Keeping Up Where There's No Way to Catch Up
What lack of discipline are you talking about? What has JavaScript to do with discipline?
It's not clear that the speech in question is perfectly legal. Parler is being cut off because of an inability to prevent the organization of crimes on their platform.

But no, it's not clear to me that there should be laws like that. Why should a phone company be obliged to do business with the American Nazi Party? A law like that might have made sense back when a) phone companies were monopolies, and b) the telephone network was the only way for people to get in touch. But neither is true now.

There are plenty of competitors to AWS. Why should the government take away the freedom of association of hosting businesses?
> All of the major social media companies blocked a significant portion of the population because of the attempted subversion of democracy in the country.

Where did this happen?

Because I saw some specific tags blocked calling for a VP to be killed blocked (vs some generic "kill all humans" hyperbole)... and specific account blocked after its owner triggered an attack on the Capitol that resulted in 5 casualties (and breaking the rules of the platform for 4+ years)

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Are you trying to say people who were pro-talking about killing Pence and storming the Capitol are a significant population?

Because last time I checked there were still tens of millions of conservatives on Twitter who aren't banned
The Clean Network
Autonomous systems don't depend on a default route. It's not difficult or expensive to set up a BGP router. The labels attached to these contracts and agreements are really beside the point. If you want to play the Internet game then it's worthwhile to play it as an equal. If you host your business in the cloud then Amazon has shown us today that they will delete you like a bad YouTube comment the moment people weep and wail on Twitter.
You know, you aren’t going to catch Trump say “please go down there and break in and kill people”. That would be directing violence.

But given the context of everything, did he incite violence? You’re saying I’m misinterpreting Trump. Given the situation he’s set up, is it a surprise at all that many others might have interpreted what he said in the same way?

If a BLM organizer says “lets go out there and protest peacefully” and then follows up with “but you know that Footlocker on Main and 34th? We definitely shouldn’t burn the place down. But you know, the owners of that place are awful people. We need to show strength. They are evil. But don’t burn it down. But really they’re evil”, I’d say that was inciting violence too.
Or, don't have any structure and let people host their own little public square themselves. Little mom and pop nazi/terrorist boards on smaller providers all over the web.

Twitter is kinda great that I can post direct to the whole world. But that requires a bit of discipline. As an affect I somewhat think through what I'm posting. Much like what we all try to do here.

Everyone around here pines for the older internet. And one of the ways to get it back is to have standards, that are visible and enforced on larger platforms so people know, that speech has consequences.

And if people want to do their seditious terrorist thing. They can host it themselves and manage all the risk.

No public square has every been as big as some of these sites. So maybe the metaphor doesn't work.
Face recognition is here to stay, like it or not. If it is legal for a human being to watch CCTV feed, the pressure to replace them with a machine won’t subside.

I think prohibiting recognition and tracking for commercial reason without explicit consent, plus allowing recognition and tracking only when acting on a court order would be a good start.
> You're taking Kamala's comments out of context. She has, even at the time, disavowed rioting and looting, but encouraged peaceful protest

Only after the protests had been raging for months. Nor did she call out the specific groups responsible for the violence.

And in any case, actions speak louder than words, and her bail efforts fall into that category. Now, you've questioned whether those bail funds went to the rioters. Let's be clear: the organization that she was donating to explicitly doesn't filter who they bail out based on the circumstances of the arrest. This was not an effort to merely help the peaceful protesters unlawfully arrested by authoritarian cops (which no doubt there was some of that) it was for everyone. There is no way rioters weren't included in that group. And it's clear that the politicians and celebrities who donated to that fund didn't care.

> To compare the two is highly disingenuous.

It is not at all. Democratic politicians and public figures have been providing cover for rampant criminal behavior for months. AOC brushes it off as "making people uncomfortable". Chris Cuomo of CNN asked "Where is it written that protests have to be polite or peaceful?" live on air. Joe Biden only really started condemning the violence after Don Lemon and others pointed out that the rioting was hurting the Democrats in the polls.
Same for me. Definitely would be an interesting family fortunes/family feud question
The percentage of people who became rioters is irrelevant.

Trump talked about marching to the Capitol building and “showing strength” at the rally. His employee, Giuliani, was making comments about hand to hand combat at the rally. Before the rally, he commented that it was going to be a wild day. During the riot, he praised the rioters by referring to them fondly as special people. I don’t think even this rundown does complete justice as to what Trump did.

In the context of a criminal trial, Trump could claim ignorance of what his actions meant. I think that would be a hard sell considering he’s a professional politician and the President of the United States. In the context of an impeachment trial, I don’t think claims of ignorance could hold. Even allowing it, that level of cluelessness and recklessness still qualifies as high crimes and misdemeanors.
> Are FAANG jobs really that different compared to the rest of opportunities people have in Europe (in the same way that they are in the US)?

The difference is exactly the same, just that salaries are much worse overall in Europe so even though FAANG pay the same percentage more those salaries here don't look as impressive. The main reason not a lot of people work for FAANG in Europe is that FAANG doesn't hire a lot of people in Europe so those jobs are really hard to get compared to in USA.
This is incorrect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_in_the_United_Stat...

The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that hate speech is legally protected free speech under the First Amendment
Normally a submission like this would be much better presented as a blog post rather than a string of tweets. But given the content, Twitter does seem to be the right place to publish this. Still, for the sake of easier reading: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1348147867739975681.html
You mean they tried to make a useful site. During that period search engines were new, and people didn't yet start search result optimization hacking. Which meant ranking was still a good proxy for site quality and not for optimization hacking.

The conscious choice to leave the money on the table is exactly the same. Instead of optimizing for cash value which is just a proxy for real value, wikipedia optimized for quality encyclopedic knowledge distribution.
These robots are nowhere near the strength of an industrial one, so that’s a bad comparison - it is perfectly safe to dance alongside them.

I am not sure about the exact number, but the dog-like robot can handle at most 30-40 kilos of weight, maybe the humanoid a bit more but in the same ballpark. The most dangerous would be the rolling one, since it has a counterweight, and crashing into someone would be bad but that’s it.

They are absolutely not your average “able to lift 1 tonne” hydraulic arm robots that could indeed barely notice a human as resistence in its movement.
To put this quote in context, I’ll also add that before Trump addressed the crowd, Giuliani said "If we are wrong we will be made fools of, but if we're right a lot of them will go to jail. So let's have trial by combat."
Trump asked people to come. He’s spent the last several weeks asserting that the election was stolen. They stole your vote. Saying these people are corrupt and ruining this country. His personal lawyer tells the crowd that they should have trial by combat. Trump says they need march on the Capital and show strength. Be strong. Take back our country.

Yeah, that’s incitement.
I'm 45 and I'm generally impressed by the discipline in (good) younger programmers.

For the most part they follow much better processes and get better outcomes and my generation at that age.

(I don't think the JS ecosystem is great, and have mixed opinions about JS as a language, but they don't detract from the discipline of young programmers)
K8s Heketi: RESTful management interface to manage the life cycle of GlusterFS
I would ask on what basis you think this image is not sexist or unwelcoming? You are allowed to think that of course, I'm just curious.

I have a small sample size but I have been in a conversation with my wife and some of her female friends (who all had whom have CS degrees), and they all agreed they dislike the use of this image.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24110992
They are not. They are decided what is published on their platform and what not. Who can publish on their platform and who not. All limited to their respective platform.
The term "allowed" in its generality can only refer to legal action, and that is reserved to the state. And I am sure there will be plenty of legal aftermath to the recent events too.

Having said that, it is indeed disturbing how large the actual power of those big companies is. As a society, we have to consider how this should be handled going forward.
My favorite Schubert piece is his late piano Sonata No 21 first movement in B flat major (D960). Especially the opening theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOUNRRAFozA&ab_channel=Murra...

His three late Sonatas are extremely long though, almost 45 minutes each. I haven't had the time to actually listen to all three in one go.
Agree. Most English people at least would be nonplussed if you said "etsy etsy" rather than "etcetra etcetra" to indicate something that goes on and on.
Is that what's being done? For that to be the case you'd have to believe that all of the people who voted for Trump are in favor of the actions of the minority who stormed the Capitol and call for violence on platforms like Parler. That doesn't seem likely to me.
> Taiwan has 20 million people. Mainland china has 1.4 billion people. I believe the "self-determination" part is already settled.

What does population have to do with self determination?

> Nope. Let them settle it. We shouldn't have been involved in the first place.

Except they were allied with the US and deals were drawn up that should be honored.

> Are you serious? One is the second largest economy in the world. The other is taiwan.

He said in a strategic industry, which semiconductors are.

If there is TSMC spam it's probably because this is a tech forum and they is a lot of movement in the field in the last year, mostly related to the failings of Intel and the rise of TSMC.
I have come here to state that the very name of this piece of software to me is offensive to the degree that I have never from my first perceiving it years ago to this day even remotely considered using it or even read its docs. The insensibility of it popping up in times like these and branding itself with the words "freedom fighters" is staggering and disturbing. I want to encourage the community to make it clear to the owners of said software in no uncertain terms that their frivolous use of words is at best immature and unreflected, that the continued use of even metaphorical language like "gun[s] for fighters" will be seen as a glorification of violence, and has no place among people whose endeavor is the peaceful, democratic exchange of ideas.
So you're saying that a large chunk of Trump voters support the failed coup attempt?

And that treating that as terrorism is a bad idea. Because they're going to get even angrier?