skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://linuxfr.org/news/batir-une-communaute-comme-un-servi...
Publishers have always had discretion over what they publish or distribute. That has not changed.
This seems naive - if Senators were executed we would possibly be talking about a full blown transition to an authoritarian Trump regime.

In a scenario where a Trump incited mob executes Senators while the police and national guard do nothing is tantamount to a military coup. The replacements would have no reason to believe that their lives wouldn't also be in danger if they didn't certify Trump as the winner of the 2020 elections. At that point Trump has effectively side stepped the Constitution and usurped power through violence - which is literally the end of the republic.
It did not became less totalitarian as much as less violent. The control over population remained strong, they did not gained new rights.
Websites should be more like Star Wars
You don’t need to create your own alternative to AWS. There are a large number of cloud infrastructure and hosting providers around the world. And multiple competitors to AWS in the US alone.
It is a lot easier to become a US citizen than an Australian one.
There's a difference between you running "a" forum and controlling 99% of the internet. It's good to break up huge monopolies.
Was that screenshot legit or fake news? I don’t believe anything these days. If it’s legit, was the post taken down. That kind of text sounds actually illegal and against the Parler TOS
It's not so simple. Which Android phone has convergence, killswitches, will be updated forever and has other 3 innovations [0]?

[0] https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...
Censors are never worried about lies, the truth is what bothers them.
A Hong Kong Website Gets Blocked, Raising Censorship Fears
This has been abused time after time specially in places like Australia as much as I dislike a lot of things about the states, their stance on free speech is superior to any country. Not only that but what do you think you get by copying and pasting a vague wikipedia article, lol
There is definitely not a good definition for hate speech and it will always be used to destroy dissident though please stop licking the boots of the powerful
> It's the agreed upon pronunciation we all ought to use when working together.

Agreed upon by whom? By the in-group? Why does this "agreed-upon pronunciation" take precedence over the "agreed-upon pronunciation" of English?
The problem with that for fb is that the people who are willing to pay for these kinds of things make a great cohort to target. So if you exclude them, you can’t do that anymore
Most of the western democracies (all?)except the US don't have that unregulated concept of free speech.
I don't see and hear anything about gulags in GB, France or Germany. They just don't have mobs trying to overtrhow the gouvernemnt.
What? The Republicans are the main beneficiary of fake news. They have their own media structure. Almost all talk radio is conservative, for example. It's hugely successful. People will pay money to be told that it's all the fault of the black/feminist/Marxist conspiracy. Especially if that's not true.
In describing how he built his database Turchin says [0] it is about lethal events:

"Instability events vary in scale from intense and pro-
longed civil wars claiming thousands (and sometimes
even millions) of human lives to a one-day urban riot
in which several people are killed, or even a violent
demonstration in which no lives are lost. In constructing
the database I chose to include only lethal events."

[0] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022343312442078
I never found cycling to do any good for me. I need to run or work out.
It's probably just Russia. Software developer salaries in Ukraine[0] are usually in 2k-5k per month range with virtually no tax overhead. Median for the city of Kyiv was 2800 USD per month in 2020.

You probably can get as low as 300 working in public sector, but I'm not sure about that now.

[0] https://dou.ua/lenta/articles/salary-report-devs-june-2020/
Wait so your criticism of wikipedia is it is too complicated to understand and you can't effectively criticize wikipedia if you dont understand it?

That's certainly a criticism i haven't heard before. I suppose in a way its true - wikipedia has its own culture, norms, etc, both written and unwritten, which can be hard to penetrate for an outsider (i would argue that WMF also struggles with that). But i think any large online community is going to have that. Heck, actual anthropologists have written actual books on the culture of debian, i dont see why wikipedia would be any less complicated.

> Another issue is that Wikipedians probably won't want to associate their Wikipedia identity with their HN identity (and similar).

And that is an issue because? [For the record my wikipedia username is the same as my HN username, and i know other people for which that is also true]
On Facebook, “WalkAway” a community that was devoted to compiling hundreds of thousands of ex-Democrat video and text testimonials was banned. It was not about Q and didn’t advocate breaking into government buildings.

It was the most wholesome right wing space I’ve ever seen on the internet. People sharing their experiences being alienated by either how they saw media manipulate a story they knew about or by how divisive partisanship and cancel culture personally affected them. Welcoming each other in the comments regardless of their sexual orientation or race. It would have been a useful place to learn from but now it’s gone.
yes, a 100% they can. look at the payouts of nodeJS or Nuxt or VueJS developers - and rightly so. Top contributors who fix a lot of bugs get payouts of 10,000+ USD every month.
facial recognition tools and Clearview AI existed on Wednesday, when people invaded the capitol and then stood around taking selfies for an hour. It's possible that most of them had never heard of facial recognition or didn't realize that it could be used. But I'd be surprised if that were the case.

This technology is here, being used openly today. If has a chilling effect, where is it?
While I completely get the sentiment: I missed these complaints when platforms didn't grant ISIS free reign to spread their propaganda. Dealing in absolutes doesn't do the nuanced systems governing our reality justice, you should know that.

To illustrate: absolutely free speech would imply the right to harmfully agitate kids for whatever your cause is. Does it seem obvious that this is a bad idea? Then just extrapolate "kids are easy to manipulate" to "adults are mostly just older kids".

And btw, I know what it's like to be on the other side. That doesn't justify turning a blind eye to the madness that comes with absolute free speech.

Either you accept that a line has to be drawn somewhere, or you accept every consequence of absolute free speech. Which, imo, would be a terrible idea with 7 billion people just waiting to be gamed through their fears.

Don't get me wrong, I don't consider what we're seeing here unproblematic at all. I just don't consider absolute free speech to be unproblematic either, quite the opposite.
That's brilliant! I wholeheartedly agree. In case anyone wonders where this saying comes from, my quick search attributes it to Margaret Atwood, from her book "The Testaments" [0].

[0] https://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/as-they-say-history-does-not-repeat-itself-but-it-rhymes/
> Internet exchanges don't have acceptable use policies.

The traffic through an IX (like SIX) is governed by a rat's nest of bilateral peering agreements, and those bilateral agreements have AUPs.

Peering exchanges are nice, but are effectively a corner case optimization on the modern internet. You still need a default route from somebody, and the major carriers all refuse to sell default routes through peering exchanges (for understandable reasons).

Everybody who will sell you a link with a default route will insist on something vaguely similar to an AUP.
you are using buzzwords, everything is fear mongering if you fear it. Everything is some kind of fallacy. Make better arguments.
Maybe they should rename it to YATNS/Yet Another Thing Named Skynet?
Do you even get dollars or you have fixed sum in RUB in your contract?
Without water you die. You will be totally fine even if you no longer can post insane conspiracy theories about microchipped pedophiles who want to eat your brains on Twitter. Because you can still make a sign and stand outside city hall to protest it.
Kaszynski could have published a book. If none of the major publishers would have carried it, be could find an alternative publisher, or even self-publish. If it weren't sold in stores, it could have been photocopied. Remember that samizdat existed in the Soviet Union without requiring terrorism to publish.

No, he wanted eyeballs, and the best way to get those was to mail bombs. He wanted to terrify people into listening to him. His ideas weren't palatable on their own so he took a shortcut paid in human lives.
The ones that don't make the bar at the renewal time go home, and many did.
Legal arguments aside.

If you believe strongly that your platform is used to organize something in two weeks that will result in the death of innocent people and you believe strongly that you can just flip a switch to prevent that, would you?
This needs to happen. Parler is not a "social network" in the same way Twitter, Facebook or Reddit are. It is a radicalisation platform hiding behind a Silicon Valley style startup veneer.

I signed up for Parler 6 weeks ago and what I have seen from the platform is frightening. It isn't dumb memes and gifs but hardcore alt-right propaganda and conspiracy theories.

Within hours of commenting on posts I was contacted about joining groups of "like minded patriots" (their actual words). This lead to Telegram and Discord servers dedicated to "their cause". These places are highly organised. Unique URLs with multiple 'decoy and delay' steps to find and remove people from sharing links with authorities for example.

They have detailed (probably some of the best tbh) guides on signing up for secure services like Protonmail for email, installing Tor and Tails to access Onion services (this leads to a whole other world of horrors), how to use Bitcoin to purchase what are essentially burner SIM cards and phones to sign up to other services, and advice on how to recruit your friends and family such as conversation topics and “gotcha” responses, manipulated media to share, psychological and emotional manipulation techniques, etc.

The techniques used are no different to what we have seen from groups like ISIS/ISIL over the past decade.

I support free speech but this goes beyond that IMHO. This isn't strongly disagreeing with government policies but clearly talking about murdering those they believe are wrong. I have seen people seriously talking about kidnapping and murdering politicians. Posting photos of their weapons. Sharing detailed instructions on homemade chemical weapons and IEDs from people who clearly have military knowledge of such things.

When ISIS was releasing daily videos of horrific murders everyone called for such recruitment platforms to be shut down. It wasn't a matter of free speech then and it isn't now. The only difference is that these are (mostly) white American and European people not brown people from the middle east. The message and methodologies used are the same though.

Parler is without question a platform for radicalisation and recruitment for "western jihad" as I have seen people un-ironically use. It needs to go and I fully support Amazon, Apple, Google and whoever else in shutting them down.
Not sure how common it is but it's not that difficult to get more.
A bit difficult for me to say what the exact numbers are at the moment but most of my friends make around 4 to 5 thousands USD after all taxes (nvidia, jetbrains, some remote work).
There was a website used to organize the rally called "wildprotest.com" Was as in it was purged, here is an archive: https://archive.vn/wnWfF

On this site there is a bit about the hotels they used. But the interesting bit is the ride sharing part of the website. There is a list of users seeking or have obtained rides to the protest on that site. Looking up a few of the names yielded positive results for coup attendees.

Note, "wild protest" is the phrase Trump used to describe the event he planned down the road from the Capitol building. He timed the rally to end at 1pm, when the tally started. He told his followers to pressure "weak" Republicans who by this time included Pence by name. They set upon the building and within the hour they were besieging it.

Our president really did use mob rule in an attempt to overturn the election results. It really was planned well in advance, all in public. Republicans taking part in the legislative side of the coup like Marjorie Taylor Greene were smiling[1] as the mob forced them all to bunker down for their lives. This was their plan all along and if they couldn't get enough Republicans on board without violence, violence is what they were going to bring.

I can't get over this. Nearly 150 Republicans who were part of this coup attempt still went with it after the violence failed to pressure more into joining.

[1] While the doors and windows were still being smashed, Republicans seen smiling and laughing while refusing masks offered by Democrats bunkered with them: https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/01/09/gop-lawmakers...
Try New Zealand. Even harder.
Well at teh end of the day the guy was right if anything you are not making your case properly, we live in a cyberpunk dystopia and maybe maybe if more people though like him, instead of licking Jeff Bezzos boot, then we would not have people mpeeing in bottles to make him and the technocrats richer by the second.
They werent strange ideas, they are a crude reality that we have seen deployed ever since.
Noise Planets
In the language of game theory (but not with enough evidence, so this is a Just-So-Story):

When he was a journalist, Johnson discovered that “write disparaging lies [0] about European politics” was a successful strategy.

It is plausible others noticed this, and likewise found easier to win power by euro-bashing than by being honest.

Given the cognitive biases which makes repetition of claims make those claims seem more true, from that point on you get your meme which got out of hand and drove the referendum and its result.

Defect-Defect.

[0] https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/times-boris-johnson-flat-lied-13...
I just want to point out that pronouncing etc as etsy isn't universal by any means - in fact I suspect it's a very American pronunciation. If you pronounced it 'etsy' in a sentence here in the UK, people wouldn't understand what you're talking about.
> - Speech without a platform isn't speech at all

Could you clarify what you mean exactly with this. In my mind people should have a right to ignore speech they don't want to hear. Furthermore, the definition of a "platform" has become very diffuse with the advent of the internet. In the before times you were either in the newspaper most people read, or maybe on one of the handful of TV channels, or you basically did not have a platform beyond the people you could physically interact with. Whereas now you can have many options which all reach different kinds and amounts of people.

I have many vague feelings but maybe I can sum them up in the following, probably unhelpful, statement: people have a right to a platform that is equivalent to standing in a town square and yelling.
CTO day 2: downsizing the team
At least whatever does not contradict all scientific results.
which is to say, Apple and Hyundai are indeed in early talks.
Nature Is Not Natural
As soon as we invite our only intuition to reason, it continually misleads us. Grasping reality is far too complex to be a simple personal affair and its non-obvious nature forces us to take advantage of previous discoveries. Let me convince you with some examples.
This is a straw man argument. We’re not discussing whether a private company should be allowed to have a TOS or control their TOS. We are discussing if a privately owned public communication platform used by the majority of a population should be able to control speech. Also at stake is if a large corporation should be able to have TOS that are anti competitive. (I.E. have TOS that in effect stifle competition)
In your fictional view, you are giving America way too much credit.

The Chinese would’ve come online, sooner or later. The WTO sped up the process of course, but China’s technological ascendancy was inevitable.

The other theory is that if China was denied entry into the WTO, then they would’ve just created their own international trading agreement. And in 2020, they did just that, and called it the RCEP.

Besides, without China, then your iPhone would’ve probably never been created. Apple would’ve never made enough money from the iPod, to justify further investment into the iPhone. China and the iPhone, really are symbiotic. Instead, we might all be living in a Blackberry world.
I'm a su-dougher, because "pseudo" reminds me I can be someone else.
I see what you mean with giving equal weight to all rights, but there are implementation differences. To not discriminate, you’re restricting an action that might be taken. That does not incur cost or new effort. To facilitate speech, you’re compelling an action to happen that someone may not want to do, especially one that doesn’t provide any benefit to them and may incur additional costs.

The right of free expression is guaranteed by the first amendment by restricting the government from infringing upon your right. It doesn’t say the government or anyone else has to give you a microphone.
f-sick over here.
> pseudo

I'm originally Italian and my English is now quite good. A very, very common mistake among most "mediterranean" and "romance languages" (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, Romanian) people when speaking English is to pronounce ps as in "pissed" without the "i", instead of just the "s" (the "p" is silent), which is the correct way to pronounce it in English.

Another very common mistake in my language group is the "gn", as in signal.

Correct English is sig-nal [0], while my group usually says it with a different "gn" sound [1].

Well, there's much more, of course, but I wanted to share these two just because, anecdotally, I hear the mistake very often.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whOXnmbOJvQ

[1]: https://forvo.com/word/segnale/
Late forties too... Got burn out and now I'm studying again to get a engineering degree in data sciences (yeah, the full hype thing). It feels so good to study (with 20 y.o. kids :-)), and it sure dwarfs the lack of money coming in (I'm not working because studying is a full time job).

So it's a totally risk career move but that's either that either being sad at my workplace. Hopefully I'll feel empowered by the degree and be able to move on professionnaly.
FWIW, it's very common in my company. That said, I think if you came to interview with me and you'd say "e t c," that'd be totally fine. If you said "et cetera," I'd be confused for a bit, but personally, I wouldn't care.

Same with curl. Is it "curl" or "c URL"? Who cares...
Hmmm yeah.

Though $88/100 is super unrealistic with margins on electronics of 1-2% Amazon would be taking a loss of what the profit from 10 laptop sales every time they dealt with someone buying a laptop all in gift cards.

Or maybe gift cards are so rarely used in this way they write it off with higher margin uses
I don't see the link either (on Desktop).
Can you quote specific rhetoric which was violent? Twitter did not name a single tweet or written or spoken sentence from Trump where he advocated for violence in their blog post where they announced the ban (https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...).

I do agree Trump has a huge history of lying, and was continuing to lie with his claims about the election. However, I find the claim that Trump "incited" the riot to be unfounded and am shocked to see everyone use that word so casually. If and when this goes to court, I guarantee they will not be able to prove that Trump incited a violent riot simply because the evidence does not support it.

Remember, there were tens of thousands of attendees in DC in support of Trump, across several separate events. To my knowledge, all these events had applied for permits and were granted them, allowing the city and other agencies (like National Park Service) to plan their response and presence.

At the capitol, a few hundred people came onto the capitol grounds. Of those, an even smaller subset engaged in theft, vandalism, and other violence. But the vast majority of people that came to DC this last week for Trump did not engage in violence. So how can it be claimed that Trump incited violence? He made false claims about the election, and a small number of people took those claims and used it as justification for criminality. But to me that seems like the fault of those who participated and not really a justification for banning Trump.
GP was joking about the name of the project itself infringing on Disney trademarks, but (as a peer notes) Fox/Disney hasn't registered a trademark on Skynet.
> So if Amazon decide that some company is a dangerous competitor to them, and that company uses AWS, then they could just immediately shut down their competitor, because they could find some "hate content" on their website.

That's in the TOS, yes. Or actually, a lot more broader: activities "that may be harmful to others, our operations or reputation," are reasons for termination. (EDIT: I now actually wonder if they grant large customers with specially negotiated deals explicit changes to these terms - if you do a large multi-year contract, surely your lawyers would want some more security on that)

Re your example, at least from a quick look at the search results, the versions of "Mein Kampf" Amazon.de offers are all legal to sell in Germany. (Its legal status was and is ... somewhat complicated, changed in recent years due to copyright expiring, and "it's banned" is not quite accurate)
Thank you for the info, I never knew about those two events!

> "From 1945 to 1950, the Allied powers detained over 400,000 Germans in internment camps in extrajudicial fashion in the name of denazification."
lol at the last tip (⌐■_■)
> It's not that complicated, when you incite violent insurrection against the government

We support people rising up against what we consider bad governments using these platforms, and get quite angry when they’re banned though.

(Not picking sides, just trying to understand the nuance)
100% agree (also British). Been working with Kubernetes full time for 2 years now and I still hate 'etsyd'
This article reminds me of recipes I find online: lots of fluff without actually getting to the meat of the content.
Right now this is true. But I think you are slightly misunderstanding the situation. The real question is, should society allow major communications networks used by the majority of a population (private or public) to censor speech.

This is the question for this generation. The laws and constitution can be changed to reflect the will of the majority.

So stop arguing about what the law says now and look at the bigger picture. What should the law say.
There are plenty of direct messaging apps and services people can use to continue to do so such as iMessage, WhatsApp, SMS, email and many more.

The issue is publishing services with discoverability where anyone can see or subscribe to your feed, those are more like a letters page and service providers have a clear interest in what they are publishing for you.
Then what do you think happens when you read from your mapped memory and the file system is corrupted and returns an error, or the drive has a bad sector, or the nfs server acts up...