skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other people have pointed out that Trump and much of the GOP just launched a coup, so I'll leave that aside.

Of course it's different from living under a fascist government. A totalitarian government would send you to a prison camp or kill you for saying the wrong thing. The Stasi would systematically and invisibly ruin all your relationships and your career. People who are banned from Twitter can go to another website or start their own. If they're banned from Stripe, they can use Visa or pay in cash. If they are banned from social media, they can hop on any of the numerous right-wing TV stations or write for any of the numerous right-wing newspapers.

Even if this were the government, it would be an exaggeration to say that these actions are totalitarian. There are countries today where you could get locked up for having the wrong opinion that are miles from being fascist. Germany springs to mind, since many people have been arrested for Holocaust denial. Many European countries tick along just fine despite the fact that they would instantly throw the likes of the Westboro Baptist Church in prison.

The American dedication to freedom of speech is admirable. However, it is also an aberration. Since the American approach to freedom of speech is not the norm, we should treat it as rare and precious but also recognize that things would be mostly fine with some restrictions. Cool it with the hyperbole.
The Agencies that are responsible in investigating/securing/storage/and study, operate outside the sphere of Government. Everything is on a need to know basis and even POTUS lacks the ability to access the information.

They shot down Clinton attempts and they will shoot down any other attempt from Government.
Because if you block 'bad' opinions, you'll need to arbiter them to distinguish bad ones from good. This process is corruptible and eventually you'll find that opposing a current government is 'bad' (this happened in my country in a short span of 15 years). So it turns out that allowing all speech, even 'bad' is less harmful for society in the long run than trying to suppress some speech.
I dunno, calling something pretentious and vacuous with no other details is pretty much the most vacuous argument I can think of.
There is a difference between bank accounts, Visa/MasterCard access and Internet service, on one hand, and App Stores, Twitter accounts and payment providers, on the other hand.

The First Amendment promises both free speech and free assembly. Core to the latter is the freedom not to assemble. This freedom is regulated. You can’t refuse to do business with protected classes. But political affiliation is not a protected class.

There are utilities, which have limited freedom not to assemble. Then there are private persons and private businesses. Stripe and Twitter are clearly the latter. AWS and Visa feel like the former, though they are legally the latter.

The cost of switching private activity to a utility model is a loss of innovation and an increase in political involvement. We are re-evaluating, as a society, the balance between the freedoms of speech and assembly. Let’s not forget these are freedoms in balance, not a spectrum of tyranny and anarchy.
For those of you who follow the post’s idea of filling up your calendar, do you mark the time as “free” so that your employer/coworkers can schedule over your time for meetings? I’m thinking of the feature “find a convenient time for everyone in the invite” in calendars. If your calendar is booked, does that mean people have to come to you out of band to negotiate a time?

Do you fill your calendar up day of (I.e. Monday morning you fill in around the meetings you have)?

I have on my calendar a 2 and a half hour chunk of time every day for training/lunch. But that’s the only recurring meeting I have for delineating my day.
If Linux decided to switch to a different license, like say a BSD-style that would allow Apple to do the things they want to do commercially, then Apple might consider that option.

However, the probability that Linux will switch to a license that is sufficiently Apple-friendly is precisely as likely as Apple switching the core of their OS over to Linux.

In other words, approximately 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000%.
There's a big difference in wrong opinion and inciting violence. This isn't the government doing this. This is private companies taking action against the spread hate and lies. These are companies I want to do business with.
I use this patch: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/typeahead.patch?...
Absolutely, you should be worried. No court has ruled that Trump has done anything illegal. It is not even a proven fact that he is advocating for the violent overthrow of democracy in America. Properly run law courts make these decisions. It is not for you or me to decide. That is the definition of mob rule.

Based on pressure from the public, a few powerful Tech Moguls have acted as judges within their private jurisdictions, which just so happen to encompass some of the most important infrastructure in the modern world.

What if these Tech Moguls get it wrong, and start denying your tribe the services of the modern world?

Anyone who thinks this issue is simple is confused. These are new problems of the modern world. Solving them probably requires new laws.
Did Trump campaign storm the Capitol? You have evidence?
but actually...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_Germany_(1939%E2%8...
It's all about the battery life. It had become miserable lately. I wasn't going to upgrade for any gimmicks but 2X battery life (or thereabouts) is a game changer
There is no free financial market.
The mob has been coming for law enforcement and federal buildings in many major cities in America for nine months now. This mob actively organized on Twitter and other social media. Where was the outrage in June? Most of the organizations that organized this destruction still have their Twitter accounts.
First they came for the violent insurrectionists attempting a coup in the nation's capital to prevent the peaceful transition of power, and I was glad that they did.

The end.
Fine, this particular action is not government control.

But the argument that taking away power from people because they're "fascists" isn't like fascism is not a strong one. These people are supposedly an existential threat to the fabric of America, and there absolutely is not a single group that hasn't simultaneously deplatformed them.

It suggests a question around who really holds the power here.
That's a small market, getting even smaller ...
How is this relevant to HN? I think you should have posted this to /worldnews
Has Trump? Did I miss something here? I find it difficult to say he's done anything of the sort directly. I read the comments Twitter used to justify his ban the other day and none of it seemed to directly be calling for any sort of violence, let alone overthrow.

EDIT: Is HN so far left-leaning that I get flagged in under 5 minutes for asking this? Sorry, I'm not American, it's possible I missed something here.
Nobody died, that's what happened. I'm simply answering your hypothetical if the Senators were actually killed.

If the Sentors and/or the VP were taken as hostages, or worse killed, it would mean national guard was either complicit or incompetent. However, as we know, the Secret Service sadly had to act with deadly force and managed to secure the legislature.
The models that worked in the '80s and '90s proved ineffective as the number of people online continued towards 100%.

The early denizens of the 'net were very homogeneous relative to today.
Check out model predictive control. And LQR if you haven’t learned that yet. And the bazillion state estimation techniques that start with Kalman filtering variants (eg UKF) and progressively account more and more for nonlinearities.
> Yes, you have no answer for it.

You're going to post stuff from CNN, and I really don't want to argue with their slanted fact checkers via you. You also won't understand anything you don't want to. There's no point. It hasn't mattered to your side that there is video evidence and testimony from postal workers.

Reality is, six states stopped counting votes on election night all at the same time. Very fishy.

At least admit you got what you wanted, and because of that, you're fine with the fraud.

> They disagree with you. To quote them, "Our president wants us here. We wait and take orders from our president":

Again they wouldn't have come if things were going well in the country. Also, I don't care about your links. I'm not a redditor.

> So you're saying that it would have been better if Trump had been a competent president and had actually helped people instead of stroking his own ego. Instead, he is now unambiguously the worst president in America's history.
> I blame Trump.

If trump is the only person you blame for all of this, you are going to be sorely disappointed with what comes next. Congress is the one who sat on the second covid relief bill.
Section 230 is irrelevant to the discussion in this case[1].

Section 230 refers to the ability of one party to sue over the speech of a third party. That's not in play here at all.

Rather, this is about freedom of association.

Stripe can associate (do business, in this case) with whom it chooses (with some restrictions[2], but this isn't one of them), and that freedom of association is protected by the constitution[0].

[0] https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt1_2_13_1/

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group
It's so interesting when people cheer on censorship because, don't worry, they've been convinced that it's good censorship. Still doesn't change what it is though.

I'm sure anybody that's been censored, dehumanized, and removed from society by an evil regime has been comforted by the fact that the people doing it think it's fine to do it, or because the people doing it are doing it legally. Those facts don't make it right ...
This is the one problem that torments me every time I am reminded of it.

Just today, once again, I tried doing the hack to make programs use the kdialog instead of the GTK filepicker. kdialog works, however none of the thumbnails are showing! Only the icons showing the filetype. I don't use a desktop environment, only a tiling window manager, so that's probably it. But what pains me is as much as I search, I don't know what the hell to install that will make the thumbnails work in the filepicker even though thumbnails work everywhere else.

Every time I must go through this, I want to cry. The linux community thinks they are so superior, yet they cannot implement this one little thing.
I have an external monitor with my 16" MBP and it works great. I haven't experienced any of the issues you mention. I have one of the Apple monitors though. It might be an issue with non-Apple monitors.
I took the quote to mean that competent people get handed more and more workload until they burn out.
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You could make the argument that, that would be a frontend written in rust.
But doesn't cloud computing reduce complexity? I used to write my own SystemV boot scripts, service installation and discovery logic, round robin updating tooling, and much more to handle live app deploy/cut over.

Now I have two dozen lines of YAML and GKE JustWorks™, deploying my services and taking care of everything I used to do with my bespoke scripts. My world is much simpler now.
Not sure what this has to do with that comic, but ok.
>I wouldn’t call that perfect because if your private key is ever compromised, all of your communication ever is compromised

When did forward secrecy stop existing?
> ‘Popular Tether derivative Bitcoin has gone up too,’

Is this satire?
> More timers? More op amps?

FPGA's can't do that (or at least one's mere mortals can buy), but Cypress have a line of parts called PSoC (programmable system on chip) which can effectively synthesize analogue cells like op-amps in an analogous way to an FPGA. They also have a cut-down (surprised?) version of verilog, so you can write a few CPLD-y verilog modules to go on it as well.

The dev boards are very reasonably priced, well worth having one around to play with - can't comment on using them at scale. Cypress have some pretty good video lecture/tutorials on using them by Alan Hawse (Who is very stereotype-engineer https://youtu.be/0IKuUgEWAqg)
This sounds like a slippery slope argument[1], which can be genuine but also controversial when generalized.

Can we talk about individual instance, like those specific to the current situation with Trump or other situations, like "Operation Choke Point," separately or should something like this be only considered with generic rules that do not consider the nuisance and details of any specific circumstance?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
This. I switched to Hetzner Cloud and reduced costs from ~$200/month on GCP to about ~20€/month. For comparison: 1cpu 2gb ram cost about $15 on GCP and 2,50€ on Hetzner, 1gb outgoing traffic ~0,12€ -> 20TB per machine included on Hetzner and 1€ per additional TB.

I'm still using S3 and GCS to store files because it's convenient and relatively cheap.
Nova on PBS; I think the second episode of the series? It led me down quite the rabbit hole about literacy during the Roman era; very surprising!
This is an apt comment. I went to a Benedictine College with a Monastery attached. More than one of the monks, after a night of heavy drinking, would tell me: "We take a vow of celibacy (non-marriage), not of chastity."
This “both sides” nonsense can get in the bin.

Point to the leader of a political party that instigated the attack you speak of.
While we're complaining about Gnome: why can't nautilus handle more than 10k files in a directory? Especially an NFS or Samba share. I installed Thunar in order to browse the pictures I have on a local server.

I think 10K file names should fit in cache on any processor made in the last 10 years. readdir isn't that slow.
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Note that macOS does NOT ship with Rosetta 2. You have to install it afterwards. What's worse, upgrading macOS removes it, so you have to install it after each upgrade (same as with Command Line Tools)
Just wash it like normal, stuff that comes off is charred food etc. aka 'dirt'. The actual polymerised seasoning isn't going to come off with a bit of water and washing up liquid.
Now that would be against the spirit of Hacker News
Just build your own payment processor.
"Oath Keepers in particular seem to have had a large and heavily militarized detachment"

Source video? Larping in camo and a helmet doesn't make you militarized or an oath keeper.
2.5% is way too much.

I pay 0.15% and the exchange has been around for a decade without ever losing funds. It's even now licensed as a bank in the U.S.
The RNC declared Trump to be the leader of their party after he told a crowd of armed terrorists that they should go to the Capitol and "save" the country from the politicians who were busy certifying the results of an election. They did so after that same crowd stormed the Capitol building, replaced the American flag with a Trump flag, and proudly declared to the cameras that they were there for a "revolution."

Kind of hard to know where the line is drawn between "declaring as your leader the man who advocates for a violent overthrow" and "advocating for a violent overthow."
Seems like a waste of effort by both Facebook and Signal advocates when the Dems will just lobby to have big-tech ban anything that can be used by the far right to communicate.
Where do you draw a line? These days in a snowflake culture any opinion can cause outrage and violence. It's just a matter of interpretation and who reads the message. Should companies be allowed to restrict your freedom to information? It's quite patronising.
Curious, in many other studies we see that minorities are somewhat equally biased. Maybe, seeing a tiny reflection of yourself helps mitigate cultural bias..

Or could it be that black doctors are just overall better?

Assuming it's harder for a black person to become a doctor, it could stand to reason that those that do are among the very best.
(Or skews that way statistically)
arent they an adware company?
Maybe Game of Thrones or the Germanic tradition. Either way it means blood will be spilled.
I think this is the point. Going after, not the people actually making a call to violence, but some service three degrees upstream from them -- along with all of its other legitimate users -- is madness.
Now they have to also build a new hosting company. They will so AWS just created a new competitor and also made every company have to consider a new existential risk of getting kicked off of AWS.
This takes it a step closer, and certainly invokes that fear.
I saddens me that GNOME and GTK are so hostile to new or inexperienced contributors, most of the time the development happens in a GNOME/GTK Cabal; I heard about but couldn't believe it until I saw their responces myself. I really is worse than that and puts a stain on the whole Linux open source movement (if you can even call it that).
> The mob has been coming for law enforcement and federal buildings in many major cities in America for nine months now

They're "coming for" police reform and transparency.

Please don't misrepresent or generalise very disparate groups of demonstrators.
> What's the point of controlling popular software by making everybody hate it?

I think, in their view, all comes after taking hold of the project. But here, they got that, and now what? Now, all lofty plans have to meet the cold reality.

It's like a mutunineers on a ship throwing officers overboard, just to realise hours later that they are in the middle of an ocean, and they have no idea how to sail a ship without skilled crew.

I saw that happening in public companies: a single asshole activist with puny few percents of the company keeps throwing big radical decisions onto every shareholder meeting, until he gets everybody so discombobulated, or the company so disfunctional that others either leave the company to him for taking, or he gets a legal casus belli to sue the company to try to wreck it further, and then seize it.

For such people, it doesn't matter if the company in question dies, as long as they come out with gain. Some are plainly idiots with too much legal education, and some are genuine degenerates doing it with full knowledge of consequences.
The spectrum is authoritarianism and anarchy. Anarchists can still be tyrannical.
again I'm not making a legal argument but a moral one.

>If the government can take away your rights, then they can take away mine too. I don't support that and will defend your rights as vigorously as my own, whether I agree with you or not.

This applies to Stipe and Paypal too. They can arbitrarily prevent anyone from operating an online business. The libertarian view that you should care more about their right to do that than individuals who will lose their livelihoods with no recourse, is something I'll never understand and we'll never come to agreement on.
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There's a gradation of things, it's not black or white. The gray zone in the middle is where conditions for society to prosper are.
I’m honestly happy they’re doing this. The harder they grasp, the more users will slip through their fingers.
Completely agree, see it at companies like Google turning more and more into deep management chains. Some of the good remains (code & documentation transparency, engineer to engineer communication), but much off the decision making is shifting up the chain

Do you mind expanding on what you mean by "Horizontals" here?
Stripe isn't preventing the Trump campaign from fundraising. You can feel free to withdraw cash from your bank account and mail it to the Trump campaign. Stripe also isn't prohibiting all Republicans from using Stripe. It seems that the people claiming that this the end of free speech are unaware that demonstrating that freedom of speech can have consequences. In this case, that free speech was arguably inciting an insurrection.
The irony of a Trump supporter claiming projection and hypocrisy. These are literally the founding principles of Trumpism.

And yes, your comment was clear example of whataboutism.
No, a lot of the wealthy, powerful people in the US were profiting off Nazis.
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pretty obviously, I'd have hoped. With the real point that the bitcoin price lately is mostly meaningful in tethers, and not nearly so much in actual dollars.
> Stripe and Twitter are pretty clearly the latter.

They might be the latter, but I wouldn't consider it obvious. Regarding social media, we've gotten to the point where even US Visa applications ask for social media handles (and I understand they consider it as a negative datum if you don't provide one). And we're also at the point where some companies won't provide you with respectable service unless you @ them on social media. Regarding payment platforms, generally people expect them to be quite neutral, since getting locked out of the financial system is not exactly going to lead to a great life in the modern digital economy.

I don't know at what point these cross into "utility" territory, and I'm willing to entertain the idea that they might never do so, but I find it quite debatable and very much not clear.

(Note: None of this is to opine on the reactions to this particular incident. Just commenting on the more general idea.)
On one hand it feels completely appropriate and even deserved. On the other, yes, this is unfortunately a path to a very serious totalitarian issue. Situations like this one underscore the future importance of cryptocurrencies.

Without an uncensorable currency, any political adversary -- especially an incumbent -- can just coerce payment processors into blocking payments to their opponents through threats of imprisonment or violence against a handful of executives.
He might have an epiphany, due to his changed circumstances.
Much the same way Trump didn't say "form a violent mob and attack Congress" yet he's being held accountable for what was comparatively nothing.

"Both sides" doesn't mean all things are equal, just that they're comparable. The BLM riots this Summer were far more deadly and destructive, and the response to them was very different. Violent protests should be denounced by everyone. Period. I cannot figure out when we collectively decided it was fine, so long as it was the "right" side.