skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't that default change recently? I installed Peertube a couple of months ago, and I'm pretty sure that option was off by default (and I never changed it).
Hmm. Maybe these post-grads are on their phone too writing about very complicated mathematics that to a post-grad might seem rudimentary.

The beauty is that nothing prevents YOU from adding clarity to these "needlessly contrived" concepts... so what's stopping folks like you from contributing?
Just like with COVID, this reaction is probably way too late to work the way some of you hope.

IMO you are probably now radicalizing the more moderate members of what seems to be a significant proportion of your population by giving them actual cause for their feelings of persecution.

How is anyone surprised after years of Democrats claiming that the Russians were able to compromise the 2016 election in Trumps favour, that there are now people who believe their candidate has lost an election due to manipulation?

There is guilt on both sides for this mess, I hope you guys can work it out.
I take issue with the indiscriminate use of the word “censorship”. If a newspaper of a certain inclination only gives space for those that are aligned to its tendencies, no one calls that censorship. Private companies moderate and editorialize. That’s their prerogative. Governments employ censorship.
> I am against rioting. Full stop.

Great, so am I! But I have been hearing people (both here and from the very politicians threatened on the 6th) excusing and downplaying the violent rioting that occurred over the summer.

This "gotcha" is an attempt to see whether one is dealing with someone that has a consistent set of principles.
I know a few people who pronounce fsck with what sounds like a combination of 'suck' and the expletive, which naturally leads to phrases like "it's fsck'ing the drive."
Ugandan here, to provide more context;

This is clock work, every election period they shutdown social media & electronic payments. It happened in 2016[0]

But when an "OTT" tax was imposed on social networks (Whatsapp, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Linkdin) in 2018[1].

Majority didn't want to pay an extra tax(required to use social media) on top of paying for internet. So majority learnt how to use vpns.

As a result, the OTT tax was a complete failure [2] and now the Uganda Revenue service is planning on bundling it with internet data costs.

Since people now know how to use vpns, social media cant be blocked.

So the reason for blocking smartphone app stores is to essentially, STEP 1 i.e Stop people from
installing VPNs.

STEP 2 will probably be the total blocking of all social media.

[0]:https://theatlantic.com/amp/article/463407/

[1]:https://dw.com/en/uganda-one-year-of-social-media-tax/a-4967...

[2]:https://techjaja.com/ott-tax-fails-as-ura-proposes-tax-on-in...
How to predict solar energy production
Every Wikipedia page has its history accessible through "View history".
This is just too generic a complaint.
Saying that (en.)wikipedia has a US progressive-left worldview is subtly misleading.

Specifically en.wikipedia.org has a western (US/UK sphere of influence) worldview.

This is because en.wikipedia is/can be edited by everyone who speaks English: not just the USA, not just regular English speaking countries, but also all those countries that teach children English as a second language, (and a not insignificant smattering of people who learn English outside of school too)

When you compare countries around the world, The United States of America is said to lean rather right of center.

Thus from a US perspective you would expect en.wikipedia to appear to indeed be a bit on the left.

(this is not a comprehensive answer, but it does cover a lot of the ground)
Apple advertises that they review everything that goes on their store. It’s a feature that some people choose it for. It sounds like you chose the phone that had the wrong feature for you.
Don't shoot unless if you can score. We aren't talking about a fringe belief here. A third of Americans believe that the election was rigged. 21% supported the storming of the Capitol. That's not something that you can just "cancel" by deleting an app. You're just handing them more ammunition.
It's already out, but most people are still on the eth1 chain
lol! yeah a bit like Biden's Vote counts! Anyway, any guesses as to when it will be usable? Been trying to set up an account for two days.
As infrastructure (an API/Protocol a la NNTP) rather than a branded thing, so all backend and people make their own clients and offer their own filtering choices. People can post anonymously but also have the option to hide all anonymously posted content.

Not with the tiny character limit of Twitter, which I think seriously damages discourse by fragmenting it into artificially small chunks and thus promoting snark and sarcasm and one-liners. It disturbs me that my most popular tweets are throwaway smartass remarks; of course I like that people find them clever or funny, but I would much rather get a little consistent engagement on serious/thoughtful tweets than big boosts on the least important things I write.

Most of all, social tagging. So if you regularly post spam or are a nazi, that's going to follow your posts (and you) around and people can filter against it. Sure, this would lead to gamesmanship as nazis would try to tag folk like me in negative ways, but that's OK. Cluster identification and conflicts will emerge naturally but will be much more transparent than now.

The graph of communication interactions will be fully exposed so people can see how information propagates around the network.
No, they are being downvoted because "don't storm the Capital chanting about hanging the vice president", and "don't use allegations of voter fraud as an excuse to violently oppose the installation of a duly elected government" are probably not Extremist Left Wing Propaganda.
The problem here is that private companies are doing something that only democratically legitimized state authorities should be doing, deciding what is allowed or not allowed.
Otherwise we are always dependent on the good will of the companies without democratic control.
Right now I sit in a country that has laws that discriminate against me due to the color of my skin.

If we can't discuss and address it and other sensitive things like it that are evil and are approved-speech by tech then we're doomed as a society, and I'd say we're no better than actual racists, oppressors and slavers from days past.

Moves like this by tech companies only makes it worse and more difficult to discuss this.

I don't know where I'm going with this, but these recent steps taken by tech are incredibly disturbing.
Ask HN: How hard would it be for him to commission his own Twitter clone?
How much would it cost? How soon to acquire decent development team? Wouldn’t new technologies and language/platform options make it easier? Since he has all kinds of resources in a PAC, what would it take? Seems like a straightforward thing to build based on all the “build your own Twitter” tutorials I’ve seen.
> [Haskell] just drains all the joy and productivity out of my programming.

It's fine that you don't like the language. I mean, not everyone has to enjoy a language. On the other hand, there's a difference between voicing an opinion, which is personal, and making claims like:

> Haskell is a pain in the ass to program in. It's a language developed for mathematicians, not the real world.

Because then, you are discarding other people's experience about the language, while you claim your own experience is relevant.
fstab should be f s tab, IMO. I mean it does mean "file system table", no?
Humanity isn't noted for its inclination or ability to un-invent things.
Yes I meant if there’s a way to view the entire site, not only specific pages.
Agreed. Data and network portability is important policy that must be passed as a means to "vote" of disapproval of governance by a platform by being able to easily move yourself off of it.

It's naive to think that like-minded people won't find an online place to rally, and then eventually rally in person when they feel necessary or are incited ton do so - in this case the ongoing coup attempt is based on lies. It's a futile effort to try to suppress them, they will just gather elsewhere and the deplatforming will be a justification in their mind that they're being persecuted, as the digital/speech will inevitably manifest into the physical where the confrontation can't be avoided.

I do see the deplatforming akin to parents attempting to teach a child their behaviour isn't acceptable, the problem is these children aren't understanding that - and they're adults now without anyone reasonable that they look up to or listen to as a good role model; they've listened to Trump et al who are pushing the false narrative of election fraud, so they will feel justified in violent actions.
Rather than declaring independence, Taiwan could grant independence to mainland China.
It is in the Philippines, where Lazada and Shopee are popular because of COD.
> How can you not see that as an "existential threat to the republic"?

Because it’s not. Our representatives are not the republic. There isn’t some clause that dissolves government if enough representatives die.

The civil war in which states receded was an existential threat. A bunch of dead Congress members is horrific terrorism but it’s nowhere near an existential crisis. The beauty of our structure is that individuals do not matter in the gran scheme of things.
It's ok. Made up dog turds are the best kind.
I haven't tried it, but I've heard OCaml has a much smaller community (fewer libraries and general knowledge) and a lack of tooling and corporate sponsorship- I know Jane Street works with it and they have their own version of a stdlib.
Many of those “domestic terrorists” have fought against “foreign” terrorists for the government of the United States, having as leaders of their chain of command people who now vilify them (both Bush Jr and Obama). This is Rambo I all over again, only that it doesn’t take place out somewhere in the obscure woods but in the open political field.
> I know that Wikipedia editors lean left.

Reality leans left.

FTFY.

And before you all go downvote happy, just take a look at which direction culture has gone in the past 100 years. More conservative? Nope.
A good way to expose a lot of users to malicious software.
It's extremely interesting how EU countries nearly all have different kinds of restrictions on free speech (or don't even have it) but nobody would go out and label Germany or France as anything different than liberal democracies. Meanwhile to many here private companies banning Parler apparently equals Chinese-level censorship.

In Germany Parler would have been banned months ago for "Volksverhetzung" ("incitement of the masses") because Germany knows what happens when you let right- or left-wing extremists indoctrinate the masses.
Do I? How do I install Fortnight on my iPhone?

I'm not trying to force anyone to make software for my phone. I want Apple to let other people make software for my phone.
On top of that, the United States has never had "free speech without limits." Or any rights without limits. A core tenet of at least one political ideology in the United States is the idea that one's rights only extend as far as another's unharmed state of existence. i.e. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/15/liberty-fist-nose/

Such limitations in the case of the first amendment are pretty well captured here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

Credible threats of violence and incitement register with exceptionally strong precedent. Fighting words and threatening the President-Elect of the United States are two such categories of unprotected speech with, again, exceptionally strong precedent.

Anyone claiming their freedom of speech is being violated in this scenario by pushing fighting words and specific threats may be failing to understand:

1. that such freedoms don't extend as protection from being barred by private property and enterprise, and

2. that even if they did, their words are exempt... again, with strong law and case law.

I do agree that there's value in exploring registering social media and communications platforms as utilities. I don't yet know the implications of such.

And on another note (and borrowing from an earlier comment of mine), I do wonder how many of the Parler removals that have taken place used Wednesday as the justification but in reality were done for FOSTA/SESTA cover, which ironically is a law passed within the last few years.
But YouTube has deep pockets, so if you could sue YouTube, lawyers would work on contingency. What lawyer would take a John Doe case on contingency?

Worse, what if the defamer is able to hide their identity or from a jursdiction that doesn't care about an order from US courts? In that case, even paying for a lawyer won't help.
My observation is that the Philippines is a lot worse than Thailand when it comes to delivery. It's a lot less dependable and sometimes they want an additional payment for the delivery when you were promised there wouldn't be one.
Once I’m unable to live in my home, I wish to die.

I don’t want to see my home and inheritance taken by a nursing home business.

I’ll gladly trade some of the least pleasant years of my life so my children can have my inheritance.
Chinese workers get to the bottom of ‘smart cushion’ spies
Terrorism or child abuse are always the reason to legitimize surveillance software.
But once installed the purpose of use changes.
I kinda wonder if he'd end up getting hacked at pretty hard. I can't see him establishing a secure network very easily - he's made a few enemies from what I can see.
I upgraded my Peertube instance to 3.0 and tried to stream. I noticed that when I did a 4k 60 stream, it was very unstable. It turns out that streaming uses more RAM on the server (I only had a 2 GB digitalocean instance).

When I did the upgrade, I didn't see any mention of how much memory is going to be needed for streaming (in particular if you have multiple streams going in parallel).
I used to read book while eating(it's my lifelong habit) now I replace it with Wikipedia. Learn something new here and there everyday(mostly old history stuff)

Nothing beats its rabbit hole and its barebone-but-focused interface. It does not replace any in-depth source of any topic you want to learn, of course.
Ask HN: Could plain old RSS be a replacement for Twitter?
If Trump just started pumping out updates to RSS, could this lead to “RSS as a Twitter alternative”?
Would you please stop using HN for political and ideological battle? You've been doing it repeatedly lately and it's not what this site is for, regardless of which politics you're battling for or against.

HN is for thoughtful, curious conversation on topics of intellectual interest. The sets of that and political flamewar are disjoint. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use the site as intended, we'd appreciate it.
The oppression may be seen as “just” or “unjust” but it definetely is there, the US Government itself usually classifies these sorts of acts (suppressing free speech) as oppression, that is when it happens in other countries.
This isn't a problem, it's a feature. You seem to be in a scarcity, learned helplessness mindset: if you're worried about being dependant on companies that you don't believe or trust will govern well then the solution is simple, start your own company so you're the governor; so long as the internet as a platform stays relatively neutral you can do that. If you don't think this is an option, please explain why.
> A good argument could be made we don't need end to end encryption without a back door.

No, but don’t think it can. But you can try.
Unsure why this is being downvoted, perhaps because it sounds like socialism. But grants for artists or something like UBI are actually great.
-I don't think 'all amplifiers sound alike' is a widespread opinion, but rather (in engineering circles, at any rate) that any competently designed amplifier, run within its limits, sound like any other competently designed amplifier run within its limits.

Audio amplifiers are pretty much a solved problem, to the extent that in order to create a 'house sound' or whatever the preferred audiophile term is nowadays, the manufacturer needs to introduce distortion to differentiate their product from the others. Sigh.

(The above obviously only applies to amplifiers intended for faithful reproduction; guitar amps and the like is a whole different beast - where distortion serves a valid artistic/creative purpose!)
Underrated proposal.
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for political battle. That is not allowed here, regardless of your politics, because it destroys the curious conversation that this site is supposed to exist for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Nick Bostrom refers to it as the principle of substrate non discrimination.
It still works out if we assume young people are just as likely as old men to be killed by police. Restricting us to young people would probably reduce the denominator of "300/19740000" enough to counteract the fact that the exponent of "69" is reduced.

In fact, if you assume that people are young for x% of their lives, and x% of black people are young, this exactly cancels out and you still get `0.001048` odds of being killed by police.
Split-Screen Any PC Game
> Free speech is about communication, not creating soundwaves no one can hear.

So go shout your message in Town Square?
It didn’t go anywhere. PCs, Macs, and Android phones still work that way.

There is also an option for people who want a curated environment.
The title reads like satire. I don't want to read the rest but I will just assume it's The Onion.
If a user is willing to go through the hoops to get exposed, I'm not sure anyone should stop them. Also, this is an old and tired argument. Computers have been this way forever. And yet you can build a platform that has a reasonable tradeoff between security and usability.
Don't get too excited. No one really wants to watch Steamboat Willie, and if you want to use a Mickey Mouse character, it will need to look like Mickey circa 1928.

Mickey Mouse is basically the Kardashians of cartoons. No one's really sure why he's famous any more, and he never really did anything that interesting do begin with.
Facebook and Twitter provide accountable moderation. Parler doesn't and instead claims to assign moderation to random unaccountable users instead. This is according to their CEOs own interview earlier this week.

You can look at www.reddit.com/r/parlerwatch to see examples of extremism on Parler.
The difference, of course, is that, unlike Parler, a “gay cake” poses no threat whatsoever to democracy.

So I’d say we can definitely have it both ways.
You’re mistaken: rewriting content is not a copyright violation and is allowed. I’m not talking about Britannica but more in-depth content.
Four different Democrat Members of congress have condoned or in the Case of Harris encouraged it in the last yew years. She was encouraging BLM when they were actually rioting. She has never been banned. Trump's message was "Go Home In Peace." That was the one immediately before being banned. Think about that.
> Now of course most of the governments that would do this would be authoritarian

Would they be? Consider what just happened in the USA: All of the major social media companies blocked a significant portion of the population because of the attempted subversion of democracy in the country.

Now imagine if some similar subversion were attempted in another country, say Ecuador? Would these social media companies be as willing to silence a faction in another country?

What if it were to happen in a more important country, say Australia? South Korea? Japan? Germany? At what point should these companies be interfering through censorship, and at what point are the issues too blurred or difficult to figure out who's right and who's wrong? Sir Richard Wharton in Yes, Minster once quipped: "Once you start interfering in the internal squabbles of other countries, you're on a very slippery slope."

Naturally, these companies will resist the push towards becoming arbiters of Truth (until they actually BECOME such arbiters, then god help us all).

So non-American governments will have no recourse but to plead with Youtube, and then block them when the answer is "no".
Yep, it is hypocrisy abound. There is absolutely no standard besides yielding the levers of power for whatever is politically expedient. We are getting played on a massive scale, and it is deeply alarming.
>>“We are now having a challenge of citizen journalism. Social media propaganda is certainly not in the best interest of this country’s security. We are looking for a way of dealing with it.”

Ah, OK then comrade. Cancel elections as well since you've figured it all out.
I also align with this general sentiment. A lot of the major tech platforms and media orgs (at least in the US) that are viewed as authorities in the dissemination of information on the internet, seem to be getting pulled into the downward inertia of a partisan culture war, and are abandoning notions of objectivity and policy standards that will help keep a pluralistic society like we live in from becoming more and more biased/fractured.

Perhaps this is all inevitable with the nature of the internet, but I have lost a bit of my faith in our institutions to maintain an environment that highlights our common humanity, even when we disagree.
Reflog, for when the person hasn’t been beaten enough already.
An issue is that most well-meaning contributors very soon learn to keep off controversial pages, because it's simply not enjoyable to constantly fight over the content. The fact is: resolving disputes takes much time and usually the party with more time on their hands and more "meat-puppets" and allies wins. Also, making enemies from among the "editors" is both unpleasant and inconvenient for possible future efforts on Wikipedia.
You've been using HN primarily for political battle. We ban accounts that do that, because it destroys the curious conversation that this site exists for.

When I looked back through your account history trying to find examples of using the site as intended, rather than political flamewar, I ran across https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25626137 instead. That's not a political flamewar comment, but it still breaks the site guidelines badly. I've banned this account until we get some indication that you want to use HN as intended. If you do, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us some reason to believe it.
They are definitely becoming more and more radicalized, but I don't know where you get this white power stuff. Their leader is a minority and many of their members are black, and other minorities.

However, I think deplatforming them has made them more radical. I think that we are going to see this more and more, by isolating people and forcing them to go into places where there are no public postings, nobody is going to see how radical they get. You are going to lose some people but the really dangerous people will wind up reinforced in their belief that they are being persecuted, and if they think they have nowhere to go and nothing to hope for, I think we are going to start seeing some real ugly violence.
> When you compare countries around the world, The United States of America is said to lean rather right of center.

I'm not sure that this is the case. Maybe with respect to English-speaking countries, the U.S. leans more capitalistic which some people would call "right". But U.S. society/worldview is nonetheless far more liberal, socially progressive and open to diverse views than most countries around the world.