skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see it a lot at work and chalk it up to some people having learned/internalized a legalistic way of building up a pattern of facts and basing each on the previous. It’s not so much that they want you to read 2 pages but that they want you to believe every newly introduced bit of the story.
True. And if you remember all those hearings where they pretty much forced those Twitter/FB/Amazon/Google CEOs where they berated them like little kids. Those CEOs didn't really object much and knew they could get in a lot of trouble if they did so. Unfortunately, Trump could hurt those companies if he wanted I'm sure. Just look at what happened to Huawei, now the writing is on the wall for DJI and some others. I'm sure those CEOs were just biding their time waiting for Trump to go (and now they decided to act where it is obvious that he's done).
Exactly so. It's easy to argue against Trumpistas being a net negative to society on almost any level.

It's much less easy to think about ways to negate them as a political force without hurting everyone else in the process, and it seems a lot of people don't even care about weighing costs and benefits.

Unfortunately, when the modern political sphere is highly influenced by idiots on Twitter who are permanently stuck on first-level thinking, this is what you get.
Country is a failed state if the policies are dictated by the terrorists that stormed the capital. Our decisions to serve who we want should not be dictated by threats of violence.
In retrospect they may wish they'd prioritized a multi-cloud strategy, but you can only spend each Engineering dollar once, right? Moving things to another server is not the problem. Moving a constellation of things around, more so. It's hard to configure resources in the cloud providers in an agnostic way. Something like Terraform gives you a unified language, but the specific code is still going to be different for each.

I didn't follow the 4chan thing well, but weren't they also down for a while? Edit: my bad, that was 8chan, who went offline for three months in 2019, as per Wikipedia.
Frankly, when the Republican version of Barack Obama arrives, it's game over for the United States as a democracy.
Infinite growth is a delusion. Who said that behaving like a tumor is the best path for a company? Especially when we complain all the time about colossal corporations being more powerful than nations. That's what you get with infinite growth: monopolies, too-big-to-fail companies, etc.
What are platforms supposed to do when the speech is illegal, or inciting violence or just against their terms of service or code of conduct?

You seem to be saying no online platform can have any sort of moderation of posted messages unless it's backed up by a court order, which seems crazy.
Are they the snowflakes now?
Things move so fast these days.
In signal you cant delete/forget contacts... And groups will haunt you to the end of days too. I started to strongly distrust signal after I learned that. It's meta information nonetheless and invites for identity fraud.

But yeah, Telegram can't be trusted either. I hope matrix/element will replace both soon.
Would they? Your neighbors might be able to get a court order blocking you from calling them, or get you arrested for sufficiently graphic threats.

But I thought phone companies had obligations of universal service (in most places), so that they are not free to cut people off based on rumors & internal committees.
This happens in EU as well. Wage suppression is real.
Do you think Californians or NYkers pay that much less tax?
> If you made death threats from your telephone to the point your neighbors threatened to discontinue their phone service because of the unwanted negative attention. The phone service would cut you off.

Not really, you would have police visiting you, probably followed by court action since death threats are punishable offenses. And yet, the phone company does not have right to cut your line off, unless judge ruled to do so (well, they could terminate your contract without the reason but then you would be able to go to court over this and phone company would end up covering all of the damages you claim).
And they did not just removed content, they decided to shut down the account of a head of state (and obviously not any country but the USA themselves).

I think that's key because that really sends the message that the FAANG have power over governments and that they can and will decide which politicians/governments to let communicate, which obviously raises many questions.
I don’t know what exactly is on Parler and I don’t care. Millions of real people were using it to share their genuine ideas about how their country should be. Laugh at me all you want.
That's completely irrelevant to what the issue here is though. AWS, as a private enterprise, is under no duty to sell its services to anybody.

AWS works on a consumption model, but for the sake of argument, let's say that the customer also have reservations with AWS for resources covering at least the next few months. Whether AWS can terminate the supply of services depend entirely on the service agreement. IIRC, AWS has a number of options of terminating a user's services in its service agreement, such as abuse of service, which hosting content inciting seditious violence most likely falls under.
This is a good take in my opinion and generalizes to any endeavor of creation. You can't plan that. Only when you have figured everything out can you move into a production mode. In game dev, this is informally known as Czerny's method. Production is a finite game but design is an infinite game. Forcing startups to work like they are in production is a good way to lol them.
Considering that before the bronze plan, Republicans offered no plan, I don’t see why not. Additionally, it was Republicans who handicapped the ACA and a public option by pretty much every one of them being ideologically against improvements since any huge increase in healthcare for the people at the bottom would mean huge tax increases.
I'm assuming the number is 50% higher right? like 100CAD to $150k ?
They could have terminated with 30 days notice (or similar) but instead they went for max damage.
I wouldn't call the UK one incompetent or corrupt but slow and expensive apply. They also lean a bit towards letting the guilty get away with it.
And what do you do when someone dumps a truck of garbage on that sidewalk? We already have that sidewalk. Everyone connected to internet has a small sidewalk. Not everyone wants to tread in all neighbourhoods, and some streets are not wide enough to allow half of the world walking them, but they have that sidewalk.
Oh my... so the Draytek UI is better than Mikrotik?

I had been considering trying out some of their gear, but perhaps I might not bother now!
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it

Maybe the next clause in this highschool-level aphorism should be "although I will not compel anybody to help you say it".
Silly, I instantly thought "Ubuntu".
This is bad-faith misreading. I never claimed that acceleration due to gravity is exactly the same at all points on earth. There are very small local variances, all accountable by known principles of classical mechanics. I never said or implied that adding a tilde in front of 9.8 m/s^2 helps make the statement look like a proof.

I'm not interested in nitpicky arguments. Good bye.
The problem with your statement is that it is subjective. Amazon removing Parler hurt them from my subjective view a lot more than hosting them. I will never host anything on AWS since I know I could get removed at any time because of political reasons.

I am sure Amazon hosts a lot of sites that I don't agree with but that doesn't mean I will hold them accountable. It is simply stupid.

If you think Parler did something wrong, which I don't think they did (at least if you compare equal shitty places like Twitter), hold Parler accountable and not Amazon for hosting them.

Don't be part of the angry mob. Be smarter.
At the rates at which we're going, 10-20% of the population is going to be immune by other means by the time everyone who wants it has been vaccinated.
I agree with you on excluding certification costs if you’re going to respin the device anyway, but part, assembly, and NRE labor are real costs of this change.
The President of Mexico has higher priority problems to work on and he is using this as a distraction for those problems.

AMLO should man up and do something about the illicit domestic activity.

For example, make use of the air force and facilitate self-defense across Mexico.
This is a very interesting piece but:

1) Although it may be impossible ... you might need 'more data' to prove your point and

2) "SR&ED forces you to play finite games, because it forces you to articulate what you’re spending this money on. And so you have to justify, at the very least, what problem you are solving and what specific steps you are taking to solve it. You enter the world of problem definition, where building your startup becomes Serious Work, with official time sheets and government forms. "

I think is just straight up wrong.

Not only is focusing in the problem just fine, it's actually probably a healthy thing.

The 'real answer' to these credits is that they are probably not needed, a 'good startup' should just be able to fund itself.

But the fact that forms and some degree of problem statement are required is not the problem.
Not to be unpolite or as a critique to the specific paper, but I am more worried about superstupidity not being able to be contained.

I like to be exposed to these very theoretical questions. I am aware that progress depends often on explorations of apparently useless topics (like some pure mathematics).

But when I read expressions like ' neo-fear of superintelligence' and contrast the topic with real-world immediate problems I find it very difficult to relate and to take the problem seriously.
Surely as the operator as a private service, you should have absolute control over what your service is used for?

Unless we want to start seeing things like Facebook and AWS as accountable public utilities.

If ICANN started blocking domains, then this would be a free speech issue.
That was my very first thought. This was always a very controversial site/app. They didn't plan for this to happen?

Why weren't they prepared for this?

I get the feeling the people behind it were a bit incompetent and really only in it for money.

Not true believers of free speech.
I don't know of any European country, Germany included, where companies are unable to exercise editorial control over what they distribute, unless they fall in very narrow categories (e.g. phone networks, mail carriers).

EDIT: That does not mean I don't have sympathy for the thought that we do need a debate over what level of freedom sufficiently dominant social media platforms should have to ban people. At the same time it's noteworthy just how much we hear from the people who insist they're being censored - most of them have platforms far in excess of most people even after these bans. What they're complaining about is being stripped of a level of amplification that previously didn't exist.
and how would you know if someone wearing facebook apparel isn't a janitor or a security guard? facebook contractors get a lot of the same swag. When I lived in SV, my roommate worked at FB food services and worked for whatever company they contracted for that.
almost makes it worse really
Clearly false unless you think a fresh graduate in a high cost area is let's say twice as skilled as someone with decades of experience in a low cost area? Salary is a good proxy of bargaining power, not a good proxy for skill.
It's particularly annoying that these happen but UBNT won't let you delete your account without calling their help desk (?!) [1] or dropping some sort of GDPR bomb on their heads.

1: https://community.ui.com/questions/How-do-I-get-my-account-a...
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Those might be valid defenses, ultimately it appears a court will decide. As far as #1, one might potentially argue that the evidence is the banning of Parler by Apple and Google's app stores, plus revocations from Stripe, Twilio and others, all within 48 hours. Further, it also coincided with Twitter (a much larger AWS customer) banning Donald Trump. #2 is probably not so simple either, as Google (i.e. GCP) was one of the participants in the ban, and a bunch of those other companies aren't US-based. It's why we have courts and juries.
>if you're not openly against it, you condone it, and you're part of the problem.

No ideology on the planet based on "us vs them" is legitimate. Nobody is going to rile up people for you, for free.
Thanks for the list of all such laptops to avoid, along with Apple macbooks.

Soldered ram, soldered SSD, unremovable batteries etc. all are designed with planned Obsolescence in mind. We should all boycott such products to protect our RIGHT TO REPAIR.
> A phone call is one on one, this one to many.

If nobody wanted to listen then there would be `one to nobody`. But it seems many wanted to listen, even if another many wanted him to shut up..
It's not any more crazy than people committing actual violence in real life, like murdering someone, and only getting properly arrested months later after an investigation has taken place.

Somehow we've managed to survive with that system for hundreds of years, why is it any different for online posts?
Came here to post this. None of the arbitrary denial of service is new, it was just deployed against people without power. The right were completely fine with deplatforming sex workers through SESTA/FOSTA. I'm happy to see all the egregious machinery of things like the Patriot Act (unaccountable air travel blacklists!) being turned on the right for a change instead of just the left - because this time it's the right that's the terrorist threat.

I think it was only last week that we had somebody banned from github for simply logging in from Iran.
...increasingly annoyed...

What got you annoyed?

I use Little Snitch 4. I very much dislike the GUI change in LS5. And it seems to be less user controllable.

I do not know anything about Lulu, except the developer seems like a decent sort based on the warmth here.
I sent the link to my elderly parents. They both installed it on their Android without a problem. Then I received a video call from my mum - she'd installed the desktop app by herself.

So, get better parents?
Does anyone know of a good resource that explains what 'efficacy' means for a vaccine, and what can (and cannot) be extrapolated from it? The reported efficacies are (from what I understand) 1 - (n infections in experimental group / n infections in control group). But then I see people draw wildly varying conclusiona from that, most of which I suspect are wrong (e.g. the relationship between 'efficacy rate' and 'group immunity' after everyone is vaccinated). But despite looking long and hard, I can't anyone explaining in detail what such efficacy rates mean (and don't mean).
This spent 5 hours on the frontpage:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25729088
Maybe when a service grows past some level it should become a kind of public space. The private company that created it and operates it loses the privilege of making rules about who can use it and how. That becomes a matter for courts. The company should be happy with the zillions of money it makes.
That’s what you think would happen. Lin wood had a call to execute pence up for over a week. Not till apple threatened to remove Parler from the store was it deleted.

Policing is out, we talking about the same people who failed to activate the national guard allowing the siege of our capital.
A World Without Email
You’re thinking these big social media companies are like the telephone, but I would say they are more like newspapers. No one has been banned from using messenger apps, afaik, which I would say fits your metaphor better. And you can definitely find yourself banned from the editorial pages of every newspaper if you say enough evil things.

I think your first statement is hyperbole. There are countless times when the few controlled the dissemination of information to the masses. What about when only monks and scribes knew how to write? What about when the printing press had just been invented? What about in the early 20th century before television even existed?

If anything, people have been able to throw their opinions around more today than ever before in human history.
I guess it depends on whether it would be easier to create life support systems for human workers or build robots for the job.

As for what makes us human, I'd draw the line at "individual thought", but even that's iffy.

Fully electromechanical/robotic bodies, for example, would be strange but people would still recognize you for who you are.

But if we're joined in a hive mind with shared memories/thoughts/etc, I think that would qualify as "not human anymore". Unless there's multiple of these hiveminds, in that case it would be more like a bunch of "super" humans. The next evolution, maybe.

There are many cases where people's personality changes, sometimes drastically. Their friends and relatives don't recognize them anymore (brain damage, severe depression, drug abuse), or they don't recognize anyone around (amnesia). Does that stop them from being human? I think most people agree they're different, but still very much human.
The paper includes quantum computers, it does not include computers that exploit CTCs or similar things whose existence we can only speculate upon. Note however that CTCs don't give you hypercomputation.

Do you have a link discussing physical models for hypercomputers?
And i suppose it can become/seem important to embellish ones resume, to land a job and get "food for the day" for one's family -- if there's no functioning social welfare system

But I wouldn't think of the Baltics as such a place?

Instead, just hanging over the code and infra to new people, is risky in itself and can easily make security problems happen?
No FAQ, no about, and the first thing they do is ask for email?
In terms of the printing press analogy, they were renting printing presses that Amazon owned (because setting up printing presses is expensive). And Amazon said "you're printing too many 'kill all the redheads' flyers, so we're not renting to you anymore". (The printing analogy does break down if Parler also ends up being denied renting physical space in a datacenter.)
> AWS, as a private enterprise, is under no duty to sell its services to anybody.

This may well be the legal position, but I think people are wondering whether it should be this way.

The first electricity providers were (I think, mostly) likewise completely private & free to sell or not as they pleased. But as they grew, and our dependence on their product grew, the rules changed. They are now regulated differently, and have to sell to all who pay their bills. And nobody thinks it a stain on ConEd's reputation when they are found to have been selling power to porn-studios or gun-makers (i.e. legal activities some find distasteful), nor to weed-growers or mafia-run warehouses (illegal activities, but we don't expect ConEd to hire deeply investigate every connection).

Is AWS selling something like water & electricity, a basic neutral service needed for many businesses? Or something more like a cable TV service, where they bear some responsibility for what's communicated in the channels being provided?
These governments should build their own media platforms that allow their politicians to tweet.

And only have it that it's mirrored on services like twitter
They, along with trump and the rest of dissidents, deserve much much much worse. You can’t stage a coup and not expect repercussions.
Isn’t this about 8 years late...
When I was a kid in Ireland in the 80s, we'd walk to the village school unaccompanied. A five or ten minute walk at most, kids from the age of 6 at least, though the fact that all the kids are going means the roads weren't exactly empty of kids going to the same school.
My daughter cycled or walked to school since she was around 7, but a lot of children are driven to school by their parents. So many actually that the school had to construct a drop-off zone. I'm not entirely sure when it started or why, but when I went to the same school 20+ years ago it was not a thing. Everyone walked or cycled to school (or used a kick sled the few days of winter when that was possible) from their first day. I know they have the same problem at most schools in the country, which is Norway BTW.
Not sure if it's a good idea that you're inciting violence on a privately-owned public forum.
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Because they want government assistance for them, but not for everyone (re:minorities). Descendants of slaves and other poor minorities have been in the bottom rungs of society for a long time, but they didn’t have the voting power to affect change.

The white people who can no longer consider themselves middle class (and above the bottom rungs) are now seeking change. But still not change for everyone, just enough change to help them maintain “class” superiority”.

President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

Edit: This probably doesn’t have anything specifically to do with white people, but it’s a tribal mechanic that exists everywhere, especially when the relative positions of power are changing. No one likes losing power.

You don’t see this though when the whole pie is increasing in size, and everyone’s share is increasing, and relative positions are maintained. But I would say automation and outsourcing are, at the least, reconfiguring the relative positions of various tribes.
Private companies don’t owe you anything

In some cases (not saying this one), in fact they do owe you.

"Four men wearing Nazi lapel pins who were refused service and evicted from a German restaurant in Torrance won a legal victory Thursday when a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled that their civil rights were violated."

[1]https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-03-11-mn-1358-s...
By default, nobody sees those comments–you have to go to showdead in your profile to enable it. I keep it on because it gives me occasional insight into the dregs of the site and the effort that goes into moderating it, but also lets me save the insightful comments that get killed (or, very rarely, erroneously flagged.)
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I hope you like it when the grocery store refuses to sell you food when they don’t like your political views.
I said zero of the things you seem to be ascribing to me or assuming of me.

Let me rephrase: "Parler paid its bills" is missing several variables in the equation.

Do not read into it any further than that.
Pirate uses Cloudflare, and as far as I can tell it hasn’t gotten new content since 2014. So “still operating” is kind of pushing it (if it were really still operating, you’d see new content) even though major providers didn’t pull the plug.

As far as I can tell, The Pirate Bay is not relevant in 2020. If you want to watch Rick & Morty season 1 without paying for it, go ahead and use The Pirate Bay.
The reputation damage came from removing a platform, not from hosting it