skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You didn't talk about moderators - you talked about users.

> Participating without challenging that is giving it a veneer of legitimacy

That's bullshit, and moreover, this is asinine and dangerous bullshit. Any idiot can write anything on a public site, and there's no moderation team in the world that can police everything with 100% accuracy. Facebook and Twitter, despite millions spent on moderation, are full of hateful content and host hundreds of violent groups. Twitter used to host Hamas and Hezbollah until 2019. Does it mean every single Twitter user until 2019 were sheltering terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah? This is just idiotic. Of course no user can know who else writes what on a large public service, and no user owes to anyone to police the content of large public service. It makes as much sense as demanding me to police the speech of everyone in my city or move out. Only my city has a million people and twitter has hundreds of millions - so it's more like either you police the speech of everyone in your country or you must emigrate. Or you are responsible for everything anybody ever said within your country. As I said, utterly asinine, idiotic and dangerous.
I am not talking about specialized forums that are explicitly declared as belonging to particular movement - like Stormfront - I am talking about generic platform that is open to anybody and hosts millions.

> and lending plausible deniability to a platform clearly designed for them.

This is example of circular logic. You declare that Parler is platform for specific kind of bad people, and when you're pointed out that vast majority of the users aren't those people you claim the platform is "clearly designed" for a tiny minority and all the vast majority is just "gives plausible deniability" to them. It's like claiming the whole USA is built to enable the Zodiac Killer, and everything all the people do is just giving him veneer of legitimacy and that's the point of whole USA existing. That's how you are sounding.

> they’re tolerated and implicitly welcome

It is telling that you said "implicitly". That means you have no proof they are, but pretend to read minds of Parler users and administrators. Too bad it is explicitly knows internet telepathy does not work.
On Parler, all the speech that does not violate the law is tolerated (even though it is not endorsed, or agreed with, of course). As it should be on every free platform. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. It's called "free speech", and once it was a value of America. Not anymore, of course.
I will rather make up my own mind and decide what is the appropriate course of action and truth on each issue than swear fealty to a “culture” and observe it's tenants blindly, whatever they be.

Now, what I have noticed is that some have consumed so much U.S.A. media that they seem to believe various legal principles of the U.S.A. apply here locally when they do not. It can be nothing but dangerous that some seem to think that the emergency number here is 911, when it is not.
Blind partisan hatred is a mistake.

Besides that, the people responsible for violent crimes will very likely be prosecuted and harshly punished. The message "go home peacefully" is irrelevant for those people and is probably intended for everyone else. Looting is bad, but it's "jail time" bad and not "undying hatred" bad. It's okay to show some compassion to looters while telling them to change their behavior.
I'm asking in earnest but since I'm not very savvy when it comes to blockchain and decentralised internet, can this be used for piracy (movies mp3 etc)? What about really nefarious stuff like CP? Do we know who is responsible and is it possible to report and take down links? Also does running a node involve you in anything unknowingly?

Or does it have nothing to do with anonymity/bullet-proof links and is merely just a very cheap storage?

P.S. Sorry if this sounds like noob questions but i wasn't able to answer it by looking at their homepage.
The 737 classic (which the incident aircraft is) uses hydro-mechanical controls. It can be flown with zero functioning electrical buses.

The only electric parts of the primary control system are the electrically-driven auxiliary (backup) hydraulic pumps, the stick shaker (stall warning), and the motor for pitch trim (located in the cockpit, connected to the trim wheel). Unlike the MAX, the classics have a large pitch trim wheel with lots of leverage, so you really can fly it with manual trim.

In the event of a full hydraulic failure, the ailerons can be operated mechanically from either seat, and pitch can be controlled via the elevator trim mentioned above.
Or someone who smoked a little bit of weed.
If we go back to October-November, we also had a major newspaper banned from Twitter for weeks for posting a story critical of Hunter Biden with an implication that Joe Biden may have been involved in some type of corruption.
To me, Sia and Skynet are the best usecases to make decentralized tech mainstream.

https://skyfeed-beta.hns.siasky.net/#/ is a social media built upon Sia and Skynet :)
Your entire argument pins on this being censorship.

Amazon is not a state utility.

Amazon is not the internet.

Amazon has the right to fire a customer.

If Parler built their product without considering vendor dependencies that is on them.

Frankly your argument is hyperbolic and is better suited for reddit than a forum that actually understands what it takes to build a service like Parler.

While unrelated to this issue, Parler's ux and service as a whole was awful. They were collecting and storing tons of personal information and were funded by the Mercer's.

Apple, Google, and Amazon are doing Parler users a favor.
Sounds like you know a lotta Nazis. Why does everyone here know so many Nazis?
Why is this free? Who is paying the Sia nodes to store the data?
He does not imply that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise.

But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols.

We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
Long time reader, first time poster. I'm nervous posting; but anyway I wanted to share my reading platform: https://tutee.io/books

In short I wanted to create a platform that allows kids and adults to enjoy reading regardless if the content is fiction or non-fiction. However, I didn't want just another material design site, I wanted to make it add a retro aspect to it. It's using MDB, a heavily hacked RPGUI (http://ronenness.github.io/RPGUI/), old school fonts (previously posted on HN https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/), and using OctoberCMS as the backend.

There's so much content in the wild web but reading it can make your eyes strain (especially on large / wide monitors). Reading pages should be easy on the eyes, making it reading more enjoyable.

In addition, the concept is to take content and split the content into smaller chunks.
For fiction I want to import books from (https://www.gutenberg.org/).

For a full book example, I took Frankenstein
https://tutee.io/pages/frankenstein/1

For a full short story, I took H.G Well's A dream of Armageddon:
https://tutee.io/pages/dream-armageddon/1

Finally for e-learning, I have some AWS notes:
https://tutee.io/pages/cloud-computing/1

Another thing that helps is the Summary section that will help you remember or refresh where you left off. Note: the summary notes are made up...just filling it in beyond Lipsum.

In the end I would love to make it social where users can create their own content such as short stories, full books, or even notes. Perhaps even the agility to collaborate or write material together, "check out books" (like going to the library) except you can contribute your own material in the book you just checked out.

I would love some help in developing this further and taking it to the next level.
For those readers out there, I can use some help on content to put up there as well as summary notes as I don't have time to read everything I post. If you have a book from GutenBerg you want imported please let me know (assuming you can provide summary on each chapter) as my current time is dedicated on developing the site.

That's it , I hope you enjoy it. I'll take any feedback or suggestions I can get.
Whats funny is I think the platform would rapidly get users, like millions on the first day. Could be a legitimate threat to Twitter. Also funny that you said "him" and no one has any questions about who youre referencing
Ask HN: What's your opinion on motivatinal and self-help books?
I've read my fair share of motivational and self-help books. They have useful tips and make you fill good.
On the other hand they all follow very similar templates like:

- High ratings(4+) on goodreads. I guess that's strong marketing?

- Always "best-sellers". Like all books are best-sellers?

- A lot of praises here and there.

I enjoyed most of the books but honestly I started questioning this repetitive, common sense, praising CEOs and famous people 300 pages blog posts.
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Trump Insurrectionists Are Staying at Local Airbnbs, Worrying Neighbors
They are not being held to a different standards. The government isn’t forcing Parker to shut down; their business partners are merely boycotting them. People boycott Facebook/Amazon/Google all the time (users, customers, potential employees, advertisers, etc.) because they disagree with those companies’ business practices.
What’s better is that “My” has nothing to do with possession, and it’s pronounced “Me”: it’s Widenius’ daughters name[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius
For anyone else who looks at these people who just are seemingly unencumbered by self-doubt and can't relate to them because self-doubt practically has you in a chokehold every day, I have a book suggestion.

After feeling stuck for a long time and trying to read my way out of it (swerving between Tim Ferris-esque books about "life hacks" and unhelpful emotion-laden books with banal platitudes), the one book that has really helped me lately is How We Change [0].

I am not wont to recommend books, as I get really annoyed by the sort of folks who recommend personal growth / self-help books (again, mostly banal platitudes and unactionable faux-insights). I hope my post history shows I am not one of these types of people. However, this book has really helped me turn a corner like no other has.

The gist is that when you _don't_ pursue something you want to do (e.g. learn Haskell, Unix, or the other wonderful suggestions in this thread and many others on HN) and feel flummoxed at how you continually stymie your own best intentions, you _are_ actually making a choice (i.e., to stay put); it's not some bad-faith abdication of agency. When one chooses to stay stuck (or "petrified", an apt term used by the author), one is actually choosing to preserve a sense of hope for the future; one preserves it from the painful feelings of failure that one anticipates will come due to a lack of faith in oneself to make meaningful progress towards things one deems to be important.

The best way out of this trap (besides being aware that you are making a choice, instead of giving up) is to do something extremely simple on a regular basis (daily if possible) that helps you realize you have agency. As goofy as it sounds, I have started a lot of habits because of the "habit tracking" feature in Emacs' org mode (just to make all of the little marks in the agenda go green).

Whether it is meditating for one minute, writing "hello world" is Haskell for the umpteenth time just to write _some_ Haskell each day (even on bad days), or anything else, that will slowly help you feel unstuck.

[0] https://www.harpercollins.com/products/how-we-change-ross-el...
Tetris legend Jonas Neubauer has died
This is a repost because the earlier submission someone made had no reaction.

Jonas Neubauer has died. He was the 7 times World Champion. He was the most prominent ambassador for Tetris as an e-sport, something that has grown considerably in the recent years.

He was known for his calm manners, very focused style, and for being a very friendly player. The link above is from his widow, who used to stream regularly with him and provide perspective on his plays.

Rest in peace.
You may honestly be right. This division needs to soften, and that won't happen until everyone finds some common ground and feels accepted. Mocking or belittling will certainly only drive us further and further away from each other.

On the other hand, I don't think we can allow this behavior to be validated in any way. As a people, we need to be able to politically disagree with one another amicably.

This was not a protest for civil liberty, it was an attempt to undermine our current democratic process. They weren't calling for legislative reform, but to reverse the results of the election.

We count the votes and the electorates use those numbers to certify our next president. If people are unhappy with the process, it's perfectly reasonable for them to try and change it.

But lacking any evidence that the process wasn't followed, it needs to be respected, or there's not much point in having it in the first place.
Sorry if it’s obvious, but why don’t people think Wikipedia should work in theory? Isn’t it just tapping into the need to tell people things you know and feel good about how smart you are?

Or is the concern not around how content is submitted but more around how disputes are resolved?
I, personally, pronounce this as /ʧəʊn/ in one syllable [onset=ʧ, nucleus=əʊ, coda=n]
That's just saying that highly-trafficked, highly-edited articles are going to be less biased than articles with fewer contributors or sources. That... just makes sense, to me; the more visible or relevant an article, the more people (and potentially experts) will weigh in, and the more crowd consensus will drive out the more blatant biases.
> /var: rhymes with jar

While I've heard people pronounce it that way, given that "var" is short for "variable" or "varying" (as in capable of changing), I've primarily heard people pronounce it as the first syllable of "variable": vair.

(I have also, rarely, heard people pronounce "variable" as though the first syllable rhymes with "far".)
Up until 3 or 4 years ago, I was nearly a free speech maximalist. Now, it seems clear that society is poorly equipped and adjusting poorly to social media.

I think giving more control to centrist platforms is the least bad of all the bad options I see. I'm not sure how to mitigate the long-term risks introduced, but the bifurcation of society appears to be a slow motion car crash in progress.

I'd love to be convinced that there are better options, especially if they allowed me to move closer to free speech maximalism.

I think it would help to change middle school and high school civics curricula by adding cognitive biases, logical fallacies (including some basic statistical fallacies), and other tools to better handle social media.
You mean escape!
Your free speech rights don’t extend to other people’s property. You can say whatever you want but you can’t force other people to host your speech against their will.
Is this really different than old media? Seems like all networks are biased - these are just more powerful, centralized networks.
I’m sorry but that just isn’t true. The framing generation was worried about the tyranny of the masses, global corporations, religious authorities, and many more threats to self-governance.
Wow, I had not considered this at all, but it makes so much sense!

It reminds me of the Greek island of “blind” people:
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/greece-zakyntos-island-o...

Yet we have unusually high faith in super old people, because it’s a sort of nostalgic dream we hope is true/replicable.
Likely someone out to get Parler taken down noticed that they were using S3 URLs or something, and complained to AWS.
Or Swedish "västkustskt" (lit. west coast-ish), where "kustskt" is one syllable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_phonology#Phonotactics

On-topic, I pronounce chmod as one syllable with "sh", like schmuck.
Portals and hosts manage abuse reports. It is their responsibility to filter content. Of course, anyone can spin up their own portal and pin content that is being censored. However, that is their private business.
No low size limitation on files is a feature, not a bug. Files on public portals are currently kept for 90 days on a best effort basis. If you want to make sure your files stay pinned, you will soon be able to sign up for a paid account.
I am not from the U.S.A..

I merely noticed that much of the censorship and cultural policing on large platforms such as GitHub, or even the new Linux code of conduct seems to be mostly applicable to situations that pertain to the U.S.A. exclusively.
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I guess there are ways to transcend this conflict.

For example, perhaps social networks can sort themselves into two types, public-square type and non-public-square type.

The networks which self-identify as public-square shall (1) employ a stronger set of freedom of speech protection rules, (2) be supervised by the government, an independent council, the media and the public, and (3) receive financial incentive, which could be a limited tax exempt status or governmental subsidy, depending on your preference.
> I vaguely recall from reading from the federalist papers way back in high school that free expression without fear of reprisal

... from government.

I will add that even with regards to the government, there are limits to free speech — falsely shouting “fire” in a crowded theater is the archetypal example.

Some people seem to think that freedom of speech is something that can be broadly forced upon private organizations, and that’s simply not true.

If folks don’t like companies that, in their opinion, unreasonably restrict speech, then I suggest they vote with their dollars, their attention, and maybe their work (e.g., via competitors).
"May you live in interesting times" is often understood to not be a positive wish!
The best steelman I can come up with is that it's very difficult to give away that many billions effectively.

Give one billion to every charity on givewell's list, and now those have more money than can effectively spend in the foreseeable future. Yet you wil have spent nowhere close to your entire fortune.

While I don't understand why billionaires haven't done so yet, I can understand why it may make sense to be patient and search for great charitable opportunities.
SEO changed dramatically over the last 20 years. Thankfully, we are today exactly at a point that you described (it all started with Panda in 2011). As you'll see below, getting there was not just a technological challenge, but also one of fixing misaligned incentives.

Prior to 2011, Google enjoyed a mutually beneficial relationship with content farms which splattered their pages with AdSense ads (and Google ranked them highly). Can you imagine how it must have sounded for the Panda engineers to pitch to Sergey and Larry that they wanted to replace all those highly monetized websites with Wikipedia?

Matt Cutts commented that "with Panda, Google took a big enough revenue hit via some partners that Google actually needed to disclose Panda as a material impact on an earnings call. But I believe it was the right decision to launch Panda, both for the long-term trust of our users and for a better ecosystem for publishers."
It's pretty dumb, since I guarantee more people organize violence via Twitter and Facebook than Parler. Even via Gmail.

There's a bunch of Antifa accounts that conduct doxxing and organise riots on Twitter. Why is Twitter fine?
Jeez, how did you get from correct pronunciation to anti-inclusive?!

Most people just want to know what you are talking about when you say libe or cat slash prots slash mem in fo or worse.

Nothing is more infuriating when people start using wrong words in a 10h telco instead of agreed upon vocabulary, which includes the correct pronunciation! Scratch correct. It's the agreed upon pronunciation we all ought to use when working together.
How do you feel about “it’s a joke” being used as an excuse for rape jokes?
One would expect american companies upholding values of its country which enabled them to prosper. None of them would exist today if free speech was not possible when they started.
Aren't basic ethical views and societal norms the same thing?
Do the tendrils not intertwine?

Manufacturing Consent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuwmWnphqII
It takes some getting used to this idea, but I try to remember that when someone mispronounces an uncommon word or jargon term, it means that they're getting all their information through textual means - which probably means they don't have people close to them with the same interests or intellectual curiosity. That usually means, especially if it's a younger person, that they are smart and probably lonely.
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I have a base spec 2017 iMac and it runs City: Skylines smoothly. It's not a particularly hungry game.
> I wish there would be a societal awakening in Europe and people would boycott American services.

I understand the point but you have to admit it is a little funny you are expressing this point in english while on an american website.

I think you should recognize the reverse as well though - countries all over the world are interacting with and influencing americans and america - I know a lot of americans that would prefer to have their pre-globalist culture back as well.
Yes I don’t disagree that addressing the root cause is important.

But we should disable radicalization immediately because they already organized to attack the capitol.
I agree that we shouldn't paint all the people in attendance with a broad brush.

What would you call the people who entered the Capital building and stayed inside the red velvet ropes, who took selfies and made videos like they were on a tour?
duplicate, previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25706993
A private company is not a government. They should be allowed to make any lawful decision you or I disagree with.
It's a file system table, isn't that what it stands for? F S tab reflects that, F stab is super misleading.
This was certainly true when I got started with Un*x in the late 90s.
I think this is getting lost in these threads. Parlor's intent and as you say 'reasonable attempt' at moderation.

It seems that Parlor explicitly designed their moderation to fail and not actually moderate anything.
Freeloaders are not worth it, based on my now over 10 years of experience in this space.
Also, since I wrote that article, we shipped wasm to Squoosh that makes use of threads. We aren't there with SIMD yet (for AVIF, we have it for some other codecs), but tooling is getting better.
I think you misunderstand the state that Eth2 is in. It's technically "released", but Eth2 cannot be used to transact. If you move money to Eth2, it must stay in the same wallet/address until more features are rolled out.

Everyone who uses Eth today is still on Eth1 because Eth2 is only good for having your coins sit there and accumulate interest.