skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I watched the video, and I'll share some context.

I worked in the marketing and ad-tech industries for the better part of a decade. The data linking tools that Matt Braynard used to "enhance" the data available from states are intended for marketing purposes where even a 30% accuracy is sufficient for call, mail, and digital campaigns. They are not suitable for "auditing" an election, as you'll inevitably introduce bad data. Further, linking individuals from different databases is highly error prone - there are more than 500 thousand people in the US with my first and last name. Individuals may choose different writings of their name at different times such as including or excluding Sr./Jr. or including or excluding a middle initial.

The above limitations become apparent in the below hearing on Michael's evidence in the Georgia state legislature. Individuals were clearly misslinked by name, and inferred birthday - simple errors due to removing Sr/Jr. are also present.

https://youtu.be/1U8CuyfcnLs

These linking errors are inevitable in this analysis as the state does not publicly disclose sufficient information to uniquely identify individuals for privacy reasons.
It's probably comparing apples to oranges. There are very talented software engineers and very talented non-software engineers. Regardless of the field, I think it's worth mentioning how extraordinary it is to take on an engineering feat that comes with so much risk. And while this isn't the case with the Curiosity rover, in my head I suppose I was thinking more of missions where human lives are at stake. I'm just a bit in awe at the courage and confidence someone must have to write code or design something and be comfortable that it will keep another human safe.
you have your eyes closed if you think they're only censoring the worst kinds of content, like nazis. videos have been taken down for e.g. criticizing lockdowns. it has moved well into policing acceptable thought.
That doesn't matter though in the context of what I said above though, what someone else may post on HN or their moderation policies shouldn't impact my content or my access to it.
Once the platforms diversify a bit, DNS will become the next front.
Where does scale apply? I don’t recall some carve out in the constitution or in contract law. “Your home is your castle, unless a lot of Vikings show up”

If I buy every ticket in Yankee stadium and turn it into a rally for Some political issue, is the management required to just deal with it? What law requires that AWS host people who want to overthrow the government?
Nobody subsequently tried to kill all the men nor all the cops, so nobody felt the need to ban Twitter.

People actually did storm the US Capitol in at attempt to execute Mike Pence, among other elected leaders. So it's, you know, different.
> banning the president - who said LEAVE IN PEACE is what we should be doing

He read that, in the usual monotone he reserves for words he doesn't believe for a second. Did you actually believe he was sincere?
Ding, ding, ding. No points for abiding viewpoints you don't vehemently object too.

Disagree, loud and resolute by all means, but stifle not the discourse, lest civility lapse to violence.
I'm all the way against conservatives ideals but what's happening is scary.

It reminds me of news I have heard of other countries where dissidents start losing access to internet and communication channels. I remember it was in Egypt, Iran and Serbia IIRC.

Now it appears to be happening in the US, how it woul6happen in the US (corporations instead of the government)

Looking at it from outside. It deffinitely looks bad: Imagine if the same thing was happening but to the other side (it would look kind of like The handmaids tale).
Nineteen Eighty-Four
I don't care if Disney still owns their rendition of Snow White 100 years from now, so long as they're paying 100m a year for the privilege.
I disagree. For example people who know what their officials are saying which is why twitter let trump on while he violated some rules. Making shit they say less visible is not a great idea
I'm not sure who you think fascists are, but fascists are doing fine when they are represented in parliament instead of forced underground.

We saw it in many European countries, where far right organisations participate in elections, get their 5% of seats, and everybody's happy.
I'm totally okay with suppressing the influence of an apartheid state. Are you?

Pretty much everyone was racist 120 years ago. Less, even, but, still 120 years ago is a safe buffer. I don't think building monuments to people who ordered the massacre of natives in the name of manifest destiny is a great idea, just as I don't think having monuments to Nathan Bedford Forrest is a great idea, either.

America's fetishization of its dead rulers is really second only to ancient Rome, a culture where they literally proclaimed their dead rulers to be gods. Lincoln, Washington, and Cervantes were racist, because the times they lived in were racist. We can do better, and uncritical reverence doesn't help us do that.
You have no clue how many professional athletes use marijuana! It is not dangerous in the slightest. I would go as far as saying it is performance enhancing even.

I am injured at the moment, but I can go run a sub 11s 100m for you right now, right after smoking.
So long and thanks for all the fascists!
In the case of Hitler and Mussolini it wasn't some organic process of arriving at different solutions to similar problems. They literally looked at how the early socialist movement was successful with working people and outright copied the language and symbolism and then modified it. They were very explicit about what they were doing, hence the "socialist" label in the Nazi name despite having no socialist program. They wanted to recruit those people and divert them to their cause.

Every time I hear one of these Trumpite nutbars go on about the "mainstream media" I have to give my head a shake, because the phraseology is the same as what you'd overhear at a Food Not Bombs event in the 90s or something. But the intent and the ends are entirely entirely different.

They've taken the vacuum left by the disintegration of the left, and filled it nice and full of some really awful stuff.
At some point, you must rely on someone else's infrastructure. What if your DNS provider boots you? What if your ISP won't carry your bytes?
Diversity in all but thought.
More like powerful stand to lose a lot from the fall of the status quo. Revolutions are not kind to the existing elites.

Even elites that helped French revolutionaries often ended up on guillotine, so... best course of action is to act in order to preserve status quo. Especially if you're currently profiting from it extraordinarily.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_police_violence_inci...
DNS servers can refuse to list them. ISPs can block their IP. Landlords can refuse to rent to them. Banks can refuse to open accounts for them.

The world is so interconnected, and daily life depends on private companies so strongly, that if someone is disliked enough they can be made homeless, jobless and destitute.

"Spin up their own servers" is just the next step we're up to. It's by no means the last.

How deep does it go?
Cooking is not restricted to the feminine gender. Most of the famous chefs have been men

Food is a necessity for all. Everybody should be able to prepare something simple at least. Even if it does turn out to be a boring meal if you have to eat that same simple thing every day, it will keep you alive while you learn to cook something better and tastier.
Ah, a typo yes.
I don’t think anyone thinks they are going quietly into the night (that I’ve heard at least).
> AWS, GCP, Azure, Level3, Comcast etc. can NOT be allowed to become the arbiters of what content is allowed on the internet.

It always has been and we gradually allowed it.
> This is not the same EFF that supported the Freedom of Speech stance by Apple against the FBI when terrorists killed 16 people in San Bernardino.

In both cases the EFF sided with the company's ability to practice their free speech instead of the government compelling them to speak or not speak. Seems perfectly consistent.
Cardio gains diminish faster than resistance training gains, so the recommendation of "mostly cardio, some weights" is likely correct for general health, and I say this as someone who lifts weights more than I do cardio.
Yes, after four years of the Trump administration, this is what we'll scratch our heads about. This is what will seem strange and surreal and irrational. Absolutely.
No. We’re witnessing the results of infrastructure lock-in with a risky business model. Parler’s Ops team should have known this was a possibility and planned for it.

Anyone can cancel your cloud service at any time, subject to the terms you agreed to when you hosted your shit.

Claiming this is a lynching is mind-blowingly insulting to the legacy of real people who were actually lynched (for nothing other than being black or brown near white people).

If you want to host hate speech, you’d be wise to invest in hardware somewhere beyond the US’s jurisdiction.
Having to follow some sort of rule can give you just enough time to reconsider a bad decision. It also acts as a forcing function to make you read nutrition labels, which is a good habit.
I think this last four years have proven FBI and CIA cannot be trusted, and people will get called 'extremist' by the Left merely for having differing political views. I mean we just got done watching Trump get labeled a terrorist merely for having a political rally. The leftist mob has clearly lost their collective minds and are under some kind of mass delusion at this point.

We need more apps like https://quanta.wiki that allow not just Social Media, but secure E2E encrypted communications, and file sharing.
Trump is bad for business
One reason Wikipedia was able to grow so quickly was because of its scale. Instead of relying on a few posh journal editors like Britannica, anyone could contribute. And while you have edge cases of people trolling and some misinformation, you also have a much larger labour pool of people dedicated to helping, not for a paycheque, but their own personal reasons.
>When a social medium or a cloud service shows that it is more powerful than the sitting President of the US, something is seriously wrong.

This line of thinking in the time we're living through is so, so weird to me.

Do people not want to live in a nation that unites to isolate powerful individuals creating chaos in the country, up to and including the president? The idea that the president would (should?) somehow be immune to this is as "un-American" as it gets.

That said, you're right on. If you're intent on building and organizing, don't do it on the private surveillance platforms.
Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
Well, banning all bad people for the sake of all good is how many revolutions started, and resulted in much more deaths and other horrors.

If you want to live in a healthy state, you don't ban people who you disagree with. You integrate them into the system.
Unfortunately this is categorically untrue. Twitter does not ban international terrorists from its ranks nor does it remove regular people who say awful things on Twitter. Go for it, do a search for violent threats on twitter. See if they have banned every account in Africa or the Middle East, or Asia, etc. Even north America.

They may ban Luis CK for misogyny let's say, but they sure as hell would not ban all the Bros who use misogynistic language. Do you think we can't find twitter handles of cartelists making terroristic threats in Mexico or other places? Is that all gone now?
Daily Stormer tested the limits of speech using Domain Name registrations and the answer was every organization beneath ICANN.
I see no need to cry for Josh Hawley when Regnery Publishing will most likely be happy to publish his book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnery_Publishing
Yes, it's called Facebook :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%...
Who ever said anything about politicians controlling who can have press conferences? I can't even characterize that as a straw man, because it has no basis in anything I said.
Just speculating, but I think mods sometimes do this with dupes.
> Free speech is not just the freedom to say what you want to say. It is also the freedom not to be compelled to say what you don't want to say.

This is a powerful idea.

Have you found legal protections in the United States for this principle? I can think of some limited examples (Miranda rights, for example), but I do not, off the top of my head, see the the U.S. Constitution as generally protecting this right broadly.
> What happened to Silicon Valley? Just a few years ago, something like this would have triggered libertarian-leaning outrage, especially on HN.

On HN mods banned or pushed away ideological free speech supporters.
Curious why you chose to qualify “lives” with “American”. Does it make the lives somehow more relevant for you? More significant?
Additionally, another post of the same link around the same time with 670+ comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25707959
People are better off moving away from AWS anyway, which is expensive and proprietary: https://medium.com/@keithccurtis/why-the-dod-should-use-open...
My bad. I must have messed up just before updating with the edit, because I definitely check the links I post
You're aware #HangMikePence is trending on Twitter right now unmoderated, right?
Unless you think Twitter was lying in https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio..., that last tweet was the call to violently disrupt the inauguration in POTUS’ absence that was the final straw.
This also opens up a really simple attack vector for taking down a competitor.

A recipe:
1) Create a bunch of accounts on your competitor's platform.
2) Post awful things using those accounts.
3) Screenshot them as proof that said competitor isn't taking moderation seriously. Make sure to do this before the posts are flagged/downvoted.
4) Send screenshots to all of the vendors that supply services to your competitor.

Voila, competition problem solved.
Ironic since the "they" in the original work was literally the facists/nazis.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
Consider it from this perspective: Donald Trump was elected, not because he represented conservative people so well. Not even close.

He was elected because conservative opinions have been given so little credence versus liberal opinions on the biggest platforms that they turned to someone who would fight those platforms head on.

Liberal voices and opinions have been lauded, applauded, and promoted more than their fair share by most media and social media platforms for decades. That has created deep resentment in large areas of the country.

Donald Trump is a symptom of the disease that American politics and the associated media outlets have contracted.
He is not the disease itself.

The way he is acting is not that surprising to anyone who pays attention to his personality. And the response in the last week by media and social media and big tech companies has also not been surprising, although I think they should have been more measured.

But the underlying problem still remains. De-platforming Donald Trump will not fix the broken and biased system. And every move and countermove escalates the resentment.
Everything said by the person you replied to is the truth, not hyperbole. Just because the mob and their fatal invasion of the nation's capitol was not successful does not mean that their motives were not anti-democratic.

Why are you apologizing for the insurrection's actions?
Rudy told the crowd “let’s have trial by combat” shortly before they marched to the capitol.
Aha, so in your heart of hears if Tim was like, yes, FBI, here are 100 engineers, we'll let you into any phone you want!

EFF is HAPPY yes? That's what you're saying? I mean, in this hypothetical this would be what Tim/Apple wants...
https://twitter.com/IdeasSensible/status/1348126114724466691...
No brainer. You do not appease fascists. Let them build their own server farms or fediverse and watch the world disconnect you from peering.
This is a good point, which I think was reflected by in nickpeterson's comment as well. There's still a bit of a culture of "move fast and break things" in my line of software engineering that I don't think ever existed in space travel. (or at least hope not)
If you create an "anything goes" application, you better go into it knowing the main cloud providers probably are not going to keep you around if you do not adhere to their policy.

If their infrastructure is well engineered, this shouldn't make a difference. I don't have a lot of confidence in their founder though, he's always seemed in over his head.
It’s worth it to quickly check out the content on Parker, gab, and similar sites/apps. Gab.com has 3 Qanon posts on their front page right now.
Look at all the types of videos YouTube de-monetizes, do you think YouTube wants to pay for hosting and make no money on the videos? No, that's all the types of videos that large advertisers (which pay the most) have complained about over time.
> 5. Sugar beets do not blossom.

Which is fine, as long as no weeds or mushrooms grow in that entire field, and a freak rain doesn’t rinse it into the drainage ditches where weeds and mushrooms absolutely grow, in abundance.
First They Came
The full AWS letter is really worth reading. It's far more nuanced and alarming than just "Parler tried but not hard enough". I'll emphasize some points I think show that.

"Recently, we’ve seen a steady increase in this violent content on your website, all of which violates our terms. It’s clear that Parler does not have an effective process to comply with the AWS terms of service. It also seems that Parler is still trying to determine its position on content moderation. You remove some violent content when contacted by us or others, but not always with urgency. Your CEO recently stated publicly that he doesn’t “feel responsible for any of this, and neither should the platform.” This morning, you shared that you have a plan to more proactively moderate violent content, but plan to do so manually with volunteers. It’s our view that this nascent plan to use volunteers to promptly identify and remove dangerous content will not work in light of the rapidly growing number of violent posts. This is further demonstrated by the fact that you still have not taken down much of the content that we’ve sent you. Given the unfortunate events that transpired this past week in Washington, D.C., there is serious risk that this type of content will further incite violence."
Ask HN: Hiring web designer skilled with Materializecss for 20$-30$ per page
I am looking for web designer who has skills of materializecss.com based web page designing from INDIA. I have issue making payment outside India, thus need somebody from India only.

Unfortunately, I also need to request to sign NDA before discussing further.

Since I have issue making payment outside India, I do not have option to hire using outside India marketplace.

Thank you, looking forward to find some helpful designer.

Thanks
Why is HEIF involved in a raw format?
Also interesting is that the question arises from that you can. Imagine all the products that involve printed text. Should monitoring the text depend on capacity or ability to? Whatever the agreed or logical answer to the riddle (if any), at what point should it become a law makers job?
Do you expect me to copy paste a full proposal under every single comment?

But I'll indulge you: Regulate these companies like public utility. Make laws that specify which content is not allowed (e.g. no hateful content, or whatever) and let the courts be the arbiter.
What world do you live in where a fascist recruitment tool being banned is equivalent to losing all contact with other humans? Are you under the impression that this is the first time something like this has happened? World keeps right on spinning.
Abominable Icerobot: an attempt
imo Starting Strength is overrated, especially if you're just looking to improve health. Not everyone needs to powerlift.

My go-to for science-based, reasonable exercise and diet advice is Renaissance Periodization. Nearly everyone on their team holds a PhD, does active research, and trains or competes at an elite level: https://renaissanceperiodization.com/team
A large portion of this kind of content results in people irresponsibly spreading a deadly disease while hospitals are turning dying people away in some areas of the country, e.g. LA.

I am happy to see content platforms policing thought in this manner!
I agree, though this could probably be prevented by ensuring one can renew copyright freely up until their death or at least well into their life. If a company is capitalizing on works that were made 30 years after an author's death, I think it would be reasonable for it to cost a pretty penny.
Parler CEO: “This Was a Coordinated Attack” as Amazon Boots Parler from AWS
That article is pretty old. Also you are misrepresenting it, as the platform point was about Israel and Palestine, not jews.

I have been unable to find a current platform, so it is unclear if that is actually still in there.
The same thing said in one society can result in people kicking each other, killing each other then causing blood feud for centuries while in another society merely in a lawsuit.

For economy to work, large number of people who dislike each other need to cooperate, so it is generally a good strategy for the society to arrange consequences in such a way as to not cause escalating chain of feud.
How is this submission on the front page and not this other submission from just 2 hours ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25707959
Should the power company turn off the lights in their office?
A reminder: Pandora's Box was opened when ISIS was "deplatformed" on major social media sites to little outrage.
That's not really up for you specifically to decide. He said it though.
I think you're this close to making an argument for publicly owned infrastructure or for regulating DNS providers and ISPs as public utilities obligated to serve as common carriers. Was that what you had in mind?
Silicon Valley CEOs are commies, and their followers are puppets. They're losing control over peoples lives and they're freaking out. The world is watching :')
Dotcom lobbyist backs dotcom decision. Color me surprised!

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/all-effd-up-levine
Ask HN: Refactoring Code to Enterprise Level
I have been writing code since past 10 years, mostly for small companies which have seen medium level of traffic (50-500 concurrently active user). Last year I moved to a startup where I had to scale code to 5000-10000 concurrent users which has been done nicely so far!
Now I have to refactor one of its core functionality to enterprise level software. In short it would be a logistic division of my company and whose end users would be 3-4 tier city users of India who aren’t really so tech Savy ( basically it means exceptions catching and validations should be full proof). Last written code has been working good so far but I am not happy with the ‘if else’ way code has been written!
Any suggestions on how to architect a logistic company or how to refactor code that with assumptions it would fail and recover automatically or atleast points developer/data team that some thing wrong has happened (as there are 2-3 dbs which have to kept in sync, thanks to micro services :/)
In short I have never written enterprise grade application !
Any suggestions/advise would be highly appreciated.
How do you integrate people who are hostile to the system and would rather see it destroyed than become part of it?
Messiah would be more accurate.
Nmap Public Source License Version 0.92 is not acceptable for use in Fedora
Maybe that's the thing you should be mad about then. Instead of calling this a free speech issue. Which it's not.