skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, but also, it's quite compelling news how you think change is coming - yet it doesn't and it falls back under the old ways.

I did kind of imagine that, yes, Jack Ma and CCP would be a bit different, but hey, goes to show that CCP still has all the power in China.

Makes you wonder about other power vacuums in the world.
They are right to be frustrated about not seeing the abstract material connected to concrete applications if your course's title is "Differential Equations for Electrical Engineers."
It is. The "trick" is to make that whole process as simple/easy as an FB/Twitter.
Same could be said of tesla, yet they are one of the biggest companies on the planet now and just made Elon the richest man on the planet.
This coordinated banning of a service by Silicon Valley is indicative of collusion between these giant monopolies. If the Justice Department does not go after these companies for antitrust, we don't have a Justice Department.
Ramu Violence (against religious minorities using Facebook)
Even if they do it based on prejudice?
> "We blocked the phrase and other variations of it from trending," a Twitter spokesperson said. "We want trends to promote healthy discussions on Twitter. This means that at times, we may prevent certain content from trending. As per our Help Center, there are rules for trends — if we identify accounts that violate these rules, we’ll take enforcement action."

E.g. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/10/hang-mike-pe...
>Do you have a source for this?

I’ll try to dig up something; I’ve seen a couple accounts from people in the chamber or galleries that seemed to suggest that (I think specifically the House chamber).
>Obviously it will prevent future foreign investment but if China is in a place where they don't care about that, it would be the move.

In that case the state can still get sued. see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukos_shareholders_v._Russia As for actual compensation to the shareholders, it can range between money seized from foreign accounts (think US treasuries) to sanctions.
> There's every reason to believe that the people installed to run Alibaba / Ant after Jack gets sent off to "re-education camp" will be unable to propel it to further heights.

We in America are much too obsessed with "one great man" theories of history. I also think we are inclined to underestimate the competency of Chinese governmental figures, which is structured very differently from the West.

> that could be partially out of fear (he could literally just liquidate a portion of his wealth and have someone else elected in your place through campaign contribution), but its more because of the incredible value someone like a Bezos, Musk, or Ma brings to your economy.

I think it is actually much more about the former than the latter.
Arrested in connection feels like a weird goalpost. There have been a few dozen arrests, but obviously there were many more people involved. Why do I care only about the specific subset of people who have been arrested so far?
The compromise between disinformation and information is disinformation
> Although parlor was only used for hate

I encourage everyone to keep an eye out for these casual little calumnies, presented without evidence.
I had a good laugh looking at that :D
Love the demo links under the search bar: "Try these: TechRadar, AVC, Paul Graham, BBC, Medium, Pulse".

I think one mistake a lot of people make on their landing page is to just give the user an empty search box and force them to come up with what to type as a test, rather than showing them a test yourself, which I imagine would significantly increase conversion.
For the first link, there was just one upvote in 23 hours. For the second link, there was 6 up and 3 down votes in 2 days. The third link has all information removed, to the point it can't be verified. The fourth link had four upvotes probably in 1 day or more.

There's no doubt the material is objectionable, but it was only up for a short time and got very little reach, even getting negative reactions within their own circles. And bare in mind, these aren't exactly random examples either - this is supposed to represent the very worst - and it's just some random people with little reach who get negative reactions from their own followers.

Meanwhile over on Twitter you've got people sharing a picture of Trump's severed head, you've got "Hang Mike Pence" trending as a hash tag, you have people celebrating the death of the lady who got shot in the capital, etc.

Perhaps a little context?
Parler is a single issue site funded by the Mercer family, the same family that funded Cambridge Analytica who helped Trump rise to presidency.

It's sole purpose is to be a staging area for right wing extremists and politicians who support things like violent coup attempts in D.C.

I didn't cry about Amaq being removed every time it popped up and I won't be crying about this. If you feel so strongly about it look up the reasons why Amazon and others dropped them. Look at the posts the Parler mods refused to remove.
It's no accident that the USB group is called the "USBIF" -- "USB Implementor's Forum". This is different from, say, the C++ standards committee which is a combo of compiler & std library developers (i.e. implementors!), enthusiasts, and some who are best referred to as "users".

Not a criticism of the USBIF* just pointing out the motivations to underline your point.

* BTW I have plenty of criticism, this just happens not to be an example.
> You would trust the state to decide if a sexual predators is safe to teach your children?

I trust the state to test the medicine I buy from a pharmacy. The state isn't some __other__ machine. It's made up of people like you and me, trying to make society operate and people to generally get along with eachother.

If I saw that we as a society are moving towards rehabilitation, and better social services for criminals, then yes. I would trust them. Just like I trust them with roads, with hospitals, with medicine, with food.
Did you have any paying customers while you were having day job? Did you had to disclose this with your employer?
Intruder at the top of the 20 meter amateur band?
Plenty of great people like Mandela spent a long time in jail for unjust reasons, and continued their protest from there. I think aaronsw could have done the same except he had bad luck and wasn't in a strong place at a critical time. I don't hold the prosecutors responsible for Aaron's suicide any more than I hold myself responsible for not publicly doing more to help him. From my conversations and dealings with aaron, I believe he was willing to die for his ideas, which were correct and true and just. I hope to god someday we can build the world he envisioned where everyone, regardless of wealth or location or creed, has access to the world's best knowledge and information.
It is almost never cheaper to build a bike yourself. Labor cost is not a factor. Completes are 99% built by the time they get to a store for selling.

Complete bikes are a highly competitive market whereas bike parts are mostly not.

You will get much more mileage for your dollars buying completes that have exactly what you want or with some small delta of upgrades.
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All US companies are also either state owned (USPS), state overseen (regulated), or even state subsidized as well (Boeing). You can add state monitored (Telcos) in there as well.
The good part is that you can be your own site admin, or you can choose one who reflects your ideals.

Moderation is great, the trouble is when a single moderation standard is used across a monopolized market.
> Pretty easy to get the wrong kind of association attached to you.

How sad is it that our free society has turned into this? So much for tolerance.
Something has been bothering me for a while now. Among the many people pushing the election fraud narrative, how many of them just didn’t realize the effect their words would have on people, vs how many were actively trying to have the effect they did? This seems especially egregious from our elected officials, who have mostly been in politics a long time and ought to know better.
> I don't think that's the intend

Indeed, it is a possible unintended consequence if you're not reasonably aware of that risk.
What fairness? The far right want people dead for things they can’t change and you want to talk about fairness?
Sadly, the type of people who rise to the top of corporations and democratic governments are the same who rise to the top of autocratic governments. At least, in a democracy, it seems like they're under some existential threat (as slim as that may be). In better democracies, the threat is less slim. And I think things are getting and will get better.
> They look bribery the other way the great majority of the time. Everyone does it, but when they want you, they have air tight, iron clad evidence against you and everyone they need to take down.

Perhaps in the China of the past, but I don't think the low-level bribery you see in places like Nigeria or India is incredibly common in China anymore.
This is great! It’s such a frustrating process to jump out of a text editor to create an image and put it back in a post. I’ll try this out for my next article or post!
It is true. The difference is Twitter took action and removed offending posts, and removed it from the trending list.
Hospitals shouldn't be profitable at all.
The website definitely has a crazy short session length (it can't be more than 48 hours, probably substantially less).

I do login to the website more often than I do the native Steam app, typically to wishlist games that I see linked from other web sites.

I wonder if logging into the website invalidates all of my sessions after however many hours.
I wonder how SoftBank will take this news.
Trump is a symptom - not the disease. Often if you just try to treat symptoms the disease gets worse. We have a large fraction of the U.S. population that is disenfranchised/unhappy with things. It is various things. It might be things like gay marriage becoming federally enforced allowed. It might be higher taxes. It might be mainstream media/big-tech political asymmetry. It might be big govt vs not. It might be being priced out of your hometown because of people moving in. I'm not saying any of these things are bad or good - just saying that what are we going to do to actually heal? Voting your people in power and ignoring a very large demographic is not going to heal anything. It will make things worse. We have to engage with each other - not disengage.
I don’t think Aaron’s criminal record would have impacted his life much at all. If anything it would have burnished his credentials and credibility as an activist.
> To be fair, at this moment in time, the vast majority of likely users for a project like this, are the Trump/Qanon crowd that feel dejected that they will be held to any sort of accountability for their inflammatory rhetoric, lies and conspiracy theories.

There are a few other social niches that could be addressed without catering specifically to that crowd, and a few even have attractive enterprise-y plays attached that leverage various privacy-focused value propositions. Pseudonymity, for example, isn't usually given enough attention IMO (SecureDrop is a notable exception to this).
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Yes.

The CCP has pretty explicitly said and proved that it places itself and its interests above Chinese and/or international law.

It's playing nice with international investment for now, because it's free money, but ultimately any investment in China is only valued to the extent the CCP feels it's in its best interests.

The West's intent was to make China dependent on the international banking and trade system, such that they would provide additional levers to control China's behavior, but we're talking about a government that starved its population to prove a point...

Nothing shy of being able to melt down the Chinese economy is going to change their decision, if they make it.
how is it indicative of collusion? Do you have evidence that they communicated with each other?

If anything, the domino-like behavior (Google Play -> Apple ultimatum, AWS pulling support) suggests no one colluded about anything.
I have seen so many violent threats and incitements on Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram over the last 5 years that Parler could possibly make the case that they've been singled out, but I doubt it. They're just too unsympathetic of a plaintiff, imho.

That said, antitrust battles against Big Tech will dominate the next four years of economic policy, and rightfully so. GAFA is too big, too powerful, too manipulative, and needs to be brought to heel by every legal means necessary. The US government should also move to immediately outlaw targeted algorithmic advertising, which would make a huge impact on Big Tech's sectarian violence cashcow. (And yes, that's what this absolutely is. Sectarian violence is not just a term for non-Western countries.)
I would put my money that if Parler goes to any of the web hosting services you listed, they will still be deplatformed.
Doctorow's book is “For The Win” (if I'm not mistaken—really need to get into the habit of writing some notes about the books I read, especially when marathoning through an author's bibliography).

Stephenson's book is “Reamde”, which is a weird, even for him, mix of realistic-sci-fi-about-computers with an adventure thriller.

I think I also found some articles about actual size of virtual economies and the use of them by crime. But those likely went into the Pile To Read, which is a rather sad fate in my case and the hope is thin.
That technology doesn't exist and never will. https://xkcd.com/538/

China's firewall is relatively open compared to North Korea, for instance.
> I am parent and I understand what you mean here and It makes complete sense to me. But I am having a little hard time with this, some part of my brain just wont' accept it.

I completely understand, we need to "unlearn" what we know about policing and criminal justice. It's a hard process that takes generations, but at the end of the day it will lead to less offensive behaviour overall. As a society we're too "reactive" to problems. We don't provide the help for people before they turn to various forms of criminality.
Saying something is immutable because someone may have saved an old copy before you mutated your own copy sounds very fragile to my ears.
Problem there is, with enough customers doing the same, there’s a great deal of idle capacity waiting to fill the big gaps. That’s costly. Works fine now when solar is the anomaly (what I’m doing, plugging into grid when a prolonged storm depletes stored power), but keeping 100% of current grid capacity in unused reserve for 1% incidents (heavy clouds for >1 weeks) isn’t practical. At some tipping point, classic grid power is driven out of the market ... and then an anomaly hits, with no grid to back into.
Umm... use the alternative from TFA? Alt+Left. Laptop keyboards are so small this can be pressed single-handed.
That teaches them nothing and gives them a martyr complex. Put them in $social_network jail for some length of time and teach them what is and isn't allowed.
False equivocation. This did happen but Twitter promptly banned this and variants [1]. Parler is failing / refusing to moderate.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/10/hang-mike-pe...
The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Aaron Swartz
Twitter has a moderation policy and applied it. Parler didn’t and didn’t apply anything.

Edit: also fuck everyone related to Parler. Read in detail: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-p...
You need an active condom (has to man-in-the-middle-for-good the negotiation but pass no other data). I have one because a friend made a few; I've never seen any for sale.
I am a question about decentralized social networks in several communities and have not received much feedback. I think because I'm not a techie and considered completely different aspects.

For example the aspect of ownership. Whether the account should belong to the person who registered it. Some people, for example, invest in design, promotion and content creation.

It seems to me that the technical solutions proposed by you remove the issue of ownership. What do you think?
>And no, fishing without a permit isn’t a felony anywhere in the US.

Your 19 and you run, you get caught and the local DA adds a few charges.

Life ruined.

This of course depends on how rich your parents are. If your parents can bail you out next day, and get a good lawyer it's just a bad memory.
None of the companies involved here are monopolies, or even close to being monopolies. And this sort of 'collusion' isn't illegal - the illegal collusion is a completely different thing. Actually there isn't even any collusion of either kind to begin with.
My point is that the situation would put anyone's resilience to the test.
yea. SMART is a tool with flaws that are more or less relevant in different contexts. Being aware of the flaws helps you use the tool better and helps you decide when to choose a different tool.
Oh definitely! Removing every little friction is key. Thanks
Swartz wasn't torrenting pirated movies. He was essentially trying to mirror JSTOR. He was programmatically downloading massive numbers of articles, and using mac address spoofing to avoid triggering rate limiting. He also authored a manifesto explicitly declaring his intent to knowingly break the law: https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamj...

Copyright violations rarely result in prison sentences, but copyright violators are rarely seeking to violate copyright on the same scale and with the same outspoken ideological justification as Swartz.
If you google it, it depends on the bias of the sources. One side is saying twitter let it trend. But twitter also removed the hashtag once it started trending. Unsurprisingly, this goes unmentioned on sources claiming it was "allowed" to trend.
> It's possible, but it's not likely to come from established players. And it's going to have to sacrifice visual quality or use a ton of bandwidth (or both).

Switching to Peer to Peer for 1:1 or small group chats would be nice.

Low latency requirements being part of the BT spec would also be nice[1].

OS's fixing their drivers and entire end to end audio stack, that'd also be nice. Get that end to end latency locally to less than the e2e latency of the network packets!

[1] Qualcomm has a low latency version of apt-x which is actually low latency, and Apple does fine with Airpods connected to Mac hardware.
exactly. look at whatsapp now for example.

from being one of the most privacy friendly faces of the mobile to being portrayed as privacy invader (i know messages are E2EE). but see the effects. things happen slowly.

did amazon or big tech do the right thing here? probably yes.

did they see that their influence is massive? yes. (they already do know, just stirring up their convictions stronger now)

Is there a chance in future that they might just misuse their powers without anyone knowing it? most certainly yes.

Its a real trolley problem for me as a privacy supporter.
private corporations are taking over america. Soon there will be no country.
This isn't about calling people names. It's about inciting a mob.

It's extremely dangerous, usually deadly, and that's why it's a crime.
If there was some action that happened that made them all independently realize their liability, forcing them to act in similar matters, then it need not be collusion.

Users have no more legal right to act on these platforms against TOS than I do to camp on our property.

And, since there are plenty of other hosts and platforms besides these few, it will incredibly difficult to claim anti-trust.
> Would you say I'm being a "STEMlord" if I said Caltech students were more likely than, say, students in Julliard's piano bachelor's degree program to be able to evaluate evaluate whether someone making a claim about the theoretical upper limit on the efficiency of a classical thermodynamic engine is correct?

If I personally knew a bunch of Julliard students who did a better job at this than Caltech students, then I'd certainly ask for some actual data backing up your claim. I see no reason why a freshmen majoring in CS is more likely to make healthy pandemic choices than a freshmen majoring in history.
amazon also pulled wikileaks servers....
My laptop has Alt only on the left side. It's also very unintuitive... Backspace is the back button in the file explorer, in the media player, etc...

My point was though that something that doesn't work for you might work well for someone else.

Edit: No, I can't do that with one hand.
Thinking a new social network platform is destined to fail because it's a copy of something, but without the impetus that produced the original.It's the "make something people want," but more "make something they use for X."

You need the original purpose. It has to be to make something that isn't itself. Myspace was mainly novelty and music, Facebook was for status minting from ivy colleges, other ones are for an exogenous purpose as well. Politics isn't a useful unifying principle. I helped run a progressive political precursor to one of the major ones about 20+ years ago, and it only existed because it was tolerated by part of the establishment, and it could not survive a truly hostile environment.

Gamers made discord a thing because it was for playing games. Hipchat was about making code, and Slack was a way to manage people. Reddit was for sharing alternative/emerging culture.

A divergent platform needs a basis in the culture, and the current generation of censors came up in divergent/alternative culture, so they have a more sophisticated idea of what nascent opposition looks like than the old ones.

Short version is, we don't need a decentralized social network, we need new culture that produces networks, and courage to create that culture.
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Germany had existing nuclear capacity they shut down as an imprudent reaction the Fukushima disaster. Now they’re making up the supply gap with coal. But for new nuclear plants, you are right, that is not a role for new nuclear investment. I think nuclear has to be a fixed capacity supplier with renewables augmenting, vs the other way around.
Child sexual predators have one of the highest probabilities of recidivism, so for the sake of your children I hope you change your mind on that.
This complaint alleges that AWS is shutting down Parler for the benefit of Twitter. That seems like a stretch, does AWS really have an interest in Twitter succeeding above any other social network, especially when both run on AWS?