skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're describing the status quo, and even that falls apart a little. There are already exemptions, like businesses being forbidden to discriminate based on "protected class", utility companies cannot refuse service to customers they do not like (as long as those customers pay), emergency rooms cannot refuse service to people they do not like, and so on.

What we have here is a small group of companies exerting quasi-monopoly power; Apple and Google controlling "apps" or Twitter and Facebook controlling "social media". Sure, they have some smaller competitors technically, just like East Germany had some smaller political parties technically.

If it was up to me, I'd change the status quo: Let FAAGT decide if they want to be publishers, no limited liability, or open platforms, limited liability but at the same time they have to agree to Freedom of Speech for all, unless it's criminal speech like incitement to violence, or some narrow additional predefined exemptions such as the option to not allow pornography or nudity or gore.

And then, if Parler fails to moderate their content again and leaves up criminal stuff, it's the job of law enforcement and courts to not only sanction the people who abused Parler to commit these crimes, but also the state to sanction Parler.
> Comparing cancel culture to China's social credit system is ... not a great choice, in my opinion.

Yep. I lived in China for a few years, speak Chinese, and never heard of anybody being kicked out of a job at a private company because of their social credit score.
Strange. I have never experienced that. Do you also drink coffee?
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In China, the Hong Kong protestors are also banned from using social media because they were inciting violence.
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I never said Apple or Google are not entitled to censor stuff.

I fully support the rights of private companies to do that.

People are also entitled to be critical of such moves and to look for alternatives. That's all.

What if Google would openly support fascism. Would you also defend their right to do so, because they are a private company? Would you happily continue to use their products? Or would you prefer to have an alternative?
Maybe not if you are on day 2 of your position as CTO?
No, you can't. Someone's gotta make all that news for you to read, and they have to be able to disseminate it in a way that makes it louder than all the conspiracies, or else you will also not know the truth from the lies.

Without water you'll die. Without the facts that lady got herself killed the other day.
"A filter bubble – a term coined by internet activist Eli Pariser – is a state of intellectual isolation that can result from personalized searches when a website algorithm selectively guesses what information a user would like to see based on information about the user, such as location, past click-behavior and search history As a result, users become separated from information that disagrees with their viewpoints, effectively isolating them in their own cultural or ideological bubbles.[5] The choices made by these algorithms are not transparent."
Not really, it was UK Conservative voters tirning out to vote against Labor. The actual Brexit thing is a red herring. Populism needs leaders, leaders need vague enemies, the EU was perfect.
No; the study I remember looking at was about reversible MAOIs being stored in fatty tissues.
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Theres more bitcoin on ethereum than on lightning.
simulating the behaviour of sentient organisms

A human child simulates behaviour of people around her, gradually becoming more sentient. Is this fundamentally different from a neural network being trained on real world data?
Do you have any proof of that? To my knowledge, $35k Teslas were sold to the public for a while.
I can’t try this right now but it seems cool. It would be great to be able to watch a demo video!
We see a lot of media around why white people are racist, bad and immoral people.

That seems horribly racist. I personally haven't seen such dumb arguments even on the internet. I've seen plenty of arguments about why "the system" is racist (or not) but that's not the same.

Why don't we see that much media around how the wealthy class are greedy, bad and immoral?

I don't think many people think that way to begin with.

But there's plenty of class-based content on social networks. I cannot say I've ever seen them being deplatformed though.
Please please no, we'd end up having max hdr and saturation as a reference. If anything, we need to dial down these, not up.
Thank you, appreciated. It was/is the world's first general search engine with a no tracking privacy policy.
130 Republicans in the House voted to overturn two states' election results, not to mention he has an undeniable popular following. I seriously doubt he would have trouble with finding support with a lot of people if he had taken advantage of this. His supporters will follow him no matter what. If storming the capitol wasn't crossing the line, quite frankly, nothing is for them.
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I want to support the creator community. The idea behind Crowdfunded is to provide data on past crowdfunding campaigns as a foundation for product research. You can use the data to understand customer demand, discover successful product categories, see what competitors are launching, and find promising product ideas. Or do some general research on crowdfunding.
They didn't just wander around the capitol building...

https://youtu.be/lhjRXO72v1s
The advertiser network is one of the main things that Flixxo has tried to capitalize on, but with YouTube(/Twitch) being so dominant, and them being backed up by Google(/Amazon), it so far doesn't seem to be able to break out of its South American bubble.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Flixxo/wiki/index
Another one in the same area, Ubuntu. I mostly hear ubuntu but I'll sometimes hear it called you-buhn-too

https://askubuntu.com/a/34987/26436
Cost. If this abuser was running his own Portal node to do so, he would simply be paying hosts to host his junk data. Hosts would be very happy to do so, as they set their own prices.

If this abuser was trying to use a public Skynet portal, the same abuse prevention measures apply as for any other data storage service out there. IP banning, filtering, etc
Ask HN: Have anon account registrations soared since the Parler ban?
I have noticed a lot of anonymous conservative trolls on HN since the Parler ban was announced.

It seems like they are nomads without a home for their hate and some have decided to participate here.
This statement does not age well. Some of the worst disasters of the twentieth century relied on masses of people not stopping to think what they were doing.
> Paradox of Tolerance is a hypocritical bullshit.

Quite frankly I’m finding it hard to respond.

> Truly tolerant people should win the other side with their virtue, and yes, it insanely harder.

Popper does a really good job explaining why this is not possible, and therefore tolerance without limit is not possible.

I’d prefer tolerance without limit to be the optimal strategy, but I do need some convincing that it’s possible.

Do you mind adding constructive criticism so we can work on a better mental model for tolerance and free speech?
> Speech without a platform isn't speech at all

One can always yell on the street corner, that's your (limited) platform.
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I thought new growth absorbed marginally more CO2? Happy to be corrected, perhaps you have a source?
The fiery calls to "fight" are not the problem. It is the "this election was stolen from us", rigged election, etc. without any evidence. And what's more, saying those things after courts have shut them down and rejected them.

If you make such grave accusations without proof, you are guilty of inciting what results.

If you see smoke and yell fire in a crowded room and people are trampled trying to get out, fine.

If you yell fire in a crowded room with no evidence, and people get trampled, you are culpable. Even if you said "remain calm and peaceful" after you yelled fire.
This is a misrepresentation. They got that validation. It was addressed in courts, but they expected thousands of voters to have their votes ignored, and the courts found that unacceptable.

Then the losing side didn't accept the results from the courts, and that's where it became a ridiculous circus. Also, the demands were ridiculously out of proportion. In the end, because they couldn't get their way, they tried to overthrow the legal result of the election and threatened members of Congress with serious harm.

> "No effort was made a conciliation."

They never tried. They demanded a total surrender of democracy to their demands. That is completely unacceptable. You can't compromise with something like that.

The reason these people were angry is simple: they were lied to and manipulated by media and politicians manipulating them to do their dirty work. The lived in an ecosystem of lies that kept telling them they should be angry, so they were. The lies they believed have been refuted time and time again, but they did not tolerate reason.

> "evil, ignorant, or both?"

Considering how eager they were to hurt people, they definitely check the evil box. It's hard to believe they honestly believed the lies, but it appears that some of them definitely did. But they must have been unbelievably gullible to take it this far.

I really, really hope they will finally learn that their leaders and media have constantly fed them lies; lies that they keep repeating to each other, and I hope they stop listening to them.

But there is no way to compromise with their attitude. You can't say: alright, let's have some lies and some truth. Let's have some freedom and some oppression. Some democracy and some autocracy. A movement that is so eager to hurt people our of sheer hatred should not set the political direction of a country.

This was the Beer Hall Putsch. It's good it failed, but it needs to have consequences. The US can't allow this to happen again.
But he also filled them with grievances and told them they had to fight.

His words stop just short of directly ordering what happened, but you'd have to be an idiot not to see it coming. His tweets during the event also made it clear he was perfectly happy with what was going on.
If I own a bar, and you, a patron, start threatening people (prohibited speech), should I have the power to (pre-emptively) have the bouncer toss you out? Or should I be forced to take only "post-fact" measures, and just stand there and let the brawl happen and wait patiently for police to arrive?

To me, it seems more ethically problematic to allow immediate threats of violence to proliferate on a platform unchecked until it can be proven that violence actually occurred, simply for the sake of ideological purity.
> I don't believe in free speech without limits.

Freedom of speech with limits is an oxymoron.
Interesting thing to think about, yes.

Who knows if people from Bangladesh had found oil in the 50s, maybe today some Bangladeshi would have written a post about hard work and good quality of life, ignoring this particular ingredient.
Private companies shouldn't be able to regulate content at their own discretion. That must be protected by free speech. There has to be law, and social consensus about what kind of content is not legal, and bringing down that should be done, not by private entities, nor even by the goverment, but by the judicial power. There's a reason for the separation of powers.
You claim Sia issues too many coins. That is a myth. Inflation in 2021 will be no higher than 7%, declining every year after that. In case you are referring to the total supply, would it make you feel better to move the decimal to the left?
Hosts have been saving and serving content since the launch of the Sia network years ago. It is profitable if done at scale. For more information, https://siastats.info/storage_pricing
Why must every single tweet posted in HN have (usually multiple) comments like this? It's a different way to communicate, just get over it, skip twitter submissions, or use one of many thread unroll apps.
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Trees plant naturally themselves (keyword:natural succession) anytime when the land is ready (like not overgrazed, desertified, drained). In such locations the tree planting mania is superfluous even to the point of rejecting spontaneously grown shrubs/trees as "weeds". Such land is needlessly cleared and replanted with trees, with loss of biodiversity. I'm not exaggerating here in europe it happens all the time.
I really think it is because people were aligned to the political causes of those riots and were willing to use violence to achieve their political goals (which happens to be the dictionary definition of 'terrorism'). Even those who were not committing violence themselves, like politicians, were willing to excuse others engaged in violence. Here are four quotes from politicians inciting rioting in a much more explicit way than Trump - I say more explicit particularly because by the time they said these things, there was already widespread rioting: https://twitter.com/BernardKerik/status/1347652272852004877 (Ayanna Pressley, Kamala Harris, Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi)

The violence was also not just confined to May. In Seattle, there's a group called EDM (Every Day March) that conducts illegal riots blocking highways every single day (literally on over 200 days so far since George Floyd). They organize themselves on social media, particularly on Instagram where they have two accounts and document/evangelize their own crimes (https://www.instagram.com/morningmarchseattle and https://www.instagram.com/morningmarchseattle). Note that Facebook has not banned them, GoFundMe allows them to fundraise on their platform, and local politicians support their actions and false claims (example https://twitter.com/cmkshama/status/1288511663948230657).

Another example is Rose City Antifa in Portland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_City_Antifa), which is the oldest and most active antifa group in the US, and has been engaged in riots throughout 2020. They have done things like beat a journalist who was documenting their crimes (https://thepostmillennial.com/judge-dismisses-anti-slapp-mot...), set fires at a courthouse (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/us/portland-protests-dama...), vandalized federal buildings (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8670207/Portland-pr...), and repeatedly assaulted police officers. This disgusting terrorist group still has a presence on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/sometimesantisocialalwaysantifascis...) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/RoseCityAntifa) even though they are explicitly and consistently violent.

As an aside, isn't it interesting that people are still gaslighting everyone by claiming that antifa is "just an idea"? When's the last time an "idea" showed up to a court and filed a fraudulent anti-SLAPP motion after viciously beating a journalist?
Isn't your view of freedom of speech basically the same as what's already law? Incitement of violence is already illegal. At least it is here in the UK, as is hate speech, but that's a slightly more grey area. Parler has clear ToS but they're failing to enforce them. I don't believe that warrants them being purged from existence.
Professional cmake seems to be the one recommended now. The author updates it regularly.
Don't they use Bing as their search engine?

Edit: yep, that's the case: https://ecosia.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/206153381-Where...
> 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?

Hooligans. To be criminally charged but allowed to avoid jail time. If they, I don’t know, refrain from breaking into federal property for a few years and pass a community college civics course, the record is sealed.

What they did was serious. Little different from people who jump the White House fence. But many of us on this forum can look to their youth and remember when being in a crowd doing something feloniously mischevious was something they would have gone along with. I can. We have enough of a problem with mass incarceration to not add to it.
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Perhaps OP means that the term itself is confusing and emotionally laden. It was popularized by liars baselessly accusing the mainstream media that their stories were made up.

Does "fake news" refer to news stories that are complete made up? Contain mistakes? Or that are true but that you simply don't like?
Or does "fake news" refer to the act of baselessly accusing a reasonably researched story that in fact is probably accurate?
And the punitive damages were awarded because there were documents that McDonalds was aware of the danger (there were other similar cases), but did nothing.

I've also heard they deliberately kept the coffee very hot because they were promoting free refills, but wanted to discourage them to actually happen, but I don't know if it's true.
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Parler (and other services like it) has a contractual relationship with its users than enable it, and it's users, to conduct their business. You cannot just disrupt other people's business arrangements for any reason at all. Depending upon the circumstances, you open yourself up to claims of tortuous interference. I think there's an argument to be made here that this is exactly what Amazon, Apple, and Google all did.

Section 230 protections doesn't apply here either. It does protect against civil suits, but only for good faith attempts at removing illegal content. It's fair to question whether Parler has done a good enough job in that regard. If not, then the appropriate parties should sue Parler to force it to clean up it's act. But there is nothing inherently illegal about Parler, so there is no reason why these platforms deserve protection for thwarting the many perfectly legitimate users on the platform.
I've recently installed Wikipedia app on my tablet and I have to admit it's amazing, I prefer it over the web version. Cleaner look, customisable home page, tabs within app and especially ability to create lists of articles and saving them for offline use is something I've always wanted.
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> posits that at the very least you should not discount the importance of the long tail.

thats not a debunking
Wikipedia tells me there is such a thing as criminal libel, although it is rarely prosecuted. But that's beside the point IMO. I omitted that libel generally does not fall under criminal law because IMO the fact that the legal system can be used by private individuals to enforce libel laws makes them a government restriction on free speech.
It's a thread about an article on Parler. I'm talking about that. Was "the speech that got us there" by Parler?
What is “freedom of speech” if people are bullied for expressing their opinion?
The argument "you will find yourself on the other side" is weak. First, it's just a threat in disguise. Second, it's a weak threat because it's hard to realistically imagine Besos or Cook trying to start another Parler.

What's happening is just morally wrong. Not because the situation may flip, but because there's a higher moral law to things and what's happening contradicts this law. Even if your side appears to be winning, it's actually losing, because it's losing its soul.
Lowest I've seen is https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/sx62 at 1.6€ / TB / month. Anyone seen lower ?

You should be extra careful on big servers with little bandwidth, you might need a month to fill/empty/rebalance them.

How will you host the images ? Metadata will become a bottleneck before hdd size.

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This is my go-to search engine, it's pretty good.

While I like the idea of a privacy-focused search engine eg. DuckDuckGo, I think the climate is a more important issue and I figure at least Ecosia is based in the EU where they're more likely to comply with the GDPR. 99% of my searches can be found by any engine and it's trivial to add a shortcut to other engines, so I don't base my default choice on search results (within reason of course).

That's my reasoning around the two common issues anyway.
I don’t think the reorganisation into two teams was necessarily obvious.

Secondly, when you are making a decision like this which impacts the course of other people’s lives, I personally believe that you should use a level of structured decision making rather than a gut feeling of who ‘fits into the team’ best.

Overengineered? Probably, but at least it showed a clear thought process. Also he stated he considered team dynamics once he had some candidate options.
> - Private companies' interest should have little, if any, control over the ability of the public to speak

> - Speech without a platform isn't speech at all

These seem to me to be in conflict: if I don't have access to a particular platform (let's say, the New York Times), do I have access to freedom of speech?
> The mainstream media was complicit in arguing for the Iraq War

So was conservative media - why single out only the mainstream media?
Hmm.. since every company promises a focus on privacy, isn't the bigger differentiator for the user that you run your own crawler? Do you use only your own crawling data?
It's not an option, because of the banking, which is a gray area. It's privately owned, but it's not really a free market either. The problem is that Visa and Mastercard is blacklisting people, just because the angry mob complained on the internet. The social media is just a tip of the iceberg.
Rather than calling something fake news, you could sign up for a parker account yourself and have a browser of the content present there to make your own opinion. Calling something fake news is the equivalent of acusing everyone who disagrees with you an alt right scum.
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