skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how either of these articles support your point.

Your first article is someone criticizing prior efforts by others to reduce public education funding. The only person using the word "defund" is the author. Though interestingly, there is a mention of conservative attacks on programs like sociology, anthropology, minority studies, and gender studies. I assure you that many conservatives really do want to abolish funding for those programs.

The second article is a single person using the word "defund" to describe Obama's reduction of military spending. Again, somebody using the word to describe somebody else's actions.

Interestingly, both of those articles are by people who oppose defunding. Perhaps they used that word precisely because it implies "remove funding entirely", which has an exaggerated emotional impact?

In any case, neither example is the same thing as a large social movement using it as a slogan, especially when that movement publishes things like "Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police": https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...

When things like that appear in the New York Times, is it so unreasonable for people to take their word for it? Or should we keep insisting that they don't really mean it?

And before you tell me that that's just one person's opinion, I'll just point out that so were both of your references, and those are the opinions of people who aren't even supporters of those movements. The "defund the police" movement has its own people using the term and saying "yes, we mean literally abolish the police".
Well the US also doesn't support Chinese intervention in Taiwanese affairs and treats Taiwan as a country in all but name which also speaks volumes. The US clearly considers Taiwan as independent and has been okay pretending otherwise as long as it's been politically convenient and China doesn't take any action to end that independence.
Nobody is saving the world by preventing people from running parler. Or by shutting down reddit.
In the spirit of healthy debate, you could share the evidence you find so compelling. The article linked did not include any evidence or argument that I could find (even after watching the video)
I'm working on a new open public discussion site called Sqwok - https://sqwok.im

The idea sprouted from using Slack & Reddit and wanting to combine the two and create a new place for live discussion that's accessible to a general audience. It's small so far but has a growing community of awesome people.

In my mind it's still half-baked as there's a lot more work to do to fully bring it to life.

Uses a lot of python, websockets, ember.js

(recently did a Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470672)
I think you meant

https://www.amazon.com/Button-Nuclear-Presidential-Power-Tru...

(what you linked to is a "silly and sweet picture book [which] introduces young children to colors through humor and clever interactive elements.")
By waiting for the time when it was a "good PR move" to show support for BLM, they are signaling that they don't actually support BLM (if they did, they would've shown their support before), they actually just support having a good public image.

Basically, they are just full of shit and are willing to hop on whatever bandwagon makes them look the best.
Abolishing the police is a rather fringe idea though, and it's not the colloquial meaning for "defund the police"(a terrible catch phrase BTW).

Representing it as such seams misinformed at best, but likely(IMHO) disingenuous.
If they don’t like it they should create their own government.
You intentionally bought a phone with an operating system that intentionally controls what apps are allowed to be on it.

You don't have much of an argument here. No one is forcing you to buy that.

You don't even have the argument that Apple has a monopoly on the smartphone mart. There is a readily available alternative in Android. Android allows you to install whatever you want.
Its not even a corporation its literally 3 people ultimately as Elon Musk pointed out just today.
This is hyperbolic.

Nobody is going to jail for grabbing someone's arm.

Even hitting someone - it's not nice, but not a big deal.

What is wrong with the rhetoric here?

This is a 'non incident' - someone was upset over a lost phone, and some minor classroom shenanigans played out.

Nobody was hurt, nothing happened, it doesn't even belong in the courts.

The woman is up for DUI she's a little unhinged, some people are like that, life goes on.
An interesting excerpt from a recent Fox News interview with Parler's Chief Policy Officer[1]:

Just watching a Fox News interview with the Parler Chief Policy Officer and she said "People seem to want [tech companies] to 'moderate' as they call it, content on these platforms but that would require 24/7 surveillance and I don't think that is consistent with the principles of America"

For context, she seemed quite non-technical but I thought it was an interesting insight into how systems with good intentions can be miscontrued (willingly or accidentally).

The chyron ironically says "Parler: We will not surveil innocent people" at one point. I guess you'd need to rely on user reports to claim that but you're definitely going to end up with false reports for sure.

On a side note, how could Parler ever operate if Trump pulled Section 230? Wouldn't they instantly be considered culpable (as would every other company) for their users content? It seems like a lose-lose threat.

[1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MNIxatQ0fKU
Or, maybe, it was the whole “trying to overturn an election” thing?
>The US can't stop China from taking Taiwan.

Can’t or won’t? Certainly the US do a lot of damage to the mainland if they chose to engage in a hot total war. A nuclear barrage of Chinese military facilities and supply lines would shut down an amphibious assault.
I imagine that the US can still do tremendous damage with conventional bombing and ballistics as well, though not without cost. Both of these are basically MAD scenarios.
I think you should be concerned when your reasoning quickly slips into narrative.
Strictly speaking, HTML is still XML-compatible—the XML serialisation is still a thing, though pretty rare these days. But yeah, the HTML serialisation is not XML-compatible, though you can easily write documents that will be parsed identically by the XML and HTML parsers.
> To me it seems obvious the feedback works in the opposite direction. Deplatforming disrupts the feedback bubbles that radicalize these people.

I'm not too sure about that. For people who are already radicalized and believe that there's a conspiracy of some kind working against them, wouldn't that just "prove" that there is such a conspiracy?

I agree that deplatforming will prevent future people from being radicalized, but what about the people who already are? The whole pizzagate incident shows that there are definitely people who believe all kinds of conspiracy theories, and are convinced enough to act on them.

I wonder what the solution for that is, though.
230 protects all intermediaries equally.
Twitter has weird issues. Sometimes the tweets appear deleted, but a refresh shows it.

That user didn't post the name until other sources did, so not doxxing
It is often the form of american cultural imperialism that can be revolting to see, everything from calling other people names to that they're not https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=LatinX
to other such bullshit claiming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG5nqlMv48c
Former SoS, Harvard Law School, top of West Point Grad, a deeply principled, extremely hard working man. We could and will be experiencing a lot worse the next 4 years.
Yes, but companies don't normally do whatever they want... This action has nothing to do with free market economics.
jump on google scholar and have a read

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=artificial+sweeteners

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=artificial+sweeteners+i...

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=artificial+sweeteners+g...

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=artificial+sweeteners+w...
Words have power [1]. The power to help and the power to harm. And in the age of social media, that power is magnified more than ever before [2]. So while the intent of the comment may have been to improve our shared world, that doesn't give a warrant to do more harm. We all need to chip in to ensure our words are precise and devoid of language that might upset, frighten, or harm others in our community.

And one more thing- which I'm sure doesn't apply to you- the idea that past harm justifies new harm is the same beliefs that justified the rise of a certain dictator in a certain central european power behaved in the 1930s/40s.

Let's work together make this community one that everyone wants to participate in!

1. https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6324786/amp

2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisonescalante/2020/08/03/rese...
It has. Watch, for example, German national news and it's like we had 20 years ago. And they have issues similar to ours over there too, but certain kinds of trust are still (more) intact.
Why should white supremacy and neo nazism be a protected class in the same vein as ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation?
The api should not be insecure and able to be abused (and it largely is very secure today). Sure they might be able to violate some ToS items like embedding their own payment processor but they won't compromise the security of the phone like they could on a desktop OS.
Just wanted to point out that iOS Safari currently does not support web notifications, even for PWA. Works on Safari for macOS, but Apple hasn’t allowed it on iOS yet (along with a lot of PWA useful APIs).
Now to wait and see how long until we get fined / arrested for using it! /s

On a more serious note, this release looks awesome! I wonder if at some point, the real value add / perceived value of search and / or discovery on streaming and video platforms will cease to be relevant. It seems like search / reach is quickly becoming the only reason creators who directly monetize content distribute their content solely on YouTube.
I hope that I am not coming across as a pessimist, but I feel (not that I am any type of authoritative source) that any recent china resistance was mostly a trump-induced-gimmick that is not gonna continue due to the economic disadvantages.
The Atlantic: Trump Is Banned. Who Is Next?
Define bad business.

Get down to brass tacks so we can see if the argument holds up.
Do you have evidence to this? No one ever expects to have perfect trust in voting (or anything). There are 155 million votes that had to be counted. If we're talking about a few thousand errors, that doesn't change anything unless they are highly concentrated in specific areas. The question is if it is good enough the trust the results. But if you expect perfection that this is a game that can never be won. Never.
Is “it’s ok, I heard it from another guy” not still doxxing? IDK, not sure what the rules here are.
It's decentralized. You can run your own server and post your stuff on it. That doesn't guarantee you a platform in the first place, but PeerTube itself can't really deplatform you. You could be deplatformed further up the stack, though, by your hosting provider, ssl provider, DNS registrar, etc.
>Majority of sellers on Lazada were just dropshipping from Chinese wholesalers

Really? I always thought drop shipping wouldn't work for somewhere like se Asia, only for places such as US where the purchasing power is significantly higher. Most of SE Asia I would assume has lower purchasing power than China
I'm not sure if that page is up to date. Firefox for Android and Chrome for Android both seem to support AVIF according to my tests. I'm not sure what "Android browser" means here, but it's been a while since I've seen the built-in browser engines not running on some recent version of Chromium as a base.

I don't expect Apple to ever implement AVIF. They have bought into HEIF as the new version of JPEG through licenses and hardware decoding and they're not exactly known of implementing open standards next to their own.

Encoding WEBP and AVIF and using the <picture> element on web pages should solve the bandwidth problem without depending on outdated browsers or lacking browser manufacturers. AVIF is better than WEBP in many cases, but WEBP is also better than JPEG or PNG in many places the older formats are still used.
You are right. In the end the narrative is what matters. Those with the power (left, blm etc) will dictate truth regardless
> Scaling and running the service reliably is far from trivial and this tends to be severely underestimated by “let’s just build a competitor” crowd.

This is not a trivial problem, but it's also not one that hasn't been solved a hundred times before, and seems to be something they've already handled.

But I also want to put something in juxtaposition here. You have on the one hand the argument that this isn't censorship because they're a private company and you can just make your own. On the other hand, the argument that booting them off is useful because making your own is impractical and they'll fail. If one is true then the other isn't, right?
For the HN demographics? No.

For HN's landscaper? Sure.
Submission [flagged] ?? pathetic.
It's due to extreme virtue signaling, basically cancel culture. These companies have to behave alongside the social pressure or else they're going to lose revenue.
Also the proportions. While (in the US at least) manufacturers are required to list their ingredients in the order of greatest proportion to least proportion, they are not required to disclose what those proportions are, which also adds some difficulty to reverse-engineering the recipe.
Parler refused to remove calls to violence. If I were Apple, I wouldn't want them in my app store either.
What would you call this?

https://twitter.com/adbusters/status/1288193793267625984
I wish people would stop making this claim without supporting it in any way. It's kind of a ludicrous claim. Signal bears no resemblance to Parler, and there are various other reasons why this analogy is poorly drawn, like the fact that Signal's traffic is entirely private and Apple would no way of knowing the contents of said traffic, and the fact that Signal could not possibly "moderate" said traffic for the same reason.
The real dunk will be if AWS acts. They’ve acted before against Gab properties.
If they had done this in 2017, they would have faced stiffer and more concerted challenges from the administration. These companies don't act on principle, they're weather vanes.
This is a bit hilarious because many of the things were seeing today from the left are exactly what the Nazis did. They thought they were correct and morally sound as they burned books and stomped out opposition voices. They turned on a part of the population labeling them as the issue with their country. They banned guns and eventually one thing led to the next.
Don’t foment violent insurrection against the us government next time, I guess
Inigo Quilez's procedural raymarching masterpiece, "Surfer Boy":

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ldd3DX

// Created by inigo quilez - iq/2018
// License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

// A surfer boy in the beach, disney/pixar style. I had to be very careful
// with the complexity, otherwise the browser would crash during shader
// compilation. I also had to split the boy in two layers because of that,
// see below (the single pass version is smaller of course but takes 3 extra
// seconds to compile, and renders a bit more slowly)
//
// This is totally painted to camera, it won't work from others perspectives.
//
// Common - contains some basic stuff
// Buffer A - renders the brackground - not super polished really
// Buffer B - blurs the background
// Buffer C - paints the boy, except the hand and the board
// Image - paints the hand and the board, and does some minimal postpro
//
// If you have a slow PC, you can watch it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya3FRzuozQ0

And Happy Jumping:

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/3lsSzf

// Created by inigo quilez - iq/2019
// License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
//
//
// An animation test - a happy and blobby creature jumping and
// looking around. It gets off-model very often, but it looks
// good enough I think.
//
// Making-of and related math/shader/art explanations (6 hours
// long): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfe5UQ-1L9Q
//
// Video capture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_UOFo2IULQ

//
// You can buy a metal print of this shader here:

https://www.redbubble.com/i/metal-print/Happy-Jumping-by-Ini...
> can be considered public forums

If they are public forums, let them be run by the government.
Parler refused to remove calls to violence. Calls to violence are not political speech.
Yes, C - Crash, A - Accident, I - Incident, N - News, R - Report (ie a regulator released an interim or final report on some accident), see the FAQ for delineation.

I find it sort of comforting - there are minor incidents (rejected take-off, go-around, engine problems, fumes, cabin pressure, gear problem, ...) every single day, but almost all are resolved without loss of life.

And, in all my flying, I've never even experienced one of those minor things (except an air return on the way to Yap). So, things are really pretty safe.
The question here is where "doing business" ends and free speech begins. Arguably, paying for access to the Internet is also "doing business". Maybe paying for access to public utilities is "doing business" as well (if I don't pay my electric bill, I won't have electricity).

What option do I have then — go to the town square and voice my views? Even going to the town square is illegal in some cases these days, what with COVID restrictions.

I think this is an incredibly dangerous slippery slope, especially given how much our devices act as our "second brains" already.
> To me it seems obvious the feedback works in the opposite direction. Deplatforming disrupts the feedback bubbles that radicalize these people.

I think it will push them off to even more obscure platforms, and the ones that do make it there will be much more extreme and dangerous. They'll be harder to monitor as well.

At some point, a show of force might be necessary.
This is the equivalent of saying "if you don't like the laws, just move to a new country!".

Besides the logistical hurdles, one is not a substitute for the other. The pros still outweigh the cons, but that doesn't mean I can't push for better policies to fix the things I don't like.
> Regular service of Hyperloop between two cities. [not until beyond December 31st, 2049]

I really don't see this technology as being unattainable in the same way that robot self-awareness or mass-adoption of flying cars are.

There are plans for commercial operation to start in 2023 between Dubai and Abu Dhabi[0], and last year it received approval from the US Congress[1].

This could be a lot of hype, or even a scam, but that doesn't mean the technology is 30 years away.

[0] https://www.constructionweekonline.com/projects-and-tenders/...

[1] https://gulfnews.com/uae/transport/uae-hyperloop-now-a-step-...
I tend to agree! However, I think it has factored in the generated code as well. With something like Kubebuilder you won't have to write that many lines of code for a basic operator.
I hate reading that on mobile device, as it doesn't support reflow.
Country P helping detonate a nuclear weapon in country S is absolutely unquestionably an act of war. I don’t think your scenario is as convoluted as you think just because the warhead didn’t come riding in on a rocket.
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This is true.

The latest from Twitter, claiming that by Trump stating he will not attend the Biden inauguration, he is somehow insinuating that Biden is an illegitimate president and encouraging retaliation and therefore cause for a permanent ban is completely contrived to justify them doing what they wanted to do.

This is nothing more than pandering to those about to assume power. As we all know Twitter, Facebook, Google/YouTube have been summoned to the senate many times to testify over privacy and such issues. I am quite sure they are working hard to ensure the future administration is a bit more lenient.

We should be more worried over the thousands of other vocal conservatives and constitutionalists who have been deleted in the past 48 hours. This is silencing freedom of political choice.

EDIT: Downvotes shows that cancel culture is alive and well.
I find no fault with the social network bans, and I don't even mind the Google Play Store ban (given the ability to sideload apps, including alternate app stores, on Android), but totally banning an app from an OS like this does give me pause.
There was an essay in N+1 years ago called Googlebang, the thesis being that the proliferation of pornography on the Web was in no small part due to the sexual liberty proliferate in the San Francisco Bay Area that continues to this day. That was the seed that the abundant network effects spread far and wide.

I think we can attribute the same source to the phenomenon of reactionary politics being relegated to the Dark Web. It's not that social media companies silence right-wingers per se: right-wingers don't found social media companies.
So I don't mean to say it's reasonable in normal circumstances, just given a little bit of hysteria after having lost an iPhone.

I guess I should have said 'undersandable' when someone is angry.

And yes - she is totally destroyed.

Do you understand the implications of your face being all over TMZ and CNN, publishing your name?

She will have death threats.

She will almost certainly lose her job if she has a normal job.

This will tar her for the rest of her life.

People commit suicide over this kind of stuff.

'Naming and shaming' for such a minor even is vindictive and terrible.

I understand CNN wanting to call attention to casual racism, but they should probably using these as 'lesson events' and probably not using real names.

They also dramatize by giving some back story 'son of a musician' and 'lady with a history of DUI' which is shameful - none of that is relevant.

Given how sensitive these things are they could be really polite about it, talk about what happened objective, talk about how the actors could have acted differently without names and colour commentary.
Instead of "Sun machines", I think you mean Solaris (or SunOS). Sun made both SPARC and x86 machines. You can run Linux on x86 machines. For a bit, I ran Solaris 7 on my x86 desktop.

This double-free behavior was a part of the memory allocator implementation, not a feature of the processor. Linking (or LD_PRELOAD'ing) against another memory allocator could have gotten you the other behavior on either platform.

Note that even with the Solaris memory allocator not corrupting state or abort()ing if you double-freed a pointer, if a second thread in the same process had called malloc() and gotten that same block of memory in the middle of your double-free, then a later malloc() could also get a pointer to that same block of memory, and you'd unintentionally have two unrelated pointers to the same memory block, almost certainly resulting in memory corruption. One of my fist projects at my first job was fixing a bug that turned out to be memory corruption caused by a double-free. Continuing to apparently run fine despite a very serious and hard to debug bug isn't generally considered a good feature.