skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't worry, this is only another decision that Facebook takes for your own good. They only want to connect the world.
> Classes that are protected now, were not protected at some point

Creating protected classes significantly curtails neighbouring freedoms while increasing the government’s role in day to day interactions.

One hallmark of existing protected classes is they are somewhat objective (counterfactual: race). Political affiliation is totally subjective. If someone believes in violent death for Blacks, Jews and gays, should a Holocaust memorial group be forced to accept them? If no, then you need someone deciding which groups do and don’t merit protection. And who is and isn’t actually a member of that group.

It’s not impossible. But it has unintended consequences. More than re-delineating the private company / utility boundary. More than expanding antitrust enforcement.
I tried a logitech mouse with that feature, mx anywhere 2s, but you lose the mousewheel middle-click as the wheel-mode switch is a physical switch and cannot be remapped.

Ended up taking it back for a refund and getting a g703 instead.
As a matter of fact, Trump called the rioters back and later condemned them strongly.
Your political party isn’t a protected class. If you think it should be then call your congress critter and get them to change the law.
> I personally think the limit is around 50

Incidentally, I personally think the limit for communist societies is around 50 people or so.
> And now you switch subjects again to Trump's comments when we were discussing Lynn's.

"Let alone" circling back is too difficult to understand?

> Whether Lynn Wood's January 7th statement "Get the firing squads ready. Pence goes FIRST." meets the test for imminent lawless action.

And you don't think surrounding circumstances matter? E.g. would it be different to say this:

A) When there's an actual firing squad there, and Pence is 200' away?
B) When you're at the front of a riled-up crowd, some of whom you know to be armed?
C) When there had been violence and people hell-bent on killing Pence the day before, and others you're corresponding with are talking about mounting violent effort against the government in the next week?
D) As part of the baseline political discourse when there is no armed crowd and no recent political violence and no conversation about a specific date?
E) As part of a middle-school debate, when few tempers are inflamed?

The courts get to decide where "imminent" is, and we don't have a clear standard. This is why legal experts disagree. I think we can probably agree A is not OK and D-E is OK.

If we don't include 'C', it's becomes questionable whether Hitler's speech at the Beer Hall Putsch would be 'incitement', and it seems pretty clear to me that we should include it as such-- if not that, what is? Slightly veiling your coordination and inflammatory language gives you a blank check? I don't think so, and I would hope courts would agree.

I'm not likely to respond to you any further because I do not believe you are discussing in good faith.
I just do it myself. I heard from several teachers that "process of entering meditation" is what the beginning of the practice is about.

I also read that meditating in a quiet room with no distractions is sort of like the "5-pound weights" of meditation, where you begin to learn how to practice... But the real payoff is knowing how to meditate when you are in a stressful situation, when the techniques can really help. I read this in Wherever You Go...

Because I don't get many opportunities to go to hour-long guided meditations or to take a 14-day silent meditation retreat, etc., I decided that I would combine these two ideas, and jump straight to the "10-pounders".

I decided that whenever I was a) waiting for something b) annoyed by something, or c) at an overly long work meeting, I would seize on this wonderful opportunity to meditate and just start meditating, without changing anything about myself externally, on my breath.

Breathing, external sounds, and tactile sensation, are three things I've heard teachers suggest meditating on, one or two at a time. Breathing works well for me, but not for everyone.

When I am "meditating on [something]", it means I'm paying attention to it the way I pay attention to the tip of the pencil when I'm drawing, or the paintbrush when I paint, or the cursor area when I'm typing on screen. With breathing, I sometimes think about how each breath out is connected to the next breath in, all the way to the beginning... Sometimes I also think about how the breath connects the conscious with the automatic.

I've been doing this for several years now, and I've found it to be one of the most helpful things to help in almost any situation.

With regards to mental state, it also helps to think about that "this is temporary"
I disagree. Earlier would mean Republicans have more time to enforce consequences. With looming antitrust cases with many big tech companies, this could be construed as a pledge of loyalty.
> I don't think it will be pretty - but it will inform all users for the better

Yeah, right. Was this sarcasm? I think most day-to-day users have zero color on this kind of stuff.
I love it when people try to gaslight us like we haven't seen the shit that happened last year. The capitol building "coup" was like watching a kids bop version of BLM/antifa.
> Hollywood is a private business as well.

No, it's not a private business.

> They were within their rights to make a blacklist

No, making an agreement in restraint of trade is a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
I'm tired of people who have only read one book in their entire lives (1984) trying to explain to me how banning Trump is going to lead to an angry leftist mob throwing me in jail (because leftists have power right?) for speaking.
To flesh this out, the de10 is a cyclone V board, so you actually end up with an ARM core/s to play with as well.

Lattice has a line called PolarFire which combines a fairly big FPGA and a RISC-V core, but they're very expensive, so I doubt I'll have my hands on one for a while.

If I ever luck into the big money, I know for sure I'm going to bankrupt myself buying toys like https://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/soc/rfsoc.ht...
Except that none of that is true. People still have personal property under socialism. Means of production are what's referred to as private property, and those are owned by the workers.
Trump didn’t encourage any rioting. Stop making stuff up.

He Tweeted everyone saying to be peaceful and go home.

Twitter censored those Tweets.
Presumably to fit the narrative you have swallowed.
I wonder if nurses hate unsolicited surveys as much as the general population, and lie to them just like I do.
Dexter has a couple of different input systems: PocketSphinx and DeepSpeech.

PocketSphinx seems to have better language coverage but lower accuracy than DeepSpeech, which only has English and Mandarin Chinese.

DeepSpeech was not great about 2 years ago when I first started Dexter and, being a Brit, I had to fake an (awful) American accent to make it work. It's come on well in that time though; I can use my own voice now, which is a relief to those near by. No clue how good its Mandarin recognition is however.

Other folks in surrounding threads have flagged Kaldi which I'll try to take a look at as well (though it also looks to be only English and Mandarin too).
> PayPal arbitrarily freezes people's accounts

PayPal kept doing that so much that regulators (FTC? I forget) finally made them stop holding pseudo-cash accounts for people until/unless people specifically requested it. Laws take time to catch up.

> why not obvious billion dollar ones? why would anyone expect them to take it on given how risk averse they are?

Again: I'm not opining on what they should or shouldn't be doing. All I'm saying is, if you think the fact that it's not a utility is a good supporting argument for this, I'm saying their classification is far from obvious to me. But if you have other arguments to make, I'm not expressing any opinions on them; I'm solely replying to the "it's clearly not a utility" bit.
You're right but that isn't the point.
I'm curious if other countries around the world are going to see how dependent they are on these so called "platforms" and is it going to trigger a change.

If Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Google, Stripe, etc. decide to ban you, you are done, vanished into thin air.
You lose your infrastructure, social network, media channel, de-listed from Search, and oh yeah right, your financial end up being blocked.

While Uganda is not the best example, they are the first country which realised how quickly you can get deleted, so they just decided to completely block all the players.
And again, the average joe gets hurt...
"Nobody gets fired for banning Trump."
I would greatly appreciate if the Trumpists would go form their own nation.
Trappists make great beer right? It is strong beer and gets your head messed up. I've often wondered how such good religious folks would become producers of alcoholic drinks. I assume they didn't drink themselves, doesn't go well with meditation I assume. So are they more like thinking "Let the sinners drink this since they want, and it will pay for the rent of our meditation chambers?"
The assumption that a government model would cause a loss of innovation seems dismissive of what the government model has brought us in the past (DARPA, Space Program, nuclear energy, etc., etc.)
Not true for the UK either. I don't even have whatsapp installed, currently.
Would you consider throwing IEDs at cops while hundreds of people chant "pigs in a blanket fry em' like bacon" and try to set fire to the building the police are in violent?

Or howabout permanently blinding some of the cops with lasers? Is that violent, or is that just asking for a funding change in the police department?
> Being barraged with uncertainty, the obvious answer then becomes that there is really no truth

This is an extreme and absolutist conclusion. Feynman once said something to the tune of (paraphrasing): I have degrees of certainty about different things and there’s many things I don’t know anything about. This is not “no truth,” this is “no truth I should be 100% confident in.”

> Surely there must be good and evil in the world

I could not disagree more strongly. There are incentives, both genetic and societal. This does not mean we are resigned to relativism or an absence of truth, it means we are more enlightened about the factors that impose into our interaction than being subject to fanciful innate accusations.
They only ruled that way because of the way Trump use(ed) his Twitter account - he used it to conduct government business, the white house themselves said his tweets are ‘official statements.’

https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/06/politics/trump-tweets-officia...

>Could it be construed the other direction?

No.
I think it took me about that long using the open tools. There is a 2 hour self-hosted beginner workshop for the icebreaker that gets you a little further than blinking.

Installation instructions (basically just extract the folder somewhere):
https://github.com/im-tomu/fomu-toolchain

Workshop:
https://github.com/esden/wtfpga
Payment networks are where the network effects and scale are. Visa and Mastercard have been known to ban people for political reasons.

Payment providers are just a front end for their networks, so it's easy to switch providers like Stripe, but you can still be banned by underlying network like Mastercard and your business will suffer.
Yes, context is important. If someone makes a call to violence that is not intended to be taken seriously and is not at risk of being taken seriously that is different from making a call to violence in the hope that someone picks it up at a time when people are likely to act on it.

There is a test for this decided at the supreme court level: inciteful speech can only be prohibited if the speech is "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action."
YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel
You should take everything Pavel Durov says with an extreme amount of salt. To say his statements are misleading is often an understatement.
Indeed, a leading cause of fatalities in general aviation is CFIT (controlled flight into terrain) often induced by a on-again-off-again pilot with very distanced hours. They fool themselves into thinking they are just as good as the pilot they used to be months ago, and as a result miss obvious warning signs and fail to adhere to procedure causing a disaster.
Spare me all of this. All the pearl clutching in here is based on the idea this is for a single wrong thought or one mistake. We had four years of this clogged up toilet of a human trying to set us back two centuries and when someone finally plunged the thing (and I feel weird about Mark Zuckerberg being able to put POTUS in timeout too), all of a sudden Hacker News turns into Killer Mike and is telling me the second after they’re done with Trump they will come for me.

I’m a going to risk it.
> It's not because of everyday conservatives who feel duped. It's because of the conservatives who came together to enact violence and disrupt the democratic process.

And those 75M voters are not able to receive communication from a person they voted for and want to hear speak. They can't buy things from stores that are selling ordinary, run of the mill political apparel. The servers and apps providing social media--protected under section 230 just like AWS, Apple, and Google--have been banned.

It is not the extremists who are receiving the brunt of this purge.
At this point I would be immensely happy if I could just point at things someone is sharing on screen.
What did I make up?
The problem is that this companies leaders are not independent. They go to summits/foruns/events with politicians, think tanks and foundations, and they subscribe to this other organizations rules. So at some point this actions move from freedom to monopoly?
This is a third time today I see this hypocritical nonsense. The definition of tolerance is willingness to accept behaviour and beliefs that are different from your own, although you might not agree with or approve of them.

If you carve yourself an exemption to not accept some behaviour or beliefs, you are no longer tolerant. And you still think that you are, it's just a hypocrisy.
"Build your own country" would be a nice start to another civil war.
> That alone should be a red flag.

That's not the primary use (by dollar volume, it is also helpful to streamline participation in the entire crypto ecosphere regardless of local regulations).

But Tether's for market making. Arbitrators need a way to transfer USD denominated amounts between exchanges to operate.

On top of market making, you'll have smallish (7-8 figure USD) trading shops running strategies across multiple cryptos that just don't have fiat ramps, or they want to tap into volume across exchanges that don't have fiat ramps. If you're one of these customers, you can get in touch with Tether and make redemptions, but you probably don't need to do that anyway because you're working through a prime broker.

This activity doesn't care if the market's bull or bear, so it continues to grow over time in either trend.
> political affiliation is protected from discrimination in CA, NY, and DC

Lawful political activity is protected from workplace discrimination. That’s a far stretch from making it a general protected class, and wouldn’t prevent Stripe from refusing to work with the Trump campaign.
Sorry, are you talking about the action by Stripe, or the action of the terrorists on Wednesday? See, it is hard to know, because on Wednesday Trump held a campaign rally where he told a crowd of armed terrorists to go to the Capitol and "save" the country from "weak" Republicans who were going to vote to certify the results of the election Trump lost.

Nobody is coordinating these various bans. The fact is that the Trump campaign had been allowed to violate terms of service for years because he was a major party candidate for president, and then because he actually became president. Those special allowances could only go so far. Once Trump crossed the line and started giving marching orders to terrorist groups -- and yes, the people who ransacked the Capitol were terrorists according to the definition the US government itself uses -- nobody could continue to look the other way.
did you try make -j16 since you have 16 cores? -j with no number means spawn as many parallel jobs as possible which could be hundreds or thousands depending on the project, I learned this the hard way a while ago myself when I used $(nproc) incorrectly on a project, got the same OOM/swapping death spiral!
Populist, Prisoner, President: A Convicted Kidnapper Wins Kyrgyzstan Election
A "free Speech Absolutist" would never come to the conclusion that someone discussing vote fixing, even when it is completely outlandish and false is an "incitement to violence"

If you are going to ban anything and everything that many case a person, or persons to react with violence then your speech codes will be VERY VERY VERY narrow indeed and no where in line with anything resembling free speech.

I mean hell if that is the standard than all religions in the world are instantly banned, just for starters.
What side should one use if they're using a thunderbolt 3 display? (power and video in the same usb-c cable then)
people did vote they way they wanted
Two NYC Bars Selling for BTC
There's a patch on GitHub [1], but apparently the code quality isn't up to GNOME's standards (?)

[1] https://github.com/Dudemanguy/gtk
I've seen the phrase 'threat to democracy' thrown around this week to justify silencing voices. If you're afraid of what someone who thinks differently will vote for, then maybe democracy itself is the problem.
> On macOS and iOS, it’s not just built into every app, it’s built into the operating system itself. It’s a fundamental feature of Cocoa, open which all native apps are built, so every app gets the correct behaviour for free. Dragging and dropping is super powered on Apple platforms.

This isn't true. It is true that it's built into the development tools and toolkits that Apple provide and expect you to use when writing software for their platform.

But it's not particularly hard to avoid. Google "nibless development mac" and you'll find some links that reveal how to develop full GUI apps on macOS that do not rely on this infrastructure. Regardless of whether or not you think this is a good idea, please rest assured that an application developed in this way does not share the "OS-level" drag behavior that you describe above. For it to behave in this way requires explicit code to handle notifications delivered by the OS.

Why does this matter? Because those Apple SDKs that make all this happen "seamlessly" are hard to use if you want to do cross-platform development. Qt (and GTK) work at trying to take care of this for you, but its not 100%, precisely because (as you note) this concept doesn't exist on other platforms.

So yes, from a user perspective this is a "universal" feature of apps on macOS. But it does not come with the OS - it comes from only developing apps using Apple SDKs and tools, which makes it harder for people doing cross-platform development to correctly play the game in the expected way.
Yet antifa are allowed on Twitter who regularly advocate for violence against Trump supporters.

It’s politically motivated and one sided censorship
If the law requires cooperation with those regulatory bodies (which is to say that the law is deputizing this regulatory body, implicitly or explicitly), then I don't see how those bodies can legally blackball other players. At least, one would hope that a deputy of the government is bound by the same rules which constrain the government itself, or else it's trivial for the government to circumvent any of its constraints (e.g., if the majority party wants the IRS to penalize the minority party, simply deputize some organization affiliated with the majority party, require that businesses obtain the cooperation of that deputy org, and then have that deputy organization blackball businesses affiliated with minority party members).
The implication is that none of the other Silicon Valley companies have a responsibility to help gab police its platform, that responsibility is gab’s.

If gab truly valued its ability to police its site, and requires tools and help, then it would be a better citizen to ensure that help.

“I’ll do what I want, and you must enable it.” isn’t a valid argument.
Amazon aren't the only provider of hosting services, even if they are one of the largest. It's entirely doable to shift providers, even in the face of censorship - The Pirate Bay is one long-running example of this.
> Is it exclusively because of his office?

Because of his office and the manner of use, yes, explicitly, under the limited public forum doctrine.
> Without an uncensorable currency, any political adversary -- especially an incumbent -- can just coerce payment processors into blocking payments to their opponents through threats of imprisonment or violence against a handful of executives.

That has always happened, Visa/Mastercard have been used that way since forever. The Swift system is designed to exercise financial control. Paypal bans anyone for merely looking suspicious to them.
> I never really liked them because it always bothered me why I was expected to follow the last instruction first, regardless of what it said.

Well then you should be bothered by lots of legal documents/terms of service, many of which say...

"blah blah blah. if you live in california you have specific rights"

A friend told me of a lawyer he knew that would cross out the binding arbitration clause in all legal documents he signed. In california you have the right to opt-out of binding arbitration.

So the last bit of many documents frequently nullifies other things above.
I really hope it goes the other way
I guess I'm arguing for 2 things:

* declaring pretty much any company (including cloud computing platforms and maybe the Apple app store and few others) a utility IF they have this sort of market breaking power.

* creating a lower tier than full "utility" status where a company does not have market breaking power but where they do have excess power.

I'm not convinced AWS has market breaking power because parler could get another provider. But getting and moving to another provider on ~24h notice is pretty market breaking. So maybe AWS (and other sub-utilities or whatever you want to call them) can cut you off BUT they need to give you 28 days notice and arrange for transfer of data and continuity of service. To me this is like if you're out of lease, your landlord still has to give you notice, they can't just turn up at 9am and tell you you need to be out by 5.

I don't think those are too onerous as requirements. And I do think that many companies (Google for search and ads, Visa/Mastercard) have gotten just as "infrastructural" as power/water/phone companies were back when the original push to utility status occurred. There should be a push to balance that.

That's power that reaches across our society without any check or balance or democratic input.

In fairness, Google etc have been pretty good at NOT abusing that power. But why wait for an abuse.

Ironically that's what parlar should teach us: be a bit more proactive about your problems, don't wait for a seige of the senate chamber.

What do you think? Have I gone off the deep end? :)

Fyi, this isn't just about parlar and controversial content etc. YouTube bans educational channels pretty much at random and no one does anything about it until there is a twitter storm. That's not right. Apple thinks it has a right to ban tumblr because nipples. Also, wrong imho. If Apple want be the main app provider (via app store for non-jail-broken users), they need to play fair not favourites.