skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> QAnon, as malignant as it is, is a relatively small movement even among Trump supporters - probably around 1/4 of his followers.

I have, very much to the destruction of my soul, looked thedonald.win. It's filled to the brim with Q'isms. Donald trump himself has repeated Q'isms, and has retweeted Qanon-based tweets on numerous occasions(https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/12/trump-tweeting-qano...). At this point, you can not separate Trump supporters from the QAnon crowd, they are virtually the same crowd, not with the big T himself retweeting (well not anymore, I give you that) QAnon bunk.

I also have to say, for somebody that was clamoring for me to show the very specific amounts of very specific evidence, you counter claim now has nothing of the sort of rigor you expected of me.
I knew a pleasant fellow, a FLOSS maintainer somewhat well known at least in his niche, who provided wifi to neighbors, but they had to click through an agreement first. Only one read it. Buried in the text, experimentally, it said they had to give him all their possessions upon request. (He isn't the type to do it, but wanted to know who read it.)
I think Element is way behind Signal in terms of usability. The iOS app is the most confusing chat app I've seen, especially if you are using your own servers.
everyone in some level is an activist.

I don't agree with everything that he does or says. However I'm sure he would be the last one to take the side of Parler or any other similar project.
Do exchanges like HF traders? I know HF traders themselves justify their own existence by claiming they provide liquidity to the markets, but I've always just sort-of rolled my eyes at that.
They only extract value and provide none, in my opinion, tax the profits heavily. I think every exchange should pad each order by a random number between 0 and 250ms, it would take care of it. The company profiled in this video add lag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8BcCLLX4N4
When there was a plot against the Michigan governor, without a single step of the plot going into action everyone was arrested and convicted and no one from either party complained about that, after being shown the evidence.

If Parler or someone on Parler is doing something wrong, arrest and convict them using the law.

AWS lawyers can sign-off anything because the Terms and Conditions are skewed entirely in AWS favor, let alone the new king in town.
> Getting e2e set up

Do you mean about accessing an encrypted chat from multiple devices?

If yes, I was playing with that just this weekend and I did not understand at all how to trust the other devices by using "text" (which "text"? I didn't get anything to type/check/approve anywhere); on the other hand by using the option to use emoji (compare a series of emoji between devices and then confirm) was very simple.

As well finding the link to a group-chat that I just created was not simple (or at least the place where to find it was not obvious).

> That being said it is the the best long term option in my opinion and I am donating to the organization. Hopefully they can work on polishing the e2e UX.

Same here & I agree.
You can very realistically "self host" up to a certain scale. Larger scale you can still do it realistically, but you can't just do it overnight. It takes a while to get all the pieces in place to handle that scale.

Really, there was a time when every company that had a website would spin up their own hardware and software...
Another example of this strategy is the Reichstag fire. The Nazis blamed it on communists, and used it to claim emergency powers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
Which is both their right and prerogative. Fascists aren't a protected class.
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996 is no joke. Visiting friends in China, after dinner we went back to our hotel. They went back to work. They were in tech.
Sci-Hub has created a censorship resistant Handshake gateway
> We in America are much too obsessed with "one great man" theories of history.

Seems to me that China also has this theory at the moment, with Xi.
Surprised that the classic "Conditions for intuitive expertise: A failure to disagree." paper by Daniel Kahneman and Gary Klein is not referenced

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2009-13007-001

My takeaway: without short feedback loops it is hard to build expertise. If it takes 2 years to learn the individual you paroled reoffended, you can't learn (so there are virtually no expertise in parole officers or university admissions). In these scenarios, simple linear models outperform "experts" by a wide margin.

See: "In Praise of Epistemic Irresponsibility: How Lazy and Ignorant Can You Be?" by Michael Bishop

https://philpapers.org/rec/BISIPO
Yes, I agree with that.
> after repeated failures?

Failure to do what?
Is it illegal to stage a protest now? That appears to be the only thing that they are accusing Trump of doing. This is a very low blow by the Democrats given that Trump is on his way out anyway. The only issue I take with Trump's actions is that they are overly combative. He could have acted in a way that makes the left feel less alienated. It goes to show that the Democrats are not by any means morally superior enough to capitalize on this by being "the bigger man."
Public control is a continuum rather than an on/off switch in my view. They are owned by the state which is nominally responsive to the public, albeit very indirectly. But, then again, much of our economy and laws are determined by unelected councils (the Fed, the SCOTUS, etc.).
The situation is not so clear-cut with domestic appliances. Modern fridges are much more energy-efficient. So there is a tradeoff: either you buy a new fridge, thus polluting the environment with the old fridge, but saving energy. Or you let your good old 30 year old fridge run, saving the resources needed for a new fridge, but burning a lot more energy in the process.
fair enough, still whatsapp android to android OR ios to ios is easier than Signal
If anyone is interested in online chess, https://lichess.org/ is a really interesting project. It is non-for-profit, avoiding freemium upselling and instead relying on user donations

Here is a great talk by the founder

https://youtu.be/LZgyVadkgmI

And here is the open-sourced code.

https://github.com/lichess-org
I have. I don't typically sit on HN and refresh my own comments to see people responding in real time.
The USA is not a democracy it is a federal republic. Anyone who disagrees needs to recite the US pledge of allegiance, and review the US constitution. China is also a republic. But, neither of the two dominant USA parties currently espouse the Marxist Leninist doctrine.
It's not a matter of "might not work in the future," it would be broken on arrival due to the limited abilities offered by the current extension APIs.

As for Firefox vs Brave, I would encourage you to check out the independent study by Leith, of Trinity College in Dublin. Leith found Brave to be in its own class as the "most private" browser tested (including Firefox): https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf.

You could perform a similar test yourself. Setup Fiddler on your machine (installing the root cert to inspect HTTPS traffic), set aside %localappdata%/Mozilla and %appdata%/Mozilla, then launch Firefox. The traffic (without any user interaction) is a surprise to many. Compare with Brave (be sure to set aside %localappdata%/BraveSoftware beforehand).
I think the disconnect here is that at least for a large part of RFA/RFE's history, simply broadcasting fair and accurate news was effective "propaganda".

Whether that's still true today or not is not something that anyone here is going to agree on.
If the goal is to avoid capricious removal of content then this is great. If the goal is to avoid the platform being used for harm then this seems insufficient. The law cannot move fast enough to stay current with social trends.
Everything's propaganda. Even "objective" facts presented with the omission of other "objective" facts is propaganda. Look at something you think isn't propaganda. That's propaganda for your particular brand of sensibility about what is or isn't propaganda.

Propaganda is inescapable, like politics. It's all about whose you like the most at the present moment or which kind you're epistemically indoctrinated into. :3 (For me, I like scientific empiricism, but that position, too, is just a philosophical/political/propagandist leaning, frontloaded with all the assumptions and priors that go along with it. And I also think it's the best one, and I think it's dumb to disagree.)
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>I'm not aware of any other frameworks for doing distributed training of ML models.

Tensorflow, PyTorch (not sure if Ray is needed) and Mxnet all support distributed training across CPUs/GPUs in a single machine or multiple machines. So does XGBoost if you don't want deep learning. You can then run them with KubeFlow or on whatever platform your SaaS provider has (GCP AI Platform, AWS Sagemaker, etc.).

edit:

>All the replies to my original comment seem to forget that, or maybe Snowflake has such functionality and I'm unaware of it.

Snowflake has support for custom Javascript UDFs and a lot of built in features (you can do absurd things with window functions). I also found it much faster than Spark.
>Who is praising the CCP's economic rise?

Did you miss the last 40 years in which US economic policy was underpinned by the thesis that shipping manufacturing jobs to China would give rise to a middle class that supports democracy?

Well, here's a reminder if you needed it.
alacritty offers that as well.
Maybe the code was taking so long to get through that it was expiring?

At any rate, I know a couple of people who have recently signed up so it's not affecting everybody.
Are there any sources reporting on China's domestic policies that don't have deep ties to either China or US agencies?
Is that a human hanging upside down?
They can’t recycle it into blocks of the same material properties. It’s not worthless by any stretch, just a poor fit for such demanding applications.
While I think this market is definitely there I think the problem is it's the much smaller market so a company isn't going to make a competitive set of services and intentionally alienate the other e.g. 90% of users with it by doing pay only. On the flip side it's been shown that all but a very small fraction of that 10% will use the data sale funded version of these services it's all that's offered.

So it ultimately comes down to "do we create an alternative funding model for that 1 percent of user space" which doesn't seem like much incentive vs trying to find ways to get more more out of the 99% of users.

I think the only way this changes is if that userbase grows significantly, I don't think it's simply been an overlooked/forgotten internet business model.
Boeing's MCAS on the 737 Max may not have been needed at all
Honestly can we not post stuff from radio free Asia on hacker News, this isn't Reddit
yes, prolife groups

in the past abortionists have been shot due to what prolifers have said, so now they go out of their way to avoid anything hateful and violence inducing, yet they are getting deplatformed en mass in the fallout from 6 Jan, which is entirely unrelated to their messaging
Parler is banning those posts as well: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/09/politics/parler-lin-wood-...
The point is that there are bad actors and bad voices across these platforms, including those that are "okay" like Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter.
I'm not really following the issue, but there is any evidence of the people involved in the Capitol invasion being active users on Parler?
Depends what exchanges. Most fake volume occurs outside the 10 largest exchanges by userbase. Coinbase, Gemini, Bitstamp, Binance, etc are unlikely reporting inaccurate volume. Volume aggregators like CMC, Coingeko, and Messari have mostly kicked out suspects.
Yes, but then you would have a single Inbox, and a single place to triage and filter messages. You wouldn't be exposed to the myriads of VC-funded start-ups that degenerate into a text/video chat and news feed. In fact, you might have to install only your favourite tool, instead of 10s to keep up with the cool kids.

You would likely be too focused on what's important to you, since noone is incentivised to artificially keep their "average session time" up. You would also not be tracked, hence miss out on important ads about stuff you don't need on a website that shouldn't know what you did last weekend.

I think you suggest a terrible idea. If I sounded sarcastic, it's probably because I am.
> The site (parler) is literally used by people who believe the lies that the election is stolen, who want to hang mike pence, who want to go to the capitol with guns and kill the elected representatives.

Have you ever used twitter? I've routinely encountered examples just as bad if not worse there.
It's not really any less generic than Signal, though. Neither are great names.
"Cars have come off the road trying to cross a cattle grid after sensors mistook it for a wall and slammed on the brakes."

These grids usually lie flat on the ground and in some areas are commonplace. Seems to me these sensors are still needing work. Perhaps they see horizontal lines and panic?

Cars running off the road for no good reason is ridiculous. It is indefensible to assert this is OK. Denying it or otherwise covering it up is definiteky ridiculous.
I remember speaking to a few aid workers who were trying to get FB to donate to their efforts.

To my knowledge they never received any money. If anyone can fact check that I would love to be corrected.
Wikileaks is a pretty grim example to include in that list.
Leftists spaces online got censored because they said things as benign as "killing slave owners is morally justifiable when necessary", so I think they still have a point.
...and of course there is always eminent domain for the land..
IANAL, but it seems like I have read multiple times (incl. on HN discussions, maybe by a lawyer) that such agreements are in fact enforceable in real courts, at least in the USA. I read many years ago that in the 9th circuit one provision was struck down, that the user was bound by any changes posted online w/o notice, but I don't know the status of that anywhere now.
There are plenty of legitimate reasons to deride Bitcoin but comparing it to tulipmania is really tired and just plain wrong for so, so many reasons. Read up a little on what actually happened during Tulipmania - how many people were effected, and the role of the nascent futures contract and government action/ability to take action.[0][1] Bitcoinmania isn't the same in scale, nor in the underlying fundamentals of the commodity being speculated on, and certainly not in the ability for government to take action.

[0] https://www.history.com/news/tulip-mania-financial-crash-hol...
[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dutch_tulip_bulb_market...
This is great! Seems like something that would best be suited for a build process though, any thoughts on that?
It seems likely that this is true. But couldn't you get to the same end-result by having good intentions but a bad moderation system? (e.g. I want to keep Nazi content off my service so I subject all posts to a review by 5 other users. That might work until you get a bunch of Nazis that suddenly sign up up-vote each other's content).

Not every new service can afford to moderate things like "FB or Twitter". And this is an important risk to account for.
The malware app was also called "barcode scanner", published by "the space team", so it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of people just found the more popular zxing app on the store and left reviews in the wrong place. I had the malware version installed and went through the same process Cedric did to find out that an update they pushed around that time turned on the bad behavior.
Security through obscurity isn’t an invalid technique if you also are doing security through cryptography too. One reduces your attack surface, the other reduces the number of attackers by increasing the required effort - both work. In part this is why many IoT devices also attempt to physically protect the underlying microchips, why HSMs destroy keys when enclosure tampering is evident, etc.
You're right, I've come back 5 days later to correct myself. I've been using Signal a lot more in the last week and actually nearly all the things that I would say justified the use of the word "objectively" are now fixed. They were all bugs, rather than design choices - things like inconsistent padding, and a tiny unpadded input window when typing long messages. It's actually pretty nice now.
Polling data on Americans favorability to the CCP is orthogonal to OP noting we're begging the question when we say people are praising the CCP.

The only set of charts that matches your description re: Americans viewing China favorably is the first set of charts, which is in response to question 8b, do you view China _unfavorably_, for a worldwide survey broken down by country.

Question framing matters a lot on surveys, particularly for questions outside people's daily concerns. you'll get dramatically different distributions on the questions "do you view china favorably" or "do you view china favorably"
The conditions that lead to billionaires through business - note the distinction from russian oligarchs - are generally pretty liberal. You still dont want billionaires actually in charge, but there is a correlation between economic freedom and social freedom.
I would like to use this for a service of mine once it has an API (added my email in the list).

But if I send a link that has no relevant images on its page, I would prefer to receive no image (or maybe the favicon image) than a unrelated, keyword-matched stock image.
I don't think this is true. "copulation normally conducted in privacy" is a human universal http://joelvelasco.net/teaching/2890/brownlisthumanuniversal...
"Free from moderation" Isn't that what got Parler in trouble? Is it possible to have an unmoderated social network anymore?
As I said, it was a bizarre conversation. I did ask if I could reschedule if time was tight right now. I totally get it if they had an appointment, even something not work related, that I'm putting at risk.

They were having none of it. It's possible I just got a jerk.
Of course there is! There are at least hundreds of hosting companies that can provide that as a service, and of course they can just buy their own servers. Nobody is obliged to make it easy for them to run their site.
AFAIK since android uses read-only system partition, there's nothing to restore. It just wipes the data partition and that's it.
The desktop client is sadly a bloated Electron app that has to be paired with your phone. Thankfully it's not completely hopeless as the pairing only has to happen once and it doesn't require your phone to be online all the time to work.
So in your view as one of 350 million, RFA is only(or mainly) set up for providing news to brainwashed Chinese people but not promoting democracy and universal human rights value?
China is Unitary Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist republic. Communists are actually communists.

This is what is eventually supposed to happen every Chinese company according to the Chinese Communist party. They just allow private ownership, "for now".
Examples? "Flaired users only" doesn't exist in any of the other subreddits I frequent, and all subreddits (even non-political ones) reserve the right to remove off-topic or uncivil comments.
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It's not about real financial problems. There's that too, but people in that situation don't spend days protesting, they usually work a lot or are looking for, or do something that helps them escape their problems.

QAnon, fascism, conservative ideology all have "social order" in common. QAnon of course drives it up to 11+, it's a full blown doomsday cult, with Trump being some kind of figurehead. And there's always something that threatens the status quo, their place in society. Immigrants, globalization, China, muslims, mexicans, antifa, gays, transgender frogs, liberal elites, uppity n....s.

Recommended long, but very insightful video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44

Naturally facts don't matter. You mentioned globalism, which indeed displaced many people from jobs, but this has always been ongoing. A hundred years ago this change was even more drastic. But back then this wasn't "weaponized". (Then the unions came, but then they too faded as technological changes dispersed big groups of homogeneous workers.) And now modern political parties try to play on these identities. (Mostly through candidates, as they locally present themselves, and naturally try to mobilize people.)
Wherever CCP wants him to be.
Stock prices being up is a function of zero / near-zero percent interest rates and the injection of enormous amounts of capital into the system from the Fed just printing, literally, trillions of dollars.

Capital has very few "good" places to be allocated at the moment - really for the past decade or so - and COVID-19 put everything into hyperdrive for the tech sector.

Economics Explained on YouTube has a good video about this.
Can you not just place a regular call over wifi through Signal? It typically requires a phone number so I don't see why it wouldn't allow that.
Are we going to see many federating Mastodon instances run by various Govts? That would be interesting. French Govt already has its own Matrix instance I believe.
>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.

I don't see how upvotes or views are relevant.

>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.

It's only supposed to represent the 15 seconds of work I performed in going through the dump of parler data. There's plenty more if you're interested. Again, whether or not it reached a lot of people is hardly relevant.

>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.

And that shouldn't be allowed either. What's your point?
Cross-cultural cognitive biases (:

I think they still have catch up to play with us, but I'm sure will be there soon enough.
Most of the Middle East, Africa (up until their debts had to be collected), Indian nationalists (up until the incursions in Kashmir), Singapore, Duterte. Heck, Europe just signed a trade deal with China with full knowledge of the Uighur camps and the HK protests, while on the other side extolling vacuously about democratic ideals in Sub-Saharan or war ridden failed states.

If people counter me and reiterate stating that the EU deal is going to miraculously discipline China somewhat, boy do I have a bridge to sell to you. Maybe some gutter oil to go along with it too.
Thanks egor.

Are you also purposely not using title tags and description tags as well? I ran a couple pages from your site and they're all the same. May not be good for SEO as well.
Ma: Thank god I bought a gazillion overpriced penthouses in London and USA--if he did. Now, if only I could get out

That's why the superich in these countries buy any asset they can in countries like USA and EU. 20 billion is funny money and can disappear...might as well have plan B, C and D ready