skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tyranny of the majority is avoided by giving organized minority parties rights, so they can negotiate from positions of weakness, not arbitrarily choosing a minority to have disproportionate representation.

Our current system of democracy suffers because we can attack a much smaller % of the population with misinformation, and rural voters are more efficient to target.
This was the exact issue I hit. There are set libraries for Go, but they only handle standard types. The for loops got old quick.
There was a rumor years ago that Samsung was the #1 potential buyer of Microsoft's XBOX division. Obviously that didn't happen. At this point building a brand and a first party game library that can compete in what already looks like a crowded market is probably not worth it. Technical differentiation is hard and as sibling comment said consoles sell at a loss
Wouldn't the same apply to health care? I would imagine the common stance would in fact be the exact opposite of this here.

I think as a whole we need to agree that things are black and white and in fact grey. This, healthcare, and other topics are much more nuanced than pointing fingers at one side or the other.
I think it's different for company-branded things. If you're proud of where you work because you think they impact the world positively[1], that's very different than being proud to broadcast that you paid $$$ for something.

[1] - It's easiest to imagine for this exercise that you work somewhere unquestionably positive, like a research group that just cured cancer and then released the cure into the public domain or something else that doesn't have Facebook's baggage.
You're thinking of when they quit providing DDoS protection for The Daily Stormer. I don't think it was an easy decision for him at all.

Here's the full quote:

>Literally, I woke up in a bad mood and decided someone shouldn’t be allowed on the Internet. No one should have that power.

Here's the EFF article about it with some good links for context:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/fighting-neo-nazis-fut...
Because the parent poster suggested they in fact wanted to open source more stuff but couldn't for these reasons. Therefore, it is a strong case against.
I'm surprised, because Plaid is far from the first mover in the "scraped banking data API" space. Mint (now Intuit) and Yodlee come to mind, and they use essentially the same sign-in flow and come with the same limitations.

There are organizations and companies that are trying to do this legitimately, through open standards and real incentives to both FIs and customers to share information in exchanges:

- Open Banking Project: https://www.openbankproject.com/

- MX: https://www.mx.com/

P.S. Can we get real Markdown support already? The fact that the Markdown URL format isn't supported is extremely user-hostile.
Then you have a potential first amendment violation.

Censorship is in general perfectly legal, the first amendment only protects from government action, and even then, only sometimes, depending on what’s said.
Not to be inflammatory, but why? The only benefit I can see is reducing the likelihood of new strains getting into the US, but to me this is like a swimming pool requiring people to be dry before they get in.

It would make sense as part of a national strategy, no doubt. But on it's own, I don't see the value in this?

Especially since it doesn't apply to passengers transiting through the US, so technically not everybody on the flight will have to do this, meaning you're going to spend a lot of time in an enclosed place with (as a complete guess) 80% covid negative people and 20% YOLO people. That's, err, that's exactly how covid spreads...
I love Linux, and I use it every day, but I sincerely believe it does not have a future on the desktop.
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This is so terrible. Is there an easy way for me to write to Plaid to delete all my information or do I have to go into each service and unlink?
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No one cares unfortunately. I consider conversations with my friends private. So I do not use discord.
> sort of the same way DNS happened.

Actually, almost everything happened that way in the history of mankind, right? xD

> the people who start that infrastructure do it with a traded coin

All the names could be registered by one monopolistic player on the public blockchain. That's why a cost function is required.

> that they've premined, allocated huge chunks of to themselves

A huge chunk was not allocated to anyone other than FOSS developers. Please review the paper [1] for specific allocations.

> "airdropped" to a set of developers they collected in 2018.

To be clear, this set consists of any developer on github who had 15 or more followers in 2019, the PGP web of trust strong set, and anyone on HN who had a keybase account in their profile.

> Why would anybody sign up for this? I genuinely have a hard time understanding why anybody would take this seriously.

I don't think there is anything to sign up for? Secondly, you absolutely don't need to use the new internet if you don't want to - just like nobody forces you to use anything else in this world. You have a choice. That said, we'll miss you. :(

> It's a plan to replace the DNS roots with... some company? That just decided they should be the ones to own it?

So actually, the DNS root is owned by some company [2] that is under the jurisdiction of California law. It used to be, and still basically is, owned by the US Department of Commerce. Internet users are replacing it with a public blockchain owned by the commons.

Historically, revolutions happen all the time. Now it's the time for democratization of naming. Is there any good reason why we shouldn't own our own names? I think that the name might even be more valuable than money. What is anything without a name?

[1] https://handshake.org/files/handshake.txt

[2] https://www.icann.org/
In my case I tried out GitHub Sponsors because it seemed pretty frictionless (and was!). If I were more concerned about soliciting donations I’m sure I would look at and probably use other platforms but in my case it’s just a small nicety.

I am however confused about how payouts happen with GH Sponsors — I feel like every time I take a look at the sponsors dashboard it says the payout will be next month. Haven’t received one yet.
I think normal people have enough trouble sifting through the noise.

Having the noise additionally filtered by corporations with potentially strong, unclear interests, being able to arbitrarily decide who can or cannot use their platform is going to make the process of getting at truth impossible.

You are not able to tell what happened because you were not there. Most things that are discussed are things that you did not witness or have no expertise in.

To be able have some chance at telling the truth you need to listen to arguments presented by BOTH sides and decide which arguments you think are logically stronger. That ability to tell truth is compromised when you are not allowed to listen to one of the sides.

I personally believe people should be allowed to say whatever they want and be responsible for what they say according to the law. There are existing laws that can be used to determine whether something is incitement, libel, fraud, etc. and those should be used to prosecute in a court of law.

This rather than preemptively remove the possibility of committing a crime by deciding to block an account by a private company.
To be specific, for many phones if they are turned on you can just plug them into a Cellebrite box and get immediate unlock. Unless you follow strict message discipline in keeping the phone powered off it is very difficult to avoid this attack.

Tossing the database encryption key when idle is a form of segmentation in time, and is a considerable constraint on attackers.
I'm against large portions of how ToS are written, presented and what they contain without thinking the idea of terms of service are inherently bad.

When presented as dozens of pages of legalese text that you need a law degree to understand I don't think they're reasonable.

Having documented that certain behaviors will result in blocking is perfectly reasonable to me.
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I hear what you're saying and I appreciate that perspective. I agree, and there's also something slippery in that argument taken to its extreme that we need to be careful of.

Some people here on HN made the same argument when Equifax leaked personal information about millions of americans. They said it was ultimately management's fault and not the engineers' fault for not allocating enough resources to security. And the same argument was used by the engineers who made the Therac-25 radiology machine. In that case, software bugs resulted in a handful of deaths due to lethal radiation.

Upper management can't be responsible for everything that happens in their business. Engineering isn't their job or their expertise. Thats why they hire software engineers and security engineers - to be the local experts. We need to bear responsibility for the decisions we make in our field. And engineers have a duty not just to the companies we work for, but also to society at large. If we leave our personal judgement at the door in the morning, we fail in our duty to society.

To go back to the bridge metaphor, if a bridge falls down, its not good enough for the civil engineers involved to blame management for not giving them enough time / budget / whatever. They also bear some responsibility for the disaster. This has been enshrined in case law too, at the Nuremberg trials. "I was just doing my job" wasn't considered a good enough excuse for the guards in WW2 concentration camps. These are big examples, but I think the principle is fractally true.

And the inverse also holds. Praise and blame go together. The biomedical engineers in the labs also deserve praise for the covid19 vaccines they've invented, even if upper management told them to do it. We aren't management's slaves.
Vermont has signed on to this bill in part because it's more democratic and fair then what we have today. I think it's a little bit altruistic of them but honestly - why do folks need to be bought to do something that widens the net of justice?
it should be departures from the US that require quarantine (pre-departure), not arrivals!
Note that dynamic/creative doesn't mean good, just that it's able to develop novel solutions to problems and implement them in a way that brings it closer to its goals.

In recent times, its response to the COVID outbreak is a good example. It's the only "continental" country which has successfully contained COVID, by leveraging its ability to put the whole of China on a wartime footing. That's despite the disease originating in China; them being the first government to have to figure out an approach, with limited biological knowledge of the disease; and initial missteps that led to a full scale disaster in a major city. Today, amazingly, the CCP has more domestic support than it did a year ago, having received credit for defeating COVID.

Other examples of successes: pioneering a way for a government to harness the Internet to increase its own power; the subjugation of rebellious regions (which, by contrast, many countries including the USSR failed at) while mitigating international fallout; wresting control of the South China Sea from competitor states.

Its richness vs SK's and TW's is an interesting discussion, and Maoism set mainland China back decades. But mainland China was a poorer area in 1920 than either SK or TW, with a more rural and isolated population, and SK and TW avoided the worst of WW2 and the ravages of the Chinese Civil War while reaping the benefits of being maritime states and allied to rich countries. A better comparison would be to India, which is a country with a similarly large landmass, massive rural peasant populations, and isolated inland villages. In 1950, it had a similar GDP per capita as China, but today China's GDP per capita is almost 4x that of India. (SK and TW, by contrast, started at a ~50% higher GDP per capita in 1950 than either, though they're now both ~200% higher per capita). It's actually pretty shocking that India did so badly for half a century, considering how badly China mucked things up for three decades.
I love Raniers, and they're not at all rare in grocery stores in Minnesota. Only downside is that they're significantly more expensive than Bings.
I don't think we can enter science fiction stories into the evidence for this debate. They are fiction.

The events in these books don't even necessarily reflect the beliefs of the authors. An author might simply write what would be entertaining to read, or what has been written in the genre before. Even if these fictional megacorps do reflect the widely held belief of genre authors, that doesn't serve as any kind of factual basis on which to base public policy.
Because by giving away the data, they leak info about who did it.
Along similar lines, this list links to the best MOOC for each course in a core CS curriculum:

https://github.com/ossu/computer-science
Yea, "right to exist" is too black & white. That is a bad term to use. I agree that free speech can exist, but if it is so unpopular that no one wants to help you get your hate speech out there, well that is your problem to find a solution to.
I used to code remotely in a tmux session, and I like all the same benefits you mention.

Check out tmuxinator for your once a week "reorganizing" problem.

I also found it highly useful as a web dev who worked in many environments with many different languages.
I'm not informed when it comes to anti-competitive legislation, but don't companies like Google do this sort of thing all the time?
Ah! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! From said letter:

> Over the past several weeks, we’ve reported 98 examples to Parler of posts that clearly encourage and incite violence.

> ...

> This is further demonstrated by the fact that you still have not taken down much of the content that we’ve sent you.
So that's 2 donations in 8 years - or about 0.25 donations per year. And _three_ donations in the last year!

Or 1200% YoY growth!

(VCs please form an orderly queue...)
In case anyone is not familiar of what it means to regulate communication as a common carrier, this is the relevant wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Act_of_1934

It's worth noting that in 2015, ISPs were granted status as common carriers, but that was removed in 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier#Telecommunicati...
You're citing protection for residential tenants - the rights for commercial tenants are generally limited to whatever they negotiated in the lease.

And the protection for residential tenants isn't due to the difficulty of finding new accommodation, but the consequences of not finding new accommodation - homelessness. It's substantially harder for commercial tenants to find new space than for residential tenants, but they do not enjoy such protection as residential tenants, because the consequences - going out of business - are substantially less dire.

Given that anyone losing access to AWS faces consequences more along the lines of a commercial tenant being evicted, rather than a residential tenant being evicted, this analogy does not work.
If the EU doesn’t like it, they should make their own platform. This isn’t a public park, we are talking about privately owned property.
The point is that writing the rules should to a large extent be taken out of these organization's hands, because they control vital infrastructure. The new, regulated rules will probably look pretty similar to the existing ToS except without the "the company is allowed to do whatever it wants" clauses, and with actual appeals processes.
This article deliberately creates a narrative that portrays Google, Amazon, and Apple as alarming monopolistic roles, which has nothing to do with their decisions to remove Parler. The main concern here is national security, instead of showing off their regulation power (which is an aspect these tech giants always try to conceal).

The narrative in the article such as "how they just used their unconstrained power to utterly destroy a rising competitor" looks absurd to me. The competitors of parler Is Facebook, Twitter, i.e. social media platforms, NOT Google, Amazon, and Apple.

It feels like the author deliberately misused these kinds of association to trigger irrelevant focus.
Naughty, naughty. HN tends to view satirical posts as verboten; this is understandable, given that the platform is about tech and the biz of tech etc.

In times of stress and the inability of users to ignore really big things going on in the world, esp in the US, posts about current affairs and politics are tolerated - and they also attract many comments (which, however, bring up awkward UX issues about pagination etc).

Because I am an atypical HN user, I will overlook your frivolous link. Also, I could do with a breath of fresh air :-)
Why do you think that having 15% of the population controlling the most powerful house of Congress, and something like 35% of the population being able to control the executive branch will lead to less tension?
Plaid does have real integrations with some institutions, using OAuth and the works. The list is relatively miniscule compared to the vast majority of institutions that still consider customer data their asset and not their customers'.
Quick searches turned this up: https://lwn.net/Articles/582697/
Does that mean, in the EU context, that the EU (whatever EU organization that may be), or the individual EU nations can compel private companies to publish certain speech?

Are all EU citizens entitled to publish on Twitter for instance, and can the EU force Twitter to publish?

Is that the EU version of freedom of expression and information?
Something people reading this would probably be interested in is Recutils: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ . It combines Human readable and writeable plain text with the ability to handle relational data and programmable manipulation. For databases under ~1GB it combines the best of plain text and sql.
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Alex Jones and brietbart are sensationalists, not extremists.

If you cannot understand your own tone, maybe you need to take a step back and consider you may be part of the problem (being unable to regulate your emotions and have a neutral conversation)
Sure, but does the comparison really hold? ISPs provide a service that's strictly tied to very expensive and hard to duplicate infrastructure (often with strategic significance, even). To make an even more extreme example, if the companies controlling the North Atlantic TAT cables suddenly decided to arbitrarily deny service we'd have a huge problem, nobody is denying that.
But social media are literally a database and some javascript, that's not even remotely in the same league.

Again, I do agree we have a quasi-monopoly problem; but if we do, the logical solution is to break the monopoly. Imposing political control creates more problems than it solves.
Back in the day it was simply the best option available. Java and Python only came out in the mid-90s and would take some time to catch on, develop a useful ecosystem, etc. And if you wanted to interact with system APIs, everything was in C. Nowadays there are much better options for a huge swath of applications. I would argue that--every bit as important as the language issues itself--one of the biggest reasons to avoid C is that all of its popular build system options are terrible. You're just expected to have the right dependencies installed on your system at the right versions and in the right locations (okay, some tools will try and find the location for various dependencies, but this is a pretty poor substitute for proper dependency management). And that's merely scratching the surface of the issues with C/C++ build tooling.
Also liked the way you are hosting it on github pages. Smart move.
NVidia Shield did the job.

It got NVidia a contract with Nintendo, who turned the Shield into a Switch. Yeah, Nintendo jazzed it up a lot, but the internals of the Switch and Shield are surprisingly close.
No offence taken. I happen to disagree with you about the headline interpretation and the BBC wokeness bit but that’s what a good debating environment is for. (Without arguing the merits either way on the wider issue, I think this isn’t a good article to demonstrate over-wokeness at the BBC for example).

All that said though, it’s interesting to hear others’ points of view and the thanks for replying was genuinely meant.
Oh, Microsoft will be also interested on this one (especially that Qualcomm is... well a little bit like Intel).
Yeh, nowadays a customer of a customer of a customer can get de-platformed because 'you're either with us or against us', such incredibly fascist rhetoric flying out from every window it's scary. Speaking of windows, why wouldn't Microsoft put a filter into their OS so that this problem of internet hate-ship could once be solved on the network config level once and for all /s
This is essentially the core thesis of MX [1], which creates an API exchange that FIs need to join in order to use.

I'm not sure how well it is catching on. Seems like they're diversifying more into other whitelabel products for fintech companies.

[1]: https://www.mx.com/
Why isn't mega.nz removing these?
I am receiving $337 per month as of now for https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs

Not something to be proud of if including the time spent to evolve the project.
Agreed that regulatory overreach is on the horizon. Hell, pretty sure it's going to happen (or at least be full steam ahead) in the first 100 days of Biden's presidency. While I don't agree with sweeping regulatory practices and would like to see a thoughtful plan of trying to increase competition instead, I can't blame the political class' position. I find it even fascinating how far reaching this event has been and how anti-Trump politicians and organizations NOW finally see how dangerous Silicon Valley has become. In essence, Twitter went to war with the Office of President of the USA (not just Trump, but the position of USA president itself), right or wrong (I'm ignoring the moral/ethics going on for the sake of this debate, though, Trump did overstep his bounds... putting it mildly). This fact shows they can and will do it again and to lesser politicians.

"We took Trump's voice away, we can do it to you too. We pushed anti-Trump rhetoric and silenced pro-Trump rhetoric... do I need to replace Trump with your name if you don't do as we say?" If there is no fallout for Twitter, how far can they push it? What if Biden decides to do some policies that Twitter isn't in favor of? Does he get shut out too? The EU can see very well that the same thing can happen to them easily as well. Shit, even the ACLU threw an objection and concern over this and they hate Trump just as must as any other democrat. The big problem is, and you have to be fair, Trump put up a hell of a PR fight the past 4 years and did rather well up until the very end. Most politicians have crumbled from less pressure than what he experienced. Not many others will be able to hold out as long as he did. This extra weapon of social media and Silicon Valley taking down the public voice of politicians is really fucking dangerous, no matter the political spectrum. They're a handful of billionaires or near to billionaires who have direct control of what a large portion of the human population sees as fact and truth... and they have no one to oversight them.
My hope is most of my youthful chats have been forever destroyed. It's not a season I'd like to revisit.
Parler destroyed itself by hosting illegal content while having the fact that it doesn't moderate anything as a core part of it's advertising.