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We've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's guidelines with, no matter how strongly you feel about something or someone. We're trying for something else here because it's the only way to keep the site interesting.

From some of your other comments I gather that you've been around this material for a long time and you know a lot about it. Why not share some of what you know, so others can learn? and make your substantive points thoughtfully? Then you'll be making this place more interesting, and your points will have some persuasive power. Just venting only adds energy and credibility to the views you disagree with.

I get that there's a low probability this argument will work with you but I think it's worth trying to persuade people that it's in their own interest to follow the rules, which are designed to try to keep a community that's interesting for everybody:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This gives me an idea. What about setting up an archiving script?

After a archive-worthy discussion in email, you forward the thread to "archivebot@my-company-domain.com". The script will parse the email chain and generate a static web page hosted on a local server.
"Oh cool, are those real save buttons?"

I suspect these jokes are more reality than we think.
Not GP, but I would expect parts of the highway infrastructure where more crimes occur to be more closely monitored and controlled than others. I don't see how this is a black and white issue where you either should be in support or against the highway infrastructre.

And since you mention drug trafficking, Personally, I think 100% of drugs should be legal and we have been brainwashed by the governments and media about their effects. But I realize that it is currently very much not the case where I live, so I have to be aware that my actions might have consequences and know I'm going to have a hard time to convience others of my view, so I might have to compromise to get anywhere.

This should be in my opinion the main focus of democracy: to contiously tweak the system to what the current society agrees on in regards to living together instead of inisting on ideals. It just seems to me, that most democracies are not really fond of the idea of taking democracy actually seriosly.
Still maintained: https://github.com/IDI-Systems/acre2

It looks like progress is being made on Mumble support: https://github.com/IDI-Systems/acre2/pull/980
i and many others have taken this as a wakeup call that its not safe to build our companies on someone else's platform. hopefully itll have a big enough effect to hurt AWS in the long term but i guess well see.
I was not being snarky, I pointed out that the argument was made about a statement that was never made.
If we can do that, genetically engineering resistant Gros Michel would probably be a better choice, since Cavendish became popular just because the (otherwise preferred) Gros Michel was not an option.
Goblin Bet: Bet on DnD Monsters
Sorry for the confusion, I was thinking about the pictures one can share as "status", not the status string which effectively is not used at all around me (I am in Germany).
The belief that free speech must have limits is necessarily equivalent with the belief that a large part of the people are stupid and they must be protected by the smart people by preventing them to hear anything that might influence their feeble minds and make them act in a wrong way.

Maybe this belief about most people being stupid is correct, therefore free speech must indeed be limited, but I do not see any of the advocates of limiting free speech having the courage to tell what they really think in the face of those whom they want to protect.
Elon Musk Blames Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg for Capitol Riot
Central Spain records temperatures of -25°C after snowstorm
Your second point should be turned inside out -- "that it will not be 100% compatible with all the self-contradicting and underspecified human values we collected over the millions of years of evolution"

Anything but very high level of compatibility here might as well be malevolent as far as we are concerned.

Imagine sufficient level of compatibility as a circle on an infinite plane of malevolence.
That seems like a good thing for incoming US air passengers. It lowers the risk of infection from the flight.
> Intolerance cannot be allowed to be free speech.

That's just "I'm for free speech unless I disagree with the speech", right?

Who decides what's too intolerant?

We all love our Popper quotes but it's a very hard line to draw. Nearly any opinion can be explained at being somehow intolerant if you try hard enough.
> BLM movement was present in the mob that attacked capitol hill.

You don't find this odd at all?
You'd be surprised. Uninstalling apps seems to be a very common procedure broadly practiced by people with their phones.
The archive on NNTP is a first-class artifact that you can interact with in your newsreader via NNTP. You can do things like reply to old threads.

The archive on a mailing list is a second-class artifact, typically hosted via HTTP, and usually people don't care about the quality of the archive's UX.

The structural organization on NNTP is also a first-class artifact that everyone can refer to. A mailing list will go straight into everyone's inbox, with all their other mail, until they filter it away.
The funny thing is - it's easier to search and look at context in discord than in outlook or on wiki.
One correction. Her surname is Elbakyan.
Founder and CEO of Superhuman on Achieving Product/Market Fit
When your country has a fash problem, such that the fash nearly takes over the Capitol, an overwhelming display of might, in the name of right, may be warranted. It's certainly an understandable reaction.
Is it ok to say that anything I can put on a placard and walk around a city displaying without getting arrested or breaking any law should be considered acceptable free speech on the internet?
Just trying to separate the medium from the message.
This is awesome. Putting yet another tool you don't have control over in your toolchain seems to be causing headaches for a lot of developers with big applications these days. Relying on other peoples services is always a risk, great to see there are OSS alternatives.
When Parler became a liability for any company associated with it, to their shock, it turned out no company wanted to be associated with it. In a world where people "vote with their wallets" companies like Amazon, Google and Apple would prefer to avoid giving people a reason to do just that.

I don't understand the shock and surprise. No US company is going to choose anything over their own bottom line. Certainly not for a site as small and niche and literally riddled with hate speech as Parler.

Parler and it's customers can say whatever they want to whoever they want. Can they force Amazon to take their money? Absolutely not. Should they be able to? No: forcing Amazon to host Parler would be a violation of Amazon's own right to free speech.[0]

From Parler's point-of-view it would be unfortunate if they tied themselves to AWS specific infrastructure. There's absolutely no way that they now have some kind of "right" to be hosted by Amazon. Also, it's just poor planning on their part.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
I haven't shifted the goalpost. Greenwald says, right there in his twitter thread talking about this article, that nobody was planning Jan 6th on Parler. They were planning it on Facebook. That's it.
Ah, i didn't know that. I apologize.
also Parler wrote in the lawsuit...

"AWS knew its allegations contained in the letter it leaked to the press that Parler was not able to find and remove content that encouraged violence was false—because over the last few days Parler had removed everything AWS had brought to its attention and more. Yet AWS sought to defame Parler nonetheless."
> Parler was a no-censorship social site, open to everyone.

This is just false. They censored all kinds of things: antifa, parody accounts, obscene usernames, porn, etc.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200630/23525844821/parle...
But the US highway is policed (moderated), maybe too much (e.g. racial profiling in violation of a few constitutional amendments).

Whereas Parlor intentionally created a system where there was virtually no/super biased moderation, and bragged about it as a core feature.

It would be like if the various law enforcement that is tasked with keeping the drugs, trafficking etc you mention off the road, were instead staffed entirely by a group of a handful of these very same law breakers who obviously vote in their own illegal interests.

And additionally the creators of the highway spoke to the NyTimes bragging about their setup, maybe even telling the public about specific highway routes for these criminals travel.
I would agree - what's interesting to me is that taking Parler off the mainstream platforms like Google and Apple app stores though will probably only contribute to the radicalization of its content.

Essentially, these companies are probably just contributing to the thing they are against. But I guess so long as their hands aren't getting dirty they get to pretend like they're doing the right thing and taking the moral high ground.
Even with IPv6, almost all consumer routers are configured to deny all inbound connections by default, which is a huge damper for getting the average Joe to adopt peer-to-peer software.
Even the bananas that ripen on the plant (turned yellow and all) need some time after harvest to convert all the starch into sugar. They still taste a bit starchy right after the harvest.
If implemented in a xenophobic fashion, sure.

"We're testing all international travelers" is gonna be hard to tag that way. "We're banning people coming in from China but allowing in US citizens or permanent residents untested and unscreened on those same flights" looks pretty dumb from an epidemiological standpoint.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/the-facts-on-trumps-travel...

> “There’s no restriction on Americans going back and forth,” Klain said. “There are warnings. People should abide by those warnings. But today, 30 planes will land in Los Angeles that either originated in Beijing or came here on one-stops, 30 in San Francisco, 25 in New York City. Okay? So, unless we think that the color of the passport someone carries is a meaningful public health restriction, we have not placed a meaningful public health restriction.”
Are these PCR based tests? What is the accuracy rate? I was told it is far from 100%.

So is it possible that someone might test negative but then is actually asymptomatic?

This is exactly what happened last year in South Korea. People were tested many times and they were negative but turned out they were asymptomatic that the test kit failed to pick up.
All you need to know about team red vs team blue.

1. Team Blue is working to stop future riots of that style.

2. Team Red doesn't even have a plan, and is fully paralyzed by their decision making framework.

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I CANNOT assume team red is "not evil", as you put it. Why? Because they're still trying to side with the rioters in this circumstance. They're still trying to claim that the election was stolen.

So lets put return the ball to your court. What is your plan to prevent riots of 1/6th from breaking out again? Call me a cynic, but I am fully convinced that you have no plan.

So prove me wrong. Show me what you've got. We know what got us here to begin with: literally months of lying about stolen election results.

We cannot accept "protests" (if you want to whitewash the 1/6th riot with such a word) of that nature. The events that transpired on January 6th should never happen again. Period.

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Team Red has millions of voters who believe the election was stolen and are acting upon those assumptions. Yes, this is a tragedy, because I believe they have been brainwashed with such lies. Given the circumstances, killing the propaganda that has been feeding their brains seems like a good step 1 for me.

Maybe it won't work. Maybe there's a better solution out there. But I'm not hearing anything from team red. So screw it, lets give this deplatforming thing a shot. It's never really been tried at this level. If it doesn't work, we'll try something else later.

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We tried elections. We tried the courts. We tried publicly discussing the court results. And what did it get us? A deadly riot (which is still the most whitewashed set of words I can use to describe the events of 1/6th).

So yes. I'm cynical. But more than that. I'm convinced that the only way to solve this problem is to convince others to become cynics about this entire event too.
I would think taxes should be up there—ether #1 or #2, especially in high tax burden states like CA and NY. At least for middle class and above. Add federal, state, local income taxes, social security, Medicare, sales taxes, automobile taxes, property taxes up and divide by 12 and that’s probably more than either your housing cost or health care monthly cost (or both!)
Biztalk.
That's what I'm also observing. I'm having to actively raise awareness of Signal to my LA friends, because they are largely going to Telegram by default.
I’m certain we could have figured out something earlier. We spend several billion dollars annually on an organization with a singular mandate to do so.
I've always wondered why AWS doesn't just open source their console. it's such a usability disaster and there's so many developers that would love to contribute improvements to it. Wouldn't that make financial sense to Amazon?
Software freedom requires the freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose. That includes the freedom and right to connect to Theo de Raat's private SSH server. Theo de Raat restricts that freedom, violating the spirit of free software. End of story. My car analogy is irrelevant.

OpenSSH is open source, but not free software. That just shows how open source misses the point.

I can fill in the above template with GNU's CVS servers in the 90s, if you prefer GPL to BSD.
From my experience, the mark of a well-run Slack is the ability to find old, valuable information. You're right that it's not always easy, but you can get a LOT further with 1) well-defined channels 2) good use of pinning 3) good use of "saving" messages for yourself.

It helps that Slack's search is actually pretty good imo, and usually quite fast.

But yeah -- it can't be your only tool. If you don't have a better system for long-form documentation, you're gonna lose a lot of important stuff.
It's a second level of organization/subscription so that you can have more fine-grained control over how much you get spammed.

News groups and mailing lists don't scale super well, in that, when you subscribe, you then get sent everything. Maybe not terrible for the 5-10 emails a day from my kid's playgroup's email list, but absolutely awful for trying to keep up with a team of 100 people.
Aye, I maxed mine out, 7700HQ 32GB nvme ssd and the 2560x1440.

Was 1400 quid, the ZenBook I bought the missus with the Ryzen 4xxx obliterates it.

The perf improvement from 3rd to 8th gen intels was marginal.

Thank god AMD and M1 is pushing things forwards finally.

Buying a machine 4 years later and getting bugger all improvement gets old after a while.

Now I’m wfh forever I use my desktop and the laptop sits next to the work MacBook, forlorn and alone.
And overeducation may itself be a problem:

Elite overproduction, and especially overproduction of the youth with advanced degrees, continues unabated. Our institutions of higher education have been churning out law, MBA, and PhD degrees, many more than could be absorbed by the economy. In a Bloomberg View article published just a few days ago Noah Smith provides the numbers for the overproduction of PhDs (America Is Pumping Out Too Many Ph.D.s https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-04/americ...).

http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/the-storming-of-the-u-s...
The metal that brought you cheap flights (2015)
They should do it for all air travel whether international or domestic.
If you do that, don’t you have to essentially export money? Which can then be used by your counterparties to buy up your nation’s productive assets, and diminish the effective savings of your populace via asset inflation?

Also, aggregate wealth of a nation isn’t the only thing we should be targeting. You can increase the overall wealth while simultaneously demolishing the wealth of the large portion of your populace involved in domestic manufacturing.
> Open source vs. open network are fairly orthogonal. AIM and ICQ were never open source, but had several 3rd party clients.

Nit-picking: AIM had an open-source protocol (TOC), that AOL had created for their TiK open-source AIM client. Some 3rd party clients used the protocol too. It was missing lots of features, but the basics generally worked. After ICQ moved to OSCAR protocol, I believe TOC would work off and on for ICQ as well as AIM.
And, let's note that torrent sites are still widely available. Most torrent sites are simply better constructed for their niche than Parler was.
Pretty sure the trump administration wasn’t concerned about that.
> What they do not do is guarantee you a platform.

I think this is a really important point. How I have framed this to others is: "the 6 o'clock news isn't required to give you airtime."

In the past, you could write articles to the newspaper, or contact the news and hope they picked up your story. There was not a right to be heard.

That said, I'm still not sure how I feel about what has transpired in the last week. Freedom of speech (as a principle, not in the US legal sense) has always felt like a core principle of the Internet.
I won't go through all the effort of sourcing as this is easily searchable, but:

> If you support a president who separates children from their parents

Obama's Homeland Security secretary, Johnson, confirmed with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly that this predates the Trump administration.

> terrorize your elected officials

AOC has said that the whole point of protesting is to "make people uncomfortable." A professor at Wellesley wrote an article in Slate that "Violence can be an important tool in protests." The destruction of government buildings has certainly occurred in recent protests, there are dozens of instances of this.

> build gallows outside the building

Even the irony in this! Black Lives Matter protestors built a guillotine in front of Jeff Bezos' DC home.

I support Black Lives Matter to be clear, but obviously this whole "Nazi by association" schtick leads to the conclusion that we would all, in fact, be Nazis.
I'm pretty sure people would have understood that requiring a positive test before entry is not just theater.
Serious question - is it allowed to travel to Europe or Asia right now from the US for non-relocation purposes?

I'm always stunned when I see these questions because I am like "People are traveling internationally - test or no test????"
Maybe politicians should bite the bullet sometimes and do stuff that will not be immediately understood by every citizen.

Even without tests being widely available it would have been wise to require all arrivals to quarantine, as Taiwan has done with great success.

Yeah, sure, that would have been a nuisance for quite a few people and painful for the airline industry, true, but nowhere near as annoying and painful as things have ended up now.
There are various services like WireDoc, ShareFile, etc, or even Mozilla's deprecated Firefox Send that canonized this (encrypt on one channel, share the password on a separate channel).
Not quite remembering last day, but I usually write out a list of what to do the next day. The effect is similar.

An old writer's trick: stop in the middle of a paragraph, or even a sentence. That way, there is something to do at the beginning of the next writing session, without having to think to hard about it.
I'm pretty sure that there is enough domestic Covid that this is pointless now?
> My understanding from the “Featherweight Go” paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11710 is that generic types will not simply be a synonym for interface{}

The `any` constraint is a synonym for the `interface{}` constraint.
Relatedly, I made a little interactive vis a while back about the symbols on our keyboards: https://breckyunits.com/files/keyboard/

It's amazing to me that there are distinct, concentric rings on all of our keyboards that are very analogous to the concentric rings you find in trees revealing their age. The oldest keys are in the center, newest are along the edge. (I count about 5 rings: https://breckyunits.com/how-old-are-these-keys.html)

(Maybe someone could take this idea and make a nice tree ring visual of the keyboard?)
It's not clear to me how this works. What if you've recently recovered from a confirmed case of COVID-19? People can still test positive up to 90 days after recovery, even though all guidances say they stop being contagious 10 days from the onset of symptoms (assuming symptoms have improved and no fever).

And what about people who have been vaccinated. Wouldn't proof of vaccination be sufficient and spare limited testing capacity?
How does this work? Do you have servers that connect to AWS using my credentials?
First off: Correct. Off all the people trying to say this you are the first I've seen who has nailed it!

That said: Neither is mail.

Mail is still useful for a lot of things.

See also tptaceks take:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22371316
I'm having a hard time finding an ad since everything is being pulled, but they advertised to sites like Breitbart and Info Wars and even included the enforcements in several ads I saw. That's specifically catering to extremist groups.

But I'll point to videos I can find which aren't as bad. If anyone can find the original ads that I mentioned I'd appreciate a link. Here[0] Ingram mentions radicals like Alex Jones and Candice Owens mentioning that it is a social network specifically for conservatives. It is easy to find plenty of videos like this where they consistently talk about it being a social media platform for conservatives. Here's one where the CEO complains about fact checking the president[1]. He does end struggling to suggest that Parler is gaining diversity, but also says that Twitter is a Biden community in the same sentence. But I've never been one to think that Twitter was specifically targeting conservatives. But you'll find that a lot of these interviews do still focus around the politics of the issue. Compare that to Signal's much more neutral stance on the matter.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6iyAt1Ydpc

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8IcjsFHwc8

Edit: Downvoters, would you mind explaining? Is it that I no longer have a direct link to Parler using Info Wars/Alex Jones and Breitbart as endorsements? Or do you not think those are extremist websites?