skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm generally anti-regulation, but one potential consideration is to apply the same standards of eviction to cloud hosts as we do to landlords.

I think we agree that no private platform should be forced to host a tenant that they object to. Yet a landlord isn't allowed to arbitrarily throw you out of your house on a moments notice. Even if your lease is on a month-to-month basis, the law requires giving the tenant a reasonable timeframe to let them find new accommodations.

Even if the landlord insists on a contract abrogating this, it's unenforceable. Policy restricts this because 1) landlords generally have very high negotiation power, and 2) tenants rarely read the fine print. It seems to me that both conditions are approximately true for the major cloud providers.

If you agree with tenant eviction protections, then you should probably support similar eviction protections for cloud computing. AWS/GCP/Gmail/iCloud could ban you as a customer, but only with 90 days notice. Otherwise, immediate eviction could only occur if it involved legally codified egregious behavior, and would require a court judgement.

I think this would eliminate nightmare scenarios where somebody suddenly finds themselves locked out of their Google Drive and Gmail for some algorithmic mishap. But it would put very little operating burden on the cloud providers.
I tried to use their API for a personal project and found starting one month a bunch of transactions were missing from my bank account. It turned out Chase included a promotion on the pdf statement that month which threw off their scraping algo. Really woke me up to their "tech", I changed passwords and avoid them now.
The key difference is a government is decided by the people. n companies (let's be real, 2-4) have no accountability.
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Si Mario, so when the enemy gets close you unleash an uppercut like this: << stick man drawing >>
You’re saying old cases don’t matter? You realize that the court system works on precedent, right?
What crypto holdings fellow non-us citizen ;) ?
Not necessarily that colourful people leave, but that outsiders leave. For one because they can and have somewhere else to go to, but the other because if they stay they will be viewed with suspicion and bad things might happen to them.

The Witcher series has been full of fearful populaces wary and hostile to outsiders/other races (Dwarves and Elves in this case).
The orderings of the 27 consonants of the Ugaritic alphabet and of the 22 consonants of the Phoenician alphabet are identical, not just roughly the same.

The difference is just that 5 consonants are missing from the Phoenician alphabet in random places: between gamma and delta, between kappa and lambda, between mu and nu, between nu and xi, and between sigma and tau.

It is known with which other consonants the deleted consonants were merged. For example Ugaritic had "s" and unvoiced "th" like in "thin", while Phoenician pronounced both as "s" and kept only the sigma letter.

(I have used the names of the letters as used by the Greeks, as those are more familiar for most people)

The Ugaritic alphabet also used for certain purposes 3 supplementary signs, invented later, and which were added after the original 27 consonants.
The NY Post is a disingenuous propaganda rag owned by Rupert Murdoch. Find better sources.

https://blacklivesmatter.com/for-immediate-release-statement...

> Hawk Newsome has no relation to the Black Lives Matter Global Network (“BLM”) founded by Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi — and is not the “president” of BLM or any of its chapters. Only BLM chapters who adhere to BLM’s principles and code of ethics are permitted to use the BLM name. The reason for this is simple: unaffiliated uses of BLM’s name are confusing to people who may wrongly associate the unsanctioned group and its views and actions with BLM. As BLM has told Mr. Newsome in the past, and as is still true today, Mr. Newsome’s group is not a chapter of BLM and has not entered into any agreement with BLM agreeing to adhere to BLM’s core principles.

If you look hard enough you can find unaffiliated yahoos of every ideological persuasion and self-proclaimed identity (libertarians, stoics, Christians, vegans, Canadians, chess players, computer programmers, stamp collectors, minivan owners, ...) spouting militant nonsense. Such statements should be condemned (and have been by those nonviolently protesting police brutality), but cannot be taken as sweeping evidence that everyone with similar self-proclaimed ideology or identity is a supporter of hateful violence.

If you intend to apply this kind of standard, then surely every organization that calls itself "conservative" should be similarly held responsible for the actions of the MAGA insurrectionists, right?
Sounds a little bit like Google Wave.
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That kind of timeline is incredible. Are you able to share anything about your development processes that enable this?
I could see that. Did it have a "cute" name? I think heartbleed and shellshock had more airtime but were less damaging IMO.
It’s worth taking a step back here too and remembering that the speech Parler is being kicked off AWS for isn’t protected under 1FA either.

There is no protection for calls to violence.
Luckily, since they are utilities, they can't.
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So everyone walking with a torch in Germany is a Nazi...? You can find many images of people doing exactly that in Germany with a cursory internet search. The Nazis appropriated many existing symbols and customs, but that doesn't make the entire symbolism or custom automatically "Nazi". Neo-Nazis use Norse mythological symbols too. Other people just like Norse mythology. Context is everything, and the context here is most certainly not one of "a torch march protest". Not everyone who shaves their head is a Nazi skinhead either, nor is everyone who wears army boots.

I wasn't there. Maybe they were talking about the "final solution" for the Jews. I don't think they were, but there is no way for me to know for certain. But lacking any evidence of this, I find such a grave accusation based on such incredibly thin evidence – especially when stated like it's almost a certainty – deeply troubling.
I agree. The idea that we can quell this mob with truth, evidence, and reason should have been long ago abandoned.
There's a decent bit of M&A activity going on in finanacial services lately- SoFi recently announced going public, Simple being dissolved after BBVA merging with PNC, Lending Club merging with Radius Bank, and now Plaid's merger termination with Visa. Lots more demand exists for building fintech tools, since significantly more transactions that would normally take place in-person have moved towards being online due to the pandemic. It makes a lot more sense for the whole ecosystem to move towards being data-driven and API-friendly both for consumers to to have less friction between services, and for businesses to deliver a better customer experience. Having the merger fall through is probably better on all sides such that one corporation doesn't retain too much power and act as monopolistic gatekeeper driving up fee prices.

Also, wanted to say thanks to Zach for doing a Fireside Chat with Lambda School students last month! It's great to hear from your perspective about industry knowledge & experience in order to prepare for a career in tech.
Yeap. Let’s make sure all Parlers users end up on q and see what happens? You understand that a larger number of radicals will eventually produce radically different results than the yahoos you mentioned? Or do you think the Viking guy who is not eating in prison because food is not organic was the real threat?
> You'd better turn on the TV.

Perhaps society might be in a better place if we all switched our TVs off. I know it's done me wonders.
"Legal and useful" are but two criteria Apple uses to approve or refuse apps. They also care about safety, performance, and design.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
Beautiful idea.
Disclaimer: Am Microsoft.

Windows source is open to most people at MS. MS is not joking when it says we practice an "inner source" policy, in that we do not rely on the security of our source code to secure our products.
On what grounds would you base that on beyond your prejudices?
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It’s so cool to see all of the crypto dudes swarming to defend a now proven fascist with no appreciation for democracy, its institutions, free speech, and the rule of law.

We should see this coming given that their business model is built on money laundering and earnings from international crime. What did we expect from them.
That probably means 500 with VAT in Europe, no? ;)
Btw, your link give me a 403.
This is a very old comparison, circa 2008 (when Clang was started). It's mostly irrelevant today.
> I mean Greenwald has also asserted that no Parler user was involved in the insurrection, which is a straight-up lie.

Actually, what is written is, and I quote, "a Parler executive told me that of the thirteen people arrested as of Monday for the breach at the Capitol, none appear to be active users of Parler." But I'm sure that was an innocent mistake on your part, not a straight-up lie like you accuse Greenwald of.
Psyops is as real as Area 51
No. I'm saying that leftwing violence is distributed. Rightwing is centralized. The radical left is smart. There's no head antifa leader. Doesn't mean antifa is any less dangerous, I might argue more dangerous because there's no head to the hydra.
According to the CEO of Parler, their bank and payment provider, law firm, and mail and texting providers all cancelled as well. What are you supposed to do then? Store cash in boxes? Receive cash through mail?

Parker was destroyed when their business partners exercised freedom of association and cancelled on them.
What makes you think a single person or organized group is behind it? It's just a loose collection of unsubstantiated conspiracies.
That's not the same thing, it's a whole different thing to do a "rpm --rebuild *.src.rpm" and to actually take a upstream source package it with a spec, patch it to make it compatible with other things in the distro and test them in different setup.

The challenge anyway is not to rebuild packages or make packages it is to actually maintain the build farms and the build tools.

source: i work for Red Hat (not doing any packages work tho) and I used to work for Mandrakesoft on Linux-Mandrake when we were basically rebuild Red Hat rpms to our flavour.
I would say that you're talking about how tariffs are imposed at the moment, which is a different question from "do there exist tariffs which increase fairness?".
It is true for most engineers here. Most of us don't want to go to prison though. Most tech companies are the same way.
Glenn Greenwald never disappoints me. He is spot on once again. For years all of these conspiracy theories, calls for violence and allegations of fraud make it to the front page of Twitter/Facebook/YouTube for any user that shows interest in similar topics. However, the day that a competitor decides to openly embrace this content, Silicon Valley goes against it like a pack of predators.

I guess they want a monopoly in being the only platforms allowed to subvert democracies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-twit...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48349671
While that's possible, pushed far enough this line of reasoning is unfalsifiable and evidence is thin either way.
Yeah - so you should probably go to a political rally or concert or a nightclub or something!!!

:sigh:

This is awful advice for 2021. (Even though _technically_ it's correct.)

If you have a loss of smell/taste you should 100% assume you have Covid and act accordingly, get tested immediately, self quarantine for probably 14 whole days, and get retested at around 10 days.

If you have "mild cold/flu symptoms" you should assume you like;y have covid, and should get tested (not with a "rapid test") and self isolate until you get a negative result.

Truth is, even with no symptoms, you could have Covid. If you've been in contact with anyone who has cold/flu symptoms, or been to a place where someone with a positive covid test has been - you should get tested (and probably self isolate until you get a negative result).

From: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

Results: The baseline assumptions for the model were that peak infectiousness occurred at the median of symptom onset and that 30% of individuals with infection never develop symptoms and are 75% as infectious as those who do develop symptoms. Combined, these baseline assumptions imply that persons with infection who never develop symptoms may account for approximately 24% of all transmission. In this base case, 59% of all transmission came from asymptomatic transmission, comprising 35% from presymptomatic individuals and 24% from individuals who never develop symptoms. Under a broad range of values for each of these assumptions, at least 50% of new SARS-CoV-2 infections was estimated to have originated from exposure to individuals with infection but without symptoms.

Conclusions and Relevance: In this decision analytical model of multiple scenarios of proportions of asymptomatic individuals with COVID-19 and infectious periods, transmission from asymptomatic individuals was estimated to account for more than half of all transmissions. In addition to identification and isolation of persons with symptomatic COVID-19, effective control of spread will require reducing the risk of transmission from people with infection who do not have symptoms. These findings suggest that measures such as wearing masks, hand hygiene, social distancing, and strategic testing of people who are not ill will be foundational to slowing the spread of COVID-19 until safe and effective vaccines are available and widely used.
1- They could host their own DNS servers.

2- Signing an SSL certificate is a one-time thing.

3- A bit more complicated but still doable to have fiber to more than one ISP. To say nothing about net neutrality.
it is true
You know... like one of the most commonly used encrypted chat apps currently available? Alright...

I'm still waiting for headlines analogous to "Is New Surge of Signal Users Privacy Focused or Parler Focused" or "Is Your Friend Adding You On Signal Because They Just Left Parler?"
I'm German, and "Kulturmarxismus" is not a normal theoretical term. It might be one exclusively used by the far right.
Even unrelated to Charlottesville torch walks generally have right wing connotations, as it was a traditional show of force by the Nazis. In Germany these days you mostly see them done as right wing rallies. As one data point, here[0] you can see NPD members calling for protest holding torches (during broad daylight).

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4QUC0aXN8M
Huh, not sure what podcasts you listen to, as I only know him in the context of podcasts by historians that debunk pseudo-history.

He's definitely in the "crackpot" camp. Being generous, I'd say he carefully walks a tightrope between "ancient aliens" and real history. My impression is he does the former for $$$ (e.g. he's a co-author of "Lost Secrets of the Gods: [..] Ancient Astronauts" that makes extremely absurd claims to put it mildly), and as soon as he is critiqued by actual experts, he starts wildly walking back his claims or insist that he was misinterpreted or whatever to save face.
Sure, I'm in my early 30s. I do believe I had a pretty mild case all things considered, and I'm pretty much fully recovered at this point but still plan to quarantine for another week.

What I experienced was basically indistinguishable from a mild cold except for the loss of smell and taste, which took over a week to show up after the onset of the initial symptom (a fever). While I know loss of smell can happen from non-COVID infections, I can say this is the only time in my life I've had a total loss of all smell and taste. I'm very fortunate that this total loss only persisted for a few days, and at this point based on my subjective experience my smell and taste senses appear to be normal again.
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> discriminates against people for immutable characteristics of their person

By discriminate, do you mean "disparage" or simply "make a distinction between"? Or something else?

In either case, it seems like quite a low threshold, it seems like it would mean you condone a social network that bans people that say "I don't like white people" or "women can't drive"?
It was just published today that in Israel, where around 20% of the population has already been vaccinated with the first dose, they're beginning to see clear evidence that vaccinated people do not transmit it others.
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I am surprised Plaid is a business. It is a bunch of scripts of dubious security. How businesses are coming on board with that is worrisome.

On the other hand, if we could have standard API and let people integrate services, totally welcome that. But let's not pretend this is anything like that.

If you know something more, please educate me.
TL;DR

"GCC is licensed under the GPL license. clang uses a BSD license, which allows it to be used by projects that do not themselves want to be GPL."

For example, Apple can keep their internal backends (GPU, some ARMv8 details) proprietary.
I wonder if there is a conflation (or I am misunderstanding) that the big social media orgs have some sort of duty to uphold freedom of speech but are at the same time vilified by some for banning abusive users. My criticisms align with yours it seems - that they have been complicit in perpetrating abuse for some time, including spilling of blood, and have only now, now the "optics are bad", decided to act. I guess my argument is that they should be allowed to ban any user for breaking their rules - as long as those rules are deemed fair and legal - and no organisation that does so should be decried by lawmakers or citizens for suppressing speech.
One of the big reasons why some shops refuse to use Javascript on server side because of its unknown attack surface that is NPM.

It's impossible to keep track of all of these libraries that can be written by anyone. Someone could hijack a github account and push malicious code to NPM.
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>I mean Greenwald has also asserted that no Parler user was involved in the insurrection, which is a straight-up lie.

He did not make this assertion in the article. Quote:

>Indeed, a Parler executive told me that of the thirteen people arrested as of Monday for the breach at the Capitol, none appear to be active users of Parler. The Capitol breach was planned far more on Facebook and YouTube. As Recode reported, while some protesters participated in both Parler and Gab, many of the calls to attend the Capitol were from YouTube videos, while many of the key planners “have continued to use mainstream platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.”
Can you give some (just 1 is fine) examples of people being silenced because their views didn't align with the left? I have yet to see a single one. I see people that were silenced for

- Denying the current covid-sars-2 pandemic

- Direct calls to violence

I have seen people that were "fact-checked" (which is itself discussion, not silencing) for claiming that the 2020 election result is fraudulent.

None of this is silencing because your views don't align with the left. If you believe covid is a hoax created by George Soros or that Bill Gates bought votes in the 2020 election, your views don't align with reality.
Apparently the only revenge from the other side would work is stop selling food to SV.
> According to BBC the most popular accounts on Parler were people like Sean Hannity and Ted Cruz...fairly normal republicans of the kind that are still not banned on Twitter and Facebook (like the two persons I mentioned).

The two persons you mentioned as "fairly normal republicans" had their contact information carried by an armed terrorist who invaded the Capitol on the hunt for "bad guys": https://twitter.com/johnkruzel/status/1349061894418685953
My question then is why is windows not just open source entirely?

Be like Red Hat where the OS is open but you pay for support, I don't know why that model wouldn't work for MS.
> It is a founding principle of western civilization that you cannot be prosecuted for thoughts and ideas.

Well then it's a good thing being kicked out of a bar isn't "prosecution".
Any enthusiast message board would be unable to remove political offtopic material without losing section 230 protection. I don't really want to wade through a bunch of political ranting when I want to learn about the best graphics card for the newest AAA game. But on that same site I may want to read about some potential defamatory claims about manipulation of benchmarks.

I'm not sure I like that solution.
The AP report on which the Guardian article is based:

https://apnews.com/article/Flint-lead-water-crisis-gov-rick-...
And their writings have to survive.

Look at Mesopotamia, where writing began with cuneiform impressions in clay. We've got lots of clay tablets because those survive well when buried. When Imperial Aramaic written on parchment began to supplant Akkadian cuneiform, we lose a lot of the written record. It's created an odd situation where the written documentation of the second millennium BCE is often better than the first millennium BCE.
I would love to hear more about the bot api. What did you use for reference documentation? Is your code available online?
each one with like, 200M in raised capital. maybe SPACs are a trend competing with vc money? which doesnt make sense...bc vc investors could also be bought out for a premium on acquisition as well...
DDG is located in the US and logs partial IP information. Startpage is headquartered (and under legal jurisdiction) of The Netherlands. Also, it's a bit naive to call System1 just an advertising company. It's a bit larger of a company than that. Sadly, an ex-Startpage consultant did a lot work to confuse and manipulate users into not understanding their partnership.
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> The USA currently has nine million active cases. I actually think at this point if you have cold symptoms it may be more likely you have covid than a common cold.

Your intuition is wildly off-base here. Nearly all of us catch at least one cold a year, mostly during the winter months. There are, quite literally, hundreds of millions of colds a year. There's also ~half a dozen viruses in circulation at any given time that cause cold-like symptoms, vs. one for SARS-CoV2.
Not to mention Telegram does not have the greatest security history [1] I don't use either of these, but I might have gone with Signal [2] given the lack of known breaches.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(software)#Security_b...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)
Knowing simple basic programming can probably equated with the simple basic chemistry of cooking.

More advanced subject expertise in either field requires a grounding and understanding deeper than watching a few videos.
> the camo trousers and the bald heads look a bit edgy in that context.

FWIW, from another picture of that event, camo-trousers-guy looks like he's male-pattern-baldness-bald, not shaved-head-bald https://suckless.org/conferences/2017/slcon2017.png

Only one fellow appears to have a shaved head.
> They made up some numbers and played with the math. It's conjecture, not research.

Do you know what conjecture means?