skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon’s main argument seems to be that they’ve been asking Parler to remove overt calls to violence since mid/late November, but Parler have refused. While Twitter does moderate this sort of thing, especially when asked to do so. I believe Twitter has been deleting #KillMikePence Tweets that are actually calling for violence, but haven’t been moderating Tweets that aren’t overt threats, like “OMG #KillMikePence was trending on Twitter”, or “Capitol rioters were chanting #KillMikePence” type Tweets.

If that’s all true, then to me it seems reasonable. I’d liken it to DCMA Takedowns - if you respond to them in a timely manner, and your site’s primary purpose isn’t sharing copyrighted content, you’re fine. You’re in trouble though if you refuse to take down the copyrighted content, despite receiving DCMA Takedowns.
> So what’s the criteria

Well, it apparently doesn't include all of the people who showed up to protest Donald Trump's inauguration 4 years ago.
Gotta blame someone and it's not going to be the CEO...
Organizing all the worlds information as we see fit.
"founders have no idea how to code. They mostly siphon off cash from someone rich and dumb enough. "

This seem to be common model worldwide.
> fiches de police (what's the name for that in American? Light cardstock with lines?)

Index cards. Usually 3x5" or 4x6".

Popular for use with the "hipster PDA" (index cards and a binder-clip), a response to palm pilots and the like being way more complicated than necessary for the problem they're trying to solve--seems similar to what you ended up with.
Wait till some siblings get pissed off at each other and start deleting important files that the other one cares about =]
Ask HN: What tools do you use to build and share demos of API based products?
I’m curious what tools or combination of tools you use to build/share customized demos of your API based products to customers? I usually do a combination of pushing code to a GitHub repo, deploying to PaaS, then after a call sharing a link to both. But, it often feels a little messy and cluttered for both internal discoverability and external sharing. For example, internal sales folks who want to demo to a user need to sign up and learn how to traverse a GitHub repo, sign up and learn to traverse a SaaS product, etc. Feels suboptimal for them. On the customer side, sharing a demo via a GitHub repo and link to the running application seems relatively ok. Although I would like to consolidate the two so in the off chance it’s further shared internally, it’s not an email forward with a bundle of links and text explaining each link. Although I don’t have hard data on how much in internal forwarding happens. In any case, curious to hear what others do and if there are better setups I can consider or if I just need to scratch my own itch.
If you are an Airbnb host, have your friends fill up your bookings.
well it depends an administrator of an org can actually inject javascript without intercepting the http response stream.
Airbnb reimburses hosts for black swan events like these pretty often. My parents are super hosts and some local legislation shut down their Airbnb. Similar to this situation, they got a pretty generous reimbursement (but not complete). At the risk of sounding sappy about a ~100B$ company, Chesky really _does_ care about the hosts ecosystem. They also had the chance to purchase pre-IPO equity, which was pretty cool.
Is this something hotels are doing? My understanding is that DC area hotels are full and hotels outside DC are filling up.
I was seeing them for engineering positions. (Front end if I recall correctly). As I've mentioned elsewhere though, the release of a significant portion of their workforce as "deadwood" speaks of a company that'll drop you too. These current times are not the best times to say, "hey, come give us a shot, we'll lay you off if things aren't looking so good". People are looking for a bit more stability. I get that Dropbox can't just keep a bunch of people around if it's doing nothing but costing them money. It just looks bad to let people go while still hiring.
I love that every year my LWN subscription expires and they don't auto renew it. Its such a nice way to treat your customers that differentiates LWN from most other media companies.
>if Intel added dedicated CPU instructions to make VMware better

They (and AMD) did years ago. Intel VT.
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This is the right call and I applaud Airbnb for putting the integrity of our democracy ahead of short term profits. I simply cannot believe that we are at the point where we have to brace for domestic terrorism in our capitol but here we are. May sanity return to the country soon.
Misanthropy is more generalized. And even a misanthrope will engage with people of the opposite sex in lively (though, IME, very depressing) debates, and even be respectful within that context. Many misanthropes I've known will even respect people who are well-educated or otherwise "successful" (by some measure). Most sexists won't. Similar to racists.
Or the peaceful people that peacefully want to protest it. That used to be a right in the United States. I seem to recall a few protests not too long ago.
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It’s understandable. At the same time it’s also sad and disappointing for the people that wanted to travel there for celebration purposes.
Soylent added several extra levels. But they then added in more points per day. What ended up happening is the same that happened on slashdot. Everything is either +5 or -1 on a conversation that is only a few hours old. Early items dominate the conversation. Late ones get no interaction. Things that are like a 2-3 are bumped out to +5. Things that are 0-1 get knocked down to -1. Even then it depends on the group you get into the conversation and who posted earliest.
Thanks - I should definitely take a more detailed look at existing RTTY modulation. I admit I haven't looked too much into it. I know I am probably "rediscovering the hot water" for most part :)
I hadn't found this piece of UI yet, will try and do that too, thanks!
> We also will reimburse hosts, at Airbnb’s expense, the money they would have earned from these cancelled reservations. HotelTonight reservations also will be canceled.

Not compensating hosts for bookings they might be missing out on for a week, if they did not yet have any bookings.
Right, because they didn't kill cops and plan the overthrow of our government, they just protested.
On the other hand, Ubiquiti has given end users an option for business class wireless and routing that wasn't available. You want a "real" router in 2005? eBay > Cisco.
And I bet if you went outside right now and tried to take a video of a passenger jet at cruising altitude with an iPhone, it wouldn't look too great. Try it again at night. The increase in camera phones does not mean we should have definitive proof of UFOs if they existed. Every day people are posting things in the sky that they can't identify on social media, and usually the footage taken with their phone is not good.
Its not about the button. It’s a signal that the people who want to make the best UI are less powerful in the company than the people who want to drive the highest number of Dropbox signups (making users think that signing up for Dropbox is the only/preferred way to get the file).

That’s a sign that the company’s growth has tapped out and that they need to do shit like that, a solid leading indicator of trouble ahead.
Makes sense, I can see some benefits in having more control of what happens with the memory, rather than trying to fit the model I have in mind into the datatypes python.

Found this post [0] fitting:
> The best thing you can do when dealing with lower-level languages like C and C++ is understand that things like lists, strings, integers, floating point numbers, objects, etc. do not actually exist. They are simply abstractions. There are only the CPU and memory.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8356400
Not everyone has the means to become their own employer. I agree with you about control and I myself am in business for this reason, but suggesting that they should simply use whatever they like doesn't address the problem.

Blowing up language is not nice even for me as a businessman - now I have to place special care about who's coding what and how, something I didn't need to do up until now (in case of C).
They should know better than to go outside during covid anyway
The whole do on to others as you would have them do on to you is not a new concept. And act like a terrorist and do terrorist acts, makes you a terrorist. And we don't support them. In the end if you want to hate people because it makes you feel better, sure go ahead, just keep your mouth shut and don't act.
Of course they did the research, it’s just extremely surprising to me that open racial discrimination is legal, so I wonder if that’s a general thing, or if there’s some special case they’re using.

I mean surely it can’t be legal to open a coffee shop and refuse service to some racial groups?
Not necessarily, it could help to address common counterarguments
> We also will reimburse hosts, at Airbnb’s expense

complements to AirBnb that is the right thing to do
I wish they kept their Mailbox app as well - I really enjoyed using it (https://www.theverge.com/2015/12/8/9873268/why-dropbox-mailb...)
I'm fine if Airbnb doesn't want the business, its private company after all. I'm more disappointed that no other company try to take the opportunity.
Is there anything to keep hosts limited to one platform? Seems like an excellent opportunity for VRBO.
Intel chips were significantly more impacted by Spectre mitigations than AMD & others[0], and needed significantly more workarounds.

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-amd-mitigations-perf...
I wonder if they have insurance for this.
Our media tells us that in the US, wearing masks is a policitized topic, which is crazy.

Noone I know is considering a US vacation since mid 2020.
It exists, you just have to be looking at the comment exclusively. Click on the timestamp next to the poster's name, and the 'favorite' button will be on the page.
You can already "favorite" comments. Click on the "n minutes ago" link next to the commenter's name and you get the option. To view favorited submissions/comments, click your user name to go to your profile info. The links to favorited submissions and comments are there.
Anecdata from major UK university: students _hate_ remote teaching and want to go back to lectures ASAP.
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I would guess that a verbal one-on-one exam would show the professor who understands the material vs who doesn't, but also who actually understands it vs who just used rote memorization.

The latter comparison might end up being a distinction without a difference, as far as grading goes. But, were I the professor, I'd be interested to see how many of my students are understanding the material on a holistic level. This is my bias, though, because I'm way more interested in knowing why something occurred (and its relationship to other events) vs that it occurred on [insert date] and involved [insert individuals].
That even centrist-leaning comments made are quickly down voted here by tech people reinforces this opinion. QED
My strategy is to not vote at all — both because I'm never thinking about it and it's simply wasted energy, and because I dislike the existence of such systems.

I much præfer discussion fora that lack a voting system. The order of comments and submissions can purely be determined by last reply bumping whatever tree had it to the top.
Assuming you could make it work, then of course, yes it would be effective. Voting with your wallet works, we know this, so orchestrating it formally would work even better. If you had a group that could tell Google they control 20% of their income, for example, then Google would definitely seek to keep that group happy.

But as others have pointed out, you really just created a government or a consumer group, and the creation and maintenance of that group is a non-trivial challenge by itself.
I was hoping it was a lego build, but having seen the layout I'm fairly certain that it could be.
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I've been there when first EU deployments of iPhones (3G) happened. The only more closed ecosystem was that of cheap value phones that didn't even have J2ME, and that one was still more free on few axes.

It took at least two generations of apple products IIRC to shed american closed ecosystem approach which was rightly seen as total shit - but that knowledge didn't percolate much outside the very small group that had iPhones or worked in telecom high enough to know details of how sausage was made.

There are many things to talk about what Apple did differently, but "open" was not it. Arguably the bigger issue was how due to how Microsoft and Nokia dropped the ball on system software (which resulted in certain lock-step issues with hw), allowing reasonably cheap chance for Apple to appear as huge jump (arguably, UX-wise it was big change, but being used to smartphones I found early iPhone very, very clumsy)
Twitter and Facebook both use their own data centers, with Twitter only recently (mid December 2020) announcing that they will be migrating to use some AWS. They also try to manage their content moderation as best they can and have policies and practices in place to remove content that violates their standards. Parler relies solely on AWS and has 0 content moderation. There are stark differences.
From what I've gathered it's all about routine. There was definitely a lot of adult help earlier in the year for the first couple weeks but once they got into a routine the kids now are mostly doing things on their own. Their grown up is usually nearby if needed as well. She's even told me some stories about kids being clever and trying to pretend there are issues so they can watch TV (the only problem being while they turned video off they didn't mute the microphone so she could hear cartoons in the background).
I use Dropbox on my iPhone and it works great. I can see how that particular use-case doesn't benefit as much from the "just syncing local files" paradigm, but it certainly isn't a worse experience. In fact, these days Dropbox is my favored mechanism for transferring files to and from my phone. The auto-sync on the desktop side is much easier than going through a website.
> but aren't many violent acts planned on Facebook and Twitter?

Shouldn't anyone who plans a violent act on Facebook or Twitter (or Reddit, or HN, or wherever) be banned?

Note that both of those sites are ALSO in the process of desperately cleaning up their violent sub-communities. There's a somewhat humorous running gag right now of conservative thought leaders suddenly complaining that their follower counts are going down.

And as far as Parler specifically: it didn't "suddently get popular" in a vacuum. Parler absolutely was functioning as a kind of "ban evasion mechanism for Twitter". People who got tossed from Twitter (generally, yes, for violent rhetoric) would find a home there, and bring there followers. There was very little organic growth, it was effectively all cannibalized from Twitter.
Yeah it really goes to show how much the country has moved to the right. Biden is described as "radical left" but in most other developed countries he'd be considered center-right, or center at the minimum.
Do you see open source + self hosting could drive more adoption among developers rather than customers? Looking forward to hear your thoughts. Do you see model like Ghost could be a strategy to grow Open Source SaaS products?
Corporate posturing. And cynicism mixed with virtue signaling, morphing into virtue enforcement.
Given the virus, travelling for celebration also seems like something that should be discouraged.
This can't continue the way it's been going.
Using “left” and “right” as if nothing has changed will only lead to the bewilderment you are feeling. There is a great political realignment underway, where the new teams will align roughly with “populist” and “establishment” once it is over.
> - The aggregate situation of de-platforming of individuals and entire platforms from the Internet by a few unilateral decisions by corporations reveals a power structure we ought to not want (it has always been there, but now it's undeniably shown itself willing and able to exercise its power when needed) since it will inevitably be abused given incentives and the lack of checks and balances on it.

When it's more than five separate organizations that all independently decide to deplatform is it still a unilateral decision? I also doubt these decisions were made unilaterally in the companies themselves.

In this specific circumstance do we need to regulate these businesses to keep them from removing content related to organizing a violent insurrection?

No one even removed this content until these groups literally stormed the capital chanting about hanging members of congress. I don't see the problem.
According to dictionaries, the word is commonly used to describe prejudice and discrimination based on race.[48][49]

From the two citations:
[48]

Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.

[49]
a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race

Apple choosing to invest in educational and entrepreneurial programs for "Black and Brown companies" is in no way antagonism towards other races nor is it an indication that Apple supports a belief that any race is superior.
> If you are depressed or self harm, maybe keep watching those videos are bad for you.

This may sound counter-intuitive, but please don't judge that sort of thing until you've gone through it.

There are many online communities that seem dangerous or destructive to people who haven't gone through the issues, but are actually incredibly helpful to those who do.
DMCA takedowns are defined by the legal system. The system you are describing here is completely defined by these companies. They are in their right to do so, but we ought to ask the question if we should introduce a legal structure like the DMCA to standardize it from a legal standpoint. This would cut both ways: if they de-platformed people complying with the standard, they would be in the wrong. As it is right now, AWS can just arbitrarily decide the standard. The only incentive they have to make it a reasonable one is public outcry, which is not the kind of backstop you want when it comes to possibly harming fundamental freedoms.
Guess I'm revealing my ignorance about what it's like to have kids :)
> Developers can switch to a different platform, but the problem is that their customers won't switch. The customers for boutique indie apps simply do not exist on Linux. And they don't exist on Windows to the extent that they exist on the Mac. The Mac has always been by far the best platform to find customers for boutique indie apps, long before Mac code signing existed, and that equation hasn't changed even though Apple is now getting worse and locking down the Mac.

I would also argue that even despite restrictions, spotty docs, and bugs, macOS is still one of the strongest platforms for creating polished boutique apps. The toolkits available elsewhere have technical advantages (like being cross platform), but getting the little details right is so much more difficult with them that meeting the same bar of quality is a much taller order. I think a dev wanting to accomplish something similar in a cross-platform manner is going to have to do something similar to what the Sublime guys have done with developing their own in-house toolkit.
Hacker News is social media.
And how would this test avoid false scares caused by hemorrhoids? They also can create blood in human stool.
It is a bit more than that as it is unlikely that the always win sequence would be a fixed list of moves. You would need to show that for you each move the other player makes you have a reaction that also wins.
It's not just social media. News has transformed over the past few decades to enable this as well. Anybody remember equal air time rules?
Why don't just cancel the public event and do it inside?
I do. I go through stuff and use the star interface to track things I want to focus on. Actually I was slightly annoyed that they made it more hidden on the web interface. Looks like they added it back.
Classic case of "well that escalated quickly".
As another European observing the political climate overseas I get what you mean; with the same news reversed and Apple announcing founding for Historically White Colleges and Universities and venture capital funding for White and Pale entrepreneurs it would be still legally sound as this one but would cause a shit storm so big, no umbrella or anorak would be able to protect anyone from it.

I don't get how the subjects of clear publicity stunts like these don't get offended that a multi-billion dollar company is piggybacking a legitimate movement investing a buck to get two more later on. The argument "if they are doing something good and getting profit out of it, it's a win-win" just does not sound right on the ideological level. If you want to do good, you can do it for free, especially if you have billions in cash.
I mean the writing was on the wall. It was the plot of several Bond films. The media tycoon by owning the news can disrupt governments.

I don't think that social media alone is to blame, nor do I think it is the main culprit, it is an accelerant, but not the cause.

In order for fringe view points to be broadly accepted they need to be "approved"/"verified" by a trusted party.

Now that our news channels, like Fox News, and CNN, spend more time talking about their opinions of the news rather than what occurred, every fringe viewpoint has been stamped as "valid" by appearing on these "news" organizations.

Social media I think exacerbated this problem by reducing revenues for news media companies so they all had to focus on content that was more emotional, rather than informative. And if they can stir up an emotion people tune in.

Then those viewpoints are shared across social media to create a larger audience, again linking back to these "verified" sources, and you get a pretty vicious flywheel effect.
It is an academic and critical view, and not what a layperson understands racism to be. I'll acknowledge that.

And it's also a viewpoint that is more commonly held by the political left. I'll grant that too.

Describing it as 'radical' is something I'd disagree with.
My lived experience of pre recorded video lectures is they are a poor facsimile for the real thing for 3 main reasons.

1) I can’t ask questions - dynamically engaging with the material during the lecture is far more important for retention than making a perfect set of notes so not having that engagement really reduces your learning.

2) attention span / investment - taking notes amongst your peers who are also doing the same is easier and more enjoyable than doing the same on your own, something that is easier to do takes less of my mental energy which is my most precious resource when I’m trying to actually learn.

3) lack of peer interaction - most of the learning experience that is really beneficial long term isn’t about you having 100% recall on demand of every detail you were taught but how to use the ideas to solve actual problems. Much of that comes through practice and experimentation with your peers, which simply doesn’t work via zoom.
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