skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Keep at it for 3 months. Persist. Ride the highs. Ride the lows. At that point, you'll either have shipped an idea that excites you (and others), or you'll have learned that an idea doesn't work. Either way, you'll have learned critical founder lessons, and will be one step closer to finding that killer idea.

Where does 3 months come from? That's not realistic for many classes of product.
So he goes on and on [0] about how great Parler is/was. But what I've seen reported is that:

. You were shadow banned until the right users voted you up
. To get more privileges, you had to scan photo ID
. Influencers were being paid to post "organic" material without disclosing it https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/02/how-parler-app-plans-to-make-money.html

https://twitter.com/donk_enby has a series of posts based on what she found as she downloaded all of Parler.

So it was constructed as an echo chamber where people were being paid to push products.

[0]"In August, 2018, they created a social media platform similar to Twitter but which promised far greater privacy protections, including a refusal to aggregate user data in order to monetize them to advertisers or algorithmically evaluate their interests in order to promote content or products to them. They also promised far greater free speech rights, rejecting the increasingly repressive content policing of Silicon Valley giants."

This sounds a lot like Fox News claim of being "Fair and Balanced". You might think their point of view is fair but there's no way that it's balanced.
It doesn't matter. Apple/AWS are using the lack of moderation of unprotected speech to not host them.
It's less about rural votes and more about population. Electoral votes per state are based on population not population density, but with an additional 2 each. That tips the scale in favor of states with smaller populations.

E.g. Rhode Island and Idaho both have 4 electoral votes, but Rhode Island is certainly not rural.

Idaho also has a population of 1.8 million compared to 1.0 million in Rhode Island, so technically Rhode Island voters have more voting power than their rural counterparts in Idaho.

Anyways these are just cherry picked states; my point is that the Electoral College is designed to give a disproportionate vote to smaller states, not rural states.
Literally in the article it says he offered to make them other items... https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/04/politics/masterpiece-colorado...
The unproductive parts of the country (let’s not use euphemisms: call them Red States) are in general net recipients of funding from the federal government and the Blue States are net providers. The hated “coastal elites” are literally propping up flyover country. Who is dependent on who?
As with almost everything with these lower quality right wing media content, there's a whole lot of brouhaha, and then suddenly it all goes silent and they're never called out for their lies. They just sweep it under the rug and move on. Meanwhile, whenever the NYT gets something wrong, they come out publicly with a redaction, and people use that as proof that NYT is "fake news". I've never seen right wing news ever write a redaction for the countless lies they've posted.

Just last week, all of right wing media was full of posts about those 3 people at the capitol being antifa. Their proof? A cropped image of Q Shaman at a BLM protest (coincidentally cropping his Q sign), and a Google Image Search finding a photo of the other two guys on phillyantifa.com, even though clicking on the page showed that it was an article about white supremacists.

Feel free to come back and post here once the hunter biden "fiasco" gets resolved, but the fact that Tucker Carlson suddenly decided that he no longer cared right after receiving his "highly incriminating secret papers" tells me everything I need to know about the drama.
200% agree. First time I've ever really felt young on HN before. People still waste time with internal email?
Looks more like reliability vs speed. Small & fast compilers skimp out on various safety checks and edge cases. Yeah it might mean segfaults and crashes in weird archs and situations, but it's fast on perfect machines.
Interesting, what exactly are they going to do if someone doesn't have one? IANAL, but as far as I recall from "what if they want you to unlock your phone/mount your encrypted drive/... on the border and threaten to not let you in" articles that purported to be written by lawyers, they cannot not let a citizen in.
I’m not dismissing him because of one mistake, I dismiss him because the only lens he looks at anything through anymore is how the it’s all actually the left or the media’s fault.
Again, TPB, Sci-hub and many others have done it for decades. It's nothing new.
I would like to know more about this point of view. There must be a different definition of "information" than the layman's, in order for this to make sense. Your post indicates we might not fully know, obviously, but my "naive" understanding of information would indicate that it only really exists in the mind of an observer.

Except! A very interesting idea that I've drawn out of recent reading is the way that physical systems can map onto other physical systems (usually representing them at a drastically different scale) and that this "mapping" is independent of the human mind, or a conscious observer. The only natural examples I can think of are the way that genotype maps to phenotype, and the way that the neural behavior of the brain can map to certain aspects of reality. Computers are an "unnatural" (human-created) example.

Is this related to what you mean by "information"?

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What is an objective measure we can codify into law as to whether a platform is moderated enough?

Parler likely had a much higher percentage of content advocating for violence, but youtube and twitter probably have hundreds or thousands of times the quantity and reach for the violence advocacy content they host.
Sure, but Parler was more like someone subletting than someone actually committing a crime.
From your question & answer, I assume that you think it likely that the USSS (or FBI or whoever) would have moved to grab the hardware had there been hardware to grab?
Sure... AGAIN, the horse is already somewhat out of the barn on the Moon in particular (human spaceflight already went there, I think), but this tardigrade thing, in retrospect, was extremely stupid.
It looks neat, and agree with @akavel that it reminds me of the early days of the WWW (remember the Amaya browser from W3C with built in web page editing!).

Is this all about circumventing censorship? Would be cool if it was also backwards compatible with the current centralised web, i.e. once you "publish" your peer-to-peer site that it'll also upload it to some global shared host (like the WP/blogger.com kind of model) for people on non-Beaker (or uncensored) connections to be able to access the sites - would maybe make it more viral too..
> high frequency trading

Take a pile of money, burn it.

Obviously I'm joking, but I would assume that the local nature of HFT basically means you have to be a big-gun to play without losing your money.
You don't say anything about what you are building or what stage you are at. Your tech choices should be driven by your business needs. Some startups can get by with nothing other than Wordpress for a while. Others may need all the tools above.

I will say as far as Auth that if it's going to be important to your business and you are planning on having a ton of users then you should either choose a platform with it baked in or you should leverage a provider such as Auth0. Auth0 cost-benefit will be positive for almost any business except one that registers a ton of low-value users.
So it's just the usual Gmail link but with /h on the end?

I went looking for something in the settings page for this, but that's actually the official way to get to it, according to https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049?hl=en
> Q: Why not leak it for free? A: Nothing comes free in this world.

They didn't pay to get that data they're now charging money for. "Nothing is free when we're offering it" they should say.
No, they only avoid being filtered by per-process filters. They can't bypass packet filters, by design; system-wide VPN connections work the same way, and cannot be bypassed.
In the context of humanity, delaying things by a century or two may be spending all the time we have.
Looooong before then.
Actually, it appears they had given them plenty of time to implement proper moderation practices to prevent incitement of violence. Their response was inadequate. They were removed from Amazon.

You seem to imply they only got 24 hours to resolve the issues on their service. That's not accurate.
New users on Zulip instances get 20 unread messages by default – I guess you marked one read. The full history is available to you.
As a side note, with so much attention on replacing PGP, I've long though the turning point would be when a group like this uses something else. It's just a highly visible thing and it's a group that a lot of people assume know what they are doing.
This kind of reminds me of Paul Graham's article on how "suit culture" ruined Yahoo, a company poised to be bigger than Google but squandered it by being engineer-unfriendly.

http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html

A quote: Hacker culture often seems kind of irresponsible. That's why people proposing to destroy it use phrases like "adult supervision." That was the phrase they used at Yahoo. But there are worse things than seeming irresponsible. Losing, for example.
Landlords? Let's take one step back. Just like in the Title I vs Title II debate, let's go one step earlier. WHY do we have these issues in the first place?

It's because our entire society is permeated with ideas about capitalism and competition being the best way to organize something, almost part of the moral fabric of the country. Someone "built it", now they ought to "own" the platform. Then they get all this responsibility to moderate, not moderate, or whatever.

Compare with science, wikipedia, open source projects, etc. where things are peer reviewed before the wider public sees them, and there is collaboration instead of competition. People contribute to a growing snowball. There is no profit motive or market competition. There is no private ownership of ideas. There are no celebrities, no heroes. No one can tweet to 5 million people at 3 am.

Somehow, this has mistakenly become a “freedom of speech” issue instead of an issue of capitalism and private ownership of the means of distribution. In this perverse sense, "freedom of speech" even means corporations should have a right to buy local news stations and tell news anchors the exact talking points to say, word for word, or replacing the human mouthpieces if they don't

Really this is just capitalism, where capital consists of audience/followers instead of money/dollars. Top down control by a corporation is normal in capitalism. You just see a landlord (Parler) crying about higher landlord ... ironically crying to the even higher landlord, the US government - to use force and “punish” Facebook.

Going further, it means corporations (considered by some to have the same rights as people) using their infrastructure and distribution agreements to push messages and agendas crafted by a small group of people to millions. Celebrity culture is the result. Ashton Kutcher was the first to 1 million Twitter followers because kingmakers in the movie industry chose him earlier on to star in movies, and so on down the line.

Many companies themselves employ social media managers to regularly moderate their own Facebook Pages and comments, deleting even off-topic comments. Why should they have an inalienable right to be on a platform? So inside their own website and page these private companies can moderate and choose not to partner with someone but private companies Facebook and Twitter should be prevented from making decisions about content on THEIR own platform.

You want a platform that can’t kick you off? It’s called open source software, and decentralized networks. You know what they don’t have? Private ownership of the whole network. “But I built it so I get to own it” is the capitalist attitude that leads to exactly this situation. The only way we will get there is if people build it and then DON’T own the whole platform. Think about it!
Raw banana is used to make delicious "podi"(oil fried batter), even some other dishes as well.
> uh... so?

Don't play coy. Punching someone is not the same thing as "showing them the door".
I really want to be a good person and track my finances like this, but I just don't have time (or am too lazy) and just need a more automated process.
She/he is probably on the way to one right now, at their current company.
One thing that bothers me is how it completely automates something like the process of citogenesis:

https://xkcd.com/978/

It was trained on the internet, a gigantic repository of half-truths and misinformation, and it has no actual understanding of truth or falsehood.

Ask it for things and you get a plausible-sounding summary, good enough that most people will not fact-check the gibberish it's spewing.

Especially not when you glorify the big pile of automated statistical analysis with the title "AI".

There are plenty of other issues with it, but that'll do for a start.
and they're super locked down, too. found out the hard way, expecting to flash lineageos onto my wife's sprint/us snapdragon-based S8 instead of the bootloader-unlocked european exynos model :(

i told her to buy the sprint one cause it had better coverage in the us band spectrum.
>Ironically, this also feels like a false equivalency to me. I don't believe Parler was putting Amazon/AWS at risk in terms of legal liability (I'm pretty sure in the US you can only sue a hosting provider for material they host if it is copyrighted material and they don't take it down when they receive notices. A Google search didn't turn up anything else.) They also weren't at risk of bringing AWS down.

You seriously don't think with the amount of publicity Parler was getting, that AWS' reputation was going to be hurt? When my Dad is talking about Parler and AWS it has become a PR nightmare...

>I often hear the argument "Private company, they can do what they want" but at what point does a private company become so powerful that we really do need the government to step in?

If the private company is "so powerful the government needs to step in" then it should be through breaking up a monopoly. But it turns out AWS doesn't have anything approaching a monopoly in hosting, so it would be absurd for the government to step in. There are literally THOUSANDS of other hosting providers out there.

What you're seeing is that nobody agrees with the hate speech Parler is selling, and nobody wants to host it. That is the free market at work.

>Vaping isn't illegal. It isn't hateful. It also isn't inherently harmful. People used those apps for legitimate reasons. Some of them used iPhone sensors through APIs that aren't available for websites/web apps. And Apple just decided "Nope, you don't get to exist anymore".

So don't buy an iPhone? Buy any number of android phones that don't require Apple or Google's app store. If you want the government to dictate who companies do business with, you aren't for capitalism or free market, that's all there is to it. Parler isn't a protected class, vaping isn't a protected class, nobody should be forced to do business with them if they don't want to.
You forgot KB and mixed up your numerator and denominator.
Do you mind if I ask what your first career was?
I'm getting this "open source doesn't guaranteed there's no problem" claim. And I'd agree open source doesn't guarantee there's no problem. But it seems clear that routes which have allowed malware to be pushed automatically are fundamental, guarantee problems and malware in source code is a potential problem with an obvious answer.
Signal community: Reminder: Please be nice
I think the evil is the algorithms to maximize engagement over user happiness and I think people across the censorship spectrum could agree with that.
Seems like a good way to get a decent quality webcam as well. On Android at least you can use DroidCam to turn your connected device into a webcam. Surprisingly it even works on Linux:

https://www.dev47apps.com/
If you are asking if the impact of having a DNS service hacked could be worse than any other service: there is no apples to apples comparison really. How can one measure what is 'worse': having one's DNS hacked vs any other service getting exploited?

What data does the machine contain? What credentials does the machine provide? What networks are the machine connected to? How much 'value' does any of this data or network control have, or rather how much value would be lost if said data, device or network got hacked?

The measure of all of these things is context specific, and depends entirely on the exact circumstances for each particular exposed device.
It's reductive but true. Large parts of the country are tax burdens when we look at the big numbers. For example, California and Oregon make a profit for the USA, while Mississippi and Alabama are more expensive to operate than they return in tax revenue.

This pattern also emerges on a county-by-county level within states. For example, Oregon and Washington are bisected by the Cascades, and the eastern counties are much poorer than the western counties and depend on the profits made in the west.

This uneven burden is an important ingredient in explaining why it's not just rural folks resenting city folks, but also city folks resenting rural folks. It is not fun to know that one's tax dollars are disproportionately funding welfare for folks who politically desire to see one's way of life burnt down because it's immoral or wasteful or simply not as sexist and racist as in the past.
Where did he move the goal posts? From the article...

>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

The tweet you linked shows a post on parler dated November 16. That's not evidence the poster was an "active user of Parler". In fact, it suggests the opposite. All we know is he made one post in November.
And a lot of society revolves around that. We seek compatibility.
Show HN: I made NIGHT.FM, a cyberpunk-inspired online radio
I had a bunch of "cyberpunk" music in a playlist that I'd been collecting while waiting for Cyberpunk2077 to come out. I thought I'd make something out of it.
Good luck. A relative of mine also goes through immune therapy instead of chemo.
I'm really tempted to document my own learning/musings in microarchitecture by making a semi-zachlike "game" to go through it. Really stretching the definition of game though, although I know I'd play it which is enough for me.

There's already one on steam, but I don't think it uses a real HDL - thanks to yosys (Claire Wolf you're a god) it could be completely open-source, and you could even just about gamify the end result (Dhrystone MIPS per gate?)
I was once backpacking in India and I ran into a guy in South India (I think in what is now Telangana) who was pursuing a similar passion, except with mangos instead of bananas. I have a postcard from him somewhere in my stuff. I'll try to get his name and share the name of his farm.
One word: hypnosis. Worked for me in a big way, when I had lost something very valuable and was going nuts trying to remember where I left it (in a drunken journey on foot through a city). I found it, because somewhere deep inside, one part of my brain knew exactly where it was, and the rest of me had forgotten.
> Can you give a real world example that couldn't be solved with interfaces?

There are none, you can always work around them, with the only downside is that you'll move some potential compile-time errors to runtime errors.

But that's the wrong conversation to be having; we could also say "why do we need floats? Everything can be solved with ints too", which is true, but also a lot of work and a poor trade-off. Similar arguments exist for many language features.

So it's a question of trade-offs: how much time will this save people? Will it reduce faults? And what are the costs of adding this? And how do they balance?
China Telecom seems seriously focused on IPv6
Here's one of his takes from a week before the coup. It aged hilariously poorly.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-threat-of-authoritarian...
I agree on the pressure part. I promoted Signal within my extended family extended a couple of days ago, no response, but one or two did move. I wanted to try again, but was worried about not getting any responses once again. Statuses can be a great fit here. It's more like my blog where I can publish content without the pressure of others not reading it, modify as necessary and take down as necessary.
I think you’re being overly cynical and I don’t agree.

I think they take their power seriously and there is a real distinction in the context prior to 1/6. I write about why this is hard in my blog post linked in the other comment.

Things changed with trump’s incitement of the assault on the capitol. I think the decisions they made at each point made sense.

This isn’t an obvious or easy problem to answer. In the absence of policy they’ve become de-facto regulators. We’ve had a non functioning legislative body for a while and America seems to specialize in bad workarounds for missing policy.
What all these companies (Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Visa etc...) did was textbook market coordination [1]. Nothing illegal or crazy about it, it happens all the time on different levels.

What people should be griping about is that they put so much faith and trust into private organizations that are not the commons or public services and have no obligation to anyone beyond the contract that they enter into (ToS etc...).

[1] https://www.economicsdiscussion.net/economics-2/market-coord...
It says on page 35 of my Bank of America Deposit Agreement and Disclosures:

> If you voluntarily disclose your account number to another personal orally, electronically, in writing or by other means, you are deemed to authorize each item, including electronic debits, which result from your disclosure. We may pay these items and charge your account.

It may be that there is some rule that says just giving someone a check doesn't count as "voluntarily disclosing" your account number.
Any plans to offer this as an AWS Marketplace offering ?
Why do I have to run Docker to run the server locally? This always raises a red "over-engineered" flag for me. Docker is for deployment, not development.
While I can see the benefits of this, I fear that the weight of the average smartphone at the top of a thin laptop display may cause problems with the hinge or display panel over time.
Usually for this kind of thing samples are provided. This attacks feels too sophisticated for a mere sale. At best, if this is legitimate, it's misdirection.
None of the uses that I've thought are cool are trying to find "truth" though.

For example, just the other day I needed to make a system that was able to take user entered country names and convert them to standardized ISO country codes. With GPT-3 I made something with fantastic accuracy and error correcting ability in about two minutes.
I think that's exactly what happened. He hit a point of no return and rather than go ahead, decided to save himself.
Twitter loses $5B, shares down 12% since Trump ban
A bunch of these depend on current technology being catered to alphabets and then #1 and #4 aren't even true for many real languages. What does #6 have to do with which ones are sufficient for communicating? #8 all languages change in many ways, how is that an argument against any of them?
What makes you think it is not entrepreneurship? We live in an era where online video creators are millionaires.