skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to worry! When I was a little kid, I couldn't afford new shiny magazines,so I had an idea of an online library hosting all the magazines for a small monthly fee. Guess what, turns out apps like Readly doing exactly that.
The analogy of the highway system is apt. I never thought of it like that.

That being said the Supreme Court has weighed in on what kinds of speech are protected under “free speech” and which aren’t. Overt calls for violence and such are not protected.
> This about the very nature of our country and a party wanting to throw it all out.

I agree, and I'm firmly in the camp that the election must be respected, and that it would be the death of America as we know it to overturn an election like this.

> If you are uncomfortable with an employee saying the truth

Did you read the article and the phrasing of his comment? This appeared to be during the initial peaceful protest; they were not all Nazis, and I doubt that even 0.1% of them were. Read the room, it's a workplace!

I would have no problem with seeing his take on Twitter, but the workplace? I equally don't expect someone to be able to go around my work's Slack saying "watch out for the Black nationalists" and "watch out for the violent Bolshevik Commies" because they saw a raised fist and a hammer-and-sickle in the crowd at a Black Lives Matter protest.
I personally believe the posts Amazon asked to have taken down meet the Brandenburg test, but note that Amazon is not beholden to apply the legal test, though I do believe it is a good starting point. Another reason to take things down is "glorification of terrorism", which I believe also applies to some of the posts.
What makes you think the former is acceptable on Parler? Are there documented cases where something like that was reported and Parler refused to take it down?
Clearly the answer is a meta-analysis, but at a certain point it’s turtles all the way down and you need to judge whether you are being fed crap with a modicum of critical thinking.
That linked video is refuting a completely different claim by a different person. When counting votes, numbers should never go down.
https://twitter.com/Adbusters/status/1289363787879915522

Doesn't seem they were advocating for violence.
I have to agree with this. When we started using MS Teams, it worked really well to replace person to person chats, email etc..

But since it's become commonplace, it's become a crapbucket of stuff that I can't find anything back in. I have too many channels, too many teams (and you can't opt in to channels like you can on Slack, you have to join them all). And the search function is even worse than Outlook's. It's all just too unstructured. Even if I search for someone's name plus a keyword I know it's there it can't find it back for me.

Such an app (not just Teams) is just not the right tool for everything related to communication, even though Microsoft is pushing it as exactly that.

A forum though is too '2000' for me. I would see more in a managed wiki, provided people can stomach working in a structured way. Enforcing that will be an issue but it will result in a beautiful oracle of information. I've seen it happen before (and I've seen it fail many more times, sadly).
I suspect the bottom line is that general anonymity on the internet needs to be discarded.

No, wait, hear me out.

No moderation isn't acceptable. Really. (If someone wants to make a counter-assertion, I merely point to this site.)

Non-transparent, corporate moderation doesn't seem palatable to anyone. There are just too many pitfalls.

Independent moderation falls apart when you consider that different fora have different moderation requirements. (A forum for Cinderblock the obese cat is going to be very different from any kind of political or technical site.)

The best case seems to me to be case-by-case, transparent moderation with precedents, similar to common law. And ultimately, I expect transparent moderation to, in the extreme, go to the court system, so that's not necessarily a bad starting point.

Unfortunately, that falls apart when large numbers of participants are (including, say, moderators) are not speaking in good faith. I see two possible ideas to address that: First, to tie accounts to physical identities (but not necessarily disallowing the account to be effectively anonymous), to cut the number of bots, multiple accounts, etc. Second, to attach an account to a user's reputation (which does break anonymity). The results I see are to cut down on the volume of crap while ensuring users have skin in the game (with a side order of making legal action against stalking, harassment, and threats).

But what about those situations that require anonymity? Most of those already have legal and social protections: psychological, religious, and legal counseling, for example. I would support anonymity for those fora, which places responsibility for moderation on the fora, of course, as well as meaning that the moderation cannot be transparent.

One area does require special handling: whistleblowing. It does require anonymity, and does not have any current legal or social protections. That needs to be fixed.

But anyway, as a general rule, the default for social media should not support anonymity. The only way to free providers like Facebook, Reddit, this site, or AWS from responsibility for what is posted there is to place that responsibility on the actual posters---having no responsibility doesn't work, and giving that power to the discretion of the owner of the provider isn't acceptable.

There are some objections that I think I can answer, but this comment is getting too long for me, so I'll wait until anyone cares.

And no, the irony of Parler's requirement of photo-ids and (allegedly) SSNs isn't lost on me.
One cannot search channels one is not part of. Don't forget channels. Not everything happens on #general and #random.

Also, even if I am part of the channel, there is no way I can search and locate what I want without knowing the right keyword to search for. Sure, the information is all there, but that only ads to the frustration. Search interfaces in Slack & all are very limited / too broad.
"Why do you have a bunch of 3D-printed save icons on your desk?"
>Can you not call a spade a spade anymore?

No. We have to make sure Neo-Confederates / Neo-Nazis / white supremacists are welcome at our company too. No one can get their feelings hurt even if those ideas are antithetical to our morals.

As long as the white supremacist doesn't audibly say he is purposefully passing over non-whites for promotions and raises, it's completely ok by the company.
further discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25746240
Ebola actually killed less in the world in total than a single flu season in the US.

With all the talk about it is almost sounds like Covid-19 is a death sentence. It is not, it is a statistical increase. GP know 8 Covid-19 mild cases and zero severe. Let's estimate the chance of severe Covid-19 over reported cases to about 1/10. That's a probability of 43%, GP's experience is typical.

One interesting bit of stats I've seen is that catching Covid-19 roughly doubles your chances of dying this year, regardless of your age. It is a lot but still in the realm of statistics.

And as you probably know, we are very bad at judging statistics instinctively, and for most of us, it is all we have. Otherwise, most people would stop smoking. If Covid-19 can (statistically) cost you one year of your life, smoking costs you 10.
Will be interesting too to see if OLED displays for computers become relatively available: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/lg-2021-plans-includ...
GitHub facing backlash after firing a Jewish employee for 'Nazis are about'
Exactly. I've used this for over a year now in FF.

It can be a bit annoying with things like recaptcha, and sadly some login systems completely break (like Atlassian SSO), but overall most things work just fine.
I don't know.

I have always preferred wxWidgets.

People's aversion to well designed C style macros is just overreacting IMO.
They extinguished their own service by killing Google Talk and replacing it with Hangouts. They never dropped XMPP from Talk, they just never implemented it in Hangouts. Talk and Wave really started Google's churn of messaging apps, which has seemed to just hurt themselves.
It’s literally funded by the Mercer family.

The messaging for this and Gab may thinly suggest otherwise, but it’s clear what these communities target, and it absolutely is the dog whistle version of free speech.
Seems a false equivalent to compare the events that caused these recent terminations to the past, or "magic." What about that should be protected?
I take some basic precautions such as not using any real information about myself and never using Parler on an identifiable device such as a phone. I also only ever accessed Parler, etc from a generic Windows VM and making use of Tor or a VPN service. Likely not enough to protect myself from serious investigation but I can't say I am at all concerned.
Well, a real paid slack instance doesn't go away. All the public free slacks do.. The whole fact that Slack charges a lot for the privilege of keeping history beyond a couple of months, proves that it's worth a lot to many people.
No, the second half of the headline is "38% came from Asia, 27% from Europe, 21% from Latin America and 8% from MENA."
I think its entirely dependent on how the slack is structured. Its great for quick communication amongst a small team on the same project and near essential if the team is remote. On the other hand if every PM in the company can ping engineers on a whim then obviously there can be problems.
amusingly, my understanding is that the original goal for slack was to be an archive.

slack originally stood for: searchable log of all communication and knowledge

but then in practice, i saw message retention locked down to 30 days or less, which kinda defeated the point.

other modern tools, like trello, also seemed to have gaps when it came to logging/searching/archiving what happened. trello is fantastic for organizing "what needs do", "who do", and "when done"... but in my experience is pretty terrible for "what happened" and "why". this is fine i think at smaller scales, but once complexity starts to scale up, it can be a nightmare. it's hard enough fighting issue hysteresis (reoccurring issues and bugs that drag on for years) when there's good historical views and explanations.
It isn't really free speech, you are right. It is more of an anti-trust issue, that a couple companies could get together to completely ban another one. We should consider if too much power has been concentrated in the hands of a few tech companies, if essentially their content moderation policies can so easily be misinterpreted as free speech issues.

That the outcome here is banning a community that was apparently mostly used for hate speech (never actually checked it out) is... maybe a red herring? I mean, they obviously didn't build these massive companies with the primary goal of banning niche hateful websites.

If we were to, say, break up social media and internet infrastructure giants, then this sort of website would probably be able to persist by hopping from host to host until they found one without any morals. But could consider if losing the ability to perform this kind of deplatforming would be worth it, in exchange for a much more competitive marketplace.

I think it is actually a really tricky situation.
Many, at least in the US. It's not just companies, government agencies also have similar needs due to sunshine and open-access laws.

The alternative to having a document retention policy is to just have employees delete things in an arbitrary manner. It's not just CYA for leaving inconvenient doc lying around, it's also to ensure the proper retention in the event of a preservation order or public records request.

Some companies go way further than others. One place I worked included "notes of a personal nature (eg, birthday cards)" in the retention policy and let us keep them for a week or two before destruction.
There are, and always have been, significant restrictions on using the highway system. It's absolutely not unrestricted.

There are limits.
Was it ever rational? I think people do because they see little alternative.
People say this but the obvious point is that flu numbers are much lower if not vanishingly small, suggesting people are in fact largely complying with mitigation efforts.

So the only argument I see otherwise is that there's some radical difference in the R number between the viruses such that masks only lower substantially enough for flu and not SARS-CoV-2. But that's a much more specific argument that I don't see being argued much less substantiated and proven.
I haven't yet seen anyone mention this, but will BioNTech's / Modernas mRNA vaccine need to go through phase 1-3 trials when encoding for other proteins?

The greatest advancement with mRNA is that you can have a vaccine in under a month. But that doesn't help if for each new mRNA encoding you need 9 months worth of health & safety trials.
I'm not sure the original headline was that baity, since (1) the original title implies that the article will investigate the question, which is exactly what it does; and (2) if the conclusion had been that the button was fake, the title would certainly have said so.

But point taken and I've changed it now. Thanks!
Fauci: Concerts Can Return with 70% of Population Vaccinated “Some Time in Fall”
and the current situation is that US has more cases than anywhere else in the world.
Should we pretend it's not happening? Can we?
Is that 5-9% of total passengers or 5-9% of those that have covid at the time?
I just love well thought out emails. They can provide a lot clarity and be the basis for great discussions.
Honestly my road analogy was more about reflecting on the notion of limits on free speech in general. It was not meant to be compared to the specific issue of AWS & Twitter. It was meant to draw our attention to the fact that we wholeheartedly endorse many systems (e.g. roads) that absolutely facilitate immoral and criminal activity. And that's ok to do. Thus I claim that it's similarly ok to endorse absolutely free speech without limits, despite the immoral & illegal activity that it might incite.

Roads encourage bank-robbers. Honestly who would rob a bank if you could only flee on foot? It's ok though that it encourages and facilitates bank robbers. We should not close the roads because of it.

We need to be OK that certain things (free speech) can have huge negative effects and criminal elements.
Hi, We really wanted to support pre-Big Sur but there are just too many new APIs that only appear Big Sur onward. Take context-menus and widgets for example. In the spirit of keeping things clean and minimal on the codebase, North moved to focus on iOS14 and above. However, we’ve noted your point and have added it to the pending features list.
They should have done this when there were far fewer cases. It was really surprising to hear that you don’t need any tests or quarantining when you travel from other countries. Better late than never, I guess.
Probably would have solved maybe problems--that is, if it was implemented half a year ago. As it is now it seems like too little too late.
I'm working on a blog, where users will post about their experience with a particular drug and its side effects. Since, I am paying for hosting and I created the blog, I will NOT allow any pseudo science. Am I limiting free speech? No.

There is a good reason twitter, facebook, youtube does remove certain content. They have the right to remove whatever they want.
Thank you! Great question. We are planning on supporting GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean and Heroku in the future and have users who have actively been requesting support for all of them.

Additionally - I think we can build a truly objective cloud console that shouldn't be relegated to just public cloud provider services.

For example: Why can't scale.ai sit alongside ML offerings from AWS and GCP? Why can't Cloudflare see S3 egress and have Vantage facilitate an integration? Why can't you auto-replicate an environment from Heroku or DigitalOcean to AWS/GCP/Azure? These are some ideas we have going forward.

Currently we have multi-account support for AWS and have been thoughtful with our architecture to quickly add other providers going forward so stay tuned :)
Uganda shutting down Facebook and Twitter for censoring users during an election
230 does protect platforms from liability of what their user base posts. Having run forums and chat servers for a long time, I can attest to the experience of having to moderate content and having received legal complaints. There are two major factors that people are conflating in these discussions. There is the direct legal aspect of having illicit content. The platform is covered if they make an effort to remove illicit content AND they themselves are not encouraging the illegal behavior. So for example, if they have users that also have admin roles and make sub-forums that promote illegal behavior and they do not warn/ban the admins, they may eventually be outside the protection of section 230.

Then there is the acceptable use policy of the hosting provider(s). dns, server, cdn, app store This is entirely outside of 230. If the provider gets enough complaints, they may eventually see your site as a risk and may choose to terminate your account in order to protect the image of their business. They do not want their reputation tarnished as it will affect their profits. I think that is totally fair. If you want to run a site that may likely provoke emotional response from the public, then in my opinion it would be best to find a hosting provider that accepts the risk in a contract. The contract should state what is expected of you and what you expect of them and what happens if the contract is to be terminated, such as off-boarding timelines. Smaller startups are at higher risk as they provider has less to lose by booting them off their infrastructure.

Where I believe this issue has gone sideways is what the industry believes to be considered an appropriate method of moderation. The big platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Apple are using automated systems to block or shadow-ban things they consider a risk to their company or their hosting providers. This leads to people fleeing those systems and going to the smaller startups that do not yet have these automated moderation and shadow-banning systems and that is what happened with Parler and a handful of other newer platforms that wanted to capture all the refuges of the big platforms. A similar thing is happening with that alternate to Youtube, but I can not remember what it is called. Bitchute?

Another potential problem that may confuse the 230 discussion could be that many powerful politicians and corporate leaders use the big platforms like Twitter and Facebook. They and big lobbyists and investors may have some influence over the behavior of these platforms and may be able to tell them to squash the sites that do not follow the automated version of banning and shadow-banning. Does that create echo chambers? Is that what is happening here? Not sure. If so, I predict it will push many people under ground and that is probably not great for agents that would like to keep an eye on certain people.
> People who affiliate with "opposing a democratic election with direct violence" are.

The trouble is that many of the same people saying these actions were perfectly acceptable also have a habit of casually stating that all people who voted for Trump are the irredeemable scum of the earth.
Same conceptually as https://github.com/xgenecloud/xgenecloud?
Taste of their own medicine:)
To answer your first question, with the present DNS, If you use DANE, the trust is centralized since you have to trust the root DNS keys and the registrar (imo still better than trusting a large number of CAs. letsencrypt already relies on DNS to issue certificates).
tons of people in LA/SA are moving to telegram from whatsapp due to the whole facebook debacle.
An issue with PCR tests is that most of them use a cycle threshold of 40, which produces way to many false positives.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testin...
Because those repeatedly and often and again and again censor extremist content.
Wikipedia claims that matres lectionis appeared in the Phoenician system only rather late [0], and so I would presume after transmission to the Greeks. Consequently, could the Phoenician system really be called an abjad at the time that the Greeks borrowed it? See also [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mater_lectionis
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet#Greek-deri...
I think there needs to be better pricing. I know pricing is hard but there should at least be a call to action if you have much a much bigger spend than what is on the pricing page.
Well it occasionally leaves me desk :) also I like the small footprint. It’s mainly my “work at home check the news” laptop so I can keep my work laptop 100% work. I don’t even check the weather on it.
When I was a kid, my parents held the belief that if you keep lily flowers in a vase in a room with the windows closed overnight, and you sleep in that room, you will get a headache. The belief went on to state there is a small chance of death, for the presumed cause that the flowers somehow consume the oxygen in the room. As an adult, I never revisited this superstition; I don't buy flowers often, but my wife does. For some reason, neither one of us ever buys lilies. It could be that we both hold a remnant of this superstition deep inside our subconscious.
I imagine Signal is seeing a bump as well.
Their business products definitely don't enforce S/MIME by default (which is prohibitively difficult with external contacts anyway), and they recommend to set up the things like SPF and DKIM. They usually don't host your DNS so they can't do it for you (though they do tell you exactly what to set and provide a checker to see if you did it right!)
GX-420CA also has a GPU which GX-412TC lacks. In headless operation the difference would not be that much. For reference, I have a t620 with GX-415GA (TDP 15W) which draws 12W at the wall in a CPU load scenario.

https://www.amd.com/en/system/files?file=2017-06/g-series-so...
Programmer has two guesses left to access £175m Bitcoin wallet
This brought such a smile to my face. Thank you for sharing and happy we could help.

A lot Vantage users have the use-case of using Vantage purely for "insurance" of things going awry like this.
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And who is it that decides what is Parler's intent and allots the corresponding thought-crime punishment? I am sorry but your point is absurd.
> This also unfortunately hides the fact that hate speech, dog whistles, saying that COVID is a hoax, pushing for falsehoods and getting upset about not being able to do so, is why you get banned.

I fail to see how this any different from any other social media site??

Again, NOTHING that Parler did is any different from any other social media platform that is a total cess pool of what you just described. The difference is, the speech was predominantly conservative in nature. Which leads me to believe the decisions to remove the app were purely a political decision - which is an incredibly dangerous precedent to start.