skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m pretty apathetic about these bannings (so hopefully this comment doesn’t read as support or opposition), but “not all conservatives were banned” does not refute “only conservatives were banned”.
You were arguing "against" any controls on Twitter. Not "for" controls. Let's be clear.
Ask HN: Challenges with Buying a Home?
Whether you're looking to buy your first / a new home, or interested in buying real estate, what has been your biggest hurdle?

Do you struggle with the decision financially? Do you feel unprepared? Are real estate agents not helpful enough?
I was wondering what everyone was taking about. I totally forgot I installed the dark reader extension on my phone... Thanks for reminding me!
Invisible solar panels: How tomorrow's windows will generate electricity
You are comparing literal Nazis who are calling for insurrection and murder to someone peacefully fighting against oppression.
American Apathy: Our Declining Interest in Covid-19 Cases and Deaths
One of Greenwald's observations was that no planning occurred on Parler, but rather tended to occur on FB. If you'd used Parler before it went down (I poked it months ago, before all this madness, and found it to be sorely lacking), you'd notice that it's a shoutcasting platform like Twitter, and is wholly unsuitable for any kind of event planning. At most, you could give messages saying to prepare for X at event Y, which is 'planning' of a sort, I suppose.
Counterpoint: if tanks were the primary way to transport something obvious like a giant battle tank that were being used to kill people and attempt overthrow of the government. If the checkpoints setup couldn't catch enough of them to remove the danger, would you support shutdowns of the highway infrastructure until the checkpoints could stop them?
And the opposite is how Nazi Germany rose and continued.
I think one difference is that people inhabit and create social media in a way that they didn't with print and TV. A significant percentage of our lives is spent in these de factor public squares.

As a media company that 'creates' tweets to be displayed on CNN, etc., or read by logged out users, the analogy to traditional media is more straightforward.
Sorry to hear that. We will make sure to check the logs.
As for the login, we ask for a GitHub sign since we thought it would be most convenient and cost affective at this stage since all users are developers. Also, we use it to send the generated code to your GitHub repo.
Wow. Those are still pretty expensive. I've been considering replacing my T430, but I'm not sure it's worthwhile. Mine has 16GB of RAM, i7 quad core, 1TB SSD, etc. I think my money would be better spent upgrading the screen on my existing machine. It's also worth noting that I was able to buy a backup/spare T430 to use for parts and experimentation for ~$100. All in all, I've been very happy with this model.
AWS has alternatives in 1) Azure; 2) GCP; 3) Any number of smaller VPS providers; 4) self-hosted infrastructure; 5) co-location, which sometimes (often?) has different requirements compared to virtualization re: content.

> The fact that Parler isn't back online shows that there is an oligopoly in place.

It shows that they have mediocre-at-best technical talent in place, which isn't all that surprising given the content and target market.

> Parler can be shut down when it has been shown to have breached legislation passed by the country and has been found guilty of that in a court of law after due process.

This may be what you want, but it's not reality so I wouldn't frame it as a definitive fact like this.

> It's not just free speech that is at issue here.

It's not a free speech issue at all. Free speech means you can't be jailed or persecuted by the government for your speech.

> It is innocent until proven guilty and due process.

You're conflating a misunderstanding of Constitutional rights with criminal law. Due process is 100% irrelevant.
macOS malware used run-only AppleScripts to avoid detection for five years
In Haiti there’s over 150 varieties of mango.

I’ve eaten maybe ten distinct kinds[0]. Not only are they visually distinct but, as you’d imagine, unique in taste as well.

Made me feel like my sense of “mango” to that point in my life was nothing more than cherry flavored syrup.

[0] Ti Kouzin might be my favorite!
I support banning Parler, but this argument becomes more transparently untrue by the day. The internet is speech now. Visiting city halls and council meetings doesn't affect elections or policies, voting is useless without being part of an organized bloc, which can no longer happen without the internet, and Parler was one of several alt-right attempts to make their own platform--control of the internet is centralized enough that making a platform for non-technical users against the will of the megacorporations is not possible.

If you don't believe free speech absolutism should be allowed, say so, but free speech and this level of corporate dominance are not compatible.
Depends on if the app itself rate-limits attempts, or destroys the encrypted content after a set number of attempts.
http://sci-hub.hns/ resolves for me too, but I get a 503 - Service Unavailable.
History – The Tale of 47 Ronin
Can you please elaborate on what about that comic warrants an apology? I assume it is this comic[0] you are on about.

[0]: https://xkcd.com/1357/
How has a "side" been banned? Who has done this?
QAF (US) was amazing - got them on DVD, and was the only way I could watch them ~ 15 years ago.

For what its worth, PrEP is not without its own costs. Besides the documented side effects, it also seems to rapidly accelerate cellular aging.
My issue with ultrabooks proliferating is that they've made other, more capable machines more niche and more expensive. It's similar to the way that mobile phones standardized on featureless glass slabs after the entire industry decided to take after Apple, with shockingly little innovation happening outside of software.

It lowers the lowest common denominator, in other words. The gulf between "consumption machine" and "work machine" is now higher.
If these witnesses were presented and heard, leading to (long shot maybe, but still) a conviction by the Senate of Trump, of course, things would have been very different today.

You can argue that the violent events of last week would have simply taken place early last year, but at least it might not have threatened peaceful transfer of power after the elections.
Thank you. That quote does seem rather damning. I imagine similarly in Georgia the judges saw evidence and proceeded at their discretion.
the code is readable enough that you can just change the animation delay ;)
Know your neighbors, know which you can trust and which you can't. Be someone they can trust, make sure they know that.
The harming algorithm is just used in the paper's proof as a simple wrapper around the halting algorithm.
They want to become an inside government enforcing their own extreme ideology on everybody.

They can refuse working and cancel entire projects even if everyone working on the project is fine with it, ask for changes in management up and down based on rumors or tweets about a person or something they've done 25 years ago, stop serving meat in the cafeteria or allowing ICE cars to park for free and other "environmental" demands, mandatory quotas for each group they deem a "minority" based solely on their own discretion, stop work near deadlines or industry events just to show off their power etc.

Each one of those already had several very large and opinionated internal forum discussions there and many have made it into actions over the years.

In their minds they believe they're proletariat in a holy battle against the oppressive regime, any regime they fall under and are ironically turning into what they claim to be fighting against.
You do have to sign up with an account at HP to get the firmware, and it won't let you use a gmail account, but once I signed up I was able to download the latest firmware and update to the latest. Just FYI.
I think maybe you made a typo in your OP? The authors assume beauty is decidable and use that to show that would imply that the halting problem is undecidable. It applies to anything, like you say, and to me it seems like a silly argument, but I think it’s a valid proof given the premises.
Quebec has a history of using the notwithstanding clause to push through numerous things supposedly prohibited by clause 2. You will absolutely be fined for not having employment documents available in French, or signage with French co-equal. Tech companies usually put in place a do-nothing "francisation plan" and pay any levied fines, but it's a real cost of doing business.
This is a radical departure from the bananas most of us eat, which are all clones of the exact same plant.

https://www.newsweek.com/worlds-bananas-are-clones-and-they-...
Note that Eltech's ExaGear used to be a thing, and has now largely disappeared, along with the company homepage.

I don't know whether they've been bought by Huawei, who is now reviving the product under their own name.

Original announcement of discontinuation:

--- Eltechs Weekly News Digest ---

We have discontinued ExaGear...
Dear ExaGear users!

We're really sorry to announce our business decision about discontinuing our services and products.

You'll be able to continue using all of your purchased products, the license checking functionality will work.

You can download our most recent ExaGear Desktop version 3.1 below:

ExaGear Desktop for Raspberry Pi 3
ExaGear Desktop for Raspberry Pi 2
ExaGear Desktop for Raspberry Pi 1/Zero
ExaGear Desktop for Odroid XU4
ExaGear Desktop for Odroid C2
ExaGear Desktop for Odroid 32bit
ExaGear Desktop for NVIDIA Jetson TX1 / TX2
ExaGear Desktop for NVIDIA Jetson TK1
ExaGear Desktop for CubieBoard
ExaGear Desktop for Banana Pi
ExaGear Desktop for ARMv7
ExaGear Desktop for ARMv8
We strongly recommend to save ExaGear installation package on your own hard drive because the download won't be available after February 28th, 2019.

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20190227095445/http://forum.elte...
My question for you is why not advertise this loudly? Or, maybe you did and no one cared? Because presumably it's a bit more costly per unit to do it this way, and very few people are ever going to understand and care.

Not that I think you made the wrong choice, I think it's a good one, but I'm just curious how many consumers you thought would actually understand it, or how that information would be distributed
I think we disagree on what censorship means. To me, censorship very clearly means an active effort to go out and eliminate a particular type of speech or a particular speaker. That means going out and finding that speech or speaker and shutting them down, everywhere.

In this instance, a platform decides, effectively "we refuse to host your ideas, go elsewhere." Facebook and Google and Twitter aren't going out of their way to scrub these people off the internet; they are just kicking them off their own platform.

You might consider this part of the "cancel culture", but it's not censorship.
On Windows moving the taskbar to side of screen gives few extra pixels.
In 1984 everyone hated Goldstein's guts, but was he really the problem?
I’ve been using APU2 systems for several years. It can handle gigabit if you’re using Linux and your ISP doesn’t use PPPoE. On PPPoE it tops out around 500mbps for download and 800mbps for upload.
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From my perspective, your analogy fits for the internet backbone, but not for the fact pattern under discussion here. To stretch the analogy, I think AWS would be more like a really big network of private distribution centers where client businesses can drop off and pick up goods. I think those distribution centers would be well within their rights to refuse to serve clients who are trafficking "drugs, humans, blackmarket weapons, etc".
For something faster than Qemu, there's this: https://threedots.ovh/blog/2020/12/houdini-run-arm-32-bit-an...
Industry has nothing to do with it. Every country has industry. The reason the US has so many in prison is because its people are the more hair-on-fire moralistic crusaders in the civilized world and they want people in prison.
“Poor people are disproportionately affected by not having enough money to purchase things”
>I think we'll see the angry mob go end up at less discoverable, but more robust distributed platforms.

Not unless those distributed platforms are as easy to sign up for and use as twitter. I realize that not all the type of people that went to riot at the capitol or stupid, but the fact that they were there proves that most are intellectually lazy at best. Any extra effort to use a social network will completely block most from participating.
> I feel like we've all been a bit brainwashed by the government in our notion that "free speech" must have limits. I very much doubt that that is true.

I very much disagree. Hate speech is just one example. "Speech" designed to terrorize, threaten, and incite action should not be "free".

> Of course any crimes that derive from it are and will always been fully enforceable.

By this logic no one who is purposely inciting anything is even liable for the actions that they cause. "Leaders" will never face punishment, because they only say things, right?

The line (or at least one of the lines) comes when speech is no longer an expression, but an instruction. It may be a tough line to draw, but that doesn't mean that the line shouldn't exist somewhere.
Unthinkable, how could someone support a sitting president. Are you telling me that some people will also start supporting Biden in the future? what has the world come to..
Who exactly is us, though?

For example, I don't recall FOSTA/SESTA and its ramifications generating anywhere close to this level of breathless outrage on HN. The leftists I know (actual leftists, not the USA's conflation of centrist ideals with leftism) are all already very intimate with getting targeted and censored. Who is the "us" whose unfiltered work/speech/views have always been guaranteed a platform?
Big plus one. Especially if your software work is even remotely finance-adjacent.

The moment I start talking in terms of liabilities, virtual accounts, etc. their eyes light up!

Incidentally, Accounting and Software have a lot in common. They both build and apply abstractions to the "real world" (flipping-bits), in order to give the abstraction-wielder more power and insight.
can confirm that dragula works well. If you don't need all the crazy browser support though, doing it like this is much more lightweight.
Using a thinkpad p1 gen 2: never achieved to get more than 2 hours out of of battery. Keyboard also sucks.
Coronavirus shutdowns have quashed nearly all other common viruses
It’s not like the idea that countries shouldn’t negotiate with terrorists is universal. Some countries do choose to negotiate with terrorists. I think there’s two frameworks to evaluate how we should act, one based on Justice and one based on Power. It’s idealistic to assume that we should approach everything from a “because it’s the right thing to do” perspective, as that can lead to more harm. Sometimes you have to acknowledge a groups power to do harm, and work to mitigate that harm. Not everything is going to have a clean solution. I don’t know how much power the far right has at this point. We may be about to find out, and if so we’ll see how long it takes for the country to get weary of a terrorist insurgency.
You're absolutely right.

That said, I think companies also have to consider the saleability of privacy features. How many Echos would you, personally, buy if they had a mechanical switch? How many people do you think would make the same decision? How does this stack up against the change in failure rates from a physical switch?

Again, you're completely correct. It's cheaper to design in privacy features up front. I can see some wrinkles that make the question more subtle, though.
> One reasonable thing to impose tariffs on is products made with slave labor,

Surely products made with slave labour should be banned outright?
Opposition candidate Bobi Wine had his home raided by the Ugandan military in the middle of a podcast:

https://citizentv.co.ke/news/bobi-wine-cuts-short-interview-...

https://www.dw.com/en/uganda-presidential-candidate-bobi-win...
Tell me if I'm understanding this:

A company with the mendacity to misrepresent an employee as a co-founder in order to attract said employee wasn't happy with that employee's performance. So they boldly refuse to continue misrepresenting him as a co-founder on their about page.

If so, I would like to nominate Reddit for the Silicon Valley Courage Award. (However, I think Facebook is the clear front-runner for clamping down on "Stop the Steal" disinformation now that both houses of Congress and the presidency are under Democratic control.)
Am I the only one that’s starting to think the US should do this too? I don’t care about censoring any ideas I’m just sick of all the obnoxious people screaming at each other and not changing a single mind in the process.
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If you're really interested in this kind of thing check out C*NET: ckts.info. Members have all sorts of old telephone equipment up and available.
Cronyism makes no judgment on the qualifications of the cronies. It's just almost always bad because chances are your friends don't have the right set of skills and qualities to be in the position you give them.
To elaborate on the idea that Math is like art, others have pointed out that despite mathematicians best efforts to avoid practical applications, it often ends up being useful anyways:

http://faculty.cord.edu/andersod/wigner-hammingresponse.pdf
If you haven't yet, see: [The Cathedral and the Bazaar](http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/)
It's really inconsequential to the man in charger.

He is, after all, running for like his 10th term now.
Flash has been declared dead many times. This time it really is the end, it's final. Maybe.
Looking forward we have a strong belief in both NestJS and Prisma. They are great technologies on there way up (and in many ways, they are already there)
Because Google attracted a lot of employees who care about corporate ethics with its "don't be evil" reputation. That reputation has faded as people learned about cases when Google didn't live up to it [1] but there are still a _lot_ of Googlers who want to hold Google to the old standard.

If there were another large tech company with a reputation for great ethics, many of these people would probably go there instead. But in spite of a lot of disillusionment, Google still seems to be the best of the FAANGs IMHO.

Full disclosure: I just left Google. I'm taking a break before looking for something new, but if someone knows of a tech company that is as ethical as I once thought Google was, I'd love to hear it...

[1] The wage-fixing cartel, several exec sexual harassment complaints and Andy Rubin's $90 million severance, double-speak around Project Maven, the complaints behind the walkout and ultimately Google firing the walkout organizers, etc.
Running a tightly integrated Hetzner Cloud Kubernetes with Rancher (2021)
They dont want Facebook to overthrow their election. Makes sense.
concerns:
1 - In the long run your security will benefit from being open source, I think this is one of the main benefits. But in the beginning the holes in security will be exposed.

2 - If the main value of your product can be copied like that it is a problem, but the surrounding expertise is enough to go to you over others. Would you rather buy from the guy who just cloned your project or the people who actually wrote it?

I agree on the benefits!
> From what I understand, Parler was bankrolled and designed to do exactly what it was ultimately shutdown for. That is, be a concentrated anger-machine-echo-chamber. I'm not angry at the public corporations that have dropped Parler. I'm angry at the people that created Parler in the first place.

Where did you get this understanding? Seriously. My understanding was that the founders were mostly anti-trump libertarians.
Any reason that ruffle progress seems to have been much faster than Gnash, which was a much older attempt at doing this? Is it just the impending EOL lit a fire under users?
Free speech isn't synonymous with the first amendment.

"Freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences!" is one of the most infuriating lines I've ever had the displeasure to hear parroted.
What else could it possibly be, but the general idea of not being punished for saying things? The only thing that matters to the principle of freedom of speech is those consequences.

Who cares whether it's a government that decides that when you express a certain opinion, you lose your job- or twitter?

Funny, but not surprising, how even self-proclaimed leftists will side with capital when it's treading on the right people.

You might say "but you can't force people to platform/associate with those they find odious!", to which I reply 'of course you can'- there's laws against unlimited free association, with the argument that bulk group dynamics end up diminishing individual freedom on net.

You might say opinions are a different category from e.g. ethnicity, as they can be changed, while race can't.

In that case, in the future when we can change our bodies in a day, will it be alright if 'race', no longer existing as such, becomes as acceptably targetable as speech?
Isn't that an argument for it being free and open? Whether contributors get paid is orthogonal to freedom and openness.

It's hard to imagine what would have happened if there was no GNU Linux, Apache, SQLite... [insert gigantic list of open source technology that almost everyone in our field relies on].
> This is another question in good faith. Can you provide any evidence at all that you're not knowingly asking that as a political/debating tactic to suggest your proposition is reasonable, knowing full well that the purpose of Parler's existence is (was) to facilitate communication that larger social networks stifle, and categorize as hate speech?

Maybe something is lost over text, but I genuinely prefaced my question because I know it's a delicate political topic for people. But your response is just childish. I literally barely know anything about Parler. Also, how is asking for evidence so triggering? That should be the cornerstone of any these types of discussions.

But to answer your question: No, I can't prove to you what I'm thinking. Nobody ever can. So perhaps you should just take my question on face value and stop assuming malicious intent.
> What happened this week, in the long term, will likely be looked on poorly by history.

It might well be, but it's worth keeping in mind that this isn't mutually exclusive with what happened last week. I don't just mean the armed insurrection in the Capitol with the tacit support of a sitting president who lost his re-election bid; I mean that, for a full week, no government agency even made an official statement about that insurrection.

The real story of January 2021 may well be that private companies have stepped in to take action not merely because they could, but because the government refused to do so. While I share Ben Thompson's discomfort at private entities having this kind of power over the public sphere, the even more uncomfortable truth is that we -- both (primarily American) citizenry and (primarily American) government -- have ceded that power to them.
civilised actors don't smear poop in their nation's capitol.
Id like that to be true but Twitter has 400 million users which is a large chunk of the developed world.
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25750402
Is there evidence that there are other AWS customers with easily discoverable content that incites violence, which AWS is not working to have removed due to their terms of service?