skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is still on Twitter:

"On September 17, 2020 we will lay siege to The @WhiteHouse
for exactly fifty days.

We need your wisdom and expertise to pull off a radically democratic toneshift in our politics.

Are you ready for #revolution?

This is the #WhiteHouseSiege"

https://twitter.com/adbusters/status/1288193793267625984
For that 4th bullet, did you mean "hóa vàng"? I think the paper stuff that's burned symbolizes things that will be carried to the afterlife - where their ancestors/dead loved ones currently are. This is why you may find many modern objects like phones, cars or even houses in small paper forms ready to be hóa vàng-ed.
I'm willing to bet money that for every company that deletes emails older than some age also deletes Slack messages, and deletes then sooner.

I speak as someone who worked for a company where email got archived and then deleted after 6 months, and currently works at a company where everyone only uses Slack, and Slack is purged after 30 days.
It really depends on what you are going to do with Rust. Sometimes it can be really tricky, but for simple tasks where we used to use scripting languages Rust can be similarly simple.
There is a significant difference between refusing business on the basis of race (which is rightfully a protected status) and refusing business with a platform that hosts far-right content. This particular example, comparing the far-right to Rosa Parks, is especially distasteful.
I have been led to believe that the Phoenician writing system was a syllabary, and that the Greeks made an alphabet out of it.

Are they using "alphabet" in an informal sense, in the article, to include syllabaries? Or am I misinformed?

And then, what are the hieroglyphs? Are they just talking about the specific set of letters we call our alphabet, and not the idea of an alphabet, which surely the Egyptians had? Unless that is itself a syllabary, and so doesn't count?
The Migrating Motor Complex (2002)
Ouch! Never, never joke about he alphabet.
> Thinking one line at a time lowers the quality of the discussion. Knee jerk rapid fire responses become the norm.

I mean, this is also how talking in real life work. Chat is supposed to be the closest written replication of a verbal conversation. Rapid fire back and forth is how many discussions are supposed to happen.
Neat -- this looks like exactly it. Maybe it's time to make the switchover.
Wow. That is an amazing statistic- I find it hard to accept that the average person would be influenced by social media to that extent but that type of study result is undeniable.
Can children be vaccinated without parental consent in France?
We did get a transaction search feature, it's been in the app for several years now.
Uncomfortable? There is actual proof that the virus was already present in Italy in November 2019. So it wasn't fabricated after in China.
Yep :)

It's a weird way to try to save money, imo. Down the line it just leads to confusion and repeat work.

They also underinvest in documentation, with the same result.
It is like saying "drop windows/mac and use arch linux"
> Except Twitter and Youtube routinely moderate their content.

Counter argument : twitter letting "Hang Mike Pence" trends.
decentralized in the sense of not under the control of one organization.
Ask HN: How to get a link to specific tweet in a thread
Is it currently possible to link to a specific tweet within a thread of tweets in the twitter web app? You can get a link to the entire thread, but 90% of the time it does not scroll to the tweet in question (i believe this happens mostly on long threads). Is it possible to link to the page of a specific tweet, alone?

Example tweet: https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1348707157651435525
Oh whoops, my bad - I was under the impression it was about import/export of Signal messages in general. There's been so much news about Signal recently that I'm getting comments mixed up, it seems.
I'm surprised if that's actually true. I would guess that most peoples' personal and work email accounts are managed through providers like Google or Microsoft, which do enforce all of those security protocols.
Automated Armory (YC W17) Canary Analysis with Spinnaker&Kayenta: A Deep Dive
Back in 2014, ~50K accounts were posting support for ISIS. Parlor got one day's notice. How much notice did twitter get before the liberal consensus was to remove it from the Internet for inciting hate?

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/isis_tw...
> I'm in favor of internet access being considered a public utility or even government funded; nobody should be "deplatformed" from basic internet access. Assuming that's the case, I don't see what's stopping Parler from setting up a server.

This raises a really interesting question about where the line between regulated utility and free commerce should be drawn. I generally agree with what you've written in your post, and struggle to come up with an answer.

For some of the reasons you mention, I think that I think Facebook and Twitter and the various App Stores generally belong on the "free commerce" side of that line.

But what about DNS providers and ISPs? What about browser vendors and certificate authorities? And in particular, what about AWS?

I could imagine a world in which DNS providers and ISPs are regulated and cannot deny service without a court order, and in which AWS ends up straddling this: EC2 + Route53 get regulated, but S3 and on up are treated as unregulated free-commerce businesses.

As an aside, I'm really surprised that the Parler team didn't defend against this by hosting with multiple providers. Given their positioning, it seems like a pretty obvious risk. I wonder if that's an oversight / miscalculation, or if they made a decision that getting de-platformed at some point would be a good thing for their long-term brand / agenda.
Pretty screwed for at least another year.
Anyone have a good recommendation for text-based time accounting?
Parler was created to be a place where the alt-right could freely spout their lies without fear of censorship. Facebook has that, but it's not the reason the platform exists. The intent is completely different.
I remember when Bitcoin first blew up (price reached a few hundred I think?) everyone I knew claimed that they bought a bunch at a few cents but forgot the password/reformatted their hard drive/gave it away.
Using a vaccine created by one of the many other mechanisms that are in the pipeline, like the Oxford or J&J vaccines.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus...
look at the tweet 89% from outside US
Could anyone explain why Monero isn't more popular than Bitcoin? On the surface it seems to do everything Bitcoin can but adds privacy as a bonus, so why doesn't everyone use it?
It did work on cattle. I think you misread something.
Can relate. I only received one donation for my side project[0] but more than money. It gave me some motivation to continue to work on it, thinking that it's so useful for someone out there that he/she actually gave money for that.

0: https://github.com/rmpr/atbswp
In our large production project we have a very simple Go arch that enables 15+ microservices. Im not sure I see the value of generics either other than complicating a rather complicated distributed architecture with abstracted implementation.

It's beautiful that we still import 6yo packages that are clear, concise, and work as needed. The package landscape with generics doesnt seem great.
Any artificial restrictions on trade that we impose domestically, like minimum wage, or occupational health and safety requirements, are meaningless if we have no way of placing those restrictions elsewhere. I would argue exactly the opposite of what you have said, that tariffs are the natural way of expressing these restrictions internationally.
Analysis of Violent Hashtags on Parler
> That's neither here nor there though.

I disagree. I understand the issues you're raising, but there is a key difference as far as we, members of the public looking at science, are concerned. The process of building models can't really be critiqued by non-scientists; but the process of verifying the predictions of models can, because predictions, at least predictions that non-scientists care about, can always be boiled down to something that anyone can test. For example, if you want to test whether relativity works, just use the GPS on your phone: if the location it tells you you're at is correct, you've just verified predictions made by relativity.

It is true that scientists do not always boil down their predictions to such simple tests, but as members of the public, our response to that is easy as well: if a scientist can't boil down the predictions of their model to a simple test like that, don't believe the model. In other words, we as members of the public can give incentives with regard to predictions that we can't give with regard to model building, or more generally scientific research as a whole.

> you can always either make the model vague enough or shape, manipulate, skew, explain away the subsequent measurements enough to get a "good predictive track record".

You can only fake tests that aren't real tests anyway. You can't fake something like GPS working: either it consistently tells you where you are correctly, or it doesn't. So that's the kind of tests that should be required before members of the public accept the claims of any scientific model.
> As a buisness owner i may refuse some one/entitiy service, it is how the free market works.

Can a business in the US refuse you service if you're gay / black ?

Same argument applies.
I don't know HN's view of Opera, but I've been using it for more than a year and really like it. It's chromium based and can use any plugin from the chrome store. It also has a lot of useful features (PIP video window, sidebar messengers, dev tools, dark mode, workspaces)
Being a public website is not a "bug".

Being able to see deleted posts and download deleted videos is a bug.

I consider a bug also not stripping metadata from videos and images on upload.
Sadly it's true, and not uncommon. It's possible your experience is different though, and I get that. My cousin always had issues this is just the latest thing he's latched onto.
"just like I wouldn't bat an eye for AWS taking down an ISIS recruitment site, I don't really see any loss here."

There were about 10 million people on Parler before it was taken down. If you really think its comporable to an ISIS recruitment site, we got a much, much bigger problem here.
We’d be much happier with Astra-Zeneca.
I feel like erotic, kink and LGBTQ+ communities got hit with all the new rules. Over the last few years they've been kicked out of Tumblr, now Instagram, Twitch and Youtube aren't really happy with non PG13 content, Apple refusing to publish Fetlife app for years or Onlyfans, Pornhub deleting all content from non-partners and so on...

Honestly feels like just companies are trying to maximize their profits and "don't be evil" became just an old memory.
Fair point Dang, and it seems it's been flagged twice so the community has spoken and I'm fine to abide by that. :)
We are not avoiding doctors or dentists. We just don't want to take our baby with this makes scheduling quite difficult. Covid can be dangerous with 0 pre-existing conditions. I'm not talking about survival rates here. Many are having ongoing issues with breathing months after covid.

If every individual did only the essential things, and cut down on unnecessary contact, US would not be where it is today.
I do this too. It makes it obvious exactly what line you are working on last and makes it impossible to continue without revisiting that line.
Banning intolerant behavior means that whoever screams 'Intolerance!' the loudest wins
"Blood levels of drugs that are differentially absorbed in the stomach and small intestine may vary unpredictably depending on whether they are taken during digestive or interdigestive phases, when mechanisms of gastric emptying are different - this is reflected in the recommendation accompanying many drugs to ingest before or with meals."
I guess this is a wave of WhatsUp-privacy-gate
Yeah, and if you can't find an ISP that will allow your physical servers internet access you can always start your own ISP...
See Trope 9: "This speech may be protected for now, but the law is always changing."

TLDR: yeah, the law can change, but it's highly unlikely because "the United States Supreme Court has been more consistently protective of free speech than of any other right, especially in the face of media sensibilities about "harmful" words"

[1] https://www.popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-...
I didn't read the comment as an opinion. What they wrote is a common misunderstanding of section 230 that, these days, is being promulgated by defenders of Parler.
Study: Virus cases in Israel down by 33% among vaccinated, after first shot
Sounds interesting. Do you have a link with more info about these things?
I am honestly so tired of this hand wringing over calling things what they are.

It's going to be uncomfortable but this isn't as simple as pro-life and pro-choice. This is about the very nature of our country and a party wanting to throw it all out.

If you are uncomfortable with an employee saying the truth (Many seditionists wore Nazi / white supremacist apparel and were carrying Confederate flags!), you should examine your own beliefs and whether you are either a white supremacist or a sympathizer.

This isn't about being "alarmist" or a "snowflake liberal", this about saying what we _literally_ see. That's a Nazi flag, that's a Nazi; "those are Nazis". Pretending like we all need to hold hands and coddle _literal Nazis' feelings_ is absurdist and socially + morally wrong.

If you are uncomfortable with, again, LITERAL Neo-Nazis and white supremacists being called what they are, you should be the one getting fired.
I can't agree with this essay more.

In the early days of the Ethereum community a lot of open coordination was done on reddit and a threaded forum hosted on Vanilla Forums. Initially for privacy and convenience, Skype, gitter, Discord, and Telegram began to take hold, and later became the primary place for open, public discussions and some decision-making as well.

Threaded forums were still used but not central. It was a difficult era (but a lot of work still moved forward)! There emerged a kind of opacity due to ability to put attention on real-time threads, and IMO sometimes key voices were missing because they could not weigh in effectively.

What changed the dynamic was the introduction of Discourse for the critical https://ethresear.ch discussions (set up by Virgil Griffith), and later https://ethereum-magicians.org (something I worked on). I was pushing for threaded at the time because of experiences I had here on Hacker News, reddit, and Slashdot. The person I collaborated with, Greg Colvin, wanted discussions like the threaded emails he was used to from the IETF and c++ communities.

We each knew from long experiences dealing with coordinating on tech issue remotely that the quality of the message is the medium.

From those successful experiments / re-introductions, many teams then began to adopt and host Discourse instances. Later, DeFi picked it up for their governance / coordination discussions. Of course, real-time never went away, with more gravitating toward Telegram and Discord. But tracing the emerging thinking, hashing out differences on what to do, and re-activating stale discussions improved a lot.

Threaded discussions are a core part of the community and work again.
The biggest challenge is avoiding the tricks from languages that allow you to use the language to paper over questionable design choices. Go requires that you get the design right up front and provides few escape hatches to save you if you mess up. Which is a good thing, but makes the language (not just the syntax) difficult to learn compared to others.
Not only illicit substances but also fuel theft, extortion, kidnappings, etc.

Many forms of crime going on there and the rate at which crimes get resolved by low enforcement is low.
It's not just difficulty- it's really not a good thing for anybody if you have three different sewers and four different electrical service lines running to your house. It's expensive, wasteful, a mess, and can even degrade quality of service.

But a variety of app stores or payment processors functioning over a common carrier (ISP, USPS) is a good thing.
Except you can only find stuff by spelunking with search, hoping you hit on the right set of keywords and then scrolling through a jumbled mess of hits. Wikis are organized and have navigation. Also being at a company that uses email and Slack, I will say it is very very rare that anyone actually uses Slack to search for conversations they weren't in. Email has other weaknesses of course but in general I agree with the point that Slack is actually worse in many use cases.
> just fucking use email.

I get you. But also:

- Email doesn't retain context very well. If I dig back through my email I might have all of the emails in a thread, or maybe not.

- Likewise, I can't send someone a link to a previous emailed conversation so it makes for poor documentation. I can forward an individual email, but not the comment in context.

- Email is not easy to index or post up for reference. You can't link it from a wiki or other documentation for example.

An internal mailing list with archiving would solve many of these issues and might be the best option, but it's a slightly different solution.
> It's the difference of having a group of terrorists[0] in your restaurant everyday audibly planning a terrorist attack versus being the site of a message drop that occurs discreetly.

If we are making a restaurant analogy, I think a more accurate one is that the restaurant provides a sound proof room where a group can enter and discuss anything they want without anybody overhearing. The restaurant does not know what anybody uses that room for. It could be people planning a birthday surprise, it could be a group of terrorists.
"In the same way you can legally remove people from your home that you don't want in there" -> I agree with you in principle, but this is the type of thing where the principle doesn't generalize at every level of scale, and at a big enough scale it becomes problematic.

Let's consider the other extreme with a fictional corporation "MEGA INC", which suppose owns all web hosting, all ISPs. Let's also throw in that they have a monopoly over paper production and publishing. Now, do you think your argument that "this private entity can do whatever it wants" is problematic? I should hope so.

I'm not making the case that it's black/white and that this situation with Big Tech is equivalent to MEGA INC. But, it's not that our free speech rights are binary. My point is simply that we're somewhere along the spectrum spanning "private home" <-> "MEGA INC", and at this point rights are actually being diminished because of the oligopolistic nature of a significant corner where discourse happens.

So, unfortunately, I think it's a nuanced situation that's not easily reduced to a simplistic principle such as what you've stated. We have clear principles to reason about the extremes, but it's hard to make an argument in the hairy middle because both can be made to apply.
Within 30 seconds of signing up for Vantage I discovered an old unused EC2 instance I was still paying $17/month for. This made me realize how weirdly hard it is to see a usable cost breakdown by resource on AWS...converted :)
Understandable. If you do not engage in their conversations how are they to know you are there.
Rather digging The Onion's coverage of this one!

https://politics.theonion.com/hundreds-of-gop-legislators-cr...

https://politics.theonion.com/conservatives-accuse-nature-of...
> People will praise the Arab Spring organizing on Twitter without considering the implications for the events at the Capital on Jan 6th.

This is a great point. It's also key to consider that some of the groups that praised the Arab Spring were the Obama State Department which was led by Hillary Clinton at the time.

It appears the threshold is "support violent insurrection in other countries but stamp out the discussion of it here".
America is so blinded by their love of free speech they fail to see that most countries operate quite well with modest limits on speech. If American style free speech were so great the country would not be tearing itself apart as we speak.
Our email has a 90 day retention window, and Slack is permanent. We're the largest in our industry.
generics in go will be a great addition, also it is important to realize generics in java and go are different such that go uses structural typing vs nominal
That’s not no dependencies, it’s two direct dependencies, one of which is crossvent, which is 2.2kB of stuff that’s mostly not used (only around 0.6kB of it is used).

There are also a couple more transitive dependencies.

But the 9.8kB figure does include all the dependencies.

I actively hate spending bytes supporting IE (and especially such ancient versions as IE7), and if necessary maintain forks of any libraries I use to avoid doing so; so I tried ripping out IE support along with crossvent and a few obsolete and/or bad abstractions, and quickly got it down to 7kB minified, and I expect one so inclined could shrink it further. (The crossvent part can be done in two minutes, it’s that simple.)

I should really make a feature of this kind of thing on my blog, I enjoy doing it so much.
> Parler was providing material support to terrorists

So is Twitter, by having Iranian leaders account left alone.
In-the-Wild Series: Chrome Exploits
Some of these are solved by things like a corporate NNTP server or mailing lists, right?
I tried Mumble but it was lacking in something, maybe the push to talk did not work properly or the echo cancellation was not working? I can't really remember now.
Nvidia: RTX 3060 graphics card for $329
There are two possibilities:

1. There are people who like to create complex analysis/structure around their lives. I don't say they are unnecessarily complicating their lives, because that's part of their personality. So, yes, you are correct. An double-entry ledger doesn't add much insights.

2. After $200k/year income and $1m+ wealth, and if your wealth is very diversified (inherently complex), then I can see the value in it. ie: An engineer with $200k has less complexity than a freelance with $200k/year. At a certain point the freelance will benefit from an accountant, but maybe he's running some stuff in the dark economy or something.
even if that's true (it is and it isn't, but the pedantry isn't important), what you're saying is effectively is that a duopoly over mobile devices is the same as a monopoly over the internet.

that's patently untrue. it's untrue in the simplistic sense that you can access the internet with non-mobile technology, and its even untrue in the slightly less simplistic sense that an organization can provides its online presence as a website (gasp!) so as to avoid the need to have an app available on corporately-controlled stores.
Is this responsive to my comment? I am asking whether there are examples of posts of the kind that Amazon asked Parler to take down (clear incitement to violence / glorification of terrorism), which another service hosted on AWS has refused to take down when made aware of them? I don't know whether there are or aren't, which is why I'm asking. Your comment does not answer this question.
Headline is a bit funky calling it "Covid-19 vaccine's tech", since this tech has been studied and tested for many other applications.

It seems backwards... Covid-19 vaccine is an instance of this technology, the technology is not a derivative of what they did in Covid-19 vaccine.