skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some comments here that note that sci-hub or Aaron's action on JSTOR data is/was illegal.

Just leaving this thought out here -- if laws are considered unjust, it is ok, even noble, to break them. That is how one got rid of apartheid, how colonies became independent and LGBT marriages came to be legally recognized.

If not for lawbreakers we would still be living in a world that approves of Turing's treatment post war.
I'm in the same boat as you - I'm glad parler is gone but I go back and forth on the implications of the ability of a few to silence so many - the most reasonable way I've come to think of it is if David Duke (huge racist scumbag) suddenly wanted to go on CNN and speak for an hour once a week - should CNN let him? You wouldn't think twice about it, you'd likely think - why would CNN have to comply? It's not a perfect analogy, but that's the best way I've been able to think of it.
In the end, it's lose-lose for non fascists. While we're all debating whether there was overreach and or if it should be mitigated, actual fascists are regrouping and planning their next assault.
If you are on the no fly list of an airline, aren’t you free to buy your own B787, get a pilot license, get the relevant airport slots and authorisations and go fly by yourself anywhere you want? I mean in theory yes.
You think they don't want to implement it in the US?
Thanks for pointing out! Confirmed and removed it.

FTR: total employee number is 130k. 700/130000 = 0.054
From what I understand, the drivers license photo was required to have your account verified, someone was talking about this here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25730344
The relevant question is about Twitter/FB at a similar development stage. Now, they have all kinds of moderation algorithms and employees, so it's not really a fair comparison.
Two possible counterpoints / additions to this:

1. I still believe that lies started the legitimate belief. E.g. republican leaders like Trump lied about election fraud, convincing many that a problem exists which does not. Perhaps we might call that propaganda, or disinformation. So if we are to address the source of this problem, we cannot avoid the root lies which started the whole thing.

2. I believe that many have found it exceedingly difficult to refute the arguments of some of these folk, simply because they often do not approach these conversations in good faith. There is certainly a personality cult around Trump which many have been sucked into. It's not as simple as just "convincing" a cult member that they are logically or empirically wrong.

Is it acceptable for someone to be a cult member? Sure, absolutely. One can believe whatever they wish, as is their right. The problem happens when these beliefs become mostly violent and criminal. From what I gather, many have been taking this propaganda and turning it into a campaign to execute political leaders.

My take on the current problem is that people and companies are distancing themselves from the violent aspect of the far-right movement. This includes websites which are radicalizing people (Parler), and the leaders who are incentivizing the behavior (Trump). I find this a good thing -- these are sources of the lies.

No one is throwing people in jail for believing the election could be more secure. This does not prevent someone from having questions about the election, or conversations about it with people around them. It's not going to get you banned from reddit, or hackernews. Maybe you'll get downvoted because the questions (from my point of view) have been very thoroughly answered and debunked at this point, so to not know that might demonstrate that you haven't done much research on the topic, or are just ignoring the answers.
Maybe Facebook should change their policies instead of their clothes.
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Ostrich effect at work. He joined a whole 4-5 months later.

> Ohanian launched Reddit in June 2005.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit

> When Infogami failed to find further funding, Y-Combinator organizers suggested that Infogami merge with Reddit,[32][33] which it did in November 2005, resulting in the formation of a new firm, Not a Bug, devoted to promoting both products.[32][34] As a result of this merger, Swartz was given the title of co-founder of Reddit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
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PG&E is a private company, and I’m pretty sure they owe me service as long as I pay my bill. I could be totally wrong. Who even knows anymore.
"Opposing this shit on the ground" is why we're in this nightmare in the first place. Imagine if there had been counterprotestors "opposing this shit on the ground" at the Capitol insurrection: we'd probably be pretty fucking close to a civil war right now instead of near universal condemnation of the extremist forces.

If you have anything to do with "opposing this shit on the ground", please fucking stop. You are accomplishing less than nothing.
2.5” SATA drives are dead for laptops. Only the really cheap/slow ones still have them, and that’s not the market for this kind of device.

We’re lucky that we still have removable M.2 SSDs at all. It looks like devices will be moving to fully soldered storage in the next few years.
i'm curious if this phenomenon has existed during previous elections. for example, is this a normal event when compared to previous elections or is this type of activity indeed suspicious.

from the article you linked:

> The one thing the time-trend line should never do is drop, which would mean that votes are disappearing from Trump's tally.

> That's exactly what happened. In at least 15 counties, according to the Epoch Times story, Trump lost in-person votes, while he lost absentee votes in three other countries. The total result was staggering:

> At least 432,116 votes — 213,707 election day votes and 218,409 absentee votes — were removed in total.
> Living in the Suburbs has many benefits. Larger homes, backyards and is safer for kids to run around. All valid reasons to chose them. Lets not try and change people, but work with their preferences.

No one will need to try and change people, they will be forced to change once the budget deficits force their hand. The ones that can may move to a new jurisdiction and start the game over.

I also would not say kids are safer in suburbs. Lots of car traffic, lots of big roads to cross, lots of big cars since why not buy an SUV/pickup.
"Data wants to be free and should be" has been the rallying cry of software pirates since I've been in high school. It might have struck a nerve in a group of people who make money off of the sale of software.

I'm not discounting how valuable open research is to society as a whole. I'm not even arguing that, as a moral right, the research should be freely available! I'm just not seeing a technical path there that doesn't retroactively unassign publishing rights to all past papers. And I don't see how a change in political administration makes it any easier to convince rich people to give up money.

I'm not even convinced the government should take action here - CS work is done on arxiv, so it's not even as if Elsevier provides a useful service in distribution. Why are authors continuing to publish in Nature when they could put a PDF up anywhere? that's what we need to address.
This already exists. Apple processes can bypass app-specific filters (NEFilterDataProvider), but not system-wide firewalls (like the built-in BPF), VPN configurations, etc.
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Generally services look at each other when deciding to ban things.
> If Rosa Parks didn't like sitting in the back of the bus,

Buses are run by governments. And Rosa Parks wasn't advocating throwing molotov cocktails at bus drivers, she sat in the wrong damn seat in an act of civil disobedience.

> If GMC wouldn't sell her a bus,

It'd be great if GMC would refuse selling vehicles to insurrectionist militias, IMHO.

Your analogies aren't doing any good here.
Read into Georgism, I think that those communities might interest you
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Wikipedia has a summary of the history of this shitshow:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_between_Airbus_and...
Ask HN: Firefox VPN or Mullvad?
Like many I've been waiting for Mozilla to start providing useful services for which I can pay.

Firefox VPN is now available in my country but upon closer inspection I can see that they use Mullvad under-the-hood.

This is great! I'm a very happy Mullvad customer - but I'd like to know other peoples thoughts on using Mullvad through Firefox VPN - the price is the same - what cut do Mozilla take? is this detrimental to Mullvad?

I'm guessing Mullvad wouldn't have cut the deal if they weren't to benefit from it - so maybe I'm overthinking and should use this opportunity to put a percentage of my monthly $5 in mozilla's pocket as well
Exactly this + Spotify.
IIUC the goal of the Alabama factory is to work around the existing tarifs on shipping planes to the US. Instead of shipping the planes, Airbus ships the parts, and assembles them in the US, thus avoiding the plane tarifs. So now there are tariffs on "plane parts".

Maybe they'll just stop doing this, close the factory, and ship whole planes from the EU again. Depends what the difference is in the plane and plane parts tariff, and whats more worth it.
Finally someone gets it: "No authoritarians believe they are authoritarians."
I still remember the first donation I received from my project [1] back in 2017, yeah it felt amazing. The person who donated also sent me an email with subject "much thanks".

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> in an ideal world, we have laws applied even handedly to deal with this

We have laws protecting people from discrimination based on race, sexuality, etc. A grocery store can't refuse to serve people by race. Maybe we should expand these protected classes and make sure they apply to Internet businesses as well. I don't think we will (or should) expand them in such a way that Parler would be included, though.
Actually it’s remarkably cheap considering the environmental impacts.
Facebook has many more rules about what content can and cannot be posted than the law requires. A public utility wouldn't even need a Terms of Service page.
have thought about doing not-quite this with a western electric touch-tone capable beige deskphone - anyone have any feedback on good/simple VoIP providers/software for personal use (like 1-2 phone numbers + self hosted PBX/voicemail, remote access over VPN from softphone app a plus)?
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Same here. This makes me very happy.
Nothing stopping them from fabricating their own silicon too, right? How far down this hole till we reach the bottom?

I wonder if this was the same sort of argument used to justify denying minorities homes / home loans? "Well they're free to build their own house!" "Well they're free to cut their own lumber!" "Well they're free to forge their own hammers!" "Well they're free to..."
It would be an interesting social experiment to see what happens if twitter turned itself off worldwide for a week.
Honestly, where on earth have you people been? Tech companies have been "censoring" all sorts of people they deem undesirable for years, why is it the literal terrorist white supremacists that caused everyone to sit up and notice?
My understanding was that planning was happening on multiple social media sites, notably Facebook.
I don't. However, their site and the statements I've read from them don't mention anything about that, while certainly being very outspoken about pretty much all other issues related to Alphabet. It almost seems as if they've knowingly avoided that particular issue altogether.

They're welcome to prove me wrong.
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The other comment mentions tests, but I'd like to that to that. The reason why it's impossible for anyone, even the single greatest programmer on the planet, to not create bugs, is due to the high complexity of the software we write. It's not so much that you'll make a mistake when creating a new program. It's that over time, as you make more and more changes, it's impossible to actually trace out the exponential complexity that arises from your changes.

The purpose of unit tests is to catch these, and yes as you mention lower down even those aren't 100% infallible but they greatly help. That's why even with some of the greatest programmers and extensive testing, we still constantly see major bugs from every single top tech company. I don't think there exists a single completely bug-free software of non-negligible size out there.
Has anyone used this? If so, how?

The ReadMe says to 'Build and install this version of the Signal App and import the encrypted Backup of your signal messages.', so I am assuming we would have to build it but there are no instructions/steps on how to actually do that.

I have been struggling to get my family all moved over but if they have access to their old messages (so I might have to do this for multiple people), that might make it easier to convince them.
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The stupidest possible take on things always seems to rise to the top of social media.

First, I fully agree that the entire mobile ecosystem is walled-garden first. That should be addressed to a greater degree than sideloading apps on android. Second, the idea that this is 'monopolistic' seems deeply silly. Parler isn't offline because Amazon, the only provider of web services, told them to get off the internet. It's offline because Amazon and most of their specialized service providers (twilio, etc) kicked them off as well as all of those service providers' competitors. This is not an example of monopolistic power. It's an example of an entire industry choosing to reject a company they find odious. This is very similar to what happened with Stormfront some years ago[1].

Still, this is troubling. I feel like it's reasonable to see Parler as acting in bad faith. It seems to me like they knowingly fostered an environment that would lead to militants using the service to plan attacks. I think they protest too much.

I also think that hosting truly "free" speech in an ethical way is enormously, obviously difficult. Threats are genuinely hard to evaluate and must be taken seriously. Mass communication has been at the center of all the modern genocides (and early forms of communication were key to the older ones). I think this is the discussion we should be having - what is the "right" way to create a space where people are save to speak? How could Parler have existed to allow people to speak their minds while preventing the platform from providing aid to violent hate groups? I suspect it's impossible to allow people to speak freely about their belief that other people are not human without fomenting violence but it's clear that not everyone agrees with that and I think we need to talk about it.

P.s. Quite sad to see that Greenwald has descended into red-faced sputtering grievance-listing. I agree that the moral case for shutting down Parler and shutting down Facebook is the same. I think both should be shut down for fomenting and planning violence. We can reopen both of them when we figure out how to more effectively stop their use in violence. I didn't even need ten paragraphs to say it.

[1] https://slate.com/technology/2017/08/stormfront-has-been-kic...
Right, but learning and memorising multiple terms for the same thing has a cost. Maybe that cost is outweighed by the benefits of making terminology less sexist, that is what I'm unsure about.
If the whole Covid situation taught us something it's that we need to be more independent of other countries and encourage local production of many goods. Tariffs sound like an easy way to do just that. Tax imports, help local producers. I don't see the problem tbh. All those free trade models ignore the scenario of everyone getting dependent on one exporter and then that exporter either going rouge or having problems and not being able to meet the demand anymore.

I am very surprised by tariffs = war sentiment. It's just a way to have some protectionism. It works and is needed. Where is the problem?
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Yeah seriously. Also why are they so overly concerned with US elections but not concerned with the elections of 100 other democracies in the world?
There’s absolutely nothing “monopolistic” about any of this.

Greenwald is a conspiratorial loon.
I cannot help but suspect that such a move would go down in history books as the reigning champion of Reasonable-Sounding Laws With Terrible Consequences.
I think it's a great thought.

Theoretically speaking I'm sure non profits can really use PM's to build scalable solutions.

But I doubt there are PM's who seek such opportunities
>gun store not selling rounds to the guy who keeps talking about insurrection

Yes, imagine a small town, and there's a guy known for always ranting about the coming insurrection, pedophile conspiracies, how "The Great Awakening" is near... then one day he walks into the town gun store and asks to buy a bunch of AR-15s and a ton of ammo, and the owner of the store says: "Hmm... no."
Republicans have been voicing their views on the election since November, and countless refutations have been made for many if not all of their claims. I'm not arguing for suppression, but it's clear that many people are not interested in changing their minds.

Calling the average voter-fraud-believing American a liar is obviously counterproductive. But that's not the same as a politician who should know better and doesn't appear to be operating in good faith.
This is defense in depth. We are way too lenient on the people who are not safe enough to be in society IMO, so it's good to have another mechanism. Recently, it's even worse than it's used to be... e.g. in Seattle they quickly release people back onto the streets after multiple separate violent assaults.

I think the incarceration for drug crimes and such should be stopped, but I am also a-ok with stigma following repeated and/or violent crime. I personally think people who have repeatedly shown to be too dangerous to live in society should never be released into said society, but if that mechanism is broken due to "compassion", at least I prefer to never interact with them.
> Parler was a hate site, filled with conspiracy theories, radicalization and racism

And so is Facebook. And Twitter. And YouTube.

And so what? If you don’t like that stuff, you are free to not use services that you don’t like.
Is this a cry for help? :)
I hope that HN doesn't add anything. It's great just the way it is.

People can certainly add whatever they want with browser extensions, though.
For all of Lenovo’s sins on the consumer lines, the Thinkpads have continued to have exemplary driver support under Linux.
I'm 25 and had to use reader mode for this site, never seen a site this bad before
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Seems like you could do something with ebpf but how would you deal with the notifications in a cli env... special tty you connect to via tmux/screen?
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Facebook has just time and time again proven that their word means nothing and any trust put in them is misplaced.
Some tweets wont change that.
Twitter is not the town square since real town squares are owned by the State. They are public spaces for all and, let me point out, that you usually need a permit to speak or have a rally. So they are not that free as everyone thinks.

Twitter is more like a mall owned by a large corporation and while there is some trouble there, they will kick people off the property that are too offensive. If you try to start an insurrection at a mall, you will be kicked out and banned.

It is in Twitters and mall owners best interest to start insurrections on their properties because there will be ramifications for allowing that to happen, that is not good for business.
I’m more interested in https://rockylinux.org/ from the former centos people.
This is really interesting.

"ExaGear is a dynamic binary translation layer to run x86_32 and x86_64 applications on Arm 64-bit Linux systems."

Couldn't this eventually be used in combination with Asahi Linux (project aiming to run Linux on Apple M1)? That would be incredible. Too bad it's from Huawei and doesn't seem to be open source though? I'm unable to find any additional information about this.
I haven't used Facebook for like 2 years, but I regularly get my news from HN
My cynical view is that these laws are working as intended.