skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've come down to a "both things are true" position on this.

Parler is absolutely guilty of violating TOS because as near as I can tell the entire purpose of Parler was to facilitate this kind of discussion.

That being said, there is a double standard at work as well. The fascist movement we're discussing here probably would not exist were it not for the YouTube recommendation algorithm, which in an effort to keep people on the site has a powerful "rabbit hole" effect. Twitter has also been full of propaganda for years, and only recently have they put forth much effort to do anything about it... because they were making money off the attention it brought to the platform. Nothing happens to these companies because they are bigger, have more money, and own their own infrastructure.
Completely agree. Apple has nothing but contempt for its developers, and treats them like indentured servants. "Oh it took 10 years to get your app working right? Well, it doesn't work right anymore after yesterday's patch."
Twitter definitely made moves to crack down on this stuff (after all, that's why Parler thinks it was poised to gain a lot of traffic). Parler complains about the "Hang Mike Pence" hashtag, but omits the fact that Twitter in fact did kill the hashtag.

Parler's sin was basically to attempt no moderation whatsoever, and even after it was clear that several individuals intended to make good on their threats (see the invasion of the Capitol), did not seem to be willing to make any serious attempts to moderate content. See ¶6 of https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.294664... for some discussion.

(Note that the executive's name in that declaration is redacted because (s)he is legitimately concerned for violence should their name be made available to the public.)
The reasons listed are grouped as "code review" or "stack overflow", places where I would usually want to help, and having a list of pre-written mistakes to copy-paste might be usefull.

But the first half of the webpage only talk about communities in general, so I first assumed this was meant to be used on places like hackernews and reddit, places where downvotes most of the time mean:
"you are an idiot/troll, I'm downvoting this to save other people from having to read this garbage."

A situation where I really don't want to help the poster...
Yes, in contrast to the upvote, the downvote button is overloaded: it can signify disagreement, or it can signify a violation of community standards. I think the former is a poor use of the downvote, as it adds little or no value. What good is it to say you disagree with something, if you offer no reasoning? The whole point of a discussion site like HN is to explore ideas and learn. Downvoting to disagree does nothing to further the goals of the site.

I think HN would be improved by simply eliminating the downvote entirely and rely on upvoting alone, as the parent suggests.
In fact I believe I do. I just checked it again, and they have exactly the same (or higher) prices as major competitors (MEGA, Dropbox, OneDrive, Backblaze).
It's not so much that he has intentionally incited violence - I don't actually think that's the case. It's that he's been engaging in political brinkmanship for some time now, and in the process become a spiritual leader to an extremist faction which caused violence.

To allow him to continue to engage in that same brinkmanship after violence has already occurred is allowing him to continue inciting violence, unintentional as it may be.
The slide deck provides the answer. (and that page too)
> They put in about 4hrs each day and the learning experience seemed so much better, even though it took more effort from us as parents.

This describes typical homeschooling in the US before the lockdown. Except in the case of actual homeschooling, you get to pick the curriculum that's appropriate for your children.

Most public schooling is mindless busy work. Often it's poorly designed and confusing. It doesn't need to be this way. Once a child is able to read and write, they should be able to comprehend most instructions with little supervision.
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The same could be argued for tic-tac-toe (which is obviously and trivially solved). There are many positions in which there's more than one move that is perfectly playable.
I have the same problem and I have an adsense account attached to one of those addresses. I have no idea how much is in there but it grates me that I have no way to recover the password even though I literally read every email that comes into that address. And maybe worse than that, Google will pocket whatever money I made because I can't access the account any more. Gah!
in addition, pardon anyone who participated in riots throughout 2020, unless they killed or maimed someone directly.
I didn't measure the size, but it loaded in 4 seconds here in Chrome on Ubuntu, via VDSL.
Why verbally?

Would the ability to take an exam without sitting the course satisfy you?
The company is nowhere near failing. It's just not necessary to be as big as it is.

Dropbox still has the best sync technology by far, however they failed to really capitalize on a single market. The consumer side cares more about value and it's hard to compete with Microsoft/Apple/Google while the business side is already well-served by Box.com.

I still think there's a good opportunity if they can build on storage to create applications like Asana/Airtable/Notion/Slack but that seems to have failed with the Paper experiment and the strange "dropbox" app window that opens instead of a file explorer.
Non-amp link:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lenin-mushroom-hoax-ru...
Yeah I think the 90s had some things right but the added compute power and storage will be a game changer I think
> It's been suggested you should make them equal in terms of watts of power, or dollar cost to buy, but neither of those are obviously best.

Do they give these computers a rating like they do human players?
Agreed. This site is one of the few places I trust for holistic discussion. It is VERY hard to find the quality of HN’s discourse on Reddit.
>But most importantly, a complete failure of vision and innovation.

I dream of the day when people will link the "Why use Dropbox when you can just..." HackerNews comment unironically.

People like to do the "success!" victory laps quite early. There's more to success than a cool product and insiders getting to exit wealthy. I think this is still a yet-to-be-seen situation.
Pretty damming to Bob Swan when a $200B market cap company jumps +8% on news that you are stepping down.
You can use command-line hledger to produce the appropriate balance report data as CSV, suitable for gnuplot (or drag into a spreadsheet and use the charting tools there).
Just a historical note, from 1964, a book by Buckminster Fuller: Education Automation: Freeing the scholar to return to his studies

Even back then we had the technology and opportunity to do this. The gist: get the best (most captivating) teachers (perhaps coached by the best researchers) and record them / broadcast them to students.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Education-Automation-Freeing-scholar-...
A major advantage of dropbox is that it works everywhere. There is quite a change that wouldn't be the case had Apple bought them.
Airbnb to Block and Cancel D.C. Reservations During Inauguration
WRT3200ACM is the modern incarnation.
It'd be cool to have the Haskell feature of putting backticks around a binary function so you can use it infix, e.g.:

((A `mmul` B) `mvmul` (a `vdot` b) * c) `vadd` d

Still not as nice as operators, but not terrible either.
Parler Is Gone
Not sure how any of this justifies the forced sterilization and forced labor and reeducation camps. Nobody cares about this other nonsense.
Things changed in direct response to the warning. That is exactly how it is supposed to go.

People who don't know insist too that Y2K was a big nothing, but it was nothing only because of $billions spent to ensure that it would be.

People who don't know say the same about whales, acid rain and stratospheric ozone. Same thing: global effort, crisis reduced, although further effort needed.

2038 still looms, but much has been done already.
I'd love a "favorite" or "save" for comments too.
i mean...he could have tried to drink the tea or eat the mushrooms first. i understand the desperation. i do and have great empathy for him.

but unfortunately, i know have even greater empathy for him, b/c he made a really dumb choice.
Author did not shown that "abundance of choice" caused people to gain weight or that it caused lack of healthy restaurants in that parking lot.

Based on article, there was no healthy choice available.
I struggle to understand how it is not a way to remove a competitor and move the spotlight from those companies doing a good deed vs the black duck being parler.

Twitter let ISIS terrorists post beadings and murders on its platform. A simple search on any racial keyword will show plenty of hatred that is everywhere on its platform.
Facebook, not even talking about what they do, the way they use data, advertise, and leave content that is racist/dangerous.

And now that parler jumps in without the $ of twitter and facebook and the process/software that took years for a FB to be able delete violent content then we censor them from the outside?

How about we censor google for doing business with china and promoting censorship? Id say that is a good enough argument for the US governement to nationalize google and remove them from their monopoly.
> It's convenient that companies can do more than one thing at a time.

where is the other thing though? I don't see what they are doing about issues I mentioned.
Amazon takes on edtech cos Byjus, Unacademy with launch of Amazon Academy
Non-AMP link: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lenin-mushroom-hoax-ru...
> The other side of is that what made Dropbox amazing at the beginning, the ability to sync files with direct access on your computer, is actually now a detriment

I disagree; file syncing is still exactly what I want. Disk space has gotten exponentially cheaper over the years, and at the same time the amount of bulk media that people store as personal files has been dramatically cut down thanks to streaming services for music and video. I don't mind at all having my entire Dropbox mirrored across my devices; it holds basically every local file I care about, and having a local copy also gives me some peace of mind in case I ever get locked out of my account or something (which Google in particular has become notorious for). You can also, now, select subdirectories that you want to exclude from the current device. At the same time, having it in the cloud means I don't have to worry if my hard drive dies. Any file that I've thoughtlessly kept there while working on it is safe by default.

Maybe the story would be different if I ever created classical "documents" and could benefit from Office 365 or Google Docs, but I don't, and so having a cloud-first storage "drive" that primarily holds things which integrate with that particular cloud service isn't very useful to me.

> But their growth chasing leads to a degraded user experience

You're right that parts of the product have gotten distracted/annoying by trying to build out new differentiators. But the core product (file syncing and backup) still works much better than competitors, and it's not hard to simply ignore the new stuff.

Also, perhaps most importantly: I use products from multiple tech giants, and all three major operating systems, and I specifically don't want my cloud storage to only integrate well with one of them. I want it to work equally well across everything. And Dropbox does, at least compared with the competition.
Any iPhone is 100x better at capturing footage of moving objects than any film camera was in decades past. Tech like autofocus, auto-exposure, automatic white balance, and vibration reduction algorithms mean anyone with a smartphone is better suited to capture strange phenomena than even the best photographers from the height of the 90s UFO craze.
Seems like a difference between between overthrowing fascist religious minority in power and preventing fascist religious minority from rising to power?

Electoral college picks the President but two elections on and no popular vote wins for Trump.

If we’re talking about suppression of speech, seems like Trump was keen on doing that as well, on the backs of a political minority.
Keycloak and Authelia try to solve everything at once. So you get user management, but you also need to use their template and plugin system (so Java for Keycloak) and you can't use a different OAuth2 provider because well - you use Keycloak. I really love the projects and they have their use cases - with Ory however, you simply pick what you need:

- Login, registration, mfa, user management, password change, account recovery, ... - Ory Kratos: http://github.com/ory/kratos

- Permission management, roles, who is allowed to do what - Ory Keto: http://github.com/ory/keto

- OAuth2, OpenID Connect Provider that you "connect" to your user management (e.g. Ory Kratos) - Ory Hydra: http://github.com/ory/hydra

- A "middleware" which checks if requests are authenticated (who is the caller?) and authorized (is the caller allowed to do that) - Ory Oathkeeper: http://github.com/ory/oathkeeper

It's a bit like lego where the other projects are more like the full car you buy. The car might use little fuel but it's slow and you can't change that. The lego parts you can combine any way you want.

Plus, Ory is written in Go and we aim for supporting planet-scale distributed data stores to support global deployments with low latency, and other cool stuff!

The last point, we are actually building out a cloud service (think CockroachCloud without the licensing issues), which means that you don't buy a support contract from IBM but instead get everything with a few clicks! Kinda like Auth0, Okta, or Firebase - but with everything open source (maybe like sentry.io?)
Vienna is an excellent example of housing that works. Friends of mine live there as not well paid artists and have beautiful, independent apartments, doing grand things with their lives. It's enviable.
Desperation doesn't make acts intelligent, just understandable.

Someone who wasn't stupid would have filtered the 'tea' better before injecting it to make sure it wouldn't cause sepsis, and organ failure. Or you know maybe drink the tea instead of injecting it into a vein.
Sure, but here the key word seems to be "corporate" and perhaps D&I, rather than social justice as a concept, which is much more all-encompassing, and includes stuff like pushing for a union, paying workers a living wage, as well as recognizing that racism is a real thing.
I wonder what class of device will accidentally go open source next. I think I vote robot vacuums.
am...am I a bot?!?!
It wasn't. A few years earlier, I was the product manager for a line of large NUMA systems which admittedly had far larger near-far memory latency differences than it was on multicore systems. Commercial Unix systems still could have issues for write-intensive workloads but Windows was pretty much unusable for configurations that had far memory. Things were likely better by the mid-2000s but Windows was definitely still behind Unix in this regard. (Don't really know where Linux was at that point but IBM at least had done work in OSDL on various scale-up optimizations.)
How about "I downvoted to increase the visibility of my answer relative to others to get more useless internet points."?
Google to pause political ads again ahead of inauguration
On what do you base this statement?

>> they want to work in a large century-old semi-government company
Dumb question 1: Why not do what Apollo for Reddit (and many other apps) does and add in-app "tips" and/or other purchases? With minimal UI support it'd be orders-of-magnitude more effective at raising money for WireGuard than a web link, regardless of Apple's markup.

Dumb question 2: Why isn't it a good idea to create a non-profit, or distribute via a partner non-profit, to reduce the App Store take to 0%? (Even without that, Apple's take would be 15% until the app hits $1 million in annual net sales there.)

I see people in the thread asking for special treatment for this (important and worthy, of course) project, which Apple obviously can't do that without creating a thousand other problems.
It's editorialized. The non-editorialized title of this post would be "Parler, LLC v. Amazon Web Services, Inc."
Can confirm, live with a bipolar spouse. It’s a nightmare.

If you don’t like the current mood, give it a few seconds.
Depends, if you install a statically linked version from a third party it won't create much headaches. That kind of is the point of vendoring and static linking: not making to much assumptions about what is there and what version it is in. Works great at the cost of a few extra MB, which in most cases is a complete non issue for the user.

Debian self-inflicts this breakage by trying to share libraries and dependencies between packages. That both locks you in to obsolete stuff and creates inflexibility. Third parties actively try to not have this problem. Debian is more flaky on this front than it technically needs to be.

Kind of the point of the article is that to vendor or not to vendor is a hot topic for Debian exactly because of this.
Downvotes are mostly weapons against people you don’t like.

Believe it or not, I once had a very high karma here on HN. Over time it has dwindled and been withered away by downvotes. Nearly every post I make these days seems to get downvotes now, even for fairly innocuous posts. I don’t get it. I am almost certain that I have now been targeted by some downvotes cabal, and perhaps the same individuals continue to downvotes my posts and then dig into my post history to find even more posts to downvote.

In my opinion, downvotes should not be anonymous. If someone disagrees with you then you should know their name. Instead, we have these forums where people hide like cowards while inflicting harm.
Existing is the first step. Prices will reduce in time -- probably quite rapidly.
Just be nice, is that hard? Well yes, it can be extremely hard for some who are stuck reentering a negative modality constantly.

If you struggle with impulsive thoughts, anger, rudeness, you may be in need of a change in your ways, habits, and mental health. Try diet, exercise, and clean living to help your body feel right, but also meditate and allow your skill of executive function to take over. This secretary of the mind will stop you in your tracks, reallocating attention into better pursuits.

I think the key is decoupling thoughts from behaviors. It's one thing to think, "implement this basic feature already you freshman noob." It's another to let that thought pass away, without typing or saying anything.

To practice this, meditation is a good start. It teaches the simple noticing of thoughts, and practices not acting on them. And don't beat yourself up btw, if I get mean thoughts, I just laugh it off and notice the primates' mind within me. We are running aggressive chimp software 2.0, it's not very refined! You can patch it with meditation and healthy living.
nothing, of course children shouldn't sexualize - however that is not what they were discussing. they were reinforcing the harmful & factitious association between being LGBTQ+ and "corruption" or whatever
If you see Dropbox as a service for managing files, and many of us do, then not being able to easily download the actual file is annoying. The client still won't let you set a preference for direct download links instead of dropbox preview links, the android client is basically useless and more and more the features added have no value to me as a user.
I honestly did not expect that either. It was a throwaway line about contrarianism.
In theory, that's how it works in practice. In practice, though, the shareholders have a lot less power than that: they only get to vote at the AGM, and that's very much a managed democracy - the managers being the C-suite, and the majority of shares held by institutional investors who will vote whatever way is recommended by the officers.
All AWS/GCP/Azure is tell you guys: build you damn infrastructure, learn how to install software and configure you routes.

If this is not clear, I do not know what is.
I still need to run an SSD off of a powered hub for an RPi to use it stably.
There is a similar quirk in the UK's tax code.

An employer can pay for medical checkups (which can run up to many ££££ full body medicals and scans - the works) without any tax implications for the employee or the business, but not for similar things being done as 'treatment' for something (unless it relates to an issue caused by or within the employment itself, like if you crushed an arm in a warehouse accident, say).
Interesting. It's almost exactly a modern mass shooting, just with an edged weapon. Nothing new under the sun after all.
It's worth pointing out the offensive content cited in the document:

* “Fry’em up. The whole fkn crew. #pelosi #aoc #thesquad #soros #gates #chuckschumer #hrc #obama #adamschiff #blm #antifa we are coming for you and you will know it.”

* “#JackDorsey ... you will die a bloody death alongside Mark Suckerturd [Zuckerberg].... It has been decided and plans are being put in place. Remember the photographs inside your home while you slept? Yes, that close. You will die a sudden death!”

* “We are going to fight in a civil War on Jan.20th, Form MILITIAS now and acquire targets.”

* “On January 20th we need to start systematicly [sic] assassinating [sic] #liberal leaders, liberal activists, #blm leaders and supporters, members of the #nba #nfl #mlb #nhl #mainstreammedia anchors and correspondents and #antifa. I already have a news worthy event planned.”

* “Shoot the police that protect these shitbag senators right in the head then make the senator grovel a bit before capping they ass.”

* “After the firing squads are done with the politicians the teachers are next.”

* “Death to @zuckerberg @realjeffbezos @jackdorsey @pichai.”

* “White people need to ignite their racial identity and rain down suffering and death
like a hurricane upon zionists.”

* “Put a target on these motherless trash [Antifa] they aren’t human taking one out
would be like stepping on a roach no different.”

* “We need to act like our forefathers did Kill [Black and Jewish people] all Leave
no victims or survivors.”

* “We are coming with our list we know where you live we know who you are and
we are coming for you and it starts on the 6th civil war... Lol if you will think it’s
a joke... Enjoy your last few days you have.”

* “This bitch [Stacey Abrams] will be good target practice for our beginners.”

* “This cu* [United States Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao] should be...
hung for betraying their country.”

* “Hang this mofo [Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger] today.”

* “HANG THAt N*** ASAP”

It's indefensible.
You have no one but the politicians to blame for handing over infrastructures over to private companies and yourself for allowing them to be voted in.
User retention. Keep people in the platform so they can't take their data. Force users to come back to dropbox again and again (to run up your engagement stats) instead of throwing the file over Slack or whatever.