skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're also willfully ignoring the fact that _just before_ those tweets the President had incited a violent insurrection

And we have a justice system to deal with insurrectionists and we have a democratic process with our elected representatives to remove leaders from office. This involves due process and respecting rights honed over 200 years of jurisprudence. It's not done in a corporate backroom by a couple executives with zero public accountability.

Would you be equally supportive if Twitter had deployed a private army of mercenaries to police the Capitol? What's happening here is the digital equivalent. You're busy thanking them because you support what they did. Some of us are stepping back and asking the question: wait, who controls these soldiers and what checks and balances are there on their power to police us? It turns out Twitter owns them and the checks and balances are none. If that doesn't concern you then you're missing the big picture.
What?

This starts with counting slaves as 3/5th a citizen, and thus letting states with slavery to increase their influence in the electoral college.

At no time has this been about "urban vs rural". It was a compromise to keep slave-money in the US.
Sorry, but I think you are being highly disingenuous. An ACTUAL equivalency would be a phone company throwing you off their phone system, while colluding with other phone companies and tech companies (not even related to the phone service) to also simultaneously ban you from using their services. Also, this is clearly politically targeted, while using words that hide this. Otherwise, please explain to me how all of them just up and decided to do this at once?

We as a society have said that is not ok for phone companies to do. Why are we making exceptions for what is now services that are holding a large portion, if not the majority, of online sites and services at this time?

Also, what evidence has been presented of illegal activity on this app and proof they were not following Section 230 law and refusing to remove it? How were they handling things differently from Twitter (or any social media site for that matter), who also has these problems with their service, and why is Twitter still able to be up? No, I don't mean AWS claims they weren't doing it. I want to know actual evidence. If the post exists, their should be screenshots of them still up now, no?

At this point, cloud services have gotten so large that they probably need to be regulated at this point as a public utility is.

To say AWS is the same as a rental/tenant relationship is laughable. If it was, there would be millions of different cloud services one could go to and this would be a non-issue. But, it clearly isn't close to the same.

Also, if illegal activity is being done (and this stuff was handled like a public utility, as frankly that is the size of these cloud services at this point), then that needs to be handled in a court of law.
Teams trying to enforce conversation threading in a (semi-)recent update pretty much put a halt to me and my coworkers using Teams for anything but voice for our morning sprints. Trying to follow even slow conversations in Teams is just way too much work, we instead chat on Telegram where chat works, you know, normally.

Luckily we were never in the habit of tracking anything through chat, we stick to our issue tracker, but I can absolutely imagine the frustration we'd have felt after that change had we relied more heavily on chat.
Yeah - you're right. I've got some angry snark going on here that isn't helping the discussion. I apologise.
You're welcome! I saw it and immediately thought it was something that a lot of people might find both interesting and useful. There are so many projects on the site that I want to try out, and I love the fact that it can grow organically as people choose to contribute new projects to it.

Amazing work on the awesome idea and on the execution! :)
Meanwhile on top of HN today:

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/pirated-academic-database-sc...
The whole story smells like a collection of idiots and imbeciles.
> No power was seized nor was attempted to be seized

How is interrupting the democratic certification of election results by one of the branches of government _not_ an attempt at seizing power from them?

They were only temporarily successful and largely an incompetent mob but it doesn't change what happened.
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I learned C as my first language and suggest it as first language. And I think it is relatively small language, (discounting all the different details open to implementation not covered in the spec).

One thing I would miss as a beginner is repl. Because, that is how I later learned bash with constant feedback and constantly tweaking the input code until the computer stops swearing at you. Also, it was really fun way to learn language, one small piece at a time. Other than that, I do not consider C to be a particularly hard language.

But, if your goal is to learn a language with modern OOP design, then you should go for python or ruby IMHO. It is much better than Java, (even to do anything you have to create a class with main with so many modifiers). I think that would the reason to learn python, because structuring the code is archaic or at least different from how other mainstream languages in C and can be a hurdle for newbie who want to scale up their programs.

I think good about python is being simple and also having features that are mainstream that translates various other mainstream languages. But, should I care about that as a newbie is an entirely different thing.

Edit : Added a comment regarding OOP
It's funny how history repeats but we don't learn. The most popular banana variety used to be the Gros Michel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana but it was almost completely wiped out by a fungus. Now the Cavendish that replaced it is also being wiped out by a fungus.
Your data is only as good as your instrumentation and you usually only get one chance to grab that data, but can have many goes at processing it, do I would argue the bit not covered is the most important.
things like this make me want to download whole sci-hub content, anyone knew the size of it?
Why is this on hacker news? This looks like a PR release by some random company I am hearing about for the first time, almost feels like a paid ad.
McDonald's and other businesses already do that all the time. If you threaten someone in the restaurant then the manager might refuse service, order you to leave, and barr you from ever returning. There's no due process.
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And for those downvoting me: I grew up in a town called Farmington. My family gets these big fat subsidies.

Which I sure do appreciate!

Doesn’t mean it’s not a tremendous distortion of the market and the environment.
(c) Some people using generics don't know what they are doing and would be much better off not doing so.
Totally agree, he's become a boot licker.
I'm no fan of the electoral college, but the highest ratio is only about a 3-4x difference comparing population vs electoral votes. Certainly not thousands of times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_Colleg...
Waterbearsheet?
It's a good question. Did the USSS do anything re: investigating Parler while it was still up on AWS? What did they do? Did they grab servers? Did they grab anything?
But there will always be a conflict because "engagement" is "annoyance".

Put another way, the sender's priorities are always different than the recipient's priorities.
That is fine, my problem is recently we have just be ignoring the constitution when it is deemed to be a problem

The fact remains the federal government has no constitutional authority nor do most state government.

If we need "pandemic response" authority then we need to amend the constition to add the power to the government not just simply declare it so because "The Experts™" have declared that is what is best for us.

if that is the measure of our rights, we have no rights at all. If rights can be stripped with a simple declaration of emergency, on which there is no power to challenge that declaration then we have no rights at all

To believe the government will not use this unprecedented event for which they have usurped a wide range of never used before power in ever increasing ways is naive and ignores all of human history.

It will not be long before the seasonal flu or cold will be enough to warrant draconian measure and limited on personal freedoms, or be used for privacy invading policies like contact tracing all the time (which will then be used for Law Enforcement like in Singapore)

it amazes me out people can not see what is next, or maybe than can but simply believe the promise (false promise) of safety is more important than liberty
MSVC /s

2008? Unless you really count MSVC, no. 1998, sure, Apple could just buy (as in acquire the IP rights of) Turbo C.
Didn't Apple get pushed to tell Telegram to get rid of posts in Belarus? If they hadn't made a deal out of it while also refusing to delete the posts, a ban could have been in their future.
Fears of Tyranny of the majority, with our geographic size and mutual ignorance of each others' local concerns. An extreme depiction in popular culture is the domination of rural districts in "The Hunger Games".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
Can't you resolve this by doing a bit of extra work in scopes that have e.g. 'x' in source but not in the corresponding AST? I wasn't sure if generated ASTs were 1-1 matched with source top-level scopes, but apparently they are:

http://icps.u-strasbg.fr/~pop/images/front-end.png

It's a bit more work than cases where AST matches source level expectations, but can't you just walk that sub-tree and figure out that '0' was 'x - x'?

http://icps.u-strasbg.fr/~pop/images/plus-expr.png
How does normalizing Alaska and Hawaii's representation to their population cause them to be "lost from the union"?

Puerto Rico has 0 representation, and yet they're still part of the united states (ok, plenty of puerto rican might want a different arrangement... but my point is that you'll lose Puerto Rico before losing Alaska)
Good to hear. True experts can then determine the seriousness of the situation.
Really? I was under the impression that they tried to take Trump down under the assumption that he won the presidency by illegal means. Seems the same kind of thing to me. Even now they still try to impeach him.
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Isn’t there a bit of a privacy concern though? Seems like a corporate nightmare.
Except that the phone companies are regulated as common carriers, and cloud services are not regulated as common carriers.
Most likely yes, but of course we'll never know.
Great question. I guess for me as a technologist, I’m coming at it from the other side and asking what failure rate is possible, and can that rate be reduced with further prompt fiddling and other machinations? Then I will try to gauge whether that rate is acceptable to users. I guess since it’s all so new, people wouldn’t know what would be useful or usable until they tried it. So we are looking for users to participate and help us find if there’s a viable product involving GPT-3 summaries.
I very highly doubt that TikTok is "colluding" with Facebook to keep the market under control, which is what oligopoly implies.
I wonder why wikipedia mentions that it has an .onion address but does not show this address? People do keep the constantly changing URLs for it up-to-date and are even highlighted in the side bar, so a legal reason not to publish the link to it is unlikely the reason.
Another huge hurdle is paid bandwidth quotas. The majority of the web is mobile now, apparently.*

* https://www.broadbandsearch.net/blog/mobile-desktop-internet...

* https://gs.statcounter.com/platform-market-share/desktop-mob...

* https://www.perficient.com/insights/research-hub/mobile-vs-d...
HINTS why I said THEY SHOULD BE handled that way, did you read my post?
> It's the <1% of those "woke" digital people who will gun you down

Eh... no, I wasn't talking about anyone "gunning you down", the linked article is. I was just talking awkward conversations and getting the side-eye for working for the country's #1 douche.

I mean... yeah the 1% issue is likely bigger now, but this will blow over. Your buddies who think you sold your soul to the devil for a couple bucks will be around for years.
Where is an example of such a gross difference in voting power?
Thanks for this. Society needs to start setting a higher bar for public discourse all around.

Tired of these bullshit conspiracy theories running rampant on certain media platforms. There have been dozens of them since the election alone and not a single one has been validated. You would think people would be tired of being obviously fooled over and over, but it seems every time another fake story comes along, they take the bait.
unless you want to sell it and eat it as well
Videos are a horrible format for learning. At least for me personally. Just give me a textbook.
I've never used Parler, but I find it strange that most of the discussion around it is based on characterizations of the platform without evidence, so I was interested to see an article with actual evidence.

But the evidence in this article didn't seem to match the claims. To prove that Parler banned people with different political views, they show a screenshot of CEO John Matze posting this message:

>To all the ANTIFA supporters who have been spinning up Parler accounts... next time you should leave your chat server private... Im pretty sad you guys kicked me out... PS. Your VPNs can't save you

The article author treats that as evidence that Matze indiscriminately kicked out people who identify as part of Antifa. I think it's hard to tell from that screenshot alone, but my reading of the quote is that Matze found a public chat server where Antifa members were conspiring to create Parler accounts strictly for the sake of disrupting the platform. I don't view this as political censorship.

The article also paints Matze as hypocritical for banning Parler users who disrupt conversations by spamming porn or pictures of feces. That doesn't seem hypocritical to me, either. You can be welcoming to alternative viewpoints while still enforcing rules that encourage constructive discussion.
What's your evidence for this claim?

(For instance, the idea of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact was suggested by by a Yale professor of constitutional law, a UC professor of constitutional law, and the a Northwestern professor of constitutional law and former dean, so I doubt they are uneducated in our system of government and Constitutional history. But I suppose you're referring to popular support in general.)
I don't know about that. The Gros Michel supposedly has more of the chemical that's used for artificial banana flavor, and I've always hated that flavor.
I’d like to keep some sort of state partitioning and vastly improved voting security.

That was one poorly functioning state can’t claim that they had 100% voter turnout and skew the entire result.
This looks great! Looking forward to trying this out.
Syllabaries and logographies are no less "advanced" than alphabets.

Plus unnecessarily ableist language aside, I'd expect people here of all places to understand that newer does not inherently equal better. You'll have to come up with a more sensible criticism of icons than "pictography is 5000 years old" :-)
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All the investigation as far as I know is on the web store side of their business, with Amazon Basics specifically. The blog above is talking about AWS, which is a different side of their business.
Ad hominem. Personal attack and guilt by association.

Americans are as a rule uneducated in our system of government. And it would be a tremendous waste to make 300 million constitutional law professors. From experience, I expect that would increase disagreements about the constitution, not resolve them all.
I don’t think you’re missing anything. It’s perhaps folly to quantify “democracy”, but looking past that folly, the US doesn’t rank all that highly.

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

Mind you, it’s weird to see all those nominal constitutional monarchies rank so highly. But, at least in Canada, which I am most familiar with, all that monarchy stuff is dusty window dressing. The actual house is full of sensibly apportioned voting districts.
But the one tweet is not the issue, they say. It is the one tweet in the context of all his tweets. I mean the one tweet only said "I won't attend the inauguration".

They don't explicitly say what tweets are the actual reason for his termination.

I found an archive of Trump tweets. It consists of 50000 tweets. Finding tweets in there that somehow confirm the claims that he was calling for violence is more work than just a couple of minutes.
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Right, I'm sure they don't know about this and continue to use Tor from the comfort of their homes.
Parler has to find a private company willing to accept money to build and maintain a soapbox for you to speak that hate from. AWS is not obligated to that.
The speech is free, the soapbox is not (unless it is not privately owned).
"Do we have evidence" - seems the answer is "yes", have you read the AWS letter?
Or just vastly reduce the president's (and federal government's) powers. If the individual states could decide their own drug policy, gun policy, marriage policy, and the point at which life begins, then the campaign for president could focus largely on trade and military policies.
Many were almost certainly radicalised through social and alt-right mass media though. You can’t blame the opening at the end of the pipeline for the water coming out.

Furthermore, I was checking in on right wing sites like theDonald.win in the lead up to 6 jan. The loudest voices all argued that the Democratic Party had systemically rigged the election, constitutional remedies had failed them, so the only response available was to fertilise the tree of liberty.

I didn’t sneak into a private telegram group or discord server. This is what these people were saying openly on popular websites that anybody could wander into without so much as making an account.

The same was true of charlottesville, sure parts were undoubtedly organised secretly, but facists like Baked Alaska were live streaming the whole thing - complete with antisemitic commentary.

This nonsense has to end.
If we are going to attribute emotions to governments, my bet would be fear. Political leaders and political parties rely on multiple international companies to handle daily operations, and the risk that they could be cut out at any time is being demonstrated.

People can try to convince politicians that there is no risk and that only obvious bad people will be targeted.
That things that happen (agriculture, manufacturing, etc) in rural parts of the country are important to everyone, but will suffer if the people living there have no voting power.
I think its good that it is a high bar. A lot of stuff online isn't serious or actionable, but with this Parler situation is on the cusp IMO of genuinely being designed to promote right wing extremism. That's how this seems to be playing out at least.
Then we need to fund the developers working on this. Money makes things happen. Simple as that.
In no way would this law make the US a pure democracy, where citizens can vote directly on whether or not to pass laws. The US would still be a representative democracy, a republic, where citizens vote for representatives, who then pass laws without input from citizens.
Your preassumption seems to be that centralised networks are somehow unavoidable in tech. I would argue otherwise - both Facebook and Twitter could exist decentralised - it would just be less profitable for the companies.
Using proprietary software in their code base, they made billions and dominated ther market, crushing all competitors.
Right now they charge people for access to the code.

On the other hand, they can't freely release the code, something which is of little benefit to them anyway. How is that a "strong case" against?
I did read your post. You did not explicitly mention regulating cloud services as common carriers. If your policy suggestion is to enact more regulation for cloud services, and to treat them as common carriers, then I think things are little more clear.
Depending on what your sources and sinks are:

* Microsoft SSIS is still there, kind of a granddaddy tool but perfectly capable of single-machine ETL

* Trifacta's Wrangler has a free version with limits

* Talend's Open Studio is free, a little clunky but works fine

* Some new players that I've played around with are Airbyte (immature but evolving quick) and Fivetran (consumption-based pricing model, fairly extensible, but kind of biased about the sources/sinks they're interested in supporting)

* I haven't tried Streamsets or Stitch yet, but I've watched a few videos, again, a little more focused on cloud and streaming data sources than traditional batch ETL, but seem fair enough for those use cases as well

* If you want to roll your own SQL/Python/etc ETL, Airflow and Luigi are good and simple orchestrators/schedulers

The cloud services have pretty cheap consumption-based ETL PaaS offerings, too: Azure Data Factory, Amazon Glue, GCP Cloud Data Fusion

Unless what you're doing is highly bespoke ETL, I'd recommend trying out the new kids on the block and seeing if you can build pipelines that suit your needs from those, because they're at the forefront of a lot of evolving data architecture patterns that are about to dominate the 2020s.
Oddly enough, all the Windows leaks I've heard of are various versions of the NT series --- I don't think I've ever heard of Win9x (and 3.x) leaks.

There's some very old DOS leaks too, but the "in between" seems to have somehow been avoided.
> On the one hand, the Senate has always been unequal, long giving less populous states an outsized voice relative to their population.1 But for more than a century, this hasn’t posed much of an issue: Until the 1960s, Republicans and Democrats competed for both densely and sparsely populated states at roughly the same rate

> But over the last several decades, that’s changed. The parties have reorganized themselves along urban-rural lines, and there is now a clear and pronounced partisan small-state bias in the Senate thanks to mostly rural, less populated states voting increasingly Republican. In fact, it’s reached the point that Republicans can win a majority of Senate seats while only representing a minority of Americans.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-senate-has-always-f...
Nuance. An argument in favor of free markets in housing does not negate the need for tenant rights.
They have the right to speak hate, of course. But no private company is obligated help build the soapbox to shout it from.
Okay, but what about real time search history? That’s not mentioned as a key. feature in the article.

That’s the whole point of not worrying about these lines without sufficient thought.

Being able to query the past instanteously via live chats is vital.

I see live transcripts via iMessage and live chats as a huge benefit — your thoughts in real time, basically, shared externally without energy wasted verbally.

One of my biggest regrets is not pro-actively hitting aim support right before mass account deletion post mortem acquisition by Verizon.

Imagine scrolling back in time to your high school chats— one can easily use that context to go back in time like Mac OS time machine.

Put all of those time stamps in whatever format (t, chat service, message) on a visual calendar and you’ll be able to do much more with your data. Including attachments.