skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's sort of a catch to the way you're framing the question. Instances of speech that are forbidden are generally not considered political speech, even if there are political issues involved. For example, if I threaten the President because of his policies, there is obviously a political angle to that, but it is also a fairly uncontroversial felony.

For a concrete example of nominally political threatening speech that was found not to be protected, see Planned Parenthood v. American Coalition of Life Activists, where it was found that certain anti-abortion ads were not protected by the First Amendment because they reasonably caused the targeted doctors to fear for their safety. I don't believe they explicitly invoked the "fighting words" doctrine, but it relied on the same principle as Chaplinsky — that if speech has the effect of creating a real-life threat, the speech isn't necessarily protected by the First Amendment.

(To be clear, the point wasn't that Chaplinsky is the be-all-end-all, just that the concept of "hate speech," where the consequences of some speech make it unworthy of free speech protections, is not a recent invention.)
Glenn is wrong that Parler is pro-free speech. They censor all kinds of things, including those with different political views.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200630/23525844821/parle...
He may be a PhD, but his theories are fringe and widely disputed. His dating of the Sphinx seems solely based on certain erosion patterns and are not supported by other evidence.

If an unknown long-dead civilization existed, I would think that their writing system and it’s influence would be one of the easiest ways to recognize them. Writing tends to be our best source of information on ancient civilizations. So it’s more plausible to me that if there’s unknown civilizations, then they lacked meaningful use of writing.
It is a bad analogy to compare Parler with a highway.

If Twitter is a highway, Parler is a tunnel operated by drug cartels.

What do you think about the Silk road? The onion website that operated strictly in Tor that was a marketplace used exclusively for crime? That is infrastructure too right? Should it be legal? Fuck no.

Stop defending a lost cause. They got shut down because they tried to stage a coup by kidnapping senators in the Capitol.

They failed, and it is a good thing that they failed, and it is a good thing they got censored. And it is great that more companies decide to do the same.

Shut them down, all of them. Enough is enough. Have you ever been assaulted by a Trumper while minding your own business, just for being a minority? I have. These news make me happy. Adios, amigos... Your movement will never attain anything again.
The Schrodinger equation is linear, but the extension to Quantum Field Theory is not linear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_field_theory so actual reality is even more weird.
cover your ass.
I mean, your brokerage will do most of those things automatically for you.
Due to renter-friendly laws, home ownership is not as culturally ingrained in Germany as elsewhere. Many people who could afford buying simply choose not to.
" I believe injustice is a threat to the safety of all people. Because once you have a group that is marginalized and marginalized and marginalized … once someone doesn’t have access to clean water, they have no choice but to riot." AOC,2020

"Our election was hijacked. There is no question. Congress has a duty to #ProtectOurDemocracy & #FollowTheFacts."
https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/864522009048494080

Nancy Pelosi 2017

"When this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It would erase Trump’s lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe."

Robert Reich,2020

https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1317614803704115200

BTW show me a tweet from Trump calling for violence, seeing how stringent are your standards and how adamant you are that only the right calls for violence you must have examples a plenty.

But I am wasting my time here.You know it and I know it. You have your mind made up.
I can find useful discussions from 10 or 20 years ago because they were crawled and archived. IRC, Usenet, web message boards, mailing lists...

Every single discussion happening on Slack or Discord will probably be lost in a year or two and is impossible to find unless you happen to be already aware of it.

Developers should not use these platforms for anything with any value. This is not the way to share information.
Do you think it would be possible to vectorize the cards? Zooming in to read them makes them quite blurry as-is.
India has had this requirement for a long time now (more than 6 months IIRC). If you don't have the negative test, you need to quarantine at preselected hotels near the airport after arrival. Most international airports now also offer on arrival tests.
We have 2 private labs that can handle PCR tests and the turn-around is 24-48 hours, best case. Now, 1 of the 2 is booked out till February.
> I don't know why it's right to ban conspiracies. Conspiracies are to be debunked, not banned.

No one is threatening to kill an elected official over grassy knolls.

Times change.
Well, don't discard Europe too early. We just surpassed you in total deaths!
No, because "moderate conservative" is not a stable political position, at least as far as social issues go. It really consists of people who are comfortable with things how they are and who oppose liberal attempts to remove unprincipled exceptions to liberalism. Liberals have a vision of what they are fighting for, conservatives only have something they are fighting against. The one exception to this which has had some political success is abortion, because it has been successfully framed as fighting for the rights of the unborn.

Consider the "moderate conservative" opinion 100 years ago on women having the vote; compared to today's moderate conservative. Or on segregation 60 years ago. Or on gay marriage 20 years ago. Or on transgender issues today vs what will be considered "moderate conservative" 20 years from now.

The only cohesion they do have is on economic issues, but people are finally starting to realize that it's been a grift all along, perpetuated by big business and conservative establishment elites. "We'll pander to you on social issues (and then fold like a house of cards) in exchange for moving your job overseas, importing workers to reduce labor costs, and lowering taxes on the rich"

So given this loss of trust in the conservative establishment, people find themselves rootless and end up finding a community in this sort of nuttery (whether it be Q-Anon or ethnostate fantasies). Barring a return to throne-and-altar conservatism (which seems unlikely) I don't see it getting better any time soon.
I know that AI is a pile of buzzwords, but.... is this something we could train AI to do reasonably well? A flow like "click button and highlight conversation start/end" and it picks out the relevant messages and tries to generate a set of takeaways? (and allows user to edit them before saving).
"But people are getting stuck because they can't get results back in the 72 hour window. That's really not cool."

That's their problem. Should have thought of that before going on vacation, etc.
Another 1 million Gab users signed up in the last 48 hours and you can add another ~70k QAnon users too.

"DepLAtforMiNG wORkS" they say. But they only say this because they don't know which platform all the lost and banned users are now going to.

This time it cannot be de-platformed like before.
Your point is valid, but not exactly correct. I don't want to know just what was decided, but why. Often I will come back to "should x be updated" again and again. Knowing the factors in the last decision is very important. More than once I've pushed to update x and had someone say "we can't for good reasons that I forget". Often I've spent weeks redoing the discussion before someone remembers/discovers why we can't do the update and we all go "whoa, I'm glad we didn't do that". Other times we discover/remember why we couldn't update and they are for reasons that no longer apply and so we do the update. Still other times we never discover any reason why we shouldn't update. Last sometimes we discover why we shouldn't have updated after it is too late and we have a mess to undo while backing out the update.

The important part is we know why a decision was made. Chat logs are not a good archive because there is too much to sort thought that isn't relevant. Better than nothing, but what is really needed is an effort to document why in a place the right people will find it when they need to know.
I'm so refreshed to see this designed this way. I assumed that they would be asking for an API key or equivalent, because I don't know anything about the product team or the company and this bad behavior is so bog-standard.

I beg you to blog heavily about this approach, especially if you find success with it / it doesn't provide a very negative user experience. See if you can get featured on enterpriseready.io or something.
You need free speech, but you don't need free coordination of violence by those rejecting discourse.
Uf. Brain fart. I meant that they avoid GCC because of licensing.
It claimed Parler was exclusively used for violence, the burden of proof is on them.

All Parler's lawyer need to do is show them the exact same vitrol on Twitter to highlight how shaky Amazon's argument is.

I don't expect a fair trial free from political furor going on right now. It's amazingly easy to manipulate the crowd when they are too tired to be objective from the information overload. 1984 might as well been the Les Prophéties of 21st century.
The issue isn't that they failed. The issue is that that's all they had to do for another 4 years. We're running out of time, we've basically run out. So 4 years for "pathetic confusion" isn't us winning, it's actually them winning.
Monthlong denial-of-service against PyPI
My experience flying from the US to France through Portugal was that an agent at the gate looks over whatever paper you give them and highlights "PCR", "NEGATIVE" and the date and then hands it back.
Then in Portugal they asked for the paper and waved me through, and the same at the French border.

So logistically, pretty easy to fake (unless you're stupid enough to be trying to buy the fakes in the airport like some guys who got caught in Paris a few months ago) but I agree with other commenters it's better than nothing and will almost surely improve the rates of testing/precaution around travel.
Thanks so much!

We are letting our users dictate what services we support. We can typically add support for a new AWS service in a few hours at best or ~2 days at worst.

The nice thing about Vantage is that its essentially a personalized console just for you - so even if we add support for a bunch of AWS services you'll have a console just for what services you're using.

Also at one point we hope to hire some more engineers to assist with development progress.
If you’re not requiring any level of authorisation to enable someone to read a post (ie, this post has been removed, you can’t see it any more or this is a private post, you must be a friend of its author to see it), then you’re just relying on people not being about to guess it’s ID and grab it from the API. It’s a poor version of security through obscurity. Could have easily been rectified by using UUIDs instead of sequential integers (which is what I’m _guessing_ they used)
Making your VPN work everywhere
How to make Wireguard/OpenVPN and others work on networks that have the same IP address range as yours.
You can't have democracy without free speech.

So are countries that have more limits on free speech than what the US has, less democratic than the US?
Sure. Does AWS owe them the amount of time it should take to reorganize? Why? It's business. I just don't get your point.

I certainly wouldn't choose to continue serving a client if I thought doing so was costing me money.
cos i drank a six-pack last night and uhhhh... yeah.
CES 2021: New Hardware discussion thread
CES 2021 COVID edition. Without any in-person meetings, we're getting a torrent of information from all major tech companies (Intel, AMD, NVidia) being released this week.

Some links:

Intel: https://newsroom.intel.com/press-kits/intel-ces-2021/

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16407/the-amd-ces-2021-keynote-a-live-blog-from-11am-et-8am-pt

Samsung Chip will have AMD RDNA GPU in it: https://www.engadget.com/samsung-amd-exynos-gpu-update-ces-2021-191359122.html

WiFi 6e, New Laptops, new keyboards, etc. etc. I feel like there's lots of things to nerd out about right now.

So what's your favorite thing revealed so far? Any talks you're hoping to come out this week?
> It's gotten to the point where I simply don't buy unless I absolutely need it anymore.

I mean, that is the most environmentally friendly solution.
That sounds inconvenient. I’ve been ordered to stay at home off and on for almost a year, and it’s been inconvenient too.
By now people can purchase negative Covid PCR test results at many international airports, sometimes for as little as $0.50. Entrepreneurial spirit is hard to tame.
Eh, for the golden path, sure (say, having a service documented).

Slack search for <insert error name here> is high-value in historical context that's tough to replicate elsewhere. All at once, you learn if anyone's ever asked about the error before, and if so, see the conversation on resolution.
The reason Parler was banned was not being willing or able to moderate the content. Telegram would only be banned, based on this info, if they weren't going to do the same thing.
It's such a truly terrible comparison because they didn't compare Kotlin, they compared Android!

The insane amount of time of overhead an Android project has over a "plain Kotlin" from resource packing to dex stuff to desugaring to ProGuard, it made me question if they're speaking in good faith for the rest of the comment...

My ktor projects on the other hand compile incredibly quickly, and with hot reloading it's even more seamless to iterate
> Curious if you feel torn supporting the US highway infrastructure? It can clearly be used for to traffic drugs, humans, blackmarket weapons, etc.

This is a good thought experiment actually. I think typical Americans support policing all roads and highways, especially where stretches of road are known to be frequented by bad actors. If private corporations owned highway infrastructure and unilaterally decided to shut down segments of road in order to stop those bad actors, it should raise a lot of questions.

I think this highlights the need for better legislation, not only to limit corporations ability to shut down services, but but to replace that with policing put in place by elected governance and based on laws that apply equally to everyone.
What banks / credit cards do people use that have great APIs or tools for exporting transaction level data?

The biggest thing holding me back from something like this has been the overwhelmingly boring amount of data entry required.
And of course, those advocating limiting speech are sure that they are not among the stupid. They're always advocating limiting someone else's speech, not their own, because they're smart people who are not fooled by the wrong things, and who listen to and believe the right things.
Or you turned a blind eye, subconciously perhaps, because they're acting on behalf of your tribe.
Unsure if you’re a signal user and/or joking but I’ve had a steady stream of “X is on signal” messages the last week
You are missing the point.

Every time you block some percentage of spreaders, you are reducing the reach of the virus. Even if a measure is only 20% effective, it's worth investing in.

If it's 40% effective and masks are 40% effective, collectively they are 64% effective together. This idea that measures need to be 90% effective is bunk. Incrementally we can improve the odds significantly.
Indeed I don't see a Nano with more than 16GB RAM, and it's not upgradeable. Meh.
Japan cruise case was in February 2020 which is about a year ago now. Testing became more reliable a long time ago.
But the solution is exactly the same: create a new mailing list or newsgroup under the sort of circumstances where you’d add a topic to a forum or a channel in a Slack workspace. Open source projects, for example, will have foo-announce, foo-user, foo-devel, etc.

Or use digests, mail filters/folders and a convention for tagging message subjects.
Honest Question. At what point do service providers like AWS become utilities? Should they?
FWIW this isn't a RFP for a contract yet, it's a request to answer questions to shape a challenge which could turn into an actual contract.
The US has two huge land borders that people regularly commute
and trade across (not to mention cross illegally).

The only success stories with this strategy are Australia and New Zealand, which are island nations completely isolated from anywhere else.

Even single breaches of their 100% quarantine of all arrivals caused outbreaks, and they also closed state borders.

This requirement begins to make sense now there is a vaccine, as within the US the curve should bend down vs the rest of the world, without the vaccine it wouldn't have achieved anything.
For the routing/firewall side, I would encourage looking at either pfSense (as others here have suggested), or possibly VyOS.

I used to have several Ubiquit USG devices as well as their EdgeRouter.

I moved to pfSense as it's open-source, more stable, and gives you much better control/configurability on your hardware. There's a great ecosystem of packages on pfSense, that you can install via the web UI - making it a really feature-packed for a homelab.

However, recently I've been moving to VyOS to pfSense, which is basically a stripped-down Linux distro, with a heavily tuned FRR routing stack built on top of it.

VyOS is an open-source fork of Vyatta, which was previously owned/released by Brocade networks.

It operates with a CLI, like many enterprise/commercial routing products. It takes a bit of getting used to, but it's really great to use in practice, and makes it easy to diff configurations, or rollback changes, or copy the same configuration across multiple devices.

And of course, it implements with config-management software like SaltStack/Ansible (via Napalm), which is something that pfSense. If you have multiple pfSense devices, you basically need to point/click via the web UI on each one.

For APs - Ruckus is great, as is HPE/Aruba (they have a new low-cost line that's targeting the Prosumer market) - they have both been leaders in the wifi field for ages, and have things like AP handover, RF tuning/optimisation, adaptive antennas etc down pat.
Just legal asscovering, most likely.
Nova recently had a two part series on this, 'A to Z: The First Alphabet', it does a much better job of answering the question than this article...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/a-to-z-the-first-alphabe...

My favorite part was this...

"IRVING FINKEL: This [Sumerian] material goes from near the beginning of writing, so this is what we call a “pictographic” tablet from 3000 B.C. It’s very slim, and it’s ruled into columns with boxes of information that go together. These round and semi-round elements are numerals. And in each of the boxes, they have these things, which are added up at the end.

NARRATOR: This clay tablet is the distant ancestor of today’s spreadsheet: a grid of boxes with symbols that represent numbers and pictures that represent commodities."
Preventing Repeated Crashes on Launch in Our SDK
We made FWD:Everyone (https://www.fwdeveryone.com) for this exact problem. It works via a Gmail add-on, so you can upload an email thread after it's over without having to grant OAuth access to your inbox. It makes these threads taggable and searchable within your company, and formats them to make them look beautiful.

The advantage over just copying everything to a mailing list is that most conversations aren't worth archiving, so having conversations be opt-in after the fact keeps the signal-to-noise ratio much higher than it would otherwise be.

We're still a very small platform, but since we're completely bootstrapped and grew 34x year-over-year in the past year, we're not going anywhere. :-)
How to Deploy from a Container Image on DigitalOcean
I am glad you picked up on the substantive point of my argument.
You can watch this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKGeLXoPr94
Some projects seem missing from the site. For example, this used to be the home of wmi[1] and wmii[2], the ancestors of i3.

There's quite a bit to see if one browses the site through the WaybackMachine.

I could've sworn it was also the home of i3 at one point, but I can't find it in the history, so maybe I'm mistaken about that. I also thought all 3 were started by the same author, but I'm not so sure anymore. EDIT: It was different people. Anselm R. Garbe started wmi and wmii, Michael Stapelberg started i3.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20090315090203/http://wmi.suckle...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20090315090203/http://wmii.suckl...
Signal has reproducible build for Android : https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/master/repr...

I didn't try, but I don't see how it could be more straightforward than just launching a docker container
I second this, I am actually able to find tons of important communications on Slack that happened years ago at my work. Perhaps it is not well understood by many? I somewhat agree with the author, but what is the alternative to Email or a Chat Application?
I think it just comes down to Popper, who puts it elegantly enough:

> ... In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
TBH, it's almost an act of bad faith, or deliberate disinformation, to write that tweet.
We wrote up a quick overview of how Vantage works here: https://docs.vantage.sh/connecting/

tl;dr: The Vantage application (hosted on AWS) interacts with your AWS account through something called a Cross Account IAM role that defaults to read only permissions.
As of this Thursday, 82 people have been arrested, according to one news report.
Wow that’s some pretty important context. The parent comment is extremely misleading for leaving this out.
Most US states already require a negative test or quarantine, with some exceptions. The only issue is that almost no one is enforcing it (maybe some airports do, I'm not sure). It makes sense if it becomes like visa where airlines wouldn't let you board the plane without it (until things are under control). It can be an issue for emergency travel though. Thinking about it, this should be of interest of airlines to protect their staff.
It's tough to get solid info, but aren't tech salaries in MTL like 70% of Toronto's?
There are already laws for the situation you describe. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/conspiracy
I don’t agree, perfectly rational otherwise smart people can be duped by lies, to suggest otherwise is to deny the evidence of the entire advertising industries existence. We need to protect everyone from predatory actors, propaganda and lies irrespective of their intellect because we are all susceptible.