skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not?Everyone who went to college studied SOMETHING.Why is Andy's designation so amorphous?
Like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter? Parler was a scapegoat to deflect attention from the rest of this category of software.
Secondly, it would be extremely unethical to overlap phase 2 & 3 trials, when there are effective NPI.

The NPIs have enormous costs in both dollars and quality of life, and are in fact not terribly effective.
Wow, they can't figure out how to colocate a server? There are plenty of companies that would love to be the hosting face of Parler and agree with its userbase.
How would third party JavaScript fingerprint users? Only if there’s a backend data broker aggregating identities based on a universal token (e.g. email). Or one of those super shady tech wizardry techniques like timing OpenGL calls.
Just so ya know, inciting violence is not protected speech.
Startup Astra is to become the first space company to trade on the Nasdaq
The #1 all time human tool has got to be a piece of software called "Microsoft Excel".

Not to far down that list is probably Lotus Notes
You don’t want everything you or anyone else has loved or valued to be replaced unimaginable monsters?
WHO says countries should keep borders open despite coronavirus (2020)
We already have parallel facts and realities. This seems like the logical next step.
In Brooklyn my friends used the term “hipster racism” often to describe vice
OK, I shared this article one day ago, and there was zero traction. Now, it says it was posted 3 hours ago, and it is on the homepage. Could someone shed some light :)?
Odd dynamic there as unfortunately, standing on principle means getting martyred, and the quote from the former CEO of, “Over the past few months, I’ve met constant resistance to my product vision, my strong belief in free speech and my view of how the Parler site should be managed” is not CEO level strategic.

His investors and board hired him to win, not to pick a principled hill to die on. Martyrs are cheap and nobody making investments can afford cheap things. The irony is Parler positioned itself as less radical than Gab, and it was that very position of bargaining with its platforms is what killed it. How can 4chan, Gab, and the even darker parts of the internet manage to persist online with hardly any money, but someone with Mercer level backing can't keep a site online? The lesson is an example of things we already know, which is that anyone who needs platform permission do to a disruptive startup is already dead.

We absolutely need alternative platforms, and our societies need tools that can survive popular histrionics. Getting owned by some sanctimonious prick at Amazon is not pro level play.
Fingerprinting doesn't reveal an individual's name or passport number, so it's not PII. That's why PII is not a very useful concept in general, and why claims about privacy safeguards that over-focus on PII should be met with some skepticism.

The laws are catching up this in regard. GDPR uses "personal data" and CCPA uses "personal information," both of which more generally refer to data that identifies an individual.
Honestly, probably not much. Since day one they've been vocal about not policing any of the speech there. That's the selling point. I can't fathom anyone on the board not knowing that. It's more likely they felt, "you job is to keep the company going, and if that means policing speech, do it," and he failed.
This, or resilio sync has been solid for me. There are others like freesync and goodsync but I have never tried them.
Why would Apple refund you for a service which you received in full? You got access to the program and a loan of Apple-owned hardware at the agreed price. [2] And now Apple is giving you a surprise bonus as an incentive to return Apple's hardware back to them. Nice.

You can argue that the price was too steep for a loan, or that Apple should be offering a more generous incentive to return the hardware. I wouldn't disagree. But it's not like Apple was unclear about this.[0][1]

[0] https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/36365-67564-DTK-own...

[1] https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/1*V6If2OIL4W223oGLzT5OrQ.pn...

[2] To everyone who dealt with faulty hardware, I think Apple should be quietly offering refunds, not just a partial store credit. But to everyone else, they received the service promised by Apple in full and should be stoked at the $200 return incentive.
How do you include checksums in your freeze to catch when the package changes on the pypi server using only pip?
And the .win sites. But those seem to have taken their warning to moderate seriously
On the bright side it might help get industry to more responsible software engineering practices again, rather then move fast and break things and have the users be the guinea pigs.
I'm using Rails Devise[1] for user auth, and http basic auth for RSS. RSS Basic auth credentials are always auto-generated, and don't give access to anything other than fetching the RSS feed.

Rails uses the "master key" to let you check in encrypted database credentials. I don't use that but Rails still requires a key for deployment--so I just checked in a key. Rails is really designed for a codebase that matches to a single deployment so this is a bit of a workaround.

[1] https://github.com/heartcombo/devise
Hard to see why it matters if they are elected officials.
If we talk purely about "reasonable", I don't think it's even possible to draw any line, besides something obvious like unique user identifiers. It's hard to predict what data can be used for fingerprinting until someone actually does it, just like it's hard to predict what bugs are actually possible to exploit. I could never predict some of those things being used for that and yet here we are. So it can be a cat-and-mouse type of situation. And some of that information is probably legit useful for purposes other than tracking.
I don't know. It was a sincere statement.

Let me tell you a little bit about medical software. It is incredibly hard and expensive to get data. It usually involves finding enough people who are dying in a particular way (already hard), and managing to collect comparable data from each (i.e., with the same process: even harder). There is never enough of it to do the statistics you want. Once you have some, and you maybe come up with some way to do some step of the treatment process slightly better, there are a lot of hurdles and it takes a very long time before anything you did can actually be used on a patient. Rightfully so. People's lives are at stake.

With cancer in particular, maybe after a decade in the field you might know if what you did had a positive impact on treatment outcomes. Maybe. That's the best-case scenario. For me, I don't even know if any line of code I ever wrote was actually used to treat a real patient. Oh, yeah, and those dying people whose data you used to come up with and test your idea? Yeah, you could not do anything for them. They got whatever treatments were the best available at the time, and good luck. If they were great treatments, you probably would not have been working on the problem. So that sucks.

Meanwhile, at a browser company, I was able to write a patch and within a month or three it was deployed to over a hundred million people. Software projects I worked on are currently used to encode and decode a non-trivial fraction of the bits on the internet. They are deployed on every Android handset and every iPhone (not just in Firefox), so that's a few billion devices. Every time you make a Zoom call or use probably almost any other video conferencing service, you are using at least one, if not several, of those projects. I understand people are doing a lot of video conferencing these days. Maybe even some telemedicine calls between radiation oncologists and their patients.

So, uh, yeah. I feel like that had more impact. Not to discourage anyone from trying to cure cancer. It's incredibly hard.

P.S., "cancer" is actually a thousand different diseases with a thousand different causes and requires many different treatments. There will never be a "cure for cancer".
30% of Republicans have a favorable opinion of QANON, which explicitly says high ranking Democratic Party leaders drink the blood of babies/are pedos/etc. https://www.businessinsider.com/30-of-republicans-have-favor...

What is your non whataboutism response to that?
It's not a terrible idea for a law by referendum to require a higher legislative bar for repeal, as other replies have pointed out. But you do bring up a good point. Maybe the supermajority requirement should phase out after a certain number of years (in addition to a cooling off period).
Really cool to see this here. I worked on solid-state nanopore development as a part of my PhD.

Here are some press releases related to articles I published during my PhD:

https://physics.illinois.edu/news/article/34064

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141014095320.h...
Converted them - what other formats exist for this sort of thing?
agile wasn't really a process, just a manifesto. All scrum did was package itself as a marketing strategy to enterprises while the rest of the agile advocates face palmed and slowly walked backwards from "agile" as it became more and more poisoned.

Shame really, Software Philosophers like Kent Beck kind of got lost in all that noise, who always emphasized the human aspect of software creation
Agreed. I also wonder if this kind of article is towards the edge of allowable content on HN regardless of title: it's a politically-charged current-affairs article that isn't particularly intellectually gratifying.

Sometimes good discussion comes from these kinds of articles -- but I feel that's somewhat uncommon.
Poetry all the way here, been a blessing! The fact that Pyenv cannot solve some environments that Poetry can is a no go.

Worth noting that Sébastien Eustace is an author of the provisional PEP 621: "Storing project metadata in pyproject.toml"

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0621/
Vector fonts not so much, but as these are all in PNG form, they seem exempt

I believe this is also why all the free vector fonts (that look almost if not exactly identical to famous, $$$ ones) can exist with no legal trouble --- if someone renders to bitmap a paid font and then traces it, the resulting vector font is then considered a work of that person instead. In other words, the copyright is on the exact point positions, and not the final shape; so any series of points that reproduces that shape will do.
We've reached endemicity. Every country give or take is going down all at once.
This article gives no basis for it's opinion except for other articles and studies done by heavily anti-conservative media outlets and heavily liberal colleges. It's citations include Vice, Vox, CNN, Washington Post, New York Times, NBC News, Politico, NPR, Medium, The Verge, Media Matters, Gizmodo, Wired and there are some 'independent' outlets. It states that because Trump and main stream conservative outlets still received likes and ratings that that means conservatives aren't censored. And, because YouTube video watch time is close on some larger main stream channels that again this means there is no censorship. Why should there be equal watch time? An imbalance does not mean there is not censorship, it could also mean watch time could have been 90% in one direction without censorship, via lower recommendations, direct banning, or demonetization (people stop making videos when they don't make money). There is already proof that videos from mainstream media outlets get on the trending list with much fewer views than youtubers. This article goes on to say "Conservatives do get suspended or banned for violating Twitter’s rules" as if those rules are not in themselves anti-conservative. One blatantly obvious rule that directly opposes conservative values is twitter's rule against mis-gendering, which many conservatives believe is impossible because someone doesn't choose their gender, and if they did why should it bother someone to be called the wrong one? When you rule directly against a conservative value, then is that still not censoring conservatives? The article continues that even though lawsuits have been brought that all have been dismissed and despite it clarifying that these were dismissed because of section 230, it still uses that as evidence that there is not censorship. It basically says every time a conservative is banned it is justified and even in many cases says data is not available on bans, but somehow the final conclusion is "And as much as they condemn supposed social media favoritism, conservatives appear to relish wielding the bias-claim cudgel, even though it’s based on distortions and falsehoods." Again, they provides little to no data on bans whatsoever, but uses these alternative metrics that supposedly should reflect censorship. It is outlandish that anyone would not see what happens to conservatives on these websites. Hell just visit any of the supposed right leaning alternatives like Parler, Gab, and Rumble see how the conversation is as mild mannered politics and not at all filled with 'white supremacists' and 'nazis.' In fact you would be hard pressed to find those figures on those websites even if you sought them out. Everyone knows that like on Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook you just don't follow people that you don't like and especially 'nazis.'
100% agree, an update to CoaDE (is there still active development on that game? Blog/website hasn't seen updates in some time [1]) could add some save points and maybe some better tutorials. Though, I kind of liked the steep learning curve tbh. I've played probably 300+ hours of KSP and it was nice to see the hard maneuvers based on DV in CoaDE. No reason we couldn't get both that and the actual combat maneuver you're talking about!

[1] http://childrenofadeadearth.com/
Give me Parler's software and I will host it in Russia... that's where USA's free speech usually come from anyways (free as in somewhat controversial, popular and still allowed).

I think I say a lot of somewhat controversial things, but they let it fly because I am not popular.
The smarter move for the CTO might have been to get things going. Keep networking with other companies for a same level position and then peace out when it looks like things are going to blow up.

At least you would have some reputation intact. Now he is just the guy that failed, couldn't recover and will have a hard time going anywhere.
I pay Ars firstly for the full article RSS feed and second help support them.
Are the permissionless decentralized tools really not prepared for any level of throughput yet?

Genuine question

Are there any tools for hosting large volumes of user generated content in a decentralized permissionless way?

Even if you have to pare down the front end and reduce reliance on some infrastructure concepts, is there any way to do it right now?
Your friends are more likely to agree with you (and each other) on things because that's one of the reasons you're friends. I can think of very few things, other than the basics like "murder is bad", that 58% of the general public agrees on.
Time is money. You’re paying far more people and tying up far more resources to shoot 4x takes as you would to hire voice actors to dub.
Do you consider disallowing death threats and plans to commit violent acts and crimes an untenable affront to the right to free speech? That's why they were taken down, it really, REALLY wasn't about the political speech.
Melania Trump wore a $39 jacket saying "I don't care really care", as she was getting on a plane to visit a children's shelter in a border town in Texas where many children were separated from their parents.

What's the Occam's Razor of why she did that, do you think?
Woah .. thanks for [3]. Who made this ? Why don't they Show HN ? It has been submitted only 3 times ( including 5 minutes ago by me ) and never had more than 8 points ... this is pretty cool stuff, some fruitful exchanges assuredly go to waste for lack of someone checking their comments from two days ago ...
They didn't pay $500 to buy them. They paid $500 for a time-limited rental. You can argue that the price was too steep for a loan, or that Apple should be offering a more generous incentive to return the hardware. I wouldn't disagree. [2] But it's not like Apple was unclear about this.[0][1]

[0] https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/36365-67564-DTK-own...

[1] https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/1*V6If2OIL4W223oGLzT5OrQ.pn...

[2] To everyone who dealt with faulty hardware, I think Apple should be quietly offering refunds, not just a partial store credit. But to everyone else, they received the service promised by Apple in full and should be stoked at the $200 return incentive.
> There are plenty of companies that would love to be the hosting face of Parler and agree with its userbase.

I don’t know if that’s really true. At least not in the Bay Area, which holds the lions share of internet companies from hosting to CDN.

It’s actually remarkably hard to run any kind of website of note and not be at the mercy of some company based out of SV.
> but the 7/8 majority is a completely arbitrary and an unprecedentedly high burden to put on this.

No, it's not an unprecedentedly high burden. You just admitted that the default burden is much higher!
Seems like they're storing the user based stuff from here:

https://adssettings.google.com/

in the browser, and letting publishers configure their own bidding logic based on that data.

Not sure how that is going to play out since publishers want clicks and users don't want ads.
I get that everyone just wants to shit on Parler, but AFAIK they didn't host any content that wasn't present in far greater quantity on Facebook and Twitter. It would have been reasonable to expect to have access to the same platforms as those companies.
Ok, I'll bite. I don't trust Google, and let's assume that they will always be a malicious adversary.

Given that, why should I not be skeptical of their Privacy Sandbox initiative?
Care to ( can you ) share what that looks like ?
TBH, I wouldn't be surprised if he had another account with some more shares that he sold near the peak for > 2000% earnings.
Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter all had moderation (whether its effective is another debate).

It's hardly an apples-to-apples co.parison with Parler.
This is not a GPT.

But it is a thing to write in GPT style.

GPTs want to be human like, for funding.

Chess AI's still can't play like a human (but people are working on it), chess AIs were designed to solve problems.

The easiest way to pretend to write 'human like' for a computer is to say as little as possible with tiny contractions and poetic words.

Some humans similarly do this, if you get paid by the word it makes sense.

OP style fails on this topic because it's so technical.

GPT-3 wasn't even designing to mess with our heads, but it does, wait till someone designs it to. It's very possible, because it's not about intelligence, making it worse is easier than making it better. If you use engagement as a measure of 'success' you can see you can evolve GPT-3 quickly to a worst nightmare. (It is already a nightmare)
No, it's not. Freedom of speech never came with a freedom from consequences, nor a guarantee to a broadcast platform. You're still free to stand on the corner with a "God hates fags" sign or a "kill democrats" sign.
lol. if a tree falls in the forest......
Protos-Are-Wrong
Luck of the draw.
I think many people creating social content mainly just want to choose between two classifications:

Option 1 is for content that won't offend anyone or tarnish the author's reputation. The audience can include all contacts including coworkers, family, etc. and the author will often use their real name. Example: Facebook.

Option 2 is for risqué content. It could cause issues with employment and other real-life relations. The audience must be carefully controlled, or if not, a pseudonym (that only a carefully controlled audience, if anyone at all, can map to a real name) must be used. Example: Reddit; private group chats.

This seems to cover most scenarios without the overhead/stress of trying to shoehorn all of these boundaries in a single platform/app.
I still find feeds from truncated useful as I can scan through the headlines quickly; I rarely want to read everything a publisher puts out there. When something catches my eye my RSS viewer, Feedbin, can attempt to fetch the entire one for me and if that fails visiting the site directly is tolerable.
It's not necessarily the right thing to do. If creators don't leave any trace, especially in a community where sharing freely and without credit is commonplace, one shouldn't impose one's own moral lens.
Pretty much this. Regardless of how you feel about Uber/Lyft drivers' ability to access benefits, if the bill that does it has this many exemptions, you should oppose it on that basis alone.

The long exemption list is a naked method of making sure that AB5 only targets its intended victims — Uber and Lyft, without actually having to mention them by name. If this law is generally a good idea, then why should it have required any exemptions at all?

The ethical version of AB5 would have been to have California (and the broader US) move have a single payer healthcare system, paid for by taxes, as it already is for a huge portion (but not all) of the population. That way, everyone gets access to health care, and everyone pays for it.

But that's hard to do, so California's cynical lawmakers "solve" the problem by passing the buck in a much simpler way: pass regulation to target their scapegoats du jour (as an assemblyperson, I get _my_ healthcare from the state, but it's _those guys_ who are bad! yeah!) with laser precision through special carveouts. Thus AB5 is born.
Hey apologies! I was trying to say a few things jumbled in a few sentences:

1. A lot of what the author suggests to do takes additional energy, and energy is not free. We can either spend more time or amp up our heads so that our attention/processing is a bit better (possibly also compensatory against sleep deprivation for additional time).

2. For the latter, we can probably sustain this behavior for quite a while without adverse effects.

It is a light suggestion that doing with what the author suggests in the fashion of stimulants is humanly possible.
Gab is holding on by a thread called cloudflare. I’m SURE there’s strong internal pressure from within cloudflare to drop them as well.
> the exemptions and carve outs have gotten so bad that it’s hard to justify these licenses as beneficial to protect the public.

I don't follow the logic. If there were no exemptions or carveouts, it would be even harder to claim that the licensures were beneficial.
Not to refute any of your theories but an addition factor in the world not holding China accountable might be fear that it would set a precedent for when a different virus causes a future pandemic and is traced back to some other country. What if a virus comes from a US CAFO that does similar or worse damage than COVID19 has? Even if it wasn't from a lab, would the US be held responsible for the industry practices that created the conditions for the virus to come into being? Obviously if China intentionally unleashed the current pandemic on the world for their own purposes, some sort of response will have to be made, but short of that, it's hard to know where to draw the line that doesn't have a probability of burning some other country in the future.
Yeah, all those liberal electricians and truckers.
Not if you want anyone to actually use it or if you want to be able to monetize it.
The big media outlets aren’t any better imo. They arguably have an even greater potential for conflicting interests. That’s before you consider the fact that a lot of products require a certain level of rigour, competence and time commitment to review properly. In that sense a low quality review is about as useful as an improperly influenced one.