skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right but if there is an archive, and you can play indefinitely, the concept of "today's word" loses its meaning.

And people might start going to the archive instead of the main site, seeing as it has a major features the main site doesn't. (i.e. ability to keep playing) Obviously they don't want that. They want 100% of your concentration to be on today's word. They want you to look forward to tomorrows puzzle where you can play again. Playing archived games decreases that, as you can satisfy your craving that way.

I sort of miss the archive, but at the same time I am glad it is gone. I like that feeling of "I'm done with Wordle for today" without that nagging "but I can do 100 more .... now where did my morning go?"

This is a rare case where I support a company being protective of its IP.
For "ownership", thats a LOT of terms of restriction. Sure sounds like a rental.

If you think what you typed was somehow a "gotcha", its not. It just shows how stupid apple users are willing to defend their abuses.
>> Looking at what is not allowed on HN, the same things are disallowed here. How is that not the same?

Not true. If Donald trump wanted to post here on tech or business I think he'd be allowed. The ban hammer might come quick not because of his views, but his inflamitory style. Twitter sensors ideas, not language.
The disappointing thing is that preventing this sort of thing doesn't take an expert. If you wouldn't post a secret to Reddit or Twitter, don't send that secret to a browser client. That's like webdev 101 stuff.
I hope that it succeeds and that the effects trickle down the whole industry.
Reference to a great cult movie: They Live with Roddy Piper and Keith David.
There's a chicken and egg problem here. If you move your secrets to a secret management service, how do you provide the credentials to unlock to that? Whether it's on disk, in the environment or on an internal endpoint like IAM host roles there's ways for this to be exposed in the event of bugs or security vulnerabilities in your application
Downhound creator here. Thanks for linking to the site; hope it was able to provide a bit of clarity on the situation on Google yesterday. Google's outage was pretty short, around 10-15 minutes or so.

What new features/data would you like to see in Downhound in the future?
You're not alone. I like the occasional soda, but the sales are always "buy 2 get 2 free".

I don't need 4 cases of soda, but I'd take a BOGO if I could split the deal with someone.
Exactly. Also, firing established people who stop contributing is impossible (they'll plead "it's political"), and hiring new people for good wages is impossible too because "that's not according to our tables of wages" (both of these problems are not theoretical, every state company here today has them).
> Nearly all of the useful "moderation" on Twitter is me choosing who I follow. Some of it is me choosing who I block. Everything else is a rounding error by comparison. Or at least it should be.

Not really.

…you appreciate the point being made by the parent post right?

Unmoderated communities devolve, in practice, to porn, scams, flame wars and trolling. There’s lots of evidence that’s how things turn out.

What you’re after is different moderation, not no moderation; what you see as excessive moderation can’t be replaced with no moderation without creating a clone of 4chan.

So.. I guess.. just remember what you’re asking for is actually a bad thing. What you actually want isn’t what you’re asking for; unless what you want is 4chan, in which case, you can just go hang out there instead of on twitter..
The market is not rational, so anything could happen, which is why you should always assume the worst if you are a cautious individual.
Thoughts on MRI-based early warning system for personal healthcare
You are practically wrong about this - the number of people who need to notice and attempt to a 51% attack is enormous ... and not possible to do after the fact

Before the fact? Sure - but then the 51% issue doesn't happen, and you get to precrime
And yet Trump was elected in 2016 and almost in 2020. Polls also indicate he would win an election between him and Biden right now.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/600146-poll-trump-lead...

33% of the US population thinks the 2020 election was stolen
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-12-28/pol...

What evidence do you have that they hold sway over society?
I think they recommend just using normal Ubuntu now that most of the drivers have been upstreamed.
> Clearly, an insect hotel is not for you. You treat nature as a source of entertainment to cherry pick.

I'm not sure why you are gatekeeping but this makes no sense.

An insect hotel is not nature.

An insect hotel is either returning nature to natural levels or changing it to something humans enjoy ie. Maximum biodiversity.

Either way parasites need to be controlled.
Also, users are sometimes simply ordered, by their bosses or IT, not to press buttons in ways that are known to break the software. This is sometimes considered cheaper than fixing bugs, or at the very least, mitigates the problem until the next scheduled deployment window. It’s a very different world.
For our product, a user not using our software properly would be like any arbitrary office worker incorrectly using Microsoft Word.

At some level, it is still our responsibility to provide a reasonable UX (and we have weekly meetings with our customers about this). But, our customers are also fully aware of the various contractual obligations and take ownership of problems caused by poor training or hires on their end.
> Twitter can control what it "prints", but is not responsible.

I agree that this is a problem that I wish was addressed, but honestly, I dont know what kind of overreaching, anti-freedom (/s kind of?) law would need to be passed. The reason it worked for news papers was they were printing news, and news has to be true (or at least not outright lies).

Twitter, Facebook, *chan, parlor, Truth social (is that actually a thing yet?) would all just say they dont print the news, and that every post is opinion.

Which even the NYT opinion pieces don't fall under the same editorial scrutiny as their news, and legally are completely separate.
The canonical Covid debunking came out weeks ago.
Gitlab is great, the downside is managing updates and frequent vulnerabilities found
He can borrow against his Tesla and Space X holdings. The Twitter stake itself can be used as collateral. Or he can sell shares of them.

There is LBO financing, where the purchased company itself borrows to fund the purchase. But I doubt a company as risky as Twitter can borrow a significant fraction of the purchase price. And Musk doesn't have a history of using financial engineering like that.
“Free speech” tends to be used in two ways: free speech the compound phrase, and free speech as two words taken literally.

Certain subsets of population love to hijack discussions by forcing the latter meaning[0]—they break the phrase up into separate words and take them as absolutes. Yet the reality is that free speech in absolute sense doesn’t exist: a bit like free market, in a world where malicious actors exist at all, it has to be subject to limits (moreover, in any culture there are its own taboos defining additional unwritten constraints).

The first meaning is what “free speech” refers to in any meaningful political discussion about free speech. It is fundamentally vital in a democracy, and no sane person would qualify it as absolute.

Fine aspects of what conditional free speech actually implies could be a worthy topic. Off the top of my head, free speech is where you don’t need to censor yourself provided you are of sound mind and do not mean harm, but this is not very precise. How should we define the limits of free speech on a meta level? Is it their vagueness that causes distress? Once the terminological ambiguity is settled, meaningful debate becomes possible.

[0] I believe in most cases such individuals have their own agenda to push, and one would become equally opposed to absolute free speech as soon as their preferred agenda is implemented.
“Misinformation” is being used as a cudgel to suppress opinions or even facts that are, say - inconvenient - for someone’s narrative though.

Completely reasonable differences in opinion about the risk, origin, or proper mitigation of COVID were blasted as “misinformation” before they were eventually accepted by the wider establishment. The initial rush to completely censor such discussion early on is what caused all this free speech ruckus.

There’s always been nutty conspiracy talk, scams, hoaxes, lies, ignorance - especially on the internet - and we’ve learned to filter it out.

The “misinformation” label is going to backfire, though. Instead of ignoring it, people are going to take a closer look, because there’s probably something there that the labeler finds inconvenient. If it was simply untrue, then say so, call it “not true” or a “lie.”

Instead, “misinformation” is this kind of 1984-ish weasel word used to discredit inconvenient facts while maintaining plausible deniability when they turn out to be correct.
Most of the case, "different views" are not different; simply, they are just wrong ones. When people says "limit free speech", it's intended to limit these. Liberalism is meaningless without under democratic control.
I noticed that as well, and also saw a similar "blackout" a few days ago that lasted longer. First time ever in years... so wondering if something has changed / is changing on their side.
No it's just bad code/devops
Kinda really. This entire class of security lapse can be avoided by not building a js app on the client.
Great explanation - client side apps often seem to be a bit of a catch-22 in some cases.
> Twitter is where people who are or will be powerful, influential, or impactful get their information, form their opinions, and often debate really important topics.

Anecdotal counter point: I'll be powerful and influential one day, and I'm not using Twitter at all.

On a more serious note, I haven't seen any evidence for the claim that powerful people form their opinions from information on Twitter.
According to the article, they were keeping their environment variables in React's local state. To anyone that works with React professionally, or even on the side, this is so baffling that a team would do this.

I'm honestly wondering who they hired for the job. Because this is one of the most fundamental failings in security I've ever seen.
Yes, but the fact that taxes are owed when you have income shouldn't be a surprise to anyone making money in any manner in the U.S.
The games and worlds, however, are new.
If the technological "improvements" over the last 20 years have largely had negative effects, wouldn't it at be possible that going forward toward something new will have even more destructive effects?
> what does a consulting mentalist do?

At a guess, they consult to stage performers rather than performing on stage themselves.
The difference between the two is less significant when a few large tech companies monopolise online discourse. Water an electricity is considered a "utility" but still delivered by many private companies - why isn't the same argument used there? I'm sure plenty of people would support cutting off utilities for neo-nazis; that doesn't men it's a good precedent.

Consider gabber et al was cut off by their hosting companies, a much harder space to enter for non-established companies - maybe net-neutrality should be extended from traffic to hosting/computing facilities?

> Left alone user content rapidly devolves

> you need curation and moderation

the thing about online content is that it doesn't work like a free-speech bazaar. You can choose which soapbox you want to visit. You can choose what networks to participate in.

Also, it should be noted that that these types of places sometime devolve because of bubbles/moderation; e.g. reddit /politics/ is a toxic echo chamber because it bans/downvotes dissenting opinion, resulting in a groupthink-mentality.

> instead of a less moderated forum like 8chan’s

and that's a choice, until it isn't (e.g. 8chan is banned/blocked/deplatformed)
Java does use string interning for constants. It can help in any case when you have a lot of instances of the same string (and when you need to compare that strings)
The Broken Half of Interactive Programs
He arguably didn't know what he was doing with Tesla or SpaceX, nor The Boring Company et al, though he seems quite good at solving for problems he deems worthy enough of his attention - or that draw his attention strongly enough.

Elon also doesn't need to innovate himself, he simply needs to be a signal, a beacon or lighthouse to others who know they are capable of innovating - and where they may now actually attempt to work for/at Twitter/with Elon because they may now believe they have a chance of implementing systems as they may believe Elon will be able to understand their design - and therefore getting approval.
Most software is rented. As the author says it has effectively zero marginal cost. Commercial software is ostensibly using sales to fund future software development, but in many cases it's not really doing much of that.

More and more I'm viewing software as infrastructure, and Free Software as one of the best ways to protect that. But that leaves a big challenge funding development.
Realms lack mod support, and mods are a big, big part of Minecraft.
Now there is an interesting question. "Why is it ok for me to come in here and lose every single time?"
It's a useful framing to to have, because "reach" is indeed the issue. Analogies to "guy yelling in the town square" aren't valid with Twitter because the town square doesn't have algorithms that moderate how often the town crier is audible to the public. And the town square also never had automated bots that parrot the criers' views (or contrary view) at zero marginal cost.

if Musk takes over Twitter, we'll be able to see how much 'freedom' he tolerates when the topics are things he has personal interests in.
Three areas where Google lags behind yesterday's Google:

Displaying actual search results

Searching for what I actually typed into the search field

Page load times
Oh that's nice, cheers.
I love this essay, but this claim is false:

On most large sites this can be mitigated by blocking of toxic users

Given the design of the internet, it cannot. Large sites have the ability to block usernames, IPs, etc... not actual users.

I realize this is hardly earth-shattering news to the HN audience, but it's meaningful.
> They have lost a lot of their users due to many of their limited free speech and work with government actions.

I thought people were mad at Twitter for resisting the government, not working with it -- when they were pushing back against the president of the US.
There isn't a black and white answer to this. It should be painfully obvious by now that unrestricted free speech also enables incredibly technologically amplified propagandists of various stripes to drive people's behavior to various extremes including threatening the existence of that same democracy.
You raise a good point that does make me wonder: why isn’t there more pressure from free speech advocates to liberalize moderation on HN?
Comparing social media to sewage is appropriate because they are both filled with shit, not because they are both essential to living a normal life.
Show HN: Query live crypto trades with SQL in real-time
Indeed. The only way any of the sceptics' claims have even a sliver of validity is as a motte-and-bailey fallacy of their original claims. For example, the claim that the vaccine doesn't work morphed into the claim that the vaccine doesn't stop transmission—a claim which wasn't even true until the delta strain showed up. Omicron has been a substantial challenge to vaccine efficacy (vaccines which, it's important to remember, are still only tuned to wild type COVID-19) but they're still providing significant protection as proven in large scale statistics.
Before global social media there were newspapers, TV networks, and books. If you weren't on them, which was much harder to get on, your opinion didn't matter
Their new CPU architecture certainly is more power efficient compared to x86s they replaced in many ways which means they aren't up against such a wall to compete on performance, perhaps a combination of circumstances have caused them to produce more thermally comfortable machines in recent years. I'm not sure how long this will last though... in that sense I'm sure they do have relaxed TDP margins, so i'm basically arguing about the subtlety of this not being an intentionally large margin... now I look like i'm splitting hairs :P but it's clearly a mistake from the analysis of the GPU.
> Some amount of regulation may help though, especially designed to encourage diversity of ideas

I wonder if limited Section 512 reform is the answer [1].

Remove it for social media platforms over a certain size that sell ads. Create a safe harbour if they form an independent appeals commission, like the one Facebook did; but with teeth on enforcement, tightly-scoped but binding rulemaking powers, and rules about how its members are chosen. Company can flag and ban. Users can appeal. Commission can go to the courts to enforce its will or force discovery. (Maybe throw in a couple commission members elected by users, I don’t know.)

[1] https://www.justia.com/intellectual-property/copyright/copyr...
yeah, I switched my ThinkPad 131e to GalliumOs and found how to login to google account with Chromium browser. Any lags after update, Good job!

https://pirogove.blogspot.com/2021/08/gallium-is-remedy-for-...

As a bonus github.dev team already fixed js error and editor works with Chronium browser already.
> So in hybrid mode you now would have 4 instead of 2 pointer types. Also given that you would want to use all of them in normal code you also would have 4 instead of 2 reference types.

We'd need more pointer types to support other segmented architectures anyway. Real mode x86 has __near, __far and __huge pointer types.
> Maybe it is in fact so bad that honesty would be a push or worse?

In my opinion, such a scenario does not exist. Transparency always in all things.
I prefer CF cards because there's no signal conversion needed while SD card adapters needs conversion electronics. I'm not sure if the SD card adapters are any less reliable, but I've stuck to buying Startech CF adapters and have not had any issues yet. Plus, I have about 30 CF cards on hand so it's nice to still have a use for them.
Have you considered a low maintenance cover crop like no-mow grass or clover? They look like a good idea on paper, but are there side effects that are more trouble than the work of 'modern' lawn care?
> The problem in your case seems to have been more lack of confidence and experience on your part

yeah, I was like 23 at the time, and totally inexperienced. Had it happened now, 20+ years later, the conversation would have been totally different.
> In the western world the vast majority of people I know already have zero issues being tracked, advertised to, recommended to, and generally manipulated for "engagement" and profit.

The vast majority of people have no thought out opinion on the matter. They have no idea how much data is gathered about them, how it's sold and how it's used. Ignorance is not the same as affirmation.
knots in the real world (actual, real knots) don't have tied-together ends either. That's not what a knot is. The study of topology in math works on abstract math-knots.

Generally, any non-covalent bonds aren't considered to be topological connections in proteins, although salt bridges can definitely ahve bond energies not far from covalent bonds.
I believe you can sue anyone for anything. I don't think anything happened except people wasted time. There were no outright consequences for calling someone "pedo guy". The threat of law suits has certainly not bothered Alex Jones much.

You've got more free speech if you've got more money.

https://www.gawker.com/how-things-work-1785604699
Mark as spam.

The email application should include an option to mark the messages as spam.

For phonecalls and SMS texts, the phone should include an option to block the phone number.

You could notify the FCC about the offending spammer, too.
I agree, this seems like a distraction for him, and probably more ego driven than anything. Although much of his success has been through being a public figure on Twitter, maybe he sees it as investing in his image.
> I'm honestly wondering who they hired for the job

let me guess: bootcamp graduates? whoever was the cheapest?
That is a really good point. There is a certain kind of nationalism/exceptionalism inherent in the US deciding that Facebook is both too essential to be left to its own devices and that naturally the US should decide what its policies end up being for the rest of the world -- and I often forget that perspective because I'm in the US and to a certain extent guilty of forgetting about the wider implications of US policy sometimes.

On the other hand, a robust market has fewer of those problems -- the US deciding "we don't want a US company to control the entire market, and we want more companies with differing policies" doesn't have the same implications as the US deciding, "we want the US company to do what we want everywhere." So there's a lot less exceptionalism rolled up in the idea of subsidizing alternatives; and non-US governments have already started to talk about either subsidizing some alternatives like Matrix or adopting them internally within government departments.

Unless the idea is to only regulate how Facebook handles content being displayed to US users, but (while companies do often have country-specific policies), drastically increasing the scope of that kind of system has a lot of its own implications about filter bubbles and communication between countries.
That specifically worked for Greek democracies, which were as much about the ability to exclude the most powerful as they were to enable the public participation in power.
Time to take a second look at Mastodon. Or third.
Is flagging/moderation on HN also included in your free speech world view?

Do you believe you should be able to walk into any television station and step in front of a camera?

Free speech is not free soapbox.
We didn't even have those two platforms during most of my life.
Advertisers don't tend to like free speech absolutism.
The ACLU no longer works on protecting some aspects of free speech.

https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/558433-the-aclus-ci...

Which state government bills are you referring to?
American's act like the constitution is some uniquely divine document that makes them special. Honestly it's tiring.
NYC shooter’s delusions were likely fed by cultivation of racial resentment
These things happen only in consequence free environments(deleting a comment or blocking an account is not a the kind of consequence I'm talking about).

That's why I advocate for platforms with structured identity secrecy. Here are some more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31025271
I'm not sure how bad this actually is. I haven't examined all the env variables exposed, but it's fairly common to expose public-facing api keys for services that require client-side communication with a 3rd party API. E.g. for client-side bug tracking, search etc.
A lot of potentially harmful political speech on social media seems to avoid actual incitement, though. If there is a kind of speech such that the intent is to cause harm, and the effect is to cause harm, but its form allows it to be categorized as “free exchange of ideas”, I’m not sure how I can support this kind of view.
That’s a lot of zeros for some frozen peaches.
Twitter is where you can see journalists craft narratives and talking points about news stories in real time. It’s been incredibly revealing imo.