skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe those things would be within Twitter's rights, but would object to them as being bad ideas that would make me not want to use the platform. That isn't the same as saying I think Twitter doesn't have the right to do them, though.
Poland A and B, you can see it on a lot of maps, not only rails
That repository was updated: a0abbfc on Jan 4, 2020

And it's not the code. "Docs, issues, and artwork sources for GalliumOS"
I think the one thing you're missing out is the true potential downside. Which is that over the last decade Silicon Valley social media companies have taken an extra-ordinarily long and painful path to understanding how they need to handle speech on their platforms. Musk's position is basically "Do what Mark Zuckerberg did in the early 2010s". There is a reason why facebook no longer acts like that, there's a reason facebook has changed it's name to disassociate from that. And Facebook didn't suffer from their actions there - the commonwealth did.

Potentially this is Musk bringing back systematic misinformation, troll farms, accidentallly enabling genocides etc. etc.
Yep, do this all the time. Since I build web based I do end up making them public, but really only built for myself.
This is my experience also. The only time I had a 100 -> 10 -> 1 type experience was looking for my first job leaving the military. That mostly due to me over applying for jobs.
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There is, it's called AES67. It just isn't used much in consumer products. The acronym to google is AoIP ("audio over IP")
https://flexnetworks.ca/what-is-dark-fibre-why-would-i-want-....

It has two meanings. I have heard it most commonly used in reference to private fibre networks.
I believe -site:facebook will remove that site from your queries. Annoying but it is functional.
..does anyone else find some small irony in this, given that China is also the country fixated on CCTVs and social scoring of its own citizens in a panopticon of its own design?

I don't disagree with the premise of people > algorithm, just noting the almost strange disconnect between it and the underlying polity and its tendencies.
I have been trying to increase the quotas they set on my gcp account and the whole thing has been an absolute madness :

1) Try increasing number of nodes - > fails with some cryptic message saying number of in use addresses is hitting the quota limit.

2) Search through their absolutely garbage console to go to the exact page which has the quotas. Try editing - > See a tooltip (not even an error message just a tooltip) saying I can't do it my self and has to contact their support.

3) Contact their billing support and ask for quota increase. After taking all the details they redirect me to their sales support.

4) Contact their sales support and its like dealing with second hand car sales people. Even after clearly stating that I'm an existing customer, they want a complete biography of my whole business, its needs and everything else. At the end they say they don't have anyway to actually raise the quote increase request from their side.

5) They have helpfully assigned me a relationship manager for further 'assisting' me with evaluating their products and that I got a meeting request for next week to discuss our 'needs'.

Absolute garbage company with third rate support and sales people. And I can say that with confidence because I had the exact opposite experience with Linode when trying to raise limits on my account. Got a human to both respond and increase the limit almost immediately and I didn't need to provide any details about my business.

I'm with OP - Google products are absolute trash.
And they are in a position to suppress complaints via their search
I love Zoho! Used it on another project, and will certainly use it going forward.
Hi Folks -- one important thing I should highlight about Usage is that it's more than just a RI recommender. All Usage RIs are backed by guaranteed buy-back so if you stop using an RI, Usage buys it back. This ends the need for customers to try and forecast their compute needs 3 years into the future.
Welcome to another episode of "I re-define X to mean something else and prove my version Y, which is what people usually mean by X, is more correct."

I would argue that expecting people not to do this even though you see it every other day on HN is a variant of the Gambler's Fallacy :p
Furthermore, in the grand scheme humans beliefs being 'right' or 'wrong', people today probably have far more 'right' beliefs than ever during history. Conspiracy theories and wrong beliefs have been more prevalent in the past than today.
My only experience using really expensive software comes from the academic biotech sector, in which (for a while) there was a thriving high-end software business, with research groups paying $10K+ for a limited license for DNA sequencing and analysis software, and also software that came packaged with instrumentation, things like mass spectrometers, that cost $100K+.

The stand-alone software for DNA analysis has been mostly replaced by free open-source Python packages written by researchers who didn't want to pay the high fees or deal with things like distributing HASP dongles etc.

On the other hand, writing the software that comes packaged with expensive instrumentation, and that's optimized for that instrumentation, remains a viable business. The cost is bundled into the overall cost of the instrumentation setup. A research group/university that buys such instrumentation expects it to be supported over time, and so that's where low volume high end software production is not really going to change. The software is so closely integrated with the hardware, and software failure has such serious consequences, that there's no way FOSS could ever work in that situation. This is as you say a more business-to-business situation.
I don't think self-love is a good substitution. Pathological narcissism can have its source in extreme insecurity, which might not be too visible from the outside because it gets overacted.

Some self-centeredness is completely normal, you are your own protagonist, but too much of it is certainly bad on many metrics. Freud tends to generalise too much, especially on the topic of libido. His mentor Breuer is a better source in my opinion.

Insecure people might be too critical with themselves and would be afraid of being narcissistic perhaps. They should not in most cases.

> When you brush your teeth that's an expression of your narcissism

I don't believe any form of self-care is an narcissistic act. I think that softens it too much.

But technically the title is accurate since there is narcissism in everyone.
Ask HN: Tools for exploratory analysis of 10-100GB graphs
I've never had to work with any dataset bigger than L3 cache, so I'm somewhat out of my depth here.
I have a sample of the (relational) data that's about 10GB, with another 80GB available that may or may not be mostly garbage.

In the end I would like to have the graph in a visual interface to zoom and pan through it, and a way to experiment with different clustering algorithms based on some proximity measure (I have an idea for what those might look like).

I'm not a data scientist so I have no overview of the tooling landscape here and find it difficult to filter through endless pages of marketing for vaguely ML/Big Data related products. I'm not looking for an expensive ready-made solution, I do like to hack on things after all :)
>The technical know-how required to get a site online in the 90's, early 2000's was a big filter for the quality of its content.

It really wasn't. I don't know why people here believe that being able to set up a web server and write HTML has any relationship to the quality of the content being marked up and served. They're completely different things.

And by then Geocities, etc. were a thing and it didn't exactly take an engineering degree to use those.
> Which law? US law? German law? Chinese law?
That depends on where the abuser is I guess?

> What about cases where the defendant can’t pony up the money to sue?

You don't sue abusers and people who send you death threats you report them to the police
Ah, I see. If anyone doesn't appreciate his work sufficiently, they are not only wrong, but probably stupid or crazy if not outright evil.
You can just combine it with an electric motor. (Those are typically 95+% efficient.)
Censorship is an indelible part of human relations. You can never truly speak your mind, partly because the other person cant have it, but fundamentally because you cant either.
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FYI, this has been done: https://compcert.org/
Show HN: Team collaboration with different message types
The law doesn't specify what you get when you turn off the recommendations, largely because there are too many possibilities and it can't adequately define a solution over all products. The net result is companies will likely comply to the minimum extent possible allowing you to turn off your algorithmic feed by turning off your feed entirely. Many products will be useless without this feed so consumers will opt into turning it back on and nothing will change.

For example, with facebook, a good user experience would be turning off the algorithmic feed results in a purely temporal one with all your existing filters in place. I highly doubt facebook is going to reimplement a temporal feed to give people a viable option for turning off the feed they want them to use.

So my prediction is nothing will change because the algorithms disabled option will intentionally be a very poor experience designed to make you immediately turn the algorithms back on.
> so I know who to avoid

This is a good point! I think that the concept of "who do I want to associate with" is a different way to view things than "everyone I see in the world needs to treat me with agency"

I have a hard time knowing where that line is. Like you said,

> I AM a free speech absolutist (or close to it), even if it does result in some discrimination. (Even against me.)

People out there, due to their agency, may not agree with where my agency ends and theirs begins. I think if we have the privilege and feel able to "choose to avoid" those that we disagree with, we could have these discussions in the open without fear and actively change people's minds.

I don't know how to though. I've written about it here [1] but I still don't have a good answer for how do we draw that line of where your agency ends and mine/theirs begin.

[1] https://timonapath.com/articles/body-politic
It's an indicator, not always the best one though. Your car has probably started every time you tried for years, but if it's suddenly -50c it's a very good bet that it won't this time.

In this case it's pretty clear that Musk doesn't have the bandwidth to run another company in the same way as he runs Tesla and SpaceX. You can reach that conclusion any number of ways, counting the number of hours he (claims to/appears to) put in, listening to his own statements on the matter - where he has repeatedly outright said this, observing his relatively hand-off approach to his more recent ventures like neural-link or the boring company.

It seems unlikely that his behavior at Tesla or SpaceX is about to change significantly, so it seems unlikely that he'll try and take as active a roll at twitter.
I am 100% sure that Musk would be fine with people criticizing him, Tesla or SpaceX or anything else that he has a hand in and would never shut anything like that down. Like that time when he started a personal vendetta against someone who suggested he didn't know what he was talking ... oh, wait.
Mr.Chromebox is the MVP when it comes to running alt OS on Chromebooks, His Coreboot/Seabios[1] is the UEFI ROM which enables it. He also actively answers queries in the r/chultrabook & r/GalliumOS subreddits.

Gallium OS is needed because of some weird quirks with certain Chromebooks e.g. BayTrail chipsets require special drivers for Touchpad, microphone etc. from ChromeOS and only Gallium OS include them.

If you can get hold of a 11" Chromebook, Then installing Linux on it using Coreboot is the least expensive way to get a portable Linux computer with keyboard as Chromebooks are often subsidized.

Just ensure that the device is supported by Coreboot beforehand.

[1] https://mrchromebox.tech/
In my experience it would recommend "Ben Cooks part 5" after playing "Ben Cooks part 2", for some reason.
This is largely in line with changes in the regulatory landscape of China and particular the tech sector overall. Up until now China has let private business do whatever it wants with economic growth as pretty much the only goal but just like anywhere else it's created a big rift between social outcomes and market outcomes.

Over the last few years the language has changed from growth in a quantitative sense to a qualitative sense. Equity is a big concern in China nowadays with high levels of inequality, even old Communist sentiments reemerging in particular online among poorer demographics, 'ethics', 'reasonable corporate behavior' are phrases that nowadays pop up often in laws and party publications as well.

I think people should be cautiously optimistic about this because the fact that China is passing laws with real teeth that take welfare in a broad sense into account rather than just continuing with brute growth even if it hurts stock valuations short term is an indicator that governance is able to take a somewhat longer look.
If you think the premium isn't high enough, the best thing to do is borrow some money and launch your own bid. Go for it, I say!
This sounds really amazing. I'd love to read more about this!
>They don't let "just anyone" publish in a newspaper but almost all major newspapers allow voices across the political spectrum in the form of letters and op-eds.

Yes... that are heavily curated by the Editors. They don't publish every OpEd, nor every Letter to the Editor they get. Yes, they post dissenting viewpoints constantly - that is the function. But that isn't free speech at all in the context of social media and what you're describing.

>That's what free speech culture is about. It's the idea that "everyone gets their say"

Again, not everyone - not even most people get their say. Certainly none of the rantings and ravings get published. Solid, cogent, fair or interesting letters get published in credible platforms (i.e. newspapers and TV) - as determined by the Editors or the OpEd review boards depending on the governance of the particular platform.

> and by disagreeing and arguing, we get closer to the truth.

Agreed - but that has nothing to do with allowing all view points and anyone with an idea, no matter how dangerous or how bad. Hell, even in full page advertisements, Newspapers can and will choose not to take your money if it's something that they think is harmful or antithetical to their platform. And they always have.

This isn't new or unique.

>It's sad that more and more people are taking your view, which is that people can publish contrary opinions but there's no reason in particular to do so.

What I'm trying to share with you is that you are the outlier here. What everyone is describing is more or less status quo prior to social media taking an "anything goes" stance. That has never been the reality prior to that.
If you were our supreme leader, how would you prevent private individuals like Musk, Bezos, etc from acquiring their wealth, given it is tied up in the value of very useful companies they created ?
> I think Musk might stop that.

Given how he responds to employees at his companies exercising their free speech rights, you may be disappointed.
Private aviation in the US is still, somehow, allowed to use leaded avgas for small planes. It’s a small market but still enough to have an impact on the communities near airports. The FAA has shown little interest in the impact of the problem, and one can only hope the EPA will step in at some point. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/leaded-gas-wa...
Ah yes, the average multimillionaire.
Sounds similar to religious rituals, except that instead of praying in private or seeking private counseling to navigate the troubles of the world in terms of supernatural beings that supposedly care but don’t show it except randomly, it’s public.
I really want to believe in free speech absolutism, but have been really concerned how successful the "flooding the zone with shit" strategy in propaganda has been. This seems to have destabilized many western countries to varying degrees. The best solution I've heard for this is that we need better algorithms for what gets amplified by platforms and what doesn't. Similar to how thirty years ago I could have shouted all day about the moon landing being fake and it would have never made it into the evening news unless there was something more to it.

What's your thoughts on how we can defend against the shit flooding? I find yhis entire problem area really hard.
I think we've arrived at the point where all the town squares are owned by a private corporation who can - so I am told - do whatever they want on their property. I guess this was always the terminal destination of American society: stuck in a company town with nowhere to go, while the government just looks on saying "they're not doing anything illegal, so I can't help!"
How did he "get" the stock of his own companies? Who allocated the capital within those companies? Is not Musk's time a considerably valuable investment unto itself?

Also, reminder, he didn't found Tesla. He was one of its initial investors.

We can split hairs and refine definitions until we exclude him from the category of successful investors, but, at a certain point, it's a little hard to believe.

In any event, it is quite clear that Musk has no intention of being a silent investor. Rather, he's going to be an operator. And in that regard, he is nearly unparalleled.
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I count HN as a social media, so no.
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> Speech is sending and receiving information.

I think that's wrong. Speech is sending signals that are converted into information. The difference is, the information can be good or bad depending on what you already have. If we go with the usual Hitler example, Hitler's speech makes people take other people into concentration camps only if they are already inclined into doing it(i.e. if you air the Hitler speech in USA, Americans don't start putting the Jews on trains). Therefore, limiting Hitler's speech is like fighting infection with painkillers when you actually need antibiotics.
What's the connection?

The connection is that they aren't legally prevented from using any data that passes through their servers --- and in some cases allowing others to use it too.
What is network effects?
Well, I also believe that no single company should be allowed to have more than 10% market share in any market. So I would have competition, with different companies having different moderation policies.
fortunately for me I hate clothing with logos visible. why would I want to pay someone to advertise for them? I get the others do it to show off their wealth or taste.
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> Uh, the US constitution and a few centuries of case law?

i'm sorry, i interpreted your point to broadly be "free speech with limits", which i understand to be at-odds with the constitutional definition.

> The one example host I gave has been around 20 years.

no offense intended to them when i say i don't recall ever hearing about them in any setting, controversial or otherwise, which would lead me to believe they haven't experienced significant pressure to remove anything.

> [...] their content is subject to algorithmic manipulation

yes, i agree. "the algorithm" makes astroturfing much easier to perform and be effective.

> In a perfect world [...]

well then there's a bit of a bootstrapping problem here, no? principles like free-speech were idealized and create in order to make the perfect world (for some values of "perfect"). hell, in the "perfect" world, free-speech wouldn't even need protection. i don't think it's sensible to mandate a principle after the fact.

> which I'm still not sure would be considered a non-fringe opinion in 2022

there is no scientific consensus yet - surprise surprise - but we are at least now talking about it[1].

> but the alternative is worse

i'm not sure i agree with you here.

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/another-potential-covid-19-lab-...
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I agree. People on HN love to theorize about reshaping current social media platforms, and now we may get to see someone actually attempt to do it. I hope people aren't so invested in Twitter they would rather this not happen.
Programs are proofs in the same way solutions to arithmetic's problems are proofs, they typically don't prove anything interesting so are not considered proofs even though in practice you could map every program to some set of mathematical statements and vice versa.

Edit: And for this topic in question, If you don't understand what you are proving then you aren't working with proofs. I really doubt that programmers actually constructs their programs by mapping it to mathematical statements, seeing what it proves and then mapping it back to a program, so they are writing programs, not proofs.
Is Amplify backed by Cloudfront under the covers?
>In addition to his prison sentence, POLEVIKOV, 48, of Port Washington, New York, was ordered to pay forfeiture in the amount of $8,564,977 and a fine of $10,000.
You're making no distinction between the content of the coverage. The Hunter Biden laptop story was widely covered pre-election in the context of it being false or disinfo.

Politico: "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say" source: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-...

NPR: "Analysis: Questionable 'N.Y. Post' Scoop Driven By Ex-Hannity Producer And Giuliani" source: https://www.npr.org/2020/10/17/924506867/analysis-questionab...

Compilation of journalists calling it disinfo: https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1440402740409110528

I honestly don't think I am following your argument at all. The fact that they wrongly reported on something without evidence is exactly the point.
You are very right :) If you don't have an existing relationship with people who have budgets, my only guess is to have a blog that attracts inbound leads. I'd imagine x% of leads don't have a budget or buying desire though.
I'd argue that if one side is using bad faith techniques and creating a bad faith conflict, no amount of steel manning is going to make the debate into a good debate. You need good faith efforts from all sides to have a good result. Nothing can replace this.
I thoroughly enjoyed it. Overengineered certainly fits the bill, but boy do I love mine (Pentel Orenz).

At 0.2mm it’s great for a math, especially with the number of super and subscripts I find myself ending up with.

The redesigned clutch on the one pencil is a Kevin good idea I wish all pencils have. Being able to write till the last 0.5mm of lead instead of wasting 10mm.

10mm doesn’t sound like a lot, but standard lead is only 60mm long, so we’re talking about wasting 16% of the lead. It gets even worse if it happens to break into shorter pieces.
How many "important people" do you think exist on Twitter? It's a few thousand, maybe tens of thousands at most.

So that revenue is worth, what, $50,000 a year?
Any argument for legalizing something illegal can be seen as "glorification of crime".
By which nation?