skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that he could've, as a board member, said loudly (and publicly!) that the experience for high-follower, highly active accounts sucks, and they would've had to listen
Or the opposite (that information literacy is on the decline, and people who are more intelligent and better educated trust the news more, at least from credible sources like the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, and CNN).
Outside of Microsoft created QB64:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QB64

- https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-wild-events-that-nearly-t...

Outside of Microsoft created Visual Basic IDE:

- http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html

- https://github.com/wekan/hx/tree/main/prototypes/ui/gambas

Outside of Microsoft created FreeBasic:

- https://freebasic.net
You can still get in if you get a work visa, and it's not that difficult to get one if someone wants to employ you. (If you have a four year college degree.)
It's a round number, and assumes about 10% loss. But also, they can't make or launch the sats for $1.25 million each yet, so it might not be a bad number.

Also, by my math, 5:1 oversubscribed is about breakeven, and it appears to be what Starlink does (reports of 10-50 mbps by users).
Even multiple ISPs might not help.

I remember a DC issue where they had two physically separate ISP attachments from different sides of the building.
Cable cut takes out ENTIRE DC.

Why? While the ISPs were different, at one (farther upstream) point they were both leasing fiber that ran through a single conduit -- so you need understanding of the physical structure of the network, not just "different ISPs".
You went straight to personal attacks. You may be the one that needs to grow up.

If you disagree with my summaries or don't think they occurred in the thread, dispute it. I see no reason to attack me personally.
Here is the whole thing: https://soundcloud.com/pauloakenfold/paul-oakenfold-radio-1-...
https://twitter.com/HNStatus
Discussed recently at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32000400
Please don't do internet psychiatric diagnosis on HN. It's a marker of low-quality threads.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Why do you hate Postgres? I think that's the first time I've ever heard someone say that.
On the other hand, if you're a ballot trafficker, this is good news for you and the non-profits and NGOs abetting you.
C# is getting support for generic math in 11 with the addition of static abstract members (including operators) for interfaces.
And the mental illness of worshiping billionaires seems to have spread worldwide. Why else would you leap to defend elon musk's erratic behavior, and carry water for the damage he leaves in his wake?
What I Mean When I Say 'Ban Cars'
> but others will be more interested in protecting the future of Twitter as a company and platform.

Almost everyone votes their economic interest.
Which ones? Basically any way of him dumping billions of Tesla stock would've immediately popped the price. With this action, not only did he get plausible deniability, he also got a massive distraction on top.
I think the disconnect often comes from various adjustments made for things like seasonality or yearly tracking changes. While the SA numbers showed a large, removing the seasonal adjustment showed a 79k increase in the raw numbers.. This isn't to say they are wrong, just that I don't people really take that into account like the econ numbers do so you get this separation.
Notice that he is not, in fact, converting it.
I’m not sure there are any news outlets remaining that I would consider credible, at least not consistently. They all have substantial black marks.
Yea but you can move 100 people with 1 person driving the tram. Basically automated. They are glorified babysitters. Forward and stop. End of the line, they walk to the opposite end of the tram and do it again.

You don’t need full automation with the efficiency that trains provide when moving lots of people.
Isn’t the entire breakup clause contractually written in?

From my understanding, the current choice is:

1. Does Elon get sued by Twitter to force sale, per the initial agreement, where Elon agreed to allowing Twitter to force a sale.

2. Does Elon just pay the billion separation clause and walk away.

Do you see it differently?
What's the point of publishing a report if they only intend to explain part of why they think only one of three interest groups in those categories don't trust them? The abysmally low numbers in the first place could start with an explanation, maybe one that doesn't shift the blame onto the viewer and takes accountability?

I say this as someone would be an independent or Democrat on this graph.
Something between France and Britain, i.e., abortion cutoff somewhere between 14 (France) and 24 weeks (British). Make it a clean bill. Leave out late term, identity and gender politics, etc. The bill would pull 60 votes, IF AND ONLY IF, anyone cared about a woman having the right to an abortion. They do not.
Well Miami, the golden city of fraudsters, dealers and epimps.Such a lovely city reduced to these conmen.
That doesn't really hold for TV news, though. And even though it is annoying in print when articles fail to stand up their headlines, it doesn't necessarily mean that readers dismiss such articles entirely. It's more that they get pissed at the headline writers. Cf any number of articles headlined as a cancer "breakthrough" or an asteroid "heading for Earth" etc.
I don't think we are reading the same thread or even the same site.
You have to register to use twitter. Marsh v Alabama had nothing to do with compuserve. That would matter if a website was truly a de facto public square, but given the whole registration thing, they're not.

The compuserve case led to section 230 of the CDA being created, but again that doesn't have to do with Marsh v Alabama. To have that apply, you'd need to make the argument that Twitter both is, and intends to be a public square, and well, the fact that they have posted moderation policies makes it clear that they don't.
That scheduling form example is just incredible. No ad network should allow this sort of trash. It really makes me want to walk away from computers and into a forest forever.
While I believe that this is a tactic that gets used, it shouldn't work. And therefore it is points to probable regulatory failures. Note that the theory here is that the majors will offer cheap prices if the infra is duplicated.

That means "I" (my building) could build my (our) own fibre connection and then use that as leverage to get cheap internet without having to actually run it. It'd be a bit silly, but sounds long-term profitable.

The focus should be on enabling this sort of competition.
No. The less we rely on Big Tech to think for us, the better.
APL seems like a great language for computer graphics! Has anyone tried their hands at the same?
I legitimately think removing Musk’s account from the platform entirely might be their best bargaining chip to actually get the deal to go through.
Is this... a deliberate attempt at constructing a Rube Goldberg machine?

In all seriousness, at least 2/3rds of the complexity is because of your choice of tools and approach. Terraform alone makes things significantly more complex. If you just want to trigger a deployment, then a Template Spec made from a Bicep file could be banged out in like... an hour.[1]

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. You basically took a Microsoft product and tried to automate it with a bunch of Linux-native tools. Why would you think this would be smooth and efficient?

Have you ever tried automating Linux with VB Script? This is almost the same thing.

[1] Someone had a similar example here using Logic Apps and a Template Spec: https://cloudjourney.medium.com/azure-template-spec-and-logi...
Singular "Lego" is revisionist history.

https://books.google.com/books?id=VCwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA39&dq=%2...
Thanks!

I didn’t know that type-1 diabetes was an autoimmune disease.
GSuite or Microsoft. In another life I would spend time with a custom solution, but now, I just want to get up and running fast.
Highly recommend the podcast series It Could Happen here if anyone's interested in this topic

Only season 1 though. For some reason it turned into a weekly show later. The original season was specifically a deep dive into the possibility of Civil War in the US based on a book the author had written.

It was made in 2019 and, to be honest, it's been a little terrifying how many of the predictions have come to pass. Definitely gives you some perspective though. I listened as someone who initially wrote the idea off as far-fetched and have to admit I'm much more receptive to the possibility after listening

https://open.spotify.com/show/3KNdniw6YDpgDuwrhcpSXw
Someone's going to get people on Mars, but it's not going to be Elon Musk.
Ars accidently linked the wrong WSJ article. They meant to link today's https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-offers-concessions-to-fe...

As part of one offer, Google has proposed splitting parts of its business that auctions and places ads on websites and apps into a separate company under the Alphabet umbrella
> Did anyone actually try reading the article? The concept here is not to obfuscate things but rather to de-couple Google's search engine and Google's Adwords products.

But the entire latter half of the article is dedicated to explaining how the proposed change is superficial and doesn't address the regulator's concerns. It asks, "Is there a difference between 'Google' and 'Alphabet?'" and the article's conclusion is basically a no.
What was the technical excuse for people getting scammed before UI?

Has anyone considered the real scam is using people like monkeys pushing UI buttons for carrot sticks?
Ask HN: How do I properly secure a windows server machine using FOSS tools?
I manage a windows server machine for a small business. I do it part time for my brother's business. I've enabled usual protection suggested by Microsoft like regular scan, backup, write protection in certain folders with whitelist etc. Are there FOSS tools that I can use to manage, monitor and secure Windows machine. His office also has 7-8 windows laptops connecting to this "server" which is just a powerful AMD desktops class machine with good storage and memory. How can I manage this small fleet and secure them also?
As an American both right and left leaning news outlets don’t seem trustworthy. I find right wing news particularly annoying as it seems to amount to anger spewing and name calling in many cases. Left wing outlets are no angels either and present an extremely biased and hyperbolic picture of the world.
I wondered this early on. More so when I thought he would actually buy twitter as Twitter had had some serious share price decline at that point for over 6 months, so it's a way to shift money from an inflated area to a more moderately priced one. Plus he obviously likes the platform in general.

If true, I don't think it's the case he did it intending to pull out. Seems unlikely he would have signed the billion dollar exit clause when he could have easily dragged the initial talks on a bit longer for largely the same result before 'changing his mind'.

My best guess is the offer was genuine (thought impulsive) but as he's seen the price drop further, now his offer seems too much. Why pay $44bn for a sub $30bn company. Kinda simple but seem most likely than all these more complex theories.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it is not my impression... keep in mind that Florida is a very populous state though (3rd), so it should get more then most other states if you go by percentage...

Also, when it is a Florida story, they tend to include the State name first in the title (i.e.: "Florida Man" stories) and not include it at all for some other states.
The FTC does do some things, but below a certain threshold it doesn’t bother. There is lots and lots and lots of crime that does not get prosecuted or otherwise litigated.
parent was quoting the original mini-poem, created after Scarebus* had many pilot induced issues due to the new paradigms in the cockpit (sidesticks, etc.)
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*-term from the same era
To me, Gmail these days feels more and more like it's been designed by somebody who don't actually use email.

In this case, the top priority should be display name, (verified) source address and time of reception. The To and BCC line is not that important, thus can be folded under description such as "To you and another...".

I hear that product design in Google is data driven, I'm not really sure what UX data Gmail team has been consuming.
The Egyptian billionaire CEO had some choice words about the Canadian business climate as he was in the process of divesting of wind mobile: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.1013522
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32025858
Getting pissed at headline writers and not trusting the media not to lie to you, I am not so sure are two separate things.
You can instantiate it with [any] then use whatever you'd like https://go.dev/play/p/JeSuB_xYNEf, but I don't think it would work with a type constraint such as `int|string`, which would be a fair point.
Too many bots.
Kind of like the boy brigade here.
I push changes on my own all the time, but the work of getting HN running again today was overwhelmingly done by my brilliant colleague mthurman.
Look at the CNN main page right now: https://www.cnn.com/

For me it shows:

1) Mass shooting porn (several different items)

2) Something about Twitter

3) Different shooting

4) Assassination of the former PM of a G7 country (somehow below the fold)

5) Trump

6) Abortion

Only after much scrolling do you get to a story about the economy, which polls report is the single most important issue to most Americans.
While I'm all for ranting about too much control by too few players...

How is this different then any "big" player having issues? (Think AWS, Big US ISP, large payment provider such as VISA/MC)

I don't think most NEVER thought about network issues ... but rather a calculated risk, as long outages tend to be a rare occurrence. It's honestly cheaper to eat losses on a day like today then to pay for redundancy and availability.
Of course, it's all programming.
But now it's replaced by forums like this and all the bots.
I just got a new synthesizer and this will help practice on a small scale length, nice job!
So what though?

Is Twitter going to spend the next few years litigating this just to force someone to buy the company that doesn't want to? Elon's team can drag this on and on.

What will happen to the value of Twitter's stock in the meantime? What will happen to the value of working at Twitter? It'll become a zombie company.
One issue with lobste.rs invites is they are a mechanism to vouch for a person. Whoever invited you will show up in your public profile. So there’s a reputation risk if you invite who later gets a lot of negative attention. (Which is why I’ve yet to invite anyone.)

Edit: Here is the text for that.

Invitations are unlimited, but persons you invite will be associated with your account in the user tree and you may be responsible for them if they cause problems. Please use your discretion when inviting persons you don't personally know.
AD is ok until you have to get some oddball issue fixed. It’s obtuse, with a mix is old and new (and really old) front ends, and a bajillion options that interact in non-obvious ways.
Eventually your salvation will be found in a 17 minute video walkthrough recorded by some Brazilian hacker who happens to mention that you must configure X like so, or Y won’t work.

This is setting up SSO btw. MS management tools are a dumpster fire.
"Twitter has tremendous potential"

He may have been honest and correct about that, but later realized that he simply does not have the time to be CEO of yet another large company.
Further to that : https://brilliantmaps.com/half-canada/
Depends on the jurisdiction. In BC Canada at least, it has to be by time.
Most people do not liquidate billions of assets while waiting for due diligence to go through. They wait for diligence, then liquidate the assets.
The explanation that makes the most sense to me is that as the Internet and cable tv gave news organizations greater reach they tended to become partisan in order to differentiate themselves. Truth is no longer profitable to the extent it contradicts what their audience wants to hear.
CNN is credible? According to whom?
Silver dollars are still minted and are legal tender, but of course it would make more sense to trade them in for their silver value.
I am in Toronto and I don’t use Rogers. Nevertheless Rogers slows down 4g traffic for most providers. It is fun watching how tones of services and sites simply stop functioning when internet slows down
That’s true. But high school student suicide by gun is much more common.
> Is Go that bad?

I'm personally no fan of Go (mostly due to the ergonomics of the standard library), but all this about generics is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Go has a fantastic generics design.

> cost/investment ratio in Go is really good for writing server-side stuff.

And this 100%.
Perhaps there should be a law similar to the law on the books regarding debt collectors who harass people. $1K fine every time a customer requests and is denied data regarding who supplied the robocaller with their personal information. I was in a traffic accident last year, and I slow-walked getting my car fixed before they informed me that it was actually totaled. Within 3 weeks of purchasing my new vehicle, the robocallers knew that I had a new car and were now calling me regarding the extended warranty of the new car as well as the totaled one.
“Wal-Mart for the wealthy” is probably a very profitable demo to serve.
They burnt through all the cultural capital they had by spending it on short-term political victories. Now people see the media not as a source of information, but as an instrument of the establishment to influence and control.

The same will happen with the other institutions. We already have large amount of people skeptical of the CDC, WHO, and other health oriented orgs. We have growing skepticism of large financial institutions (fed & inflation, IMF & "you will own nothing", etc.). There is widespread skepticism of academic institutions, which will cause the value of academic titles to depreciate.

All this because the people who control these institutions insist on using them as political instruments (at certain times).

I wonder what the situation will be 50 years from now...
The problems trying to develop a royalty-free video standard at ISO might be instructive here. MPEG floated a standard called IVC (Internet Video Coding) that was specifically designed to only use Option 1[0] patented inventions. After it was published they got a bunch of Option 2[1] declarations that effectively killed the standard. ISO doesn't actually require patent holders to declare what patents are being infringed if they are making an Option 2 offer, so there's no means to actually redesign the spec to not use those patents.

I'd like to introduce you to a man named Leonardo Chiariglione - co-founder of MPEG, if not the entire concept of FRAND patent pools. He has a rather long blog post from 2018 detailing ISO's growing patent problems here: https://blog.chiariglione.org/a-crisis-the-causes-and-a-solu...

The ending of this story is that Leonardo was fired or forced out about two years ago, and MPEG is dead - or, more accurately, cut into like five different pieces. There's a bunch of patent holders who are angry that patent revenues have fallen since the MPEG-2 days, angry that H.264 has zero-cost licensing for certain industries, and are deliberately trying to break the whole FRAND licensing system with conflicting H.265 patent pools to try and extort more money out of codec implementers. Leonardo tried to make ISO aware of this and several unnamed national entities vetoed him.

My conspiratorial guess is that one of those national entities is the EU, or perhaps ECMA[2]; being lobbied on by the same companies that gave us Velos Media and/or Access Advance. Those same people are probably whispering sweet nothings in the EU regulators' ears. "Look, Google is trying to use their market power to not pay for video codec patents![3] Ignore all the other sketchy stuff we're doing on the other end."

[0] ISO-speak for patents whose owners pledge to license them on a royalty-free basis

[1] ISO-speak for patents whose owners pledge to join a patent pool

[2] Can you tell I have limited knowledge of how ISO is organized?

[3] Leonardo himself actually also believes this and is arguably more opposed to AOM than the EU regulators are.

EDIT: I probably should also include another link to Leonardo's blog: https://blog.chiariglione.org/video-compression-patents-an-o...
> Now obviously that's at a different scale

This is exactly why the rest of your argument is wrong. The difference is scale is so vast that it makes the new surveillance society something completely different from people seeing other people in public as they have done for thousands of years.

> no one had the willpower to memorize a million faces

Because it was literally impossible for someone to memorize a million faces. Let alone a few billion. And their precise location 24x7.

At most you'd have the occasional shopkeeper with a sharp memory who might remember a few thousand regulars. But even that information wasn't available via quick database query. You had to send investigators with photos to interview people.
That would be implying that a Musk company was in trouble. They constantly are in trouble, but he can never say it or else it breaks the fiction that Musk companies are predestined to be amazingly successful.
Thank you! I make beats so I typically only use one or two octaves as well. Love the synths. Which kind?
I think that list includes fully-enclosed or indoors rail such as inside an airport.

While I agree that in one sense it 'counts' , I did mean to discuss the regular sort of line that moves people past properties owned by different people, or between neighborhoods, etc.
Trust is low because I read a science journalism article recently that claimed mit (or somebody else) had found, but we’re not sharing, drugs that prolonged life spans by 30%. In reality, the report said that they found a drug that raised levels of a certain chemical predictably in mice and humans, and did not venture further claims. The article is fraudulent and almost every science news post does it.

If the media wants to be trusted, they need to stop lying
Actually, these sorts of things are expected in merger agreements, baked into almost all of them. It isn't unusual, when the seller doesn't provide the required data for the purchaser's due diligence that the agreement will terminate.

Who in their right mind would spend billions of dollars without being allowed to "look at the books" regarding the spam account ratio?
This is an honest question: how do they (the FCC, et al) know the responsible parties but they haven’t stopped them?
I mean if they just want to arrest you, they can just cite you for "disorderly conduct" or similar and take you in.

If they want to cite you for this law, you'd either have a recording to show the jury, or the cop would have to explain to the court why they cited you for recording them when there was no recording.

In short, this doesn't move the needle on bogus arrests and makes it clear at what distance you should be when recording the cops to avoid getting in their way, so it seems pointless to fight it.
EpicWin - RPG Style to-do-list... hasn't been updated in way too long and is ad supported, but otherwise is an entertaining to-do-list app.
> "credible sources"

Only for the credulous
This was the first time I bet against musk and it is paying off
I might have agreed with you on the first 3 many years ago. Even NPR has gotten really bad with the burying of headlines.

At this point, the best thing people can do is to just glance at the news when it presents itself and then otherwise move on with their lives. If there's any good to come out of the age of disinformation, it's that maybe people will stop doomscrolling the news.