skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My view is that there's a rather complex feedback dance which works in both directions.

See Umberto Eco's description of Ur-Fascism: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fasci...

Robert O. Paxton's "The Five Stages of Fascism" (https://web.archive.org/web/20170221113224/http://theleder.c...) and The Anatomy of Fascism (https://archive.org/details/anatomyoffascism00paxt_0) make a case that I interpret as much of what we view as fascist behaviour seems to be information-theoretic, and typical of any culture or community under increasing stress. (This raises several grim prospects.)

Dwight MacDonald's 1956 take on mass media describes much, "A Theory of Mass Culture": https://is.muni.cz/el/1421/jaro2008/ESB032/um/5136660/MacDon...

Edward Jay Epstien's News from Nowhere (1973) discusses the considerations in national television news production. Many of those constraints have been lifted (it's now far easier to capture, transmit, and edit content), others have been introduced (there's far more competition for audience), and some remain largely constant (there are only 60 minutes in an hour, or 30 in a half, of which a substantial portion is lost to advertising). The news business is a constant juggle between sourcing material, producing it for broadcast, audience maintenance, and working within the confines of a time-bounded medium.

https://archive.org/details/newsfromnowheret0000epst

(Several of these works are NOT on my previously-linked biography.)

A general consequence is that commercially-organised media and majority-based governance seem to have a number of factors and dynamics which drive them toward demagogic / nationalistic populism. This may be problematic.
It's interesting the FCC takes a stand against robocalls while the USPS would happily deliver offers to sell my grandmother into slavery directly into my mailbox. It baffles me that all spam doesn't fall under the definition of harassment.
There's this interesting dynamic, which links those who insist on "quality news media" and those canceling their subscription for the media not being partisan enough and allowing opinions or stories which do not necessarily fit the editorial policy of the media. (Where this policy defines a safe space for what may show up as a confrontation with reality).

Which may feed the thought that it was never that much about "quality journalism", but about "quality debate arguments". So another view on this may be rather about the decline of the quality of prefabricated debate arguments, which are arguably hard to find on social media. As it seems, the apparent answer for subscription based media was to double down on partisanship, but also to embrace the easy-to-digest quality of electronic media formats.
Did you miss the problem with the landing alone?
Most other people don't have access to nearly the same levels of capital that would allow them to fail at multiple millions, now billions, of dollars investments. And of the few that do have that money they are generally fairly risk adverse to losing so much when they can get near guaranteed returns rather than making huge gambling risks. Especially when doubling your millions of dollars would mean basically nothing in terms of quality of life improvements.
They can't want that, because it was a term Musk explicitly waived, publicly and notoriously, before he attempted to finance the deal. It was newsworthy, and well covered, that Musk secured the 13Bn of LBO debt in the first place.
The news is not only shaped by news "organs" but also shaped these days by journalists themselves with their own interests and agendas whereas before they had an editor to dampen some of that personal stuff.

But now we have journalists lying in the face of facts or ignoring strong counterarguments.

In other words they have more or less all have their personal slant and push it to the fore without much restraint. There is little nuance. And by god, do they copy pasta talking points. Today Shinzo Abe out of the blue acquired the adjective "divisive".
> so the best negotiating tactic he has is being a disruptive asshole so TWTR

Been successful at that.
if you gave him 2 torches and strapped the binos to his head you'd have full duplex.
A real shame too, I love flying on the A380. It's so big it just slides through the air like butter, and the higher cabin pressurization makes you feel more alert when you arrive (plus the fact that you probably slept better since it wasn't bouncing around as much).
Instead of all this interpretation you're posting, why don't you post the actual language of the deal so people can decide for themselves?
How much are spaceX paying for a launch?

How much does Immarsat of Iridium pay for a launch?
Ask HN: Which startups will have a hard time in the next few years
Which startups do you think in the next few years will have a hard time keep up with their valuation and growth? Name the startups and why.

(If you are thinking crypto, specify which company and why that specific company)
Aside, but I truly don't understand how Amazon can get away with how poorly they pack product. I work on the IT management side of fulfillment, and have been involved with shipping vendor negotiations as well as auditing our return/damage/shipping claims. Amazon routinely ships product in comically oversized boxes which increases the likelihood of damage to the point it is a meme.

Having worked on it, I get that sizing packaging is a tremendously complex optimization problem that even other experienced programmers underestimate the complexity. The options for different package size grow factorially with different product selections, and it isn't possible to have every size box available in a packing station. However, it isn't an unsolvable problem to pack better. Optimizing split shipments to increase effeciency is tremendously complex, but calculating the box size needed for an order is actually pretty trivial (ignoring packing density, which is oddly often a reasonable assumption for shipping goods to the consumer). Amazon can certainly improve here, just by using routing packages to a packing station with a closer box size and having differing box sizes in each station.

I have always assumed that, given their scale, Amazon doesn't necessarily face the same price hit that a normal shopper faces when sending an oversize package. I have gotten multiple shipments from Amazon that were so oversize that, at my company's shipping pricing, would likely result in a net loss due to shipping cost. However, I suspect that Amazon has negotiated rates that insulate them from this, and the shipping companies take a loss on individual packages to gain the volume.
BART had regular rail profile and non-tapered wheels, so flange squeal (and wear) was apparently a real issue. I'm not sure why they decided on this, since it runs counter to normal railway practice. This article has a story but I wonder if it wasn't just more NIH.

https://sf.streetsblog.org/2018/06/08/bart-makes-headway-aga...
He won't, because 1) there was nothing in the contract about bot numbers and 2) Twitter probably isn't lying about mDAUs and bots.
> If you disagree with my summaries or don't think they occurred in the thread, dispute it.

Disputed. Please show a comment that says the following:

> Twitter is allowed to claim whatever % of spam bots they want for the deal

and this

> Twitter's censorship is actually a good thing, here's why...
> Then, as a cop, you arrest them.

That's not a realistic suggestion, though. If a cop is already arresting someone who's violently resisting, and then a crowd pushes in, are you seriously going to suggest he needs to ask the guy he was wrestling to "put a pin in this" while he arrests several other people for crowding?

There needs to be an effective way to make people aware and discouraged ahead of time from crowding in too close. I'm not sure what the right answer is, but "just arrest the whole crowd if you think they're interfering" is not it.
Then he gets a fun lesson about counterparty risk?
Jewel Scarab
I don't know much about Russia so I won't comment on that. However I am skeptical about any comparisons people make between China and Russia. China and Russia are very different. People often make comparisons because they're just projecting, assuming that just because both have the reputation of being "authoritarian" that reasoning applied to Russia can be transferred to China.

So not commenting on Putin. But saying that Xi is a kleptocrat is 1) an opinion, and 2) doesn't match the reality of many opinions in China and why people have that opinion, and 3) doesn't match the actual facts of how he came to power or what he does on a daily basis (as opposed to MSM representation of his persona). That is not helpful for a fact-based discussion.

If the Chinese govt screws up badly enough, there will be a revolt. It has happened tons of times in the past 2000 years and it will happen again.

You attribute Chinese opinion too much to propaganda. Many who cross over the firewall are disillusioned: they assumed that China is full of propaganda and that the west is a beacon of truth and free speech, only to find out that western media lies a lot about China and that Chinese media has been more truthful than they thought. Chinese opinion about things are also far more nuanced than you give it credit for.

Don't just copy-paste your assumptions about Russia onto China. China deserves to be analyzed on its own, using non-western paradigms.
They're not obligated to; boards can pretty much do whatever they want.

However, Twitter's board doesn't use Twitter and doesn't actually seem to care about it at all, so they're not exactly going to claim to shareholders they can run it better than an offer that much above its current value.
Way to dangle that half-full glass of water in his face.
Using services like Postmark, the concern becomes smaller.

No one should send emails that should land in a human's inbox directly off a bare random IP.

At least, by running your own email instance, it gives you the ability to easily debug what the problem is with direct logs.
I recently used Starlink in outback South Australia. It was faster than most wired internet I've used in Melbourne or Sydney.
Singapore does a decent job. I was paying $10/month for a 10GB mobile plan.

There are 5 different mobile providers in Singapore: Singtel, Starhub, M1, MyRepublic, ViewQwest and WhizComms.

Many of them also do fiber broadband. Some government body owns the infrastructure and the providers provide the connection to the internet. There are 5 providers as well.

I was paying $50/month for 1GB fiber and I paid more since I did a shorter term plan. If you buy in for 2 years, it's can be $35/month.

And this is in a country of 5.5M people.
How does a Wikipedia page improve my life and why do I have to dig into it rather than seeing these innovations around me first hand? As for Russia, remember you are talking to a Russian. Sure Pushkin was pretty good, in early 19th century. What good did you see coming out of Russia in 21st century, which we are almost a quarter into? Lots of things being invented in US suggest that US circumstances are pretty good for inventing and bringing inventions to mass use.
The reps are in the merger agreement, ie a contract.

There is a covenant in the contract about running the business between signing and closing.

The claim is breach of contract.
Demo: https://demo-doctr-tensorflowjs.mindee.com/
Musk probably believes he can grow the company into a $100B+ company.
Ah, yes. Correction. BARTD wheels are flat like the tracks, unlike other rail profiles which are tapered on flat. BARTD wheels are flat on flat.
Neat, but you should really have helped a different project if possible https://github.com/pianobooster/PianoBooster attack least make.it's clear why two exists if they are different
Don't you have to break the law to go to prison? Or are we trying to recreate the old comintern and frame fallguys in order to make us feel justice was served when sad things happen.
Google is always about backend. They suck on the frontend (except Maps) but somehow they never want to change that habit.
You’re just out of loop. Webpack is the current big thing. It rose to prominence after grunt and gulp, which were both build automation tools. Webpack supplanted them by being a “one stop shop” for many of the things grunt and gulp were used for. However, as always happens, that convenience spiraled into increasing complexity as people wanted more and more out of their builds.
> Elon has a terrible case here, so the best negotiating tactic he has is being a disruptive asshole so TWTR just wants it done with (this is playing to his strengths).

Twitter isn't trying to stop him, probably because they don't use their product and may have forgotten they can just ban him.
I would imagine tunnels are last mile(s). Cargo depot 1-2 miles outside of town, then down into a tunnel with a couple of terminals near major square(s), last 300ft being via scooter or whatever
Wow. It's possible that you have nailed this.

Edit: here's why I like this theory. I don't believe that the two disks had similar levels of wear, because the primary server would get more writes than the standby, and we switched between the two so rarely. The idea that they would have failed within hours of each other because of wear doesn't seem plausible.

But the two servers were set up at the same time, and it's possible that the two SSDs had been manufactured around the same time (same make and model). The idea that they hit the 40,000 hour mark within a few hours of each other seems entirely plausible.

Mike of M5 (mikiem in this thread) told us today that it "smelled like a timing issue" to him, and that is squarely in this territory.
The pixel call screen works pretty well
Looking at the chart on the bottom left on pg 12 https://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/BART%20Stabili... 6 ft+ gauge rail looks to be required just to get the 0 margin of stability to withstand the 100 mph+ wind speeds San Francisco has seen https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/23-years-ago-strong-st... Although, it would make more sense to stop running the trains in 67 mph+ winds due to the average individual being pushed adversely by the wind such as at a station.
https://youtu.be/WAwDvbIfkos (video of Feynman explaining how trains stay on the track)

Is this it? I found it in my YouTube history.

Or this one, which superimposes free body diagram (of forces) on the wheels to show how it is self stabilizing? https://youtu.be/XzgryPhtc1Y
Not just carpet, but padded wool seats -- those were replaced with padded water-repellant vinyl a decade ago, which sounds like a long time until you realize that it had cloth seats for 40 years before that.

Absorbent wool was, as you might imagine, unbelievably nasty. Among other things I saw on BART, I once saw a guy with severe flesh necrosis on his foot sit with said foot, bandages taken off, pressed against the seat. Of course, minor issues like diarrhea and vomit stains were more typical.

As why carpets and wool, the answer is actually just about as interesting as the linked article. Back in the 60s / 70s when BART started operating, it was one of the first metro subways. Its creators envisioned it as a futuristic luxury ride, whisking businesspeople and tourists in and out of far-flung suburbs to the glimmering high-rises of San Francisco. Everyone would be wearing a suit or a nice dress, and they would sigh in relief each time they daintily sat down in these airline-style seats.

The actual future turned out to be a bit more disappointing...
The state's monopoly, qua Max Weber, is on the legitimate use of violence.
That is, the right and legitimacy of that right, is restricted to the state.

Absent this, one of three conditions exist;

1. There is no monopoly. In which case violence is widespread, and there is no state.

2. There is no legitimacy. In which case violence is capricious. This is your condition of tyranny (unaccountable power).

3. Some non-state power or agent assumes the monopoly on legitimate violence. In which case it becomes, by definition the State.

The state's claim is to legitimacy. A capricious exercise would be an abrogation of legitimacy

Weber, Max (1978). Roth, Guenther; Wittich, Claus (eds.). Economy and Society. Berkeley: U. California P. p. 54.

https://archive.org/details/economysociety00webe/page/54/mod...

There's an excellent explanation of the common misunderstanding in this episode of the Talking Politics podcast: https://play.acast.com/s/history-of-ideas/weberonleadership

The misleading and abbreviated form that's frequently found online seems to have originated with Rothbard, and was further popularised by Nozick.
I'm just getting into this kind of music - do you have any recommendations?
Show HN: Logto, OSS to build sign-in experience and user identity within minutes
I’m confused about what you’re trying to say. CNN ran the jobs and unemployment numbers this morning when they came out. And they are in fact on the homepage.

Contrast with FoxNews.com, which doesn’t have the numbers at all on the homepage (as far as I can tell, maybe I’m missing them, it’s late) and instead has an opinion from Larry Kudlow about how he thinks a recession is coming. Also after much scrolling. They did report the numbers though.

What is your point exactly?
Okay, plot twist. Musk never intended to buy twitter. Whole ploy was to get access to twitter’s firehose of data to train his AI.

On the serious side, I can’t believe someone would gamble with half of his net worth. But this is Musk!
> Complaining Twitter rate-limited his API access (which would be very foolish on their part)

I have recently built a Twitter application with the new V2 API. They do have undocumented API rate limits[1] while the developer documentation says something else[2].

And if you see the discussions at Twitter developer forum, It takes a while for the Twitter representative to find that the issue is because of the undocumented rate limit because it's somewhere deeply integrated into their system(But still wouldn't update the official docs). Besides the Twitter rate limit covers every Twitter application used by the user incl. their official Twitter clients.

So I wouldn't be surprised if they gave Musk a privileged API token but forgot to whitelist it against their hidden, obscure rate limits; Of course this could have been noticed early on Musk's side and it's possible that they chose to attribute it to malice.

[1] https://twittercommunity.com/t/undocumented-twitter-list-rat...

[2] https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/rate-limit...
> So the leading hypothesis seems to be that perhaps the SSDs were from the same manufacturing batch and shared some defect.

Really sorry that you had to learn the hard way, but this is unfortunately common knowledge :/ Way back (2004) when I was shadowing-eventually-replacing a mentor that handled infrastructure for a major institution, he gave me a rule I took to heart from then forward: Always diversify. Diversify across manufacturer, diversify across make/model, hell, if it's super important, diversify across _technology stacks_ if you can.

It was policy within our (infrastructure) group that /any/ new server or service must be build-able from at least 2 different sources of components before going live, and for mission critical things, 3 is better. Anything "production" had to be multihomed if it connects to the internet.

Need to build a new storage server service? Get a Supermicro board _and_ a Tyan (or buy an assortment of Dell & IBM), then populate both with an assortment of drives picked randomly across 3 manufacturers, with purchases spread out across time (we used 3months) as well as resellers. Any RAID array with more than 4 drives had to include a hot spare. For even more peace of mind, add a crappy desktop PC with a ton of huge external drives and periodically sync to that.

He also taught me that it's not done until you do a few live "disaster tests" (yanking drives out of fully powered up servers, during heavy IO. Brutally ripping power cables out, quickly plugging it back in, then yanking it out again once you hear the machine doing something, then plug back in...), without giving anyone advance notice. Then, and only then, is a service "done".

I thought "Wow, $MENTOR is really into overkill!!" at the time, but he was right.

I credit his "rules for building infrastructure" for having a zero loss track record when it comes to infra I maintain, my whole life.
The law does not seem to stop an officer from walking close to someone to demand they stop filming.

It seems that if you are filming "safely from a distance" they just need to send one officer over to wherever you are and demand you stop filming.
What a wonderful album. Like "Direct", it features many explorations using new digital synths from the late 80s. Fun fact: the voice-overs were done by Polanski and his wife Emmanuelle Seigner (she acts in the "The Ninth Gate" with Johnny Depp). They used to hang out at Vangelis' studio.
Our views have changed. We used to throw lawn darts, have fireworks, guns all over. Not even helmets on motorcycles.

When I was a kid, we used to rid maybe 6 kids in the back of a pickup truck flat bed.

That was normal. It would not only be illegal today, but probably considered very immoral.

Hockey players didn't even wear helmets, not even the goalies (!).

Nobody wore helmets when I grew up skiing, now almost everyone does.

We are considerably safer about everything today.
With the idea “why should I code sign-in again,” I started building Logto with several developer friends about one year ago. Quickly we found the idea goes bigger (also the team); now, we want to build not just a customizable sign-in UI but also an identity solution.

Here comes the public alpha:

- An OIDC-based identity service

- Multi-platform user sign-in/up experience with dark mode and SDKs (Web, iOS, and Android)

- Sign in/up with dynamic SMS/Email passcode (Passwordless)

- Out-of-box social sign-in integration (GitHub, Google, WeChat, Alipay, etc.)

- A web UI to control all the above (Admin Console)

- Extendable multi-language support

It’s fully open-sourced, and we are super happy to hear from the community.
I’ve completely lost any confidence that FANG will be able to make some great language because they always take the easy way (makes more business sense, see Dart).

I've found Dart to be perfectly adequate. Like Go it doesn't try to be overly clever; unlike Go it doesn't consider verbosity to be a feature, and believes you're capable of using advanced techniques like ternary expressions responsibly.
I can't get to the end of that thread without the Signup nag taking over the whole window and obliterating the content. Tried half a dozen times. Finally got there via an Incognito window (though still don't see Musk's response).

So Twitter tagged my device with a cookie specifically meant to keep me from viewing users' content. How's that support their mission statement, "To give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers"?

It's not in my interest, or that of their users. The only benefit is to their bottom line, and I'd argue tactics like that do more long term damage than good. Certainly doesn't make me want to sign up or log in.

Go choke on Elon's <shit emoji>, Twitter. /rant
I’m pretty sure Go’s maintainers were aiming for “mere” practical success, as opposed to some theoretical success that only academic languages succeed at.