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Parler would let the DNC on their site because it supports open debate.

Using a powerful tech tool to shut off one side of a debate has led to young girls being injured for life trying to compete with men in sports like volleyball. Or cutting their breasts off when they are 15 because there is no other side to argue against it.
I hope ads will die some day. To me they are just annoying and very rarely informative.
Agreed, and if this also seems like a valid case for holding individuals accountable if it can be shown they knowingly ignored or covered the situation. Perhaps criminally so if there were injuries.
Let's posit that he didn't buy twitter for the potential profits on twitter revenues, since there are any number of equal/better options for that, some of which he's already involved in.

Perhaps he bought it because he's interested its capacity to shape (dare I say manipulate) public discourse, which he's utilized heavily, and may have taken umbrage when that was limited in any way.

Now, perhaps, he plans to manipulate it further, in the way a singularly-minded owner can. One possible problem with that plan is if internal staff see what's happening, don't like it, and tell the world.

Data engineering is the staff likely in the best position to see what's really happening on the platform and potentially tell others. So an owner motivated by wanting to manipulate the platform without pesky whistleblowers might want to fire them all and replace them with people selected for loyalty and/or buy-in on the motivations for manipulating twitter as a platform.
what is actual value enforcement?
Little did they know, that those early computers were actually powered by garlic odors[0]! Like calculators that can be powered by light - the "magic" that we call solar power. So, of course, the user's implementatin of garlic cloves clearly "fixed the glitch". Happy pre-Halloween!

[0] No, of course garlic isn't an energy source. ...At least, not one that we (yet) know how to harness. ;-)
I think this might be a prank. One of the guy is saying his name is Rahul Ligma lmao
It can still be seen with the correct subpixel layout.
Would be interesting if he makes Twitter more dev friendly (open APIs etc)
Continuing the article's theme that with more resources you can more closely approximate production, with more resources you can generate more realistic fake user data and you can add on a realistic load simulator.
I don't understand how those two things (freedom and enforcement) are compatible with each other.
I'm really surprised they didn't do something like a XT90 with some signal wires on it. I've seen IEC Cables with more girth than these things.
Not going to lie, whoever owns it, I have an inner hatred for that hell site. The way I see it, it can go two ways...either Musk somehow manages to actually make the site tolerable, or it dies. Its going to be one or the other...nobody really knows which way yet. Either direction is a win in my eyes though. If it changes for the better: great! If it dies: even better! More social media sites will take its place.
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Are the new Intel GPUs bus powered? If not, they could make a killing off of frugal Linux users by offering a chip designed around the ~70w TDP of a PCI bus.
I don’t believe so. Few games take on the challenge of modeling battlefield tactics (as opposed to geo-strategy). In my view those of highest quality are a few of the Total War series and WARNO. These still far fall short for reasons of fantasy and feasible simulation size.

To model the Battle of the Somme with even some tactical fidelity is also likely not feasible within present constraints. I would look to niche war sim board games instead.

That said, one might be wiser to read the English war poets than search for such a game. The study of Great War tactics is perforce the study of a macabre failure in human imagination and morality. Even at the tactical level the war is proof of a human inability to learn and change - even when our choices lead inexorably to mass death.

Battlefield mortality was exacerbated by commanders’ fixation on 19th century tactics. Creeping artillery barrages and over-the-top frontal assaults were finally effective only strategically, as economic and political weapons. This was not tactical innovation. It was an upscaled iteration of cannon barrages decimating bravely advancing line infantry.
I think the Venn Diagram of free speech absolutists and competent developers is a lot smaller than Elon and most people realize.

Twitter has never been nor propertied itself to be a bastion of free speech, so I always find this pearl-clutching at "meddling in X" funny. It's a private company, it can do as it please.
Given that it turned out that Twitter was already biased towards right-wing sources, I don't understand how any of this will help. [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/22/twitter-a...
That's a fair point. I had Musk in mind when I wrote my response, but the same holds true for any private owners including the financiers.
Tesla and SpaceX have hired a ton of hard-to-hire talent. I don't understand why people might want to work for those companies because as far as I know the working condition is horrible. But again, his companies hire really good people to work on their problems.
Isn't that, itself, bias? Why wouldn't Muhammad Ali receive the same consideration, given that he considered his birth name representative of racial oppression?
Yes, and the cure for us users is : yt-dlp

I don't even do that. I use mpv + yt-dlp + SponsorBlock plugin: `script-opts=ytdl_hook-ytdl_path=yt-dlp`
I doubt that will happen, I’m no Elon fanboy but he is a very capable business leader. He has clear plans to increase growth, and increase revenue. Both of those require policies that don’t push either users or advertisers away.

I suspect he will surprise us with some product decisions, but I wouldn’t bet against him.

I’m sure he will upset some users and some advertisers, but on the whole he understands that in order for his investment to make a return Twitter needs to be popular.

Elon may be notorious for his big statements, and he has certainly made a few around twitter, but I don’t believe he is doing anything other than investing in a business that he is personally interested in. That’s his MO, it’s about growth not ideology.

If you haven’t seen them take a look at the released email/text exchanges between Elon and the Twitter CEO and board from the lawsuit. They offer a good insight into what his thought process is.
My LG monitor has a brick that goes to 65W, but the measured power consumption is ~20W at the wall. ~12W in short idle (screen turned off less than ~1 min ago). ~0W in deep sleep, which is where it spends most of its time.

I am running on minimum brightness, since I'm indoors.
I worked on a lot of large projects projects. Large means tens of developers and millions of lines of code and also hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars per hour if something goes terribly wrong.

I just can't imagine stuff done without staging. I get that staging loosens discipline -- you will definitely put more effort if you know that nobody else is going to see it before it hits prod.

But at the same time the changes we were doing were extremely complex and if we had to break it up into constant stream of small updates that each had to work perfectly we would be in a state of analysis paralysis.

As expensive as the staging is, it makes development cheaper by allowing people to work in parallel and lessen the cost of their mistakes.

And before somebody points out that companies do successfully deploy things without staging -- I will say that these are a bit different systems. Large scale systems tend to not be very complex -- they are just large scale. But each component of the system tends to be reasonably understandable by a single person.

The systems I worked on tended to be more internal systems with less scale but had domain models consisting of up to tens of thousands of different domain objects with very complex interactions.
> A lot of useful criticism of the technological pains (delays, marketplace reception issues) they experienced with Cyberpunk was that they were using an in-house game engine unprepared for that genre (jumping from a game series where the fastest vehicle was a horse to one with cars and flying cars and planes is maybe not the easiest straight line).

What made it unprepared? What special needs did CP2077 pose against a game like Witcher 3 when both are similarly open-world exploration RPGs heavy on dialogue and cinematics?
Because the parking code hasn't been touched in years. All their effort right now is on driving, and that part is improving rapidly, far ahead of other car manufacturers, obviously with a long way still to go.

Being an early adopter of technology always involves paying to test unfinished work. Even the first iPhone (which I also bought) was deficient in many ways. And yet being an early adopter has brought me personally a lot of benefits. The world is not zero sum, turns out.
You’re wrong, as a staunch advocate of free speech on the web and as a near victim of cancel culture I would gladly work at twitter as long as I were paid more than what I earn now, and I’m sure many people would feel the same. Twitter was already a crappy place to work before Elon with all its woke polítics, now though it may become more tolerable.
Peak hours are during commute time (when cars tend to be moving or ready to move), so that's sort of a weird thing to focus on.

The big question is whether charging times overlap with renewable electricity generation.
Funny how we give advice on how to manage a billion dollar company to guy who owns 2 of these . I’m not sure how many do you own, but I unfortunately don’t have any.
I would really like to hear how he's financing this deal. His net worth has dropped since he's made this play. Most of his money is tied up in equity. So who's funding this deal? The fact that this isn't well talked about and that the company is going private is raising a lot of red flags to my eyes
Is this common practice? Live staging doesn't sound like staging at all to me, it sounds like prod.
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> Did they target him

Her.
Brain drains usually happen due to low or uncompetitive pay, not because of corporate ideology. Otherwise Facebook/Meta would have had a brain drain years ago.
I think you’re overestimating the value of building such support into a language, rather than using libraries/frameworks, and underestimating the difficulty of creating bespoke languages. Speaking as someone who’s actually tried what you’re suggesting—in a production project—and learned not to do it again, this whole conversation smacks of theory-crafting rather than practical experience. But I invite you to try it!
> relatively small problem

Setting the houses of their customers on fire is a small problem??
Just me or does anyone else think this guy was dead decades ago?
Telling other people to do things doesn't take that much time.
Actually the opposite. Personally I think abortions are a valid tool and not all lives are worth living. I'm very much on the fence regarding mine and I'm leaning towards the opinion that it wasn't and it isn't.

I think bringing children into this world is a sin and parents atone for it to some degree by providing for children the best way they can.
You don't need a "huge area of land", under any circumstance. Even a football pitch is big enough for useful storage. Permeability is a thing that is controllable. Since there are so very many hills, only the most favorable sites need be considered.

The main reason it is not being rolled out much is that it is not time yet to roll it out. You need enough spare renewable generating capacity to charge it from, first, which we are very far from, most places. In the meantime the right place to spend is on generating capacity. Later, we will know better which storage methods are best.
This is to conflate (as so often) the USA's legal/constitutional codes with the principle of free speech. That principle has to do with promoting criticism of ideas, and preventing the suppression of criticism. The US codes are (just) one instance of a way to support that principle. The principle applies to all criticism, and all suppression of criticism.
As someone who tinkers with these things a lot, I'm happy for the voltage I'm playing with not to be increased. There's plenty of scope to improve the plug design without approaching anything near the fragility of this nVidia adapter. There's no pressing need to increase voltage.
It seems pretty counterintuitive that "50m water resistance" wouldn't satisfy swimming in a pool.
> Have you gotten stung yet?

Nope! The last time I got stung was more than a decade ago now, long before I ever even got interested in photography as an adult, much less found in it an accidental avenue to almost entirely getting over what fear of wasps I had. (And in entire fairness, I should note that the yellowjacket who stung me that time had been blown into my lap through an open car window, and I dropped my hand on her before I knew she was there. Even then I considered her to have acted entirely within her rights - I was just glad she'd happened to fall on her back!)

Wasps have a reputation for being needlessly and boundlessly belligerent, but all I can say is that, over the course of several years now spending as much time in their close company as I'm able, I've found that reputation to be totally unjustified, and wasps themselves to be just trying to get through the day, same as anyone.

It might help that I'm not afraid of them, and thus don't reek of anger and fear hormones in their presence. It's unclear how extensive a theory of mind they have for mammals, but much of their communication and sensory experience is known to revolve around olfaction; given that many mammals will happily if hazardously raid wasp nests in search of nutritious brood, it would be no surprise to learn that wasps recognize the stink of human flop sweat as indicative of a kind of danger they will fight, heedless of risk, to deter.

That hornet was in many ways a special case, though - the first I've ever seen close enough to, and who spent long enough in one place, to even try for a shot. Paper wasps rarely seem to notice my presence, yellowjackets often do but rarely much care, but I could see that hornet was watching me and didn't entirely appreciate my attention. When she decided she'd had enough, she left the tree on a heading that led to a very close pass alongside my head, enough so that I could all but feel the breeze off her wings, and certainly enough to hear quite loudly the markedly deep hum of her flight. Wasps butt and ram as part of both defense and communication, and I took being buzzed as the latter - specifically, as a clear statement that, upon her return, she'd quite rather I be elsewhere. To be clear, I don't think she would have attacked me if I hadn't made myself scarce, but she probably wouldn't have come back to the fig tree with its bounty of both nutrition and ethanol, and it would've been rude of me to make her feel she had to skip it.

I've had many similar experiences - ask me some time how I first learned that fig tree was a highly popular spot with late-season foragers! So I think the problem most people have with wasps has really nothing at all to do with wasps themselves, who don't like to fight any more than anyone else does. But it takes more than one person to not have a fight, and I think humans mostly just can't be bothered to learn not to start one.
Staging environments solve transitivity problems which canaries don't.
If your services are very weakly coupled, you can probably get by with canaries.

If you have tightly coupled microservices, staging has a lot of opportunity to catch bugs before they get to prod and cause outages.

The canary / break prod / rollback attitude is why developers are constantly putting out fires instead of getting things done.
If it was a niche viewpoint 7 years ago (which I would quibble with, given third gender and trans people have existed for millennia across many cultures, just not commonly in modern America), then great, we've seen science advance.

We used to think that being gay was a mental disease. We now recognize it as something that many animals have as a part of their population, including humans. 20 years ago, being gay was like, pretty much not accepted in public and the science was developing.

Trans identities are coming a bit later, but we're still learning and developing our models.
>With a strong vision for freedom of speech and actual value enforcement, it would attract the right people.

The social media company called Gab is the antithesis to that statement:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/rookie-coding-mistak...
more like, "ok, and what dressing would you like on the salad? we have thous..." and everyone would blurt out "he wants ranch"
The people I know working there don't say anything like that
What is this pre-2015 neutrality you speak of? Wikipedia mentions a 2015 campaign of trying to ban ISIS propaganda accounts. Are you talking about that?
The thing that sucks is a culture turning bad does not immediately result in loss of sales or revenue. Once you get big enough, your culture can decline for years or even decades.

Yet in the first, second, or even third year of terrible culture changes, a business will likely be patting themselves on the backs for how fast they got stuff out the door and how much money they saved by reducing head count.
The tricky part about neutrality is that

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor"

Of course, it's not always clear what injustice is and reasonable people might disagree, but I think there are certain minimum standards, like "anti-semitism and blatant racism are bad".
Musk himself owns it. He is now the CEO of the place
I think "revolutionize transportation" and "revolutionize space flight" are a bigger draw for prospective employees than "put Kanye back on Twitter".
I mean that the security profile of a simple 'locked box' that only knows the keys when all parties agree to unlock it is a very different from the security profile of a 'key distribution machine' like you described.

I mean, if we all agreed to perform the decryption, the secret's out anyway. But not before then.
Nothing is bad with jokes about trans people inherently.

But as I already said, these are meant to tease your disgust reflex more than provoke laughter.

I'd recommend looking up some trans comedians. Not that I think you need to be trans to make jokes about us, but it certainly seems to help go beyond the typical "X identifies as Y" one joke format that is so prevalent in conservative comedy and certainly the Babylon Bee that collecting permutations of it has its own subreddit.[1]

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/onejoke/
Seriously, Is this a joke. Bihar would be right at the bottom of states if I ever setup shop.
Show HN: Use Alexa and two smart thermostats for energy efficiency
I wrote this up because oil prices are high and it definitely helps. This is a no-code solution to getting two thermostats to interact via alexa, if-this-then-that, and their respective smart applications. It's a quick and dirty hack, but I've been running it for about a month now and it's Just Worked. Also nice is that since the whole thing is controlled via Alexa, I can yell at my phone and have it tell me about the status of things.

I would love to know if there's an actual way to audit the costs of this aside of guessdimates, but without some fancy way of figuring out how well my baseboard radiators convert "burning oil" into "usable heat", it's going to be a guess at best.

Hopefully this helps HN save some coin. Please feel free to send the link to anyone else who might need it too.
They're given the opportunity to work on big, macro problems (efficient space travel, energy generation/storage/security, climate change, etc). What's not to get?
The Iranian regime classifies enemies ("counter revolutionaries" in the old days). We have the hypocrites "MEK", monarchists, a newly minted "meddlesome Shia" (mainly Iraqis but basically any Shia who disagrees Khamenei is God's Shadow on earth smh), and westernized youth "neo-liberals". So OP's sentence makes perfect sense actually.

p.s.

Basically the occupation theocratic regime of IR positions itself in its propaganda to demoralize Iranian resistance by prophecies of doom and gloom for Iran should it be cured of the IR disease: there is ISIS or Daesh [or "it will Syria 2.0"] (aka terror); there is that crafty prince in KSA that wants Iran to parition; there is the crafty sultan in Turkie (sic) that has pan turk on his mind; and should the country remain intact let there be no doubt that "neo-liberals" will do a Greece or whatever to Iran.
Tell HN: ProtonMail enabled setting to autoshow embedded/remote images
This feature set is a little complex, so I may be getting the sequence of events a little wrong. As of sometime in roughly the last day:

- the ProtonMail web app will automatically show you embedded and remote image content in HTML messages. (New behavior.)

- "Trackers" will be removed, and presumably not processed at all. (Existing behavior.)

- ProtonMail will proxy the remote content for you. (Existing behavior.)

The settings to do so are:

- Messages and Composing

-- Auto show embedded images (automatically enabled with this change)

- Email Privacy

-- Auto show remote images (automatically enabled with this change)

-- Block email tracking (I had this enabled already but they probably also automatically enabled it.)

These settings are present in the beta and regular channels for the web app. I somehow had beta channel enabled, so I'm not sure if these settings would have been automatically enabled for non-beta users.

This is the (now incorrect) documentation for what these features did before this change:

https://proton.me/support/email-tracker-protection

As of this submission, the page looks pretty much identical to this snapshot:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221007230237/https://proton.me/support/email-tracker-protection

Here's a reddit thread about it as well:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/yethwd/enhanced_tracking_protection_and_automatic_load/

Archived just now:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221028182222/https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/yethwd/enhanced_tracking_protection_and_automatic_load/

Tracker removal and remote image proxying were apparently already happening if you had "Block email tracking" enabled AND you chose to load remote images. From comments in the reddit thread, it's possible that the proxies are only fetching the remote content when you open the message. This is both good and bad. Good because it might indicate that the content of the messages is not accessible until your client decrypts it. Bad because it tells the sender that you viewed the content, and when. The cached image is also not encrypted in ProtonMail's infrastructure.

Furthermore, ProtonMail's tracker identification mechanism is flawed. Some messages say that several trackers were removed, but I have several recent messages with blatantly obvious 1x1 tracking pixels in their source that their tracker warning does not pick up on.

And in what appears to be the worst problem here, the reddit thread shows that some people in the beta experience DID have their client IPs exposed to the message sender.
There are a few reasons technical people go to work.

1. Interesting challenges

2. Exchange labor for money

3. Good working environment

4. As a nice to bullet point on their resume

It would be a very naive thing to work for a for profit company owned by a billionaire to think that you have any other “mission” than to line the pockets of a reluctant owner.