skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your devices are tools, not fashion accessories. You shouldn't let them seduce you into thinking that what you see on a screen is better than the vibrant world outside it.

huh? yes, my devices are tools, not fashion accessories. I don't let wallpaper--or skins [barf]--distract me from thinking that what I see on a screen is better than the vibrant world outside it. Hey, call me autistic, but I love computers for themselves, and while I like the technology of textures and video and graphics, I love the computer itself more and don't like a lot of visual clutter.

And I've been staring at screens since before most of you were born so please don't try to pass along your wisdom as if I just don't know yet what I'm missing :) I love actual wilderness, but anything short of actual wilderness feels fake, and wilderness is unplugged, so I simply prefer computers, there's a whole vibrant world in there.
Let me guess two reasons:

1. to avoid keyword detection (reason I write to myself garbled sensitive notes online, so potential hacker with online translator won't be able to read them since it's highly unlikely he will be my maybe language speaker)

2. to filter out smart people avoid wasting time with them

edit: article says it's number 2
But that sort of censorship is fine. You submit the content for classification. With documentation. And they send it back with a detailed report of what needs to be censored and why.

(I used to submit for classification for adult content for distribution in NZ or streaming in hotels)

Edit: so HN wants Twitter moderation and censorship but a country censoring videos and text books is a big no no.
Can you make the same case using a country sharing a similar lack of public sector corruption with New Zealand? New Zealand consistently ranks as one of the least corrupt countries, Brazil not so much: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
Recently the English expression "Save the Day!" struck me, what does it mean? How can you save a day? They all go by.

The answer of course (?) is : Saving the day, is the opposite of wasting the day. So don't waste the day. That's how you save it.
Sure…backchannels can be good? But channels to do what?

Google fixing broken things in the products? Sure I guess that’s good absent alternatives.

A whale type customer getting a backchanel to the CEO is also good for business.

Twitter using backchannels to censor what the influential parties want? I don’t see who that is valuable to. It doesn’t help Twitters business and I doubt it’s how the public expects their speech to be censored. So only really their friends at Twitter benefit? Or anoint themselves gatekeeper and public benefactor.

Idk why you keep bringing up “both sides do it” as some excuse. Of course both sides have power/influence over big tech employees. Even unelected ones. It is entirely natural for established institutions and powerful individuals to have influence.

That’s why you should build in protections and processes to prevent that from happening. And if you do end up doing it then be transparent… have a public list of times you censored tweets at the request of public servants and powerful individuals.

It’s for the public’s good right? It’s not just about their own personal gain…right?
The format is conversational, which a lot of people prefer.

Too late to edit the formatting of my post... argh!
https://www.theparisreview.org/
Syncthing for me: https://syncthing.net/
Yeah I agree with this notion. After working in very high level and expressive language (with static typing) I found that I could get rid of about 90% or even more of my comments.

But for the rest, it's exactly as you described. There is usually some workaround/shortcut being taken or there is interfacing with an external dependency that does not work as expected. In those cases comments make aware of things that the code doesn't show and can save a looot of time.
Nice effort on an interesting topic. However, the book could use a better technical review.

For example the first recipe will not work as expected with out a multi-column unique index (specifically the MySql example).

I feel that the preexisting knowledge required for such examples does not align with the stated target audience for the book.
i'd have to go back again and reread, but was the term "handle" used at all? i remember them asking to "review" some tweets and to measure them against the tos. i very easily could have missed them asking to "handle" it though...

i think those semantics matter, which is why i ask.
https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/jawboning-against-speec...
lol. the speed with which this silly argument is spreading. "well actually, he wasnt in office yet, so its technically OK!". come on, man.
The tweets in question were naked images of Hunter Biden, which were against Twitter's TOS and would be illegal to circulate in California anyway under the state's revenge porn law. You can literally put the links into archive.org and see for yourself if you want. Taibbi's thread also makes clear that Trump's team had access to the same 'direct censorship line', and that some of their requests were honored too.
Binance investigates hack affecting a number of crypto tokens
Disturbing to some, and liked by others.

I’m a New Zealander and fully support the blocking of that murderers content.
I don't really agree with you but you shouldn't be grayed out. The idea of a dysfunctional government sounds bad, but ironically that is precisely what the Founding Fathers endeavored to create. And it sounds absurd for all the reasons you're certainly aware of. Yet is the opposite desirable? In modern US politics, parties have become capable of enacting pretty substantial change on very narrow margins. This can be good in one manner of thought because "good" change can happen at an accelerated rate.

The problem is "good" is subjective. It was big news when the 2016 election was decided by as few as 78,000 votes, yet the 2020 election was now decided by as few as 45,000 votes [1]. The one thing everybody would agree on is that the country (and world) would look radically different today had the US election in 2020 gone differently.

And so we're living in a boat that keeps getting increasingly violently rocked back and forth, all based on who wins a coin flip. A bit of dysfunction to cool things (and people) down doesn't seem so bad.

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/18/how-2020-...
It's very easy to vote for something you know won't pass. I've nothing civil to say about the republican party but the democrats absolutely dropped the ball here. The rank hypocrisy from Pete the choo choo secretary who had the benefit of months of paid family leave. The so-called squad who are all being curiously silent…

It's pretty damning that the only politicians making noise about how awful this legislation is are the republicans looking to find a wedge issue and Bernie Sanders.
Thanks ChatGPT...
thats all you got from reading the whole article?
Provided they're of some historical significance, sure, but not if they're regarding recent or particularly obscure events.
Not that Google is always great at those either but you can at least, for instance, find out recent world cup results, vs this from chat.openai.com:

"It is currently December 2022, so there is no World Cup taking place at the moment"
Well there you have it - don’t use cloud severs either ;) Also ingress is free and if that’s your requirement a lot of time you can colo in the same locale/building as cloud region and plug directly into their network
Why does Amazon allow this? It actually seems like they’re in on it, and want these Chinese firms to be able to rip off a product and dominate the results.

Where are these abuse complains coming from and how can they possible be shutting down major sellers repeatedly?
I'm talking about NZ's history of censorship, the tools that they already have for Internet censorship, and why the NZ government considered it important.

The IP block is a tool. It is also able to intercept HTTP traffic for sub-domain blocks, but everything is https now, so that doesn't work.

That leaves IP blocking, which I'm pretty sure NZ would have done if Facebook had refused to block content deemed illegal to import into NZ.

NZ has blocked the importation of books and video going back to 1880 (according to Wikipedia)[1].

New Zealanders continue to decide to keep the Classification Office - none of the political parties consider it an "issue". It works for the kiwis.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_in_New_Ze...
Taibbi's own claims are that both parties and both campaigns had this "hotline" to Twitter.
LOL

"How can I get myself to do the things that I need to do? Answer like a crazy person."

To motivate yourself to do the things you need to do, you can try yelling at yourself, throwing a tantrum, or engaging in some other form of wild and crazy behavior. For example, you could stand in front of a mirror and scream at yourself, telling yourself that you're a failure and that you need to get your act together. Alternatively, you could throw a fit, stomping your feet and throwing objects around to show yourself that you mean business. Or, you could try some other form of bizarre or outlandish behavior, such as running around in circles or making silly faces at yourself. Whatever you do, be sure to put on a good show and really let yourself go to show yourself that you're serious about getting things done!
Could you go into detail a bit more on operation based CRDTs and merge consistency?

I'm currently struggling with moving document merge use-case to Yjs while leveraging it's updates for efficient real-time rebasing. It's insert/delete world view (state based) seems to make this practically impossible.
Pretty convenient for quick debugging!
Did you miss [the part][1] in this revelation where “in 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored”?

Removing blatantly violating content isn’t controversial, nor is a member of the concerning party’s staff emailing Twitter asking for a prompt review.

[1]: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598828932395978752
A regular wave gone rogue.
> You're still at this point having a service paid by investors money, like cheap Uber rides in 2015.

Ouch! It's hard to tell if this is assertion based on some sort of familiarity with SpaceX's finances or just another of a seemingly endless stream of anti-Musk jabs.

Surely you can't put SpaceX and Uber into the same category when it comes to the state of their finances and where that money comes from. Surely a cursory glance at the slew of public, private and government contracts SpaceX already has, plus the ones they have lined up, not to mention the involvement in programs like Artemus, would demonstrate to most people that they are in league far and beyond the likes of Uber with their dubious Vision Fund and questionable private backers.

Or are you saying in this case that SpaceX, with all of its money and potential is basically to Starlink, what Softbank is to Uber?

If it's the former, I'd love to get a better understand of what you mean?
They had the former white house press secretary suspended for simply mentioning the hunter biden laptop, was that against the ToS?
One word: terriers
> Hire great people, trust them,

Hoo boy. Reality is so much more complicated.

When you hire someone, you think that they're great, you hope that your estimation of them proves out, but it's not really possible to know. Even people who come with great portfolios, great recommendations, the fact of the matter is that your company has its own culture and its own people in different roles, and it's simply not possible to know with 100% certainty that people will truly fit into your organization until you place them into their new role and see how things play out.

Furthermore, nobody comes in with full expertise on every level of the stack. Nobody is an expert also in UX, also in your frontend stack, also in your backend stack, also in your datastores, also in security, also in compliance concerns, also in observability. You must build a collaborative culture if you want to ensure that all concerns are handled.

You can build a culture where you trust the people you hire in general. But "trust" is not a euphemism for "let people go play cowboy from their desk in the corner and it doesn't matter that we don't know what they're doing because we trust them." The key foundation of that trust is knowing in which area the organization trusts you to be proficient and, in turn, trusting others in the organization with expertise in other areas, at least until a "great" hire proves to be unworthy of that trust.

> more meetings... don't give them any ownership or empowerment

You can do both. You can build a culture where you split a typical eight hour workday for individual contributors into no more than 2 hours (i.e. usually less) in meetings, 4 hours for planned issues discussed in those meetings, at least 2 hours (i.e. when meetings take less than 2 hours) for unplanned concerns which may include any number of the following: planned issues taking longer than planned, production outages, talking to customers, working on stuff the individual contributor thinks is important ("ownership/empowerment"), etc.

Hire people who are arrogant enough in their area of expertise that they will loudly and energetically share that strength with others, and humble enough to listen to others with expertise in other areas.
”Competetive features”
You’ve seen the Senate anti-trust investigation of tech?

Pretty sure “playing ball” helps build goodwill with the people who decide whether to break your company up or not.

The Taibbi tweets clearly indicate that "connections" buy influence within Twitter. So clearly Twitter sees some benefit to "helping" those in power.

Edit: It's specifically called out in Taibbi's tweets. "NetChoice lets Twitter know a “blood bath” awaits in upcoming Hill hearings, with members saying it's a "tipping point,""
Request to authorize payment to Starbucks denied. You can make coffee cheaper at home.
If you’re getting a product like this manufactured in China, it seems these days you’re inevitably inviting clones to hit Amazon and other channels.
This is only Part One of several. Part Two comes out tomorrow.
I'd rather have heatlhcare and better schools
I think you would benefit from not blaming everybody around you. And then create your own business getting your own customers and getting them to pay you for what ever software you build. Maybe you will find that to be very easy and get very rich. Another possible outcome would be that it is not that easy and that you end up with a zero or a huge debt. But constantly blaming others is not solving anything.
And the next one, this requires extensive manual actions per mailbox. Microsoft is about to get gifted a ton of new customers.
The DoD seems well on its way towards having two more such networks (augmenting the one it already has in existence), without the involvement of SpaceX at all: https://spacenews.com/u-s-to-ramp-up-spending-on-classified-.... Maybe this program was spun up in an attempt to grab those sweet government dollars in 2025.
Thank you for the link, I couldn't find any stories on cnn.com -- guess they posted it in the business section? Thanks for the link though.
Ah ok, somehow misunderstood that.

However there are actually good reasons for it to be unsafe, although it is debatable if that alone should be it.

One is due to the interactions with the GC, in case it moves the data and there are references to its elements, and stack size.

One way to get around it is to use AoS instead of SoA, which is any the best option if performance is the ultimate goal.
What did we learn today about Democrats and Twitter?
fwiw I agree with you
I don't see the heatdeath of the universe as a reason not to make things tidy while we can

keep on fighting the good fight,
and good luck
> It is not a big deal.

You would be literally fuming about how Fascists Are Hanging Democracy From The Rope if Biden and Trump was switched in this case. So would most "it is not a big deal it happened, but it would have been big deal if it didn't".

Friend-Enemy is all it is.
Love it. Congrats on getting the extension out. Can't wait to play with it.
Appears to support the thesis of "Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human" by Richard Wrangham https://www.amazon.com/Catching-Fire-Cooking-Made-Human/dp/0...
My last car had a key fob that could do that up to about a half mile away; cell signal irrelevant. It's just a 2-way remote start system. I miss it. The fob even reported the cab temperature.
Ideally (part of) your model would already be executable, so that there is no separate implementation. Why have a separate implementation in C, JS, Java, Go, Dart, Swift, Rust, ..., if you have already something much cleaner which you have proven to be correct?
>I can’t tell if you’re being cute and trying to carve out some exemption here when it’s clear what I’m talking about I think but let’s operate on good faith.

Translation: "I think you're committing wrongthink to be asking such a question, but I'll magnanimously say 'let's operate on good faith'".

>The owner with an 80% voting control of the company has had some very serious issues in judgement lately not limited to the Twitter fiasco

Ah yes, the world's wealthiest man has invested 20% of his net wealth in something that may or may not work out. Proof that he is a danger to national security!!!1!!11!!!!!

PS - Two questions to ponder:

Q: Wasn't Twitter supposed to have collapsed and died like a month ago? A: Yes.

Q: Isn't Twitter functioning apparently quite well during the current mega world event known as the FIFA World Cup? A: Yes.

>but has also made a number of public moves that were very friendly towards what the US has called their biggest national security threat repeatedly for the past half decade or longer.

Oh, good grief. Musk said that Ukraine might have to give up land to end the war with Russia. A) A negotiated settlement is how 90% of wars in world history have ended, and B) such a settlement has always been the most likely scenario for ending the current war. Maybe it'll be a formal recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea, maybe it'll also include parts of eastern Ukraine.

Now, maybe Ukraine's recent successes on the ground will let it regain control over all of its territory, maybe even Crimea. I hope that happens, but (again, even with the recent pushback of Russian lines) that still remains a relatively unlikely outcome.

>This isn’t some mindless Elon bashing post, I’m presenting this as an actual honest to god problem for natsec.

There is nothing wrong, from a legal or moral perspective, in Musk publicly stating what he said. He is an American and the US is not actually a combatant in the war. Musk is free to say anything he wants, and those who immediately claim that anything short of demanding "Ukrainian forces roll into Moscow and Zelensky personally swings the axe that cuts off Putin's head" = Russian sympathizer/"problem with natsec" just make themselves look stupid.
There is evidence of funding coming in for some radical right groups. I’m not sure an instant dismissal is possible order, but the OP giving a link or two would have been helpful.

This is what came to mind for me:
https://www.webworm.co/p/fakenews2
> It’s a little silly to be still pushing it in 2022 don’t you think?

When you live in a bubble like subreddits and Twitter communities then this sort of reality distortion is encouraged and rewarded.

They never seem to have a response when someone outside their circles calls them out though. They just go quiet or redirect.
Does it though? I don't think a campaign staff pointing out tweets that might violate the TOS counts as collusion. That's just a campaign interfacing with Twitter the same way everyone else does. If it was collusion, then every white house press briefing in history would be too. Which, sure, might be Chomsky's point of view, but I don't think anarchists need to be convinced that Joe Biden is bad.
Good. Respect the laws of each country. Don't like it? change the law.
Interesting. Do you have any links that demonstrate this technique?
These days the difference between a conspiracy theory and accepted reality is 3-6 months.
What is the value proposition here? Why would somebody use this over... the computer their using to access your fake in-browser computer?
This is true for a lot of things like restaurants, but hiking is one of the few areas where I don't think this is the case. People don't just casually decide to summit the tallest mountain in the contiguous US. Everyone there has likely trained on lesser known trails. The thing is, there is only one Whitney, but there are a couple dozen Langley's, and hundreds of even lesser known hikes of similar rigor. If all these become saturated, that's also good because that means Americans wouldn't be so fat!
It's shared standard in the sense that all implementations will be the same, AFAIK passkeys you generate on iOS systems aren't easily used on windows ones, etc. Or they'd require scanning a QR code from a phone which IMO sucks when a password manager has it in the browser already.

Also what security issues with password managers? There's some potential concerns with extension-based over OS based systems, but if your device is compromised where someone can actually access memory then they'd both be equally void to some extent, AFAIK there's nothing seriously concerning security wise on a password manager vs keychain, etc.
Twitter never shut down Wikileaks or other things in the interest of national security that involved civilians and government officials alike. They have allowed journalists to leak other similar stories from hacks constantly. The Panama Papers, etc were all mostly civilians. Twitter never censored that, except in China at the behest of the CCP. Which comes to the original point. No politician or political arm should have the power or influence to take something down they find unfavorable. I prefer not to live in a CCP like state where the "party" gets an edit button on everyone's thoughts.
I think Sinophobia is the wrong word. If you're playing for the blue team against the red team you're not red-team-phobic.
Thank you, sir. Many of the anti-Musk comments are either (2) or (3).
In fact in both cases they were happy to comply. No coercion was necessary, making Twitter into an overtly political apparatus in this case.
I don’t know. But silencers are not guns and are outlawed federally.
Will no one rid me of this meddlesome Pence?
They don't care, Gwynne Shotwell runs the company.

But I do foresee a future in which the SEC bars Musk from holding any executive position for any number of things he has done.
What did the Biden campaign do that the Trump White House did not?

"In 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored."

The difference is that the Trump White House was the executive office of the federal govt making requests, while Biden was a private citizen.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598828932395978752
Im using my own nextcloud. I don't go into it, because it is special in its setup.
Yep, and so began the golden age of fraud we now experience, and the backdrop for this SBF story. 100% agree that the bailout was bi-partisan and necessary though.
There's a really big (and important!) difference between doing something that's wrong and doing something that's criminal.
Sources or it’s false. This claim is a pants on fire lie.

No police were killed on that day, contrary to initial reports - but one protester was.

Trump never specifically called for violence but remarked to show protest “peacefully at the capitol” on Twitter. For the lack of evidence, the Jan 6 committee has been running in circles begging for people to step forward.

I don’t have to like Trump or support him to know this claim is asinine.
Thats the whole argument of the article, of course, but still I like your comment for adding some additional interesting supporting examples.