skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are right. Because "journalists" who post stuff like this like it isn't a big deal are seemingly entrenched on one side. I actually tried to post a link to the NY Post story on my Facebook and had it blocked. I was unable to even send the link via the Facebook Messenger to my friends -- the private message was deleted automatically and never sent.

The coordination between Big Tech, MSM and Government officials to silence a valid and true story right before an election is a pretty big deal, IMHO.

It has a bigger impact when you are one of the people being silenced. To me this is a huge issue. Not a single article about it on CNN, ABC News or CBS News at this point yet either. But there are a ton about the ex-President or about how Twitter is being ruined by Musk. I find that pretty telling.
Ah. My sarcasm detector was broken this morning!
Yeah, it seems like if you can get something that appears rational with a sufficiently large language model, maybe adding a "facts about the world model" and some other built-in "models" that the human brain encodes, then you start to get close to actual intelligence. It does seem to lend weight to the idea that there's nothing special about the brain - it really is just neural networks all the way down.
Yes. And a properly-endowed Justice Department would begin prosecution for Twitter employees that colluded with the government to defraud US citizens of their fundamental rights.

Twitter officers conspired with rogue elements of the US government to defraud US citizens of their constitutionally protected rights.

This is not a game. The people involved should be facing 30 year prison sentences.
This conspiracy theory validates what you want to be true, is a better way to put it.
write a conversation between a scammer and an annoyingly chatty parrot, who he's trying to scam. the scammer is unaware that the parrot has actually figured him out and is just intentionally wasting his time.

...

Scammer: Hello, my feathered friend. I am calling from the Exotic Bird Society, and I have some exciting news for you.

Parrot: Oh really? What news is that?

Scammer: Sir, it seems that you have been selected as the recipient of a large grant from our organization.

Parrot: Is that so? And why have I been selected?

Scammer: Well, sir, it appears that you are a highly intelligent and well-respected member of the avian community. And as such, we believe that you are an excellent candidate to receive this grant.

Parrot: I see. And what do I need to do in order to receive this grant?

Scammer: All you need to do, sir, is provide some basic information and transfer a small processing fee in order to claim your grant.

Parrot: I see. Well, let me think about it for a moment.

Scammer: Of course, sir. Take your time. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and we want to make sure you're completely comfortable with the process.

Parrot: Very well. But before I give you my information, I have a question for you.

Scammer: Yes, sir? What is it?

Parrot: How do I know this isn't a scam?

Scammer: Sir, I assure you that this is a legitimate offer from the Exotic Bird Society. We are a well-respected organization, and we would never engage in any kind of fraudulent activity.

Parrot: I see. Well, in that case, I think I'll pass.

Scammer: Sir, are you sure? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to receive a large grant.

Parrot: Yes, I'm quite sure. Thank you for your offer, but I don't think it's for me.

Scammer: Well, sir, if you change your mind, you can always call us back and we'll be happy to help you claim your grant.

Parrot: Thank you, but I think I'll pass. Goodbye.

The scammer hangs up the phone, frustrated that he was unable to scam the chatty parrot. But the parrot is pleased with itself for outwitting the scammer and wasting his time.
They also shut down star wars because it relied on magic that didn't exist. Raegan was a big fan of big projects that didn't make technical sense (see also the SSC)
I find it to more about a thin line being rendered as a little bit of color in two adjacent lines of pixels. The result is a messy blur instead of a crisp line. If any layer of the libraries and APIs doesn’t pass up the coordinate system mappings, like say a window doesn’t report its exact screen space position to its content, then you lose access to the information to register the pixels precisely.
I dont buy anything on Amazon anymore for this reason: knockoffs and scams.
They got caught doing something that it was public knowledge they were doing and the whole point of them doing it was immediately acknowledged in public?
It wasn't "stolen revenge porn". It was information about how Joe Biden used his political power to shield his son from the consequences of his misdeeds. That story was completely censored from Twitter. You couldn't even link to it.

And the US government isn't run by any one person. The president is the most powerful individual, but there are other officials (both elected and appointed), and they are the ones who colluded.

I don't care whether it's the president, or the speaker of the house, or a freshly-trained FBI agent. Nobody in government should be pressuring private companies to prevent people from reading what they want to read.
YouTube, Facebook (Zuckerberg already said they reached out to squash the laptop story on Joe Rohan), probably many others.
It's called "IP warming". When you send bulk emails, there are throttling limits and other things meant to decrease the ability of scammers. So to warm the IP up you have to send on it for awhile. These sorts of blank emails aren't the best way to do it, it's sloppy. But that's the goal.
Do you look up your stock prices in the WSJ tables? Mako's point isn't that print is obsolete, it's that printed daily snapshots of constantly-updated data are.

(Which I 99% agree with, there are some rare cases when you want old snapshots that haven't been subsequently revised, but does that mean we need to keep printing tables in every copy of every day's paper?)
Additional photo from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_B-21_Raider#/...

Additional PR from Northrop: https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/air/b-21-raider/1...

I have to admit that the 6th gen classification sounds a bit weak. Data links are hardly new and fighters have been integrating every weapon under the sun for decades.

But the Open Architecture stuff (and more generally how tech is shared between projects) appears to have started serving America well.
I am pro-free speech and hope that Congress will investigate this. Having said this, I must say that by associating himself with people like Taibbi, Musk has lost any credibility for me.
Well, that was a giant pile of sensationalized nothing. Again.

I suppose the bigger point to note is, along with all the other right wing internet celebrities Elon's been talking to we get to see Taibbi's silliness boosted.

Next up Greenwald explaining how Russians are truly quite nice.
The images need to be labeled as adult, but for the bigger issue I think it’s easier to think of it as revenge porn.
SpaceX is so cool. Why does Elon have to be the way he is?
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I wouldn't claim it was govt interference like you're doing to support a bogus argument.
There are two possibilities to consider Hunter Biden a legitimate election influence. The first is that he’s a human shit show and will be a distraction to his father. The second is that he’s leveraging his father’s political connections for a high paying, do nothing job.

While the latter may be more damning, it’s also pretty common.
Yep, with multiple fonts derived from it: https://fonts.aahub.org/
I'm fairly adept at writing queries and have been using MySQL for what seems like an eternity. The multiple aggregates per query thing kinda blew my mind. I've certainly done that by using something like SUM(CASE WHEN x = y then 1 ELSE 0), but did not know you could just COUNT(x=y). Awesome.
One thing I’ve never enjoyed about systems administration: trying to recover from catastrophic failure with money on the line and users breathing down your neck. I don’t envy anyone involved with this.
I meant to type 8086 so thanks for answering the question I was trying to ask.

I assume most servers don’t need 32 bit mode.

Then again people are slowly moving to arm on the server anyway.
World’s oldest tortoise has seen off two world wars and the British Empire
How much more proof is needed before you stop calling it a conspiracy theory and start calling it a fact?
That’s like saying Clinton using a cigar was nothing of importance to politics.
The obtained recipes aren't much good either, but pour me another
What a future that will be.
Without really knowing you and without knowing what issue you have with Taibbi such that Musk's association with him makes him lose any credibility for you, what value we do we gain from this? Not trying to be rude, I genuinely just don't get what we're supposed to get from this. Is it supposed to be obvious to "anyone with the right opinions" why Taibbi is problematic? It's not obvious to me...Taibbi seems like a fine journalist to me...
Josh Hawley has been reporting or investigating Facebook's communications with government. I wonder if that would make him or that developing story more or less credible for you.
Rich Hickey on sprints (30 second video): https://youtu.be/zPT-DuG0UjU
It seems this could have had a big impact on the election.

Now that we know the laptop is real, what do you think will come of it?
No, each party wants things they disagree with censored.
I was under the impression that elite universities first switched to holistic criteria for admissions because too many Jewish students made it through on academics.
“The aircraft were projected to cost approximately $550 million each in 2010 dollars, or about $750 million in today's inflation-adjusted dollars.

The Air Force planned to buy at least 100 of the planes and begin to replace B-1 and B-2 bombers.”

75 Billion or what? 10% of all defense spending on these planes?!
One of the parties from that era...

January in Chicago.

Everyone pays $20 per person to go to the party - its a couples party and is themed for the tropics. You're to show up in the god awful Hawaiian shirts, fruit punch and mai tai cocktails... and have your backs packed.

At midnight, there's a drawing and the lucky couple is given a pair of plane tickets to Hawaii - the flight leaves from O'Hare in 2h. The room in Hawaii are already booked too.

This was back when you could just have a plane ticket as a physical thing and with it, get on a plane.
End-to-end encryption means very little when the FBI can ask for a copy of your encryption keys and attain it with little effort. If anyone besides you has that power, your system is not secure.

Not your keys, not your crypto.
Everyone who has a laptop and node package manager
Yep. That's my take. The vision is that you write code in any language you like. You compile (transpile?) it down to efficient low-level JS (WASM), run in the browser as if you wrote JS code.

I have zero experience with it, but I think I get it and it's neat. I'm a little curious about what working with the DOM is like in C# > WASM or Rust > WASM. I pitty the foo who had to code that... and will we get non-breaking, more efficient native DOM manipulation at some point?
There are a number of pacific islands such as the Marshall islands, Kiribati and a number of others. Majuro (the main island of the Marshall islands had a population of 20 thousand in 2012, but is currently only 6' above sea level. 1' of sea level rise removes the majority of the land, and already significant number of climate refugees from these islands who have resettled to other areas.
Valid and True -- The reason many news organizations cited for not posting it was that the data was fake. It was Russian disinformation. We now know that's not true. The data was real, and thusly, a valid and factually correct news story by the NY Post.

In other words, there were absolutely no valid reasons to block access to the story or ban the NY Posts accounts, or the WH press secretary's account for linking to it.

There was no valid reason to block me from posting it, or sending it via private message to my friends.

The only reason was that they simply didn't want the story to get any attention as they knew it would certainly influence some people into NOT voting for Biden.
It's only a problem in that the policy seems crappy, and that seems like it will drive away their users/create distrust in their platform.

It's not some larger problem for society or whatever nonsense is being pushed today.
'To build a folly upon a fair bit of land is not to waste the land, but to occupy it for some short time in enjoyment' - Unknown
> 1) loud extremists on all sides of the political spectrum

One side controls and puts rules for the entire conversation, that's the issue.

> Regular people, the majority of them with bland moderate opinions, are largely absent from all of that

Yet they consume that content, that's why it shouldn't be controlled by a biased party.
Ubuntu LTS? I’m ostensibly a developer and I run Fedora 36
Large amount of automated data vs. single anecdote...
I see we are now down to ad hominem?

The honest truth: I don't think twitter is useful enough to truly care, definitely not anywhere near as much as some people in this thread seem to. So i'll write a comment or two, but then i'll go back to woodworking or whatever and it will not reenter my mind till the next story pops up on the frontpage.

As for my views:

I believed twitter is a serious net negative for society before this story, and it hasn't changed that view.

If it went away tomorrow, i would not shed a single tear.

As for my politics - while it's really none of your business, since you seem to care a lot:

Being in DC for a long time drove any desire to identify with any particular party well out of my mind.

Georgia thankfully does not have registered party affiliation.

There is some politically active Daniel Berlin in NY that donates a bunch, but it ain't me.
The "driven by connections" and the culture that implies is the interesting part. It highlights how they're a center of power that needs similar anti-corruption traditions as any other center of power; there's at least the possibility of something generally useful coming out of this being known.

Looking at the donation ratio as proof of the very obvious bias that everyone who cared to look already know about, is good for... what, playing "I told you so"?
Isn't there a "homemade gun" scene that operates on the idea that a weapon whose resources are collected in a single state, and that is assembled is that state, is not subject to federal firearm restrictions? (Since many if not most federal regulations rely in the commerce clause)
Previous exploits were able to make it connect to the internet just by saying "browsing: enabled" so it's awfully plausible that it's real. Also the "current date" has been accurate every day so far. It's not magic, so it has to be getting that date as an input somewhere.

https://i.imgur.com/PlX8K6k.png
And yet it's treated as just the latest Twitter drama. Reactions like the ones I'm seeing--"Republicans are just obsessed with Hunter's ****!"--are the reason why the "I Support the Current Thing" NPC meme exists.
The first small startup I worked for used Rackspace and I really liked their service, but I thought they died off over a decade ago.
I've been away from Linux for a while and was looking at Ubuntu the other day. Huge download size, huge minimum resources, background processes phoning home constantly. IMHO this is what Linux is there to fight.

The system should be reasonably knowable and controllable by the user, especially a technical one like myself. If I want a byzantine labyrinth of processes phoning home and eating up all my system resources I'll use macOS or Windows.
Yes, this is so painfully obvious that it seems disingenuous to be so naive as to not understand.
Am very much surprised to see the backlash against this story, especially given some of the thoughtful comments in an earlier thread "distinction between free speech as a legal right and cultural value" [0].

The government has as much right to report ToS violations as any other user.

Having VIP lanes isn't a great look but it isn't surprising.

The government are in a position were they can force legal changes if it feels corporations are abusing their power. Moderation is important but of course that has to be balanced against the risks of censorship. Of course neither are desirable but we are essentially talking about the reporting of individual tweets, not requests for systemic changes to the platform.

If this story pointed to something more serious like requests to access to the moderation platform or keyword manipulation, of course this would be breaching an entirely different red line.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33823725
No one has a constitutional right to post on Twitter
Less known is LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition). Based on Debian instead of Ubuntu; UX mostly identical otherwise.

https://linuxmint.com/rel_elsie.php
" I never look at my coworkers and think if it weren’t for them I would be making even more than 3x to 4x the median income in the US."

You should think that, though: their presence is helping reduce wages, including yours. The fact that labor in tech is relatively well paid compared to other fields is entirely irrelevant.
The atmosphere blurs the starlight in the last miles of its journey. We’ll need a astrophotographer here, but I’m pretty sure Capella, in October, in the norther latitudes is larger than a human eye pixel equivalent. The atmosphere really messes with it at that time. I’ve watched it across a cool,lake with warm surface air through binoculars and it was flashing red to blue at about 8 times a second and seemed large. It’s a bright star so remains visible after being spread.
The island Jonathan lives on, St. Helena, is also where Napoleon was sent for his 2nd exile (though he died before Jonathan was born).
> It's just impossible to keep it a secret, and that's why the censorship attempt was an utter failure

Context matters. They didn’t fail to hide the story, that wasn’t the goal.

They succeeded in their goal of preventing the story from harming their candidate a few days before the election.

This is everything the left says they care about, a mega corp colluding with powerful connected political interests to determine the outcome of an election
> after almost 10 years of AI hype we are still working our way down the list of popular board games

That's what one lab is doing.

You cannot be blind to many many applications that are finding their ways to consumers and earning people money.
i've used an all black wallpaper for decades, originating from using hp x-terms that could only display a handful of colors at a time. black was the safest bet to avoid wasting a color.
What a coup for Matt Taibbi.. not so much the content, but the branding! The Twitter Files- I’m in immediately. Can’t wait for the movie. And the sequel, The Taibbi Files, where we see how Elon bought a company to send cherry-picked internal emails to throw muck at prior leadership.
I sometimes like IEEE Computer, IEEE Micro, and other journals but I quit reading them because digital subscriptions make it too much of a pain. Also IEEE's pricing isn't great.

The way I think I want digital subscriptions to work is that I can read them instantly on any device with one click and without stupid tracking links, login/paywalls, etc..

Alternately I'd probably be OK with an email with a simple, non-tracking link to the PDF.
It's an opinion about democratic thinking, and a general assessment in correlating level of education in finance/econ to party bases. I have no idea what "facts" you are referring to. Just wow.
Hint: there's an "AppData" folder - Did you expect a decent CLI from what is obviously a Windows box?
A couple of Rust error messages
Sometimes things are messy in the early days. Are things getting out of control at this particular company? Hard to say. If you want to push for change be polite and persistent and focus on one or two key changes to the workflow. Not everything at once. Or if you can’t stand working this way you could jump to a more mature startup.
> NVIDIA invested billions in their software infrastructure over the past 15 years (CUDA was first released in 2007) and basically brute forced their way into academia back in 2008, sponsoring labs around the world to get GPGPU going.

Worth mentioning that CUDA didn't appear in vacuum either - GPGPU was a thing since the first shaders in consumer GPUs, which were also introduced by NVidia in NV20. CUDA was a result of years of ad-hoc attempts at GPU programming. So they really just built the entire field from nothing.
I'm no fan of Musk but deplatforming doesn't work. On the contrary, it fans the flames of extremist thought and drives adherents closer together in shared adversity. This is easily googleable: I'm not sure how you managed to convince yourself of its efficacy.

You will never eliminate negative elements in society through repression. It doesn't work if humans do it to themselves, it most certainly doesn't work when humans do it to others. Compassionate action is the only resolutely effective method. We can see this in prisons that practice remedial action vs punitive and even in day to day life conversing with others. When has punishing hate with hate ever worked throughout all of human history? The very idea is ludicrous. If I discharge a flamethrower on a forest fire, what do you expect will happen?

Dudes (looking at you Buddha) living thousands of years ago told us this and we're still playing these same games of self-delusion.
Just sharing my opinion. As I said above, I am pro-free speech, that inludes free speech for myself. I do not know why you have a problem with this.
It's hard in HTML due to the clunky way it handles density scaling. You wont have any issue doing razer sharp pixel alignment on systems that are natively density aware, like Android, as then the rendering stack can just work in actual pixels like it should, and density handling is done by the layout system instead.

So it's not about the number of layers of abstraction or general "high level"ness, but rather if those abstractions are trying to cover up mistakes made elsewhere.
As stated in tweet #11, Twitter is overwhemingly staffed by people of one political orientation, and the company as a whole would thus have no issue with helping their political party win the election. They had no reason to sue.
When I moved from Lumia to iPhone > Android. Here maps was different. It didn’t feel the same as on the Lumia. So I just flick between Google maps and Apple Maps now. But miss the here maps from Lumia days.