skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Okay well, this doesn't feel like a good faith discussion if we're resorting to technicalities like this.

Okay and you are assuming that Twitter would just take down the tweets, or that the tweets didn't violate Twitter's policies. Is it not okay for someone in the gov't to hit the report button?
I'm old enough to have flown for business on tickets the office admin would book in her name. Whoever got the short straw would have to travel to the customer site...

The ID check is to help airlines prevent sale of frequent flier award tickets. It's not about security it's about airline revenue/loss prevention.
> When I suggest we find consensus on an architecture or coding practices or even commit conventions, I get blank faces that seem to ask "what are you talking about". I feel gaslighted about tech debt.

Depends on the size of the company, if you're frantically finding product-market fit, then this is fine. However, if you have an established product, then you might be correct in explaining the benefits of solidifying an architecture and best-practices...

TLDR: YOLO dev until the product resonates with customers
> skip the smart people

I am not sure smart people are scammed less often than the average person. Perhaps smart people get sucked in by different scams (like buying altcoins, or complex speculation)?
This isn't about any story that Elon Musk was flogging. It's about a true story that was published in a major tabloid about one of two presidential candidates on the eve of an election that every major media outlet colluded to suppress.

Minimizing it is condescending. Tainting it through associating it with Musk is as cynical as tainting it by associating it with mystery Russians.
> Fox News is the most watched news channel on the continent.

They have high viewership in spite of the fact that liberals have complete dominance over so-called "official" news media & centers of cultural production, as well as universities. Conservatives don't control government or anything else in any meaningful sense. Just look at American govt over the course of the 20th & 21st century to see that progressives squarely won in terms of shaping the size, scope & spending of govt.

> has nothing to do with political lefts and rights

You're supposing a True Scotsman that "liberals" aren't true left or something, that's complete nonsense. You may as well be regretting that a horse isn't a unicorn.

Tech companies are overwhelmingly biased towards liberals. Don't play dumb.
>What evidence does DOJ have at the moment?

Only the DOJ knows the answer to that.

I find indictments fascinating, in part, because they pull back the curtain on what is frequently an impressive investigation and body of evidence.
I honestly don't think wallpaper will affect you (or your "relationship" with devices) that much, but do whatever works for you.

FWIW, I normally just use the default wallpapers came with the device. They are typically some landscapes or color gradients that don't have much fine details to inference with the icons, and that's good enough for me.
> the more division they create, and the more moderates and people on the [opposite side] grow to resent them

This feels like a universal to me that applies to both parties.

And I’m sorry, “authoritarian suppression of speech and ideas” is pure propaganda. No mainstream left leaning politician is actually perusing such an idea, it’s a boogeyman created by the right and by the looks of things it’s working great.
What about Trump's team doing the exact same thing while he was in office?
> Fleeing to Dubai might mess with his "it was just an honest mistake" PR tour.

Not in any way that would matter. If it was an honest mistake, fleeing to Dubai (or anywhere) is still the right thing to do. Which means doing so doesn't undermine the idea that it was an honest mistake.
Could someone please explain what Rationale is supposed to mean in this context? Why is it under every interface idea?
Doh! I read too fast! Thanks for the clue stick!
Trivia: The picture in the article was taken in Valparaíso, Chile.
> Don't turn our field into one where you have to sacrifice your personal life to succeed.

I'm glad you think I have that much power! Seriously I'm not suggesting any such thing. But why shouldn't people who work harder reap the benefits. And more to the point, does that cause a race to the bottom?
I agree. I am glad Node is getting there despite dragging its feet. The DX with all the package boilerplate is atrocious compared to what it could be.

Even if Deno, Bun etc were to fizzle out, I am glad they exist to show the way and put pressure on Nodejs at bare minimum.
Any system trained on actual human language, media, or behavior is likely to have evil baked in as a feature.
The Red Lake Nation football team hasn't won a game in years
I think even heartbleed would be mitigated with (safe) Rust. IIRC heartbleed was caused by a missing bounds check, which allowed attackers to read past the message buffer and leak secrets from nearby memory. Safe Rust would just panic (crash) if you tried to slice past the end of the buffer.
Not just that, but revenge porn is literally illegal in the state of California, where Twitter is HQ'd.

I'm getting increasingly annoyed by people pointing to those removed tweets as a smoking gun while being completely unaware that we know the contents of said tweet and said tweets can easily be interpreted as violating Twitter's ToS at minimum and actively violating California law at worst.
SBF is so so bad. But,

When does it become criminal to skip the step of establishing an accounting system....prior employees say they didn't even know their cash, liability, or trading positions.

FTX customer deposits went into Alameda bank account. Could be that they stayed there and somebody just kept a spreadsheet of deposits?

My point is that the astounding lack of records and systems may make it very difficult to prosecute him. For example, trades and payments were executed just on verbal orders so it will be hard to pin specifics on SBF.

Probably testimony of insiders will be the most compelling evidence against him.
> Prince recorded his first album by himself and played all 21 instruments, so he's not the perfect example for this.

Why isn't he a good example? He worked hard and wrote a bunch of good music. He didn't seem to cause a race to the bottom.
NYC is hiring a rat czar. ‘General aura of badassery’ required
Wow, this looks awesome! I love CLI / GUI integration tools.

In case you're interested, I wrote some examples on how the system clipboard is also a great integrator for migrating data to and from the CLI: https://github.com/niedzielski/cb#examples
Taibbi doesn't even say any of that
This is a distinction with little difference.

They can just as much suppress speech, by using the implied threat of future government action.

And this is basically just as bad.
One of the curses of democracy is you have to form coalitions with other humans instead of ideals. At least in the US it is out in the open. Many countries have worse problems and bigger, more friendly smiles.

This is a good time to plug 3rd parties and candidates. Organised pressure to make the situation better is more important than winning elections - even if they don't get voted in they may force change for the better. At some point the best options amongst two evils is still too evil to tolerate.
The Biden campaign is not the government.
No. The 1st Amendment is a restriction on the Legislative branch: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Congress passed no laws in this regard. Whether or not this was illegal activity on the part of the Executive Branch is another question entirely -- and a good one.
Voice over: little did they know, they algorithm was a lie. It was all manual
I also opt out of the scan, and have been 1K without ever going through those contraptions. Knowing which cattle lanes to get in is helpful, along with having (ADA protection) shoulder injuries which cause me to be unable to physically comply.
The ACLU disagrees.

https://twitter.com/aclu/status/1587198479608303622

The government pressuring private companies to censor is a First Amendment violation.
AFAIK admissions departments don't have pictures of their applicants.
Switched to Sway which is a tiling window manager. Previously I used Gnome and my first thought was this makes wallpaper pretty much useless. I have gotten used to it. The only problem is I can't do the same on my work mac.
I have wallpapers on my desktop and phone, but honestly hardly ever look at them. Even on the desktop, I pretty much always have various programs maximized or nearly so. If I feel the need to take a break, I either just browse the web (awkward-look-monkey.jpg) or get up from the computer.
"Trans people exist" is an objective statement of fact (though some people would say it's just a "choice").

But also, "trans women are women" is normative, since it seeks to prescribe how trans people are treated by society.
> Population levels in the western US have exploded in the last twenty years and we've developed almost no additional recreation opportunities.

There are a lot of great places for hiking and camping. The problem is that everyone wants to go to "the best" places, so you end up with a lot of people competing for a permit for Mt. Whitney rather than go for a similar alternative like Mt. Langley.
> favoring restrictions on distribution rather than removing certain speech outright, its new head of trust and safety told Reuters.

"We're not going to remove your tweets, we just won't show them to anyone". Shadowbanning, in other words.
By "the truth" I don't mean the literal truth of the laptop's existence or ownership, but to refer facetiously to the various conspiracy theories surrounding the laptop's contents, such as proof of Biden having stolen the election, child pornography, video of him doing drugs with Hunter, evidence that he and Fauci manufactured COVID, etc. Something damning that the Democrats and Twitter (being puppets of the DNC) desperately wanted suppressed because it would immediately disqualify Biden as a candidate if it got out.

But as far as is known, the laptop contained nothing of the sort. Hunter Biden being a drug-using fuckup who trades on his father's fame isn't a scandal, it's basic rich kid behavior.
I know that was one of Musks goals

hahahahahahaha

oh wait, you were serious?

hahahahahahaha

Let's check in on one of Tickle me Elno's other goals: free speech. Kathy Griffin? Banned. Random South African dude who was tweeting Nazi quotes, pictures, and adoration? Not banned.

Maybe we should check in on one of Elno's other goals, the big Hunter Biden exposé that was set to go down today. Delayed. Aaaaaaand… crickets.

Elno doesn't have any goals he's just spewing word salad.
Elementary-schoolers write their lowercase a's as single-storey while typography nearly universally uses double-story. They write their lowercase g's as single-storey while fonts often use double-story. And they write their uppercase Q's using a tail that crosses the bowl, rather than one carefully underneath, as if often used in typography.

So I wouldn't rely on how elementary-schoolers write as a guide for typographic design.

In any case, there is a perfectly good reason to omit the crossbars, which is consistency. They are essentially serifs, and it's totally inconsistent to use serifs for just one out of 52 letterforms and not on the remaining 51.

Putting crossbars on an I is like a bar through a 7, a slash through a zero, or a bar through a Z. It's a hack for enhanced legibility but it's ugly. It's noisy. It's distracting. We do it in handwriting or in monospaced code fonts when required, but not for professional-looking body text. Sometimes the more aesthetically pleasing choice is the best one, which is something "proper design" takes into account.
Twitter is a virtual public square, so I'd say thats a feature.
I'm not sure how aware people (you) are, in general, about Twitter and other big tech (fb, ggle) accommodating the government and political parties to amplify their messages and curtail the distribution of certain other messages.

I really don't know if that's something you or others might know about or consider deleterious to the operation of a free nation. You might be a proponent of those messages and opposed to the messages that previously had been systematically removed from the platform.

The problem is that allowing these things to occur will ultimately be bad for you as well..

I don't give a fuck about Alex Jones
> This doesn't really seem to be connected to time of day or what I would expect to be typical use patterns.

This has been my experience too which I've assumed they are capping speeds. Often I work late so am up in the am's so would have little competition for bandwidth and if I do a speed test it's lower (~60Mb down) than when I first got it and would regularly be 100Mb+ sometimes over 200.

Also recently we've been getting more network dropouts.

All that said, it's been a game changer for me as I was living with 3.5Mb down before starlink and a significant overall improvement.
The government got the website for “free” (no up front cost). Maybe once BA collects some amount of money the website cost up front the cost structure should shift to cover the ongoing maintenance rather than building the initial version
"One would have to assume"

Have some perspective man or woman, you're acting like we're supposed to treat you like some babe in the woods and pretend this is genuinely shocking to you? Please. Yes, powerful governments influence actors within their nations. We get it. Let's all feign surprise for a few hours online.

But that's not what bothers me. The most frustrating thing is that your perspective fails to acknowledge how this is so painfully, hilariously, boringly mild compared to the corruption and abuses of power that are the baseline norm. It's like when people treat "gig workers" like they're the new 10-year-olds in a coal mine. Yes, all abuses of power are bad, we agree. But do you really expect us to pretend this is anything other than an extremely mild, boring footnote in the grand legacy of abused power?
I’m ok paying for what I use at the cost the market will bear especially if they spend it making excellent products. I look at what happened to traditional tv and dread a return.
So we are surprised that political parties had direct lines with twitter?
Are we also surprised that Elon gets invited to Apple HQ when he throws tantrums at Apple app review process? Try doing that as a small developer.

Color me surprised.
Or https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-former-republican...
He said "to the eye".

But indeed, not all stars are "point light": the sun as seen from the earth is not. And it is a good thing, because otherwise that would make our sun like a laser, our retinas won't last long...
I used to work in risk management at an investment bank. When things went wrong, and the result was a gain, we incorporated it into our models as if it was a loss of the same magnitude.
I prefer a plain gray background just on utilitarian grounds - I want to focus on whatever's on top of it.
To clarify, Swift is considered memory safe in single-threaded environments, but additional steps may be necessary to ensure memory safety in multi-threaded environments. This means that if you are writing Swift code that runs on a single thread, you can be confident that it will not suffer from common memory-related bugs. However, in a multi-threaded environment, multiple threads can access the same memory simultaneously, which can lead to race conditions and other memory-related issues. In order to avoid these problems, developers must use synchronization techniques such as locks or atomic operations to ensure that memory is accessed in a safe and predictable way.

I hope this helps to clear up any confusion.
Teaching ChatGPT how to write music
"Stuff they disliked" is a pretty obtuse way of saying "revenge porn".
> Tip #5 – more code comments.

I find this to rarely be true in practice. It's not that comments are intrinsically useless (though they do suffer from the intrinsic limitations that are not statically checked or tested), but that most developers tend to write comments for things that benefit from them. Or, when they do need them, they are poorly written or too terse to be useful to anyone else. I would venture to say I've seen maybe or two comments in my 15 years of software engineering that I saw and actually thought "wow, well this helps me understand this a lot better."
That's not what you said in your comment so I don't know what you are trying to say. I'm confused by what parts of this you think FAANG companies don't do. This pretty much nails it although it might look slightly different.
It’s the explanation of why the author wants the feature to exist.
The birds can live in the wild they don't need the city. A lot of animals don't live in the city. Checkout about the tons of cats in Istanbul!
Hilariously last week I observed TSA attempting to fast-track a lady who had (paid for) TSA Precheck. She insisted that she also had (paid for) Clear and would do the Clear line and then the Precheck line.
Maybe she gets more of a personal security bubble by doing both. Safety!
Perhaps we should do the same idea on top of a DHT
> The only real revelation here seems to be that there existed some internal debate whether or not blocking the story was a good idea, which seems...kind of obvious?

You'd think it'd be obvious but so many people seem to be convinced that Twitter was the seat of wokeness and the moderation team sat on the throne. That there was a debate totally contradicts the characterization Matt is running for.
Lots of people talking about ToS as if it's applied consistently and without bias. Let's assume that the oft-storied "pee tapes" were real, published by a mainstream news outlet and posted to Twitter. Would those same individuals regurgitating ToS violations agree that should receive the same treatment, or would they have been complicit in spreading it as far and wide as possible?
huh, that's an interesting point! Seems like a good idea to mark those as spam even if they are "harmless", in that case...
Who do you think should have been prosecuted in relation to the 2008 financial crisis, and on what charges?
I was having a hard time concentrating one day and just switched to plain black. This was months ago. Still black.
Yes
Good recent discussion:
https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/12/16/approaching-third-r...
> they weren’t trying to censor anything, they were just trying to follow their own moderation policies.

Well, it seems more like they were trying to apply their moderation policies to another website, which isn't the same as applying their moderation policies to their own website.

Anyway, moderation is censorship. I'm not saying that's bad, I'm just saying that's what it is.
Other than the sun, are there any stars that should take up multiple pixels at the angular resolution available with current display technology?
You’re just fantasizing. Twitter is fine. Thriving really.
Eufy “local only” cameras upload facial recognition data to the cloud
I can't remember if I manually configured this, and couldn't find docs on if this is the default. On my laptop:

- Apt installs traditional deb packages

- The software center GUI has a dropdown to pick between Flatpack & Deb, defaulting to Flatpack.

I think this is a decent setup. Apt not doing what I'm used to infuriates me, but it feels vibely fitting for a gui to default to Flatpacks.
I am a little lazy so only skimmed the article: is there UPSERT support?
> Free speech only applies to government.

Buddy, it's called the first amendment. It isn't a hard read.
You do realize this was the Trump Whitehouse? and that both Trump's campaign team and White House staff made requests that were honored? And that when Biden's team asked for the reviews it was not the executive branch?
I find there’s a very narrow set of reasons to enable receipts. I don’t like it when products snitch on me for viewing something, or for being currently active.
Biden himself wasn't an elected official at the time, but many others were. One of Taibbi's tweets shows an email from the DNC requesting that certain tweets be censored.
Those wedding parties won't stand a chance.
As much as I understand the reasoning behind this thought, I do not agree with it. Yes, my devices are tools and as much as possible, I'd like to keep my tools looking nice. For me, part of that is having a nice wallpaper. I am forced to use a Windows computer at work but you know what? I actually like the new picture they use on the lock screen everyday. It's simply the feeling of "oh that's a nice looking place" and then getting to work.
I recommend trying off black or various other dark but soft uniform backgrounds. Black can create a too harsh contrast with icons or maybe my eyes are more sensitive than yours.
Another way is to have many people arrive early and opt out. They don't have the staff to process these volumes manually, so the system would change if many would opt out. Most people willingly and voluntarily comply, so it continues to become more invasive.
Joe Biden was a lifelong U.S. Senator, Vice President and a Presidential candidate. They were providing lists of people to silence, just weeks before he was elected as President. And you're arguing that because he was TECHNICALLY a private citizen at the time while the highest levels of Twitter was working at his campaign's behest to make sure he got elected President, that is somehow NOT a first amendment violation?

I would not be surprised to find out sometime that there are judges who might disagree with you on that point.
Another “conspiracy theory” turns out to be a fact.
Capitalisn at work
No tab-completion in the terminal?!?!

_Literally_ unusable.

(But for serious, this is a _very_ clean interface, I like it a lot.)
Well, they're either worth it or they're not. If they're not worth it then don't use them.

I don't mind paying for software subscriptions or services if they provide real value. If they don't provide value then I shouldn't be using them in the first place.
These actions effectively installed Biden as president. There was a poll where an easily-sufficient percentage of respondents said they would have changed their vote if the laptop story hadn’t been suppressed. Someone can probably find it.
Are you familiar with logical fallacy?

Yes, bad things are on the internet.

That is in no way the content or information I'm describing, nor does it fall into the category of legal free speech.

Bringing up illegal things to argument the suppression of legal speech is, I don't know, moronic.

You are perpetuating a tired trope and I haven't the energy to persist with this discussion
What in the emails indicates anything was a lie? You'd think Taibbi would bring that out if there was such a hot example.

Besides, the poster's point was that many of these people are now going to receive death threats from whackjobs, not that their contents were too sensitive.
Hi! This isn't normal Minesweeper, buddy.

To know where the mines are you first need to solve math problems which tell you the amount of mines nearby. Long press to flag. How fast can you solve it?
I use black wallpapers on all my machines as well. A black background means no icons get camouflaged by the wallpaper, and helps keep me focused on what I'm doing.
Do you actually care about what happens on this website or is this just a good chance for you to emerge randomly and make some arch point about how stupid everyone is for falling for this garbage?