skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point isn’t that Twitter felt compelled. Isn’t the point that Twitter happily complied, and even made up reasons to censor the stuff they thought was the most damaging “in order to prevent another 2016”.
they have been buying cloud services companies like Onica for a while though
It's more like "gave a fuck about high school", so not really. The people that won that game weren't the smartest but rather the best at conforming to expectations. Although perhaps this has changed now that the dreaded Permanent Record has become our reality.
High dimensional? Is the greatest line
Isn't that the best color to show all the dust on the screen?

Personally I can't really stand people taking form over function when I see people with beautiful empty home screens on smartphone and they always end up explaining how practical it is work words "but" or "just" because it's just not practical. I'm using very well organized Sunfire home screen with folders so I can get to desired app work minimum amount of taps possible and still leave middle part empty to see the wallpaper.

Same goes with wallpaper and desktop extremists, some people have desktop full of icons that you have trouble to find something, some are same as phone extremists missing the point of desktop. Here I'm closer to the empty side since I can get by with only few icons phys quick launch since anyway most of the screen is covered by centered windows so there are strips of desktop only on sides where are most of the (useful) icons.

Plain black wallpaper would be just too plain for me, my wallpaper has to be muted (usually empty road or weather over country, rarely space, current one looking through blurred/foggy window, next one I plan to use iceberg but it will be tough one since they are quite bright, maybe underwater section), nothing shining blinding my eyes and the most important aspect is readability of fonts since I drag and drop stuff all the time while working to/from inbox opened in browser.
What "government comms" were exposed here, specifically? The specific claims seem to be about comms with private, albeit political, entities.
This article relies on Ookla speedtest results. I don't think those are representative for satellite internet, when speeds vary throughout the day based on satellite positions relative to the user.

People usually go to test their speed when they feel their connection is slow, so it's not a uniform random sample.
Tell Putin.
I don't get why they can't just hire more citizens; can't most people agree that would be good? If you don't want the money, fine, but it just seems unreasonable that we force Americans to compete against people who are the top 0.001% of some other country with a billion people. Who benefits from that? The tech company does, that one person who may or may not even like Americans does. That person's former country could lose since their best leave or maybe they pressure them to steal tech who knows?

I don't think immigration is a cost free win for America in 100% of the cases. I am worried we are creating a caste of elite immigrants and their progeny who occupy the country's most elite positions and we're prioritizing foreign education to the detriment of US citizens. We have no reason to make things more competitive here if we can just import people from another country. It's bizarre to do this on a lot of different levels.

I think we should do what China is doing with their own citizens and try to make Americans more competitive and then we could talk about skilled immigration.
My new car got stolen earlier this year and the built-in GPS is the reason I got it back.

Police in my case took it super seriously and recovered the car even though it was on private property and the GPS signal was 400 yards off of the actual location.

I called at 10 am and had the car back by 1 pm.
This is quite obviously about substantial influence on election news cycle; and of course pointing the finger at the other side is already contained in the friend-enemy distinction.
To take the analogy further, violent criminals are arrested much more quickly, which is like a product manager asking for the pricing on the pricing page to be changed.
But not every business is an LLC. They all go onto the register anyway. In some cases that includes self-employed people.
I know the Trump White House made requests for stuff to be taken down via email, (instead of the Report Tweet button), but I didn't see that President Trump requesting a ToS review for some tweets was this kind of corruption.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598828932395978752
The John Podesta - Hillary phishing leak is out there on Wikileaks. This doesn't fit into any category I've seen:

0) Podesta got a letter-perfect message from "Google" asking him to change his password.

1) Podesta asked his IT guy if it was legit.

2) The IT guy said, "Yes, it is, but please set up 2FA."

3) Podesta clicked on it, ignoring the 2FA part (I think he ignored it).
If the annual tax forms are any indication railroad workers in the US have all sorts of separate rules and whatnot. In the US the right to strike is something that can be bargained in most industries which is why, in the Bay Area, BART workers can and have struck while Muni workers resort to "wildcat strikes". Muni workers bargained away their right to strike in exchange for something I've since forgotten. As far as port workers, they are not prohibited from work action. The ILWU (the dominant West Coast longshoreman union) has a loooooooong history of work action to support various political causes from anti-war to police brutality. Before the sanctions kicked in ILWU refused to unload cargo from Russian ships in solidarity with Ukraine.

Realistically the rail workers almost certainly don't need to strike to cause pain. They can likely slow things down dramatically by following rules and regs to the letter. Perhaps we'll start to see infrastructure sabotaged. Maybe dockworkers will refuse to handle rail cargo. Maybe Teamsters will refuse to do last mile for rail cargo. Who knows.
My favorite is fonts with a "serif-ness" slider. You can dynamically switch between a serif and sans serif version of the same font. Imagine doing it all with a single font!
I'd rather America does not provoke Russia and have a military presence bordering Russia and not support Ukraine joining NATO.
It's more than cheap knock-offs, it's noise that makes it very difficult to find quality products. I usually have to look for reviews elsewhere, and find very specific search terms to find quality products that actually match their descriptions.
>because at the end of the day they don't speak English very well and don't have access to anyone who can.

You believe they don't have access to fiverr or any of the numerous sites that will copy edit for a couple dollars of the thousands bucks they are scamming?
The jury awarded them $750k each, but it doesn't look like it's over:

- defence claims that the law caps claims at $300k each

- plaintiff claims that there were multiple occurrences, and that the cap applies to each occurrence

- defence claims that, if they wanted to claim multiple occurrences, then plaintiff should have asked the jury to rule on that
Send navigation instructions from phone, rather than entering address with a rotary knob on the slow IVI in the car.
It was clear that both parties regularly listed people and stories they wanted squelched, with the dems having more pipelines into twitter. Seems very unlikely the laptop story never got a mention, but we don't know for sure. The series has just started however.
Oldest continuously inhabited towns in US are pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona
Plain JS -> Angular -> React -> Vue -> Svelte

What a long strange trip it's been
>And yet here, silence so far.

What new information would you, as a journalist, find salient and worthy of a brand new post today?
Yeah, coming from a country with strong labour laws, it's mind boggling that this is legal in the US.

As an American I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed. Certainly Biden looks like a fucking jackass. Currently the Zodiac Killer is bemoaning Biden's anti-worker sentiment. Obviously Cruz is wholly incapable of doing anything with a modicum of integrity but if the republicans run with this through the 2024 election cycle and they get someone with savvy on the ticket (like good ol' governor death sentence) things could get dicey for the democrats. Legal or not it sure seems like the democrats are trying real hard to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
> I wonder if … they self-reported their own ToS violations.

Sorry, what “own violations?”

And the original sarcasm: you are upset that an employee is reporting violating content that concerns their employer? I didn’t realize that if you click the report button on the post, you must have 10 degrees of separation from it, otherwise it’s untoward.

Are you aware of how almost all content moderation on the public-facing web works?

And wait, “throughout the whole internet”? I missed the part when Twitter became the sole TLD and its vast expanse meant any violating content found must surely have been discovered by time-consuming and pain-staking methods. Or maybe a reverse image search and a few interns can find some violating content that hadn’t been flagged yet on one single website.

Enough with the indignation and false accusations.
Preposterous. That line of thinking implies humans are capable of intelligence.
Does he know anything?
"Hate speech" is a vague enough term that you can use any definition you want, to get any result you want. The vague impressions of a small group of ideologically motivated people don't become any more rigorous just because you counted them
Here is an account of the whole laptop decision on Kara Swisher's podcast from the perspective of Twitter's former safety chief Yoel Roth.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-twitters-former-sa...
I don't know if one comment counts as 'turning', but, a-propos of nothing, any authoritarian moment involves the reevaluation of previous dissident heroes
Do you understand the distinction between moderation and censorship?

Moderation is blocking content when the sender wants to communicate something the receiver doesn't want. Censorship is blocking content that both the sender and the receiver want.

Gmail running spam filters is moderation. The government blocking you from sending emails to journalists is censorship.
> But show me a client that doesn't suck

mutt ("All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.")

Yes, it's text. It's also extremely customizable, the polar opposite of the current fashion of locked-down proprietary clients where nothing at all is customizable. Mutt is amazing.
The point being made by the commenter you replied to, which I think you missed, is that if the government passed a law preventing one private entity (a political campaign) from emailing another private entity (a business), that would be government interference in speech.
I think there are different perceptions on what Facebook's tool does.

It could be "send to the front of the moderation queue." or, it could be "ban it immediately globally".

People's perception also probably depends on how far they believe a ban applied to Facebook extends. Does it extend to NZ only, or worldwide?

If I were designing this system:

1) Upon receipt of a ban request by a governmental org.

2) If legally required, immediately ban it to all IP ranges inside of that country/region - there is typically a SLA with penalties here, e.g. 1hr in EU.

3) Send it to the front of the moderation queue.

4) If it comes back marked "not allowed", ban it globally.

That way, the legal bans only apply to the smallest allowed region, but we then take that as a strong hint that it might not be allowable on the platform in general.

That allows us to operate in Saudi Arabia, France, Germany, New Zealand and the US, each country with different things considered "illegal speech".

If some readers think this is NZ deciding for the world what Facebook publishes, they will have a very different response to someone who thinks the takedown only applies in NZ.
good, if true then when they price their wares appropriately accounting for all thebpollution the free market will crush them with cleaner, cheaper, local alternatives or people will just not buy the product. i thought capitalists loved this free market stuff, or is it just the cheap oil from imperialism they love...
What would this give me that something like ungoogled chromium with uBlock Origin can't?
I found the Ro Khanna one interesting,

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598838041371516929

"Exposed" is your word, not mine.

Also, Biden's been a lifelong politician. I guess we disagree that his team's comms during candidacy were not "governmental" in nature.
To get more revenue from limited capacity, it helps to go after customers who can pay more.

(Also, demand from governments is likely somewhat geographically different than demand from consumers.)
Didn’t take long for this post to bring new folks in off the woodwork.
The point is that if you don’t like that, take it up with twitter. Framing it as government forcibly censoring twitter is just straight up untrue.

Insofar as the Biden campaign is concerned, it is impossible to violate 1A when you are not imbued with government power. There is no such thing as a private citizen compelling Twitter to take something down, the only possible thing you can be doing is requesting. Both campaigns did this so feel free to draw your own conclusions as to whether the Trump campaign did something wrong, but I will point you to the word “campaign” and note that a campaign is also a private party, so pretty unlikely.
Don't forget jQuery! :)

It feels like it was

Plain JS -> jQuuuuuuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeerry -> Angular -> React -> Vue -> Svelte
Could someone explain to me how twitter has any legal obligation to provide a platform supporting all types of 1A protected content? Doesn’t that violate the owner of twitters 1A rights?

If I owned a message board, and started deleting users post at random, or because of personal taste, would that be a 1A violation? I may or may not be an asshole, but it’s my message board.

There are other parallels I can draw, but these are honest questions.
> I'm going to assume that your reasoning comes from irrational fear of the Chinese.

Where do you get get these ideas when people repeatedly tell you that it's not the case?
That's basically fuzz testing. I absolutely agree, put me in a room with someone and a magic reset button that resets them and their memory (but I preserve mine), and enough time, I can probably get just about anyone to do just about anything within hard value limits (eg embarrassing but not destructive).

However humans have a "fail2ban" of sorts by getting irritated at ridiculous requests. Alternatively, peer pressure is a very strong (de)motivator. People are far more shy with an authority figure watching.

I suspect OpenAI will implement some sort of "hall monitor" system which steps in if the conversation strays too far from "social norms".
Zion is a zoo of people, but it's so freaking huge and gorgeous that the crowds don't diminish it, IMHO. I despise crowds but Zion is worthwhile anyway.
You are more scandalized about the campaign of a private citizen emailing Twitter to ask that dick pics of his son remove, than about the White House emailing Twitter to have tweets removed?
DLL Module-Definition (.def) Files Preprocessor
A simple tool that I've created to solve a somewhat self-inflicted problem. In some projects I want or need small differences in DLL .def exports, differences by architecture or release/debug. And I don't want to manually maintain separate files. So because there's no preprocessing support for .def files, at least not in Visual Studio, I wrote myself this simple one.

Putting it out there in case anyone else finds it useful.
Find usage example in the middle of the page.
i think the government has direct lines to many industry leaders. im pretty sure it's commonplace for officials to regularly communicate with e.g., oil executives or religious leaders.

we've known about the business world having direct lines to governmental agencies for decades.

many have been screaming at the tops of their lungs for decades to remove these communication lines between religious leaders/industries and the government.

to add some very relevant context to this, we just saw texts between elon and kanye yesterday. kanye is running for president in 2024. all week long has been doing interviews attacking jewish people, praising hitler, and posting swastikas. again, elon has been texting directly with him as recently as yesterday.

this communication between political figures and industry seems to be entirely commonplace. is it right? i don't personally think so. i think its problematic as hell. but the problem is significantly larger than twitter. significantly larger. religions, extractive industries, transportation companies, etc.. etc... etc...

while some may personally have a problem with it, i'll believe elon thinks its a problem when he ceases communication with all political figures, including for business related reasons.
The gist is:

1. Trace your application, so you know which query is running slowly in production.

2. Using this exact query, run `EXPLAIN ANALYZE` or whatever your RDBMS equivalent is.

3. Read the output, see which step is taking the slowest. Use google to help.

4. Google-fu until you find out which index might help you.

Over time, (3) and (4) requires less and less Google, because there's really only a few common cases that give you 100% of the speedup in 80% of cases.

Once you know this path to improvement exists, it's trivial to progress down it habitually. The `EXPLAIN ANALYZE` output looks like Greek at first, but quickly becomes as familiar to parse as a compiler error, etc.
ChatGPT refuses to admit it knows the current date; lies when confronted
why is there nothing at com.puter.com?
"People are saying" drama isnt welcome, in my book. Provide some starting links. This drama-mongering asking for takes while providing nothing to go from.os vaccuous social dramatizing & not worthy.
The problem isn’t doing it per say. The problem is that they lied and basically gaslighted everyone as to the reason they censored the post. It was a total fabrication and they knew it.
Congrats on making it on HN with puter.com. Always love to see desktop environments getting attention. It looks better all the time.

I'll take a chance to mention my attempt at creating a desktop environment in the browser as it's open source, if anyone is interested in checking out.

Code: https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS

Demo: https://dustinbrett.com/
> Don't you need to turn it on?

No, the DSLRs can be left permanently on. It consumes nearly no battery in that state (a single charge will last many months) and yet it's always ready to take a photo as fast as you can grab it.
Yeah, this sounds a lot like a just-so story. There is never any actual evidence given, and the story plays towards people’s desire to feel smarter than other people who would fall for a scam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story
People criticize Israel all the time. Criticizing the state (Israel) is unrelated to criticizing the people (Jewish). Similiarly for China, criticizing the state is not the same as criticizing the Chinese. And adding on, there's multiple types of Chinese people. There's Chinese in America, Chinese in Taiwan and Chinese in many other countries. No one fears "the Chinese" that's just CCP government brainwashing to try to trick innocent people such as yourself that any criticism of the party is xenophobia/sinophobia.

The Russian government has been actively doing it during the war in Ukraine, trying to accuse all of Europe and the US for having "Russophobia". Turns out autocrats rhyme with each other.
It's truly incredible that this easily-verifiable statement of fact has been downvoted.
Aren't comments like this self fulfilling? The next version of GPT will include this text in its data set.
Legal question: in tweet #28, Twitter's new leadership gives up a "[privileged]" email between Twitter and Twitter legal counsel. How much of Twitter's legal comms lose privilege, should there be litigation?
The difference is also that, per the data that was linked in the thread, the Democrats had orders of magnitude more requests sent and honored than Republicans, because the former had more contacts at Twitter that were willing to take those requests.
> I didn't give them anything; I also don't recall their asking for anything.

When I click the link, I see only a login modal over some abstract background art. I don't even see the link to the terms of service you have there. (That's after I enabled Javascript on the page to even get that far.) I can only assume that's what OP is complaining about. Maybe they've got too many users because of this post and they're limiting it to signup-only for now? Or maybe my browser isn't passing some IP trustworthiness thing. shrug
Did they just nerf it hard? Now I seem to get much more of:

> I'm sorry, but I am not able to provide original descriptions or content such as poems or songs. As a language model, my capabilities are limited to providing information and answering questions based on the input I am given. I am not able to browse the internet and therefore do not have access to information on current events or technology, nor am I able to speculate on how a specific author such as Lord Byron may have described a raptor killer drone. Is there anything else I may be able to assist you with?
Nice dimensional breakdown of concerns in this proposed Model of Software Configuration v2 (MSCv2).
increment from Stripe
So do you think they should hire less skilled people? Isn’t that the much hated “affirmative action” instead of hiring based on merit?

As an American citizen you wouldn’t want to be considered a “diversity hire” would you?
Fair enough that I misread the chart, but are we sure that those contributions are evenly distributed throughout the employee population and not, for example, mostly from executives? I can't tell where this data is sourced from.
Why aren't Taliban tweets removed that violate the TOS?
What the hell did I just do for 16 minutes 0_o
The conspiracy nut vibes in that story (And frankly whole website) are off the chart.
I would say I consider it both an abuse of power and not important. Musk is also abusing his power as dear leader of Twitter and I also consider that not important. All the drama about Twitter is a just a gossipy sideshow.
It was Jimmy Hoffa.
The pun is the lowest form of comedy
I wonder why these Twitter Files didn’t include any partial emails from Trump’s staff, only the DNC where they expedited a ToS violation review.

Oh wait, it’s because clearly this information from a “Twitter source” (aka Elon) is disseminated with a viewpoint and is hardly impartial.

All of this should be viewed with extreme skepticism, and so far none of this seems damning in any way. I haven’t seen anything that says Elon is remotely operating in good faith.
I think the point of a sentence that begins with "Have you even" is to discredit me.

Excuse me for not being most charitable trying to extract meaning beyond that.
Sorry for committing wrongthink in your presence
If you’re excited about Stable Diffusion, why not join the Hugging Face Discord and participate in their community?
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Sounds like the team sucks, run.
Lmao Putin isn't Putin up much of a fight these days. if you wanna scare him air drop solar panels all over the place and show a picture of some old howitzers.
I wrote this app that is a cross between a Node.js based OS and personal file sharing app. I use that to transfer large volumes of personal data between devices. I can’t get the wife and kids to use the app or get them to keep anything update so I am considering writing auto scheduling and file system volume’s synchronization.
The point is that social media with vast influence is taking cues from one political party.
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