skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CT = Crypto Twitter, and it's referencing the midwit meme [1] [2].

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/iq-bell-curve-midwit

[2] https://twitter.com/notfrydoteth/status/1590386451027746817
> One side controls and puts rules for the entire conversation, that's the issue.

Moderation bias is only a minor issue in practice, compared to the real issues that I mentioned. Twitter is still a cesspool of both left wing and right wing propaganda despite your claim that one side "controls the entire conversation".

> why it shouldn't be controlled by a biased party

So...

1) You have an unbiased party in mind, and this party is unbiased because it's magically incorruptible in principle, not because it currently holds no power worth corrupting.

or

2) You claim that no party should control twitter at all (aka free speech absolutism), and have a magical solution to ward off extremism and deliberate attacks and bots.

Either way, it's irresponsible to keep such groundbreaking discoveries from the world, please do share.
No reason they can’t stick a designated call spot at the end of the plane where people can make their calls. Why does everything have to be a negative?
So far this is the only comment makes sense.
are you sure you didn't mean to use a different term than "democrats"? :^|
Ransomware (or at least a breach) is exceedingly likely.

> #Rackspace’s managed Exchange documentation points to Exchange clusters which are all offline. When viewed on Shodan, a few days ago they have the Exchange build number from August 2022 - ie before #ProxyNotShell patches.

(Quote via https://web.archive.org/web/20221203050944/https://cyberplac...)
Does the executive team reply to you in under an hour and Handle it?
But all of the media people and politicians were on Twitter, and not on Bob's auto parts forum.
Rackspace has gone from one of the best in the industry to one of the worst.
Actually it's the biggest deal since 1A applies to .. the government
> And clearly, 5g frequencies being higher, you will not have better reception from ground cells...

5G added spectrum all over. 600Mhz is new for 5G and lower than any previous mobile spectrum. Lots of additions above previous spectrum, including the double digit GHz stuff that's for dense situations (maybe in a plane?). But air to ground certainly isn't going to work much better at 600 Mhz or 25 Ghz than it did at 1900Mhz. The problem is still if you're in the air, you're in view of too many towers at any given time to effectively communicate, but you're also travelling much too fast. It could be possible to build a network of ground stations designed for this, but it wasn't ever done. I'd wonder if spaceX could do something interesting with planes communicating with their ground stations directly or via the LEO constellation.
You joined a startup and you feel cheated and lied to because they couldn't raise another round of funding? Is that right?

I stopped reading once that seemed to be the case, because that made it clear this post is ridiculous, tbh
New Zealand has always had an official censor (Office of Film and Literature Classification [1]), responsible for what works are available in the country.

They already have an internet filter which blocks access to certain domains/ip ranges/etc. [2]

Of course they would require similar abilities once Facebook came to their notice by broadcasting a terrorist's murder spree. [3]

It would have been "You are selling to New Zealanders.
We will have the ability to censor information passed to NZ IP addresses, or we will block the IP range, your choice."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_Office_(New_Zea...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_New_Zea...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_mosque_shootings
What are those links? Is it bad stuff that should have been taken down to to terms of service? This is lazy reporting and seems like a nothing burger.
Until someone files a complaint at the same court.
Oooh, this garbage poll. Will just copy/paste what I found out about it months ago.

>I will say that it's very odd that the polling firm apparently decided to republish a story from The Epoch Times of all outlets to analyze their poll. I generally don't think of TIPP as being overly biased, but uncritically regurgitating The Epoch Times is a bit much for me.

>Edit: Never mind. Went to the home page of their site and found Fox News on steroids, wow. I guess I'll only look at the IBD/TIPP polls from now on.

>Edit 2: It was an online poll, conducted among people 'following' the story? Gee, I'm shocked.

>Edit 3: I dug up the original poll (which you can only get by subscribing to their spammy newsletter) and it looks like they polled 1335 people and threw out everyone but the 437 people who said they were following the story. Literally, after the 'how closely are you following it' question, there's no data for the other 898 people. Needless to say, the headline '79%' figure is in no way representative of the general population, and appears to consist of people who already viewed the laptop as a dealbreaker. Also, just a weird thing I noticed, the races listed in crosstabs [0] are white and Hispanic, there are no black or Asian people listed at all.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/wlI68GT
Right to speech doesn't mean write to publish that speech on any platform or outlet. Twitter, like a newspaper, also has freedom of speech to counterbalance your own.
The topic of discussion here is Twitter, the FBI, and the Biden campaign’s criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States.

How “Fox News handled desantis” is not relevant. Though you are welcome to start another topic.

Downplaying this topic as “what about X” is transparent
The point is the kg of hydrocarbon is less able to release its 40MJ all at once because the oxygen which is spread out over 4000 times as much volume needs to get to it. The battery contains both ends of the reaction, but the hydrocarbon only contains one.

TnT or nitroglycerin is much more dangerous in spite of much lower energy density because the energy is all in the TnT.

Of course this isn't the only consideration (the fact that TnT releases nitrogen which suddenly wants to be much bigger is important, for example), but it is a reason to hesitate around such a battery and carefully consider whether you want to throw it around at 100km/h.
It's actually quite easy to analyze a story with minimal bias. People simply aren't interested in doing it, however.
> This story is about political operatives influencing what social media companies allow on their platform.

Totally agree...

> Not every story is about Elon Musk's ego.

BUT! I can't help thinking about how Elon might have a grudge against Biden and $44B might be FU money.

The multiple and obvious snubs from the Biden administration against Tesla might certainly be enough to tick him off enough to do something this crazy. While it has been rumored that the reason that Tesla was repeatedly left out of the mix (despite their clear lead in EVs and being an American car company) was due to Tesla not being unionized. Today's events related to the railworkers leave me doubtful.
Is it really surprising that some users would have "pro tools" of some sort with major websites? Or an API? Like, the ability to batch-report content for review?
You can say negative things all you want about Joe Biden. Get a joe-biden-idiot.com domain, make shit up, call him dumb. You'll be fine.
I am another data point that would agree with you on this. I would classify myself as a sophisticated computer user (if I don't say so myself), and I fell for a phishing page once. They recreated a pixel-perfect copy of the Steam login page in a fake browser window with a pretend address bar etc. I entered not only my creds, but also my 2FA code, before realising that it was not legit.

Got an email shortly afterwards about a login from Russia, however I was able to change my password and kick out all other sessions before any damage was done.

The worst part was that I was doing a favour to a Steam "friend" who asked me to vote for his clan in some kind of competition. I will give him the benefit of the doubt and assume it wasn't really him, but someone who had hacked his account, but either way, Steam support were utterly disinterested in doing anything about it when I reported it. As were Cloudflare. I checked on the site a few days later and the safe browsing list had flagged it, so at least those maintainers still seem to give a shit.
“So... doesn't seem like a big deal”

not an argument
Ask HN: Getting into AI?
I'm a software engineer with ~10 years of experience in robotics and in more traditional full stack development. For the past year I've been looking at all the progress happening in ML/AI and each day I'm more convinced that there's a lot of game-changing stuff that will come out of it (what we're seeing with Stable Diffusion and GPT3 are some examples of this).

I would love to pivot my career from traditional backend/frontend web development type work towards, but I'm struggling to put a plan in place.

- What would be the main topics to learn?
- What are potentially relevant companies to apply to? In the past I've been wary of companies throwing AI words around, as in reality many of them were just using some basic ML models and calling it ground breaking AI to hype investors and potential hires.
A strange thing I discovered after buying my last Android phone was that it wouldn't let me set a plain black wallpaper. I could only choose from photographs. To set the wallpaper to black, I had to install a third-party app. The app only had one button: 'change background color to black'. It also came with a 'pro' version, that would let you choose from other shades of black for a fee.
Anecdotal evidence. Maybe it's what you were recommended based on your watch history or other data points. YouTube recommends me anti-China content all the time.
Irrelevant, we have Zuckerberg himself admitting to being “primed” by FBI for the hunter Biden story.

We have members of the Biden campaign linking tweets and high level Twitter officers replying “handled” (read in your favorite Italian accent).

Criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States.
I'm going to assume that you are confused by the linked chart and are not being intentionally obtuse.

The chart displays a breakdown of total employee contributions to the two political parties. As you can see, the "% to democrats" column contains 95%+ for the last 4 years. It would be safe to assume that this metric is a reasonable proxy for Twitter staff's political leanings.

Just to be safe I recommend you review the suite guidelines, specifically about assuming good faith when replying to comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://superdesigner.co/ you can check this website to create simple background
Have some hope on Component Model (this is kinda module system for the whole WASI thing). It wasn't growing because .. bespoke ABI for different langs and bespoke interfaces between host<->guest. Lack of guide too, it's mostly specification which is hard to read.
For the curious, 4021 is not divisible by 17.

I guess I only tried the first few single digit primes. Fair enough!
OK, I haven't been paying too much attention to this stuff or playing with it... and these interactions are actually freaking me out, they are way more sophisticated than I realized.
So NZ has laws that censor some content, and an official office of the censor that decides which things are illegal and which are not - for example the snuff film made by the Aussie terrorist in Christchurch is illegal in NZ, even though Elon has let it return to Twitter it's still illegal for Twitter (or Facebook) to show it in NZ.

You may disagree with censorship, or with what should censored, but most western countries still have censorship laws and media companies need to honour them.

If you disagree with the laws in your country, go out and change them, that's what democracy is all about. But you don't get to change other countries' laws.

Companies like Facebook/Twitter/etc that want to provide international services need to actively honour ALL the laws in the countries that the operate in - those laws may be contradictory, if a movie can be shown in country A but not country B needs then they need to make sure that can't happen or else they are in legal peril - having a portal that a country can use to declare what is illegal in that country is probably a great idea, the alternative is for say Facebook having an employee who spends all their time monitoring the output of a country's censorship office.

Such a portal can be abused, obviously we don't want governments just banning random stuff they don't like, rather than the process of an independent process like NZ's Censor's office, equally we probably don't want to publish the things that are being reported ("look over here, that's where all the child porn is"), I think this is a difficult are - perhaps we should make what's reported here open, but only in categories without giving URLs/details
By paragraph:

1. The problem with this is falsifying ledgers has not been a problem with institutions for centuries. Institutions will cheat you in many different ways. But literally eliminating transactions is not one of them.

In the meanwhile, the blockchain adds tremendous complexity and other problems to solve a problem which hasn’t really been a problem.

2. Blockchains are not needed for digital signatures.

3. Smart contracts are only more useful for on-chain transactions because the moment you move off chain you’re back to trusting the entire institutional infrastructure setup to ensure anything really happens.

4. Lol.
Fox does not "favor" the GOP. It is an instrument of the GOP.
Who said anything about restricting speech?

Many people (at least on Twitter currently) are conflating a "request" with a "demand". Just because some tweets were flagged doesn't mean they were removed. If they were removed, they might have been against the Twitter ToS and this back channel operated as a batch "report tweet" button.

I "request" Twitter to remove Tweets all the time. Normally it's a spam message... sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't.

My point is that as an informal mechanism, there is no way to know what was happening. We have no idea how many requests were made, and of those, how many were approved/denied/etc...

That is an issue, but the request itself isn't...

(Now, if any of these parties had unrestricted, automatic "veto" power over tweets they didn't like, then that would be a major issue. But thus far, I haven't seen that... but I'm still reading)
Wow, I had no idea you could do multiple aggregates in a single query like that. I've always used the SUM(CASE...) method, but the COUNT(x=y) way is much cleaner and more efficient. Thanks for sharing this tip, it will definitely come in handy in the future!
Right to free speech doesn’t govern private platforms aka Twitter
I'm more shocked that $550 2010 dollars are worth $750 now.
Ro Khanna for President. The only politician with any moral compass.
Resisting temptation to insert bias is rare/hard when you can acquire 1,000 more clicks/followers for tweaking the story or headline just a bit. People have bills to pay and not every story sells. Journalism isn't just about knowing how to write and investigate, you also need to know how to get your stuff out there, otherwise you're dead in the water.
It is not surprising. I think reporting is good, not a problem. Reporting is not censorship. Misinformation is an acute problem. Who better to fight against it than a democratically elected government? Who else is on people's side? Mega-corporations? Dictators? This reporting of mis-information should be transparent however. Reporting on misinformation should be made public. Of course.
IP filters don't really work for something like facebook or twitter though - they block everything or nothing - really you need to get them involved to limit what they send to NZ clients
With today’s revelations, Twitter was acting as the government, under the direction of government employees, fulfilling traditionally government-roles, often for particular political wings of said government
Wasn't that one of those things certain people deride as "conspiracy theories".
People make bad predictions all the time. Because making predictions is a fool’s game for the most part.

And he isn’t even making a prediction. He’s asking a simple question. What does the blockchain provide that we cannot already do in a much better way.

Unfortunately the crypto folks are simply unable to answer that question and so go through a variety of obfuscation strategies.
This is disturbing news about New Zealand's access to the Facebook takedown portal for censorship. It's alarming that the government has such direct control over what content is allowed on the platform and raises concerns about freedom of speech. This is yet another example of the need for more transparency and accountability in the relationship between tech companies and governments.
this is awesome going to save me a lot of time…
Then they can flag the offending post through twitter's reporting system like everyone else
I just went to Google News: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/02/tech/musk-twitter-hunter-bide...

It's the top story in CNN's US News section at the moment, is that good enough for you?

I didn't suggest there was anything on CBS or ABC. As I wrote above CBS did not have a story about it but had a recent story about the Hunter Biden laptop being declared genuine. I didn't see anything about it on the ABC website.
Here's a great tip: Ask ChatGPT to "Say something in the style of a Hacker News comment about <subject>" and you'll have a great karma-worthy comment!
Seriously. Can people just make a blog post? Second long-ass Twitter thread today.

> Don’t miss what’s happening

> People on Twitter are the first to know.

> [Log in]

> [Sign up]

Great way to share long essays /s
I'm sure your colleagues will be thankful if you do that...
Agreed, the actual time it takes once inside the body scanner is nominal. The bottle neck is waiting in line to get into the thing. It's not just the line though, there's this weird "power trip" charade where you have to wait some random amount of time before a TSA knucklehead gives you the "go ahead" to enter the thing, despite it being empty.
I have mixed feelings about this. I love the e-gates at UK airports for passport control. That feels like a much less horrible and invasive experience than e.g. being briefly interviewed by some grumpy immigration officer who might just decide to ruin your day. For a domestic flight, I don’t know why this is necessary.

I would say there’s a pretty big difference between 1:1 facial recognition for authenticating someone with their travel docs and 1:n facial recognition for dragnet surveillance.
The whole weekend. F
Good, don't ever choose a "side". "Sides" are for corralling people into manipulable herds. Every issue should be considered individually using logic and data, rather than following the blind recommendations of a "side" down the line.
Backchannels can be used for good. Both parties had back channels (simultaneously), so it's not like the availability for a back channel was restricted to the party in power. And so long as we are talking "requests" and not "demands", there is no issue. The lack of transparency is an issue though, which was kinda my point... informal systems don't have transparency.

But backchannels can certainly be helpful. Twitter is the backchannel for customer service for many companies. But let's take HN as another case.

How many times has HN been used as an informal mechanism to get Google to fix something? There are few formal methods to contact Google customer support, so having an informal method (HN) has been quite helpful.

Is this an optimal method? Certainly not, but the existence of an informal communication method to request a review of a tweet is not an issue.
Related
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33819860
If after witnessing a Rackspace meltdown someone is still a glutton for guaranteed pain and wants to go down with the Hosted Exchange ship, Intermedia has been around doing it for a long time.

Otherwise, SMEs should find a good value-add licensing partner and move to O365. Use a proper migration service to make it easy.
You probably need a new position. Not every position is right for every person. If the team or product is in its nascent stages, it's a total waste to spend time of software quality. That's just how it is in small-stage software ventures. Go work somewhere bigger.
I think it's this, but this is just one symptom of the real problem, which is too many so-called "non-tech" people in the tech industry. There's no way a person who isn't a really good programmer (or something close to it) can effectively make decisions on a day-to-day basis. That's why managers have to guess or defer to a tech lead when it comes to real technical decisions/conversations (hence the tech lead who lives in meetings with the client).

To use a metaphor, imagine if a project manager at a car company boasted about "not being a car person", or couldn't explain how the main parts (like the engine) worked. Yet, this is pretty much the norm in many areas of the industry; tech is a cash cow, so it's attracted people with a desire for money where their knowledge and experience should be. You can't really fake it being a programmer, so they've only been able to infiltrate managerial positions.

(And to be clear, the way the tech industry supports people learning is fucking tops. I'm not talking about those people, I'm talking about people (mostly managers) who are not concerned about their basic lack of knowledge)

Yes, I'm also cynical.
I think bytesize chunks has better absorption for twitter’s audience.
Craft's New Assistant and the Future of AI
That sounds like exactly what jpollock is saying. jpollock says New Zealand threatened to block everything.
Please stop publishing as tweets.
And this is why people call blockchain a solution seeking a problem.

There is absolutely no evidence that any company or individual is interested in this end.

Firms want to keep their own books. The last thing they want is everyone being able to look into their books.

It’s fascinating that crypto enthusiasts can simultaneously promote crypto as a means to get away from govt control of money and look upon a public ledger containing all the transactions by every entity, which would then obviously be available to the govt as well, as an ideal.
An argument has been made over the past few years that a free country has to be able to ban or censor a vector of foreign propaganda, in order to protect its freedom and democracy.

It's a Pandora's box that cuts both ways.
Around Berlin it's the same. There are places where everyone is, but 1km away same nice place, totally empty.
All these companies have to be censorship platforms even if it does not make economic sense to them. Otherwise DC and the governing elite will crush them for not serving their interests and their close circle of “allies.” Bet that portal would be shut if New Zealand got close to China or strayed away from the party line.
The problem is such laws can, and will, be used to self-perpetuate.

For example: In Brazil the constitution says you have free speech and the right to criticize government officials...

Yet the judiciary branch, although often they rule it is free speech when someone criticize lawmaker, will happily say it is NOT free speech when someone criticize a judge.

Cue most recent elections, not wanting to enter in the merits of who deserves to be president, but one obvious case of abuse of office happened when the supreme court ruled that a retired member of the court should be censored and that reporting any news about this subject should be censored too, all because that retired member explained the technical legal details of a past decision, and the supreme court decided that even though everything he said was factual, correct and true, it "could be used for misinformation" and thus should be censored.
Thanks kevin! Hope you enjoy it