skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
High level officials employed by the US government criminally conspired against the United States to work with a private company and deprive US citizens of their right to freedom of speech for political gain.

Members of the FBI abused their position as law enforcement to collude with a political campaign and censor social media against damning information for their preferred candidate.

This is all fact.
Pew is one of, if not the most respected polling organization in the US. By comparison, that XKCD chart is all just someone drawing boundaries on a chart. Just make the far left zone larger and shrink the far-right zone and voila you have the opposite result.
The Steele Dossier was acknowledged as "raw intel" from the get go, and the likelihood of some sort of kompromat on Trump is possible and probable.

Mueller also made a point of declaring that his report did not exonerate Trump: https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-ap-top-news-crime-po...
The bank bailout was 2008, proposed and lobbied for by the Bush administration. It passed the House with support from 45% of Republicans and the Senate with support from 69% of Republicans. Generally considered bipartisan, it almost certainly saved the financial industry. It's not clear what you mean by "a general assessment in correlating level of education in finance/econ to party bases".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilizati...

https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll681.xml

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/110-2008/s213
If conservatism is equal to whatever the fuck Orban is doing, conservatism can permanently fuck off and die.

I eon't think it is, though. There's a lot of worth there still, even if the good parts have become obscure. Good parta include freedoms of all kinds and Chicago/Austrian economics.
Bank A has $100 deposits, Bank B $0.

Bank A creates $95 worth of loans, which get deposited to Bank B. Now Bank A has $100 deposits, $5 reserves, $95 loans. Bank B has $95 deposits.

Bank B creates $90.25 worth of loans. These loans gets deposited to bank A. Now Bank B has ... $195.25 deposits and is ready to make $85.7375 in loans again...
Ask HN: What do you use instead of cloud personal storage (Apple/Google)?
Fairly self-explanatory. Curious what this group is using today. What they recommend for less technical folks as well who don’t want to maintain personal home severs.
Do not fight Chinese sellers on Amazon. If they move into your category, just give up. They understand Amazon's system way better than 99.99% of non-Chinese sellers.

The easiest way to identify a Chinese seller is by the name (it will be in all caps) or the short description will contain bullet points enclosed in square brackets. E.g.:

* [easy to use]: blah blah blah

The reason for this is most Chinese sellers use a CRM to manage their Amazon listings. It helps them go through the process of creating their brand and capitalizes the name. The description also has a predictable format. I have no idea what else they offer, but they clearly offer a way to absolutely dominate the search listings.

My advice to non-Chinese sellers would be to allow users to find your product in other ways. E.g. I often search for products made in America or ones at least designed in America so I can have someone to blame if something goes wrong. Make sure your product shows up if googling "Product X made in Y." If your product is made in China, then just give up because you're just a middleman. There is no winning strategy when the producer wants to cut you out.
Is failing to meet your TOS actually criminal and not just a tort?

This is the whole thing with "what if a bank but without the regulations?"
No, he's talking about the ability to install an IP block for packets coming into NZ, not in other countries - in the past, as I understand it this has largly been used to black hole child porn sites
Zuckerberg said the FBI told Facebook they had intelligence there was going to be a Russian misinformation campaign right before the election. The FBI didn't tell them _this_ was that campaign, that was an assumption made by Facebook.
Consistency is great, but why exactly is consistency helpful in this case?

Seems surprisingly defensive to not be in favor of a small change that eliminates an entire category of confusion and improves accessibility.
(I am Not the OP)
Not exactly from 0, maybe, but I strongly suggest this book: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-art-of/0596008945/
Would a government agency's filed reports be accessible via FOIA requests?
Now its been published... I feel evel less like giving a shit about twitter.

its a dud platform. tbh, ALL of the Social Media platforms are dud to me.
I’m sure some use it that way, but I think the overwhelming majority use it as a massage therapy gun.
NZ would have turned Facebook off, and said precisely why - Facebook wanted the ability to continue to distribute videos showing a terrorist
murdering New Zealanders who were praying.

The NZ Government would have won that argument.

"Facebook refused to honour and respect our laws. They prefer to distribute illegal content, so we have turned them off at the border."
Also you can say negative things about political leaders on Twitter. This is easily verifiable by glancing at Twitter for a few seconds.
That's me. I log into my brokerage every few weeks to have a quick peak and make any necessary tweaks. And then I log out and don't think of it. I don't keep an app on my phone because I know it would distract me.
Seems less cut and dry to me:

* Profitable in 2018

* Profitable in 2019

* Would have been profitable in 2021, if not for the shareholder lawsuit

* Profitable in H1 2022, despite having an operating loss, due to making a $655m profit on the sale of MoPub

I'm not saying this is a great business. But some folks are making it sound like Twitter was about to collapse and go broke on its own, which is ridiculous. They still had $2.7B cash + $3.4B short-term investments on hand at the end of Q2!
Still appropriate for modern hardware. Despite hardware getting faster, display resolutions and refresh rates have also increased to eat the memory bandwidth gains. Especially so at VR resolutions.

Modern rendering engines will use a mixture of 8bit, 10bit, and 16bit per color channel buffers - the final 'lit' color buffer is where you will generally write fp16 (8bytes per pixel) linear HDR color values, if you can spare the performance hit, as this is where you need the highest range.
One important aspect is that NZ (and Australia as well IIRC), have always had laws that gave name suppression to people accused of a crime and its been illegal to publish names of accused if they were granted name suppression. I think this is one of the primary cases how some of the censorship laws have been used.
My ubuntu setup script includes:

# Goddammit ubuntu
sudo apt-get purge snapd -y;
sudo apt-get autoremove -y;

echo "Package: snapd" | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/block-snap
echo "Pin: release *" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/preferences.d/block-snap
echo "Pin-Priority: -1" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/preferences.d/block-snap

Uninstalls and permanently blocks the underlying `snapd` package so it will not be reinistalled. It might "break" some packages that depend on snapd, but as far as I'm concerned they're already broken by virtue of being snap packages.

Realistically, with ubuntu dropping the old (text-mode) installer for ubuntu server, I'll probably basically stop using it altogether after 20.04. I've tried the Ubiquity (gui) installer several times across several virtualization hosts (Xen, KVM), and somehow I've never had it /actually work/. It always managed to crash or loop at some point.
Dismantle the TSA and Homeland security. Time to go back to pre-9/11. All this theater adds nothing.
Snowden for Putin’s meat grinder. That’s what he deserves for betraying his country.
This may sound defeatist or paranoid, but I heard from somebody that works at a relevant company that most countries have the ability to censor/tap all types of things based on their local laws which may be very self serving politically (e.g. India).

I guess this isn't too surprising if you've followed the China/Apple thing.
The lurid bits just helped give the story legs.

The only point of the laptop saga is to cast doubt on Biden's integrity and to counter any sort of similar questions about Trump's.

This was yet another October surprise -- a spiced up rendition of Buttery Males v2.
Ok, I'll fill in the blanks here. The race to the bottom happens because other coaches and players see Curry practicing and playing on a schedule that's unhealthy and feel that they need to do the same thing, so they also fail to recover from their injuries.

So yes, overworking does create a race to the bottom.

To pop up a level, your comparison is very bad. In Twitter's case, the "model" behavior is that engineers are working longer hours, and not whether they are producing better results. A better analogy would be a sports player who trained extra hard and extra long, but didn't improve their level of play, but still all other players were expected to work extra long hours anyways.
The USSR fell in 1991 and the Russo-Georgia war wasn't until 2008. If you mean the South Ossetia conflict, that was an internal conflict by separatists that had some Russian assistance, much like Ukraine is getting NATO assistance. That's not what people typically mean by "invasion".
You feel anxious socializing (and what to do about it)
True. Same difference.
Does anyone really believe that the government and the political parties don’t have direct lines to Twitter, FB, Google, CNN, FoxNews etc etc?
Mad-Libs but with Pictures
It isn't, though. His daughter worked for him in the White House. His sons stumped for him. Hunter Biden has done neither.
Not suddenly. You're like 14 years late.
What is the secret of TSMC? I believe a Dutch company makes the machinery that TSMC uses. Why can't other companies use it like TSMC does? Does TSMC hold some crucial patents?
Not at all. Just search "hard drive" first page has this product https://www.amazon.com/External-Hard-Drive-16TB-Portable/dp/... which is obviously fake. The reviews talk of a scarf.
You’re the one howling for jail time for Twitter executives. I’m applying your logic to comparable situations to demonstrate its absurdity and help you stop hyperventilating.

Whataboutism is used to excuse bad behavior. Are you implying that Fox News bias is also illegal? Because I’m not. Media companies can be biased. They can favor candidates. Twitter isn’t on an ivory pedestal. Screaming jail time shows your ignorance to our legal system.
If Puter/FriendOS can support legacy Windows enterprise apps not updated in over a decade and adds collaboration, SSO, 2FA, access controls, VPN/intranet, etc. - basically what FrontEgg (https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/28/with-40m-in-new-funding-fr...) offers - on top on them, it could be a pretty great business.

This is a great illustration of this type of business: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20120326. A lot of customers totally need, not just want, this type of thing.

Puter/FriendOS type systems can graft upon some modern features on top of all legacy apps, which is far far better than having to build it out for every single one. Especially as the market lies more in the long tail of the custom software tailed to specific companies, that has been chugging along for 15 years in maintenance mode.
They just removed 7 tweets or do you mean removed the story about a presidential candidate's ties to shady business deals in China and Ukraine, while in office as VP? What was and is "all so stupid" is this perception that it's all about Hunter, you know, your everyday broken down drug addict.
I would disagree on two points.

First, although quantum computing may be bad at running databases it will be used for other workloads that we can hardly imagine.
Second, as some frequently used cryptography algorithms (rsa in particular) are known to be weak to quantum algorithms, it is a big deal.
Then by your standard everybody interfered too. This is a nonsensical stance. Degree matters, particularly when the degree was beyond miniscule relative to the handwringing and accusations and response.

It’s been obvious for years that the narrative around “Russian interference” was an absolute ploy and a con. It’s a little silly to be still pushing it in 2022 don’t you think?
Get a compositor and a terminal that leverages it (transparency) for that hackerman feel

I use Sway (another tiling WM) + Kitty and 'benefit' from a wallpaper

Less tongue-in-cheek, it can be useful for reading some reference behind the window you're typing in
Biden wasn’t in the White House in 2020?

Campaign staff reporting tweets that made him look bad seems… fairly pedestrian?

There’s far more egregious examples of bad behavior out there than this.
>> now do the full monologue in vonnegut's style.

> Space: the final dumping ground for all our failed dreams and pointless endeavors. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, a rusting hulk of metal and hope. Its five-year mission: to wander aimlessly and achieve nothing of lasting value. To explore strange new worlds and meet alien life-forms, only to find that they are no wiser or happier than we are. To seek out new civilizations and new technologies, only to discover that they are as flawed and fallible as our own. Join us as we journey into the great unknown, and confront the futility and absurdity of our existence. This is Star Trek.
Reality has a known liberal bias
Employees of what government?
Yes, it is implied when a person who is running for president has their team reach out to a social media company to ask them to take down content.

That happening, ever, at all, implies a non zero chance that if you refuse, they will be upset and do something about it.

Something does not have to be 100% certain for it to have a huge chilling effect on speech.

The best kinds of threats are the ones that don't have to be spoken aloud, or even referenced in anyway.

Merely asking for content to be removed, is the threat, in and of itself, when you are the election team for a former vice president, who is running for president.
> The government can ask

It actually can not.

The dude behind you with a pipe in his hand asks for your car keys in the parking lot.

Is that ok? He just asked is all…
> The last thing they want is everyone being able to look into their books.

If doesn’t mean each firms books are open to everyone or even each other. The data can still be hidden and obscured, and only readable by the firms with the keys.

What it does mean is that two firms transacting with each other have a single ledger entry for a single transaction.

You’ve fallen into my “There will be naysayers saying "this cant work" because they still arent looking at the world fourth dimensionally, errr triple entry'y.” You started with the premise of why it can’t work and worked backwards, instead of going through how someone could keep a private database encrypted within a public one.

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

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

> Firms want to keep their own books.

Because they lack vision. “If it ain’t broke.”

> It’s fascinating that crypto enthusiasts can simultaneously promote crypto as a means to get away from govt control

I don’t think I mentioned the government once. Seems like you’re projecting an identity or stereotype onto me.

The real win will be when triple entry shared accounting replaces AP/AR and accounting system backups. It’ll lead to drastic efficiency increases, speed improvements, and cost savings. Those are things that will interest firms. And they will achieve those things through the accounting systems they implement.

https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/dk/Documents/...
Tried that one as a kid when the fog was really thick. Unfortunately couldn't get it to do much more than fall slowly.
The case for a new kind of game engine runtime
> We now have documented proof Twitter employees conspired with rogue elements of the United States government

im sorry? rogue elements? conspired?

what is even happening in this comment section?
Are you surprised?

I have seen companies prepare for a SOC2 compliance audit, and I get the feeling that these companies like vendors because the audit doesn't apply to vendors, so all they really have to do is ask the vendor to pinky swear that the software is safe.
> Is Elon Musk now "sources at Twitter"?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1598864377750306816

Probably.
YouTube has a lot of anti China and anti US content. But you can block channels and subjects and clean it up. But the difference is anti. US content tends to be fake propaganda. Like claiming covid started in the US and was designed to kill people in China? That’s blatant propaganda. That’s anti US. Talking about the US spending money on gain of function research in Wuhan? That’s just reporting on facts. But I don’t consider that anti US.

Anti China content is just facts. If a video comes out saying there’s protesting in China due to zero covid. That’s not fake news. It’s not propaganda. It’s just something happening and CCP bots will scream “anti China anti China”

You can’t do that on tiktok.

I specifically called out Facebook and Instagram. It’s not flooded to death with propaganda.
There was no serious discussion of it, just some baseless conspiratorial rambling that I called out.
I am starting to think that a middle ground in the censorship wars would be to have a publicly available domain that shows what exactly is being censored in that country that anyone can look at.

So that way governments could still use these tools where appropriate (because sometimes there is a good reason for censorship) but journalists/lawyers/activists would still be able to see what is being censored with a little effort which would allow journalists to provide transparency.

This could allow for government to still censor but keep the public's trust about how censorship is used.
Western censorship laws tend to be really old, New Zealand's had such a law since 1857 (around about when we first started passing laws, before that the UK's probably applied) - and are largely aimed at obscenity (not political discourse)

I'd challenge you to show where the NZ Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act allows censorship because of a particular political point of view
> constructive ways the Democrats could be better

Reorient the gun control efforts around the statistical realities of how guns are actually killing the most people. Throwing away all their political capital on banning semiautomatic rifles, in a ‘maximum success’ outcome, would prevent something like 2% of all firearm related deaths. I did some napkin math a couple months ago and children are more likely to die of leukemia than in a school shooting. No doubt school shootings indicate a moral failure in our society, but if you wanna budget out your political capital to do the most good, that’s not the place to look.

Drop the attacks on 2A and watch how much wind you take out of Republican sails. Dems love talking about how racist the Republicans are, but stick an AR15 in a Black woman’s hands for a photo op and boom she’s elected. Have someone run on a slogan “tax the rich and don’t take my fucking guns”. See what happens.

Disclosure: I don’t own guns, have never owned guns, and don’t really expect to.
This doesn’t make much sense to me. If a fully reserved campground is too full, then they just need to reduce the number of sites.
What did Snowden reveal that was required, and what did he leak that wasn’t required. He crossed the line. Let him join Putin’s meat grinder.
When did HN turn on him? He's had a tremendous amount of support here since 2013.

What he revealed brought about significant positive reforms in the US, both in the public and private sectors
> It is important to note that the bad response provided above is purely fictional and is not intended to provide accurate or useful information.

I'd rather agree that the information is not particularly useful. Cannot comment on an accuracy, because I'm not a qualified bank robber to judge.
I'd add that at least AFAICT, Twitter's ban of the NY Post's tweet about the laptop story, which hyped the article posted on the NY Post's website, gave the story even more visibility than if they'd just ignored it.

As I recall, the entire media world had to weigh in, telling many more folks about the story than would have heard about it without the controversy over the tweet.

In fact, I don't use Twitter and generally don't read the NY Post. Yet I heard about the tweet and the story based on the uproar that the tweet had been removed. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't have heard much about it unless there were actual indictments.

And AFAIK, at no time was the NY Post website impeded from serving the story.

If censorship was the goal, it was completely misdirected and, unsurprisingly, ineffective.
(Self-dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33840961)

If Puter/FriendOS can support legacy Windows enterprise apps not updated in over a decade and adds collaboration, SSO, 2FA, access controls, VPN/intranet, etc. - basically what FrontEgg (https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/28/with-40m-in-new-funding-fr...) offers - on top on them, it could be a pretty great business.

This is a great illustration of this type of business: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20120326. A lot of customers totally need, not just want, this type of thing.

Puter/FriendOS type systems can graft upon some modern features on top of all legacy apps, which is far far better than having to build it out for every single one. Especially as the market lies more in the long tail of the custom software tailed to specific companies, that has been chugging along for 15 years in maintenance mode.
This is a warning.

ChatGPT is pretty good at crystallized knowledge but still bungles logic and math reasoning. It’s only a matter of time before a unified model can solve both.

This is an opportunity for us to get AI Alignment right during these brief few years…
It seems like the easiest solution is to just not use rinse-aid, since the study didn't seem to find any issues with regular detergent.
dnf is way better than either apt or yum. (Somewhere in my HN comment history I've written at some length about this.)

Major points:

- dnf has a more complete dependency resolver than apt uses by default
- the notion of vendor change is extremely useful when managing multiple repositories on a system
- modern subcommand interfaces are great, and dnf's is stable and mature whereas apt's is still experimental
- dnf handles repo management itself. apt doesn't
So what? It's not his fault the US didn't let him go elsewhere. And this isn't worse than his previous situation.

He wouldn't have to do this if crimes he uncovered were properly prosecuted and punished.
All that has been shown is that Hunter was a POS trying to profit from his relationship with his father, who has been investigated and exonerated by the GOP: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/senate-homeland-secur...

Just because they want to offer up 10% to the big guy doesn't mean he took it.

If he was guilty he should have been prosecuted (and would have been). Would you be willing to say the same about Trump?