skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also the more the government is bought into Starlink, the larger the pressure is to sideline regulatory problems.
‘Deterrence the American way’: The new B-21 bomber debuts
True, but that means it has to be an ad hoc solution for every API instead of a standard.
Given that you seem to be incorrect on the second part, the rest of your statement falls apart. You seem to have a severe misunderstanding of math, 97% of donations went to Democrats. Not 97% of employees donated to Democrats. If you can do basic napkin math, this means if you had one leader, manager or whatever be a particularly prolific donator they could crowd out the entire company in terms of donations. This has zero actual bearing on how much influence the company as a whole has, unless you want to argue that it's illegal for private individuals to ever donate to a political party under fear of biasing their company.

Though given that you've made this mistaken point multiple times now I don't think you actually care and are just pushing a narrative here.
Rogue elements of the FBI colluded with private corporations and elements of the Democratic Party to defraud US citizens of their fundamental rights for the benefit of their preferred political candidate.

They committed conspiracy to defraud the United States, and will in due time be charged as such by the Department of Justice.

State employees who participated are traitors.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...
Funny how this suddenly became prevalent, when there was actually a time when you could buy software that would last for decades without the need for a subscription.

The only reason this would need a subscription is to pay for the sim.
Nah you are definitely trying to minimize this. At this point it is clear that you have political parties (let's be honest, it's really just one political party, coincidentally the one that receives >99% of twitter's political donations) colluding in secret with high level people in twitter (whose political affiliations, curiously enough, are quite different from a random population sample) to censor a news story that could have a big effect on a national election.

I don't have any particularly strong feelings about Matt Taibbi, I just want to read through these files myself and form my own opinions instead of having reality mediated to me by an Approved Professional
iTerm2 has great build in support for it. You just cmd-click and hold a file and it's as if it was sourced from any other ui app. You can even get it to work with remote files both ways, including dropping a file on an iTerm2 window during an ssh session and it can scp it over for you. (yes needs some shell collaboration, but it's trivial to setup)
The B2 Spirit cost like $2B+ each. In the 90's...
Elon 1st Amendment comment:

Twitter acting by itself to suppress free speech is not
a 1st amendment violation, but acting under orders from
the government to suppress free speech, with no judicial
review, is

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1598853708443357185
Vocal minority.
> Matt Taibbi is showing requests to remove tweets related to the Biden laptop story from the Biden team and from the DNC, and showing Twitter rubber stamping those requests. No pushback. No review. Just "handled". It wasn't just pornographic images.

But that's exactly it: by the evidence presented it was just the pornographic images. Taibbi lumps the NY Post issue together with the tweets to insinuate a connection but there's no presented evidence to prove that the Biden team requested the article removal. You’re following Taibbi’s narrative, not the evidence.
> So in America you cannot say negative things about political leaders online?!?!

A brief perusal of Twitter would reveal that, yes, you totally can, and people totally do, and you're making much ado over not much at all.
Why shouldn't privately owned companies have the right to determine which speech they want to publish?
In one case, you literally have a government official threatening a private business. In the other, you have the campaign of a private citizen asking for a review. In the first you have actual threats of government power. In the latter, there isn’t even an implied threat.

Campaigns ask many private businesses and people for things they don’t receive.
The difference is that this is a language model, so it literally is only concerned about language and has no way to understand what it says means, what it's for, what knowledge it allows us to get, or anything of the sort. It has no experience of us nor of the things it talks about.

As far as it's concerned, telling us what it can't tell us is actually fundamentally different from telling it to us.
You don’t know what that means.
Hi Bill,

I wanted to apply but your application does not respect my time.

Required fields:

-What is it about DuckDuckGo that excites you?

-What's your favorite thing that you've worked on and why?

-Tell us about a performance problem in an application or library you've worked on.

-Tell us about a project where you learned a lot. What would you do differently?

-Since asking questions and questioning assumptions are big parts of our culture, we are curious to ask: what questions would you have for us?

This is an entire hour-long behavioral interview except I'm typing it into a form that statistically will go in the shredder.
> although you can bump their appeal to the top of the queue or something.

How is that not directly helping people you know?
Californias censorship law itself is unconstitutional, but that doesn’t mean Twitter had to take it down globally. They could have only taken it down in CA.

But we all know that’s not why they did what they did, they conspired against the people of the United States.

They did this under the order and direction of United States Government employees
I use the touch button if holding with one hand. The dedicated button for the shutter equivalent makes the photo shaky! How could that with one hand?
Your argument is not that they didn't have elevated access to control content on Twitter but that it was a specific type of access and a specific type of content.

And I agree! My point is they had that channel, not a value judgement on whether that was in or out of twitters terms of service.

You may say this was known years ago, and that's also true, but the general public probably doesn't know this.
Art Isn’t Dead, It’s Just Machine-Generated
Sounds exactly like the kind of baseless conspiracy theory that would be made up to try to deflect criticism about authoritarian actions by a government.
Kudos. It’s cool. I mean.. Render the paint program’s history as an animated gif??? Niiiiice… also props for standing up to the load of HN.
could you also compare the Quake Engine's virtual machines to WebAssembly? Or are they incomparable concepts?
Homomorphic encryption is a real, somewhat scary practical application of something like this in VM form. Because most applied homomorphic research libraries just target the NAND gate and leave the rest of the 'problem' to computer engineers.
How about neither have a direct line?

Trying to say censorship is fine as long as the current party in power also gets it like the last guy isn’t a persuasive argument.

You can’t abuse power you don’t have. We stopped letting monarchs control things via backroom dealings with their elite friends back in the 1700s for a good reason.

Creating a system with zero transparency that’s at the whims of whoever currently has power and influence is not a healthy way to build a system of governance.

Having a limited set of publicly defined powers + transparency is the only way to prevent abuse and biases. Neither an anarchist free-for-all nor a system directly controlled by elites and influence groups. Bias and power will always exist, all you can do is create systems that reduce those inherent risks in the most optimal way possible.
A media company favoring a political party is not illegal. It’s indeed quite normal. That said, removing revenge porn isn’t favoring a political party.
They did. The removed tweets were nude photos of Hunter Biden. But no one here bothered to verify that. This is all so stupid.
It's a tiny part of the internet by volume. Dwarfed by breaking bad reruns.

It's the whole internet in terms of journalist and politician communications.
All empires are towers of cards, with respect to some timescale.
> "this place is diverse therefore the opposite is true"

This is an obvious strawman. The point is "this place is diverse, so any widely general statement about it is likely to be false".
Can I tell it what I consider my "home directory" is because snaps seem to limit me to what some bozo at canonical thinks is my home directory (rather the multiple volumes and symbolic links I've used for a couple of decades now)
I'm on the same page. Frankly I was actually wiling to buy the argument that Twitter suppressed the story on direct orders from Biden himself, or whatever, and that such a level of coordination continued once he took office. It's... not unreasonable. Certainly Musk sold that as what the story was about.

But it's not there! All Taibbi has is some bland emails pointing out that the Biden administration requested Twitter look at a handful of tweets. That's it! Were they bad tweets? Was there salacious content censored? Did Twitter even remove them? We don't know! But Taibbi and Musk clearly want us to think this is bad, and most of the posters here seem to be on board.

Someone point me to the smoking gun here? Where's the actual censorship? Who said what that Biden managed to suppress? Where was the unfair moderation by Twitter?

I'm... a little stunned actually. This isn't just a non-story, it's almost a smear job.
It's real. Or at least Elon says it is. He's been talking about this for days and retweeted the thread.
Seems to be too optimistic. My location has listed Frontier fiber but in reality they just put conduits underground few weeks ago and now pulling the fiber through the streets.

https://www.broadbandmap.ca.gov/ is much more attached to reality in Aalifornia
"As a small time dictator I often find it difficult to terminate internet services to citizens of my country while still enabling it to my militias for effective opression.
Now with Starshield - I can!"
I’m going to go with this isn’t an actual flying article. It’s just too smooth, even the high-rez pic. No cutouts/markings for ejection seats. No air sensors, no hatches, access panels. Possible it’s so fresh out of paint booth they’re not marked, but doubt it.

Probably a structural/ground test victim. That NG said “you won’t see it again until it flies” says we won’t see much more.

Lots of wing washout, more than the B-2. It’s porky, so they didn’t go with two or three engines (unless there’s a top inlet) so four P&Ws, draggy, lots of fuel needed. But I bet the payload is more than 2/3 the B-2.

It makes the B-2 look svelte.
That approach also makes things more docker friendly.
the best part of national parks: exploring them. Pick one, go. If it's a national park it's good. I checked a list for the best to worst. The worst is the gateway arch. That's still worth a trip, great museum, beautiful grounds, and a crazy building.
Sounds like somebody's about to lose some money.

https://simplywall.st/stocks/us/software/nasdaq-rxt/rackspac...
I’m sorry but hacker news is not the correct place for serious discussion of NZ politics, please go to the Trademe forums or the Nzherald comments section.
Then Twitter should not only make that claim, but sue!
I mean, in my opinion, it isn't a big deal with regards to whether or not asking is a 1A violation.
Smallest H.264 Encoder
This can be interpreted in good faith as well

What if there was, say a spy, that was being outted?

Government and politics has an interest here because statecraft has a need to veto things if they want to be effective.
Or in light of his recent behavior that could charitably be interpreted as slightly unstable.

But hey, the government somehow survived our last President and that was a far greater risk in just about every way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump%27s_disclosures_o...
Officials at the FBI, operating under color of law, mislead Meta/Facebook to believe that the hunter biden content was Russian misinformation prior to an election.

In parallel we have a “political campaign that totally isn’t colluding with the government” ordering some of the most powerful tech companies in the world to “review” content tony soprano style.

The most charitable take is that you are naive, the realistic take it that you are downplaying criminal acts by major entrenched political entities in the US
I find it extremely unlikely that nude photos / prostitutes / crack smoking of Trump’s kids would have been handled with such tact
I've run a forum for almost 20 years. There are reporting tools that most people use, but regular reporters (either a contentious personality or just a regular and conscientious user) often just contact me directly after the email address was revealed previously. Seems completely obvious that media reps from every political party would have some direct line or priority tool to report things. They have this with newspapers and TV networks as well. They plead their case or make a legal threat, or appeal on personal grounds.

As another "VIP contact" example, look at Musk supposedly directly contacting Kanye regarding his ban. The average user just sees a block screen. That seems fairly unremarkable to me.
It’s the very type of behavior they claim the MSM engages in. And it’s not even well done.

Snippets of email conversations with the context removed. Why not share the whole email? If it’s this weak with this much context removal, the context must be pretty detrimental to the smear job.
Quantum computing is a marketing dream that isn't even useful for regular work (like math and dealing with databases). I don't think anyone has to worry about it "undoing" encryption.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BthNjd_jUl4
Sex workers agree to posting these pictures (at least we hope they do).

Are you arguing that it would be ok to post intimate pictures of you or someone in your family, or anybody, basically, without them explicitly agreeing to?

Are you seriously saying that a repair shop could take your personal data and publish it online as they wished because they just got access to your laptop (however they got it)?

In what world does a laptop repair shop has terms of services that would explicitly allow that?
https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/2020-election-outcome-would-di...

A very quick search led me to that.
I look at it differently: tech companies get away with paying our immigrant peers less because they can, and we should work toward addressing that so that all of us benefit.
Yeah we have 2 week springs inside ~quarter long projects. But I find the projects come and go and I'm still providing weekly user support for projects that "ended" quarters ago. Like there's no company dialect word for "platform".
As an employee of the government there is the presumption that you are knowledgeable of your role, and that said role is charged with upholding the founding document of your organization.

For example, a teacher hired at a school cannot argue that they could not be expected to teach.

Much in the same way, a government employee cannot in good faith argue that they cannot be expected to uphold the constitution.

By secretly colluding with private companies (that the government has failed to regulate, I might add) to suppress otherwise constitutionally protected activity government employees are criminally liable
It’s essentially two parts right? I feel like we have something now that I would call cognition. They can probably add math and physics knowledge as their own models. Now you “just” need the part that drives it towards some goals. And you have essentially a bug or an animal at the least. It can also have scary goals that living creatures can’t - like try to grow exponentially bigger.
Elizabeth Holmes Appeals Theranos Fraud Conviction, Prison Term
I had a really interesting and probably too speculative article about Terry Davis over 10 years ago and it got pulled from Reddit and HN after hitting the front page of both within a minute or so of each other. They had been on both front pages for a few hours and then bam, wiped from both.

Nobody reached out to me but I think even a statistician skeptic would have to entertain the idea that there's some "red phone" style back channel between them mods that occasionally is triggered.

I pulled the article and replaced it with a description of what happened because out of sincerity I felt compelled to follow in whatever footsteps those were. I never got an explanation about it.

Kind of a pity. I had been working on a book on tech and mental health but I abandoned it. Seems like it's an obvious topic these days
Idiocracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVyRkl5qNb8
This. Playing around with a Nintendo Wii is far more fun than any other console. It has nothing to do with games - it is just simply a joy to use.
for 2022 mid terms, opensecrets.org reports 95.38% for democrats, 0.19% republicans, 4.42% others.

overview of 2022 mid terms for technology: https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.php?ind=B&Bkd...

Twitter specifically: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/twitter/recipients?toprecip...

FTX: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/ftx-us/summary?id=D00007369...
Remote start is present on my wife’s 2016 Chevy. Simple RFID built into the fob. No subscription required. I suspect that technology will last another 3 years and longer.

Not as full featured as grandparent comment’s use case (can’t start it in the garage) but it’s like 90% of the way there with a fraction of the complexity.
Add "with basic guitar chords", and you are golden.
They may be bad in some game theory way, I don't know the argument, but large groups of humans are very much not rational actors. The tendency is to oppose the enemy rather than to maximize gains or minimize losses.
A Golden Product Identity for e – Robert P. Schneider
I first learned about this in high school from "A Basic Just-In-Time Compiler"[1]. It was mind-blowing that you could just cast some data storing machine code to a function pointer and execute it. Trying the program now it seems GCC no longer accepts it with -pedantic-errors because casts between object and function pointers are, according to the standard, implementation-defined.

[1]: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2015/03/19/
If they refused to handle Tony's problem, what happened? If twitter refused to handle the problem, what happens?

The analogy falls flat.
Did they mention the cause of the outage?

This exact same thing happened at my Uni. Reason for it was the exchange server was compromised by ransomware. Solution was to abandon it and fast track O365 migration for all users.
I never said 97% of Twitter employees donated to the Democrats?

You sure it’s me pushing an agenda?
I think western societies are doing themselves a disservice by training people to do just one thing as a career (college "Majors" considered harmful in my view and minors are practically useless). In Neal Stephenson's book "Anathem" all the monks had a fallback profession called an "avocation" which they could do if they failed out of their primary study. And they trained for both when they were young. We'd be much better off as a society right now if we had invested in that sort of approach for the last few decades. Mid-life career retraining is really hard and scary to even contemplate.
I still use Apple's Linen wallpaper on all my devices!
Duo turned their love of “The Sims” into a full-time job
“It does not follow”

You might not be wrong, but your post has no relevance
Premature congratulations
I’m trying to understand this comment in the context of its parent.

What is being dismissed out of hand?

The concepts of emotional design and the accuracy of data on a financial website seem rather unrelated?
The smoking gun is "the Biden administration requested Twitter look at a handful of tweets."
I don't think that is something the government, outside of maybe a court order through the judicial branch should be doing.
Ever.
It doesn't matter what is in the tweets it whether or not they were taken down.
So you're saying that except for the laws the control what PUCT can regulate, regulation is working fine?
It was clearly the common media informing the voters of improper behavior. Now voters can pick their own media and avoid unflattering stories. This then has led to terrible politicians getting away with far more than they ever could before.
> At least using donations as a metric, 97%+ of Twitter employees support the Democrats

This is a literal quote from the post I was just responding to.
And he's pretty transparent about wanting discussions satisfying intellectual curiosity. I'd guess that a lot of Twitter discussions are dampened (e.g., from hitting the front page) because the chance that they'll engender that sort of discussion is very, very low. I think the idea is that Hacker News isn't the place where you discuss anything tech in any way you want, but where you have that certain mode of discussion (rather than certain bias of viewpoint).
> They did this under the order and direction of United States Government employees

Truly incredible the way in which people see whatever they want to see in this story. From Taibbi himself:

“there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story”

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598833927405215744
tl;dr:

1. important entities like American government administrators and political candidates can report Twitter ToS violation for review via a dedicated line with a fast expected turnaround

2. the Biden laptop story was treated as misinformation for 24 hours before being corrected

The 11th tweet supposes to "release the kraken" here:

> This system wasn't balanced. It was based on contacts. Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right.

TBH I would be happy to see an argument for this. As always I am left disappointed. The thread continues on to contradict this point by showing a number of Republicans complaining via exactly such contacts. In 24 hours the situation is corrected.

In any case if you know how campaigns work, #1 is not shocking at all - I'd assume at a minimum the safety teams for each candidate have and use direct lines to Twitter's moderators. No evidence is shown that submitting things for review equates to an expectation on either side of an order being carried out (by the non-governing Biden team, nonetheless). Finally I don't think this is the best evidence of an imbalance - the situation was corrected and reversed...

This does seem to be peak American politics "leap to any conclusions your reality supports". We cannot make arguments in good faith any more, because we do not agree on or even look at the facts on their merits, but rather just assume the "other side" is an idiot. So, big letdown. I'll wait for thread #2, maybe we will see more tangible evidence.