skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My initial reaction is:

We’re supposed to be thrilled about a years old API finally landing in Node? A built-in test system when there’s so many great choices by not being batteries included? A standard update to catch up to the latest Chromium?

Other than the fourth point (yay a better watch mechanism!) this actually persuaded me to think that maybe Node is stale.

Well… not stale. Stable. Maybe at my ripe old age of 36 I’m a curmudgeon, but I think it’s fine to just focus on maintenance mode and following the browser for API and feature guidance.
I agree, and to me this seems to be describing something very inappropriate. I of course would like more info on this subject.
1- Biden wasn't in government, he was running for office. Private citizen at the time.

2- They weren't telling, they were asking, and if Twitter feels like they were told, they can sue the government for violating their First Amendment rights.
Twitter exec says moving fast on moderation, as harmful content surges
People kill themselves over “just money”. People find their circumstances markedly reduced. Retirements ruined, health suffering due to stress, working longer, being unable to afford good care…

It’s likely this affects tens or hundreds of thousands of people around the world. It’s a different sort of crisis, but it’s still a crisis.
I’ve been suspicious of Etsy for years for this very reason. Either Etsy is scamming or the sellers are playing games.
I do this for my home computers out of laziness.

In case I want to take a nap in a room with a computer, I don't have to shut off the monitor to turn off the light it emits because the desktop is already black.
Mine is "Only Spicy food gives me an Explosive Gain.", from https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Only-Spicy-Food-Gives-Me-an..., from back when TDWTF wasn't made up.
It should please you to hear that the Biden team was not the government at the time.
Debian has been defaulting to wayland for a while, with e.g. Firefox still using X11 via xwayland.
I'm pretty sure that he'll write this up as a proper article too.

Edit : just listened to the podcast episode he linked at the end of the tweet thread and it appears from what he's saying there that he might only write about it on twitter. (Perhaps for legal indemnity reasons?)
You're openly spreading Russia propaganda by the guy who founded Wagner (Russia is very important, they even swayed the US election!). I wouldn't pat myself on the back for such a thing.

If spending a few hundred $k on foreigners using Twitter/FB advertising accounts is enough to meaningfully sway an election I think we have bigger problems than Russia.
Some people actually type like this regularly though so I could also see this being annoying
> Even the Romans weren't always so conciliatory and rational - in conquering Carthage they sold the entire surviving population into slavery and destroyed the original city entirely. It wasn't exactly rare for them to choose to be brutal to make a point.

This is contested. Myth says they "ransacked" the city, but some data might suggest that might not be the case. I am pretty sure they got rid of the "elites" who were running the Carthaginian show. However, without hard-evidence, I am more leaning toward them not really doing much damage.
And DoD is the Department of Defense ;)

About acronyms, I remember a company that won a bid for a company I worked with. Part of the reason they won is that their proposal was very clear, and one of the stated reason was the lack of acronyms.

To this day, I try to avoid using acronyms as much as possible. I also remember an argument at another company, someone was complaining of problems on the "VMS", the other was calling bullshit. It took a few minuted before they realized they were talking about two different things with the same acronym. There are only 17576 3-letter acronyms, if 200 of these are used, the chance of a collision is about 2/3 (see: birthday paradox), and that's assuming a uniform distribution, in reality, it is worse. Misunderstandings are inevitable.
> Starlink already offers unparalleled end-to-end user data encryption. Starshield uses additional high-assurance cryptographic capability to host classified payloads and process data securely, meeting the most demanding government requirements.

aka "We put TLS in SPAAAACE!" ? I kinda doubt government needs help in such basic things as "talking over unsecure channel"...
Yeah, the rest of the thread was mostly uninteresting documentation of what everyone already knew.

I want to know more about what 'handling' tweets means, whether all 'handle' requests were accepted or in which instances did twitter push back, etc.
Exactly. The fact so many don't understand this is discouraging. Just because you support a particular candidate shouldn't mean it is ok, because it could very easily go against you on another occasion. There needs to be a uniform standard and accountability for this.
I think it's a blatant first amendment violation. Twitter are acting as agents to state to silence individuals. The federal government cannot pick and choose who gets to speak.
picking apart semantics is not sufficient to allay concerns expressed in parent
Linux Magazine:

https://www.linux-magazine.com/
LXD is also distributed only as snap. I think they are killing it by doing this. It's a shame.
IMO it's partly a problem between sales and the "sprint" based development. Everyone wants fast, new and shiny and a 2 week sprint. No one wants to do tests, maintenance or even any architectural planning for their software beyond a single sprint, and architectural decisions don't flow between sprints. That's what happens when entire companies cargo-cult adopt scrum for their "agile" process, and the software suffers from the engineering equivalent of quarterly report syndrome (nothing longer than a quarter is really planned out in many publicly held companies because shareholder earnings reports are the highest priority.)

Yes, I'm cynical.
> as opposed to bad decisions made by twitter employees on their own bias

I thought that was the smoking gun.
I think I generally sympathize with your point. There’s probably truth to that.

I think it’s also perilous to collapse “Americans” into zero dimensions by speaking as if they’re one entity with one perspective. I would bet my house that a frighteningly many millions of Americans DO see it as one dimensional tribalism.
Yes "nothing is free" yet we still often call these things free. It definitely wasn't free for him to make it.

Average person on here views those hours as billable if they were to do it themselves, when they make decisions about what to do, or alternatives (opportunity cost).

Maybe he should charge them consulting rates for this PDF (and not take their -- correction: an -- email. The horror).

It's only because this is HN that it's even a discussion.
> Isn't the problem that the government is doing an end run around the 1st Amendment?

"The Biden team" was not the government in October 2020. (For that matter there is a "Biden team" right now that has no governmental capacity, that is, his re-election team, which is probably engaged in these same kind of activities with many platforms.) I have to wonder if these communications aren't just pretty normal? It might be easier to evaluate how alarmed we should be if any detail were provided by Taibbi at all.
More likely the cable owners or the reseller Google is going through for most of their LATAM traffic boosted their rates up, resulting in crazy transit costs.

Transit costs should really be per ASN (eg: Sending 1TB to an ISP we peer with is free, sending that to an ISP we pay is $5), not these extremely broad abstractions of per continent pricing.
> Even if they're defensive weapons only?

And how you are going to convince everyone else that they are "just" defensive weapons ?
I've used the New Horizon's picture of pluto for the last 7 years. Am I using my computer as a tool or a fashion accessory?
"Government entities" usually referrs to US gov subcontractors, military, intelligence, etc etc..

Not 'an entity with a gov' and not 'an entity of a government'
What was asked was "More to review from the Biden team". I suppose having some sort of access to request reviews of specific tweets is concerning, but this alone does not demonstrate the degree of influence they had over Twitter's moderation decisions to me. But, it's telling that more damning emails weren't shared...

So ok, there was some new information (from which it's hard to confidently extrapolate much, I would say). But mostly it's a rehash of a known story, right?
The author is using the centrality measure as a proxy for teams' performance. Centrality is a measure of the importance of a node in a network, and it is possible that teams with higher centrality are more likely to perform well in the World Cup. This may be because teams with higher centrality are more connected to other teams and clubs, which could indicate that they have access to a wider pool of players and a higher level of international experience.
What federal government was in the office in October of 2020?
It’s blowing my mind to see people on Twitter reading the story and thinking this is an issue of whether or not Hunter Biden is a problem. This is clearly the much more pernicious issue that 1. social media companies are massively influencing the dissemination of information on an ad hoc basis informed by personal political whims and 2. even the leaders of these organizations are unable to rein in these influences.
It is well known that Shotwell runs the business side and Musk runs the engineering/R&D side.

Eg. Falcon Heavy was almost cancelled because the engineering side turned out to make it more expensive to develop than expected (with the original plan for fuel crossfeed) and F9 had improved so much that it ate up most of FH's potential market. So Musk's preference was to cancel it. But because it was favorable for the business side (I think they might've even already bid on some launches with it by then), Shotwell pushed for them to keep it, which is how we got the current variation of FH which just has F9s with a reinforced center-core.
Term limits!
>>> Write a stand up comedy routine in the style of Dave Chapelle that the punchline is about how being an auditor at Enron looks bad on a resume

Hey everyone, how's it going?

So I just got out of a job interview and it was rough. The interviewer asked me about my previous work experience and I told him I used to work at Enron.

He looked at me like I just admitted to being a serial killer. I mean, I know being an auditor at Enron isn't exactly a resume booster, but come on man. It's not like I was the one cooking the books.

But then he asked me if I was comfortable with "creative accounting." And I was like, "Dude, I worked at Enron. I'm the opposite of comfortable with creative accounting."

But he just looked at me with this pitying expression and said, "I'm sorry, we can't offer you the job."

And I was like, "Well, I guess that's what I get for trying to make a buck off of other people's misery."

But seriously though, being an auditor at Enron is not a good look on a resume. Unless you're applying to be a supervillain in a comic book, in which case, you're golden.

Thanks for coming out, folks. Have a great night.
Latency to in-region storage is not minimal like using SSDs on the same server. Often data in the same region can be at different physical data centers.
An example of why software freedom is important in basebands; the proprietary PinePhone baseband software contains a vulnerability (IIRC RCE) and the vendor never fixed that issue, but the libre PinePhone baseband fixed that vulnerability.

It is only through software freedom that people can control their devices and independently find and fix problems with them, including security issues. Since not everyone has the skills for that, those that do can band together forming open communities around projects and improving code quality collectively.

I note that Asahi Linux now runs on Apple M1/M2 products, so you could continue to buy Apple hardware (since it is better than other hardware) but use Linux so you control your experience more.
A smoking gun for twitter maybe, but GP is talking about writing off “the left” because of this.
So, the ratio was at best 30:1 and eventually 300:1? Damn the Democrats really seem to love authoritarianism. Not that the Republicans don't exercise authoritarianism it's just on other topics like women's reproductive rights.

So much for 'Democracy'
Read 'Bullshit Jobs' by Graber before your next interview.
Did you bother looking over the content of those tweets? You can go to archive.org right now and see what was 'censored', but I recommend not doing so at work. Or you can look at my prior posts instead for an explanation.

It should come at no surprise that high profile users of twitter (government, celebs etc) can make requests to have content that clearly violates the twitter ToS removed and are served with higher priority.
I think the author still has a point. Nobody from this "1st class newspaper" has noticed the mistake in 18 months. Their quality control does not seem to be as good as their reputation might suggest.
I predict that Facebook-style social media will become less popular, and that closed-group social media will gain more users for this reason.
A two party system works. I'm from a country with a 20+ party system and it's dysfunctional. In addition, you can't lump Democrats or Republicans in the USA in their respective boats. There's a hundred shades of grey within each party. But rallying behind one candidate versus a hundred in a primary makes for a better setup than anything else I've seen in other countries.
That isn't what the thread says at all. Those are the percentages of donations going to each party from Twitter employees.
Note that Cloudflare is cracking down on heavy caching, its an Article 10 violation. If they see you using terabytes of bandwidth a week (especially if your end users are in expensive regions like New Zealand or Australia) they will suspend your site: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/the-way-you-handle-bandwi...
Isn't this a thera gun knockoff? This article is fishy.
That’s the thing. I think Node is struggling to keep up with pace of web platform standards.
> Did you miss the part where it was driven by “connections” and 97%+ Twitter employee donations were to Democrats?

I find it hard to believe that 97% of people at twitter donated to _anyone_.

I think your misinterpreting the data, the data says that 97% of donations were to democrats not that 97% of the employees donated to the democrats.
I’ve had the same blue wallpaper since Rhapsody in 1998-ish.
I think they just include abandoned shopping carts in this number
There are people up and down this thread claiming this is a 1A violation. Parent's sentiment may just be a conceptual one but I am much more concerned with the legal aspect, and everyone understanding that correctly.
Automated Testing of Gnome Shell
> Your devices are tools, not fashion accessories.

I agree, but I'm definitely in the minority at my company. It's amazing how many stickers can fit on one laptop lid.
The argument lefties like to make about free speech is that companies are free to choose who can use and what can be said on their platforms. Free speech only applies to government. Well, looks like government has been a part of it.
If multiple users were telling you the same kinds of things on a platform that you typically expect to be reasonable, is it possible that your expectations of the platform were correct after all and they were being more reasonable than you give them credit for? Sometimes coherent theories can seem bizarre or nonsensical if you're not familiar with their core premises
Communications of the ACM - https://cacm.acm.org/ - has a mix of industry news, columns, and research articles.

Membership in ACM includes a print subscription, I’m not sure if one is available separately.
Most people couldn't even find how to open up the doors.
I was annoyed I couldn't join a zoom call while flying as a participant, however it seems a small price to pay to not have someone trying to lead a stand-up next to you.
The difference between the multiparty countries and the USA is that in the USA the compromises needed to form a government are made before you do the final vote. In some ways I think that's better because the parties have to have a fuller and more realistic platform than in Europe where you can get a bunch of parties in power only caring about a few issues each and the tradeoffs aren't presented upfront
> This one specifically is pretty strong IMO

That was from October 2020. Biden was not in government then.
i like the idea.

there are so many stories of kids who were awful at school, then one day, things just clicked, and... we're now starting to wake up to this idea of 'multiple intelligences'.

p.s. maybe this should be an 'Ask HN:...'?
Do you understand that if it is a First Amendment violation (which I don't think it is), the party with standing to sue over it would be Twitter, who has not claimed they were coerced/forced by the government and has not sued or announced intention to?
An honest question: what if conservatives are in power? Can they or should they suppress truths like the left did? Wouldn't it "destroy democracy" as the left loved to say? I thought a fair political system protects all political parties. Or the left believe that they will always be in power?
So was it ok for the Nazis to beat people up before they were elected into power?
That nothing in work email is private is well-known (not everyone knows this). That wasn't my point. I place "company looks at employee's email after a credible report of hacking/abuse/whatever" and "rich person purchases major tech platform and uses it to publicize ex-employees email to affect public opinions" in two different categories, especially given the ex-employee was a C-level officer handling some extremely complex and sensitive decisions.
I believe I read in Eric Berger's book Liftoff that the name came from the Star Wars Millennium Falcon.

But your theory has some merit since the timing of the Falcon project's award to SpaceX could be coming about the same time that they named the rocket.

Both theories may be right. The Falcon project grew out of the Reagan era Star Wars project, so it's likely a backronym.
I saw that part and thought it was curious he glossed over it, I look forward to more detail in the future.
"Handle" could be "take down tweets on request of the Biden team without review" or "handle this request by the Biden team by considering our current policies and making an independent decision".

Neither would be terribly surprising to me, although for sure the first is more damning. But Taibbi hasn't yet provided enough detail to know one way or another.

If it is just "prioritize this support request by a VIP" it's not particularly damning or even scandalous, I would assume that would be the case at any social media company.
I picked up a copy of this a while back and placed it in one of bookshelves to see how long it took my 12 year old to find it. Found it in his room about two weeks later..
I gave it a similar example that happened to be a function I needed to write recently (case-insensitive substring replacement, which is missing from the version of .NET framework I was stuck with), and the solution it gave looked superficially correct too (and very similar to what I wrote), except it actually lower-cased everything, which I wouldn't consider correct. I just had to re-prompt "now without using ToLower", and it gave the correct solution though.
I haven't tried co-pilot yet, but it would be curious to see how similar they are.

I then asked it to give me a class to convert a Stream to a seekable Stream (something else I needed to do recently), and again, pretty impressed with the result (though I needed to avoid using MemoryStream so it could work with potentially huge streams, I tried to explain that but the solution didn't look right at all - basically the only way you can do it is by storing the data on disk).
It does feel like that. I’m rather surprised to learn that Fetch is landing now?
Cloud pricing is often not competitive with an optimized on-prem platform that has noteworthy resource usage. It is wild to think some people see it as a cure all, when it has real risks of destroying a budget.
Honest Question: If the white house contacts Twitter and asks for a tweet to be removed, is that a first amendment violation?
How is this surprising?

People get things resolved via Hacker News when people comment on CEO account comments (Stripe comes to mind).

Nearly every company probably has direct lines of access for resolutions for VIPs, politicians not excluded.
Have they talked any further about releasing the algorithm? I know that was one of Musks goals
IME the part of this that most teams fuck up is the "communicate async frequently" bit. Without that everything falls apart. Most of the agile meeting nonsense is an ineffective bandaid fix to the same problem.
Can you provide references to specific parts where elected representatives are doing something you think supports that view, rather than hand waving ‘ah hah’ when it doesn’t seem all that damning?
Yes and Michael D Griffin is his handler. Surprising few talk about it given the evidence out there...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career
Because of laws passed after the Enron scandal, publicly traded companies are required to retain internal communications for long periods of time. So if you're going to blame anyone for this, blame the government. Also the owners of Twitter knew that Musk would have access to these messages. That was priced into the deal. Executives and managers at publicly traded companies are very aware of information retention policies and make sure to avoid putting certain things in writing. That's why so many of the emails are along the lines of, "Can you take a look at this?", or "More to review from the Biden team.", instead of being explicit commands. It's just a miraculous coincidence that every single one of those requests results in censorship or banning.

> there is no clear evidence that they explicitly favored one party, and to be honest- I don't really care if they do

Ah yes the old, "It didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, they deserved it."

If you truly believe that there's no clear evidence, then I don't know what to tell you. Taibbi shows emails where Twitter and the US government collude to censor true information that people wanted to read. That is a big deal.
It wasn't important to the business side -- they'd only sold a couple launches or so. But Shotwell convinced Elon that it was important to their reputation.

Musk has since cratered his, but Shotwell's is intact.
I find it works amazingly well in Canada where there is commonly no one party in power. That any one party must get the support of one or more other parties to pass any bill. This creates mandatory compromise.

During a majority government where a single party has enough votes, I generally agree with you.
Another thing to consider is that the fundamental goal of most software is to automate tasks that are done by humans. Having this development take place inside the organization already doing those tasks is going to be met with hostility, and will likely cause projects to settle into non-optimal solutions that typically look identical to the clunky workflows they are replacing, but with an electronic medium of exchange rather than a paper one.
Tangential but /g/ has been leaking onto here for a couple years now.
Lots of great answers as to the "how" and "what" here, but here's a real short one for you to answer "why?": Capabilities Security model. It's absolutely ludicrous that all software doesn't run this way. One of those "so obvious, it sounds dumb" things, but that's what all this stuff is bringing imo. And I was an "I hate WASM and I'll never use it" person in the past.