skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is another way to look at this.

So Elon posted today he would drop important inside info about the Hunter Biden story the right wing loves so much. And they seemed thrilled and are now debating the “new” info.

That’s an interesting turn from yesterday when that same group was pissed at him for going back on his free speech/no censorship claims when he kicked Kanye off.

How surprisingly lucky for him he did something that made him popular again just 24 hours after his new fans had turned on him.

And there was tons of new important info in the thread too. It wasn’t just stuff from months ago repackaged.

(Narrator: it largely was)

This seems like nothing more than a big redirection to get people to move on from the last story.
I think a distinction should be made between abusing position & relationships to spin a narrative vs abusing position and relationships to silence individuals.

Both are slimy and abusive but the latter is a violation of constitutional rights.
In which case? The tweet says it was both White houses with obvious favoritism towardd Democrats.
You are grossly overselling how "amazing" Canadian governance is.

Canada has essentially the same two party system as the US, with one of the two major parties winning literally every election in the last 100 years, and all but one election since the country's inception.

Occasional minority governments gave us some nice things, but that was decades ago, in a whole other world.

Canadian elections are cursed by FPTP much like the US is, and much unlike all the other developed countries that have true multi-party governance with some form of proportional representation.
You don't have a 1st amendment right to post on twitter.

If twitter bans me for spamming, do you think I can sue them?
You can do whatever you want. However, Taibbi doesn't provide a single email where the Biden campaign asks to suppress a narrative. There is an email where the Biden campaign asks for twitter to take down a few posts that were naked pictures of Hunter. I'm not quite sure that's what I'd call suppressing a narrative. Frankly, given the email, I find it hard to believe that could have been even most of the Hunter nude posts on Twitter. My reasonable assumption is that they were particularly graphic.

None of this news today except that Taibbi has now proven that Twitter actually did have an internal debate about whether to take down the laptop story, which runs contrary to his own narrative.

That's why I think your characterization is ridiculous because there is: a) no suppressing of narratives; b) the "direct connection" is the same thing any other VIP would have. Further to this, the guy was running for President of the united states, I can think of dozens of reasonable reasons why the campaign would want to have quick access to someone at Twitter. Also, your characterization is ridiculous because on top of assuming all that (which are contrary to the facts you are pointing to), you also made all of these assumptions without even bother to inquire what it was that was taken actually taken down.
Which government officials set out to silence the Hunter Biden laptop story? There was an email from Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna pointing out that there didn't seem to be any illegality involved and that even if there was, publication would still be protected by the first amendment.

> To me this is a huge issue. Not a single article about it on CNN, ABC News or CBS News

I just looked at Google News and there were articles about it from CNN and NBC that were published well in advance of your comment, as well as from a large number of smaller mainstream outlets. 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.

idk, I have no beef with you saying the big media outlets handled the story badly, but making counterfactual statements of your own in the process makes me doubt your objectivity.
Government "reports" about speech on social media are dubious when they choose who heads the FTC. It's a fine line that might be worth a court case or two depending on details.

Public shock about government involvement in speech is par for the course, in the US anyway.
This is hilariously naive.

I lived and worked in DC for 10+ years.
I watched this sort of thing happen live just sitting in coffee shops and restaurants near K street or the capitol, or just walking the halls in the office buildings.

This is not driven by political donations at the 500-1000 level that employees are doing.
No one gives a crap about those. Sorry. they just don't.
Maybe you get invited to a dinner with 10000 other people and sit 1000 feet away from a candidate.

The people who have "connections" to a place like twitter exist on both sides, aren't getting them from small donations to candidates, and believing otherwise is pretty far out there.

If you want to use the donation number to paint this as "twitter has a liberal censorship bent because it's employees are democrats", the problem is that despite matt's anecdote, actual research doesn't back this up:

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/Penn-research-Twitter-gives...

https://psyarxiv.com/ay9q5

etc

I'm also incredibly curious what you think should happen that would actually be better?

Everything that involves humans is biased in some way by humans.

You ban them from donating - well, if your problem is really they are democrats, this will fix nothing, of course.

You force them to hire equal numbers of people from various political ideologies - There's a lot of them!

You hold them criminally liable for something or other - good luck defining what "wrong" means. Or getting something other than robots to be good at it.

Unless you are going to sequester people in a room, without access to anything outside, and somehow suppress all their lived experiences, you are going to end up with biased people moderating content.

But here's the thing: If you want the platform to be useful in any meaningful way, you need to moderate content anyway, and live with the fact that it's always going to be biased. Free speech absolutism is not actually a highly useful thing for society in the end, despite the dangers of everything else. That's humans for you.

All of our systems and all of the things we build are biased by the people who create and run them. That's true of justice systems, governments, your friend groups, everything.

Trying to remove all the bias from decision making in something as large as twitter is like trying to kill all the ants in your backyard.
Seems like speed wouldn't be that much of a problem when the satellites all move in a highly predictable manner.
I think it’s really just another trait the exists on a bell curve, e.g. one can be tall (right of bell curve’s normal distribution), but have a poor memory (left on bell curve).
I think the truth is that the cold war never really ended. In fact, I'd almost venture to say that "Cold War" is the default state for humanity ever since nuclear weapons were invented, and will continue to be the default state unless a world government is formed.
Sorry, I probably worded this poorly. I was trying to say that I agree with you and adding on what we do.
Huh. Kinda like Musk hanging out with Tim Cook at Apple Park?

Wealthy people in America have access?
When an authority asks, they're not really asking, they're telling.
You’re on the right track, the immediate value of the email addresses is near nil. Instead consider these email addresses are highly self-targeted due to the nature of the sign up. That can then be sold for direct use, for resale, or most likely for inclusion in larger data sets that aggregate tracking information about individuals for ad targeting and browsing/results personalization. For example, consider the value to Amazon to be able to match this expressed interest with the email address of my Prime account; they could then push SQL-related content on my Amazon front-page with justifiable confidence I’d buy something vs the default of showing me canned kidney beans. Of course, that they show me canned kidney beans _because_ I just bought an SSD does show how this is mostly pie in the sky/skynet nonsense.
This is your language model with a basic Turing test:

1+2+1+2+1+2+1+2+1+2+1+2+1+3

1 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 3 = 16. This is a simple mathematical equation that involves adding 13 numbers together. The symbol for addition is "+," and when two or more numbers are added together, the result is their sum. In this case, 13 numbers are added together, with some numbers having a value of 1 and others having a value of 2, to give a result of 16. Basic arithmetic like this is a fundamental concept in math, and understanding how to add numbers together is essential for more advanced math concepts. Do you have any other questions about math or any other subjects? I'm here to help provide information and answer any questions you might have.
Clinton was impeached for lying under oath, not for his creative use of cigars.
I pay $110 per month for internet at my farm land that I visit two to three days every 60 days. If they can pretend I deserve to pay as much as people who use it as their primary internet service, I should be able to pay a lower amount if they halve the bandwidth on me.
For me the biggest hypocirsy was crying over laid-off H1B visa employees of Twitter and what a monster Musk is. The H1B visa situation is there for decades. The party of humanitarians didn't do a single thing for H1B visa holders. Instead of they used H1B visa holders' accomplishemnts as a way to justify illegal immigration. [1]

When working class gets affected by illegal immigration then they are racists. When the white collar class gets affected by jobs getting outsourced then it's the corporate greed.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/10/05/a...
> It was interesting when they banned Trump that they cited "To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th." as a notable incitement of violence.

Can anyone square this? It seems indefensible.
Japan did something similar years ago with result in the top 20% for the national college entrance exam. The Todai robot could even take the exam all by itself and didn’t need a human to feed it questions and possible answers.

https://www.businessinsider.com/robot-beat-most-students-on-...
Nothing too surprising. We all know this. Politics 101 thing.
Novelties should not be discounted.

Even if it’s not used seriously it doesn’t mean it doesn’t have value. Even if it’s nostalgic or an old guy who checked the paper for 50yrs and today still likes checking on a couple of his pet stocks once in while on paper.

This was the thesis of the Emotional Design book (the follow up to famous tea kettle design book) that engineers and amateur designers often over focus purely on function and ignore emotion - they overvalue the most rational approach. For ex: programmers always want the least amount of clicks to do x, when an extra step with an info box and a button might help ease worries and anxieties and smooth the UX.

Often there is value in the pure visceral experience, sometimes emotion, or nostalgia, or pure beauty of the design. This is often what creates a great product that people become religious about. So such things can’t be dismissed out of hand simply because the value cant be reduced to going from point A to B faster/efficiently/cheaper.
GM, LG investing $275M to expand Tennessee EV battery plant
The progress does feel more real though, which motivates.

To a large extent even an N1 is useless too for practical uses. It doesn't cover production so employers etc are more concerned with interview performance anyway. But it's psychologically validating.

I have a friend who has N1 and who still just works as an English teacher, so it's not like it suddenly opens lucrative doors.

Also the N5 is a requirement for some student visas I believe.
I haven't seen a print copy of Wired for a few years now, but even then, it wasn't terribly technical, focusing more on issues of interest in technology and culture.
Magpies – Smart, witty birds
What's basis for thinking it would be much harder? Still has highly predictable trajectory. Recall the US destroy one a few months later in 2008 with a modified SM3, from a boat. That sat was in a ~ 244km×261km decaying orbit -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Burnt_Frost.
> their wives will be horrified at the risk they tool even though it worked out.

Whenever we participated in auctions for housing sites, my wife would stop me at a certain number. The number of times we were the second highest bidder ...
On iPad "secure shellfish" can do this over an ssh connection. You can grab a file out of an "ls" listing and drag it to another app. (You do have to highlight the name first, so not quite as ergonomic as iTerm.)
The Tucker Carlson peice is accurate. A reasonable person would incorporate that in their opinion of the source.

Politifact "fact check", or really anything that calls itself s fact check, isn't a reliable proxy for forming opinion from primary sources.
A puff piece for a far-right billionaire on what is basically a Truth Social equivalent website means nothing to me. It doesn't register as proof. It's like what your parents share on facebook, or the schizophrenic guy on the subway yelling nonsense into the air. There's no point.
Jet Brains Mono https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/ is another contender. It has a crossbar I, a dotted 0, and easily distinguishable i, 1, l.
> This seems like nothing more than a big redirection to get people to move on from the last story.

I find government comms with social media to be interesting. Do you not? I'm not sure if there's a bombshell there or not. I believe all public servants since Nixon understand about their actions being reviewable. Not that they shouldn't be able to have private conversations, of course. That's a whole 'nother issue.
Yesterday the right was pissed at him because his free speech/no censorship Twitter promise failed in the face of Kanye, resulting in the new Kanye ban.

Today Elon announced Hunter Biden “news” (which seems like 95%+ known info). Now they love him again for shining a light on “the truth” and seem to have forgotten about yesterday.

Funny how that worked out for Elon, huh?
Eaglercraft is an early example of a java program compiled to WebAssembly to run in the browser. It's Minecraft 1.5.2
Introduction to Event-Based Programming
You don't need JS series: I build a website mostly with HTML and CSS
Luckily, Americans' Constitutional rights are not so easily dismissed by such charitable explanations.

Thank God.
Apartment List USA National Rent Report
Edward Snowden swears allegiance to Russia and receives passport, lawyer says
They have a direct line to get things reviewed - not removed.

I'll bet most big corporations advertising on Twitter have one too.
> Now, most people I talk to about this tell me they hate their email. It's a spam and junk-filled box full of nothing but coupons, ads, and check-ins from their boss. And I agree. It is just that. Indeed one of the problems with decentralized and federated technologies is exactly that: they're filled with spam, junk, and mixed uses. But that mundanity is the true magic.

This is the best outcome?

On a related note: if "No, I don't want to sign up for your newsletter" were a browser setting, I would check it immediately and never turn it off. Come to think of it, I want a "block slide-overs" setting because apparently "block pop-ups" wasn't enough and web designers/saboteurs decided "hey, let's make unprompted inline modal windows and use them everywhere!"
Huh? It’s cheap and it works super well, what more do you want…?
Makes you wonder, given the sensitivity of this, how the government feels about having Elon at the helm of it given some of his business ties.
They might not buy all of them. The military usually reserves themselves a right to buy hundreds of jets, but due to various conditions (such as a recession or the cold war ending) they sometimes don't buy all of them. There were some plans for 132 B-2 Spirit planes, but only 21 were made in the end. One of them crashed and was destroyed, and I'm not sure about the one that went of the runway last year, so there might only be 19 usable airframes at this point. You can't use all of them at the same time due to maintenance, so it could take months for all of them to get a chance to drop bombs from the start of an actual war. For the F-22 Raptor as well, an original idea in the 1980s was to order up to 750 aircraft, but only 187 production models were actually made. Not all could be made operational due to crashes and other damage.
Probing Gender Bias in ChatGPT
Sports and local news I guess
It's not that Twitter stopped people from posting. It's that Twitter did that at the behest of the government. That is a clear violation of the First Amendment.
Details of actual branch predictors are proprietary, so we must speculate.

You don't stall on branches you have no history of, but apply heuristics that don't depend on history. E.g., backward branches are usually taken, forward branches less so. I think newer chips can try both alternatives, to some degree, although this cannot be carried far as it blows up exponentially.
This is still WIP project. I have used Astro.build to make my agency website. It compiles the code into static HTML and CSS. The site with Astro loads much faster than Next.js or React websites
https://archive.ph/oS0EX
Am I the only that sees a flying saucer shape if you look at it from the bottom?
> I don't see how it could advance any interests he has

I posted about this at the top level.

Yesterday he kicked Kanye off and proved his “free speech” and “no censorship” stance didn’t mean what he portrayed it did. And the far right was turning on him.

Today he hyped this and they love him again.

Much easier to be loved by one side than hated by both. He seems to have gotten out of a sticky situation.

> and it just makes him look like one of these low brow political folks

Yep, but he seems to have been playing that card for a few months now.
Show HN: Self hosted CI tightly integrated with Gitea
I recently started using Gitea to host all my small projects. This has been great so far, however the lack of an inbuilt CI system like (github / gitlab) ended up hitting me hard.

I turned to drone CI / woodpecker CI / agola CI but they all required me to set up a server / runner etc so that they could run.

That's why I build Jaypore CI:

- Runs on your laptop / remote cloud

- CI status is directly posted in pull request description

- Uses docker to run everything so we can have caching / db services / publishing packages etc

- Configuration language is normal python. This allows job matrix, complex conditional jobs, multiple languages for each job

https://github.com/theSage21/jaypore_ci
Yeah I think twitter started rotting Taibbi's synapses around that time. He's become so hyper-concerned with the hypocrisy of liberals that he's not even aware how he's just become a gullible parrot for right-wing spew. Sorry but I’m done with all this fake moral outrage about a laptop or whatever.
Wow, 99.7% contributions went to democrats... If that isn't damning evidence of partisan bias I don't know what is! I honestly wasn't expecting it to be that one-sided.
And that is completely legal and allowed under the First Amendment.
Jokes aside, the new Windows Terminal is actually pretty good.
I'd personally see crypto experience as a very small point against someone.
Nah, just misunderstood and somewhat continue to misunderstand their point. I don't see how the offered info is relevant to whether this is a 1A violation.
Yes but only for some White House admins.

The previous White House admin saw their press secretary’s account suspended because the campaign didn’t like the fact that she tweeted about this story.

The current White House likely wouldn’t see that same fate.
Same here re: opt out.

You tell the agent you want to opt out. They scream “Opt out!” at the top of their lungs.

Then another agent takes you through the plexiglass door beside the metal detector.

That agent recites a brief script about how they’ll pat you down and then do so.

Pat down complete, they check their gloves for residues in a machine. Once that’s done, you’re free to go.

It generally adds 5-10 mins to the security line. Sometimes, if they really backed up and you say opt out early enough, it can actually be faster.

You have the right to opt out and can exercise it.
> Twitter has not asserted they were pressured. If they feel they were, they should say so, and sue.'

You do understand that they can collude? It's funny we have spent countless hours hearing about Trump Russia collusion. Now suddenly people can't seem to figure out there is a thing called collusion.

Censorship of this story doesn't exist in vaccum. There is a legitimate argument why this shouldn't be investigated as election interference when we've spent countless hours based on Steele dossier, which turned out to be a political ploy.
If the time period is accurate, how can I put all the money in Apple stock?
>You took a giant leap from maybe people at Twitter were acting with bias. You’d need a lot more information to justify this assertion

A bipartisan group of 50 CIA agents and various spooks released a letter falsely labeling the Hunter Biden laptop "Russian disinformation" at the exact same time the story was being censored by Facebook and Twitter at the behest of the Biden campaign. It is unfortunate that so many are willing (and able) to willfully delude themselves into denying reality.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-...

>Hang them all, put social media in the hands of the government, ban moderation?

If Twitter had unilaterally decided to act as political partisans without direction from political campaigns, elected officials and intelligence agencies it would be an entirely different issue - this isn't the case as clearly illustrated by part one of the Taibbi series. I have little doubt when it comes to the Covid chapter you will see even more direct censorship coordination between Twitter and government officials, which will also be downplayed (if not supported) by those who believe it was "good" or "necessary". The fact is that The Constitution is the foundational document of our country. It isn't some sort of optional set of guidelines that can be ignored when inconvenient. The 1st Amendment is the most important part of this foundational document, the bedrock of a free society. All of our elected leaders, including the president, swear an oath of office to protect and uphold The Constitution. The legitimate authority of the government is derived from The Constitution. A government acting outside of the Constitution is not a legitimate government.

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
The power structures in society having arbitrary influence is what matters. A c-tier candidate would never have the same pull as not-yet elected Biden. Nor would a controversial candidate even from a popular party.

The only solution is to not provide the power in the first place instead of trying to fix it with layers of easily bypassed rules. You can’t have easy censorship if there isn’t an established censorship system already in place.

A system that is limited by law and very fundamental policies is much less prone to abuse (ie, a constitutional republic with transparent but limited policy making power vs monarchical systems with backroom dealing by elites). The minute it became about broadly policing speech via backroom dealing was the minute it became wide open to abuse.
There's no way anyone believes that's not a sex toy