skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wallpaper is a gorgeous, high-resolution picture of my first cat, long-passed. It makes me happy to see it when I log in or tab between windows or whatever, but for the most part, I work full-screen so I rarely see it. So in part, I agree with this.

But also, the idea that the wallpaper on your computer was too distracting, that the longing for carefree sunny days, and the harsh crash back to reality was too hard on you - I think this speaks to more issues than that you have a too-nice picture on your computer.

You could just as easily have the same problem with that photo, framed physically next to you on your desk or on the wall. The problem isn't with the photo on your computer, the problem seems to be more that your work is making you miserable. (Seriously, ten hours a day working? That's at least two too many.)

I'm, of course, reading into this, I don't really have sufficient context for the whole story, and your work could be very satisfying and you just long for more quality time in your work/life balance. But _that's_ the issue here, not whether the thing that reminds you that your life is out of balance is on your computer or on your desk or in your mind.
Not OP, but my parents use it in northern california because they live in a spot that the standard ISPs have decided isn't worth running connectivity to - gigabit cable is available if they lived 3 miles closer to town. No utilities other than electricity.

They had HughesNet before, barely ever got more than 1 Mbps. Latency was ~1000ms on average. They paid for the 100 Mbps service for awhile but HughesNet oversubscribes their satellites to a disgusting degree and they rarely saw more than that 1 Mbps.

Even when the bandwidth was ~10 Mb, the latency levels caused basically all of the streaming services to not function.

When they first got it, it was ~100 Mbps on average. Now it's around 50 Mbps. Latency is still holding around 40ms. Still at least an order of magnitude better on all fronts compared to their competition. I was able to play some competitive shooters with decent success ... although CoD had a tendency to occasionally boot me when satellite switches happened. Seems to trip the anticheat, but I can't really blame Starlink for that.
Practiced indifference is necessary when society isn't working out for you.

That is, most of the avenues that were presented to you to "succeed" in life when you were younger are actually designed to either turn you into a petty tyrant or a willing servant. As with how everyone behaved around the pandemic, we're prone to turning our backs on the astonishing facts of the matter and call it normal, and then call the negative outcomes mysterious and inexplicable. Most of the media we consume is in turn made to support whatever normal needs to be; it's not a conspiracy, it's a symptom of our underlying illness. Actually getting a square deal - and they do happen - is really, really hard when you're faced with gregarious competitiveness at every turn, people who aren't there to solve problems but to treat everyone as an asset, liability or threat, and put their contact list into a spreadsheet to calculate how best to get ahead.

Thus, indifference. Nature is mostly indifferent and can't maintain all the fallacies that we order ourselves through; if things aren't looking good, most creatures just run and hide. Survive until options improve. Every job looks important in the moment, and not so much in the rear view mirror. It's not software alone, it's every sort of business. The good stuff trades not on credit, but on logical coherence, but nobody wants to buy into it until after it's proven itself. They'd rather hear that a so-and-so is involved or a BigCo has already made a deal with them.

These and other thoughts are how I turned into a speculative investor. In this there also an unwellness, but I can face it less frequently, and with more retained optimism in the sense of "they'll all be wrong, probably, but in roughly the right direction".
This is basically just wrong.

The executive branch can violate the first amendment…
The docs mention an API for use within apps in the browser. I am wondering if an external API is available or planned to allow two way interaction with external servers.

- external file storage
- events/notifications
- REST to access puter resources
TSA are not law enforcement and have no authority to arrest nor detain. This is why there is always a bored actual cop sitting somewhere nearby. The cop can arrest.

You can try this yourself - get some old shoe trees with metal posts and fold one of them at 90 degrees so the scan machine flags it as a firearm. If TSA can't figure out the puzzle you made for them, they leave the bag in the tunnel, and it doesn't move until the actual police take it out and look inside. Yes, I experienced this.

Also, I opt out every time. It has been hundreds of times. No big deal.
Physics and a video game trick changed the NASCAR Championships
You’ve made a very vague statement there.

There are extremes in every political movement, no doubt. I don’t deny that there are people on the left out there protesting against “hate speech”. There are also people on the right that are out and out racist. I think choosing whether to vote Democrat or Republican based on either of those extremes is a poor choice.

OP said:

> I would have identified as a Democrat on pretty much every issue, but this authoritarian suppression

So we’re not talking about vague “leftists” here, we’re specifically talking about the Democratic Party. You’re going to have a rough time arguing they are campaigning on authoritarianism.
I don't use a tiling window manager, but I never see my desktop either. The last time I remember serious thought about desktop appearance was setting it to a solid colour to save RAM ... in the late 1990s. I just minimised a bunch of windows to discover that the latest Kubuntu has hidden a rather pretty alien landscape painting there.
This has also doomed Skylab - increased solar activity, increased atmospheric drag, pulling it down before the much delayed Shuttle could do something about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab#Solar_activity
> he was TECHNICALLY a private citizen

The 1st amendment prohibits the government from interfering with speech. You just admitted he was not part of the government. Therefore it’s not a 1st amendment violation.

It may be morally wrong, or violating “free speech”, but I don’t see a 1st amendment violation.
So in a way Elon taking over is good. At least it’s abundantly clear the whole platform is run based on his personal whims now.
> Come on. Mobilecoin was just a straight up method of transferring value from the non-profit into the pockets of private parties. It couldn't be more clear short of them saying it outright.

Matt seems to have said the same thing:

>"Signal sold out their user base by creating and marketing a cryptocurrency based solely on their ability to sell the future tokens to a captive audience,” said Bitcoin Core developer Matt Corallo, who also used to contribute to Signal’s open-source software.

But here is the thing; we've both have enough time in BTC to have seen some variation of this already; I was and remain a big proponent of Mycelium and I couldn't have done what I did with my startup without them, but there was no way in hell I was going buy their token and instead donated directly to the team. Nor would I purchase any of the exchange coins, I'm looking at SBF and CZ; so a level of due diligence is required so with the aftermath of the ICO-mania back in 2017 firmly in mind I think this should be a precursor.

I don't deny that Mobilecoin may have been in done in bad faith, but ultimately the consumer has to bear some responsibility; I was at hackathon at a major tech University, where the 1st-3rd prize was some small sum of cash and getting 1st round of interviews at some local tech companies and some recognition in media, but the rest were pointless things like Rokus or whatever.

I wasn't selected as a mentor for that event, I just crashed the event in the last 5 hours as I got out of work early, but after encountering a team from Stanford that created a proof of concept used to solve a major issue and creating transparency in donations for charities and non-profits using a blockchain to track, monitor and distribute the funds with real time tagging (like how we used to embed messages on mainchain).

Long story short is I managed to get them a pitch and demo with the guys from Tron and they won $10k worth of it, far exceeding the formal prizes, and I told them to split it 50/50 between them and to to keep most of it in BTC for obvious reasons. I hope they listened because Tron ended up being kind of a joke as were mos ERC tokens. I ope they listened but if they kept it in Tron they lost 66% since ATH and they only have themselves to blame.
> Draw the circle and use the compass to mark off a length on the circumference equal to the radius of the circle.

Seems like a pretty good first step, right? ;-)
You're right, but it's a losing battle.
Yes. I'm planning to release all these soon :)
Anecdata: mine has always been enabled, and I've been a user since 2007, yet I never encountered any kind of porn (except from some random replies or follow-spams from obvious bikini girls).
Why would you "routinely flag Twitter threads" if they are not obvious spam, dupes, or egregiously off-topic? You are not a guest curator. There is a reason you cannot downvote submissions on HN and the flag button is not a substitute for that.

If you don't like something, ignore it and move on. Someone else may find it interesting. It's not your duty to prevent the rest of the community from reading something you don't like.
It's only a good thing if the school's goal is connecting the smartest with the richest.
http://fedi.network — rewrite is happening
Reddit Users Are Turning Ye’s Page into a Holocaust Memorial
I have to agree with your sentiment.
Lastly the sms app of my Android phones are harassing me to enable Google cloud shit and spying!
Many of the removed tweets flagged by Bidens team were literally nude pictures of Hunter Biden.
Could you describe what authority Joe Biden (or team Biden) had within the federal government in October 2020?

I'm not going to claim that it isn't an issue that VIPs have excessive influence on social media companies and there operations. People with lots of followers have certainly been able to pull strings to craft the message at twitter in the past. Joe Biden and his campaign team c. Oct 2020 are certainly to be counted in that number. Things like banning certain accounts ( https://www.wired.co.uk/article/elon-musk-parody-twitter-acc... ) or getting your account unblocked ( https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45953747 ).

I am going to ask specifically how this is a first amendment issue when none of the people involved had any role within the government at the time this took place.
I'm not a lawyer, I don't know much about the technicalities of these things.

But by this reasoning it sounds like the president could just create an executive order limiting free speech and that would be just fine? Is the president really aloud to create an executive order saying "anyone with red hair is no longer aloud to speak in public" (obviously silly example)?
I've been using black wallpapers on laptops for... man, has to be almost 20 years now. I used to run multimedia for a church group on a Mac with Keynote, and all our song lyrics and everything else started and ended with a fade from black or fade to black. This meant that instead of having to try and organize a full deck before every Friday, I could just have all the needed stuff open, and if the worship band decided to change order of songs for some reason or another, it wasn't hard to follow. It worked well, and I don't think anyone who wasn't up with me in the multimedia area realized that they were seeing desktop wallpaper most of the time.

Related, I'm exceedingly adverse to icons on my desktop - because more than a few icons would spill to the other desktop when resolutions changed to match the (old, beat up, I think 1024x768 at best) projector we used, and therefore show up on the presentation screen.

I still think Keynote is the best presentation software I've ever used... even though I don't use Macs anymore. :/ Just means I recognize how horrid LibreOffice is at doing any sort of slide layout. :(
I swear, from this moment forward I am not going to open any article on any web site with "Elon Musk" anywhere in the title.
It’s relevant for Full-HD desktops and laptops, both of which remain widespread. I don’t see them going away anytime soon, because of lower cost, and also because a lot of Windows applications are not (or not adequately) hi-DPI-capable. Even 1440p monitor benefit from hinting.

Yes, mobile devices are an entirely different environment. Personally I’m still waiting for 200+ DPI desktop monitors with high contrast (VA or preferably OLED).
Ahh, so an attack on Musk as opposed to Marc. Makes sense. I wasn't intending to make Musk look bad with that statement, just pointing out what I believe to be the fallacy in Marc's viewpoint, but I get how your interpretation would be the common one. Thanks!
What’s your yt channel?
Nit: big name professors aren't necessarily good professors, especially if they got got their name through research.
It works better in the original German.
My back-of-envelope calculation must've few mistakes in it (I was multiplying numbers from the internets, ffs), but none as big as the above comment nonsense.
> as of C# 7 you can use fixed to declare static arrays inside structs, however these structs need to be marked as unsafe.

That is exactly what I was talking about.
So if in 2016 the Trump campaign had done the same thing, you'd be fine with the response, "The Trump campaign is not the government."?
I think Platformer essentially has a 'get clicks by hating Elon/showing Twitter under Elon' approach these days.

I mean it makes sense, the tweets where they mention Elon or sources from Twitter have waaaay more interaction than any other articles they wrote. Like orders of magnitude different.

I personally don't like them. 90% of the things they said about Twitter never happened and not a single word from them about that. Oh and Platformer is kinda ex-Verge people so there's that.
The subreddit in question: https://ol.reddit.com/r/Kanye/
But Biden was likely to be elected, members of his staff appointed to government positions and staff at Twitter likely understood that.
Perhaps I am misunderstanding, but that sounds almost like a calculation that applies to a vacuum, not a pressurized atmosphere with plenty of "free" oxygen? Perhaps that's the same for the TNT & battery, so maybe none of these calculations are directly applicable to real-world scenarios?
> This sounds like a red flag…I hope the author isn’t starting to burn out or in a utterly shitty environment where looking at the screen is really that much better.

Huh? I just read it as, "Do as much as you possibly can away from a computer, and don't get sucked into computers, virtual worlds, or any of that absolutely human-toxic crap we use them for these days."

And I 100% agree. I greyscale half my systems and my phone for exactly the same reason - to make them as not-appealing as possible. I can still do everything I want, but my phone, especially, isn't sickeningly saturated. It's absolutely jarring just how synthetic-color phones are once you've gotten used to them in greyscale.
Really hoping you come back and read this comment, but perhaps I am too late:

> Are you using comcast? I think they only DYNAMICALLY assign you a 64...

In my experience here in San Francisco with both IPv4 and IPv6 service (and IPv4 service elsewhere in the US years and years ago) Comcast will give you a v4 IP (or v6 subnet) for as long as the same edge device (or an edge device with the same MAC address (or DUID for v6)) continues to renew the lease. So, yeah, it's dynamic in theory, but static in practice.

> Or even a /60 [via DHCPv6-PD]?

Weird. Configuring my DHCPv6 server to do Prefix Delegation and request a /60 always worked just fine for me. I was disappointed that I couldn't get a /56 or /48, but was okay with the /60 that they gave me. Again, this was in San Francisco, so maybe other parts of the country are managed _way_ differently. Maybe.

Alternatively, are you _sure_ that the DHCP-PD request was refused and that that you didn't -say- fail to configure your system to actually assign slices of the /60 to your LAN?

...

Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, I seem to recall a problem like you're describing.

If I'm not misremembering that I had this sort of problem, then, maybe, try configuring your edge device to ask for a /60, change the DUID that it will use to make the request, and then bounce the WAN interface (or reboot the device, or do whatever is required to apply the changes). My memory is absolute shit (and likes to hallucinate things that never happened), so this might not do anything useful. But it's usually a pretty easy thing to try.
Thanks for compiling this list, and for what it's worth, I don't think this comment was shadow-banned despite what you mentioned in your other reply.
Such low orbits should prevent that being a long term problem. I also wonder how much more difficult it is to target satellites going this fast than say the one China destroyed a few years ago?
It was? Oops :(

(Those were both the same app and have been for months. I just claimed Puter after PuterPuter way back when.)
A zero beginner doesn't need to read ordinary Python code with decorators etc. The beauty of Python as a teaching language is that none of those things are necessary to explain or handwave to write simple apps that just input and print strings and numbers - which is just enough to teach basic concepts like conditionals, loops, functions etc. For bonus points, it even has turtle graphics out of the box, which is an excellent visual explainer for more advanced concepts like recursion.

And when they've learned the basics on toy stuff and want to start writing real-world apps, that is when you explain decorators, generators etc. And yet they don't have to switch to a whole new language - all the basics they've learned still work exactly as they did before.
Downside is capped at prison and restitution.

Definitely not zero.
I only ever used plain black wallpapers on my AMOLED displays and never their LED counterparts. I guess it's a matter of preference whether people prefer seeing black as an absence of light or with a white backlight.
Both of these things are bad, yes?

If Twitter was doing all of this at the behest of the Biden Campaign, does that not count as some kind of in-kind donation?

If Twitter was doing all of this at the behest of Trump's executive direction, does that not count as some kind of 1A violation?
Ah yes, Biden the former vice president and 40 year career politician was a political naïf who had no influence whatsoever because he was not in office at the time. Of course.
I think you have it exactly backwards. The technicalities of the law are meaningless - morality is what's important. We created the law to codify morals, and, to the extent that it is good to follow the law, it is good only to the extent that the law agrees with morality.

And, of course, it's a moot point anyway because Taibi says requests came, and were honored, from both sides, including the White House. Even if "Joe Biden wasn't President yet" is true, Trump was President and his White House was working with Twitter to suppress speech. I just don't see how it is a question, either legally or morally, that the Federal Government, with Twitter, has been violating the first amendment.
Not yet, but I hope to ship that in the next alpha in a few days time: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1878
This is bollocks. Speaking for Britain, and I think I can, there are hoards of would be victims to this kind of scam, particular of the current retirees generation, who are extremely vulnerable to having the wool pulled over their eyes about technical and internet security best practice matters, but for whom just so much as a poor turn of phrase or some unusually laid out punctuation is an absolute dead giveaway. If the scammers got their act together on this front they'd be mopping up huge swathes of these people, but they don't, because at the end of the day they don't speak English very well and don't have access to anyone who can.
Sounds more like political operatives helping police the platform because it’s in their best interest.

You’d have to be hopelessly naive to think that twitter wasn’t already ridiculously left leaning without getting messages from political operatives. The change of owner simply inverted that?
The three phases of denial:

1) It's not true

2) It's true, but it's not important

3) It's true and it's important, but we already knew it
it's underway! https://github.com/extism/extism/pull/119/files
Funny story, Biden was not "in the government" at that time. You're thinking of Trump. That's who was president in 2020.

Does it still rub you the wrong way that Trump was "the government" telling Twitter to remove speech?
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598829996264390656

> It [the system] was based on contacts.

This reminds me of past "you have to know an employee to get you ban fixed" discussions about not-Twitter here.

I'm now wondering about a general - as in not specific to any one company - "favors for friends" culture at the brand-name tech places, over what I guess would be called a "rule of law" culture.
Yikes. Yeah I haven't looked at the pdf yet, but the idea of a book is to get all the info in one place, I'd hoped. If every chapter leads me to another web page, the book might as well not be there.

Tpetry, I get the idea that you don't want to give away the book outright. That is fine. Some people do that, but not everyone, and it's ok if you don't. But please, don't put us through this nonsense. Just charge money for the book, and make it so that people who pay up get everything in a single download, no subscriptions, no upsells from individual chapters. I am interested in such a thing, enough to probably be willing to buy a copy. Thanks for your consideration.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

To be clear, first amendment doesn't say the gov't shouldn't (let alone can't) ask you to do (or not do) something. It states that the legislative body of the federal government cannot make a law abridging the freedom of speech.
Did you read your own source?

The Biden team never asked Twitter staff to “handle” anything. They forwarded tweets that [violated twitter’s ToS][1], a Twitter staff member forwarded them for review, and at that point the reviewer said they “handled these.”

That’s what content moderation is supposed to do!

[1]: https://twitter.com/parkebench/status/1598841731763810304
Could it be... that I did the whole geo-replication because of this app? :')
Telegram supports Tags by using Hashtags which are linked an can be clicked on. When clicked, it just invokes the normal search. I mostly use it with the "Notes to myself" feature, where I can write down a quick note.

Telegram also has some form of the timeline view [1] . When tapping a date in the chat, you get a calendar in a month view. If you've sent a photo to that person on a day, that day will have a thumbnail of that photo as a background. It's a pretty hidden feature but I regularly use it to look for messages.

[1]: https://telegram.org/blog/shared-media-scrolling-calendar-jo...