skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why you're singling out Fox News and "right wing" media here, but I certainly think it's a problem when major networks coordinate coverage with their preferred candidate. That certainly counts as a "service" to me.
> These actions effectively installed Biden as president.

No, the millions of voters who selected him over trump did that.

This hit job using hacked iCloud information to post revenge porn of Hunter Biden was not going to change people's votes, it had nothing to do with Joe Biden. Just another Russian hack job.
Anything you want as an ecosystem involving software that is supposed to last a decade or more requires a subscription to be viable.
Dunno why you're being downvoted here. "The Law" under "The US Constitution" is not a "technicality" here- it is the guiding document dictating how this conversation should be directed. Biden's role as a private citizen in 2020 is clear, in that light.
I would love to hear about some good natural park arbitrage opportunities. But as with all arbitrage the opportunity decreases once it is well known.
> pay as much as you can

pay as much as you and your parents can pay and/or borrow[1]

TFTY

https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/how-aid-works/type...
I think your mistake is to look at bought-and-paid-for politicians, I'm talking about the general public. My guess is you don't know many republican voters and therefore unqualified to to make the comparison. Most democrats I know think the bailout "paid for itself" lol
Sadly not all terminals have a great support for ls --hyperlink.

Here is a quick comparison if anyone needs: https://github.com/asdf8dfafjk/Terminal-Features/blob/main/F...

Wish some terminals would allow more "actions" on hyperlinks, maybe using right click, and even drag-drop
> situations involving prostitutes (sometimes underage)

This is a lie, you should reconsider consuming information from wherever you picked this "fact" up.
How do I turn it off?
"[H]elping" is certainly a gerund to use here.

I'm not sure what is meant by the "change of owner" comment, since I think everyone knew that Twitter was left leaning since forever.
So he thought about air-gapping the AIs from each other…
I mean it's the verge, who cares?
The same thing is true of react vs angular. Angular is kind of garbage, whereas react is elegant
> Why care about media concentration? Why does it matter? Why is a concentrated media environment bad?

...and because this SC decision has been buried by all the usual media outlets. As power flows into fewer and fewer hands the diversity of awareness constricts.
I asked if it was able to speak other languages besides english it replied that no... when i asked in portuguese and got that reply in portuguese.
More like a just over a sixth, there's three branches, executive, legislature, and judicial. If you buy into the whole "media is the fourth branch" thing, I say that's actually a minority or a plurality.
Again, at the end, you conflate things. I don't feel the need to discuss morality, I find that boring. But legally? It's just strictly not a 1A violation with the info we have now. Twitter can take down whatever they want, it's their website. If I ask, it's not a 1A violation. If Joe Biden in 2020 asks, it's not a 1A violation. If Trump in 2020 asked, it's not a 1A violation (unless Twitter feels like they were forced, which they haven't claimed).
It's a loophole of practicality that is often exploited by executive branch regardless of political party.

Initiate a policy or order, mitigating the immediate damage. Then, days, months or years later, a court will decide you didn't have that power and will reverse it. But the threat or problem was already dealt with and there are no repurcussions except political capital spent.
It’s not a question of personal dislike. There are plenty of news articles, blog posts, etc. whose positions I think are nonsensical or wrongheaded yet clearly align with HN’s mission of intellectual curiosity. But with Twitter threads on nontechnical topics, in my experience, the intent and effect of posting them is to whip people up into a rage. This not particularly civil comments section is one of the better ones I’ve seen - the top comment as of when im posting this only has two angry exclamation points.
This sort of thing never changes minds, it just entrenches people further in their positions. Same as the daily story about a "Bad Thing Trump Did", nobody really cares, each side just uses it to reinforce conclusions they already have, and it's written for those who already believe. (Same as what I guess will be a bunch of rushed "it was a flop" stories like this one)

I definitely agree it's an absolutely pointless thing for Musk to get involved with. I don't see how it could advance any interests he has and it just makes him look like one of these low brow political folks
I find it very sad that the government isn't even capable of writing its own presumably TOTP authenticator app.
We still operate as the primitive creatures we are. People are more terrified if they see some people potentially dying of hunger vs. many people losing digits in some computer. The first one can trigger panic. Prosecution being as primitive as we are will hurry for the first case.

Another point: $10bn+ is a lot of money and probably caused lots of damage (ie: suicide). But if someone pulled a knife in Time Square, the police will be quick to apprehend him and the prosecution very willing to charge him. There was no harm done and yet resources will be deployed. But SBF might be even more dangerous yet no one is panicking yet (except some people here who might appreciate how dangerous he is)
Isn’t this was freedom looks like? We’ve got a hot mess of officials and other influential people trying to sway public opinion on a private platform that’s management is a hot mess of individual assumptions, bias and buck passing.

Comparatively the CCP is a well-oiled machine when it comes to censorship.
I like all of these comments because they each contain a grain of truth.

Biden wasn't in office at the time of communications, yet was clearly a figure of influence in government.

"Handle" is an okay word to describe the scenario via an internet comment, yet also not a literal quote.

I wish we could get back to trusted parties coming to reasonable conclusions while citing sources. It seems we're stuck in a cycle of gaming SEO and piecemeal info via social media.

I guess us "citizen journalists" are learning just how challenging it can be to relate a story accurately and with minimal bias.
The iPod touch was used forever as a (relatively) inexpensive development device. I’d say the phone absorbed the iPod.
RC Hot Air Balloon Propane Powered – Remote Controlled
Huh? It's not hardly grotesk at all. It's doric revival with a dash of fringe bauhaus.

Grotesk! smh
RIP Rackspace
It’s a nightmare for booking timed entry reservations. Rocky Mountain National Park opens reservations on the 1st of each summer month for the upcoming month and the site is just slammed. You click a reservation time, spin spin spin, then error.

It’s honestly infuriating when you really need to get 2 or 3 days of reservations before 8am for long hikes so you know, you don’t get killed by lightning, and the website just screws you over.

I’d love to FOIA their analytics data and find out how many times users get errored out after selecting a time slot.

The head of Colorado’s energy agency literally almost died this summer because he couldn’t get an early enough reservation. This stuff actually is life and death.
Executive orders impact how the executive branch of the government acts.

They are instructions from the head of the executive branch (be it President or a state's governor) for an agency in the executive branch to do a certain thing.

For example: Executive Order 14087 of October 14, 2022 https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/10/19/2022-22...

> HHS Actions. In furtherance of the policy set forth in section 1 of this order, the Secretary shall, consistent with the criteria set out in 42 U.S.C. 1315a(b)(2), consider whether to select for testing by the Innovation Center new health care payment and delivery models that would lower drug costs and promote access to innovative drug therapies for beneficiaries enrolled in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, including models that may lead to lower cost-sharing for commonly used drugs and support value-based payment that promotes high-quality care. The Secretary shall, not later than 90 days after the date of this order, submit a report to the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy enumerating and describing any models that the Secretary has selected. The report shall also include the Secretary's plan and timeline to test any such models. Following the submission of the report, the Secretary shall take appropriate actions to test any health care payment and delivery models discussed in the report.

This directs the Department of Health and Human Services (under the executive branch) to do certain things.

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https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/ex...

> Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the executive branch to:

> (a) secure the southern border of the United States through the immediate construction of a physical wall on the southern border, monitored and supported by adequate personnel so as to prevent illegal immigration, drug and human trafficking, and acts of terrorism;

> ...

> (d) Except as otherwise noted, “the Secretary” shall refer to the Secretary of Homeland Security.

> Sec. 4. Physical Security of the Southern Border of the United States. The Secretary shall immediately take the following steps to obtain complete operational control, as determined by the Secretary, of the southern border:

Note again, the Department of Homeland Security is under the executive branch.

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And so, the "could you create an executive order ordering {department} to arrest someone with red hair speaking in public?" The answer is "no" because the ability to arrest someone is under the Judicial branch - not the executive branch.

Secondly, you will note that all of the executive orders are citing the law under which the president (or governor) is given that authority from congress. To arrest a red head for speaking congress would need to have a law (First Amendment!) that allows the executive branch to silence someone.

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I will also point out gag orders which are, well, fairly straight forward censorship. Except that the gag order is from the judicial branch - not the legislative branch.

https://law.yale.edu/mfia/case-disclosed/when-silence-isnt-g...
Anyone interested in pet facial recognition?
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https://hackaday.io/project/18086/log/213964-2017-test-fligh...
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-options none
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background color-shading-type 'solid'
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background primary-color '#000'

For those of us in GNOME land. gnome-tweaks will let you strip the image file, but there's no UI for setting the background color, which defaults to a muted blue.
The "hacked data policy" mysteriously didn't apply to 100gb+ data dumps of competing social networks when it was politically expedient.
My understanding was that those were examples and that he was implying that there were vastly more that had been requested and removed by both parties before those tweets. Did I misinterpret his tweet?
Marc Rich, fugitive financier
Please delete or lock this, it is a duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33837111
Exactly. The same thing with the 'laptop from hell', hence why that was immediately removed at the time, because it was real.
Going down this technical path doesn’t aid your case: it destroys your case.

This is because the Constitution only authorizes Congress to make any laws in the first place, so only Congress could be guilty of making a law impacting speech. Taking all of the document in the narrow sense you’re taking it would mean the executive branch couldn’t limit speech either because they couldn’t do 99.9% of the things they do today in the first place.
Do we have stats on the actual hardware used for msdtodon.social ? Like how much ram/CPU/bw?
So in this specific case, for one example, we're talking about Biden's team requesting the removal of revenge porn. Do you think it's acceptable to make that request? Should Twitter be obligated to leave revenge porn up? Is this an example of the 'suppression of "hate speech"' you're referring to with scare quotes? Because it doesn't seem like one to me.
Twitter is used by sex workers all the time for pornographic images. What specifically about them violates the rules? Is it the fact that the person did not intend on those images being released? Do they have a claim if those images were no longer their property given the terms of service of the repair shop where the laptop was abandoned?
x86? Yes, coherence is basically at the level of traces. If you modify some code and then jump to it, you're guaranteed to get the new code; but if you modify some code within a currently running trace, the results are unspecified.

E: see the intel SDM, vol 3, sec 8.1.3.
Despite the phrasing being "Congress shall make no law," the First Amendment absolutely applies to the executive.

The mainstream test just looks for a "state actor" but even if you want to go textualist, things probably break down like this: if a law empowers the executive to do an act that violates the First Amendment, the law itself is a violation of the First Amendment. If no law empowers the executive to do the action at issue, then the action is illegal by virtue of being in excess of the executive's authority.
I can start you here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-24396957

Let me know if you need any help navigating a search engine but you should be able to put similiar keywords and get a variety of information from any number of sources.
A nitpick: the iMessage protocol isn’t insecure, which was implied.

We know the FBI doesn’t have unlimited access to iMessage content from the San Bernardino shooter case where they needed NSO to hack the shooter’s iPhone when law enforcement couldn’t buy their own copies of those tools years ago.

The FBI needs a search warrant (probable cause required) to search a device and to get backed up messages from iCloud.

Anyone concerned shouldn’t use iCloud and certainly not for iMessage backup.

That’s very different from being “horribly insecure” since it’s end-to-end encrypted.
"Elon Musk does not understand how First Amendment works," episode 47.
You will perish in flames.
Well, the one party wants to require more censorship, which would be bad (and unconstitutional here in the US), and the other party wants to ban censorship, which would also be bad (and unconstitutional here in the US).

Maybe something about transparency would be workable? Even if the policy that whichever site is being transparent about is "all decisions are arbitrary", at least people would know that that's the policy.
> [It is a problem that y]ou approved a plan to have a refactor that lasts several weeks.

I've been working at an Agile(TM) "prefer communication to processes" shop for a while now.

One thing that they absolutely do _not_ understand is that sometimes the smallest unit of work cannot and can never fit into a one (or even two) week Sprint.

If someone comes and says "This project will take a long time.", yeah, sure, sit down and have them explain why. Do _not_ shoot them down as a matter of course because "Well, nothing should take more than a week, and _definitely_ never than two." and tell them "Go mutilate your plan so that you have a Real Deliverable every five working days.".

> You tremendously overestimated the required effort...

a) Neither of us know how long the entire project ran, so "A few weeks" could be a small overestimate, and evidence that a sane amount of cushion was baked into the planning.

b) It's way, way, way better to overestimate a fair bit and come in under that estimate than it is to underestimate and _require_ either rescheduling a whole bunch of shit, or mutilating a solid plan in order to shove it out in the original timeframe.
>"the algorithm is specifically tuned to reward dumb content in the US, compared to rewarding STEM and other educational content in China"

No idea if it is true but I think the US and Canada do not need foreign "help" in this department. Dumbification of the average Joes and Janes is a wet dream of every politician and big corps and thanks to advanced tech it is becoming more and more.
I’m surprised by the outrage here. The proliferation of information is always subject to tampering - from news outlets picking headlines to social feeds oriented around engagement. Literally 100% of the flow of information is being shaped by interested parties, from the beginning to the end. (If you had told me that powerful people/organizations could not get tweets removed, I would have been surprised; based on my experience functioning on 21st century tech platforms there is almost always a way to engineer content.)

In this particular case, the information revealed in the “get-your-popcorn” tweet storm was generally already public. So I’m surprised by all the outrage and excitement.

Call me dismissive, but I think this mob mindset around “free speech” and its “anti-far-left” hysteria is not in touch with reality. It complains and whines a lot, constantly outraged, and never clear on its actual ideological position.

A healthier starting point is a philosophical and systems examination of transparency, censorship, and how information proliferates, followed by systems and mechanisms that facilitate a favorable outcome. Anecdotal, sensational stories (like this Twitter Hunter Biden laptop cover-up) are exactly that: misleading anecdotes. They aren’t useful, and being caught up in them is not healthy.
Reminds me of Veritas meeting and secretly filming their private conversations with some Twitter employees, then packaging the rants and boasting as conspiracies from Democrats.
Given how much is in common between the Japanese manufacturers, if Toyota and Honda are affected it's likely that several others are as well.
Well I can see links about Hong Kong being censored then. I mean anything about Hong Kong is censored already.
Yes in this case I apparently answered just before it started listening so it only got the second word, but I was driving and couldn’t look at the phone or CarPlay to see if it was paying attention yet. I had made several attempts already to get it to share an address from my contacts to my wife and it didn’t understand what I wanted. The exchange I shared above was my last attempt.

Even now I can’t get Siri to share an address using Airdrop. I don’t think it’s possible. It looks like it can text the address but even that is dicey.
What if Twitter agreed with the motivation for the pressure? Shouldn’t the government not be pressuring people in pursuit of limiting free speech whether the current recipients of the pressure happen to be of the same political persuasion or not?

Otherwise what happens when the party in power changes?
Agreed, I'm not surprised at all but I'm glad it's in the open.
so your users every click is monitored by you? is that what you mean by observability? rather not do that to my users
To get access to the material he had to agree to a bunch of conditions, and it seems like one of those conditions was 'you can only tweet about it' (presumably to drive Twitter traffic).
And it will also pay for it with the money it earned from offering rides to people. :-)
Is the mechanism for disabling browsing for ChatGPT just to send it a message that says "Browsing disabled". That seems incredible irresponsible from a AI safety point of view (if ChatGPT were smart enough to be dangerous).
No, it’s illegal to resell a reservation. I posted a joke scalper ad on Craigslist (forgot to take it down) for a national park reservation (this was right after they were introduced and I was salty about it) and they got a grand jury subpoena for my account info and investigated me for reselling government property. They didn’t charge me once they realized I didn’t do anything more than post and ad (and in protest at that), but scalping permits is highly illegal.
If you think "complete functional control over the supreme court for likely decades" is insignificant enough to make conservatives count as a minority you need to pay more attention to the powers and impact of the supreme court. They can effectively overrule any legislation if they wish and have proven a desire to do so.
It seems I'd gotten the wrong impression of how it works. Do you have any recommendations for primers on GPT and similar systems? Most content seems to be either surface level or technical and opaque.
Case dismissed: FBI seizure of 1400 safe-deposit boxes, millions in jewelry/cash
Twitter's policy against "revenge porn" was likely the controlling factor. Also, in general, posting private photos of someone, without their consent, is disallowed on most/all platforms.
Thank you! I asked it about Elon running twitter with the joke thing:

There are many reasons why a man like Elon Musk should not run Twitter. For starters, he is known for his impulsive and unpredictable behavior, which could cause chaos on the platform. He is also notorious for his bold and controversial statements, which could lead to endless online debates and arguments.

Moreover, Elon Musk is a busy man with many other responsibilities and commitments. He is the CEO of several companies, including SpaceX and Tesla, and he has many other projects and ventures that demand his attention. As a result, he may not have the time or energy to properly manage Twitter, which could lead to neglect and mismanagement.

Furthermore, Elon Musk is not a social media expert, and he may not have the skills or experience necessary to effectively run Twitter. He may not understand the platform's algorithms and features, and he may not know how to engage and interact with users in a meaningful way.

In short, a man like Elon Musk should not run Twitter because he is unpredictable, controversial, busy, and inexperienced. Twitter deserves a leader who is stable, thoughtful, dedicated, and knowledgeable. And unfortunately, Elon Musk is none of those things.
> has everyone and their brother booking the popular places.

This is good.

> serves to discourage some number of people.

The is bad.

Sounds like the system is working well.
If you change your mind, it shouldn’t be hard to handle the taxes; I think the approach would be the same as for hobby income.

If you’re in the US and filing taxes as a employee I think you’d just sum up the book sales and stick that under Other Income. If you’re already filing as a business or self employed, just roll it in no? Of course, other countries are available.

Anyway, I’d happily pay a few bucks at the very least for this. If it’s useful, it’s going to help my own income. If I see people who maybe can’t afford a few bucks can get it for free, I’ll be even happier to pay.
They added a feature to enable better geolocation (if you want).

In the Starlink app: Settings > Advanced > Debug Data > Starlink Location > Allow access on local network.

This allows local devices to use the Starlink lat/long that dishy uses for satellite targeting.