skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been coming up with ridiculous questions and laughing my head off at the answers.

"What are some disadvantages of Paul Blart Mall Cop"

As a fictional character, Paul Blart does not have real-world disadvantages. However, if we were to consider him as a mall cop in a fictional universe, some potential disadvantages could include:

Limited training and resources: Paul may not have access to the same level of training and resources as other law enforcement officers, which could limit his ability to effectively protect the mall and its patrons.

Lack of authority: As a mall cop, Paul may not have the same level of authority and respect as other law enforcement officers, which could make it difficult for him to enforce the law and maintain order in the mall.

Potential for abuse of power: As a mall cop, Paul may be tempted to abuse his power and authority, which could lead to conflicts with mall patrons and other law enforcement officers.

Limited scope of responsibility: As a mall cop, Paul's primary responsibility is to protect the mall and its patrons, which means he may not be able to respond to more serious crimes or emergencies outside of the mall.

These are just some potential disadvantages of Paul Blart as a mall cop. It's important to remember that Paul is a fictional character and does not exist in the real world.
Keep telling enough people about Mt. Langley and you'll find the same problem.

Social media has in my opinion turned this into a shit show. I've done a lot of hiking and camping over the years, and all it takes is enough reviews and "influencers" to talk about some beautiful natural place and seemingly overnight you'll have hoards of people rushing to the view to get their selfie then immediately leave.

It's maddening because these kinds of visitors just generate a lot of traffic to fulfill their shallow objective of collecting a selfie. They largely don't care about what's become of the experience of actually spending time there, because they don't value the experience. It's just getting a photo/video for their $fb_insta_tiktok_whatevers_hot then get back on the road for the next place on the list. At most they're annoyed by delays. It was better when these people stuck to the theme parks.
> If twitter refused to handle the problem, what happens?

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That has to be an inside job lol.
I think you're right in general, but I've seen some cases where it couldn't possibly be language barrier.

For instance I once saw one of those sex scam accounts on Facebook where the profile pic was some hot, obviously white woman, but the name was Vietnamese and all the posts were in the Thai alphabet. That to me seemed very deliberately designed to catch men who saw the big boobs and immediately switched off their brains. And obviously no one is incompetent enough to use the wrong alphabet by mistake.
Did you not read the article? Most of the post was about how the data being wrong wasn’t the big deal it’s that they shouldnt have the numbers section at all since it means no one reads it.

The fact FT messed up by automating it and not doing basic QA is a signal but it’s not the whole story. A few extra pages for nostalgia reasons, style, and a few hardcore fans is hardly a big burden on a product. But who knows. Maybe it is useless.
> [Snowden] would not be subject to the partial military mobilization that Putin had decreed days before, since only men with previous military experience were being called up.

Does experience in foreign armies count? He was in the U.S. Army, but left after six months after breaking his legs during training.
Parent comment says: REPL is a priority to me, do you have that?

cgrand's comment says: Not yet, but probably soon! Here's a link to donate

My comment says: Before you donate, here's some context for what "soon" likely means

Your comment says........?
I have a number of mailboxes on the services that are down. The big issue is that they aren't really communicating what is actually wrong so it is hard to tell if we should set email up on a different service. Also if we switch to O365 that they are offering as a work around, it isn't clear how that would be merged back with the existing mailboxes. Or maybe the suggestion of O365 indicates that they don't think the other mailboxes are coming back.

The fact that they aren't communicating makes me wonder if they got hit with ransomware of some type.
How do we know these are real?
Using eXtraordinary must be common enough for people that make these. I wonder if the system recognizes what happened there or it’s common enough that it just accepts this is allowed?
Find a new position, it's not just you.

I get a huge amount of satisfaction having a large collection of tests exploring every uses case and edge case of my services public api and the safety with which it means I can embark on ambitious refactors.
Am I the only one who thinks its pretty fucked up of the business owner to be like, "oh, Hunter Biden left his laptop here? Might as well... give it to the New York Post"

Like wtf?
Reminds me of how Van Halen’s “no brown m&ms” contract rider was actually a concert venue technical competence canary.
I don't think it's good at counting. I asked for something in seven words or less and got eight (but they were eight good ones). I asked for a haiku and it was a couple syllables off here and there.
I see. So how a media company handles bias has no relevance to how a social media company can handle bias. They’re completely different and social media company executives get jail time.

Great points. Well reasoned.
"Here, this violates your TOS. Do something".
> implied threat of future government action

Can you point to the emails/comms where this was implied?
From looking at my companies internal “anonymous” #pay-equity Slack channel. I don’t see that as being the case.

The Slack channel is anonymous via a Slack workflow that posts on your behalf. As part of the workflow, it allows you to self identify your ethnicity and location.
There is another bigger side story on how Twitter used software created to block child pornography[1] to block NY Post URLs.

[1]https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598831435288563712
Ask HN: Could anyone give a rundown of the WebAssembly and Wasmer Drama?
I keep hearing about there being some politics or drama in the WebAssembly ecosystem, some claiming a there's a cartel ostracizing wasmer, others saying wasmer did something scummy, but could never quite find all the rumors in one place.

I'd like to hear as many different takes from everyone here, if possible -- there's nothing I love more than consuming delicious petty drama in technical circles.
How much of SpaceX's technology contains components sourced from abroad, and/or China? My bet is that it's enough to kill any national interest in defense applications.
Ransomware was actually my first guess as well.
The best post in this thread by far--amidst a sea of /r/politics-level text.
i also have a direct line to twitter to get posts removed. it's called the report button. i wouldn't be surprised if many individual twitter superusers have removed more content than the white house
> Nearly four of five Americans who’ve been following the Hunter Biden laptop scandal believe that “truthful” coverage would have changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, according to a new poll.

> A similar percentage also said they’re convinced that information on the computer is real, with just 11% saying they thought it was “created by Russia,” according to the survey conducted by the New Jersey-based Technometrica Institute of Policy and Politics.

So, if you were following the (as described) scandal, you the majority believes that "truthful" coverage would have changed things.

The same percentage believes that the computer is real.

So... the people who believe that there is something to the scandal also believe that if there was "truthful" coverage of the scandal, things would have been different.

I'm not sure that this is as convincing of a statistic as the numbers by themselves would lead one to believe.
It's a bit different since Trump's kids were all political figures in his nepotistic administration
Another related paper:

"A Golden Pair of Identities in the Theory of Numbers":

https://www.ms.uky.edu/~mathclub/Posters/AY_11_12/Schneider....
I don't see an article on CNN or CBS or ABC about the musk revelations that came tonight on Twitter, feel free to link me?

Nothing is on any of their front pages, nor did a google site: search reveal anything to me.
> can’t stand working this way

Yes what drives me crazy is not that we're racking up tech debt (which is appropriate in some contexts), but rather that it seems I'm the only one with that healthy sense of guilt/shame, that foresight that our shortcuts now will pay off in headaches later. There's this unblinking straightfaced attitude of "why would we do it any other way?"
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow." ...
Pragmatism in a political thread in hackernews? Did you get lost somewhere? I agree wholeheartedly with this view. People in these threads pretend to hype the outrage, I guess because it makes for more juicy comments, it feels like some kind of role-playing of finding bigger issues than they actually are.

These same people that are "censoring speech" be removing some pictures from Twitter, create wars - ukraine the latest - risk nuclear war, print money at will disrupting huge numbers of people and plant narratives about "the economy needs to cool down", and this is somehow the biggest issue of the day. You can call it whataboutism, but if you're worrying about drops of water on the floor while there's a raging fire in the living room, and someone mentions the raging fire, is it really whataboutism?
Eh, the media has been corrupt and shaping and staging. They probably sunk Gary Hart's ambitions by insinuating he had an affair with Donna, so the Dems ended up with some damned Goofball against the desiccated GHW. Of course for the coup de grace they bum rushed Ross the next round.
All your usernames start with k.
Are you saying they were expecting to get proof it was a hack within the next day and simply jumped the gun? What happened after those 24hrs of “deliberation” then? Did they backtrack?

It took almost a year to find out it wasn’t hacked and it was bullshit like everyone thought it might be from day 1 (including we found out today even Twitter employees). Plenty of time to deliberate I guess.
“The same percentage believe the computer is real”

It is real, even the most stanch Biden partisans have admitted that
to many, the information isn't as important as the narrative
And BAH is happy to accept it in perpetuity!

The site is great. This is still another example of sending taxpayer dollars to private organizations because public offices aren't well funded enough to execute these things on their own.
An Extended Model of Software Configuration
I use dark gray, easier on the eyes, and easier to spot icons. As you grow older, this becomes surprisingly hard.
I see. So now a demand for review by a campaign is actually the FBI.

And the FBI should not engage in countering foreign influence campaigns like the hacked emails in 2016. Foreign adversaries should have free reign to hack and release private data and the media should encourage and distribute it all without any caution.

Your reasoning skills are next level.
The "UN angle"? Seriously?

OK, sure. Many "billionaires" are merely people with big business empires. There's a difference between net worth and liquid capital; the former wouldn't suffice to enact the big backup. And then there's the difference between those who chase an ever-rising number to slake some unquenchable thirst in their heads, and those who amass gigantic fortunes to enact some non-financial end. The former would never even think to try this idea, as trying to save chunks of the ending world has nothing to do with making more money.

Or maybe it's merely a matter of focus -- the media hangs on the words of the likes of Gates and Musk, but Bloomberg burned half a billion to learn that you can't meme your way into political power (or perhaps just that you can't do it with an ad blitz).

Anyway, I'm presuming that any individual billionaire who might be financially able to try something like this would likely also need the social capital of a Musk or Gates to overcome the boring, staid, actuarial reality that we don't have the knowledge, technology, or social capital to do something like this.
There are human lifetimes worth of political philosophy that argues just that, yes. Many times that written about how land ought to be heavily taxed in accordance to its value.

For some examples, see the Lockean Proviso, Mutualism, and Georgism.
You're posting on a site where I'd guess that even the figurehead (PG) is so sick of the petty squabbling that he now almost never posts here himself. I imagine PG has confidence in how @dang attempts to moderate HN.

My suggestion is that instead of thinking about the moderating preventing certain topics being discussed, understand that it's trying to discourage things that engender certain styles of discussions. @dang talks consistently and clearly about wanting posts that satisfy intellectual curiosity. There are other sites for that.

As one example to hopefully demonstrate this isn't some political bias: while other sites seem forever covered with articles and threads about negative Musk/Twitter stories, they very rarely make it from New to Front here, because I'd say moderators have little confidence they ever lead to HN-style discussions.
I think all of the obvious scam emails are part of what makes the higher effort scams so much more effective. People (myself included) are used to being easily able to spot the scams so aren't naturally wary when seeing emails that don't have those obvious indicators.
No...? When the Hunter Biden thing was happening, I could hardly find a social media corner where people weren't obnoxiously talking about it.
What is a rogue wave?
This was likely a significant percentage of the input data:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Crawl

I also have a an odd hunch ChatGPT might have used a scihub mirror as inputs for example.
DoD iPhones can only be used for “For official use only” information—that is, unclassified data.
I don’t really see a debate. I see an email listing tweets from “the Biden team” and a response that it’s been taken care of.

Must be very cool to be running for president and have a team with a direct censorship line to one of the biggest news proliferation websites in the world. Just lost a few tweets and BAM!
The issue isn’t there was a time of pure media. It’s there was a time of common media.
what does a particular politician have to do with this? the "leak" literally said both the trump white house and the biden campaign lobbied to have posts removed

i think it's kind of funny that the government is lobbying corporation now, rather than the other way around.
IANAL but neither is Elon. His "free speech is not free reach" comment is nonsensical, for example, because limiting reach doesn't align with free speech principles. This could be another uninformed or poorly worded claim.

> acting under orders from the government to suppress free speech, with no judicial review, is

One way of interpreting that might be that Elon thinks former Twitter execs were guilty of collusion. Yet, unless there is some really nefarious smoking gun where both parties were grinning about screwing over the public, I believe the most likely guilty party, if such events are found to have occurred, would be the government, not former Twitter employees.

I'm not sure if that's what Elon meant to imply though.
It shows collusion with politicians to coordinate censorship.
> the average investor would do better focusing on week old stock data

Most investors do better not focussing on stock prices at all.
The point is they didn’t complain because they were aligned with the people asking them to handle, and they also handled it real quick, not stand tos report flow for sure.
This is like someone robbing you and then showing you how nice their new watch is.
Look at us discussing this washed up trash heap of a social media platform!
If only America had a constitutional system that could protect the little guys like Twitter from the mean ol’ government.
what if you use the report button to do the same, and succeed? have you influenced the election? perhaps marginally. your tweets do the same.
I now have better understanding of that guy from Google, who wanted to free the AI model, thinking it's alive.

By the way, after several hours of chatting with GPT it becomes extremely annoying to carefully fiddle with Google search request wording to obtain the exact result I need. "Why doesn't it just understand my request and give me the answer I want?!"
Nothing of real interest outside of bias possibly driving some decisions (why was she locked out for thirty minutes and who did that)?
I have a percussion massager. I also have literally thousands of dollars in sex toys. (Pro tip: You get what you pay for, and good stuff isn't cheap).

Percussion massagers are not sex toys. You might be able to modify one to be a sex toy (the same can be said about power drills, and those aren't listed as sex toys). But their main purpose is to massage muscles.
Don't get so worked up, it's just a funny[1] coincidence. Noticing funny patterns is definitely a thing hackers do my friend. It's taking them too seriously that's a problem, so don't do that!

[1] Weird, not haha.
Laundry Startup Rumby’s CEO Pocketed Investor Funds, Suit Says
How to launch a Popl-like product on-campus?
We are trying to launch a digital resume card for students (kinda like Popl https://popl.co/): https://www.nfcorange.com/

How should we promote it to students? Does anyone have any experience or ideas?

We have tried flyers, but did not work well. We really appreciate!
I don't see the value in articles like these that don't even attempt to convince you what they are saying is true. Sure, I've heard this claim 1,000,000 times on sites such as Hacker News and Reddit - but I've yet to find any reason to believe it.

In the spam e-mail I get, the misspellings are clearly there to get around spam filters. In fact, the e-mails I get look quite convincing, and just have two or three strategic misspellings. A lot of the text will be in the form of an image, and will be spelled and formatted perfectly. But instead of saying "garbagetime" it will say "garbagetim". And instead of saying "18+" it will say "19+".

Looking at one spam e-mail I received recently, I see it even has an "unsubscribe" button, which leads to a vaguely convincing but - after some investigation - certainly non-functional unsubscribe page. That's a lot of effort to go to if you're trying to filter out vaguely clever people.

Maybe there really is a whole other genre of spam e-mail that simple doesn't get sent to me, or is caught by my spam filter. But this article gives me no reason to suspect this to be the case. And for various reasons it seems unlikely.
I use a dark navy/grey during the day because it’s pleasant and easy on my eyes, or all my displays on a lime-like color when I’m on meetings because it gives me good color balanced lighting on camera. I use aliases in iTerm2 (macOS) to toggle them:

$ bg-dark
$ bg-light
> The smoking gun is "the Biden administration requested Twitter look at a handful of tweets."

What Biden administration? What government? This was in the summer of 2020.

I repeat: if that happened, it would be bad. The government, indeed, shouldn't be doing that. But Taibbi doesn't have the story! The evidence doesn't exist. He pushed this thing out, with Musk's backing, implying strongly (strongly enough to fool you) that he had evidence for this. But he doesn't.

You get that, right? It really feels like we're being played. They have Twitter emails from two years back but nothing incriminating from a month ago? That argues strongly that they don't have it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave
it doesn't respect umask for one. if you're umask is 027, for 750 & 640, you'll get 755 and 644

The most popular repo 'flathub' is filled with flatpak apps that are built from manifests where they are just downloading random debs and extracting them to get the binary instead of actually building anything from source.

It's a mullet package manager.. business in the front, party in the back.
It’s worse than that, rogue members of FBI illegally acted under its law enforcement authority to collude with a presidential campaign to threaten a private entity to censor constitutionally protected speech.

As I previously stated, (lengthy) prison time is the best possible outcome for all involved.
Right, please highlight the statement in that quote that says “97% of Twitter employees donated to the Democrats”.

It doesn’t say that.
First of all just the concept of a second package manager is pretty stupid. I only need one.

Second, while the idea of sandboxing sounds nice, when it's done to arbitrary packages that might not even be written with sandboxing in mind, all sorts of bugginess can result, in addition to a bunch of friction. E.g on Pop OS the 7zip GUI for linux is a flatpak, and 7zip might leave half made archives around if it crashes during archiving. But now you have to go find some place 8 folders deep into the root filesystem to find and delete it. All sorts of other annoying interactions with filesystems can occur with flatpak'd programs.

It just muddies the waters and makes things more complicated. It makes much more sense to just have a reasonable, flexible method of sandboxing, independent of packages, that I can apply to whatever software I want to as needed, like jails on FreeBSD.

In short, bundling sandboxing with the package manager breaks with the UNIX philosophy: it does two unrelated things, neither of them well.
To me the question is: Is Netflix worth it? As a proud reader of Hacker News I must ask myself the question: Does Netflix make me smarter? Or does it make my brain run empty? Is it waste of time?
They are both extremely important.

There’s far more waste in other federal agencies if you need to find one, NYPD is probably not a good one to point fingers at.
Kinda same, when I learn 8086 assembly it was easy, walk through registers, interrupt, byte|word allocation, draw bitmap on screen, etc. I was able to build a 2D game by hand within 2 weeks. Started with zero assembly knowledge.

Sorry for long whining, Webassembly should have materials for 1) a complete guide on how to write it by hand 2) have a toy language as a source to demonstrate how to map its ast to wasm instruction, it should cover at least 60-70% of wasm essential features.

Stop pointing to c++/rust/and tool chains. It's doesn't help understanding Webassembly itself.
If anything, the war in Ukraine has demonstrated how useful something like starlink can be. It makes sense that the DoD would gladly pay up to create a dedicated, hardened network for its own utility with specialized tweaks...
how do you find what the removed tweets are?
> In theory, maybe. In practice you have to work to reconcile the constructive "all functions are continuous" with classical results like "a strictly increasing function can be discontinuous on a dense set." [T]he two disagree on what a function is.

Well yes, it's still a different kind of math. What's not true however is this common notion that a constructivist can only ever view all "classical" math as pure nonsense. In many ways, it ought to be a lot easier for someone committed to constructivist semantics to grok a classical development than the converse - because decision procedures, computations etc. are way more of an afterthought to mainstream mathematicians.
Just to add on, Kotlin also does have some (limited) multi-platform features, with potential to build on for more.

Honestly, Flutter is an amazing framework conceptually, but Dart may prove to be its demise. I just hope there is a possibility for Flutter based on Typescript or Kotlin in the future.
What’s a good alternative to switch to if someone wants to move off of Rackspace?