skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ahh yes, the "I really want the fourth of july, but I can only book X months in advance. So I'll book a week early, and book the 27th of June through the 4th of july weekend. Then i'll wait months, and then pay the $7 fee to change my reservation, and drop the first week from my reservation."

Seems like a reasonable solution to that would be allowing booking X days in advance where "days in advance" is measured by the last day of your reservation instead of your first. This would also advantage people who are okay with staying a shorter time, meaning that more people get to enjoy the park in total.

Obviously none of this solves the problem of there not being enough opportunities for everyone, but this would make things more equitable as a stopgap measure.
> So in America you cannot say negative things about political leaders online?!?!

I looked at the tweets mentioned by Taibbi in the Wayback Machine, and they didn't actually appear to be unflattering speech or even speech at all but rather photos. The first tweet, for example, was some explicit photos (which I assume would violate Twitter's rules whether or not they were of Hunter Biden).
I am really confused by which twitter related stories are allowed on the front page of hacker news, can dang or someone else explain the rules?
You'll pry xsetroot -solid "#333333" from my cold dead hands. Seriously, like the author, I too find wallpapers pointless. I also use a TWM (i3 to be specific) and hardly see the desktop, so that makes wallpapers worth even less. i3bar has a black background, and that's the reason why I use #333333 instead of black. On my phone, I just use a 1920x1080 black .png file that has a file size of 425 bytes.
> you need a fair amount of storage to balance out the staff time you’d need to run that service on bare servers.

Do you have any proof of your statement? Eg. same type of org, one using Hetzner the other using one of the big three? Are the sizes of the DevOps team that different? And don’t forget to calculate the overhead on the big three from having to architect for the cost of egress.

I know there is the sales fairy of being able to scale out quickly, does that really matter in both cases? And if really required, can’t it be done for the couple of hours/days on one of the big three? Not to forget that scale-out isn’t available in some regions, as we’ve seen discussed here recently.
Currently Lake Mead is at record lows,

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lake-mead-water-level-historic-...

https://mead.uslakes.info/level.asp

The Hoover Dam is at half production,

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/16/us/hoover-dam-hydropower-drou...

The system is failing.
Teaching GPT-3 how to debug its code
The way phone image processing pipelines work these days, this doesn't seem too far from the truth. Images from phones are essentially AI renderings which use pixel data as a prompt, and have less and less relation to the actual pixel data with each new device.
Basically revenge porn. Distributed by known bot accounts.

Completely reasonable to have them removed.
Why does Verge try so hard to show that Elon did something bad? A congressman has to change his email address? Seriously?

And these are journalists making these titles? A quick Google search reveals that his Gmail address is everywhere. In fact, he tweeted his personal Gmail address a while ago: https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/802758241570541568?s=20&...
> My guess is that the data feed used to have two related shares that became one through a split or other corporate action? And just nobody has bothered to apply a manual correction to remove the dupe.

The merge case seems unlikely, as no price would be published for the previous symbol. The multiple share class case seems also unlikely, as that is very seldomly used in Japan.

Most likely the FT tried to create an index of the top 500 worldwide market caps, and got a primary listing of NTT on TSE duped with an ADR or dual listing in EU/US.
I believe all three are pornographic in nature. So while it’s still notable that the Biden team reached out manually to report them it does seem all the tweets were in violation of Twitter policy and fair game for removal.
It explained to me what PIP is lol:

>>>>>>

As the HR manager, my plan to address the issue of slacking employees would involve the following steps:

Identify the specific employees who have been slacking off and gather evidence of their poor performance.

Schedule a meeting with each employee to discuss their performance and provide them with specific examples of their poor performance and the negative impact it has had on the company.

During the meeting, explain to the employee that their performance is not meeting the expectations of their role and that they have been placed on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP).

Outline the specific actions the employee needs to take in order to improve their performance and provide them with a timeline for achieving these goals.

Offer the employee support and resources to help them improve their performance, such as additional training or access to a mentor.

Monitor the employee's progress and provide regular feedback on their performance.

If, after a reasonable amount of time, the employee is still not meeting the expectations of their role, consider other options such as reassignment or termination.

Overall, my plan would be focused on providing employees with the support and resources they need to improve their performance, while also holding them accountable for meeting the expectations of their role.
>Blatant, let me repeat in caps, BLATANT partisan censoring was happening at Twitter going so far as election interfering which is illegal in the US.

That's not illegal election interference in the slightest.
> But compared to ipv4 (where you can almost immediately trace from an IP you have in a log to device...

Honestly, given that the vast majority of the sites that use v6 "privacy addresses" are going to be end-users at their home, and that most of those folks are going to be either using web browsers, and/or already logged into the servers that are servicing their requests, there are so very, _very_ many powerful ways that folks can be tracked that have absolutely nothing to do with their IP address.

"Privacy addresses" are just a nuisance.

> Some devices actually rotate more often (ie, when connecting to different wifi points even if underlying network is the same, apple seems to generate another new IP).

I'm not sure _exactly_ the setup you're talking about. If "connecting to different wifi points" means "disconnecting from one SSID and connecting to another SSID but still being on the same physical network", then I think that this is OSX randomizing your MAC address and/or OSX generating a new DUID when connecting to a different SSID.
One challenge with this approach can be seen by considering a scihub takedown followed immediately by a correction to a new TLD. The new(and suddenly correct) address would be changed to an incorrect old address.
It posted as I saved. I edited my comment to reflect that, though my point still holds. Calling it "a flop" is consistent with their recent bias (or pandering?) and ignores the substance of the matter almost entirely.

Perhaps with some investigatory reporting The Verge could have broken this story themselves a year ago -- "the right way."
Good now ban it from the united states of america.
This is a very important point. While the US is ready to preach its values and tries to implement its values across the world, at home these parties colludes with companies to suppress what it does not like. However, in other countries, US tells them to NOT suppress.
The same S&P that had no trouble rating billions of worth of worthless CDOs as AAA quality, has suddenly become much more cautious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_%26_poors#Role_in_the...
This is one of the best analysis for this:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...

It is a filter strategy!
Yes exactly! They asked all the right questions then realized they didn’t have justification and it was a mistaken, apologize and I hope learned from the incident. And will react faster in the future. But this is the point. They made a mistake, fine but no one said “hey, I hate Trump, maybe we should keep this down”

Never make moderation mistakes can’t be the standard.
The NYPOST was banned for 16 days over this story. It was suppressed for 16 days, not one day.
Asking it about chess stuff(e.g generate a game analysis) generates a plausible looking analysis with moves and all, but the text doesn't match the moves at all, making elementary mistakes like calling the Scotch game a Ruy Lopez, and saying the move 1.e4 is a gambit.
It's worth noting that Google is also working on JAX these days and that's picking up steam, and one reason is because its API is super clean.
I get phone calls sometimes that are almost certainly legitimate, such as from my insurance company, and if they ask me to give them any information (like my address for "security purposes") I always refuse and tell them I can call back. The same is true with email. You should never be giving any information away, even if it appears to be a completely legit communication from your bank or whatever.

The exception (and a potential attack vector) is when a phone call or other live interaction ends in an email being sent as part of the process. There you have to weigh the risk I suppose; obviously i have replied to such emails. But i would never reply to a bulk email even if it came form my banks domain.
https://twitter.com/alx/status/1598473176102600704
Totally. With a toll road, the toller at least owns the road.

A better analogy would be something like parking enforcement. Run by TicketMaster.
One thing that is easily forgotten in context of at least this Hunter Biden story is that in 2020, a large cohort of Americans including presumably most Twitter employees not only really didn't want Trump to get re-elected, but were very fearful of what might happen if he did. Not saying that justifies anything, but whether we like it or not humans are very prone to impulsive decision making based on emotions.
Elon Musk’s promised Twitter exposé on the Hunter Biden story is a flop
That's great, and some people are better at writing useful comments than others. Not to detract from what you're saying, but

> But if the comments are helpful to me, they’d also be helpful to someone else who didn’t write that code.

this does not necessarily follow unless you've been extremely thoughtful in how you wrote those comments (which you may very well have been). That is, in fact, the issue most of the time — that comments are written in such a way that they serve to jog the memory of the person who wrote them, but are rarely of general use to anyone else.
>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 that's the metric when why isn't Fox News and all the right wing media, and online Republican commenters not in-kind donations?
It is.

I have two connections - one "standard rural WISP" sort of thing, 25/3 on paper, what it delivers varies wildly. And then Starlink. My network is set up so I can easily switch systems between the two.

Starlink is far worse about "Random sites decide that I'm evil." Even things like Lowes have, at times, utterly refused to work, throwing nonsensical server error messages of the "Go away and quit scraping our content!" variety that go away when I use the same system, on the same page, just literally routed out the other ISP.

The benefits of CGNAT are that you're hiding in a lot of other traffic, but the downsides are exactly the same. And Starlink is far worse than cell data in terms of it.
Nobody else is allowed to create a massage gun?
You should be explaining this to the poster I responded to, not me. But, generally, no. I don't think it's a big deal that anyone emails twitter and then twitter's moderation team looks at a post to see if it violates the rules.
The Executive executes the law: they don't make it nor do they stand in judgement of it (there are separate branches for those tasks).
I also do a solid colour with low saturation for clearer window borders. It is also good if you send a lot of screenshots to colleagues and don't want any extra visual noise in them if you hastily capture too wide.
He’s writing an article.

“ Dear TK Readers:

Very shortly, I’m going to begin posting a long thread of information on Twitter, at my account, @mtaibbi. This material is likely to get a lot of attention. I will absolutely understand if subscribers are angry that it is not appearing here on Substack first. I’d be angry, too.

The last 96 hours have been among the most chaotic of my life, involving multiple trips back and forth across the country, with a debate in Canada in between. There’s a long story I hope to be able to tell soon, but can’t, not quite yet anyway. What I can say is that in exchange for the opportunity to cover a unique and explosive story, I had to agree to certain conditions.

Those of you who’ve been here for years know how seriously I take my obligation to this site’s subscribers. On this one occasion, I’m going to have to simply ask you to trust me. As it happens, there may be a few more big surprises coming, and those will be here on Substack. And there will be room here to to discuss this, too, in time. In any case, thanks for your support and your patience, and please hold me to a promise to make all this up to you, and then some.”
Muahahahaha~

I think you could solve it by giving apps an option to not open automatically when you start Puter. That way you could start the Puter app, and it'd open a nested instance of Puter, but that instance wouldn't start infinite recursion by automatically opening the Puter app inside.
I think there is a big difference between the sitting POTUS who was known to ask for and receive Russia's help getting elected being shown to have kompromat on him vs the unelected son of a presidential candidate's hacked iCloud nudes being posted

Especially given that in the "pee tapes" trump is clothed while the women are nude and unknown individuals
> Since this is true, then where else are political parties trying to get unflattering speech suppressed that we don't even know of yet?

Absolutely everywhere.
https://gitea.c3d2.de/zentralwerk/network
Use privnote it takes 4 seconds.
I see two ways of interpreting "companies break the law constantly".

One, that there is always a company out there somewhere acting criminally. If that's the intended meaning, it is a factual statement, but doesn't not carry the original implication that companies do not try to avoid breaking the law. For instance, the fact that there is always a human out their somewhere committing crime doesn't not mean most humans do not actively avoid such.

Two, that any given company breaks the law often. This carries the implication that companies do not worry about breaking the law, but is also factually incorrect.
I suppose it depends on what you mean by "profit". If money made by the National Park Service goes back into park improvements, land purchases, better facilities, etc, that seems great. If the money goes back into the government's coffers and is used to pay for patriot missiles, that seems bad. The NPS, as a government organ, shouldn't be run on a profit basis for the sake of other government functions - I think that's the reasonable version of the not-for-profit view.
DNC is a private organization.
> every sphere of culture.

Please clarify because absolutelutes are too easily disproven.
the repeated notifixation message from snapd that i need to close the app is really bad IMO...and e.g.closing firefox does not make the message go away(??), its very confusing
In economics middlemen help stabilize the supply demand curve.

Otherwise all websites would be an abandoned MySpace page.
It’s not that he’s paying for 25 that’s weird, it’s that this is the volume you would expect of a 5-10 person team.

He’s not using all of that nearly to its capacity. Hire some people my guy.
I suspect some of these slimy outcomes (parties and offices having special access to request review) are pretty hard to avoid in practice. Like, if you know for a fact that there will be illegal actors targeting both campaigns, do you not listen to direct requests from the targets? And if you offer it to one side, would you offer it to all? I bet there are more principled ways to do it but I also think this is what it would like if a reasonably well intentioned but also selfish / risk averse staff tried to react in realtime to a really new situation.
It's completely impossible for an outsider to know that - you have no idea what constraints are placed on the gifts that make up the endowment - it's not one big fund you can draw down on as needed; it's like 14,000 different funds each of which may be allocated to a specific purpose (like a particular professorial chair or to a library or whatever).
in the terminal, doing the following freezes the page:

touch abc
cat abc
Sure, same as the total cost of a movie is how long it takes to type the name into a torrent search and click the magnet link. If the OP wanted a bunch of dead temp emails, why ask other people to input them. But, not my point.

I think on HN a good assumption is posters want to discuss, to get feedback. Also not a bad assumption the notion of temp email will be news to absolutely no one at all here.
Internet communication is considered speech. But, the speech on Twitter's website belongs to Twitter. They get to decide what is on their website. They can, as far as the First Amendment goes, more or less ban or censor anything they want for any reason, because they are a private actor.

If Twitter decided to remove Hunter Biden content completely on their own, that would be legal. If Twitter decided to remove that content because someone asked nicely- regardless of who that person is, whether they are President or not- that would be legal. It's only a legal issue if the government forces Twitter to remove the content, which is not something Twitter has asserted.
I don't know if I'd call it a flop, I didn't even hear about it until right before it came out, was this discussed or hinted about at all before today? The people who like Hunter Biden stories loved it.

Elon should think a little harder before getting involved in this stuff. I doubt whether most potential electric car buyers would buy from the MyPillow guy when there is growing competition.
Works okay in English too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaTR46iU1Do
OBD, yes, of course. I spent a lot of time with ODBC years ago, and I can’t seem to keep the letters straight in my head.
Pressure would be a First Amendment violation. Twitter has not asserted they were pressured. If they feel they were, they should say so, and sue.
> If you truly believe that there's no clear evidence, then I don't know what to tell you. Taibbi shows emails where Twitter and the US government collude to censor true information that people wanted to read. That is a big deal.

in this case the government was run by donald trump, and the censorship was to remove stolen revenge porn
My bro had his car stolen with this feature.

The cops waited at the Walmart until the thief got out and had my bro on the phone lock him out remotely.

Car stolen at 6:00, back by noon.
> This is clearly the much more pernicious issue that 1. social media companies are massively influencing the dissemination of information on an ad hoc basis informed by personal political whims

Of course mainstream TV and print "news" has been doing this for decades, but for some strange reason people assume they're somehow "better".

I personally think it's great all this is coming out, because it shows how dangerous and manipulative large media (in all forms) really is.
I have the Siri setting enabled where it shows on screen what it thinks I’m saying.

Siri understands my voice just fine. It just doesn’t know how to interpret the request.

Now to be fair I was in my car on the highway and not looking at my phone so I don’t know exactly what it heard in this specific example. I’d made several attempts to word my request to send an address from my contacts to my wife’s phone. I worded it several different ways, and each time Siri didn’t seem to know what to do. This was the final attempt and as I said, perhaps I don’t have the exact exchange correct here.

I attempt to use Siri frequently and even when it hears what I’m saying often doesn’t understand the request. Here’s another example:

Hey Siri text Jessica, <pause> “Candles question mark”

Siri: there’s no one named “Jessica Candles” in your contacts.

I’ve learned I have to do this instead:

“Hey Siri, send a text”. Then wait for Siri to prompt: “Who would you like to text?” Answer with “Jessica”. Then wait for Siri to prompt: “what would you like to say?” Then answer “candles question mark”. All to get it to text my daughter the message “candles?”

Another time I tried to get Siri to tell me when my daughter’s train was due in at the Amtrak station. This was not a request without context. The trip was both in my email and on my calendar, and my phone was already navigating me to the Amtrak station but I wanted an update on the train’s progress. Siri either attempted to give me directions to my daughter’s address 200 miles away or to give me directions to the Amtrak station, and not even the station nearest to me, which the phone was already navigating me to. Is it really so unusual that someone headed to a train station or airport might want an updated ETA for the flight or train they were headed to pickup someone from? Why can’t Siri understand that request?

I could go on with dozens of example of things it gets wrong. How about this: “Siri, close the garage door.” Siri replies: “which garage door?” Even though only one door is open. It also doesn’t know what to do with “close both garage doors.” Sometimes saying “close all garage doors” works, but sometimes not.

Or how about when I ask Siri on my AppleTV to search for a movie and it starts playing a song instead? I have to very carefully tell it “search for the movie named …” and even then it sometimes gets it wrong.

But hey, at least setting timers works. Really well!

I do appreciate your attempt to help. Siri hears me fine. It just sucks at understanding what I want, whether I speak to it like an adult or coddle it like the stupid voice assistant that it is.
Most concerning thing here is people like Taibbi and Greenwald turning into boomer cranks. I had higher hopes for the xers.
The 1st amendment has long been interpreted to apply to the entire federal government.

> The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the right to freedom of religion and freedom of expression from government interference. It prohibits any laws that establish a national religion, impede the free exercise of religion, abridge the freedom of speech, infringe upon the freedom of the press, interfere with the right to peaceably assemble, or prohibit citizens from petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. It was adopted into the Bill of Rights in 1791. The Supreme Court interprets the extent of the protection afforded to these rights. The First Amendment has been interpreted by the Court as applying to the entire federal government even though it is only expressly applicable to Congress. Furthermore, the Court has interpreted the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as protecting the rights in the First Amendment from interference by state governments.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/first_amendment
There’s an in between very much possible and necessary here. But yea in your case it sounds like startup noobs.
People who lose their jobs certainly do
For this specific example with the laptop, Twitter censored the the White House press secretary by suspending her account.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598831758207696896
But is marketing and analytics even allowed to use PII if the user didn’t give explicit consent for such usage? Would be cool if such a system could have checks for these things