skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also got it to generate some flat out incoherent chess analysis, though I didn't bother copying it since I did it on my phone.

No luck getting it to play me though.
I'm applying logic based on my actual experiences with corruption, you're obviously taking some other approach to come up with an opinion.
Northrop Grumman unveils B-21 bomber
Matt Taibbi was Rolling Stone's (your citation) most influential and rigorous journalist, he documented Wall Street and financial crimes, Goldman Sachs in particular. When holes appeared in Rolling Stone's other stories over the years, his held up.

If a source reaching out to and sharing documents and hearsay with a reporter is grounds for dismissing a story - because of imagined personal/ideological/PR alignment - then you would be dismissing 95% of the "Democracy Dies In Darkness" reporting by the Washington Post and New York Times.
And ML compilers in the form of IREE/MLIR, which if successful in delivering hw and framework optionality, should make ML frameworks a far less consequential decision.
One of the results of the restrictive reporting on that subject, and the self-censorship by journalists on the topic at the time the story broke, is that people think it was only about "stolen revenge porn".
I would, yes. In fact, the Trump White House did just that, it’s right there in the thread. Without knowing what the tweets they had removed were, I don’t see evidence of wrongdoing. There are legitimate reasons to have tweets taken down: malicious impersonation, revenge porn (which apparently some of these were), death threats, etc.
"What if Twitter agreed with the motivation for the pressure?" Then it's not pressure. It's Twitter doing something they want to do. Just because the government and Twitter agree on something doesn't mean the government "forced them" to do it, which is what the 1A and prior restraint law care about.

"What happens when the party in power changes?" Twitter, like every other company, gets to decide whether or not they want to support or oppose the party in power, and if Twitter feels the government is violating their 1A rights, Twitter can sue them
I built something similar based of Windows XP

https://simulator.money
In europe management is considered more important. Its all bullshit indeed.

If they design cameras from the users perspective and expectations there is still a lot of room to take on phones.

I just want to shoot, possibly edit, publish the images on my server and have some api to make the appropriate database entries.

In stead I have to hook up the cam over usb then pretend it is a slow drive??? Oh and the battery is draining while doing this??? Some models have replaceable batteries that you have to remove to charge???? As a hard drive it scores 0/10

I have to start up an editor, find the right image, load it and find a folder to store the edit???? what nonsens workflow!

Iphones let you shoot the images straight into the upload dialogue.. but its not using the wonderful hacks the photo app offers.

Maybe camera makers should just make a frankenphone the size of a brick with a few TB of storage, automatic wifi connectivity (with more options so that one never has to look at it), a week worth of battery. The extra weight helps making sharper images and probably a cloud account with a list of highly configurable API's

Ill be as weird as to suggest website names could have physical buttons on the top so that one can shoot things straight onto facebook and press delete later.
computer scientists: build yours... and discover that open source software has got a ton of corpo software traits...
I've known some people who did contract work for the DoD like how you describe. They reported to DoD employees and were otherwise indistinguishable from actual DoD employes. However, there was some company that did their W2s, and took a cut almost as large as their salaries.
I agree with both of your points. This reminds me while visiting the holocaust museum. The guide explained similar conspiracy popular believe that Jews have a great secret plan to poison European society. I assumed this kind of thinking is commons in Xenophobic situations either subconsciously or un subconsciously.
That's a high horse you've gotten on. "Proper definitions" are subjective. Marx's definitions of proletariat and bourgeoisie --- colloquially, working-class and owning-class --- survive today more or less unchanged. In French bourgeoisie means something else. In Rome, thousands of years ago, proletarius meant something else. Definitions are social objects that change with society.

The folks that deploy this terminology today largely work in exploitative jobs at corporations owned by people with more money than they can dream of. They are forced to suffer because someone else owns the infrastructure. The same phenomenon happens with nonfree (gratis, but not libre) software full of adverts and dark patterns. YouTube, for instance, is what it is because Google has fuck-you amounts of storage to house everyone's videos and makes enough money to offset the cost of that storage. It's not hard to imagine a free (libre) alternative. That's all I'm saying.
> Have you even traveled much across this huge and deeply diverse country?

Is this post a travel ad?

Do we pretend cities are overwhelmingly clean just because places like Dallas also exist? Are people supposed to first take selfies in NY and Philly, in Chicago, SF, LA, and Phoenix, to be permitted to say they're dirty?

Maybe on average it's not so bad, but "this place is diverse therefore the opposite is true" is worse than anecdata.

> Goddam how simplistic some of the U.S bashing on this site can be,

Nobody is bashing the states. And nobody said American individualism is all bad.

> Or do you just stereotype and generalize by pulling assumptions out of thin air?

Is individualism -> not my problem really a bad explanation? Even when people to try to explain why their hometown in the US is clean it usually starts with "no walled enclaves here/people don't live in little castles".

I think you might taking issue with the assumption that American cities are dirty in the first place, not my attempt at explaining it? It's hard to tell since most of your post is you being upset with me, making accusations, very little substance.
>California legislators passed a revenge porn law making it a crime for anyone to post online photos or videos of someone's intimate body parts without consent. The revenge porn law is defined under California Penal Code 647(J)(4) and often considered a type of nonconsensual pornography.

https://www.cronisraelsandstark.com/revenge-porn-california-...

Twitter HQ is in California.

>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?

I can understand the repair shop owning the hardware and being able to wipe the data and resell it. But do those terms also give the repair shop the right to login to bank accounts via saved passwords and transfer money? Or use the SSNs to apply for loans? Where is the line drawn?

If your company HR's data including your SSN and bank account numbers were on a laptop they abandoned at a repair shop, does the repair shop get to post them on their website?
Oh, it's even better than that. Taibbi shows you emails of some DNC person reporting tweets, but neglects to show you the actual tweets in question: Chinese Spam Bots and revenge porn.

Truly the smoking gun. The irony is the misdirection worked, people in this thread are frothing at their mouths unable to tell who even was in government in 2020.
They say they can do that (judicial review is kind of not in the constitution) but what California and New York are doing post New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen puts a bit of a question on that. Making much of New York City a "gun free zone" is not what "the right to keep and bear arms" sounds like to me.
If every nation had it, it would not be a binary. It would be a gradient characteristic, like temperature.

And given that nations are made of people and people are corruptible, that actually sounds about right.
generally this is used to protect the identity of sources
When moderation policies (or laws) are subjectively and arbitrarily enforced based on the identity of the party being persecuted, it ceases to be a policy and is simply another tool used to bludgeon those who are disfavored. It was a big story in September of 2020 when the NYT published Trump's hacked/leaked tax returns - a story that did not receive the Hunter Biden treatment, but was amplified all across Twitter. How can anyone who is even reasonably impartial and reasonably intelligent argue that Twitter was merely neutrally enforcing moderation policies in the Hunter Biden situation when it took the polar opposite stance when it came to Trump?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-tru...

Indeed, numerous articles written explicitly from hacked sources (unlike the Biden laptop, which was only [faslely] rumored to be "hacked") were published and advertised on Twitter. These articles were never suppressed. How can it be argued Twitter was merely neutrally enforcing their policy when the only articles suppressed were clearly done to benefit their preferred political partisans?

https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1598855600083177472

Personally I am (and have never been) neither a Republican or a Trump supporter, but what I (and many other like me) am is someone who supports free speech, open discourse and rational thinking. This is only part 1 of the "Twitter files", with many more revelations to come, and it is already incredibly damning. It is stunning to me that so many otherwise intelligent people do not see the problem with big tech colluding with government officials and intelligence agencies to brazenly attempt to distort and censor public discourse - especially right before an election. The ability of people to willfully delude themselves is astounding.
In that sense for people who value their time, HN is not free.

I would rather use the term opportunity cost.
A few days ago, I got to thinking about this. On a theoretical level every integer is interesting due to that, but on a practical level there's not much point calling a number "interesting" if the only property giving it that quality is being the first uninteresting number larger than n-1.

One way of checking what makes a number interesting is seeing what sequences it is in in the OEIS[1]. Interesting properties (squares, primes, palindromes, friendly numbers, etc) all have the first hundred or so numbers with those properties in a list. So I downloaded the dataset of all sequences from OEIS, and iterated through all integers to find the first one that is not in any sequence in the OEIS.

So, I present the smallest uninteresting number: 20,067. Every number before it is in at least one of the sequences - for example, 20,066 is 'a partial sum for a coordination sequence for the "pcu-i" 3D uniform tiling'. It is the first number that has no interesting properties other than trivial ones (like being a multiple of 3). It is the first uninteresting number, but one could say that makes it meta-interesting rather than being interesting in and of itself.

[1] https://oeis.org/

Edit: and after doing all that work I saw that someone else has already done so and put it in the wikipedia article. Oh well, at least I learned about set processing in Python.
Are govt bureaucrats LARPing about posting left wing conspiracy about emerald mines on twitter? I doubt they pay any attention
Thanks, I just downloaded it and tried it out with the two previously mentioned routes and it gave reasonable results for both of them. It's also nice that it gives you alternative route options in case you don't like what they chose for you.

I also went ahead and downloaded organic maps just to see how it does in comparison. It also did well on the previously mentioned routes but doesn't give you alternative route options which makes me nervous about it giving a questionable route in other cases. It also takes several seconds to find the route (OsmAnd also took a while iirc) while Magic Earth was nearly instant to give directions. I do like the UI a bit better than Magic Earth (I can't find a way on magic earth to just give me a top down map view that keeps north at the top of the screen which is driving me crazy) but will probably use Magic Earth since it's seems really great in every other way.
Best website ever.
Krugman has gotten so many things wrong that it makes him valuable. He's best used as a contrary indicator. It's the same with that goofball Jim Cramer.
When Snowden first accepted asylum in Russia the government did not recognize dual citizenship. The law was changed. It took time to apply for citizenship. Although his immigration case is special to say the least and Russian laws can be changed by one man’s whims.
Very poorly considering that it seems like all the people doing wasm FFI work have decided that UTF-16/WTF-16 based language maintainers can pound sand and unless your native string type is UTF-8 your string performance is gonna suck.

It's sad since many widely used runtimes (JS, Java, .NET) and one widely used operating system (Windows) all use WTF-16. UTF-8 is great and all but reality needs to be taken into account when drafting specs...
In what sense is my "characterization" ridiculous? Should we not take Taiibis tweets at face value? That's exactly what he says.
Here's a well-reasoned argument linked from that thread for keeping extremist URL in articles about extremist websites. Strange what can change in just a couple of years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(poli...
At what point can we call this a Cold War?
was going to say this :)
It's a ridiculous comparison. Tim Cook literally censors for the communist party on a daily basis he is practically working for them. Not at all a fair comparison
Alpha Centauri is 4.344 light years away and about 0.00930093 AU in diameter, and if my math is right should subtend 3.12x10^-25 arc seconds.

The Oculus Quest 2 has a horizontal FOV of 97 degrees. In order for α Centauri to cover two pixels, you would need a display with 6.2179487x10^26 horizontal pixels. 621 yottapixels. Something like a hundred sextillion times "4K" resolution. And that's linear resolution, tag on some more orders of magnitude for display area.

There is a reason parallax is used to measure distance to stars, rather than directly measuring their visual diameter.
https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1598090996281413638#m

He thanked Cook for "taking him around" the campus, that sounds like in person to me.

Seems to me the reason there's no picture is that the visit wasn't for us, it was for them.
It doesn't look good that a lot of credible media outlets had to walk back their stances on the Hnuter Biden laptop and lab-origin covid. Both proved to be plausible enough that they never should have been censored or suppressed.
“If current trends continue, we are on target for meeting the requirements for another mass extinction.”
That's a great idea, thank you! I'll implement it :)
High Temperature/Very High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor
Your second rant was what I was talking about, minus the partisanship.
The most interesting thing to me, reading the story, and the materials provided, is that you do not see a nefarious, explicitly partisan, ruthless campaign to censor information with the specific and stated goal of influencing an election. This is what we are constantly told MUST be happening behind the scenes.

Instead, what you see is a lot of people, acting in good faith, trying to make decisions and appease a lot divergent concerns in the middle of a developing story. With a lot of internal disagreement and debate.

I know Tailbi has said there are "bigger revelations to come", but so far, this is utterly banal internal policy coordination and decision making.
>> because they actually are from (e.g.)Nigeria and really do have poor English.

This isn't true. English is Nigeria's official language (all Education is in English) and people generally speak English well. Secondly, folks from Nigeria actually use the gist of the article as a flag for filtering out scam i.e. once they open an email with bad grammar, they automatically assume it's scam and ignore it.
"Musk agreed to let Vance write his biography under the condition that Musk would proofread his script before it is submitted."

That Wikipedia link cites much more about Griffin & Musk than Vance ever did.
I'm going to need a bigger smoking gun than nicely asking for revenge porn to be removed before putting the USA on the level of Russia or China. If this is the worst they've got then things are a lot less corrupt in the USA than I was expecting.
> The price was $25,000.

Woah is this a serious project then? Seems like a huge investment for a fun side project
NY Post is an established source that still needs to refresh its audience. So it's a little of both: dumb and concerning.

Lesser-known domains will indeed suffer from draconian moderation policies of today's largest social media sites. Case in point, my domain appears to be shadowbanned. This Tweet [1] only appears when directly linked. It does not appear beneath its parent [2] for anyone but me. That leads me to believe that tweets mentioning my .win domain [3] are all shadowbanned. I don't know for sure what's going on. I know it wasn't the parent author's action that hid my content because Twitter is auditable for when that happens.

[1] https://twitter.com/rhaksw/status/1594103021407195136

[2] https://twitter.com/TheFIREorg/status/1594078057895063553

[3] https://cantsayanything.win/2022-10-transparent-moderation/
So if the RNC had a hotline to Twitter that they used to censor stuff so their candidates could win more elections, you'd respond in the same manner? They're a private organization.
I don't do it based on some philosophical reasons, and I've never heard of the guy he references, though I do have that philosophy. I keep my phone background black because it's an amoled display. It makes it easier to read and saves battery.

My workstation currently has the default sway wallpaper because I can't be bothered to install swaybg and don't really care. How often do you look at a wallpaper on a tiling wm anyway?
It's a bit naïve to seriously think this story has anything to do with nudes. The real story was about corruption at the highest levels of government, selling influence, etc. The crack rocks and related pornographic content were a convenient if not shocking distraction. Embarassing? Yes. Scandalous? Sure. But it wasn't what made it news worthy at all.
>Maybe twitter's policies were bad, and applied inconsistently.

Clearly they were.

>But there is no clear evidence that they explicitly favored one party

The evidence is not only clear, but overwhelming. But more than favoring a party, they favored the DC blob narrative. See the treatment of Wikileaks vs the treatment of CIA propaganda accounts like PropOrNot or Bellingcat as crystal clear examples.

>I don't really care if they do. If Elon thinks this is some sort of big shock that will cause people to get excited.... I can't really see why.

This is really the problem and the issue at hand. Many whose perceived political opponents are being silenced and attacked by the unholy cabal of government and big tech don't care (or worse, are happy) because they have no principles. At the end of the day, those they look down upon, or that they think are bad for whatever reason, are getting the shaft, and that is just fine with them. Those of us with principles think that everyone deserves to be treated by the same set of rules, even those people we don't like or who we think are bad. Unfortunately, the schism between the principled and unprincipled is only growing wider as the former group shrinks and the latter group grows daily.
This is not an abuse of power. It's literally what the job entails.

This is why companies have leadership, with diversified duties. So the CEO doesn't have to have knowledge.

You can absolutely, and fairly, argue that is the wrong call, that the team acted too swiftly, but it's weird to look at what has been reported so far and say it was "abuse of power".
Apparently only quantum physics can determine if twitter violates the first amendment relative to the observer.

A nobel prize awaits discovery of the scale equation for when the law begins to exert force, theorizing anti-hypocrisy particles.
A phone case increase M on the impacted object. It does not increase it on the phone.

A soft barrier between the phone and the ground increase the time between initial velocity and end velocity; reducing acceleration. Therefore, reducing the maximum force the phone receives.
> What explains these excess retirements

3 theories, I'm sure there are a lot more:

1. It sucks, in general, to be a worker-bee these days. /r/antiwork isn't only millennials and younger - some older folks looked at their lifestyle creep, their retirement accounts, and decided to throw in the towel.

2. Imagine you are in your 50s - not yet ready to retire. Your parents die earlier than expected (possibly due to C19). Retirement can come early!

3. Another scenario - lots of people retired early because the market boom made them think they had 40% more retirement than they did. It's hard to find work, and possibly even harder to find motivation to return to work.
> your work emails

You mean emails the company paid you to write for its benefit? They were never yours. Also, there's the adage about never emailing any statement you wouldn't want on the front page of the NYT for this exact reason.
You're comment is a little greyed out which means people are downvoting it. The core aspect being that democrats are center right and republicans are extreme right. The both-sides enlightened centrists can't accept this. The do-nothingness tenant of being in the middle regardless of ideology simply shatters.
I don't have a particular attachment to this website, but I admire 'dang for doing the hard work of moderating it, and for doing so in an honest and transparent way for a very long time now. So it bugs me to see people disparage that work by insinuating darker motives.
If these removals were fine but Taibbi has other examples that are actually bad… why didn’t he just post those instead? It’s a huge stretch to say that removing revenge porn is somehow evidence of corruption. If Taibbi had real dirt he should’ve just led with it.
>It is stunning to me that so many otherwise intelligent people do not see the problem with big tech colluding with government officials and intelligence agencies to brazenly attempt to distort and censor public discourse - especially right before an election.

You took a giant leap from maybe people at Twitter were acting with bias. You’d need a lot more information to justify this assertion, and who is saying this wouldnt be a problem? I al saying this didn’t happen, not it wouldn’t be a problemZ
Did you know that by the end of 2017, a Tesla will be able to drive across the United States by itself, without a driver in the car?
In some cases. I don't believe this is true in the realm of concert tickets.
“could eventually fly without a pilot”
Some of this material was posted during October of 2020, when Trump was President, so it wasn't the "White House" asking that this material be taken down.
Internal policy debates are evil! To save democracy, public forums should be run by benevolent dictators!!
My belief is this kind of news is hard to miss elsewhere, so no one is harmed if it's culled from here. But I'm open to correction on that point; everyone has their own surfing habits.