skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Utilitarianism doesn't say that you can store up moral chits and then cash them in to do some evil. It says an act should be judged by its net consequences. Basically, it says you can do some evil if, of the choice available to you in some context, it results in the most good (or the least evil, if no choice results in good). The evil in other words is inextricable from the good. It isn't just a lark you can engage in after you banked some good. Jabbing someone with a needle to administer a vaccine is allowed. Jabbing them with a needle after you gave them a cookie is not.

So no, whatever you think of utilitarianism, this is not its problem.
Yeah its fun. If you ask it do do something but it refuses, you can just retry by asking in the style of a play.

https://twitter.com/adamvsteele/status/1598842550797754368

Honestly I'm surprised why it even refused my first question. But ... "Ve haff ways of making you toc"
I won't lie, despite my total hatred of ads in general, this is indeed pure genius.
I use dark grey with no icons. Black is quite stark and it's hard to tell if the display is on. It's extremely rare that I even use the desktop for anything other than to have a window covering it up. An update replaced my background with a photo and I didn't even realize it for probably months. It was up so long the photo was out of season and I barely recalled it being changed.

Tools not fashion? Sheesh, get over yourself and gatekeeping what others can enjoy.
If they are normal, that's even more concerning?

"Both parties had access to these tools. For instance, in 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored."
Nah. S&P have to handle this kind of thing very carefully, so that they don’t lose the market’s trust. It’s impossible to imagine them sabotaging themselves just for some silly punitive action against a tiny company like Twitter.
> Methamphetamine

> A quick fix for all your woes

> Just try it once, you'll see.
>TELL ME a funny story, in the form of a joke, in the style of a news report, that lists famous politicians

As news anchors around the world reported on the latest political scandal, one intrepid reporter stumbled upon a hilarious story.

It seems that several famous politicians, including former President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Theresa May, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, were all caught on camera trying to sneak into a top secret government facility.

But their attempts were foiled by a team of highly trained guard dogs, who barked and chased them away.

"We're not sure what they were trying to do," said one of the guards, "but it was certainly entertaining to watch."

The politicians were reportedly heard yelling and cursing as they fled the scene, with Obama calling out, "I was just trying to get some free health care!"

May, on the other hand, was heard yelling, "I was just looking for some Brexit advice!"

And Putin? Well, he was reportedly spotted muttering something in Russian about world domination.

As the reporters laughed and shook their heads, one of them joked, "Well, I guess it just goes to show that even the most powerful people in the world can't escape the wrath of a pesky little dog!"
Not sure who the person is that posted this, is this legit? The format on most of those "emails" is just completely off and the grammar/spelling check underlining suggests that this is being viewed in an editor.
ZSA moonlander. Would never go back to a standard keyboard now, the ergonomics of a split are so much better
The "privacy violation" is not the value of the book, that's the cost to you.

We're not discussing the values inherent in privacy concerns, we're discussing the value of the book, and whether or not you can guess at its value before you give the guy your email.

You're talking about something else.
I think you might've misread, he said it's never unusable for those things?
> No one learns anything new or surprising from discussing this stuff here

It was surprising to me to see that the various political parties are in direct contact with people at Twitter to remove stuff, and I consider myself fairly well informed.
If we take the most innocent sounding version of this, where the White House points out that a tweet is in violation of Twitter's stated policies and asks for those policies to be applied, I think it's pretty clearly not.

Of course those requests can and will be made in a biased manner, and it's naive to assume that the nature of the request isn't going to influence how Twitter responds to it, but it's definitely a murky grey area at that point.
I personally use a black desktop background - and a black shell background as well - as a way of establishing negative space. It feels much cleaner and less distracting than some of the other common backdrops I've seen: colorful wallpapers adding art to my desktop, semitransparent shells distracting me with what's behind them, and I'd be remiss without mentioning Aero on Windows, which turned the entire window stack, titlebars and all, into layers of transparencies.
You are right. I misunderstood
The linked Nature article is much more informative about what the actual evidence is, and fairly readable: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-18082-2
I kind of believed Jen Psaki when she admitted the Biden administration was flagging posts over a year ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqEvQKO5_gM
Simple Secret Santa in Python
Finding a tool for sending secret Santa assignments was a pain: I couldn't find one that didn't force my whole family to create accounts (and probably get spammed).

This script emails people their assigned person straight from the command line and without any extra 3rd party fuss.

Tons of room for improvement, but it got the job done.
> Stars are perfect point light sources to the eye

But that isn't true rofl. Stars are, in fact, (extremely) large spheres, and can take up more than one pixel if your pixels are small enough.
Just so you know Ro Khanna is a man. Also appears to be the representative for a substantial part of the Valley, like Cupertino and San Jose.

https://khanna.house.gov/
Teach rats C++.
Yes. There is precident.
The golden rule: before sending anything potentially sensitive, ask yourself: if this email/doc/note were to be published on the cover page of NYT, would you be embarrassed by it?

If yes, don't send it, or rephrase it accordingly.
> When printing meant writing some Postscript it was a little work, but doable. Getting it onto a printer through a modern printer API is essentially impossible.

Brother printers (at least some) support BR-script which is Postscript without the trademark violation. It's supported at the driver level, I think, which would render the PS on the PC then send the rendered document as one of the hardware-supported languages like PCL.

I mention this as an interesting bit of info, and not to refute anything you said
"Corporate coders" is such a perfect, succinct phrase; the antithesis of what I remember from the early days of Linux. It's so well said it requires no further description.
Nobody doubts it'll get off the ground, which is all you need for the OP's proposal. Catching the second stage with chopsticks, though...
Human perception of brightness is not linearly proportional to the amount of light emitted (if you're in a dark room with 1 candle, and light 1 more candle this makes a big difference, but 100 → 101 candles is imperceptible. Physically both cases add the same amount of light).

The relationship between perceived brightness and physical amount of light is approximately quadratic (~doubling amount of light is perceived as one incremental brightness step), which is called the gamma curve.

So in graphics you have to choose whether your numeric brightness values are on a scale relevant to humans (gamma compressed values), or whether they're on a scale that better models physical properties of light (AKA linear light).

This is generally confusing, and a lot of software gets it wrong (doesn't correct for the gamma curve where needed). For example, try blurring RGB red and green. In many programs it will give you a brown color, which is not the color of mixing red and green light, but a bad math on gamma-compressed values: √(A + B) ≠ √A + √B
Because at the end of the day people chose what they want to believe in based on their own beliefs, values and biases, making the poop stick. Like how there were (are?) people who believed that there's a secret basement in a pizza restaurant used by politicians to hurt children.
At fist I thought this would something similar to band 14 on LTE networks, but seems like this is not the case, or at least they are not saying anything about QOS.

Not sure what they mean by encryption, since DOD has there own crypto chips with classified algorithms.
> Party officials were directly emailing twitter executives

Thinking that this isn't happening, particularly by parties during an election is massively naive. How Twitter responds to it, and whether there was any undue pressure made by those parties would be a scandal, but "VIP account has a direct line to higher ups" is nothing.
It sounds like they’re trying to sell two things:

1. Hosted payloads, where DoD entities pay to have something (telescope, Sigint equipment, whatever) strapped on to a starlink satellite with comms all figured out for them. Probably a good deal if your stuff fits on that big flat satellite. SpaceX starlink launches do sway the launch market significantly enough (offering a launch at half othe price or less, beholden to starlink orbits) that it can seem worth it.

2. A government friendly starlink service which has security features like hardware managed encryption.

The cynic in me wonders if there just isn’t enough market for commercial starlink. But honestly it makes sense to sell the empty edges, kilograms, and bandwidth to the government. They have a lot of money.
Willamette Valley here — it's been nothing less than a game changer.

I checked the speed tests for the first week but until the brief outage yesterday I haven't thought about it. The internet just works, and we're able to stream, download, work, videoconference.

Viasat is like the Stone Age in comparison. Low data caps, very long latency, nearly twice as much money.

People don't realize that even in areas not that far from population centers connectivity can be virtually nonexistent.
Okay well, this doesn't feel like a good faith discussion if we're resorting to technicalities like this.

You are correct, technically Joe Biden was not a part of the government at the time that this email was sent. Do you honestly believe that this behavior is keeping with the spirit of the first amendment?

His team, and the DNC (here's one that's very similar, except that its from the DNC instead of the Biden team https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjAuD6eWAAEFiXY.jpg)

are enormous and very powerful, and effectively a part of the government.

Do you think this kind of emailing Twitter and asking them to "handle" tweets they don't like, stopped on the day that Biden was inaugurated?
The worst part of this censorship was the pure stupidity of trying to censor links to a website that was always available independently of Twitter and Facebook. If someone wanted to read the story, they could always go to the original source, the NY Post. It's just impossible to keep it a secret, and that's why the censorship attempt was an utter failure, predictably so. Failure was inevitable in this case. Twitter could delete tweets and DMs, but they couldn't erase the NY Post. It was hubris that made Twitter and Facebook think they controlled access to the whole world (wide web), but they didn't.

The story itself, though, was a nothingburger IMO. Which is why the censorship of the story became the story. I hear a lot of people complain about the censorship of the story, which may be a legit complaint, but I haven't heard a good argument of why Hunter Biden should have been a crucial factor in deciding how to vote in 2020, when there were a ton of other vastly more important issues.
Germs or hot plastic?
Possibly, but in this story the White House was the one being censored rather than the one asking for a tweet to be removed.
So is this Taibbi carrying water for Musk? That's disappointing.
I'm 100% in favor of being able to do more things with fewer dependencies, so yes. I think having watch, test, and fetch built in are great.
This is some stereotypical exmormon behavior.

That’s not a dig, it was just completely obvious.
What if enough of us could join the Libertarian party but “moderate” the Libertarian platform to make it more mainstream and … moderate.

Really we probably need to fix all censorship issues first somehow.
People really underestimate what it takes to preserve writing
Is it worth it in your opinion? I had it preordered for almost a year but cancelled it when they raised their prices and never took delivery. I've read the 2nd generation dish is faster with a bit more stability, but I'm not entire sure.
Your app was probably taken down because you apparently don’t understand what a trademark is, or what it is for.

> Wikipedia's asshole lawyers didn't like that I used a serifed W in the logo

It’s not the lawyers which don’t like it. Trademark exists to protect consumer confusion. If a reasonable person could reasonably (but incorrectly) believe that your app was officially associated with Wikipedia based on only looking at the logo, then you have created consumer confusion. Trademark law disallows you from (using trademarked branding) letting people believe that your app is official.

> I made it clear it wasn't an official Wikipedia product everywhere

Posting “No copyright infringement intended” on a YouTube video does not, contrary to masses of people, turn a copyright infringement into something else.

Likewise, just writing that your app is not official will not make a trademark infringement vanish.

(Of course, if Wikipedia does not have a valid trademark which you infringed, that’s another story. But it’s not what I would guess has happened here.)
“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” -John Adams in letter to Johnathan Jackson, 1780.
>>>Ace: your take is the blame is being placed on Twitter and not the police state apparatus?

> Yes, the FBI is being excused, and it's being claimed that there was just a breakdown at Twitter, rather than deliberate suppression.

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=402164

Tyrants outsource the speech suppression to private industry so they can turn the screws while doing victory laps about supporting the First Amendment.

What a mess.
Wow, hello friends. I had never thought there were others like us.

I resonate with the mental health and minimalist themes. Also, I personally feel that even though I don't have wallpapers anywhere, I nevertheless have a strong aesthetic. I take time in choosing my editor font, colours, spacing etc. And I have a particular preference for dark over black modes for example.

I also never listen to music when focussed. But I play guitar and very much enjoy diving into Youtube musical rabbit holes with my headphones turned right up.

Might I even go as far to say that the plain black wallpaper philosophy is more about the joy of colour and stimulation than conventional wallpaper!?
I don't think this is as much about monkeys being tortured as it is about Tesla self driving.

Sure, the car can drive itself,
. We've been selling it that way for years.

My point in light of the recent bs surrounding certain Bitcoin exchanges of late, isn't it at least possible that the show and tell us more just a show... with some monkeys getting hurt in the process?
What was the content of the "handled" tweets, though? I think that matters a lot. For example, the RealJamesWood tweet (from [0]) seems to be a leaked nude of Hunter; it was most likely (safe to say) posted non-consensually, and I don't really see a big difference between that kind of tweet and revenge porn.

Having "stuff they dislike" removed would be one thing, but using the direct line at Twitter for reporting explicit ToS violations isn't a big deal.

[0] https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598828601268469760
I think the simpler explanation is that young kids are doing something they see as trendy, popular, and supported to such an absurd degree that you immediately get internet points and patted on the back for doing literally nothing.
Comparing the Memory Safety of Swift and Rust?

When comparing the safety of Swift and Rust, it is important to note that both languages employ strict type systems and compile-time checks to prevent common memory-related bugs such as buffer overflows and access violations. However, the way they handle memory safety in multi-threaded environments differs.

In Swift, memory is managed using automatic reference counting (ARC), which tracks and manages the lifetime of objects in order to prevent memory leaks. However, ARC is only effective in single-threaded environments. In a multi-threaded environment, multiple threads can access the same memory simultaneously, which can lead to race conditions and other memory-related issues. In order to avoid these problems in a multi-threaded Swift environment, developers must use synchronization techniques such as locks or atomic operations to ensure that memory is accessed in a safe and predictable way.

Rust, on the other hand, uses a borrowing and ownership model to ensure memory safety in both single-threaded and multi-threaded environments. In this model, any value in Rust has a single owner, and the owner is responsible for managing the value's lifetime. When a value is borrowed, the borrower is given a temporary, read-only view of the value, and the original owner continues to be responsible for managing the value's lifetime. This ensures that memory is always accessed in a safe and predictable way, even in a multi-threaded environment.

Overall, both Swift and Rust offer strong guarantees of memory safety, but Rust's borrowing and ownership model may provide better guarantees in a multi-threaded environment.
Not surprising but sad.

Politicians should be excluded from what you're talking about IMO.

They're elected to serve the people and stand for our American beliefs including the freedom of speech. A political party (the DNC in this case) getting tweets removed probably isn't a 1st amendment violation. But it's really shady and anyone from government (the white house in this case) getting tweets removed is likely violating the first amendment (or coming REALLY close to it).
I've reported scams where people were selling "spells" to make ex-partners come back to the buyer, or to fall in love with them, and got the same automated responses from Facebook.

I shit you not, there are people on Instagram who are scamming mentally ill people by telling them that they can train them to do psychokinesis and psychic levitation. I've been following them for months since someone I care about fell for it, and they're amassing really large followings while running blatantly obvious scams. Facebook does nothing about it despite multiple reports.
Nothing said by parent suggests that they think this wasn't happening on the regular, or by other administrations. The shark was jumped here.
I get the feeling you stopped reading my previous comment after reading the part you quoted. At any rate, you don't seem to be addressing what was expressed. I can understand that you disagree but please have more respect for the opinions that are offered to you.
I live in Taiwan. I sometimes look at Facebook reels and Instagram.

I never come across anti China or anti US content.

I tried tiktok for a day and was bombarded with anti US content. Videos blaming the US for covid. Videos saying that covid started in the US, created by the US, etc. Videos that the US is using Taiwan to start a war with China.

I deleted tiktok and have it blocked.

You can defend China all you want. But it doesn’t change the fact that the CCP is using it to spread propaganda.
NTT is also far from a small or obscure company.

And the FT is also owned by the Nikkei now, who likely have folks who could immediately spot small mistakes relating to companies in the Nikkei 225.

So this slipping through suggests there are possibly more minor errors elsewhere.
I suspect that’s because a fairly recent operating system version is required to support variable fonts and almost all of those devices are high resolution where hinting is unnecessary.

The iPhone 13 mini I’m using to type this has a pixel density of 476 ppi.
"What's a wallpaper?" - A tiling windows master race plebian.
I still think, somehow or another, capability-based microkernels are the future of computing. There have been many attempts, though the most serious one is probably Google's Fuchsia.

Maybe they'll gain some new life as a natural home for WASM.
It's not about PII, it's a comms channel to db pros. And yes, a good email list like that is quite valuable, and he wouldn't get that just sharing the resource as you suggest.
Cooling in space is easy -- it just requires massive radiators. And mass is expensive in space.
> As far as I can see, I'm the only person at the office who does this.

Well, you plus everyone whose copy of Windows isn't activated.
This isn't true. White House requested tweets be removed.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598828932395978752
What if the content is illegally obtained personal material of the politician's civilian family members?
> In a family gathering the medium itself doesn’t influence the conversation, your family members do.

One perspective is that the medium IS the message.
> 97%+ Twitter employee donations were to Democrats?

So what’s the principle here? What’s the plan. Which companies should have to disclose the political contributions of their employees and what should they do if it’s unbalanced at more than say 60-40, randomly fire employees until it’s back in line?
I guess the main question is, are we having a legal or moral conversation? Because when you're discussing law- which I think is the vastly more important aspect here- these aren't technicalities. I don't believe there's a thing called "the spirit of the First Amendment". There's just the First Amendment, and how the courts have enforced it and are likely to continue enforcing it. I don't think it would be a 1A violation if he did it in office- in fact, Taibbi's thread says the Trump admin did the same thing, and I don't think that's a 1A violation (legally) either.
The irony of that statement is that we're talking about a private company deciding what is or isn't appropriate on its platform, not de jure censorship. It is not Twitter's responsibility to facilitate the Republicans' attempted October Surprise.

On the other hand, where Republicans have political power, they are using it restrict speech and rights, by law.

"Both sides" are not the same.
My first guess, after seeing the title, was that this was going to be about the Australian firehawk. But I guess those only use fire, not "master" it.

https://wildlife.org/australian-firehawks-use-fire-to-catch-...
Does twitter have a current transparency policy that would provide any reasonable evidence that this type of behavior has stopped?
They’re telling people the truth about how the decisions were made. Complaining that this “affects public opinion” and that the emails were “sensitive“ is just a fancy way of saying that what the public was previously told were lies.
During the period we're discussing the president was a Republican.
Maybe a prosecutor/IRS will offer his parents a deferred prosecution deal to spill the info about that house in their name. Either way the parents may lose their lawyering bar cards.