skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing really new in your post either, since it misses the whole point. All your post does is restate the obvious. It was obvious the story was true and that Twitter covered it up.

The news worthiness of this is that, just before a very close election, Twitter was used to hide information for political purposes. Not only that, the White House press secretary had her account suspended for calling Twitter on it. And not just the press secretary, but many others were labeled as consipiracy theorists and misinformation spreaders, and had their accounts suspended.

In other words, Twitter was used for hateful purposes by the people who ran it. Isn't banning people, censoring them, and labeling them as nutjobs the worst kind of hate speech?

The only way forward for things like Twitter is transparency. If someone lodges a complaint about someone else, that should be completely known and published. If some politician wants to tell Twitter to take something down, everyone should be able to know who did the asking.
See:
Second, 4th, 5th, and 10th Amendments of the U.S. Federal Constitution.

People in power are going to abuse it as long as they can get away with it. Period.
Agreed. I deleted my Twitter account after the UK government floated the idea of having the power to turn off such sites: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-statement-on-disorder-...

> And when people are using social media for violence we need to stop them.

> So we are working with the Police, the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality.

The fact that's even a possibility put me off such centralised platforms. (Of course, HN is centralised; but it's a niche forum, rather than a general medium of communication)
Wait, how does this work? Google bots this complex, or Etsy especially made it possible for Google bot? Also Etsy shows price directly on page, so whats the reason?
It's not about cities but the global area.
I was anonymous within my business for quite some time (~$X,XXX,XXX/ARR). It got to the point where my demos/sales calls would begin to question why they can't find anything about me online, for instance, "Why should my business trust you? I can't find anything about you?".

At a certain point I had come to a realization that things operate a certain way for 99% of people and companies and being contrarian doesn't help. If you want to win you need to play their game and that may mean having a public presence and playing on their playing field (that field may be LinkedIn, Github and other common fields).

I will say you don't have to become an influencer asshat which is what I want to avoid at all costs. You don't need to be "famous" and build a following of any kind. I focus my time on networking and building trust within my domain.
You are thinking of Kassandra of Troy.
Hanukkah of Data
Isn’t the revelatory part that both parties had bat phones to the moderation teams, and that the team working with the Trump admin was intentionally sandbagging violations by “The Left”?
The immediate difference is that everyone is affected by the Great Firewall, not just "designated persons". How it turns out in practical use surely remains to be seen.
Many of these various governmental blocks are implemented (badly) via DNS restrictions.
I suppose it could be in title case if it includes a proper noun as in "Book of The Games"
Working as intended. DNS isn't supposed to be centralized.

It's just morphed that way, because that's where the money/power is.
Confluence unfortunately, and readme files in code repos
> A vast majority of books published nowadays could have been a series of at most 5-6 blog posts.

When you suspect a book to be one of those, do a web search for talks the author has given about it. The more hyped the book, the higher the chance you’ll find several talks around an hour long which are repeats of each other in different settings. Watch any for a cheaper and faster way to learn every meaningful insight from the book.
You are wrong and missing the point. I mostly agree with you and had the same opinion. BUT, the “money” is in the runtime and the real isolation of code and capability based access.

Forget about the browser, games, etc ( at least for now) and think about the server, dock and kubernetes.

If developers adopt a plug-in model of programming it will be a game changer. I don’t have a crystal ball but that’s what’s fueling wasm right now and it has merits
This is the country where offensive tweets are illegal.
I think you severely underestimate the climbing and jumping ability of mice and rats.
If aws is the top quality cloud provider, then might as well give up now and buy a server a rack and an ac
I can. The idea is that he’s signaling that an attack on the inauguration won’t injure him, and so it’s mafia talk for “attack the inauguration”.

I don’t support this as a grounds. It’s so flexible that you can see or not see it at will, so, you can give a charitable read to someone you like or a threatening read to someone you don’t. It also relies on mind reading.

Nevertheless a lot of people can read it that way.
Makes you wonder if the persons writing the bloody thing ever had even a moment of pause. Probably not.
I switched from being a SWE of ~10 years to a Research Engineer at DeepMind, so while it is difficult (as other comments have noted), it is absolutely doable. I wrote a blog post about it here: [EDIT: fixed] https://medium.com/@kfedvanilla/switching-from-software-engi.... Happy to answer any specific questions you may have beyond what's in the blog!
My wife's best friend used to work for Wikipedia and said they had to block any edits made from the IP range belonging to the US capitol building. Maybe they need to just do this for all legislative offices of all countries.

Not that it stops the same people from just making these edits from home or learning to use a VPN.
When I come into the country in 2021, I wasn't able to visit archive.org on my Giffgaff network. Took me forever to realise it was blocked.
Hmmm. I thought it was straightforward. I'll unpack it:

> Spam restrictions aren't generally applied by the government, and therefore don't fall under the constitution.

The "free speech" constitutional amendment stipulates that the government can't restrict speech. It doesn't apply to a mail service provider, which is free to reject whatever it likes.

> The law doesn't require anyone to listen to someone else's speech.

Your freedom to speak to me ends when I decide I don't want to listen to you. I have a right to not listen, and I have a right to reject spam.

> It is not a violation of anyone's rights to discard their emails unread using an automated filter.

I don't know how to say that more clearly; using a spam filter doesn't violate the US constitution. Email would be unuseable without spam filters.
Back in my day we cheated by playing Oddjob in Goldeneye since he was shorter than all the other characters.
will be interesting to see how far it can get
> Laplacians, Jacobians, what, what, what???

Can you really get a PhD in anything even remotely STEM-related these days without at least knowing what those things are? I'm growing old...
The volume climbed first and then reservation systems were adopted. National parks expend considerable effort to track visits (it’s like their KPI) and it has been climbing for years, reaching unmanageable levels at many parks earlier in this century. Zion closed the canyon to cars in 2000, Acadia before that. The rangers were telling me it was probably only a few years away for the main road in Glacier.

It is still possible to drive up for camping at parks though. People cancel reservations all the time, creating “hidden” capacity that can only be accessed if you are there that day. But yeah, you better have a backup plan. Quite a few national parks have national forest campgrounds nearby, which are less busy, less developed, and often do not even take reservations.
> The problem is nobody can entirely think for themselves.

Good luck proving that.
> all of us make mistakes and will keep making them, in any language

.. unless said language makes making those mistakes difficult or impossible.
Sanitizing input for example has not been an issue for me for decades, as every framework I used handles that by default, I'd have to work extra hard to make a mistake there.

> Google problems are not everyone's problems.

In this case they are. Not only memory safety is an issue for many codebases that have at least some C somewhere, but also because Google products are used by milions.

> Goggle's solutions to problems are not everyone's solutions to the same problems.
> Assuming that what Google says is applicable everywhere is at best naive

Any other time I'd agree with you, but I don't see anything Google-specific here.
This is such a ridiculous political narrative. The Democrats are not for policing speech, Twitter can police whatever it wants. Imagine being a conservative and thinking government regulation of corporations is wrong and simultaneously thinking you have a right to post stuff on twitter.
>China Communists

This is like calling Hitler a socialist because of his party's name.
The push to remove the provisions were a bipartisan effort highly lauded by Mr. Obama who held final veto power over the decision.

It's not like this was due to congressional deadlock.

Although the claims that he didnt sign the bill are laughable, but pay no attention citizen.
So interesting to see if this will affect politics since midterms have passed. At least at the moment I don’t think free speech (esp via Twitter) is a priority over guns, crime, economy and reproductive rights for the average voter, or that any candidates want to seriously hold that mantle. I wonder if and how that will change going into the next election cycle.
Sounds interesting. So far I am mostly happy with Ethereal and mitmproxy. But maybe better stuff is out there? Experiences from users?
yeah, there’s some truth to what you’re saying. for years more and more people and culture type scenes have very intentionally “gone dark”

the best places to eat haven’t been on any food app “best of” lists for years.

they haven’t had features written in local foodie sites for years.

all of that shit has been gamed for years by marketing firms.

i mean, does anybody go yell out to the world when they find the best breakfast (and certainly not brunch) in town anymore? hell no. and this thought process isn’t limited to restaurants.

while the restaurants at the top of those lists or in the foodie review sections are of course edible, they’re basically like the Imagine Dragons (or nickelback or peter frampton or whatever mid band from your music generation) of restaurants.

for years and years a lot of bands who absolutely could play clubs have been opting to do DIY basement concert tours with only word of mouth advertising. this has been happening in more and more in all kinds of different scenes, for years.

some of the best new bands i’ve heard in the last few years don’t even use their social media accounts, they sit locked or completely unused.

i know for absolute certain that a tremendous amount of people don’t scream their culture likes out to the world anymore—and for good reason. consciously gone dark, back to word of mouth.

my aunt and i were talking at thanksgiving, she mentioned this is how her and her friends used to do raves—gatekeep it to word of mouth only, if you leaked it, you would lose access to the next party.
“Moderation is blocking content when the sender wants to communicate something the receiver doesn't want. Censorship is blocking content that both the sender and the receiver want.”

These definitions don’t work, because there is always some (possibly extremely small) population that wants the content, ergo you could say all moderation is censorship to some people.
They do take up some space on the sidewalk, but less than a non-underground version. Here's what they look like: https://www.core77.com/posts/102208/Amsterdams-Smart-System-...
It’s also a misleading anthropomorphization that can get across the wrong message - in particular among those who don’t know what “stochastic” means but also among those who should know better.
You can add my favourite font to that list:

Fantasque Sans Mono (zero clearly different):
https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans
Really enjoyed this essay, the parallels between the flâneur of old and modern lurkers is a brilliant connection. Really makes me question how much time I should be spending on twitter and reddit.
Previously on the Telegraph:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2022/11/29/online-safety...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/09/25/watering-onl...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/28/social-media-gia...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/11/12/tory-women-w...

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/online-safety-bill-home-s... (yes, the Telegraph gave a page to a government minister; remember how much they used to pay Johnson?)

Looks like they were in favour of it all the way up to this point, so long as they thought it would only censor things they didn't like.

Compare on HN front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33836666 in re TikTok
This has been driving me crazy on twitter lately and it really just goes to show how little scrutiny many people give to work that "looks correct" and matches whatever goal / output they were expecting. On so many of the "college kids will never write another essay" posts if you dig into the comments there is usually at least one subject matter expert who read the essay pointing out a bunch of errors and poor reasoning. It's very frustrating that people refuse to dig even a little beneath the surface on these things.
I used it twice - both successfully.

Both times the expired domains were not registered with them.

The interface is antquated and hard to figure out/use.

Also they're expensive.

I guess it worked for me b/c these domain names weren't super popular. But both were good sounding relatively short .com domains.
Yes - how hyperbolic.

You would argue you are more free being forced to work for a mafia protection racket, than as a slave.
> a WebGPU backed canvas

WebGPU won't be available for a while. It's API is Javascript-only browser API.

Canvas are only accessible through Javascript through the browser.

Next question is: how are you going to accommodate accessibility?
I've never had an issue accessing archive.org and I've lived in Britain my entire life and accessed it from all kinds of locations / devices.
Psychos in the C-Suite
https://archive.ph/dyySO
The real problem is how could it possibly be profitable to pay people $20 each to leave reviews on a product which costs less than $200? WTF is wrong with the economic environment which allows such obviously wasteful activities to be profitable?

In an efficient economy, waste would not be profitable; it would not give someone the upper hand. The competitive edge should be efficiency.
You’d use the best connections you have available which, if you’re a major corporate or political entity, are way better than the Report button. Obviously.
> doesn't seem like a big deal, this is just confirming what was already known?

This story kept me up last night. I think it's the biggest news story I've seen in my lifetime, and everyone seems to be missing the point. Forget Snowden, Lewinsky, or traunched CDOs.

The failure mode for capitalism is not national farming quotas starving 10 million people to death or a national ethnosocialist genocide. We have to worry about the unregulated concentration of power/capital; monopoly busting is one critical aspect of this. Another related aspect is capital's effect on the regulators, on politics.

What we see here is both parties, and the white house proper, with a direct and open line to executives of some of the biggest multinational tech companies in existence. This is not consulting jobs following an exit from politics, or hundred thousand dollar speaking deals at business conventions. Sitting members of congress are emailing corporate execs from their cell phones. They're discussing congressional polling data in a near real-time way. Theyre asking twitter (and presumably meta and others) to selectively moderate partisan political posts. DURING ELECTION SEASON.

This is insanity. Forget Russian interference, this is real, documented, American interference. The regulators and regulated are publicly in bed together.

We must grab an axe and sever these ties immediately. This is the formation of a true ruling class. Get the money out of politics NOW.
> The other issue is that like other vaccine skeptics if you have a particular issue with mRNA (which doesn’t make sense given you don’t know anything about vaccines, or the differences between mRNA vaccines or other vaccines or even how vaccines work) you could have taken a non-mRNA vaccine.

The J&J vaccine was pulled pretty early due to the clotting issues and AZ was not available in the US.

It was puzzling to me early on why they'd make a vaccine with a single protein (the case with both mRNA and viral vector vaccine). It seemed obvious a whole virus would have many more opportunities for your body to generate an immune response.

Even more puzzling is why China and other countries haven't adopted mRNA vaccines.
Favorite part of this project has to be the game Panda Love. It's a platformer where you can only control by jumping.

Can't wait to see more levels.
The title is misleading - this requires all ISPs in the UK to ban anyone from visiting rt.com, not just "designated persons". And indeed it works - I'm in the UK and trying to visit that website times out on mobile or cable broadband.
So you are saying that everyone is being manipulated, and your in-group's manipulation must have first priority?

How about removing the log from you own eye, before attempting to remove the speck from your neighbour's eye?
> The solution would be regulate all the social media companies, like how China does.

Twitter and Facebook are both banned in China, isn’t it? Is that because the CCP is afraid of western ideals if freedom? Or is it protectionism? Put differently, is it because of ideological or because if commercial reasons or perhaps both?

Because, to follow your thinking, why does the CCP not simply regulate them using the same rules as is uses for homegrown companies like TikTok?
Uh yeah sorry but nude photos posted without the subject’s consent is definitely and clearly against Twitter TOS. And the law!
If a state wants something from you, they'll send armed agents at your door.
I used to use Niv, but these days I find it more convenient to just call `builtins.fetchGit` where it's needed, rather than faffing with external files/tools (although https://hackage.haskell.org/package/update-nix-fetchgit can be useful). It's certainly much nicer than the "olden days" of `nixpkgs.fetchgit`, which required an "impure" copy of Nixpkgs (like <nixpkgs>) in order to fetch a pinned copy!

I tend to have a single git repo with my system config, which uses import-from-derivation to grab a bunch of other stuff; and defines a single "package" that's a big `buildEnv` of all the programs I want. That seems to work fine across NixOS (on an old i686 Thinkpad), an old Ubuntu desktop, macOS (a couple of work laptops; old one used nix-darwin, new one just uses nix-env), and I'm currently trying it on nixos-mobile (on my Pinephone).
Do people here not believe that it’s normal for powerful, connected people to have “red phone” access to people high-up in corporations, media, etc? There are entire industries that exist to get you that access (if you don’t have it).

e.g. I believe Tim Cook could probably contact someone at Twitter and get an answer. Do we really believe he would go in the same queue as a “regular” citizen?

To me this is a shocking revelation to anyone who doesn’t actually understand how the world works. Which, to be fair, I didn’t either for a good while, and empathize.
FYI, the link to your blog post doesn't appear to work (404 error).
Remember when Wikipedia was never to be used as an authoritative source on any subject? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Interesting how that suddenly changes around the time that smith-mundt was repealed.

But don't listen to me, I suffer from realistic dreams and an imperfect memory, that never happened, we have always been at war with eastasia.
> 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.

In other words, Musk made him do it.
The reason the puzzles are fun is they are extreemly well explained and designed to be solved with popular algorithms. This does seem a good fit (especially as the training set must have hundreds of thousands previous years solutions)
n³: The unorthodox terminal file manager
iPhone 14 Emergency SOS via Satellite Feature Saves Stranded Man in Alaska
In my country (Jordan), archive.org was also blocked for some reason, but interestingly, only one ISP (ZainJO) was blocking it afaik. I have no idea why; no other sites I could think of were blocked.

Idk if the block is still there today; I moved out of Jordan years ago
I think the only problem is that they're proprietary. If they were free software that everyone could use then we could compensate by making the problems harder.

It's not really any different to using high-level programming languages with extensive standard libraries versus doing everything in assembly language.
I think it must have seen the solution somewhere already on the web. I find it extremely hard to believe that such a general purpose chatbot would just be able to solve programming problems. Deepmind had a paper [1] on solving programming problems a couple of months ago and they had to apply quite specialized heuristics in order to solve these problems. Obviously ChatGPT does nothing of the sorts and it just seems extremely unrealistic that it would be capable of outperforming previous work like that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30179549
PPA for .deb Firefox (from Mozilla Team):
https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Make sure to pin it and/or neutralize snap so it takes precedence.
The rate limiting should be done by user id not developer id. That's how the Google APIs work.
I think this is kinda neat (and scary!)

I'm doing AoC at the moment too and I'm using the chat GPT thing as a sort of assistant. I don't program in Rust much so sometimes it's difficult to remember certain things and functions. Expressing my intent to the tool seems to come up with decent answers

Some example questions I've asked the tool recently:

> I want to insert a char into a hash map if it does not exist, if it does increment a counter

> rust find common keys in two hashmaps keyed by char

Yes they can probably be found on stack overflow or whatever but it feels more natural this way.

...and yes I could just go down the route of getting the thing to solve the AoC challenge completely but that's no fun
Interesting read

> Another way to redeem passive lurking is by making a clever joke that shows that you are above the whole thing. Twitter’s quote tweet function, especially, enables users literally as well as metaphorically to appear above the conversation and to cleverly one-up their opponents from this privileged position. The game, in effect, is this: Who can appear the most above it all?

This sounds like the proletariat mimicking their leadership, in that the above is a description of how politics seems to work. We need a better class of example-setters before we're going to see better behaved societies.

The topic of discussion is quickly lost, and any hope of progress towards a resolution along with it, amongst a competition of witticisms.

I'm quite happy with this cleverness of mine:

"I'd rather be right than popular, and I often am."

But this could just be an intellectual hedging of my bets against whatever the real-life-vulnerability equivalent of down votes is; Stern, disapproving glares.
:o) thank you kindly!