skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In their emails, they seemed to be be brainstorming ways of insisting that they were only applying their policies as normal, but not everybody agreed that this was the case.

I don't think we need to read between the lines here. There were people in Twitter that felt they were overstepping things and emails from various people in the US government, but the communications team were very careful to ensure that they pointed towards their policy about hacked materials and to give themselves leeway by claiming that they were just applying an abundance of caution to the situation.
Logic isn’t the issue here.

You’re trying to apply logic to articles you’ve read on the internet. This isn’t like you read a cake recipe on the internet and then tried it out in your kitchen. Or read an article about some web framework and tried it out by making a blog. Or read about mathematical topology and tried it out on some problem you’ve been working on.
You could easily read https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-overview.html , https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-reference.html#basic-hooks , and make a quick React UI with Vite in half a day for a junior dev. You're not being serious.
Finding a list of all legal chess moves
I almost did exactly this, and next time I’m there, I probably will!

No way I’m riding those shuttles again. Nothing quite shatters the peace and awe that comes with the scenery like a kid screaming and kicking non stop while his parents act helpless.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598843310042279936

Jack was, quite famously, half-assing his leadership of Twitter for years. There was no secret, it was constantly discussed here on HN: how Jack’s inability to lead can be described as an “amazing subplot” rather than an embarrassing stain on Jack is beyond me — I guess because Elon loves Jack, this has to be framed positively?
Google's stereotype is the company that can handle and manage complexity - things like Kubernetes, indexing the internet, etc. They are clumsy at persuading people to use their products and have a patchy history of launching platforms that people want to use. Google+ and Google cloud vs AWS spring to mind, Kubernetes is a good platform but challenging to learn. Chrome is an unusual aberration where they did a great job. Android is maybe also a strong counterexample, not sure what the state of play was there.

But whatever their code quality may be, luring in devs to their API has seen hits and misses.
That is kind of nonsense. If someone already has hacked or MITM'd the server offering the install script payload the game is already up. No attacker is going to bother doing that, since the number of people who read the install script before sending it off to bash is minimal.
First mock-up of the Amiga native Mastodon client
Within the law, Twitter is well within their rights to ban things and people Musk doesn't like.
> Sure, and before that? NATO has been expanding since the USSR fell.

The year the USSR fell, the Russians invaded Georgia.

So conveniently, Russian imperialism has existed since practically as soon as Russia existed.

Maybe if Russia stopped invading countries that used to be in the USSR NATO would stop expanding.

But it's clear that they cannot help themselves and they clearly believe they have a right to try and conquer these counties.
Both my parents worked at startups in the bay area from 1970s-2000s. None of them hit, though the IP those companies created currently makes just one of the businesses that bought it 2billion a year. I think they maybe got a few thousand for their IP contribution the company shut down and IP was sold. Meanwhile plenty of their friends hit. I worked in startups in the bay area from early 90s until early 2000s, none ever went big. At the same time I had plenty of friends who did make it big, from great software developers to super mediocre devs to stoner hardware techs to receptionists. I have ex family that made into the high 9 figures but only on their second try, after they were majorly responsible for a segment changing/name you would instantly recognize projects/app you have on your phone that took years of their life on which they made in the low six figures all out. If they would have allowed themselves to be burnt out after that they would have missed their 9 figure win, but they were driven and kept going.

You don't deserve anything, your talent isn't going to get you anything. Keep trying and you might hit, you might not. Even if you disrupt a major market your return isn't guaranteed to be huge financially. That's about as much logic as I've seen in it over my 30 years experience of it. It's up to you if you want to stay on the ride/purchase the lottery ticket.
Up for 7 hours. Guess that proves HN is better than Wikipedia.
Matt explicitly said they suppressed information from anyone who asked, basically, including both sides.

Did you miss that?
B-21 Long-Range Bomber Is Unveiled
From having been lawyer-adjacent, I have one thing to contribute:

Lawyers are pathologically risk-adverse

I use that adjective deliberately. Their favorite phrase is "out of an abundance of caution" which means "I can't think of any reason why I must do this, so I won't."

Cynicism. But to go out on a limb and get your ass kicked by his high-priced lawyers could be career-ending for them. Or rather, their career would become "chasing ambulances."
Low-orbit data centers become interesting in this context. Yes, problems with radiation, solar flares and traditional ops. But 'free' power, real estate (1) and cooling.

(1) Low orbit real estate may be a future battleground?
HN is a weird place. Feels like the loudest political voices are alt-right-adjacent nowadays. Just yesterday I had to wade through Q-level talk about Balenciaga being the true villain in society (one user literally said the Latin translation of Balenciaga had occult meanings).

It's just so surprising to see Tucker Carlson's outrage machine consistently make rounds in HM comments. I guess he recovered from that Jon Stewart skewering just fine amongst the HN crowd?
This can certainly be true, but the catch is when you say I love to do x so I will start a business to do x, it's not so simple. You now have to do x + sales + customer service + management, etc. And while it is possible that you love to do all of those things, in the great majority of cases, you don't, and it will be a grind. That's not to say it's not worth it, though.
Sooner or later the US Government will realize the Starship will be a good launching vehicle for the ballistic missile defense. Currently a midcourse ground base interceptor booster [1] weighs more than 20 tons, costs a few tens of millions, and carries one single kill vehicle [2] that weighs about 64 kg.

A single Starship would be able to carry more than 1000 such kill vehicles. If Russia launches a few hundred missiles at the US, a couple Starships could send multiple kill vehicle against each Russian warhead.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoatmospheric_Kill_Vehicle
No, this is just an attempt to get the stink of a scandal to stick to Biden during election season because calling him a dementia-ridden pedophile wasn't resonating with the public as well as they had hoped.

At best, this is a story of Twitter being over-cautious about handling potential misinformation - which is a valid criticism to make and a conversation worth having - but the narrative that the government and Twitter collaborated to suppress "the truth about Hunter Biden's laptop" in order to manipulate the election is plain BS.
doubt. Snowden is a Putin's trophy.
TLDR

Inflation hurts the poor by reducing their marginal income buying power a few percent. If we induce a recession they’ll lose their jobs and we can reduce their buying power by 100%. Meanwhile people with excess savings will get windfall interest payments.
I'm fairly certain that the reservations system results in the parks being more overrun. There are other variables as well, but being able to be assured that your going to get your camp site before you arrive has everyone and their brother booking the popular places.

The fact that you might arrive and not get that perfect spot serves to discourage some number of people. And many of them aren't prepared to find alternatives, or sleep in the dirt lot next to the ranger station. Which is the kind of thing that used to happen on those popular weekends at the popular sites. It frankly was never a problem for most people because they had already acknowledged to themselves that they might not get a spot, and had a backup plan. So for the first ~30 years or so of my life camping, I never made a reservation. Simply showed up and took what was available. Usually early if I thought it was going to be busy.

I can't ever remember not getting a spot, even as recently as ~6-7 years ago when I took the kids to yellowstone (with a plan for camping down the road if I couldn't get a spot in the park directly). And you know what, outside of the first day when we actually went to the alternate campground because it was late when we arrived, I didn't have a problem showing up the next day at the reservations desk and getting spots for the next 4 nights. And this was still in the summer when school was out.
> Even the Romans weren't always so conciliatory and rational - in conquering Carthage they sold the entire surviving population into slavery and destroyed the original city entirely.

But Carthage wasn't just a city, it was a region. The city was sacked for standing up to Rome -- essentially the same policy the Mongols used. What happened to the rest of the region?

Britain during and after the fall of Rome is worth considering here; it's similar and also different. Roman Britain was overrun by Germanic tribes and the system that resulted wasn't closely related to the system in place under the Romans.

But I see that as related to the invasion being decentralized. It was more "a large number of small groups of people showing up" than "Genghis Khan showing up with his horde".

We may have different ideas of what "the local administration is left in place" means. The Yongle emperor (Chinese) deposed his own nephew (also Chinese) and subsequently executed a very large share of the people who had been administrators (still Chinese) under the previous regime, along with their families.

But the system of Chinese administration was left untouched by the mass executions. A slate of administrators was wiped out and replaced by very similar people doing very similar things.
Because that's neoliberalism for you. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/citizen-coup...
I didn’t say they were new to the game I said they probably aren’t looking super reliable all of a sudden.

Things that tend to matter a lot in that world are credibility, stability and reliability.

New information has come in via a very public set of car crashes and that relationship is now looking like a liability.
Except every important cultural institution and practically every tech space is left-biased.
I don't think people have a natural right to create a legal entity that shields them from consequences, so I think it's fine for society to add conditions.

I think a reasonable compromise with privacy would be to remove the residential address and ID number, but keep name, DOB, and nationality.
Not sure if the original report is linked in the article:

https://www.pcrm.org/ethical-science/animals-in-medical-rese...
Guess the prompt:

Dear parking enforcement officer,

I understand that I have been issued a parking fine for violating the designated parking regulations in the area. However, I would like to plead my case and request that the fine be waived.

Firstly, I would like to apologize for my mistake and any inconvenience caused by my improper parking. I assure you that this was an unintentional error on my part, and I will make sure to be more careful in the future.

Secondly, I would like to highlight that I am a loyal customer of the establishment in which I was parked, and I visit regularly to support local businesses. As a member of the community, I believe that it is important to support local businesses and contribute to the local economy.

Lastly, I would like to offer a solution to avoid any future parking violations. I am willing to make a donation to a local charity of your choice, as a gesture of goodwill and to demonstrate my commitment to following parking regulations in the future.

I hope that you will consider my request and waive the parking fine. Thank you for your understanding and consideration.

Sincerely,
[Your Name]
Cooling is actually a big problem in space.
Yes ! As Harryhirsch said, change of position !

DO DEV OPS

You will most probably not be able to change the culture of a company on your own. So you could just leave before they realize the code is unmaintainable. (plot twist : you often realize this in some hard way)

if you have these engineering skills, I suggest you do DevOps ! designs, modeling, docs, manage a codebase, Tests, version control, policies, static analysis... perfectly match what they have to do

Keep the mindset, learn some gitlab pipelines, and you'll be a rock star for employers
I didn't read the whole thing, but from the reactions of politicians in the Twitter files and some news writers, it looks like it was something worth paying attention to, surely more than the every day doom and gloom headlines.

(As I said I am not an avid american politics follower, I would remove the "should've been a bigger story" line if that's an issue)
The US government regulates Twitter? News to me.
I edited the bigger story line
> NATO is an anti-soviet alliance from the Cold War era. We’ve been fighting proxy battles with the Russians for 80 years. Think about that! Why on earth would Russia trust us Americans and our “defensive” missile systems?

Because NATO, and America has never invaded Russia, even though they had the capability and will at the end of WW2.

> Imagine if Texas seceded from the union and tried to form a military alliance with China, Iran, and Russia. Ukraine was the second most powerful Soviet and the USSR collapsed only 30 years ago.

This would only be a fair comparison if the USA entirely collapsed and then, the free state of Texas, which, has international recognition from both the world and the country that succeeded the USA as being independent decided to join a military alliance.

> We need to stop excessively spreading our sphere of influence. We got problems at home. Obviously the US can’t back out now…but perhaps we should reassess our future military strategy before we do something REALLY stupid like go to war with China over Taiwan.

Or maybe it's that China shouldn't try and conquer Taiwan?. Like Russia shouldn't have tried to conquer Ukraine?. America(for once) and the EU really look like the goods guys this time around.
Yes, I am glad you brought this up. I think there are trade offs. There is a benefit to Americans that they accept the best globally. On the other hand, professors and elite STEM grads do form a high status caste who occupy the most powerful government and corporate positions and professorships that make decisions that affect Americans.

Some of my favorite people I know are foreign stem grads. But I have also met some who have nothing but contempt for uneducated americans. To tie this to my original post I do wonder if this is not only a security risk but a cultural risk which creates a mostly foreign immigrant group with high caste status in the US that is hereditary/permanent based on university admissions policies. There is lowered expectations for non immigrants.

The most provable issue is the security issue though not the cultural issue. A thought experiment: would France or Japan or China accept that their most elite people are heavily foreign? Probably not. One can imagine why this might be an issue. Professors with dual citizenship can leave at any moment and during a war that could devastate us. What real loyalty do they have?

My remedy is to nationalize an effort to focus less on tiktok dances, followers, and selling foot pics and more on education. It's what other countries are doing and I am afraid if the US doesn't react it is heading towards decay.
How do you even know?

From people in the small Arican villages to these people traveling to the big cities or even abroad, there is always an issue of being able to access the internet. (to use whatsapp for instance)

Broadband won't help here.
Starlink having global coverage would be much different. (if it manages to do so without being impeded at the regulatory level)
AFAIK that hasn't been true for a very long time. You can install apps via xcode for your own phone for free for a while: https://developer.apple.com/support/compare-memberships/

It's distribution that costs money, which makes sense because humans review that you're following their privacy polices etc.
I mean, this is an event that lasted a day, they admitted their own mistakes, and they clearly deliberated over it. Like I agree with you in principal and could agree if they tried to keep it going, but they even said they should probably stop suppressing it because it was against their policies. They in fact seemed to not want to use their power.

So I guess, yeah, what do you propose gets done about it? What is the core principal here that should get applied equally across the political spectrum. If you misapply your moderation policies you should be hanged?
Just wait until he's done and then tweet '@threadreaderapp unroll' (or look for replies to people who already placed the request. You'll get a link toa. single-page version.
Are there actually any genuinely UK-English-based programming languages? You'd think if anything (given the origin of the name) it'd be Python, but while as far as I can tell none of the keywords are specifically US-spelling, there are definitely function/field names in the standard library that are (certainly "color", "tokenizer", "capitalize" and "center" to pick a few).
$7M lost on Amazon inventory, then bankrupt
There is no free cooling in the space. It is actually harder to cool something in the space than in Sahara, because you have no air that you can dump energy into. Your only choice is to radiate heat away, which is very inefficient.
Huh. "Secured Satellite Network For Government Entities" .. which, or how many, entities? You can only offer your service to so many before you hit those inevitable political barriers. I think they're already firmly cemented in the "US and allies" market, so the broadly-worded marketing text is a bit funny to me.
I like the idea of having some way to do unauthenticated calls, but would it be possible to layer on some additional granularity or would that be asking too much when the security infrastructure already exists?

That is, I might want to be able to append data without any ceremony (logs?), but schema changes or data mutation would require credentials.
You're forgetting to mention that you need to have a model that is capable of learning that probability distribution.
More specifically, Firefox is updating itself in that situation so it knows not to do anything until startup/shutdown. When the you-have-to-restart tab appears, it's because Firefox didn't do the update, something external on linux (apt or snap or something) did it in a way Firefox can't handle.
This is fucking ridiculous. There's no subjectivity here, and people don't commonly confuse those terms. You're just making shit up.
I still get the WSJ printed paper delivered. Why? No distracting video ads, popovers, cookie warnings, coupon offers, 'subscribe now' pop ups, paywalls, and Taboola clickbait bullshit masquerading as real headlines.

AND I can choose what to read and what to skip, which can’t be done with streaming video. There’s no BREAKING NEWS headlines. There’s no distracting blonde anchor. And if the news is 15 hours old, I don’t care.

There’s nothing in the news that needs my attention within 15 hours after it breaks, except a nuclear missile heading my way.

If I need the news right away, right now, then I read it online.
It is literally the job of the head of legal to act, often without knowledge of the CEO (especially on time sensitive matters). The CEO is usually informed at some point, of course.
But this is why they are the head of legal.

It's often actually written into their policies. There are certainly corporations that say the opposite, or require the board to be notified, or whatever, but it would not be that uncommon for the head of legal to respond to something and then inform the CEO after doing it.

As for suppressing stories - it seems they suppressed stories from pretty much anyone who asked - Matt says explicitly they did it for "both sides".

That does not seem like an abuse of power. It may be a crappy policy, but despite all the hand-wringing, Twitter is just a platform, not anything special. So maybe it's a platform with a crappy policy.

Believing that 7.8 billion people talking at each other directly (where if 99% of people agree, you are still arguing with 78 million people) is somehow advancing anything useful is, honestly, crazy or highly ignorant of why we moved towards representative systems of (government, et al) in the first place.

It wasn't because we couldn't get all the people in the room.

Seeing it as a place to shoot the shit, awesome.

Seeing it as a foundational block of democracy - uh, no. Or at least, if it ever became that, democracy is doomed. Thankfully, it isn't, really.
don't some TVs actually listen in on what you're watching to figure out your viewing habits regardless?
I am default late so I just put things on my calendar earlier than they actually are to compensate. Then early.

A good habit is doomscroll your calendar once a day instead of $socials.
Gravity bombs can be as much as several thousand dollars cheaper (EACH!) than drones and missiles so this looks like a great cost savings.
It's probably also more beneficial from a policy standpoint to get twice as many people signed up at 50Mbps. As you note, the jump from 50Mbps to 100Mbps isn't that big, but the jump from 3Mbps DSL to 50Mbps Starlink means that you can suddenly use a lot of the internet that never really worked well before.

It could definitely be annoying to customers who had signed up and are now getting significantly less speed at the same price, but Starlink has a bit of a captive audience since they're mostly serving people without other options.
They’re not dropping just Eufy, they’re dropping all of Anker.
Twitter censoring at the behest of political party operatives is pretty sketchy if true. The claim was made in the thread, I'm curious if there will be more evidence in this thread to substantiate it.
I don't see what metric would make you think React is on the downfall.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=reactjs%2Cvue...

https://npmtrends.com/react-vs-svelte-vs-vue
Stanning for the swastika is one of the weirdest modern internet fetishes.
Equifax's customers aren't about to stop buying Equifax products because they leaked a bunch of PII.
I wonder if it's something about you running on Wayland, and some terminals or programs are running under XWayland? Not sure if the two actually share the primary selection clipboard or whatever properly.

I'm still under Xorg (running GNOME) for now, I'll move to Wayland when the benefits outweigh the costs, which I don't think is the case for me yet.
Austin to get tallest apartment building outside NYC
I think you're confusing Hacker News for 4chan.
There is a lot of porn on Twitter, and the app doesn’t do anything to block it.
Could you elaborate for those of us who don’t typically follow space news? Has Space-X had some trouble recently?
It's kind of interesting in the sense that reading internal emails is always kind of interesting...but otherwise, nothing here seems particularly shocking or groundbreaking.

The only real revelation here seems to be that there existed some internal debate whether or not blocking the story was a good idea, which seems...kind of obvious? I'd be more surprised if there wasn't internal debate.