skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't change subjects. We were talking about "shadowbanning", not Hunter Biden. Twitter has stated for years that they have controls to prevent algorithmic recommendation of particular users, content, or trends, and that's precisely what we saw reported on by Taibbi and Weiss. They had direct access to Twitter internals and did not report any "shadowbanning" functionality. It's fair to assume that they would have reported it if it existed.

No, I don't think it's understandable for Musk to respond to someone stalking him by modifying Twitter policies to retaliate against another person with no connection to the stalking.
> Also, it's called the FBI. Their job is to investigate federal matters, which includes content on social social media

their job is not to interfere with the 1st amemndment.
Please refer the whole thread before claiming it has nothing to do with the subject.
Nope, free speech applies to individuals, not to the government as a single entity. And this for good reasons, since they wield much more power than a single individual.
I was wondering, do we observe baby-like crawling in chimps or other mammals? I know lots of animals crawl but do baby chimps crawl the way humans do at any point in their development?
Yes, that would be a real problem.
“FBI acted illegally (outside of Congress authorization)” works for me too
I hope we remember that in the same time period, all mentioning of same story were declared misinformation here, on Hacker News, and posts were flagged, users banned. I wonder if there is any learnings here for the current/future reaction to the ongoing stories?
It's not alarming because it's so pervasive it's the way things are. Thus when something new is brought up their impact needs to be weighed accordingly to prioritize.
The FBI accepts reports from the public about people interfering with elections, and they forward on those reports to the relevant platforms. I would like to see the FBI and other law enforcement agencies considerably reduced in scale and power, but as long as they exist I think monitoring threats to free and fair elections is one of the better things they can do with said taxpayer dollars.
That sort of wording makes it worse, IMO.

It's one thing for the FBI to contact twitter to say "hey there's this account that's posting instructions on how to make and plant pipe bombs so you should remove it" but a completely different thing for the FBI to say "hey there's thing thing that violates one your arbitrary terms of service so you should take it down".

Why is the FBI spending time and resources looking for TOS violations for a private company?

Why is the FBI spending time looking into _anything_ that's not illegal, period?
Their organization seems weirdly large if that's their sole job.
Some people see causality in coincidences
> A hacker pulling off an exfiltration of the entire DB of any major tech company I'm very skeptical about that happening.

Under normal circumstances I would agree, but after firing so many people I can't imagine that security at Twitter is still priority #1, they likely have trouble keeping the lights on.
>As for vaccine sceptics: there were a lot of people amplifying utter bullshit messages..."

What is the actual crime that precipitates their appetite to nonchalantly ask for review? Moreover, the CDC and govt officials, including Biden himself, spread bullshit messages about Covid and its vaccines.

Did they ask Twitter to suspend Antifa accounts because of the violent nature of some of their demos? Or people amplifying bullshit stories about cops such that "ACABs"? Where were they supplicating for those reviews?

As an independent it looks to me, the FBI trod dangerously close to censorship (as in the Government censoring speech unwanted by the gov).
Most people do.
I think what people are concerned about is the selectiveness of the reports.

What if the FBI only happened to report violations by Asians. Or only violations by women?

I guess it would not be censorship, and I guess it would not be not illegal either, but it would make people wonder if there is an agenda.

It’s as much about the violations reported as the violations left unreported.
I heard that Boeing archived an Apollo Domain network, because some engineering documentation was developed on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo/Domain
Good Explainiation...
Distraction for whom? Is HN ground zero for prosecuting the FBI? The audience here is capable of holding many things in their heads at once.
I had not even considered that, good point, data integrity is not to be expected going forward. This also puts a rather interesting twist on any of the evidence presented.
Yes, it's a common rhetorical approach to take a valid point from the opposing side and to parrot it back at them, even if it doesn't make sense, in order to dilute the original. Say it enough times and people believe it without thinking.
Madison Stewart is a shark protection advocate who has gone to Indonesia repeatedly to study and engage with shark fisherman there. She reports that they do it to provide for their families and community. That's a powerful motivator, and shark finning is lucrative to poor communities.

Folks interested in learning more can look up Project Hiu. I follow her @sharkgirlmadison on Instagram, where she posts pretty regularly.
Depends on the context. People have been suspended from Twitter from saying things like "transwomen are actually men so stop letting them compete in women's sports, it's not safe or fair for actual women", which isn't hate speech, doesn't target an individual, and is a legitimate political opinion, so in theory should be fine. Yet bans are handed out anyway.
Why were the accounts of interest? Were they controlled by foreign IPs?

When there are mass ransomware attacks from foreign states, the FBI does help private companies.

I think that is probably the charitable perspective.
Either that or the FBI led by James Comey at the time (who arguably single handed sunk Clinton in 2016 by going against FBI policy to re-open the "emails" case), was corrupt and at a rate of one email a week was attempting to control the national discourse thru twitter.

Not sure if that is credible given the FBI could have done far worse to the trump campaign.

Though, without primary source material, I'm not sure how one could tell the difference (Occams razor seemingly might come into play)
No, definitely not - it's that, as plusminusplus pointed out, most of us mistakenly put the stress on the first syllable. That is, we use the same stress pattern as the word 'luncheon', when it ought to be the same stress pattern as the phrase 'lunch on'.
Modern capitalism has ushered in a new age of modern fuedalism, at first just inside big companies, but it’s spreading to society in general now.
> And yes it truly isn’t a problem, as plugin developers have long since interpolated the 128 steps.

That's the point. It is not an issue for you, because it has been solved in certain receiving software that you use. That does not mean that the issue does not exist, but that it can be mitigated if you use software that allows that and smoothes the sweeps.
You probably seen this advice before but just in case, here is what worked for me (and should work for anyone, even without ADHD)

1. block time in your calendar, and let your peers and managers know that you are "blocking time to do your actual job"

2. there are slack plugins that auto set you as away / turn off notifications when you have an outlook / calendar meeting

3. use a pomodoro timer

4. focusatwill powertools with noise canceling headphones

5. important - lot's of the distraction is due to FOMO, a simple question that someone asks to get unblocked becomes a forced "meeting without a meeting" where people feel like if they don't respond then their voice will not be heard. This needs talking to the team and coming up with some ground rules to avoid it. You want people to use slack to get unblocked, you don't want people to force others into a FOMO based hour long thread.

6. Agree not to use slack as a ticketing system / documentation system. If someone reports a bug on slack, great, now it's the reporter's responsibility to put it in GitHub Issues / Linear / JIRA etc. Slack is terrible as a ticketing system. If you need something to get done, open a ticket.

7. Your last sentence makes a lot of sense, opening it 2-3x times a day is a great idea.
Do you have citations to any cases to support this theory of yours?
A strategy I haven't seen mentioned is to use the filesystem itself as an index. Directory structure can be used to implement a trie or prefix tree.

For example, if you want to look up the existence of a sample hash:
`2aae6c35c94fcfb415dbe95f408b9ce91ee846ed`

Then simply check for existence of directory <data-root>/2a/ae/6c/35/etc...

I was looking at the directory structure of Gitea's Docker Container Registry and this is how they stored container images.
I have nothing negative to say about your comment. The reality is your son cannot sit still at a restaurant and youtube works to have a decent dining experience.

Now if outside the restaurant context, you were constantly giving him Youtube time in lieu of real world activity, I would encourage different behavior.
Growing up in a fascist regime may make it seem normal but at some point you need to raise your hackles and feel alarmed regardless of the past, because it's a fascist regime.
It's important, because if you want them to change, you need to understand why they preform an action to begin with. The alternative is an ignorant attempt to tell them what is right and wrong based on only your beliefs.
That would be the cherry on top of all this drama
> I feel sorry for those FAANG engineers...

Imagine that you're paid 2-3x, the work is confined to 9-5, gourmet meals on the 2x days you're not wfh, generous vacation policy, world-class benefits, and ample time to pursue side hobbies or family.

I know so many exceptional engineers that went this route... after they got over the perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and wild ambitions to just accept the status quo. Now, their lives are comparably stress-free compared to their startup brethren, and many of them live vicariously through angel investments using the delta in comp.
There is for C-suite employees.
Musk held a Twitter poll to see if those accounts should be un-suspended:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603600001057185792

He didn't like the results of that poll, so he held a second poll:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603609466301059073

And I imagine he likes those results even less.

But, by the standard he set himself, he needs to unban the accounts now.
Well, it's ubuntu in a Hyper-V VM. It's a very real linux, and it runs /in/ windows vs on top of it...
The FBI said they are "notifying you of the below accounts which may potentially constitute violations of Twitter's Terms of Service for any action or inaction deemed appropriate within Twitter policy". One of the accounts was an account parodying a pro wrestler by suggesting he frequently poops in his pants. Not really seeing any evidence of a coordinated political agenda here.
Part of our business-critical financial analytics software was running on VAX/VMS, then AlphaVMS decades ago. Written in DEC Pascal (let's just say - not really compatible with any other Pascal dialects I am aware of). We managed to port the whole system to Linux (before Linux became fashionable) by a godawful contraption made of Scheme, Perl, shell and elisp - it "translated" the Pascal code into a dialect understood by p2c, which in turn translated it to C. That was mucho fun!
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The FBI is putting pressure on Apple to drop Enhanced Encryption, and still refusing to declassify their JFK files. Those are far more urgent issues than getting mad at mods.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33906649

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33883834
Because there is a huge selection bias that influences the sample of people that comment on these types of posts. I will back up the claim that, in my experience, a lot of this thread is hyperbole. There is some truth to it, sure, but don't make the mistake of thinking these anecdotal accounts actually represent the typical experience.
The knockoff brands have issues fitting together due to lower tolerances and QA issues. [1] [2]

LEGO bricks are built to a completely insane tolerance for a children's toy. 10 micrometers, according to the company.

Have you ever found a single LEGO piece that was defective and didn't fit into another one snugly? I've been playing with them for 25 years and I don't think I've found a single one.

IMO, LEGO is expensive but so is a lot of other stuff. We're in a period of high inflation, and most of us aren't used to that with very low inflation being the norm for the past ~10 years. Chipotle wasn't selling $15 burritos 20 years ago. [3]

On top of that, LEGO exploded in popularity after their licensing deals with names like Star Wars, Harry Potter, Disney, Batman, Mario, Minecraft, and the list goes on and on. LEGO used to be somewhat of a nerdy toy, only for boys, with a very small adult market compared to today. They're just charging what people are more than willing to pay.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/2orjay/why_are_mega_b...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/2aj3un/are_legos_real...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/Chipotle/comments/t905uc/those_of_u...
They are actually permissable in circumstances similar to John Carmack's:

> California employers can sidestep non-competes in the following instances:

> EXCEPTION 1: If the employee sells business goodwill

> EXCEPTION 2: If the owner sells his or her business interests

> EXCEPTION 3: If the owner sells all operating and goodwill assets

> Upon the business’ dissolution, a member of the company may agree to a non-compete if operating a similar business in the geographic area. Goodwill is the company’s name and brand reputation. Employees with stock options are not considered company owners for purposes of non-competition agreements.

https://www.contractscounsel.com/b/non-compete-california
No. Everyone is given equity in Silicon Valley.
I'm challenged for 40 years with loosing myself, living above the clouds, focusing heavily on things that fascinate me, procrastinating everything else until pressure kicks in and abusing whatever Dopamine stimulating stuff comes in my way. When I was a kid nobody knew about ADHD. Some Open Source communities are on Discord (SolidJS, Axum) which is challenging for me every time I need to engage. Just reading through the stuff shifts my brain into ADHD mode. Discord is a distraction machine. Slack the same. At my workplace I'm the only person who has MS Teams *only* open for meetings. People who know me are contacting me via E-Mail for years (I read 2-3 times a day), but when I leave it open I get all kinds of spontaneous calls, notifications, etc. that I interpret as a sign that my colleagues aren't organised very well anymore. The whole Office365 suite is creeping into our company and kills peoples ability to focus or being productive. For people like us who actually *feel* the extend to which those new tools (Office365, Slack, Discord) are damaging the performance of teams and the wellbeing of every individual this trend is alarming.

My advice (mostly some general stuff), that works well for me and might help you a bit if you're not already doing this:

- Avoid to much sugar and caffeine. This is tough because it boosts our ability in the short term but kicks us above the clouds (or idle mode) after. So, best is to avoid sugar at all and reduce / control caffein. Of course no alcohol or other drugs. Cold showers really help to get started instead of 3-4 cups of coffee (me).

- Restrict your Slack time to defined time slices. Talk to your boss and team. I really recommend doing your focus work in the morning. First 4 hours of the day to do focus work. In the second half of the day do organisational stuff including reading through slack, etc.

- I'm doing Yoga Nidra for over 10 years and it restores my energy and ability to focus. Any relaxation technique should work. You might look for Andrew Huberman NSDR (Non Sleep Deep Rest) tracks or similar. For me, Pomodoro Technique works well. In the 30 minutes break I do Yoga Nidra. Andrew Huberman's podcasts about this stuff are amazing, but also a great source of distraction, of course. If I should recommend one podcast then it would be the "Focus Toolkit".

- We need to avoid distractions at all costs. Our minds are jumping after every little conscious or unconscious excitement kick. So, for your (let's say 2-4) productive ours, all this stuff needs to be shut out. Including your phone.

Last: There's been a large study that comes to the conclusion, that "a wandering mind is an unhappy mind". I find that's absolutely true. That means for us highly distractible earthlings our live goal should be seeking calmness and to do this to perform systematically actions that lead us to calmness, like doing relaxation and focus training every day.
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Was that the only difference? Nothing qualitatively different about the reasons or motivations behind the investigations? Like maybe one was investigated because the candidate was mishandling national secrets in order to avoid freedom of information act requests?

I don't know. Seems like there's a difference.
I started in the industry when you were born, with IRIX, HPUX (horrible) and Solaris. I was on Linux by 97/98 and I haven't seen a *nix system in production use in a workplace that I've been in since about 2010.
I personally think having the US government, or any government for that matter, crosses into immoral territory.
Wow, simple and fun game. Would be good to see how you rank across all users and also between desktop and phone
I worked for a vendor that SW was a customer, and we were asked about integrating with some SW systems...what you are describing resonates
We are just trying to achieve concensus on facts here, not strategize on our plan to prosecute the FBI. This is a pseudo anonymous forum, not a law firm or activist group. We can talk about all of these things at once, despite your protestations.
This sqlite abstraction has been working well for me:
https://github.com/aaemnnosttv/wp-sqlite-db

it’s one file — ‘db.php’ — you swap in for the core file. From there, it’s mostly been seamless. ~20% of the 5k LOC, is “Method to emulate MySQL XXX() function.”

Less than that for query parsing, regex & rewrites

https://github.com/aaemnnosttv/wp-sqlite-db/blob/master/src/...
I think we don’t know. All we’re being shown is what Taibbi is tweeting.
The wildest part of the Twitter files is the unhinged framing that they are presented under.

1. Anyone who has been in a tech company knows that there is internal lingo that refers to features we devs make. But it's presented as being an "Orwellian language"

2. Based on the emails he posts, the agencies give links to review based on tips they receive or their own intel and twitter then decides if it violates ToS or not (and they sometimes did not act or simply temporarily suspended). But it's presented as a "deep state"-like collusion where the agencies control if twitter act on them or not.

3. The people in the company discuss internal matters and are sometimes critical of potential decisions. But they are presented mostly stripped of context and the focus is on anonymized employees snarky comments to make it seem like decisions were arbitrary, partisan, and without any regard to logic or context.

I could go for hours listing these.

Most quote tweets are people thinking this confirms a suspected malicious intent from twitter and that they intentionally dramatically shifted the outcomes while colluding with one side.

If anything, this confirms that Twitter acted (outside of a couple isolated occurences) in a way tamer way than I ever imagined them acting while handling the issues at hand.

EDIT: Formatting
Yes, and that's how I feel about the shutdown of the Z-Library, and their refusal to declassify their JFK files.
If someone did want to assassinate lil X as he flew on a plane, they would simply buy a radio and listen in to his pilot, who is constantly "doxxing" Musk in real time, every minute of every day, as he talks to air traffic control. Why would you rely on some kid posting to social media very inaccurate and second-hand information, when you could just listen in to his coordinates broadcasting live on the radio, or at least install an app such as Flightly?
They need to spice it up somehow, the evidence by itself won't do the trick.
You are talking about a completely different language model though, so your argument doesn't really hold. The point he makes is that AlphaCode does not generate meaningful explanations along with its code (and that's it's perhaps necessary to build trust in a system), not that there aren't any language models that can do it. AlphaCode !== ChatGPT. I encourage you to write a better analysis!
That's not a data point, as it's still under construction. Usually it's best to double the initial cost estimate to get a realistic one.
that's the "problem" tho — i dont need that level of abstraction, i already know how to assign event listeners and toggle css classes, which covers 99% or real-life needs
I know of a small shop that made a good living buying software packages like that, rewriting/modernizing the technology, and selling the new version back to all the existing customers. It was kind of a win for everyone -- the customers got updated, secure software, the owners of the old tech who were getting nothing out of it (this stuff is not SaaS) got some money, and some developers got work.
I'm pretty skeptical of the performance of a billion files.

I'm sure it will go at okay speed once you actually construct it, since it's basically a tree, but with so many entries I'd expect it to be much less pleasant than a database in many ways. The "preprocessing" is going to be especially awful.
That's not what conservatism is. If you want the actual best quote about conservatism, it's this one:

> There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

- G. K. Chesterton

(Also, "conservative" and "right-wing" are not the same thing)
More from commercial customers who can’t install enough to matter
People are so quick to speak for "Society" because, in their minds, they think it trumps all other arguments.

But very few -- if any -- actually know what society needs.

I would say that what Society needs is to ensure a regular supply of carrots at stable prices. It's not to maximize small household carrot farming if it does not align with this goal.

There is no particular reason why solar needs to be on individual rooftops where there is no storage, no ability to make long term commitments, and no mechanism to turn it into a reliable, dependable stream of energy.

But sure, if the same households commit to maintaining their solar panels at an agreed upon capacity, and commit to purchasing enough storage to provide the agreed upon electricity despite the weather, and are able to sign long term contracts with significant financial penalties for failing to deliver the promised quantity of electricity, then yes they can be an electricity supplier to those utilities that need reliable energy suppliers in order to meet their own contractual commitments to energy users.
Once is random chance, twice is a coincidence, three is enemy action.