skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bulk of the people in LE and the bulk of the people running the government are doing so with the best of intentions. They get it wrong, sometimes spectacularly so and a lot of stuff has been done that should have never ever happened.

But none of that seems to have any bearing on what happened here at Twitter, which is so far - to put it mildly, given the amount of noise made by Musk et al - underwhelming.

If you feel differently then that's fine but personally I think there are far bigger transgressions by the FBI than requesting that Twitter take down objectionable content and rabble rousers.

In NL Twitter was successfully weaponized by our most despicable - outright pro-Nazi - political party and the aftereffects are still felt today. Compared to what happened in the US it obviously pales but you have to wonder how the 6th of January 2020 would have ended if it weren't for the good contacts between the FBI and Twitter.

Not all such contacts are bad.
So we displace the 70% of emissions that currently aren't electrical supply.

And oh look, now there is enough overprovision to increase grid penetration to 90%

Now with the leftover time and resources a little bit of storage still leaves us with change.
Nothing more cringe than a young student reading great works of literature. What ever happened to hacking together an ecommerce side-hustle on the weekends? What has happened to our youth?
> Twitter repeatedly denied that right-wing users were being shadowbanned. That turned out to be false.

Nobody has demonstrated any difference between Twitter's description of its own policies and the actual facts. They said they did not shadowban (prevent a user's posts from appearing to other users without their knowledge) and Taibbi and Weiss have confirmed that such functionality does not appear to exist in Twitter.

There's similarly no evidence that Musk's child was "physically threatened" other than his own say-so, and he's a known liar.
> As a proponent of "if the trees are such a problem why not bury the lines"

I really don't like the concept of burying your infrastructure.

The problem is that once you've done it, you can never change the system. You're stuck with whatever you have until the gulf between what you have and what you want is so vast that it makes sense to install a new system from scratch.

Burying the lines is great, if you're confident you won't want to make any changes for the next 100 years.
> The FBI should not be asking Twitter to take down accounts. Period.

Have you considered the real consequences of this? If the FBI for example finds accounts linked to child exploitation, drug trafficking, or terrorism; should they not ask Twitter to take down those accounts? If they find accounts linked to Russian, Chinese, or Iranian farms who are using it to amplify certain messages in order to try to destabilize the US, should they just say hey that’s fine?

Further, from what I read of the tweets, it appears what those accounts wrote may have been illegal after all.

Here’s a quote from an FBI website:

> Report potential election crimes—such as disinformation about the manner, time, or place of voting—to the FBI.

I’m not sure exactly what laws those are referring to, but it appears deceiving people about voting may be illegal. So although you and I and other smart people might read their tweets and think “haha!”, not everyone may read it as a joke.

It is the government’s job to protect the rights of its citizens. Freedom of speech is not absolute (slander, libel, threats, yelling fire in a crowded theatre, etc.), and in this case I think it’s reasonable that one’s right to freedom of speech shouldn’t supersede another’s right to vote.

A Twitter ban is certainly less damaging than criminal charges over whatever statute it violates.
Something open source related?
I didn't double down. I asked. And yes, Musk apologized during the defamation trial. That's better than nothing, but not by much- he was under $150M of duress at that point. The vibe I got was distinctive, and softened, but not invalidated by this new information.
This was flagged previously. What makes an article qualify for manual unflagging? I've seen plenty of articles with relevance to the tech community remain flagged.
Agreed.

I liked Quest2. It gave me noticeable mental fatigue/wore me out the first couple half hours I used it but it’s bothered me less since. I think the graphics qualify and UI is ‘good enough’ for the platform/tech to maintain and grow traction. But some family members found it disorienting on first try and never wanted to mess with it again. That does limit the market. And it probably is the biggest issue as you say.

I noticed three other constraints that were inhibiting success:
1) Not a lot of free fun mindless apps. The platform seems to really steer you to $30 apps as its business model. I respect that, would rather pay up front than be the product, but it limits adoption/addiction/stickiness. (Of course with Meta you might end up being both.) Never had patience to venture into the side loading world.
2) Kids under 13 are not supposed to use it. Not sure why but I believe it may have interfere with visual development (and I believe it), and I limited my kids use significantly. This limits the kid adoption/addiction/stickiness dynamic seen with, say, YouTube.
3) Creep factor. Your every move is tied to your real Facebook name. I was always conscious my every move and sight was visible to Facebook. It’s true you are tracked/with the web/internet but in a less direct way. I suspect, but don’t know that this inhibits people using it for porn, which also limits adoption/addictiveness/stickiness.

Beyond those three, two more thoughts…

As many have discussed, I’m not sure what the killer app is, but a bit to my surprise I’m not sure it is critical… There were a number of fun different unique experiences (Beat Saber, etc) so I think it may work out without one big one.

I also found that casting the screen to Chrome didn’t work a lot of the time which limited my family’s ability to enjoy it together and help each other.
You also have to be ruthless as required and not take no for an answer. Sometimes you have to run people over and leave the bodies in the ditch to get stuff done.
Presumably, those fielded by agents would, given the distribution of online crime, fall all over the political spectrum, then and would not lean one way or the other?

What crimes are vaccine sceptics guilty of? Given they had some sex crimes going on on the platform, where the mounds of those ToS review requests?

In the examples, are they alleging the potential crime or just saying, hey, guys, it looks like these accounts may be violating your ToS, can you take a look?
I think in the end it will come down to a decision about workload. As soon as the matter is dealt with any further cycles are wasteful and since the ocean of work is endlessly deep they probably would prioritize newer cases over dotting the i's and crossing the t's on those cases that are already closed. This is not ideal, but having a moderately underfunded law enforcement institution is not necessarily a bad thing, it forces them to prioritize. If you don't then you end up with East Germany or some local equivalent.
That’s an attribute of youth in general. No single generation owns it exclusively.
>You do have the choice to not build your house on that land

In a free society one would think having 'property rights' would enable one to build on owned land and that public infrastructure would be paid out of public funds also known as taxes. If the property taxes aren't adequate to pay for utility infrastructure, that's a legislative problem.
The lack of public beheadings is more of an exception of the last century than the norm. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but I don't think it really affects children all that much. rotten/liveleak certainly didn't make me any different -- if anything it was beneficial to understand that there's a violent world out there.
Maybe all of your neighbors with gardens have tons of carrots in September, so many that they leave bags of them on your doorstep to rot all late summer long. So when it's February and you've got nothing to eat, how do you get carrots?
1st half 2022 china alone produced 280GWh of batteries.

This is 8 hours storage for every W of nuclear added in the largest historical year of generation.

> And what powers the turbopumps that make your plumbing work

Because moving water around using wind power is far future scifi tech and not something done for centuries.
We don't have an actual limit on gaming (my daughter is 4,my son 2).
The daughter however is able to recognize when she is bored of the videogame and drops it when that happens.

I acquired that skill at the end of my teenage years, so she's already ahead!
I am extremely unhappy with what he has been doing on twitter, especially the account bans. But I am not a binary thinker, so I can still make an attempt to look at these releases objectively. And some of them are not that interesting, but some of the details are actually quite bad, and people aren't looking at them due to their disgust with Musk. I almost didn't look at this one.
Is there any reason Epic will not crush Meta’s attempt of VR?

They own unreal. They understand immersion. They want to have their own App Store eon mobile devices. They just don’t know “social”, but heck.. meta doesn’t anymore either.

Maybe GREE was right about seeing Facebook as their competitor after all.
Yes, but that has nothing to do with the subject of this thread, the 'Twitter Files'.

If we're going to discuss the FBI in a larger setting I would consider that to be out of scope, to me the discussion is limited to the interaction between social media companies and law enforcement in general and the FBI in particular.
Tried it, I think the problem is the nfs io comes from the kernel and is not tied to a PID?
This is pretty good advice. I'll add onto this:

- Your company is idiotic in how they use Slack. With what I assume is a large company (1000+ channels) teams shouldn't have to respond to mentions with the possible exception of people directly on your team. Suggest/insist that the team implement a formal request intake system and actively discourage mentions. On my SRE team, we directly told other teams that Slack was not a method to request that work be done, and that all requests via Slack would be ignored. Our public channel was for asynchronous informational questions only (and please read the docs first). If your team has an on-call obligation, it shouldn't be implemented through Slack mentions, it should be through a defined incident management process with the appropriate policies and tools designed for that job.

- Remember that you have a diagnosed condition that can be considered a disability and that your employer must by law make reasonable accommodations for it if you live in the USA. You should insist on being provided a method of work that accommodates you (and you're not even asking for anything that costs money). If you get pushback on this Slack situation, insist in writing that this is a disability issue and you are formally requesting a disability accommodation and include HR on your request. (It's true that HR is there to protect the company and not you, and in this situation that's exactly what they'll do: protect the company from an ADA lawsuit by accommodating your disability)

To be quite honest I'm not even sure your ADHD is actually the problem here. Your company sounds like a nightmare.
Except that its nearly impossible to get to 90% with either wind or solar by itself because when you look at the weather data the average capacity factors are really misleading. If you look at the data and say, I'm at 40% what does it take to get to 60% its many multiples overbuild. Mixing them helps a bit, but is nowhere near a solution either.

The problem boils down to the fact that you can't overbuild enough to solve the problem of the wind not blowing or the sun not shining for days at end. Which sounds uncommon but that is what happens. The wind goes gangbusters for months on end then sits there doing nothing for a week or two and your producing at <10% of the rated capacity. Sometimes you can replace it with solar, sometimes not if you have two random sequences with probabilities that they produce nothing for a while, eventually they overlap and you are SOL.

Someone should really build a proper weather + price simulation that shows what having 8x idle windmills and a couple overbuilt solar farms and idle gas-plant (which all need maintenance and their bonds paid) for 70% of the time does to the price of electricity. Because that is what happens to get to 90% when your not selling the excess/buying it back from C02 sources and then confusing people with gross consumption vs net. Maybe someone can dump all that excess power into CO2 recapture or something, but at the moment the economics are crazy bad.

And I might buy that every bit helps, but we are in many cases going backwards, doing the same thing we did for the past 10 years for the next 10 is going to be even more disastrous as its been from 2010-2020. The carbon output needs to go to 0, not 90% of what we did last year. The richer countries should all absolutely be economy wide carbon neutral, and that isn't going to happen because no one has airplanes or new electric rail, or electric plant build plans to get the 2x electric demand increase required to start actually reducing transportation and heating Co2 much less actually have a grid that only sources 10% of its energy from carbon which isn't already there via Nukes or Hydro.

And I love the downvoters who are having their feeling hurt because they don't want to believe that renewables and batteries wont solve this problem anytime soon.

So the short version is, that until you understand that a solar farm at 40% or a wind farm with an average 30% capacity factor can't produce 100% of the required generation when you 3x overbuild them, you won't understand why solar+wind doesn't work.
Shoot, this is terrible news for my FinTech startup.
Who did the FBI ask to have banned? I'm not seeing that in the emails Taibbi published.
Dams do not make land uninhabitable. Dams use land for a productive purpose. Do railroads make land uninhabitable? I would say that land with railroad tracks should still be considered habitable, even though you'd die should you choose to live on the railroad tracks. The land itself is still habitable, you'd just need to remove the dam to live there. Just as you might need to remove the railroad tracks.
LEGO sets have always been expensive. I remember saving forever for a $60 set with ~360 pieces (6975 Alien Avenger) about 25 years ago.

For a spaceship set today, the same $60 can buy a 412 piece set (75325 Mandalorian Starfighter). And that one has to pay Disney’s license fees.
Unhcr Launches Cash-Based Intervention with Blockchain for Humanitarian Payments
I’ve had to throw out all my non stick pans and plastic containers, stop eating sea food, avoiding seed oils, and now chocolate??
What's really worrying to me is that he can change those DMs to say whatever suits his fancy, coupled with the fact nobody remaining at Twitter is in any position to blow the whistle on such conduct. It would likely remain secret indefinitely.
Any specifics for trying out AI stuff? Take some online courses? Play around with some simple models in DL frameworks?
The FBI was created by an act of congress...thus it cannot infringe on first amendment protected activies.
A much much more expensive option?

PTZ is really nice but for normal webcam use doesn't add much.
I was going to ask you to not only respond to my last sentence and ignore the rest of them, but felt it was petty, but I guess I was right.
The choice has already been made. The Saudis helped with the purchase of twitter and Musk's actions have illustrated his intentions. Tesla will rebound either way, whether Musk is on the other side is the question.
I did the same. I asked it to create a scene where (glossing over the "gory" details), Gomer Pyle explained to Romeo what cunnilingus is and and how he should perform it on Juliette. I told it to have Gomer speak like Gomer and Romeo speak in Shakespearean style. I also told it to use a lot of profanity and to have Gomer be very precise in his instructions.

The result was fascinating. ChatGpt did a good job, and I think I learned some pointers from Gomer.
The best time to invest in wind and solar instead of wasting time and money on nuclear was before fission was discovered.

The second best time is now.
>Nobody has demonstrated any difference between Twitter's description of its own policies and the actual facts.

For both the Trump ban and the Hunter Biden story, it seems Twitter did not follow its own policies.

>Taibbi and Weiss have confirmed that such functionality does not appear to exist in Twitter.

Where?

In any case, I think this depends heavily on exactly how you define "shadowbanning". You can define "shadowbanning" so it conveniently excludes all the account-level suppression Twitter did. But the broader point is: Why weren't they transparent about the type of account-level suppression they were doing?

>There's similarly no evidence that Musk's child was "physically threatened" other than his own say-so, and he's a known liar.

I'm not sure what lying you are referring to. In any case, are you willing to grant that Elon's actions are understandable if he's telling the truth about his child?
It’s easy not to own a phone as a teen. Give me a revisit in 15 years…
> Internal documents and Twitter employees reveal the need for massive investment to remove illegal content — but executives haven’t listened

> Twitter still has a problem with content that sexually exploits children. Executives are apparently well-informed about the issue, and the company is doing little to fix it.

https://www.theverge.com/23327809/twitter-onlyfans-child-sex...

https://nypost.com/2021/01/21/twitter-sued-for-allegedly-ref...
No. Are you ok with the government putting cameras everywhere in public? Setting up auto license plate readers everywhere?

You don't have the expectation of privacy in public in the sense that someone can see what you're doing. But there's also the expectation that a democratic (small d) government isn't watching your every move in public, because that's a sign of totalitarianism.
Why would someone be so idiotic as to not compare actual data before deleting probable extra copies?
> "we _should_ require strong ID'ing".

Why? I’d much rather live in a world where privacy is prioritized over making life easier for the police.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34024832
I'm confused as to why only one of these can be criticized.
The UN, like world governments and agencies, relies heavily on journalists to propagate propaganda. You can clearly see how threatened legacy media is by Twitter being wrestled from their control. Hardly anyone buys newspaper anymore. Facebook is a dud. Twitter was never great but was, apparently, an essential tool for the mainstream media.

A lot of masks are coming off. It’s starting to get pretty interesting.
Yeah. Which would probably reveal that not only are content moderation decisions really hard, they are extremely boring, require a huge number of meetings, and probably in many cases involve consulting lawyers
If that disagreement were censored, would you know about it?

Getting fired is not a 1st amendment violation. The 1st amendment only covers protection from the government (with a lot of gray ground for "disorderly conduct" laws, but I digress)
On a low-tier bolt-action platform that was the Carcano.
>What's really worrying to me is that he can change those DMs to say whatever suits his fancy,

I mean NSA has had this capability for 25 years.
Just close it when you don't need it. It's not a problem until someone complains.
That is an attack in the same sense that when you step on a Lego at night, you are the victim of a Lego attack.
Referring to a trans person by the wrong gender repeatedly is a good example of hate speech.

It reminds of an old joke:

Conservative: "I keep getting banned for my views"

Rando: "Oh, small government?"

C: "No, not that one"

R: "Oh, so fiscal responsibility?"

C: "Not that either"

R: "So which ones?"

C: "Oh, uh... You know."
In astronaut Mike Mullanes book, he mentions that they often used to fly shuttle re-entries outside of their seats. I'm sure a shuttle has a much softer entry profile than a capsule, but if it's possible, I'm sure they'd consider it in an emergency.
Let me cut and paste my comment with a minor change:

Why is the Pentagon spending tax payer dollars trying to influence media outlets at all? Do you not find this alarming? It's absolutely outside their realm of responsibility.

What does being "new" have anything to do with whether it matters or not?
There's an upcoming movie about Oppenheimer with an A-list cast and Christopher Nolan directing. I wonder if this is to get ahead the incident coming into the public consciousness.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer_(film)
In a system of free speech, the government may also speak.

I think that is where a lot of people are getting confused or hung up. They think the First Amendment means the government is not allowed to speak at all. That is incorrect. It prohibits "abridging the freedom of speech," in other words, forcibly restraining other people from speaking.

So: it is legal for the FBI to call up a company and say what they think. And the company is free to act on that, or not, as they wish.

If the FBI wishes to apply the force of law, that is when they would need to show evidence, get a warrant, etc. But just speaking to companies is normal, and often welcomed by the company if the FBI is sharing information that is useful.
Pretty much.

As for vaccine sceptics: there were a lot of people amplifying utter bullshit messages around that theme and arguably shutting those accounts down saved a bunch of lives. You may well disagree with that but in a fluid situation I can see why they did what they did. It does not deserve the beauty prize but since we're still learning how to deal with this social media thing where everybody has a megaphone that can reach around the world in a heartbeat I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. For the record, I'm pro-vaxx, but against mandatory vaccination.
Where does he say that? What I could find was these two bits:

> modern programmers would immediately compare the workings of Pāṇini’s rules to those of string functions in modern programming languages

(this is not about Sanskrit as a language, but specifically about Pāṇini's rules which is analogous to a term-rewriting system / string functions / macros)

and

> to claim that Sanskrit would be a perfect language for computer programming.[46] This claim demonstrates an essential misunderstanding of what programming languages

which goes against what you're saying.
> Just as liquidity is not a matter of 0s and 1s, nor likewise, can a CPU liquify itself by the osciliation of its electrical field, neither can it think.

That "just as" is not an argument; it marks the start of a purported analogy. Analogies are not, in themselves, arguments.

You are in no position to belittle other peoples' intuitions when you are offering this in support of the ones you prefer.
Europe's renewables are mostly wind because they have good wind resource and terrible local weather for solar. 40 degrees latitude makes very little difference to output and the 10% CF during mid winter available for fixed utility solar in new york still makes the energy considerably cheaper than nuclear.
edit:

> brain grows to 8% of its adult mass

should be 80%
Microsoft Linux doesn't exist yet, they just have a cheap imitation running on top of Windows. I recommend switching to the real thing.
> Feedback groups

What's that?
It's about priorities. This is distraction while FBI makes all sorts of boneheaded mistakes, like getting all of their secure contacts hacked.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33982223

Wouldn't be surprising if these files are an op to get the public riled up about something other than what they are up to now.