skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But Twitter didn’t know the accounts would later be astroturfing

>KAHLER TOLD TWITTER that the accounts would all be “USG-attributed, Arabic-language accounts tweeting on relevant security issues.” That promise fell short, as many of the accounts subsequently deleted disclosures of affiliation with the U.S. government.

>That promise fell short, as many of the accounts subsequently deleted disclosures of affiliation with the U.S. government.

>The former Twitter employee told The Intercept that they were surprised to learn of the Defense Department’s shifting tactics. “It sounds like DOD was doing something shady and definitely not in line with what they had presented to us at the time,” they said.
It can with a proper regex. Mostly. Depending on the language, your patience, and the amount of false positives you are comfortable with.

I did sth like that (I had bash scripts for common programming "refactorings" and "queries" like "print all classes and methods where this variable is used"). I couldn't use a modern IDE cause we were programming on a legacy linux server through ssh for licencing reasons.

And the (C++) code was written by a guy that learnt C++ and OOP on the job and it showed. Class hierarchies were sometimes 8 levels deep and class variables were reused for different purposes to "save effort on serializing them" :)

So if the user interactions were in the same order and with the same text prompts - a class would inherit them and add some new ones. Even if the old class was just accidentally asking the user similar questions :) So OR_PalNr could mean shelf number in base class and Printer number in descendant, because both times the user was asked to "scan the barcode", while the callstack was a mix of methods from both classes :)

Fun times.

BTW nowadays I mostly work with IntelliJ, but sometimes a script is still the best way to understand the code. For example grepping the git blame output is often very useful. It's never 100% reliable, but it's often good enough.
Police provide first official details of Elon Musk’s alleged stalker incident
Excuse my ignorance: does this mean that anybody can "legally" (for example) torrent-download Metropolis? Or that can be a "free" Netflix-alternative created today with movies that are part of the public domain?

Edit: a lot of answers, thanks! But still, still kinda discussed. It certainly is an interesting topic.
Yes, they should be able to pay a fee to extend beyond a fair time (~50 years?) based on a declared value of the work. To ensure the declared value is realistic, they then must sell the work to anyone that offers more than the declared value.
The book is indeed good.

For those wanting a sample of Gardiner's knowledge I'd recommend the documentary presented by him "Bach - A Passionate Life"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZVn9NZqyxs
I think ChatGPT is most similar to text-davinci-003 which does have gaps in it's knowledge which it can be stubborn about but code-davinci-002 has fewer gaps and can be more reasonable about requests. It's sometimes gets stuck in a loop though and is in beta with very limited capacity.
Point being ChatGPT is the not quite best programming model.
It was 1099, not W2. But yeah, that contract is when things started feeling "normal" again.
In this case OnceCoin was literally fraudulent, they did not actually have a crypto currency or a blockchain, just lied about it. Even at the worst it's the difference between printing worthless money and just lying and saying you are printing worthless money.
> I wish there was a cheap, highly available device with similar specs (WiFi, Bluetooth, nice displays, microphone, maybe cameras) that it was trivially easy to put your own software onto.

You mean like an Android tablet?
Came here to post this. The multiple cursors feature combined with the ability to open huge files with gracefully degrading performance turns a lot of what would be one-off programming tasks that would take dozens of minutes to an hour into interactive sessions that take seconds to minutes.

Also the low latency is amazing. Sublime on an old laptop feels batter than VS Code on a fancy new desktop.
Oh definitely we can, and society often does and should limit the autonomy of individuals for the greater good, e.g.: Driving is a "privilege" not a right. You may be placed in a conservatorship or similar if not capable of taking care of yourself. Your right to throw punches ends at other people's noses. Folks with dementia often have mobility limits placed on them.

Either these folks are deemed competent or they are not.

Also, you've used the word violence here to give the appearance that this is the same as assault, but it not. It is humane care for those who need it.
f8 and be there.
Median days on market is up, sale-to-list is back below 100%, price drops are a thing again, etc. Come spring, we should see the first normal housing market since before the pandemic.
Lol.

1) ok than what is the difference between doxxing and sending my friend an address on Google. According to you the public availability of the information isn't the difference, so I'm curious where it is or if you consider that case "doxxing" as well.

2) The public mapping is the opposite of what your imagining. There's a public map of "addresses"->"names" for houses but that's irrelevant because we're talking about getting the home address for a given person.

3) I'm literally responding to a comment that used that example so I don't know why it set you off here.
I mean the 2x20 header. It's become a standard for Linux SBCs but not for microcontrollers.

The Pico doesn't let you use a Raspberry Pi with ssh to develop your code using the very same hardware modules that you will use on the microcontroller. You need to either make a mess of jumper cables, or cross compile and transfer the executable constantly over serial.
FWIW: Larry Niven, "The Ethics of Madness", first published in Worlds of IF's April'67 issue. (And available on archive.org, if you can't yet rationalize buying dead-tree copies of all of Niven's Known Space stories.)
wouldn't most old smartphones fit the bill? With either stock Android or postmarketos.
It routinely bothers me a bit that, IME, most IRL discussions of the Fermi Paradox settle on this rather simple explanation when the whole idea was that this "simple explanation" was extremely unlikely, pushing speculation to more complicated and interesting hypotheses.

Emergence of life on Earth took 13.7 billion years, galactic colonization should only take millions of years. We should not expect to find the galaxy half-colonized, as this would be a staggering feat of synchronization. We should find the galaxy completely full or completely empty. It seems to be completely empty.
> Police say a member of Elon Musk’s security team is currently a suspect in their investigation, not a victim
Up until the late 1800s, "Bach" referred to his son, CPE Bach. Liszt, Chopin, and other piano virtuosi of the time really helped revive the music of JS Bach, when a lot of his best works were previously thought of as "too hard" or "not worth it."
Isn't that one of the first thing Hotz was suppose to get rid of?

He can't even get rid a simple popup?
Let’s Make Work Better
Ask HN: What did you start doing in 2022 that had the most positive impact?
I start. Personally, doing meditation - following the Waking Up app by Sam Harris - and stoicism. Professionally, learning about functional programming mainly following the HTDP.
that's the simplest way I assume and totally anonymous/untraceable if I need it, thanks!
On the one hand this sounds super dystopian.

On the other hand it does kind of make sense that they would refuse service to people actively suing their company. I would do that too. I mean it's kind of common sense
Am I alone in finding Gould intolerable? I don't have the musical expertise to criticize him technically in depth, but I can best describe his interpretations as "robotic" sounding. Like listening to a player piano.
From the link you gave, the bio of the "yemencurrent" account says "صفحة تابعة للقيادة المركزية الأمريكية لدعم الحوار حول الشأن اليمني و قضايا الأمن والاستقرارفي اليمن". I don't read Arabic, but google translates this as "A page affiliated with the US Central Command to support dialogue on Yemeni affairs and security and stability issues in Yemen". The documentcloud (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23466698) says that CENTCOM asked for a bluecheck and 'whitelisting' for the account. I don't see the big deal about this? After all, the account already indicated that it was government affiliated.

Edit: some else pointed out that the government may have been trying to trick Twitter by later deleting the disclaimer about affiliation. Looks like I should have read the article before posting!
Our current copyright is far far too long. 20 years would be far more reasonable. We can talk about side issues all we want, but at the end of the day, copyright is about protecting the ability to generate profit. 20 years is more than enough time to profit from creative works. Are we as a society really saying that 75+ years is how much time people ought to be profiting from creative works? An absurd proposition in almost any other industry or pursuit.
You may have read the abridged version while the estimate is calculated on the unabridged version.
How do they accurately assess the age of these things?
The availability of jobs should be a symptom of good business, not an end goal that justifies the ongoing depravity of a business.
The idea is specifically to solve the orphan works problem.

Practically speaking, life+70 is not that far off from perpetual copyright anyway. Nobody cares if a book published today will be escheated to the public domain in 2093, and very few works from 1927 are valuable enough to retain copyright today. In fact, it's so valueless that the vast majority of works still under copyright do not have public documentation of title. The only way to find out who owns these works is to get sued for pirating them.

So the idea is to create some kind of small formality that people have to jump through in order to retain ownership over a work, because vastly more works will hit the public domain even if it means Mickey Mouse will always and forever live in a cramped pet store cage shaped like a circle-C.

How to define "commercially viable" is... complicated. You can either make copyright fully pay-to-play to soak Disney, or you can err on the side of cheap renewals. I've also heard talk of sliding-scales based on taxable value of the property under copyright. I don't think it really matters as long as we have a reasonable process to strip orphan works of their copyright protection.
> I've been acknowledging your point of view, and now you finally acknowledge my perspective, instead of continuously ignoring it. Thank you.

No problem, but the point is that your perspective doesn't apply to this project.

> Not only that, you make assertions that the website's intent is only to view art pieces from a male gaze, when the About clearly has criticism towards male objectification.

This is why I suggested in the other comment that you're getting emotional. I never asserted that. Didn't even imply it. This is completely made up.

> You've continuously dismissed any criticism of the website. This is extremely obvious.

If it's extremely obvious, then you should have problem quoting where I did that.

> First, you state that the website is merely trying to look at art pieces from a non-male gaze perspective.

Quote please.

> Then, when shown an About Me where there is criticism of the male perspective, you argue that the "male gaze" does not mean men checking out women.

It does not mean checking out women.

> When presented with multiple definitions, you cherry-pick the Wikipedia one

I presented two sources which both said the same thing. That's not what cherry picking means.

> ignore my arguments that assert that the "male gaze" can't be decoupled from the real world concept because then it wouldn't make any sense.

I'm ignoring it because it doesn't make sense. You're trying to tie two different things together that are separate concepts, and then blaming me for not agreeing with you.

> And then you claim this whole time, you've actually understood what my and other's arguments against the website has been, despite prior dismissing everything we said.

Quote please. It's not that I don't understand your argument. It's that your argument only works if you redefine what male gaze means. You can't redefine something that has an existing definition just because it suits your arguoment.

> Why is that a terrible conclusion?

So any bad thing that men do is no longer bad if women do it to? Is that a serious position? Haha.

> You've completely absolved all criticism of feminist thought.

Quote please.

> Why do you think male sexuality is a bad thing but female sexuality expression is good?

Quote please.

> That sounds pretty sexist to me.

If you can quote where I said male sexuality is bad, then that would be sexist. But you can't. Because I didn't.

This constant tactic of inventing things out of thin air is getting tired. Please stop.
> but this was after only 10 hours of development by someone who is very busy

I usually access HN through my RSS Reader. Sometimes I go through a very busy stage in life where I don't have time to read the article or save pertinent information on my offline organizer. So I save the article on my RSS Reader for when I have time.

I just recently went through about a year and a half of saved stuff. It isn't the first time I've saved stuff for later viewing.

What I've found (and very much to my surprise) are the number of projects that hit the front page of HN and cease to exist a year later, 6 months later, a month later... sometimes just weeks later. Poof! Gone.

This is just the stuff I've saved and not representative of all projects that make HN's front page.

I say all of this because the quoted line above has convinced me that this project will probably not be around for very long. It's not a criticism. It's just an observation from many years of following up on links.

I'd be curious to see how many new projects that make HN's front page are still around. Free vs Paid, Open Source vs Closed, one-person development vs team, etc... I wonder if someone has attempted to put this data together.
The fish shell (https://fishshell.com/) and its fantastic auto-completion. It now replaces bash as the default shell on all my machine and is the first program I install when connecting to a fresh cloud instance.
What Happened at Work in 2022
How does some bar theater whatever have a database of where people work? This is broken as fuck.
Broadly, yes.

But there are details you'd want to ask a lawyer about. Things like if you rip one of those movies from a DVD, and that DVD was made more recently, you have to be careful not to include any creative work done more recently - for example an adjusted end credits sequence, coloring, restoration work, or minor re-editing.
In case it wasn't clear from my post above, this is me asking.
Or use pandoc[0] to convert a markdown file to an HTML file (and many other file types)

[0]: https://pandoc.org/
The pedestrianisation of Strand has been completed
yes, you can now legally torrent metropolis. You can also make derivative works (e.g. you personally could make Metropolis 2: The Reckoning!) without fear of consequence.
A drawing tablet helped me some, when I paired it with Xournal++. I think there are apps for iOS and Android tablets with nicer and faster interfaces, but I don't use tablets, so they didn't help. But the ability to quickly select a group of pen strokes and just move them around to make new room, as well as the ability to quickly paste screenshots of anything I was doing anywhere else on my computer made a big difference.
Fair enough, and I would certainly believe it[0] ... but if I were building an anti-astroturfing system, it would not have exemptions.

> The point will invariably arise: "This tells me how to listen to a foreign radio. Okay, I'll get the news, the lectures, the plays—all the rest of it. But so what? How am I going to know what's the truth and what's propaganda? How can I tell 'em apart? Tell me that!"

> The answer is simple: "If you agree with it, it's truth. If you don't agree, it's propaganda. Pretend that it is all propaganda. See what happens on your analysis reports."

[0] All it would take would be for one person to make the original request, and a different person to remove the disclaimers. Given "stupidity before malice" a more charitable headline would have been "Twitter (Inadvertently) Aided The Pentagon in Its..."?
The US seems to be about 2% national parks:

"The total area protected by national parks is approximately 52.2 million acres (211,000 km2)" -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_th...

"Total area 3,796,742 sq mi (9,833,520 km2)" -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States

(Just data; I'm not trying to make any particular point.)
I don't mean to marginalize your frustration, but I feel like you may have unrealistic expectations.

First, you have a tech industry salary, which is probably at least twice as much as the median wage, if not more. Not only is it white-collar work with practically no risk to your physical safety (assuming you exercise, eat right, etc), but monetarily this puts you _way_ ahead of most people right out of the gate.

If you literally can't find a home to buy (assuming you want to buy one), then either you live in an HCOL area (in which case, owning property was _always_ a fantasy even among the highly-paid), or you aren't looking hard enough.

As a landlord, I can assure you that landlords have never gotten 2% mortgages on their properties, unless landlord==bank or some ridiculously well-connected billionaire.

Except for 2008, the housing market has _always_ been at a peak. Prices may flatline if we head into a (worse) recession but they are not going down to where they were again. You only options are to accept that and adjust your budget/income/location appropriately, or opt to rent forever, which is not at all a bad thing since owning a primary residence is never an investment. (Although there is room for nuance here that I won't get into.)

In the US, the vast majority of people _never_ pay off their mortgage until late in life, if all at. This is because the "normal" thing to do is to buy a house and "upgrade" two or three times until retirement. When interest rates were low, it didn't even make financial sense to pay off a mortgage because the money could be put to better use buying investments.

Even with my high-paying jobs, I didn't manage to get above $0 in net worth until I was about 40. I think that's pretty good in a society where an increasing number of people have to work their whole lives for a number of factors, not all of which have to do with wall street and a broken government.

I don't know your age, but it sounds like you're still closer to the beginning of your career. Either way, life has "started" for you already, it's happening right now, and it will be even better if you make a concerted effort to understand the world and your place in it right now, and figure out which decisions you need to make that will benefit you the most in the future.

Since you asked for it, my advise is to live well under your means, save aggressively, set goals, and never stop learning. If you want to challenge yourself, look into a concept called "early retirement." Good luck.
> Life is inextricably linked with death.

Sure

> If you have the right to live, you must also have the right to die.

This is a non-sequitur. In fact, in so far as all human rights descend from the one in question being alive in the first place (since the dead have no rights), it makes no sense of a right to die. In the same way a right to liberty involves no right to sell one's liberty. Just like your freedom, you do not own your life. We know this because you cannot sell either your life or your freedom, thus you don't own it. Thus, despite having a right to it, you don't have the right to rid yourself of it.

Here's another example. My children have a right to live in my house and receive support from me. They have no right to either sell my house or not receive support from me. Although they have a legal right to my money and protection, they cannot dispose themselves of it.

Life and freedom are similar. They are something we enjoy and have a right to, but not something we own.

> That belief is largely entrenched in our medical system too but stops short of doctor assisted suicide.

Choosing to not undergo therapies that may or may not lengthen your life is not morally equivalent to actively choosing death.
This is certainly good news, but have a hard time reconciling it with the frequent posters here on HN that propose that vacant land be taxed so high it in effect forces it be developed (i.e. the taxes are so high, nobody can afford to keep land in its undeveloped state). Without large tracts of undeveloped land, animals will disappear - and then so will we as a species.

Cannot for the life of me understand what the 'we need to punitively tax all undeveloped land' people are smoking.
Idk sounds like a regular large city to me.

Most of the places aren't for you as a tourist. It's for the people that actually live there. I visited and kept to the tourist parts, had a good time
yes

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain :

> Because those rights have expired, anyone can legally use or reference those works without permission.
If we're talking about coyotes in the NE they were never native, they're new. Deer are a huge pest now, they're missing the wolves and foxes that kept them under control.
> I've started reading Monte Cristo one day. I finished the 1800 pages of it in one long 48 hours sitting, hardly sleeping or doing anything else. That's how you read this book.

I don't think I could do it in one long sitting. The last time I read it, my "serial" approach was to read one chapter per day, before going to bed. It was hard to stop; but, it was also easy to pick up each day. (Another advantage was it sat next to the bed and I didn't have to carry it anywhere, since it didn't fit in a pocket.) I'm about to read it again and I'm not sure what approach I'll take.
It’s part of the SetApp package, which is only marginally more expensive than just a cleanshot sub. Highly recommend, you get dozens of neat little productivity apps with it.
Figure out some way to opt out of the insanity of American knowledge-work metro areas. My wife and I rage quit DC back in 2016 and bought a house in an exurban county. In part because the mortgage payment on our 3,000 square foot waterfront house begins with a “1” we had two more kids and my wife quit her job to start a business. Hopefully with remote work becoming more accepted that will be a more practical option for more people than it used to be.
Show HN: APass – password manager based on age encryption
There are really short chapters and really long chapters. I agree that some of the longer chapters, especially the battle scenes, are probably too long for a 20 minute reading session.
Or you could use Python with microservices that talk over a message queue instead.
I've been using vim since perhaps 2004.

Switched to IntelliJ in 2018 when writing Scala. IdeaVim is fine, it even lets me switch to normal mode with jk/kj [0]. What more could I want?

I've been using IntelliJ for Scala, Elm, and Python, and still use (neo)vim for editing other languages and random files. I'm prepared to jump ship to vim+LSP on short notice.

[0]: https://github.com/tasuki/dotrc/blob/master/.ideavimrc#L5
Maybe of interest: Midi 2.0 https://www.midi.org/midi-articles/details-about-midi-2-0-mi...
If a venue insists on treating me like guilty-until-proven-innocent cattle, I will not go. I can't be alone in this sentiment.

A friend of mine uses their phone to run an insulin pump. Are there suitable exceptions? How about doctors which may have obligations to their patient's calls?