skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you miss [1]? The US govt. used its influence over Twitter to help sell its foreign policy (military interventions included) to the US and global audience. The only way you could not take issue with it, is if you're fine with govt. psyops/undisclosed propaganda.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34111071
The lousiest tech bosses of 2022
It is infact even more relevant than it would be in 2020/2021. Ed Norton is an obvious Musk parody, Kate Hudson is a parody of well Kanye, except the gender is flipped and Dave Bautista is a parody of the likes of Andrew Tate/Alex Jones.
The final stage is always "Yes, $GovernmentAgency did actually do $BadThing, and that's a good thing (TM)"
Marketing is always reductive, the real world has nuance and context.

When a company says “we’re the best platform for X”, what they really mean is “. . . Subject to terms and conditions and our right to refuse business that we find objectionable” and so on.

Try pulling up to an all-you-can-eat buffet with a trailer and cleaning them out of every last bit of food in the place with the “one simple trick” that they didn’t specify you had to eat it on the premises, just that you “could” eat it.

Taking any marketing (or really, any) statement as absolute and universal without bounds no matter what the context is disingenuous. Everybody knows that, even the “one simple trick” people who try to use reductive literal arguments to get away with stuff.
Why do you think managers take over everything? Regardless of topic, any sufficiently large problem eventually becomes primarily a coordination problem
Why not pass EU phone specs on

How tall and wide should the phone be.
Max brightness
Slipperiness
Volume
Whether it’s round at the corners
How thin the phone should be
Whether those that are sold in EU should have all the parts made in member countries just like Airbus
Revenge porn is not a “real story”

Figures like Rudy Giuliani had direct and personal access to the laptop and yet what bombshell evidence do we have today?

This story is so damning that the tweets people on the right keep spreading are literally just revenge porn.

Some “real story”.
Housing providers could partner with LBaaS providers to provide renters with light bulbs (DRM locked to the unit's sockets for the renters safety of course) for a monthly fee. Hold my NA beer, I've got a great idea for the next YC batch.
You can say that about basically any interaction between any government and social media including anti child porn or other law enforcement activity. The question is if the interaction is unacceptably not if it exists.
I’m not sure it’s fair to cite breaks due to hardware arch changes as evidence that the OS is bad at backwards compatibility. If anything apple has been better then average for compatibility across hw platforms, offering translation
Well it's dead now and it was a very reasonable post. This site is full of bias.
For bad (and for good), what you did in the past does not matter that much. Good memories can help your current moment, but only a little if you can't do the same now.

For example, if you dated more and had more good relationships can do some good for your self esteem, but you'll still miss these things now if you don't have them.

And the end of the day only the current moment really matters.
I feel like the memory of democracy nowadays is exactly 18 hours long.
Why do you think the price of art assets for games belong in the basement? Do you value it so little? What about games themselves?
Afaik ECC memory is slower than normal memory, so it does not impress the folks who base their purchase decisions on benchmark scores rather than utility and best bang for the buck.
Personally, I’d much rather languages be designed from mathematical foundations and/or very careful theory.
So you don’t have nice weather, you have Stockholm syndrome?
Yet another triumph for the bosses of the world; in the absence of unions, automation only profits the owners of the machine, and none of the people who are now performing much less skilled labor gets a better life.

In this case, it's a labor that's already a way to barely scrape by for a lot of its practitioners.

This is the difference. Is this what you are cheering for? Is this the world you want?
I think this is unnecessary criticism. Battery replacement is about sustainability. Especially when corps tend to enable throttling.
You must have missed the speech when Putin officially annexed the territory he grabbed thus far. The imperial irredentism has little to do with the NATO narrative. But as I said the consistency in Russian propaganda is never sought after, neither by the propagandists nor the willing recipients.

Also,
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-state-tv-boss-says-drown-uk...
It's not backwards to favor someone attempting to manifest objectivity and neutrality over the person telling you, forthrightly, that they'll trod over anyone and argue anything if it advances their aims and shifts power to their in-group.

I find your position to be the one that's "ethically disgusting", completely without principal beyond your self-serving aims, and corrosive to a healthy society.
Just my two cents, but reading stuff like this makes me genuinely sad.

As someone who spent most of his work-life in conflict zones, every loss of human life in a war is tragic, but if being a soldier is not your job, and you don't receive constant training or work in the private sector and actually participated in conflicts before / are experienced in your trade, your place is not near or on the battlefield. War is not a video game.

Plenty of people I met participating in conflicts without any training or experience have this romantic view that it's honorable or demanded of them as citizens to actively help out their country or the military in case of conflict. But that's what you have an army for.

Modern battlefields are a meat grinder, dominated by threats that, as a soldier, you will most likely not see or hear until you are about to die. It's unnecessary and stupid that people with different talents in another trade die like this.

Deaths like this should serve as a warning for others not to make the same stupid decision.

Take care of your loved ones and keep them out of harms way. Sometimes this means temporarily leaving the country is the best decision, as it also enables your military to not have to worry about collateral damage.
I’d like to think this site of all places might be populated with very intermittent dissenters willing to be or at least support activists trying to change that, with the internet and technology as their tool.

It’s always jarring to discover the extent to which it’s not.
> To unencrypt the full vault and re-encrypt it does take an amount of focused time.

The entire vault should not be encrypted directly with the user's password. That would go against standard best practices.

See this comment written hours before yours, right under the comment you replied to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34127993

There is no "big difference" here, and it could be done trivially during login. The fact that it would be done client side instead of server side is a very minor implementation detail.
I thought second life doesn't do VR and they made a spinoff that did? Has that changed? Otherwise I don't understand the need for face tracking :)

If they support VR now I might give it another look.
> This relates to topos theory — which creeps up in CS fairly often.

It does? Where? I'm not huge in theoretical CS, but I have never seen topos theory show up in CS. Maybe I just didn't notice?
The problem is that (1) those programs seem to "produce" (as awful as it sounds) undesirable people who dont work nor contribute to society. There are entire families (grandparents, parents, children) who lived their whole lives on benefits. So for the society they are a net loss. And on top of that they often do petty theft.

(2) if you are in middle class, or low class (but still working) you are contributing for others and dont get anything in return from them. I would argue that if you didnt have to contribute so much then those middle/low class families would have 2 children instead of 1. Children of parents that work and will raise them right.

You seem to think that those low life people work hard raising their children? Lol, they dont care about their children.. those kids are raised by the streets.

It is the same in UK where some families mass manufacture inbred children (seriously read about it) and same in Slovakia where alcoholics get more kids since they dont use contraception and having a kid allows more money for vodka.

You assume that everyone wants the best for their kids, nope those people just have a strategy to pump few kids, who maybe will pump more kids. At thr expense of taxpayers.
And a whole lot more people don't want to think too hard - especially about complex & unhappy stuff, where they can't just wait 'till the end of the movie for "happily ever after", nor ask their doctor for the latest pill to fix it.
Companies should cooperate when they want to, and tell the government to !@#$ off when they don’t want to.

Twitter, for me, is a great example of free speech. The government asks them to do things apparently all the time. Sometimes they do it, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they even have a discussion about it internally. That is INCREDIBLE.

Ultimately, Twitter became the primary communications vehicle of the President of the United States. They !@#$ing ban him. Power move. I’m sure many demands were made by all sorts of agencies to reinstate Trump’s account and they said, “No. !$@# off.” You want to talk about China and the CCP? Well, here’s a concrete example of something that, had it happened in China with Weibo, you know would have gotten dozens of people “disappeared”. But Twitter did it with zero recourse from the government. As the kids say these day, “Based.”

Greatest example of free speech in action my life time.
User Stylesheets Are Still Pretty Great and Should Be More Widely Supported
Exactly. What if I WANT to be tricked by a Russian disinformation campaign? What if I just want a juicy story that justifies my biases and I have no regard for the truth at all?

Is there a Mastodon server that straight up admits that it may include Russian disinformation and is primarily for entertainment purposes rather than factual discussion?

edit: Or a mix of both true news items and disinformation! See if you can tell which is which!
I will have to look into submitting corrections. Thus far, I have only spent a couple of hours testing its capabilities.
Can you cite any of those claims? What’s been established in public and e.g. Zuckerberg’s interview was that they warned companies to be wary about another repeat of election interference, but nobody is saying that the FBI told them to kill this story.

> This went so far that major web platforms blocked all forms of disagreement and the public dismissed it as a conspiracy theory. It was highly effective

This is imaginary: I’m not even sure why you’re lying about something we all remember, especially since nothing in the laptop data was even substantial even if was all true.
It used to be CIA and TV. Nothing new under the sun.
> were straight up revenge porn.

Citation needed. Even Wikipedia lists it as an abandoned laptop that was trawled for data. Trash as far as I know is legitimate object of search (e.g. police does it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden_laptop_controvers...
Python decision-making is rather conservative, preferring deep exploration of implications, because its a big, established language with a lot of existing use to support, and because of the 2->3 experience.

I don’t think lack of facilitation skill is an issue; its a deliberate policy choice.
Lazy imports don't really seem that useful. The only time I've found them useful (in a Ruby project) was for unit tests/local development where only a small subset of the application is loaded at a time. Anything long running you generally want the predictability of loading everything up front. For command line utilities, it seems like you're going to need to load the module at some point or another regardless (if you're actually using it) so I'm not sure how you'd see a gain unless there's some async/multi thread hacks.
Have been here for more than 8+ years. I noticed HN has started to be very bubble-like though at least the biased-conforming opinions still from time to time has reference cited. But if it is purely opinions and logical one, it gets downvoted or marked as dead for not conforming to group-thinks that specific type of HN readers disagree with. Nowadays I just rarely to contribute and just throw away accounts after a couple months or 1-2 years.
It may be that I wanted to make my daughter feel better in spite of her (and my) mistake, rather than blame her.
That's fair. My point is Musk's goal isn't to make Twitter profitable in the short term but that it wouldn't have taken some exceptional genius to do so. Private equity/hedge funds would just have found someone boring to follow their well-established playbook.

https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1593515620942815232
> Why in the world would anybody use Matrix if you made it closed-source (as you've so cleverly disguised it, """open""" core)?

Matrix is a protocol. People can use it whatever the license of the implementations. "Open core" means that implementations would have to start holding back the stuff useful for commercial deployments as proprietary. Unless you happen to be running a deployment for a government or a similar-sized enterprise, I suspect you'd be unaffected.

> You aren't as good as Signal at being secure.

All software has vulnerabilities, and anyone who claims otherwise is lying. Signal has had spectacular disasters (much worse than the RHUL stuff, imo) like https://thehackerblog.com/i-too-like-to-live-dangerously-acc....

> You aren't as good as Telegram at being useful or comfortable, and you're especially not as good for groups.

Agreed. This is why the original post fixates on how to address that.

> The value you provide is from the fact that it's open source and also easy to develop for, but you aren't even as easy to develop for as IRC.

Respectfully, that's bollocks.

> If you've already started with layoffs, the damage might already be done.

Merry Christmas to you too :)
I am someone who didn’t see anything seriously objectionable in the Twitter files, but I do think it raised some questions worth thinking about.

If the FBI messages you and says ‘hey… review this content and see if it’s violating your own policies,’ is that inherently an innocent request? I could see a world where ‘see if it violates your own policies’ is a code for extortion with plausible deniability.

Could anything be done to reduce the ability of a large organization to extort an online platform into censoring content that complies with their guidelines? Should the requests be public unless part of an active investigation, or is that sort of thing too easily gamed?
Would it be accurate to say that you value trust & safety less than any other part of the project? You praise the UX designers, who apparently were not laid off. Is UX more important? Is your job more important? Where on the priority list did it lie?

If it's a core pillar of the project, and the T&S team doesn't exist anymore, is Matrix dead in the water, crumbling before it had even gotten the foundation laid?
The what if is a valid question I think. In my little corner of the universe, my boss is genuinely ( and the more I think about it, reasonably ) worried about introducing more dependency on Python in our daily work.

The are a lot of reasons not to introduce it, but 'what ifs' at a company like ours could be devastating. I still think proper precautions can be taken, but it is harder for me to say that I would just say yes if I was in his shoes.
Just another useless site I've been a fan of for the past 10 years or so.
And the parent is pointing out that not crashing on bit flips is exactly the problem.
I downvoted because your comment struck me as not caring at all about the facts.
I don't understand that rather opinionated list, especially since they give no reasons.

Simply avoid gTLDs, they might close with little notice and are known to increase prices drastically. The OG gTLDs (com/net/org) and ccTLDs are the safest bet.
Freshman year in 1993 and my school had a thousand DEC pmax Ultrix workstations. It migrated over mostly to Suns and HP's but I run OpenLook olvwm at my internship but I mainly ran vtwm which my school had compiled for everything. Ultrix / SunOS / Solaris / IRIX / AIX / HP-UX
> The FBI lied to [...] Twitter to stop [...] reporting on [The Hunder Biden laptop story]

OK, that's the takeaway that Taibbi and Musk wants us to absorb. But... can you link to the actual spot in the (sigh) "Twitter Files" that actually shows this? Because like the grandparent poster did and reported, I looked for it. And it's not there.

There's a bunch of mid-level bland communication that if you squint might be understood as a bunch of underlings carrying out orders in pursuit of that. Or it might just be a bunch of folks trying in good faith not to push a suspect story at a sensitive time.

There is absolutely no evidence of the kind of conspiracy you allege here. It's just not there. Which given the sourcing (the CEO is directing the investigation!) means it probably doesn't exist within Twitter. It's just not there. Where's the meat here?
My father's underwater flashlights from the 1970s had replaceable batteries and were quite water resistant, I mean from sea water, not just rain. Of course a phone makes it more difficult both for its shape and size, but hey, technology progressed a bit in 50 years.
Just to clarify, what part of the hunter Biden story was "real"? The hunter Biden story can mean everything from "a laptop was found with hunters nudes, and it's discovery was probably influenced by Russian state assets" to "hunters laptop contains proof of misdealings my the president".

As far as I can tell, the first is more or less true and the second isn't.
Is there a user-friendly web interface for Postgres that you recommend? A database on its own isn’t really a replacement for Airtable.
Obviously not a fair example.

Housing isn’t really a “market” that can be efficient at pricing in all information because it’s different for everyone (relatives, taxes, jobs, immigration, race, etc).

The places you listed have milder weather, and far less sunshine than most of the US but they also have hundreds of years of extra history and development. Moving from the US to there has far higher friction cost than moving between states.
Did you have to repost this from blind?
Kickstarter apparently got a lot of artists saying exactly what you disagree with about this project.
> they didn't have to do anything

What, you would be fine if they just took the donated money and didn’t transmit it to the campaign operators? If their devops just ignored the campaign if there was any issue? And somehow they don’t need to handle support inquiries from happy (or unhappy) customers?

If you really think a business like kickstarter is all fixed costs and there is zero work for a marginal campaign, sounds like you’ve found a great business opportunity. VCs will beat your door down if you’ve found a model that scales with zero marginal cost and zero work for a new customer.
The next generation will be interesting the kids who will grow up with this
> Issue 1

Give liquid text [1] a try (freemium). It has a similar approach to the white page "system" you mentioned, and much more.

> Issue 2

I have this rule: The clearer the end goals, the easier it is to take notes.

[1] https://www.liquidtext.net/
- Recession by the end of the year (might not be entirely apparently until 2024 though, but at some point in 2024 at least one quarter in 2023 is designated a recession)

- Binance and Coinbase collapse

- BTC trades at under $4k (really I only think there's about a 50-50 chance of this happening and it also might be a 2024 prediction since I think the recession is the trigger--I'm also not making a prediction that BTC dies, it is too much of a perpetual zombie, very 50-50 on BTC making it out of 2024)

- Putin is ousted in a coup, Russia has lost in Ukraine (or else again this is a 2024 prediction and the writing is merely on the wall but with a sharpie). NATO has not directly intervened.

- "Deglobalization" nonsense fades (dunno how you measure this)

- Nothing happens with China and Taiwan other than continued tensions

- China is going to let COVID rip through its population in early 2023 and they'll have one of the highest death pandemic death rates in the world going out of it

- Commercial MBS blowing up will either have happened or be on the tip of everyone's tongue going into the end of 2023.
> It’s like shooting fish in a barrel.

That may be true, but why would you do that here?
Is there an LED bulb that can produce a CRI of 100? I wonder how things will change with there no longer being incandescent or halogen bulbs, which have a CRI of 100. People might think they're putting on a certain color indoors, either clothes or makeup, only to realize it's different when they're outside in the sun haha!
I think you're whooshing here.

Thinking you can control others will lead to unhappiness, I think is their point.
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> Is there a Mastodon server that straight up admits that it may include Russian disinformation and is primarily for entertainment purposes rather than factual discussion?

It doesn't quite admit it, and its a fork, but Truth Social may be close enough.
How about when it became a problem? Or the second time? The third?
How did twitter start as an sms system without requiring phone numbers?
Example: many GPSr units have replaceable AA batteries and support IPX7. It's not exactly rocket science -- a good locking mechanism and a rubber seal.
HaProxy -> pgbouncer-> Postgres

Setup a flask or other service that can be queried and get a response back if a db is a replica or not, set up 2 groups in haproxy one for the master and another for replicas. Point your app to haproxy,you should now be able to promote the replica and not have to worry about updating your apps settings.

Use barman for backups.
Then all it will take to lose your democracy is for a dictator to proclaim his opponents a danger to democracy. Maybe using a Reichstag fire. You can't fight evil with evil, or fight undemocratic tyrants with undemocratic measures. Introducing vulnerabilities into your democratic system is a double edged sword.
But you still can use HTML4 and it will work on modern browsers. That's the best thing about the web - backward compatibility (until google steps in and does something silly). Use time appropriate image formats, like gif and jpeg, probably even bmp, and re-do navigation with iframes.
Which is why the admirals of the Imperial Japanese Navy refused to attack Pearl Harbor when ordered to do so...right?

The ones who do Y instead of X are often pretty interesting. But that's partly because they're pretty rare.
Of course freedom has worked, what...

Yeah, you know what they say about good art: it must play by the rules.
That is true. I went travelling recently and found that I get much better and concise information from a guidebook than spending hours reading travel sites/tourism agency site/blogs that want me to book a tour with them. Centralization and curation are becoming very important.
How about we settle for at least some decent evidence of wrongdoing before eradication by the three letter agency army?

The examples given in these leaks showcase accounts getting banned simply for the opinion they hold, LACKING any other indicators like account origin, IP logins, email domain registration, etc.