skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A decade ago the FBI heavily shifted its focus to CVE, countering violent extremism. At that time, the focus was on Muslims and groups that could be perceived as proxies for their interests (Anti-War protesters, pro-Palestinian groups). CVE relies on debunked theories about radicalization, and its definition of violent extremism includes peaceful, constitutionally-protected, political speech.

More recently, focus narrowed from violent extremism to RMVE, racially-motivated violent extremism, focusing on white supremacist groups--the definition of "white supremacist" being interpreted so broadly as to include explicitly anti-racist libertarian groups.

Given that the FBI officially considers "violent extremism" something to be extirpated, and defines it so broadly that the majority of the activity falling under that umbrella is legal political activity, I don't really see how you can possibly make the case that the FBI isn't trying to quash dissent. FBI raids have a chilling effect on political activity, they know this, and they use it.
Wyze V2 with Dafang-hacks have been super reliable in the past but these cams are now out of production with no reliable confirmation of this working with the V3s. I have been in the market for cheap 20-30$ cams like Wyze V2 with reliable setup like Dafang-hacks for a while but unable to find a good alternative yet.
I'm amazed (or saddened) but not surprised at how averse people are to the idea of people thinking for themselves. Real life is not a computer, you can't just make rules and have them automatically work.
> The build system links unaudited libraries downloaded off the network.

How do you know this? I thought it was all inauditable! Also, what does it matter if "the build system links" whatever libraries, if said libraries are not used by the program? Or do you admit that the source code would in fact show that usage? If it's the latter, then I suspect the answer to your very first question should be obvious.

> I will not be satisfied until they release all the signed binaries that ran on the machines on election day for the whole world to see.

Good stuff! Neither you nor I should be satisfied!

Note:

As for the rest of what you wrote, I won't engage. I've already seen plenty of your behaviour on this website and it's mostly of the "enraged Facebook/WhatsApp uncle" / "old man shouts at clouds" / "someone is wrong on the Internet" type. If you'd like to discuss more of the above, in objective terms or subjective but civil, I'm happy to do so. Otherwise this is my last comment on this branch of the comment tree.
Heads up I'm getting 500 errors

Request URL:
https://www.writethrough.io/api/whisper?videoId=ttps://yout
Request Method:
GET
Status Code:
500
What about corporate advertising? Where a celebrity is hired to promote product X which he never uses but still endorses it and even gives it a "fake review" in an ad? What's the difference between an ad and a fake review?
Political bent?

Can't I just think Elon Musk is a twat without it being somehow political?
I can't read that. "Something went wrong". And I believe under the new logged-in-only rules, I wouldn't even be able to read it if the site was up.

Twitter links are now poisoned, and basically useless.
IMO that's the difference in calling yourself an engineer. Weighing resources and tradeoffs is engineering 101. Maybe the scope of the problem doesn't require due diligence for budget constraints, and that's fine for those problems. But if you don't have a rough idea of this then you're just not practicing engineering.
It's the revolving butthurt filters on every site with simulated user discourse (including HN). There is no such thing as a "dangerous idea" or "malinformation." But, what remains after all the thoughtcrime is censored out is just plain propaganda.
https://archive.is/dO7qG
Ask HN: If your code no longer makes sense to you, do you leave it as is?
There was probably a good reason why you wrote it that way a long time ago.

So as long as it seems to work, wouldn't leaving it alone reduce the probability of introducing bugs?
Except, progress grinding to a halt pretty much described Twitter before Elon Musk too. The story that anyone who knew anything was let go is just that, a story, as the number of employees by year shows Twitter, and other tech companies in the same period, overhired and then went back to pre-2020 levels.

The only difference between then and now is that there is a big personality at the top who now personifies everything Twitter does, especially if things go wrong, whereas before it was mainly just a faceless bureaucracy whose Trust and Safety lead at times had more visibility than the CEO.

The subtext is that Twitter changing hands also involved trimming a lot of the dead weight, particularly hitting the softer managerial/diversity/HR side. Now a lot of people are rooting for the site to fail because it has gotten too "bro-ey", as the era of trust-and-safety and $15k backchannel bluecheck deals has made way for free-speech and monthly subscriptions.
Edit - frequent, not existing users. I'm an infrequent user, do not find it unsettling at all. It'll get fixed soon.
From previous stories about Elon, telling him he’s wrong is a guarantee you’re going under that bus.
This infuriates me and I know Amazon could fix this with like five minutes of trying on their part. It seems like such an obvious engineering fix that it must be intentional that it remains as-is.
What a toxic thread... Both here and the post on sfba.social
I approach things a bit obliquely. I create a custom made DSL (starting from scratch in each conversation, often) that allows me to model my query the way I want. Then, I write a traditional SQL builder on that DSL (or more like, ask GPT to do it for me). Then, I generate DSL statements that match my current domain, and more importantly, modify existing ones.

So, at each step, I do almost trivial transformations.

One key ingredient is that the DSL should include many "description" fields that incorporate english language, because that helps the model "understand" what the terser DSL fields are for.

Straight SQL is a crapshoot, and as you said, more often than not, either obviously or subtly broken or for another database. Which makes sense, considering how much different flavors of SQL it has in its training corpus and how much crappy SQL is out there anyway.

Another thing that helps is use extremely specific "jargon" for the domain you want to write queries for. Asking for "accrual revenue" and "yoy avg customer value" (yes, yoy, not year over year) often tends to bring back much higher quality than just asking for "revenue" or "customer value".
I’m surprised it’s taken this long.
It's quite a high quality dishwasher .. multi-drawer job. But I will look into the detergent :)
I love this idea! All of my IP cameras just FTP to my server where they get immediately uploaded to my google drive. It works perfectly and it’s cheap but they’re still Chinese cameras connected to the Internet.

Is there a list of cameras that can be converted like this?
This is the most important part:

So how are they going to enforce this? The FTC says codifying rules can help it be much more efficient in court — but it isn’t actually getting any additional enforcement resources. It could also still face hurdles trying to go after offending businesses that are based overseas, if they’re in countries that don’t have a history of working with the FTC
The fundamental difference is the C preprocessor is actually a language independent of C. They follow their own grammars, syntax, semantics, symbol tables, etc., and do not communicate with each other.
> But in such cases surely there's some kind of rate limiter in place?

Not really, our team maintained a reverse-proxy that fronted all requests that came into amazon. And whenever we would have a self-ddos event, we'd get a request from the backend team whose service was getting self-ddos'd to shed traffic before it reached their service hosts to prevent it from browning out. In many case ddos's were coming from kindle devices which were not even easy to update so deploying a "fix" wasn't even always an option.
Inadequate taxes might have something to do with that too.
Cool, thanks! “Just use a template syntax that’s also valid code” is a neat trick; I was sort of headed in that direction, but having a concrete example is useful.

What are the commented bits like /* __REMOVE_LINE__ / and / __SCHEMA_IMPORT__ */ used for?
Zoneminder is your grandpa's NVR.

The kids are using Frigate these days.

Or if you aren't against proprietary software, Blue Iris on Windows is a popular option.
> I should be able to put in my own dialer, one that can record phone calls

Allowing third party apps to actually record your voice.

In a climate where many types of apps make money purely through selling your data to data brokers who in turn syndicate that data to countless other companies and governments. All without your knowledge or explicit consent.

And where mere snippets of your voice is enough to have a model authentically replicate it and use it for social engineering or to access services that rely on voice identification e.g. Australian Tax Office.

In terms of the worst ideas ever, this is easily one of them.
What competitors do you have in mind there? Do any of them get even 5% as much traffic? 1%?

Vimeo wants hosting fees for significant use, there's a few decentralized platforms without ads, nebula charges and doesn't have ads. Dailymotion fits the mold but this ranking site says they get 0.4% as many visits and each visit is 1/4 as long.

I'm not saying that things should all be free, I'm saying that youtube's "economical sweet spot" is one that is basically competition-free and because of that we can't learn much about what other viable forms the market could take.
Twitter’s board exited. Post-ZIRP they knew fair value wasn’t higher than the offer so they took the money.
>There’s information in the post that very probably points at the underlying cause. The scrollbar jumping is a dead giveaway

Maybe that theory is correct. But I feel like pretending this post is getting to the top of HN because it's a technically interesting diagnostic analysis is sort of silly.
In the age of widespread layoffs at big tech, it's not quite so easy. And you really can't begin to predict life situations for people. For example, those who grew up in poverty and use the majority of their take-home pay to send money to family.
There's significant paperwork and delays involved in switching one's H1B permit to the new employer. For that reason, the companies you can potentially move to are limited to those that have internal processes for handling H1B-based employment.
The book is great too. You can read it online at https://gigamonkeys.com/book/

Even if you will never use Commin Lisp in production it will teach you new tricks and new ways to think about software development.
It’s already being produced. I heard that the budget was US$44B
I think the influence is more important than revenue
It's a bold move, to become a completely digital nation, in anticipation of becoming landless.

It's not without precedent. Certainly there have been nations in exile, even with leadership, with varying hopes and odds of reclaiming their homeland after invasion or natural disaster or some such.

And there are other cases of people trying to establish digital sovereignities in their own right, as a pure new product of the Internet age, but it seems like none of them have achieved recognition nor begun to issue passports quite yet.

It's really a difficult concept. A nation seems to be nothing without its territory, its land and borders, a way for people to live and work and worship.

I suppose Tuvalu has a jump start on this digital existence based on how they've whored out their ccTLD to anyone with a few bucks, so they've got a very recognizable brand already!
While it looks like they never started the move over to AWS, the press release makes it sound like they do use some AWS services.

> In addition, Twitter will continue to use AWS services such as Amazon CloudFront (AWS’s fast content delivery network service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs with low latency and high transfer speeds to customers globally) and Amazon DynamoDB (AWS’s key-value database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale).
The same sort of problem exists across generations. I've had a few meetings with potential clients for our business who were quite young (sometimes literally but certainly culturally) and it felt like they were speaking a different language. When that language sounds like sound bites they probably heard on TikTok last night and yet somehow conveys no useful information whatsoever it's usually a good sign not to pursue that deal any further! You don't have to be all stuffy and formal but professional presentation and effective communication are valuable skills. I can only imagine what they must sound like when they're interviewing potential employees for their own business.
I think you might benefit from reading HN comments about Twitter from ~2010. You will find many you agree with, yet Musk had zero to do with the service.
I regained access and got rate-limited again (presumably under these new limits) within about 5-6 minutes.
What are some of the poorly reviewed Amazon products? Anytime they show up (at the top of the search results, naturally), they are typically a high averaged score.

My prior assumption was that Amazon took a page from Walmart's playbook and would, ahem, borrow ideas for only the best/top-selling products.
Everybody has an opportunity cost against losing their job. And employees do have Rights but the right to have technical initiatives adjudicated against stupidity is not one of them.

The OP is fundamentally wrestling with an issue of justice, but the bottom line is that in business there is no punishment for stupid. There is only reward for profit.
This is reminiscent of Tom7's Harder Drives.

http://tom7.org/harder/
Bloody typical, they've gone back to metric without telling us.
> Mastodon will never take off because of its fundamentally terrible onboarding.

This would only slow growth, invite only is also terrible onboarding so it sort of invalidates that take.

Mastodon won't take off because it is NOT a Twitter replacement. Discoverability and fragmentation are problems that Mastodon will never be able to solve. These problems mean it's never going to be 'the place to go to figure out what is going on'. It might be the place for you to figure out what's happening in your specific interest group and that's fine but it's a different use case.

Go look at the list of servers each instance chooses not to federate with. Some of these are reasonable 'they botted us', some of them are ideological 'they are tankies', some are weirder/legal like 'they did not use the correct GDPR policy'. Some are capricious like 'fuck that homeserver admin, I just don't like them so we're not peering with them'.

I can't wrap my head around it, I know I'm a class of former Twitter user that used the service to figure out what was happening either globally or on a local scale (using geocode searches). I had follow lists on there of people in specific interest areas but I wasn't on there to be a part of a community, I do chat instead for that. I'm on Mastodon now and the people on my homeserver I think are probably all fine but I don't have a lot to relate to them about and they don't post too much about current events outside their interests. I can't just search federated messages, I can view the stream of them, but I can't search and it kills it for me.

I love the concept of federated services, I admin a matrix homeserver, but the structure of Mastodon makes it hard for me to recommend that anyone register anywhere else other than mastodon.social because homeserver admins are extremely reluctant to ban this instance permanently and if you ran your own instance there's going to be a ton of admins that just block you for X reason.
Regional handwriting variation
As a light user of Twitter (and not at all at the moment, i don't have an account) the character limit for tweets felt like a good thing.

The tweet threads are not terrible, but are inconvenient enough for people to be succinct as possible. Now there are walls of text from blue check marks that like the sound of their own voice far more than their content is insightful.

Sure I've read interesting long tweets, but I'd rather have a link to another site meant for long form writing than it living on Twitter, doubly so now as what bits of good content there were are behind a login wall.

But i get it, Elon needed something to make the blue check "worth it".
As I've gotten older, I believe more and more that having a desire for great work has more negatives than it does positives. This post really demonstrates why I believe this – mainly because PG doesn't touch at all on why someone would want to do great work while romanticizing how great it is to have that desire.

I don't think the question that ambitious people should be asking themselves is "what is work that I can do that will be great?" but something more akin to "what is work that I will find fulfilling?" Why do you want your work to be great? Do you think that the work being perceived as "great" is fulfilling in and of itself? What are you trying to prove through this work, and whom are you trying to prove it to? These are important questions to ask yourself because, otherwise, you're going to end up getting burnt out and wondering what all of your effort was really for.

A personal anecdote: when I was younger, I wanted to be great at piano. I played it since I was very young and I spent many hours playing it through my teens. I competed against others at music festivals with moderate success, and I wanted to continue doing great work with it. But this environment put me in a terrible headspace. I would frequently have angry outbursts when I made minor mistakes while practicing. If not anger, I'd chastise myself to the point of crying (I firmly believe this is what gave me low self-esteem through my college years). When someone would tell me to take a break given my emotional state, I'd firmly say no and go back to practicing because... why would I stop? The best piano players practice for hours a day non-stop. I'd spent so many hours practicing and I was actually pretty good. I wouldn't be able to do great work if I were to take a break.

It made me a competitive asshole, a sore loser, and a depressed individual.

Ambition is still an admirable trait to have because, among other things, it demonstrates that you have curiosity and a love for life. But point I'm trying to make is that being ambitious for great work simply because you want to do great work is not a healthy way to do your work. You need to have a deeper reason for why you've chosen the work that you do, and you shouldn't fall for the romanticism that these sorts of essays put forth.

The work that you do will be great work if you have a reason for doing it other than "I want to do something great."
> The people at Twitter who understood the system and could predict the side effects were all fired or left.

This is like a case study in what happens when you fire everyone except the sycophants and yes-men.

I only feel sorry for remaining non-yes-men twitter employees who might still be there because for whatever personal reasons they're in a precarious economic situation where they can't quit (H1B?) or are tied to the company for healthcare coverage (Thanks, America, for being the greatest country in the world) because they can't afford any other health insurance option.
Right it’s not about revenue, only power
r/science went from being one of the highest quality places on the whole internet... to being like the rest of the internet
You mean George Clooney doesn't really drink Nespresso?!

That's part of the point I made below, these kind of rules are so easy to skirt as to render them irrelevant. The law just becomes one more way that scammers can claim legitimacy.
I couldn't see a few threads on Mastadon a few weeks ago, the post was up for 24 hours, and the perceived outage never dropped through that entire period, and probably longer after I stopped caring about the post. There were numerous people on HN experiencing the same.
So… no evidence? Putting ads at the top of the page is nothing like your original claim that Google lets advertisers impersonate other businesses. I didn’t ask if you care about Google’s policy on impersonation, but whether you have an example where I type business name X and Google shows me an ad that says it will take me to X but it takes me somewhere else.

What can or can’t be done in yellow pages is irrelevant. I also can’t click on things in yellow pages, does that mean presenting links should be illegal?
Projective Geometric Algebra
Good, I’m glad.
That's an interesting morning routine. Why do you do so (do you work in 'measurement' industry?)?
I’ve been off Twitter since naughty ol’ mr car started his war on the journalists (I did return briefly to make a silly joke when he briefly banned mention of the dread term ‘mastodon’). I’ve kept the account, because, well, I’ve had it for over 15 years (back when they had a visible auto-incrementing numeric ID it was six figures), and maybe at some point he’ll lose interest and Twitter will return to semi-competent (it was never great) management. I suspect a lot of people are in the same boat.

But also, yes, I use it to observe the latest meltdown; why shouldn’t I?
What _effective_ means has the FTC exercised to regulate any dishonest behaviors, considering (wire fraud?) phone solicitor and text message spam is rampant in the US and has been supposedly regulated by FTC for years now?
Not sure if it is intentional or not, but it appears that you can still load tweets you received notifications for even after hitting the limit. So a workaround is telling twitter to notify you about all tweets from people you care to read and then scrolling the notification feed (after new tweets come in). If you don’t actually want notifications for these you can turn it off in phone settings and it still works.
Not sure how early we are talking with Amazon but I was there in '99 and that was not the case then, nor did I ever hear of such a thing. Not that I have lots of positive things to say about Bezos but he knew what the site was doing and would never have been so easily fooled.
Stolen credentials of such an account and hardly ever used by its legit owner.

The hard part is the 'hardly ever used by its legit owner', not the "stolen credendials".
Same on safari on iOS 17.
If people regularly lose access to their belongings when there's an incident, that's not a 1 in a billion billion and a good number of people will learn about it and have it affect their behavior. If that's what the regulation says, it's going to keep happening. The premise of this conversation is that this is the regular process, right?

> On the other hand, revising rules and regulations would have real costs for you the taxpayer.

I am happy to pay the cost of revising a few paragraphs so that the regulation stops screwing people over! Don't steal people's most important bags! If that needs a rules change, it won't be a complicated one. Once the plane is safe to be on, get everyone's carry-ons within a few hours.
Sounds more like bad QA that forgot to test an use case
...Mattress and VPN companies may owe more than the world's GDP.
There's definitely a strong element of people here rooting for Twitter to fail because they dislike Elon's politics.