skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a broader definition of "infrastructure." For example, Medicare is infrastructure that is directly related to the success of any company in the United States.

Has Tesla ever received a check from Medicare? Probably not. But the fact that Medicare exists means that Tesla's factory workers don't need to be paid at levels that reflect they need to 100% self-fund their retirement.

Has Salesforce ever asked for regulation or assistance from the FDA? Probably not. But because the FDA exists, Saleforce's employees don't have to spend time verifying their medication is authentic and does what it claims to do, so they can spend more focus on their work for Salesforce.

Even beyond government: how much do you think a Ford or Chevy have benefited from the US's culture? They certainly don't sell many large consumer trucks Europe or Asia. That profit exists because of the ideals and beliefs Americans have about how they should live their lives and what type of car they need to do that. Yes someone made the truck, and the truck maker should reap most of the benefits, but some of that profit should feed back into society that supported it.

Sure, we probably spend too much on the military and there exists some cronyism that we should strive to stamp out, but make no mistake that anyone with 100M in investable wealth has earned it with substantial help from the society we have all built together.
The missing context here is that the "misinformation accounts" that X was supposed to remove here are spreading the right wing propaganda saying the election was stolen from far-right sweetheart Jair Bolsonaro. On the other hand, the requests in India and Turkey are coming from, you guessed it, far right sweetheart Modi and Erdogan governments.

If you think Elon is doing this to defend "freedom of speech" I have a beautiful bridge to sell you.
Musk is happy to comply with blocking anything and anyone when it suits him: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41404534
Yes, and? Doesn't mean that anyone who could avoid it should feel compelled to accept that when this is done by an arbitrary and corrupt government.

Also I'm not sure it's very common for courts to arrest lawyers (and basically use them as hostages) because of their clients actions in most countries.
The Scrappy SaaS
People hate Musk so much that they would rejoice at the Devil doing him harm.

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend" is a widespread fallacy. Attitudes like that gave us alliance with Stalin once, and subsequent 40 years of a Cold War.
On the other hand, he is the last scientist who was treated as a superstar. There is no other person who can reach the same degree of his reputation.
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Long Covid cost Australian economy about $9.6B in 2022
It's not common at all.

Musk is shareholder of Starlink, but there are many others. This is kind of thing is only used in cause of fraud like a person who puts other company in name of a third party to avoid fines.

It also shows foreign investors that investing in Brazil is unsafe.
Microsoft and Apple operating systems include native VPN clients capable of connecting to many commercial and enterprise VPNs. Some routers and mobile hotspots include VPN clients, over which mobile phone traffic can be routed.

Arbitrary traffic can be tunneled over SSH to a low-cost VPS. Web browser extensions can tunnel traffic over SOCKS proxy. Tor/Tails can route traffic globally, without VPN.

Other network arms races: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41396206
I see, that explains it. Apologies for jumping to conclusions.
Oh man! Techreport was amazing back in the day. Now it’s unrecognizable.
> I'm not sure I totally get the motivation here to be honest.

Who says there has to be one? What's wrong with competition?
> The keiretsus have continued to do a very poor job at innovating.

It's the same everywhere. We are now stuck in the world where the formula is of A or B.

Android vs Apple

Intel vs AMD

Sony vs Nintendo

Microsoft vs Linux

Firefox vs Chrome

For any technology that has a third party has a very little mindshare.

Not only does this make innovation hard. How? When only the same two contenders continue to dominate the market and have newr-infinite resources.

"let us buy you out, or we'll make our own"
The parent is saying Musk complied with these requests elsewhere without complaint, he's only making a fuss about it in Brazil. It's an odd hypocrisy or shift in strategy.
Some good progress on Jank lately:

https://jank-lang.org/
No no thank you! Y’all are awesome!
The middle of the bell curve, which dominates the market, has a need for drool-proof interfaces that many of the sort who frequent HN and similar interest communities do not.
This is interesting, do you have any reading suggestions along these themes? It could be those travelogues, which I assume describe firsthand experiences, or maybe authors generalizing it from distance.
Show HN: from the dev https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41056678
Yep. That is about 2 years of salary at the minimum wage.
I can only speculate but I imagine deluded themselves in one way or another. This life is stacked against sanity.
What I find so weird about this whole situation that it has been coming for decades. Like at least 20, but probably lot more. And no one has found effective solution.
In Brazil, a Justice of the Supreme Court has the power to impose fines on people and companies that violate the law. In this case, federal law #12.965.
For the record, if Musk is to be believed, the requests from the government stink IMO. However, the judge making this ruling is part of the government and setting the law, is he not?
To be fair the “feud” wording that’s been used in US media is much more supported by Musk handling this situation by posting weird AI generated memes about the judge than the judge issuing a court order and then imposing penalties for refusing to comply with it.
You have that backwards, plenty of ex homeless people working in IT.

Further most homeless end up in paying jobs, which says something about those who don’t make that transition.
China has nailed DPI-based techniques, and I am certain they’re exporting/selling the tech to other nations.
I’d love to hear which ones. I think economicists are going to be arguing this for 100 years but I, as an interested layman, see a lot of evidence _for_ MMT in recent years.
> At best it's supposed to mean no reprisals from public institutions, such as the TSA, IRS, DMV, and the like.

That is the ONLY purpose of “free speech” - that governments and their institutions cannot prevent you from speaking freely.

And even there, some small exceptions should be carved out in terms of clearly unambiguous hate speech and bigotry. But with the Republican Party (in America, specifically) becoming Christofascist fundamentalists (Canada has the CPC and it’s openly racist little sibling, the PPC), good luck with blunting the hate speech and rampant bigotry that is the conservative platform’s bread-and-butter.
More information has been posted to the forum: <https://forums.puri.sm/t/puri-sm-domain-was-suspended/24475/...>
Is it even remotely modeled after the US system of checks and balances? How does the court have what also seems like legislative power?
I don't know about India, but in Brazil, the requests sent to X (Twitter) have no legal basis, that is, they are illegal by nature. The entire process that resulted in this blocking is secret and not even the defense lawyers had access to the investigation.
The difference is: Brazil is being run by Lula Silva, who opposes Bolsonaro, while Turkey is run by Erdogan, and India is run by Modi.

If you want to connect the thread, look into what kind of leaders Bolsonaro, Modi, and Erdogan are.
What about apps like WireGuard for iOS, which implements the WireGuard VPN protocol but is not offering any paid VPN services or subscriptions. Are those kinds of apps banned too?
The point of DBaaS is that you wrap an open source database with a proprietary control plane that you won't release. Cloud vendors say this is compliant with AGPL but database startups say it isn't and thus the cloud vendors need to buy a license.
Looking at the "block all VPNs" judgment, I wonder if the next step is banning Teslas from the road.
Maybe musk should bring back the onion link to Twitter that he purged.
How to up level technical decision making in a growing startup.
I bet China would be happy to help. It also cracks me up that people on this site were almost entirely in favor of a TikTok ban, but when it’s someone else’s government doing what amounts to the same thing then they’re “heading down a dark path”. Could folks please make up their minds and not treat the US as though it’s exempt from the “dark paths”?
What Is a Business Operating System?
Business operating system (BOS) acts like the brain of a company, organizing all data and coordinating operations. It is practically the central nervous system of the company.
Aha. I think we agree. I originally said "C on CHERI hardware is memory safe" by which I meant "the system as a whole of (C code + CHERI hardware)" is memory safe, but you seemed to think I meant (C code) is memory safe.
North Korean threat actor Citrine Sleet exploiting Chromium zero-day
What is the difficulty level of emigrating to Europe, as well as elsewhere, for Hungarians?
If you want to live under a government with a lot of sharp teeth against capitalists, North Korea may be your ideal country.
By this absurd logic calling the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" a dictatorship does not make it one.
Sure, I can't really argue with any of that. How is it even remotely relevant in this case though?
You should be embarrassed to be such a petty authoritarian cheerleader just because that power is being abused against someone you dislike and disagree with.
Moraes is on the Brazilian STF, the highest court in the land. In other countries, this kind of stuff would go through multiple lower courts. Here, the head guy is just giving direct orders and answers to approximately no one.

So it's the orders of one judge acting as judge, jury & executioner, which is not how we normally think of lawful process.

Now that is the Brazilian system but... there's a damn good reason other people don't do it that way. And a damn good reason that dystopian book was named "Brazil."
Yep, work can provide a lot of value to the mind and general day to day well being but at its core, it's all a facade and at some point, everyone realizes it but by then, the biological clock ticked past to the point of no return.
GP is pointlessly provocative, although an argument might be made that industrial pie production is neither art nor craft.

Your mom's case is different and much more interesting. She must make truly transcendent pies.

My half-dozen forays into making "from scratch" pie crust and filling have been surprisingly successful, but I might be missing something. I followed recipes from either Mark Bittman or America's Test Kitchen.
Can individual judges do as they please without any voting or consensus?
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41401224
I did not know this way of using hacker news hahaha.
I'm fairly skeptical that Amazon would seek out a "good look" like the one here, solely in hopes that it will save them from antitrust scrutiny.
As suggested elsewhere, this is more of a party trick then a practical approach to convert between km and miles.

The Wikipedia entry does suggest a greedy algorithm (at each step choosing the largest fib number that fits) though, using that we have

121 = 89 + 21 + 8 + 3
That's explained in Article 102 of the Brazilian Constitution (in Portuguese):

https://constituicao.stf.jus.br/dispositivo/cf-88-parte-1-ti...
I'd like to point out that the entirety of ETCS (european train control system, used around the world despite the name) relies on GSM-R, which is just GSM on different frequency bands with a few extra features.

Snooping on this traffic seems benign, but… security is crumbling away under ETCS' foundation.
If a court orders you to shoot someone in the head, would you do it?
I think it also has to do with how many devices you have on it and how often they update state. I have 300+ IP devices and have to run it on a mini PC because RPi was too slow. No custom plugins or extensions, just a few basic integrations.
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41404187
I don't know what content was requested to be removed. If the opposition was spreading lies about elections being stolen, that seems like reasonable content to moderate.

Not all moderation is bad, and different places have different tolerances for it. I keep seeing people say "silencing the opposition" but not actually providing what that means in practice.

Could be authoritarian, could be not.

Given musk's history as a right wing agitator, I want to see data before coming to any conclusions here.
You stream from your OBS directly to Algora, just like Twitch. And we let you multistream to YouTube, X, Twitch just like Restream.

The ads is a new feature, the cool thing is they don't interrupt the stream and show across all platforms.
At some point, there will be a standard way to put affiliate links into your content such that the AI that recommends them also gets a cut. I think it's going to be bribery all the way down.

Something about the URL, or perhaps a super-cookie, or some such will then give OpenAI, or whoever, a kickback.
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What starlink chooses to do will be most interesting, deny any connection, block X like the isps have been ordered and try and get their bank accounts reinstated.

Or pull out of Brazil on the ground and operate as a rogue isp whose money can be blocked, in the short term at least but not their service.

I hope it's the 2nd, be a lesson to all world leaders, and not just ultra authoritarian ones, that the Internet doesn't respect geographic boarder and you cannot control it like that.
Moraes' order claimed they were part of an "economic group" due to Musk's ownership. That's pretty much it.

Since then, Starlink has just said that everyone can have free service for now since they can't get paid anyway. They're in use in a lot of remote areas, like Amazonia, and the Brazilian military came out with a statement the other day saying that they rely on Starlink and if Moraes wants to shut that down, it will screw them over.
You say tomato, I say tomato.

Not that all authoritarian systems are socialist, but all socialist systems are authoritarian.
I did NOT violate the law.

How come he is deleting the VPN apps on my phone??? That I need to remote to my overseas job???

How come I I'm now banned from reading what Zelensky, Kasparov, Yann LeCun, and thousands of others world leaders have to say?

How come my neighbor, who makes a honest living through X-Twitter, has now lost her job?
Are computer VPN apps also banned?

How are they planning to handle remote employees whose employers use VPNs?
Elon loves collaborating with tyrants though [1-2], so that theory doesn't check out.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2023/03/28/twitter-modi-india-punja...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/musk-defends-ena...
Rental cars actually add an interesting aspect to all of this: if you use a disposable (not also used to buy your ski pass) email address and the license plate of your rental car for a reservation, the resort will have no way to penalize you for being a no-show! Any attempt at collecting a fine, prohibiting future business, etc. would be against a useless email address and plate number that you don't reuse the next time you visit.

Also, once you've managed to get a reservation, the system allows you to modify the plate number on your reservation, presumably to allow for renting after reserving.
Walled garden are an orthogonal (although themselves non trivial) issues compared to an arbitrary court issuing random arbitrary monarchical summons. No amount of custom tweaked linux will protect you there.
Thank you for this kind of note... helps bring the humanity back to the faceless internet.
What's the relationship between twitter and free speech? I genuinely don't see that argument.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41404187
This might affect our ability to recruit talent from Brazil if the use of VPN is forbidden.
You figured out what is right for you.

Kudos ×100.

Far too few people ever recognize their breaking point, and just continue trying to push forward because that’s the capitalist manifesto - growth at any cost.

You learned from your own breaking point, and intentionally chose an alternative path that fit you better. That by default makes you more self-aware than many.
> A quick google search on Mike Benz....You know Tucker Carlson is such a big fan of Putin...

Mike Benz probably uses higher quality evidence for what he presents than a quick Google search, whether he is right or not.
You are correct, my emacs locks up constantly. Mostly due to linting and syntax highlighting, but also with the emacs terminal.

It really depends on the package, but too many fundamental packages are still operating in the main event loop.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41404187
I don't think trade and diplomatic relations is enough. Most people are neither international traders nor diplomats. You need constant cultural exchange by a large sections of the populations for the cultures to drift towards each other.
Yes, it's modeled after the US Constitution.

> How does the court have what also seems like legislative power?

It doesn't. It just does it anyway.

(Technically, it can dictate to courts how to interpret laws. On practice, it dictates things like "a person can only be arrested after a judge hosts a trial and orders it" as "a person can only be arrested after all judges host a trial". The power to interpret laws is extremely ambiguous.)
How would the Brazilian gov. know if a person is visiting X on a VPN, if the VPN is of good quality?
He appears to be really mad.
It would be amusing if the government tried to introduce that as evidence and then got countersued for having used X themselves.

I know, I know. There is probably some exemption for law enforcement. Or if that was overlooked, there will be soon.

But it was still an amusing thought.
I miss the days when religious zealots like you were against sex or whatever
> Doesn't mean that anyone who could avoid it should feel compelled to accept that

Courts can literally compel you to comply with court orders in virtually every country, unless of course as you have pointed out, you have the means to avoid being compelled.

The “… when this is done by an arbitrary and corrupt government” sentiment has no real meaning here as you have pointed out that Musk can avoid being compelled either way.
VPN users are being fined as part of the order, a pretty massive fine.

These rulings are clearly arbitrary and have no basis on anything. They should be thought more like a Monarch's orders. Yes the monarch can any day order using Linux you will have to pay a big fine if he somehow gets angry on Linux.
And what about Anti-Viruses / Security apps, that usually have VPN functionality?

This is Kafkaesque!
So it is, but the way that these units connect together is much closer than you'd think and amounts to a sort of mass distribution on the leg.

The kilometer is a thousand meters of course. And a meter was defined the way it was to match the length of a pendulum with a period of 2 seconds.

The mile was defined the way it was to match a different thousand: a thousand Roman paces, measured as two steps. (They didn't like the fact that if you go from left foot to right foot the measurement is slightly diagonal, so they measured from left foot to left foot.) So if you figure that a Roman had a leg length, measured from the ball of the hip joint to the heel, say, as 80cm, and you figure that they marched like equilateral triangles, then the full pace is about 160 cm or 1.6 m, and the Roman mile is then ~1.6 km.

But, my point is, these two numbers are not totally disconnected like it seems at first. So the second is a precise fraction of a day which has no direct connection to a person's leg. But, the decision to use this precise fraction is in part because when someone was looking at the 12 hours on the clock and placed the minutes and seconds, 5 subdivisions of the 24th part of the day looked and "sounded right." It is somewhat likely that this in part sounded right due to the standard Roman marching cadence, which was 120bpm (between footsteps) or 60bpm (left-foot-to-left-foot), set by your drummer, chosen presumably to maximize average efficiency among the whole unit.

So then if we treat everyone's legs as a pendulum that is being driven slightly off-resonance, then the period of this leg motion is ~1 second and the leg behaves like a pendulum that is ~25cm long. And this kind of tracks! Measuring from the hip socket down 25cm gets near most folks' knees, the thigh is heavier than the calf so one would expect the center of mass to be up a little from the kneecap.

So then you get that the leg is 80cm long from hip-socket to tip, but 25cm long from hip-socket to center-of-mass, and so you get some pure geometric ratio 2.2:1 that describes the mass distribution in the human leg, and that mass distribution indirectly sets the 1.6 conversion factor between km and miles.

If we could only connect the human leg's evolutionary design to the Golden Ratio! Alas, this very last part fails. The golden ratio can appear in nature with things need to be laid out on a spiral but look maximally spread out given that constraint (the famous example is sunflower seeds), but all of the Vitruvian Man and "the golden ratio appears in the Acropolis" and whatever else aesthetics is kind of complete bunk, and there doesn't seem to be any reason for the universe to use the golden ratio to distribute the mass of the muscles of a leg. So you get like 98% of the way there only to fail at the very last 2% step.
So just from skimming a translated version, it does not seem like Judges have the power to impose fines, ban unrelated companies that are owned by the same person, or ban things like VPNs. Am I missing something?
You mean like Musk is happy to do what Brazil asked of him/X as long as it’s Turkey or another autocrat like Modi he wants to be in bed with?
For starters the US never threatened VPN users with a $9k daily fine
They don't need to. Selective enforcement is a key point of dictatorships. They can apply this fine to people they don't like. In general all such orders will have a chilling effect.
You don't need to cancel a reservation in order to convert it from a bogus plate number to your actual plate number. Changing your plate number is already permitted by the reservation system.
check out Google’s Carbon :)
strategy about what? Elon isn't bound by some personal institutional law, he acts according to his whims. Even if we assume he was being hypocritical, the severe response from the judge makes the latter seem like he has ulterior motives

ps. every major company has applied double standards wrt censorship requests in the past, the subject has a long history
So that the judge can start fining TOR users?
This is why side loading feature is important. Government shouldn't decide what should I do as per their whims.
A mile is 5,280 feet and a kilometer is approximately 3,280 feet.

If you need to do rough conversions just think of a kilometer as slightly more than 3/5ths of a mile.
> Despite gains in Belgium (+44.2%), the Netherlands (+8.9%), and France (+1%), Germany’s decline (-36.8%) could not be offset.

So is it just Germany bringing the numbers down? The article seems to want to suggest this is a bigger problem (usual EV FUD) but focussing on why Germany has such a big decline would make for a more interesting article.
You're reading that backwards, it is Elon who is feuding, which is to say Elon defies the rulings of the court and Elon slanders the judge on twitter.

So meanwhile the judge is trying to enforce a law that Elon is actively, and spitefully, breaking.