skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Online anonymous platforms are very different to the free speech required to run and live in a democratic society. Twitter is a platform and social media is a technology. It's a cheap form of influence and is being used as a backdoor into our value systems and the narratives we use to understand our world.

You're anti-censorship. Do you think it would be ok then if a website offer rape porn? or child abuse images? Wouldn't not allowing that being on TV be a form of censorship too?

This isn't hiding books from you about astronomy or stopping you from getting an abortion it's grappling with scams, illegal contraband sales, child porn rackets, foreign electoral interference, information wars and more.

If we as a society find that a specific technology is causing actual harm to our society then we need to have discussions about how those technologies should be used and accessed and regulated. We can't just let our shit get broken because "censorship". Yes, this is a difficult thing to deal with because it's not easy for the reason you state.

Twitter is not a town square and even in a real life town square,sometimes the police have to get involved when shit gets out of hand...are you frustrated about that also? In the actual town square, you need to actual make effort and put your true self on display to exercise your right to free speech. Twitter is a joke compared to that.
This reinforces two lessons:

1. Companies are not your friends. This goes for any company;

2. Companies will always choose profit over everything else, including moral stances. Companies may make moral stances. These are temporary blips.

The second is really important because it debunks a lot of propaganda.

A common one is "we can't tax companies (or billionaires) because they'll leave". No they won't. There's really no evidence of this. Even if they do, you, as a government, can say "ok, you've lost access to our market". The US wields access to the US financial system quite effectively as a weapon both domestically and with foreign policy. Yet we continue to give mostly ineffective corporate subsidies.

Drug prices is another one. It often comes up that US customers pay 10-100x+ for the same drug you can get in Europe or Canada. Lots of excuses are given for this but the reality is that prices are so high because the government has been bought and importing drugs has been made illegal. Even things like Medicare negotiating prices with drug companies is (mostly) illegal.

But consider in terms of (2): would companies sell a drug in Canada for $50 when it costs $500 in the US if they were selling it at a loss? No, they wouldn't.

So Starlink is still for sale in Brazil because it's profitable and because following the law in Brazil (whether you agree with the law or not) is more profitable than opting out.
What a silly post. I use argv[0] in my host-spawn tool (https://github.com/1player/host-spawn) so one can symlink it to a name inside a container and when you run it, it's executed on the host.

# Inside your container:

$ flatpak --version
zsh: command not found: flatpak

# Have host-spawn handle any flatpak command
$ ln -s /usr/local/bin/host-spawn /usr/local/bin/flatpak

# Now flatpak will always be executed on the host
$ flatpak --version
Flatpak 1.12.7

I am able to tell the symlink name by reading argv[0] to know which command to run. It is such a powerful and neat UNIX trick that has no simple alternative (in this example one would have to write ad-hoc shell scripts for each command they want to run)
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Corporations and billionaires however...
I know this probably isn't the best place for a bug report/help request, but this seems cool, and the alternative to asking here, now, realistically is that I just forget about this

I'm trying howm on emacs 29.4

I try (with my config and also with emacs -Q)

(use-package howm)

I enter `C-c , ,`
I see the howm-memu pop up, but it's all plaintext with no font highlighting/decoration/"links" or anything, and I get in the Messages log:

font-lock-fontify-keywords-region: Symbol’s function definition is void: nil
Error during redisplay: (jit-lock-function 5328) signaled (void-function nil)

Is this familiar to anyone?
> long-range, high-wattage cabling to connect grids

As the parent comment is on Sweden... That's a major discussion in our current politics and energy development landscape.

Not south, though... but north. 60% of Sweden's energy production is from hydroelectric dams far in the north, but most populations are down south. So, expanding this connection is the most imminently useful infrastructure investment that could be made. But that wouldn't be enough if we also use that power for heating.

The problem is that Sweden's largest energy demand is heating cold, windless winters, while the rest of Europe is also cold. Burning stuff to be warm can only really be replaced by nuclear power, which Sweden has been politically opposed to. Burning trash instead of coal is a pretty decent upgrade from that perspective.
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Don't even need the app. I use ssh/scp
We need to first differentiation between "public compute cloud" (AWS, GCP, Azure) and "cloud services" (GMail, Dropbox, iCloud, etc). The fine article is concerned with the former exclusively, and I think mixing in the latter dilutes the point it's trying to make.

So unless your personal homelab needs to be hyperscalar, you don't need a public cloud; your needs will be served perfectly by a $5/mo VPS/PaaS, and/or a LACK rack.

Do companies need sovereignty? No, companies need to make money, that's their primary and main reason to exist. The choice of public cloud vs dedicated servers vs colocation vs on-prem vs etc amounts to whatever best fits your operating model. The public cloud was overhyped (like everything in tech), but smart companies chose the right tool to do the job.
I understand your point of view, but the BigOrgs are strange. They say they want to move fast and succeed, but they are also magnets for people who would much rather accumulate money/power through politics than work. This often sets up perverse incentives to do the opposite of what would make sense.

For instance, the IT department manager claims to need more headcount and money to fund it, because they believe that having more budget and employees shows how important their function is. Engineering requests a new VM, and the request sits and sits and sits, so long that you start believing that they are overloaded. Engineering complains that it is taking too long to provision machines, and IT (for the 100th time) says they need more headcount to keep up with internal demand. To fix the problem, management grants one or two hires, things get marginally better for a while, until the cycle repeats.

In this scenario, Engineering is trying to get their product completed, and looks bad because the schedule is slipping. If you are the Engineering manager, do you care more about fixing the organization, or sidestepping the issue by swiping a credit card?

Fixing things gets political fast, spending money less so.
"people be silenced" it's like 7 accounts.
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It's not the company, it's the values being enforced. Everyone was fine with Apple getting an antitrust case and also that fight with the EU.

Generally, I believe that companies should never act against the laws of a country. If China orders a company to censor something, I'm mad at the government, not the company.
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As I understand it, X is avoiding to pay fines in Brazil, so in retaliation, Brazil ordered X to be blocked in Brazil if they don't respond. Starlink refused to follow along with the X block, so fines have been imposed at Starlink as well, for not following court order. I'm guessing the fines would accumulate daily, so now Starlink is adhering to the block.

Add in a bit of personality dramas, corruption and typical billionaire and politician bullshit and you have the full picture.
A URL path is not a directory path; there is no reason to assume that a path must be served by a directory by the same name. I mean, do you assume that there somewhere exists an actual machine with its Unix hostname set to “news.ycombinator.com”?
Brazil was a crushing dictatorship for a very long time, precipitated by similar frauds as this one*. The US helped that dictatorship happen by moving ships next to Brazil to back it up, and we're helping this one.

If you're confused by the self-righteous of upper-middle class Brazilians about this, they had the same reaction to disappearances and torture during the dictatorship. You wouldn't dare take over a country without the support of the upper-middle class who will have to administer it. You can convince them of anything that doesn't affect their comfort at all. They supported Bolsonaro's coup, and now they'll support the destruction of freedom of speech in their country to keep Bolsonaro from speaking. They're actually beaming with pride about how they're not free to speak, similar to neocons in the US.

I thought Lula was mostly a good guy, but he seems more a passenger than a president at this point. The administration must be very confident of being able to prevent future elections, because they won my a tiny margin (just as Labour in the UK and the Democrats in the US), but they think they have the mandate to come down hard. Brasil nunca mais?

[*] the evil of Elon Musk being a bit libertarian means that all Brazilians should be censored.
This. The beginning of my career on cloud was a POC, where the director shared with me this was a major driving factor (capex > opex), as well as some of the fringe benefits.

I got to see close up that a team of devs ran their whole solution (with a bunch of paying customers and everything) in the cloud, because cloud automation was good enough that they didn't need dedicated ops people.

Now I work for a cloud provider. I can't say that if I was running a business that I'd build it cloud-first instead of OnPrem. Certain use cases, sure. If I didn't need a lot of horsepower, I might build it on a cluster of VM's with some segmentation of duties - not quite microservices, not quite a monolith. Most likely if I was hosting on the cloud, I'd use the provider I work for, just because I know the system and how to get things done and how to talk to support.

I will say though - learning the ins and outs of cloud computing has made for a great career. Challenging, but lucrative.

FTA:

> Microsoft and Google decided not to officially comment on the survey's findings. However, a representative for one of the hyperscalers retorted that the figures seemed cherry-picked and pointed out that, as an example, customers using reserved instances could realize significant savings.

Reserved instances are a thing for sure. There's lots of other ways you can control cloud spend (enterprise agreements, dev/test subscriptions, spot instances, automated shut down / scale down, etc.) - it's enough complexity by itself that big companies hire entire teams of people to just work on tracking, projecting and controlling cloud costs.
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I own a kindle, but I find it’s often just easier and better to use my iPad Pro and the upside of having a fully functional device outweighs the fancy display tech. I think it’s important to consider if eink so great that it justifies such an expensive device over a more conventional tablet.

Although, I do kind of want one.
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Lue Elizondo has not been fringe for decades, he has a very long and established career in counter-intel. Also Mick West left out key details and context of the Nimitz encounter which is laughable if he's trying to purport his video as substantial analysis.
I think it's another case of a company's organizational structure being reflected in the code. Conway's Law.

Modern businesses are full of outsourcing, temporary contracts and overdone management structures. This the shape of the software they produce.
This is a really cool tool. Have been playing with similar scraping capabilities, so appreciate you sharing the source code as well. People who are saying "loads of scraping tools already exist" have likely not suffered through the current state of the art too, as heuristic based approaches absolutely pale in comparison to what an LLM can extract.
I'm a fan of including benchmarks in CI pipelines. The Windows developers should have a historical record [1] of the performance degradation and be forced to look at it daily.

[1]: https://x.com/jmmv/status/1671670996921896960
Speaking as an American who probably has a pretty typical perspective of Brazil—my impression was that Brazil was the country in South America with values closest to those in the US. If Twitter's leadership had the same misapprehension then it wouldn't be entirely unreasonable for them to push back against an order that clearly wouldn't fly in the US.

Now, this does suggest either that they completely ignored their Brazilian legal team, didn't have one, or said team was incompetent. So this is not an excuse for their behavior so much as an explanation.

An average American in the US expects this from Turkey and expects different from Brazil. That's apparently a rather ignorant perspective, but such is life.
Sometimes I get impatient at an old person behind the wheel, and my wife says, "He can't see that fast."

There's not a hard line. There's a degradation in response time, and so old people drive slower (at least, they drive slower if they're wise). And then there's a point where even that isn't safe, and they need to stop.

But yes, not everyone can drive. Some are too old. Some are too young. Some can't afford a car for the amount of time they need to use one. Some are dealing with a temporary thing, like a broken leg or a bad sprain, and they can't drive just for a few days, but they still shouldn't drive right now. Some are coming back from a bar, or from a medical procedure involving anesthesia. (I forget the procedure, but I was told "don't sign any legal documents in the next 24 hours" along with "don't drive".) Lots of people can't drive for lots of reasons.

But, you know, we used to have things called "cabs" that helped with all of that. "Not everyone can drive" is orthogonal to "should a car be self-driving, or should a human drive it".
Apparently, it was a big loss and probably won't ever come back in stock.
you're not the target market then and that's fine
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They did at one point it seems. Then said representative was threatened with arrest. So now they don't.
An open API to replicate and automate the app functionality for backup locally is not incredibly much to ask for.

Nobody is asking for a free sync server.
While I don't agree with Brazil doing exactly what it's doing, Elon is on the wrong on this one.

The law is the law. The Supreme Court has voted unanimously. If he doesn't want to offer service there due to his morals, that's up to him.

Let's be honest, the Steve Bannon connection to Brazil is probably a factor here.
> You can't say LLMs should have some human rights (particularly the ones that generate revenue), but not others, like a right to freedom.

There is no evidence that this is the case. These rights are not necessarily all or nothing. They are all or nothing for humans because humans have a bundle of properties that entail these rights, but artificial intelligences may have only a subset of those properties, and so logically may only get a subset of those rights.

> On the contrary, I don't see why sentience should not be required.

Sentience is the ability to feel. All that's needed for learning is the ability to perceive and have thoughts. Maybe there's some deep, intrinsic connection between the two, but this is not known at this time, and therefore I see no reason to connect the two.

> In my mind, what is unreasonable is claiming a computer program should be granted these rights.

There's a long history of human abuse of "lower animals" because we assumed they were dumb and non-sentient. Turns out that this is not the case. We should not be so open-minded that our brains fall out, but we should also be very wary of repeating our old mistakes.
So what?

Pretend that you know someone at your bank who can answer the question "what devices do people use for your online banking?" You don't need to really ask, you already know the answer: For a while it was overwhelmingly Windows on PCs/laptops, now Windows has been pushed to a minority position by smartphones, tablets and macbooks.

You might say that those don't count, but I think that for a device manufacturer they do count. I have private and work smartphones and laptops, mine are made by three different manufacturers, all three make both phones, tablets and laptops. AFAICT that's typical. There are exceptions (such as Dell) but overall, the markets overlap so much that most manufacturers need to regard it as one market with different nïches.
Wild to see a newspaper so mercurial about censorship.
Looking at some numbers on cloud, yeah I don't believe in that statement anymore. End device compute might be cheap, but cloud services certainly are not.
Wow, I can't believe the Washington Post is supporting censorship again. It's almost like "Democracy does in darkness" was a complete lie.
Why is there need for their cloud in the first place? I mean if I already own a Google Drive account, why should I need a pair of hands in the midpoint to drag my data around?
This feels silly to allocate to llm use exclusively.

There have been other efforts to make a website machine readable

- https://ogp.me/

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
How did you manage to switch to a 4 day 32 hour work week?
For now, Starlink still requires nearby ground stations.

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-starlink-x-block-complianc...

> Elon Musk’s satellite-based internet service provider Starlink backtracked Tuesday and said it will comply with a Brazilian Supreme Court justice’s order to block the billionaire’s social media platform, X.

> Had Starlink continued to disobey de Moraes by providing access, telecommunications regulator Anatel could eventually have seized equipment from Starlink’s 23 ground stations that ensure the quality of its internet service, Arthur Coimbra, an Anatel board member, said on a video call from his office in Brasilia.
Removing the badges is pretty easy with some dental floss, a hair dryer or heat gun, and Goo Gone. Lots of how-to videos on the Internet. They're just plastic held to the paint with some adhesive, and the adhesive deteriorates at temperatures much less than what would damage the paint.
> Let alone exotic languages such as Urdu/Persian that are highly cursive and ascend upwards depending upon the length of the word

I've never heard about this. Where can I read more about it?
Hey, Lio! Thanks so much for the kind feedback. I'm really happy the stuff I write is helpful to others :D

If you haven't seen it, here's a past post that got some good traction on HN that you might find interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40201729
Talk to me when a corporation can be blamed for millions of human deaths.
The obvious quote to reference - but not mentioned in either the article, or the FBI's PSA:

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/willie-sutton
You do know that Apple provides 5GB free cloud synchronization right? And Google also has 15GB free. For those who value convenience this is now table stakes to provide free cloud sync for small amount of data. And frankly 5GB is enough for handwritten notes.
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A ruling of a court - even the highest court of the land - does not make something law. Courts get things wrong all the time.
Have you ever been to Brazil?
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I always wondered why broadcasters don't transcode on the client side.

RTMP can't handle it, but SRT (and apparently WebRTC can). It would reduce latency for sure. Of course, it does require a good network connection on the client end, but so does streaming.