skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think due to the type of training and framing of protest situations most police departments receive in the US, as well as the culture instilled in officers, their ego and need for absolute control of the situation stands in front of any other other considerations including avoiding excessive and disproportionate use of violence.

To them a thrown water bottle is a sign of greatest disrespect and loss of face in their power position before the crowd. As Straub points out in the article they are trained to imagine the high likelihood of bricks or molotovs or acid to follow. They are specifically trained to respond with fear-inducing force. Their primary de-escalation tactic is escalation - pure and simple.
True - I need to keep in mind that Twitter isn't "everyone".

But at the same time, these are well known public figures broadcasting openly racist and anti-Semitic thoughts to millions of people.

I'm not completely sure what to make of it.
Food and oil prices are volatile and can mask inflationary and deflationary periods, which is why I linked to the consumer price index minus food and energy as that is more accurate.
I say just the opposite.

Let's remove the blue checks and make it difficult to know who's legit and who's impersonating people again. Twitter is used way too seriously.

I know that's the opposite of what Twitter as a company wants. But it'd be nice as a user.
Using Guinness to fertilise Christmas trees in lockdown
I always start Matt Might articles thinking "Okay, THIS is the one I'm going to understand all the way to the very end without unlearning what I just read, else I die," and alas, I have again died.
The have been plugged into the hose for nearly a decade now.
"Conversations with an Executioner" is IMHO the best book giving insight into a mind of a real nazist. It's direct and honest, much more profound than classical historical book.
You make some good points, and I don't argue with any of them (although, per your last point, I've found that eating something salty helps me from time to time :) ).

I guess my main issue is if we ignore diet as a cause, then we quickly get to medications, which can make the situation worse (not necessarily make the problem worse, but other problems can arise as a result).

I think that if psychiatrists were as well trained in food chemistry as they are in drug chemistry that the world would be a better place.

Finally, one personal anecdote - my business partner is really attuned to my moods. When I come into the office in a grouchy mood (of which I'm often not aware), he'll call it out. The first year or so it was off-putting, and somewhat annoying, but after I got into Keto, I noticed that my mood was changing as a result of the food I ate the day(s) before. Over time, our whole team has started to become attuned to it as well (yeah, it's kinda weird, and no, we are not all on keto - we tend to have fairly varied diets among us). The great result is that we call it out like, - "you're in a grouchy mood, what did you eat yesterday?", or "I'm not focused today" and the other person asks what they ate recently. This has been really effective for us, because most of the time it's the food affecting us, as opposed to us just being a jerk. Obviously other things weigh too, such as other stressors in life. but many little things we can trace back to food, and it has made our team much better at working together because we are freer at calling these sorts of things out.
Because it sounds like something new and shiny and something you can boast about. When really the basic ideas behind it are as old as the hills.
How is just splitting the memory in two separate channels going to make anything faster?

How will this affect driver complexity and cache-misses?
Yes, I think it would be a perfect example of an action that is both illegal and at the same morally positive.
Yes. As much as I disagree with naming, aesthetics and some other details, the diagnosis of the problem (why the Internet degenerates into a handful of centralized super-hosts), and the fundamental prescription: "we need an universal, self-owned identity and reputation layer, to combat the abuse and make it a saner, easier to manage place" are true.
What motive would a company (of sufficient size) have to signal virtue if not in pursuit of profits? Companies without an all powerful strongman on top are amoral, and primarily in the U.S. are only concerned with their shareholders as opposed to all stake holders in the chain's long term value and health.

https://www.inc.com/maureen-kline/why-debate-over-stakeholde...
It's how I found out about https://promiseskept.com/ and http://www.magapill.com/ - lists of things Trump has actually accomplished, without the "Trump is bad" rhetoric. And despite the name of the latter, it's not just a Trump fansite - it's based entirely on links to external sources. Unfortunately, the first one doesn't seem to have sources even though it's organized much better.

(And yes, per sibling comment - it was /pol/)
It's also keeping people from rebelling against the companies (elites) gaining all the profits (I say this as a business owner).

It's like not collaborating with another skateboarder or ecologist because they don't share the same political team as me. "Internet teams" is a complete mental construct, taking advantage of xenophobic, tribal tendencies we have innately to protect us in the physical world.

I tend to lean towards low-tech anarchist and I have a lot in common with socialists, fascists, and jeffersonian-democrats (anti-federal govt, pro-working man), and even muslims where I'm against central banking or charging interest. But nobody could ever talk about it because "teams".
This isn't really true. Especially with the volatility in the market and TSLA specifically right now, you would be taking a huge risk holding a position like that for a week. Natural moves in the stock could easily be much larger than the move your hack causes. You could even be margin called before the hack happens.
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A statement and a proclaimation are distinct. A proclaimation implies that it's an announcement meant to be widely seen. In truth I don't think even Trump's supporters pay attention to his Twitter.
Did you read the article entirely?

`And that makes you wonder what contingencies the company has put into place in the event that it is someday taken over not by greedy Bitcoin con artists, but state-level actors or psychopaths. After today it is no longer unthinkable, if it ever truly was, that someone take over the account of a world leader and attempt to start a nuclear war.`

It's pretty disingenuous if you read the article and still says there's nothing there and then repeat the same thing the article wrote.
Sadly, I believe it’s too late. Attention span is getting shorter for many. Not many would want to scroll a news article. These days almost everyone I speak with is saying they’re busy, not enough time. So, where would they even find time to watch a 30-60 minute newscast.

Which is why Twitter is probably the GoTo for news.
I feel like we need domain-specific Twitter-alike services, that anyone can read (and send DMs on), but only people "in" that domain can make public tweets on.

Not a community-specific service, precisely; I'm not talking about the sort of partitioning StackExchange does. I wouldn't want a CS-people-only Twitter. (Cross-pollination of ideas between fields is important!)

Nor am I talking about individual independent forums that have their own specific (rivalrous) memberships, where you can't expect network effects to guarantee that J Random Peer-in-your-domain will definitely already be a member. Everyone you wish would be there, should already be there. Like Twitter.

But different domains of discourse have different standards/norms, and it'd be helpful to keep each such domain separate, such that people don't try to interact using conflicting standards/norms; but rather will know what the primary set of norms are for their current domain, and will "mode-switch" to using those when they're in that domain.

For example, all of "academia" is one domain of discourse, with its own social norms.

So we could have one domain-specific Twitter-alike where, to join (and not get banned), you'd have to obey the rules of academic conduct; and to get verified (and so to make public tweets), you'd have to be actively in academia in some way (e.g. maybe you'd need to submit proof-of-identity in the form of the DOI of an academic paper you've written.)

Then you could have a separate domain for politicians and talking-heads, where the rules of discourse to follow are those of a political debate, and where user verification happens through a petition of non-verified users, proving that the user has "constituents."

I would imagine a blended app where one user account could be active on multiple domains at once, perhaps even with new posts from them collected onto a merged timeline for easy reading; but it'd be important to make clear, for each post, which domain it's in (e.g. by embedding the post within a background theme that represents that domain.)

I'd also imagine that getting verified in a second domain after already being verified as something else, would be harder, requiring a manual audit of your specific case. (Sort of like how multi-classing in Dungeons & Dragons is something you're supposed to have a long talk with the DM about.) Not every economist is both a professional academic and a professional political commentator; most are a professional at one and an amateur at the other.
You don’t think that Google is an NSA front?
Rust has come a LOOOOOONG way. I'm really impressed with what they've accomplished in just a short time.
Of course you should use what you like, but I'm also puzzled because you can "ignore" threads if you want in Zulip by keeping your focus on the channel.

For example I have a channel called #oil-discuss. It has a bunch of separate threads. If I put the focus on the left bar in #oil-discuss, then it shows me all the messages in chronological order, regardless of thread.

If you click on a thread, then you see only the messages in that thread. So I think it's the best of both worlds.

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Unfortunately it doesn't go the other way around in my experience -- Slack can't emulate Zulip. I joined Slack to discuss a nascent Python project.

https://twitter.com/teoliphant/status/1217611221396082695?la...

The creator of the channel encouraged everyone to use Slack threads to keep the conversation organized. But the threading was so awkward -- it felt felt like my replies were getting "lost" on the side, outside the main flow.

Multiple people disliked the Slack threading and eventually we tried python-dev's nascent Zulip instance instead. Although I think the conversation died out in both places for other reasons.
Well it can run macports!
You call them a "Twitter mob", the game devs call them their customers and fans. If your customers and fans are telling you they'd rather not buy, use, and support your product if they know it's made in part by a known serial sexual assaulter of women, what would you do?

The guy sounded seriously mentally unwell. Maybe if we had better support for mental illness and less stigma around the whole issue, the outcome would have been different. But I find it hard to put blame for his suicide on the people who didn't want to be associated with him after his despicable behavior became known.
Hmm - Wonder how much pulumi[1] influenced this? Or perhaps Hashi just figures this is easier then trying to add all the HCL features people are requesting?

I gotta admit, I find HCL to be the worst part of Terraform.

[1] https://www.pulumi.com/
Not to mention that there is a fixed budget, and so they can only promote so many people in a given period, as rewards are tied to promotions. That means that even if there are many top performers, they have to determine which ones aren't as "top" as others. This inherently creates a stack. Whoops.
> Not true, maybe you are biased towards English words.

We're also discussing a chiefly American phenomenon, and while I recognize that English isn't the only language spoken in the United States, English is the primary language of business in the United States, and boycotts/terminations are squarely in the realm of business.

So, not biased; appropriately scoped.
I'm still wrapping my head around the meaning of those overshoot days.

A person's ecological footprint is a multifaceted thing for which I think a single number cannot necessarily provide a very meaningful summary.

But here's some other data, that considers only CO2 emissions:
https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/each-countrys-share-co2-emi...

It groups by country rather than income level but, reading between the lines, it seems to me almost certain that the bottom 85% (in income) of people emit more than half of the global total.

BTW it is important to consider that a large fraction of the emissions from countries like China and India are in the service of consumption in wealthy western countries. But, I googled, and even in a famously export-heavy country like China, exports only account for 17% of the GDP.
Canon does have something, but it does have problems. E.g., it cannot get around the Library Validation problem with Zoom and Skype (they tell you it can't be used with those, which isn't quite true), plus you cannot change camera settings while running it.
> The only useful purpose of a consumer VPN is torrenting and bypass geographic blocking.

This is profoundly untrue. Firesheep still exists, not everybody's on HTTPS for everything (though they should be, and clients don't have control over that), and with the existence of stuff like SNI I don't necessarily (read: really, ever) want an ISP knowing where my traffic is going.
Small suggestion: include how contribution margin changed in that example. That’s the Northstar metric for a typical ecommerce company.

Including it would sound more credible, and would prevent a typical customer from doing the math in their head of profit margin where this change becomes profitable.
Software developers are hired by business to solve business problems.

Optimization of speed is sometimes it, sometimes it isn't.

I have worked accelerating algorithms in VHDL with a PCI-e interface, embedded linux without a MMU because a MMU uses too many logical gates, digital signal processing systems (FFT, goertzel, sigma delta filters) that had to process a lot of data under uS and etc.

Now a days I work more in the devops space, full stack dev and whatnot. I have worked with a lot of technologies, different constraints, different teams, different companies (12 in total) in different industries.

Trying to paint all business and developers as bad or as cheap because business requirements do not align with your view isn't really fair.
Are you just guessing? I don't see anyone reporting this.

I also highly doubt normal Twitter employees can impersonate any users. I would seriously hope it's less than 100 people with the DB or server access necessary to tweet as someone they don't have auth credentials for.
The interesting thing is how they're succeeding. We haven't exactly seen a resurgence of the Klan of late, you might notice.

What's happening instead is that anything that can even be vaguely construed as racist, even if it doesn't hold up under scrutiny -- especially then -- becomes the subject of mob focus and attack.

Because if you can convince the mob to "righteously" attack innocent targets then you get fireworks. The mob is told that they're on the side of the angels and the target is a despicable fascist who should burn in hell, so they cross every line to take out the intolerable evil. Then it turns out the target wasn't, in actual fact, the literal devil, and that gets other people hopping mad at the mob over the real perils of mob justice. But by that point the mob has moved on to the next target who we're again assured is a very bad person, this time for real, promise.

It's tempting to go too far with this and come up with some kind of conspiracy theory where BLM as a whole is nothing but a Russian plot, but there are far too many real people in it for that.

What seems more likely is that you have an existing movement with many well-intentioned people but no strong leaders, and all it takes is an adversarial propaganda effort to whip enough of them into a frenzy and point them at a false target that will purposely generate a backlash.

Then you've got two huge camps of honest people fighting each other over a manufactured conflict which isn't even at the root of their genuine concerns.
If MAGA means 1950's values and culture, does that mean 40%+ tax rate for the wealthy?
What stops this stored data degrading? Do they have to periodically check / renewal the reels?
Wonder if this spec will make it easy for embedded systems to catch up. It always seems like they lag behind what's cutting edge. Maybe that's a cost/benefit analysis.
Lots of people must be selling immediately after the event because that's the mechanism by which the price decreases.
Twitter as a platform is engineered to be pithy, immediate, and constantly engaging with as little forethought as possible. It's a machine for viral stupidity. You could call it a mis-communication tool.

I get why people like to use it, but people also like slowing down to stare at car crashes on the highway. Maybe it's not a good thing.
no better alternatives, if you do not do grading etc at school then what we have is a small group of kids learned a lot on their own(1% of them I guess), the rest 99% will just waste their youth totally and learned nothing at all.
️ Free speech is not free
Oops, my mistake. Sorry to be a pain!

Is there a reason why something reasonably substantive like this which addresses both a specific query from users (nested) and apparently at top level to shouldn't be allowed? I guess upvotes are an imperfect measure but this post appears to be contributing more than many other top-level comments.

(Thanks for taking the time to explain! Either way consider me corrected.)
There’s two parts to that implementation of such a system, and they’re both interesting! The first part is detection of a micro saccade which is already available in research systems I have personally worked on. You can basically crank up the camera frame rate until you’re around the micro saccade range and do some clustering analysis on the positional data to decouple the hardware moving vs the face. The second part is having a fast enough reliable commercial grade displa system to present stimulus on. Displays are very fickle in practice and getting your hands on one that can run with adequate color, contrast, and brightness at speed is currently very difficult. One angle under research currently is the perception of stimulus during saccades and micro saccades. There’s quite a bit of time and effort in the industry going into neurological assessments through saccades, the tools coming out of this are really starting to come down in price. This opens the door for a bunch of lower priced research options, such as the parent article, to enable a much more rapid pace of understanding.
the theory is that high productivity people will not want to work there, as everyone else benefits from their excellence. If companies that retain these high productivity people perform better than companies that don't, evolutionary pressure will force these egalitarian companies out.

I think this theory may be true in some fields like hedge funds or heavy sales performance based businesses.

In software, I am not sure high productivity people care about this issue, as long as their compensation is high enough.
Is there a company that consists of people that actually are willing and interested in getting "constructive feedback"? Basically I think that it would mean that the people are so intereted in the quality of the work they are doing that anything that might make their work better is interesting even if it turns out they have done something "wrong" earlier.

If there is , I might considering applying at some point. I assume that if there are, the companies must be relatively small, or in case of larger companies this might happen in selected departments like Skunk Works.

It would just be so refreshing to be able to hear and say the occasional "Hey, you know, actually there is a much better/nicer/less stupid/more efficient way to do what you are doing" without needing to waste time to think how to say that.
Unfortunately I don't think it's a case of jerks vs not-jerks. Many years at a BigCorp has underlined to me now that the ethics and "professional economy" of working in one is entirely different than SmallCorp.

SmallCorp you all work for the bottom line or company goes bust. That acts as a damper on empire builders who build for their own sake, though there is still that behavior.

BigCorp it's unlikely your contributions are going to impact much of that kind of thing, even if you're up in senior management. So you're there for your Career(tm) first, company $$ success second. And in fact that is directly promoted through Perf, etc.

So the aggregate behavior of individuals is not only to self-promote but to encourage the self-promotions of others, that's how we get ahead by the measures defined as "getting ahead" by the company: internal promotion, project glory, internal and external speaking engagements and publications about your project, etc.

So a 100 person "congrats" and "that's amazing!" email (or its equivalent on LinkedIn) or whatever is just reasonable professional behavior. You're not a jerk for promoting yourself, you're just doing what is expected of you. The professional behavior of the modest but "plug along and do my job and help out and not self-promote" person is the one that's suspect in this scenario. The company _wants_ you to self-promote.
I think its relevant. a consolidation of opinion (via self-censorship) also leads to a consolidation of products and choice, since alternative product and companies die due to unpopularity.

For example I think reddit played a MASSIVE role in the rise of PC gaming in the last 5 years. It's more indirect, admittedly.
Reddit mods are truly overly censor-friendly and ban-happy - and a bit bemused with the power that being a mod gives them over others.
In what way did they "have the Roadster" in February 2004, 6 months after the first two founders started the company and 9 months before it was named Tesla? At the point that Musk joined they were still working with a TZero converted to a lithium battery pack.
Personally, I'm the opposite.

The primary reason I use Twitter is to read blue check marks (and other well known people). Why would I want to know what a random person thinks about an issue when I could hear from people who have built years of clout on a subject? I feel the same way in reverse -- why would anyone care what I think about something when I have no experience or track record on the issue?
Virtue signaling implies morals. Marketing doesn't.
Thank you for sharing the link. I prefer to read blogs.

The key issue here is discoverability. We used to have search engines, but with SEO tricks and Google wanting to prop its platforms higher, that doesn't seem to work anymore.

Then, there is the matter of following the blog for updates. Not everyone knows what a RSS feed is. Heck, I wanted to subscribe, but there's no meta tag, nothing in the footer or about page that gives a link to an RSS feed. I even looked at the HTML, hoping to know which blog engine this was running, then looked for its common RSS feed URLs [1], but that didn't work.

I don't disagree with your other points, but If I ran a blog, I would do it for myself and my readers, not as a billboard for advertisers to show them ads.

[1]: https://github.com/getgrav/grav-plugin-feed
Thanks. Yes, again, he did NOT get fired for this.

But he started talking about conspiracy theories relating to the illuminati and the Rothschilds (who, yes, happen to be jewish) and how they have all the power. Nothing derogatory or about jewish people in general that I saw.

Every single headline on my news page says he was anti-semetic and completely ignored the blatant racism. What fun times we are in.