skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My take on this is that he wants to bring back more of a wild west. I kinda sympathize with the sentiment to create a more relaxed version of Twitter where only the obvious in terms of free speech is excluded (like MMA/Vale Tudo - in terms of a "free fight"- not allowing eye gouging etc.) but this certainly isn't something for everyone. Not a lot of people can stomach 4chan taking this to an extreme.

So how you go about this? As a mere mortal you are damned to create a new thing, create a PR-campaign from the outside to pressure Twitter ... the usual things.
But as the richest person on the planet you don't only possess the resources to do all the above way better, additionally you can simply just buy up "Twitter". Which is kind of crazy like buying up a restaurant after not being satisfied with the service.

Well, the stock price did go up significantly and yeah, in order to make things "more fun" for Twitter users again (the most active being obviously not underclass) one can relax some "out of control" censorship practices.
A brilliant way to do that while skirting the law would be to arrange for interviewees to have a short walk from the front desk or whatever, with a chaperone and a person who appears to be another candidate but is actually a shill, who shares personal information (the sort that is illegal to ask about) in the manner of small talk.

I wonder if/how many companies do this.
> I can appreciate Trump

The guy incited a deadly insurrection to subvert democracy to keep himself in power. He also extorted Ukraine by withholding weapons for his personal political gain. He was impeached for both.
I don’t think they’ll put macOS on an iPad either, but they’ve been positioning the iPad as a computer for a long time. Even in marketing language at times.
It would be cool if I could publish a subset of items available for use to my friends/neighbors. Privately(?)
> This is only true in a narrow time context.

You might believe that, but I don't think you know for sure, and I doubt you could prove it. I would not know what evidence of that claim would look like, or how to evaluate it.

What I would like, though, is to unask the question completely. Maybe Olaf's menu item saved the company money in the long term, or maybe it cost the company money in the long term. Why is that so important? Why should that be the primary consideration (or only consideration) when we judge whether the project was worth doing?

I would like a framework for evaluating these sorts of choices starting from a different place.

Something that has been on my mind a long time is the idea of persuading local merchants to pay someone to pick up trash on their street. In the USA, the argument would look like this: "If you chip in a small amount of money to pay for street sweeping, that cost will be more than offset by the revenues stemming from increased foot traffic to your business.”

This to me seems deeply insane. Everything is measured in dollars. To Americans, not living in a pile of filth has no intrinsic value apart from increased business returns. The argument “even if the cost isn't offset by increased revenues, at least you won't have to walk through piles of trash every day” does not carry any weight.

I would like to live in a world where Olaf's menu item was sufficiently justified by its obvious benefit to Olaf, and the presumption was that it was worth doing on that basis alone.
Elon is just one of the board directors. I was wondering why people believe that he will have such sweeping power to change Twitter.
I loved that book and the world the author created.
>Pointing out the futility of a conversation is different than engaging in it.

[...]

>At the same time, by many measures, you could successfully - and easily - argue that he's a pretty shitty person.

Right here.
You do realise that you lose absolutely nothing of value by not watching it live, right?
>McCarthyism

Isn’t that “ism” largely discredited? He was right, the government/institutions were full of communists. Today they’ve rebranded as socialists, but to my knowledge everything he fought against came to pass.

Attaching the -ism label is just a thought-terminating cliche.
It's unfortunate that each streaming silo will probably never allow their content to be streamed to a client like Plex. Amazon Channels seems to have not had a great run from what I've heard (IIRC some services left after initially being part of it) so I have little hope of Plex being able to swing something similar. Apple TV (The app, not the device or the service, terrible naming) is just a launch board to kick you into other apps which is slightly better than having to navigate multiple apps but only slightly. I understand it's because the streaming services want to "own" the experience (and all that data you generate while moving around and using the app) but I hate it.

Personally I watch all of my content through Plex because I refuse to switch between multiple streaming services. I'll gladly pay (and I do) for access to the platforms but I still only watch through Plex because I prefer having 1 UI/UX to deal with. I never have to ask "How do I get the subtitle selector up?", "Does left/right skip forward 10/15/30/60sec or does it start RR/FF?", "Where does this streaming provider let you configure X?", and the list goes on.

Spotify effectively killed piracy for the vast majority of my social circle but TV/Movie piracy is still the best viewing experience by a long shot especially with *arr-type apps to automate it all for you.

Money isn't the issue, experience is. It's just like years ago (or it's probably just as bad now but I haven't had to deal with it) when it was better to pirate a movie than get it via Redbox/Blockbuster because you weren't forced to watch ads/FBI warnings/etc.
In America, progressives/leftists actually lump in “liberals” as “conservative” now since traditionally “liberal” means support of typical Enlightenment values, democracy, and free market capitalism. But I’ve noticed that people who vote Republican refer to progressives/leftists as “liberals”, so it’s all very confusing.
Do we need private companies to make top tier streaming services? The BBC iPlayer is pretty good and pretty open, much more open (technicaly speaking) than something like Netflix.
Just because "evil corporations are greedy and use tech in soulless and alienating ways" isn't radical any more doesn't make it any less true.
I'm on the phone and honestly too lazy to look for a good primary source, but a google for "walking pumps blood" finds lots of hits, most on calf muscles pumping venous blood.

Also tbh 90+ walking sounds like a warning sign...
So society is that dependent on twitter?
Public library link: ADAM SMITH'S AMERICA : how a scottish philosopher became an icon of american capitalism, by Glory M. Yiu (2022) https://www.worldcat.org/title/adam-smiths-america-how-a-sco...
Monterey came out late October. You only aren’t on it if you decided not to be.
Freedom for me, not for thee.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-elon-musk-ruthlessly-f...

https://www.businessinsider.com/free-speech-absolutist-elon-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/business/musk-labor-board...

Edit: not all of these are about employees. He has attempted to get an anonymous stock analyst fired from their job due to a negative evaluation of Tesla stock.
Thank you. I'm not taking too many photos these days with a real camera or shoot RAW, but this'll come handy should the day come again.
You're just looking at the first hop and that's excessively gloomy. What about all the sites that authors you read have read?

Link sharing sites like Twitter and Hacker News have exposed me to articles from lots of less popular news sites, not to mention, all the blogs I'm subscribed to.

Also, research-heavy blog posts about COVID and the war in Ukraine have lots of outgoing links. Some sources are in languages I can't even read, but I can get a rough translation.

There are people who geolocate photos from Ukraine as a hobby, aggregators who find patterns, and people who do amateur military analysis. Sometimes they're ahead of the newspapers. (By a few hours. I assume reporters read them too.)

This results in big differences between what we can read and what would be possible in China or Russia, without a VPN anyway.

(Changing majority opinion is a whole different story though.)
Htop in Popular Culture
So Pharo for the front-end?
It's a bit depressing that it hasn't even made the front page of HN yet.
"Little Boy" the first nuke deployed in Japan was also just a gun, firing a lump of enriched uranium at another lump of enriched uranium at the end of a tube.
Maybe, in which case it'd likely still be something video-oriented. The Amiga was never particularly fast in terms of raw number-crunching. As a desktop computer it felt fast because of the pre-emptive multitasking and the custom chips and the use of SCSI instead of IDE. Even the keyboard had it's own CPU (a 6502-compatible SOC) on some of the models - "everything" was offloaded from the main CPU, and so until PCs started getting GPUs etc. it didn't matter that much that Motorola from pretty early on was struggling to keep up with the x86 advances.

But for video it had two major things going for it: Genlock, allowing cheap passthrough of a video signal and overlaying Amiga graphics on top of the video, and products like the Video Toaster that was initially built around the Amiga.

So you could see Amiga's pop up in video context may years after they were otherwise becoming obsolete because of that.
Yes! You can swoop into any thread discussing other packaging / build tools, and recommend nix, immediately sidelining any conversation about the original topic.
Derivation of Fractional Datatypes
This Econtalk podcast covers related issues: https://www.econtalk.org/anja-shortland-on-lost-art/

Economist and author Anja Shortland of King's College London talks about her new book, Lost Art, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. When a famous painting disappears into the underworld of stolen art, how does it make its way back into the legitimate world of auction houses and museums? Drawing on the archives of a private database of stolen objects--the Art Loss Register--Shortland discusses the economics of the art world when objects up for sale may be the result of theft.

Also the Menil Collection's Byzantine Chapel:

Mrs. de Menil, who resolved to rescue the frescoes, which were purportedly being sold on behalf of an art dealer. Provenance research revealed Cyprus as their place of origin and, with this knowledge in hand and permission from the Orthodox Church of Cyprus, the Menil purchased the frescoes on behalf of the Church. The Menil subsequently entered into a formal agreement with the Church, which granted permission to restore the frescoes (a three-year process), resulting in a long-term loan of the works
-"You've built a web app, but your users stick to Excel"
I feel that if your users are not using your web app, it's not because they miss the (dated, not exactly intuitive) Excel interface. Seems to me like the wrong solution for the problem
> Jin observed that M1-based Macs running macOS Big Sur remain vulnerable to CVE-2022-22675.

So the first vulnerability affects only M1 macs, all of which are compatible with Monterey. There’s your patch.

> We have high confidence that CVE-2022-22674 likely affects both macOS Big Sur and macOS Catalina. Nearly all vulnerabilities [..]

“High confidence” that it is “likely”? I have “absolute certainty” that it is “possible”, then.

Sure, it’s a reasonable guess. But there’s a lot of strongly worded outrage in this text. Personally, I’d hedge a bit on the accusations until they are shown to be true.
A loaded up Amiga (i.e. add a CPU accelerator board, more RAM than most PCs could handle, specialized video processing cards etc) could get into the low end of workstation territory. But you are right that architecturally, they had more in common with high end PCs than workstations of their day. The Amiga's main claim to fame from a hardware standpoint was their specialized chipset.
>As I've made clear in this thread, I am not taking a position on Musk.

You literally called him a "shitty preson", and you're saying you're not taking a position on him. Are you joking?
How is the battery on your 6S? I don't doubt that the older processor is slower in places, but one with a degraded battery will be much slower.
$4 billion is a lot of money. Having a lot of money doesn't change the amount of stuff $4billion can buy.
Having just upgraded from a 6s to a Xs, yeah, there's a speed difference with basic web browsing, even on lightweight sites like HN. It's the difference between fast enough and snappy.
People hate Musk for the same reason they hated Jobs. They love living in their world but hate themselves for it.

Think Different might have more than one meaning.
If you believe you will be unremarkable and do nothing interesting, you will be right. 99.9% of people may be unremarkable to you, but I would say that 99.9% of people are remarkable to someone. Purpose does not mean fame and fortune. And for those who live your lives based on statistics: Remember, you are a sample size of 1.
Your post reminds me of the intro for Eckhart tolle's Power of now. He had a similar experience though he became enlightened after his.

I quick google helped me find the passage from his book. I got goosebumps when I first read it, and his book did have quite an effect of me, alas, I felt back to my old comparing-money-worrying self rather quickly. But read that book if you haven't already, maybe you will relate with him:

“I cannot live with myself any longer.” This was the thought that kept repeating itself in my mind. Then suddenly I became aware of what a peculiar thought it was. "Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me:

the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with.“ ”Maybe,“ I thought, ”only one of them is real."

I was so stunned by this strange realization that my mind stopped. I was fully conscious, but there were no more thoughts. Then I felt drawn into what seemed like a vortex of energy. It was a slow movement at first and then accelerated. I was gripped by an intense fear, and my body started to shake. I heard the words “resist nothing,” as if spoken inside my chest. I could feel myself being sucked into a void. It felt as if the void was inside myself rather than outside.
Suddenly, there was no more fear, and I let myself fall into that void. I have no recollection of what happened after that.

I was awakened by the chirping of a bird outside the window. I had never heard such a sound before. My eyes were still closed, and I saw the image of a precious diamond. Yes, if a diamond could make a sound, this is what it would be like. I opened my eyes. The first light of dawn was filtering through the curtains. Without any thought, I felt, I knew, that there is infinitely more to light than we realize. That soft luminosity filtering through the curtains was love itself. Tears came into my eyes. I got up and walked around the room. I recognized the room, and yet I knew that I had never truly seen it before. Everything was fresh and pristine, as if it had just come into existence. I picked up things, a pencil, an empty bottle, marveling at the beauty and aliveness of it all.

That day I walked around the city in utter amazement at the miracle of life on earth, as if I had just been born into this world.

For the next five months, I lived in a state of uninterrupted deep peace and bliss. After that, it diminished somewhat in intensity, or perhaps it just seemed to because it became my natural state. I could still function in the world, although I realized that nothing I ever did could possibly add anything to what I already had.
In what ways do you think having Elon Musk on Twitter's board will be bad for society?
I'm with you on this, what features is Plex missing that other services have? Intro skipping was the big one that comes to mind and Plex was a bit behind the competition (if streaming services can be called that) but they also had to do it from a "zero knowledge" position (using ML to guess where the intro was, which was genius IMHO) verses being able to just hardcoded it per-episode.
Yeah, this was directly adapted from that.
This is a very plausible problem.

Backporting to older releases means finding potentially new solutions to the same problems depending on where the bugs sit in the codebase. This could also mean backporting more than just the fix itself, depending on how the codebase has evolved.
Not "ever" for sure...[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa
success if you're trying to make money failure if you're trying to make change
> the argument that Musk will make Twitter less ideological

Well musk seems to want Twitter to follow the principles of open and free discourses with less moderation.

So it seems like there will be less forced top down moderation.
Is he doing like, bad things, or this is the regular everyday "racism" name-calling again?

I'm having a "The boy who cried wolf" moment right now.
Yes, but also he seem to be doing the right thing, so far. Unlike many others, who tend to waste resources on building yachts and bunkers.
In addition to the other stuff people posted you also get to use the certified GPU drivers. Which means they actually tested that the card would work 100% with AutoCAD or whatever
To use a language is just to talk about things. You cannot answer the question, "do you like what i'm wearing?" if you dont have the capacity for taste.

Likewise, this applies to all language. To say, "do you know what 2+2 is?" *we* might be happy with "4" in the sense that a calculator answers this question. But we havent actually used language here. To use language is to understand what "2" means.

In otherwords, the capacity for langauge is only just the capacity to make a public communicable description of the non-linguistic capacities that we have. A statistical analysis of what we have already said, does not have this contact with the world, or the relevant capacities. It's just a record of their past use.

None of these systems are langauge users; none have language. They have the symbols of words set in an order, but they arent talkiung abotu anything, because they have nothing to talk about.

This is, i think really really obvious when you ask "did you like that film?" but it applies to every question. We are just easily satisifed when alexa turns the lights off when we say "alexa, lights off". This mechanical satisifcation leads some to the frankly schiozphrenic conclusion that alexa understands what turning the lights off means.

She doesnt. She will never say back, "but you know, it'll be very dark if you do that!" or "would you like the tv on instead?" etc. Alexa isnt having a conversation with you based on a shared understanding of your environment, ie., using langauge.

Alexa, like all NLP systems, are illusions. You arent speaking to anything. You arent asking anything a question. Nothing is answering you. You are the only thing in the room that understands what's going on, and the output of the system is meaningful only because you read it.

The system itself has no meaning to what its doing. The lights go off, but not because the system understood that your desire. It could not, if it failed to undestand, ask about your desire.
Yes, that's essentially what it is. It runs a preprocessing step on meshes to generate a hierarchical LOD structure, and then at runtime it uses a custom software rasterizer running on the GPU(!) to dynamically render whatever level of detail is appropriate. The term "virtualized" in the description indicates that chunks of geometry are fetched on demand (analogously to virtual memory), rather than loading the entire fully-detailed mesh up front.

The biggest limitation is that Nanite currently only supports rigid, non-deformable meshes, so it's mainly intended for scenery rather than characters.
> I guess that means we should absolve ourselves of any responsibility for it?

I don't think so, I just think it's a complicated topic without many easy answers.

> How do we apply that idea to our involvement in building future tools?

If we pick a less sensitive topic like power tools, they have some basic safety features. I know some folks get annoyed by those, but most folks find them helpful and can still accomplish their goals with the tools. But the safety features still don't 100% prevent misuse.

> Should we go ahead and build "sentient" autonomous weapons because "any tool can be turned into a weapon" anyway?

Most production AI applications have a "human in the loop", especially when accuracy is essential. The AI will alert a human and provide info & context, but a human still makes the decision. This is because even our best AI isn't smarter, safer or more ethical than a skilled human (at this point). At the point where a "human in the loop" starts generating more errors than autonomous AI, then it might make sense to have autonomous AI, with a kill-switch of course. I don't know what the advantage would be in making AI "sentient" though.
That's what the Tories do. Sell the country's silverware at a discount to their mates. See British Gas, British Telecom, The Royal Mail, orth Sea drilling rights etc...
Doesn't really solve botting though. In fact, this might make it even worse, if you ``own'' a pixel longer than the cooldown to set a pixel, once you get a pixel, you set up a bot to refresh it every 5 minutes. The map becomes mostly static very quickly, and if no art got in quickly, I mean static in both senses of the term.

If the ownership is shorter than the cooldown, then the botting game just becomes clicking every pixel until you own one, then finding someone (really a bot on a different account) to take over for you.
> Without Musk, someone else would’ve pulled it off, without the policy Musk would have done something else.

You can use this argument to say that no one deserves credit for doing anything. Seems like a dead-end way of thinking about the world to me.
Can you name one public Twitter ideology except a commitment to not spread vaccine misinformation?

At this point if anyone thinks that vaccine debate is ideological, I don't think we will change each others mind in either way, but I'm just curious if there are any examples.

As far as I can tell that is the one and only piece of controversy. They banned Trump.
> You hint that Elon Musk treats other people badly

Leaving aside the stunt where he called a rescue diver a pedophile, there has been enough and substantially bad racism at Tesla under his leadership that the company was ordered to pay 137 million dollars [1].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/tesla-must-pay-137-million-t...
Yes, I too can't wait for the entire internet to be 4chan.

There is no such thing as absolute free speech and I have no idea where you all are coming up with this idea. By definition, absolute free speech cannot exist because your speech ends where mine begins. Free speech does not mean free from moderation or consequences and criticisms, both are forms of speech themselves. There is no authoritarian censorship going on here.
If you think that Elon's pure objective is to get rich and live a lavish lifestyle, you haven't followed him very closely.

My impression is that he uses his wealth mostly to invest in other ventures that he feels are important causes to him.
My prediction is that the whole song and dance where you need to prove you have ADHD will fade away, and people will be able to basically just be able to get ADHD drugs from a doctor on the condition you get your blood pressure checked and such.

I think if the culture can normalize coffee, it certainly can normalize amphetamines and methylphenidate. Like to me it's hilarious in a way how offices will literally provide drugs (coffee, tea) to their employees for people to self-medicate with.
People always like to point to this guy, but he was a warlord. There's something to be said for a not-warlord achieving anything close.
13Ds and Gs have different filing thresholds and requirements