skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imo, he's taking responsibility. If as an individual you can deploy the most money in the world, what do you do with it? Twitter became a negative-sum game of people competing to debase themselves in service of narrative in exchange for nothing but the approval of others who had already done the same. Unlocking that negative cycle can release a lot of captive value for everyone. The best way to do that is to connect great minds and scale them based on their revealed desires.

I remember Musk offered to solve world hunger but the NGO people who said they could do it flaked when (pen in hand) he offered to cut them a cheque. The next best thing is to provide a platform for discourse so that smart people indexed on truth and reality can thrive and wield influence.

The opportunity is that Twitter just isn't funny, and as a signal of alignment to truth, that's a pretty honest sign it has become oppressive and that it has become a thing that most people just do not want. The controversial censorship on Twitter has been against humour, which makes Musk's play such an obvious win. As an activist target, Twitter has spent almost a decade contorting itself and spending a lot of effort to make itself suck, and it just needs to suck slightly less to be a benefit to humanity. Value for money, it's probably the most effective $43B anyone has spent in the US.
At first I just though "Oh, no", but this seems pretty clean and orderly and not dumbed down for mobile devices.

Personally I dislike the top menu only showing when you scroll down. I would prefer it to be static and always displayed. But that is personal preference.
The fact it is an all cash offer should finally put an end to the ludicrous claim so often made that billionaires can’t access liquidity.
> spirit of science is about discussion and counter arguments and being open to being wrong or even the idea that the consensus might be invalid

I have seen very few antivax arguments made in the spirit of science. Those that were got repeated lacking the original comment’s nuance.

Keep in mind that the spirit of science was developed with the gates of wealth, literacy and education in mind. Remove those, add in anonymity, or even pseudonymity, and the system veers towards chaos. We are far more open, today, than the Enlightenment-era West was. That requires new tools and guardrails. (What this discussion, broadly, is about.)
I know Amazon hires in Vancouver (search their careers site using a location filter).

Microsoft also hires in Vancouver and probably other Canada locations: https://careers.microsoft.com/professionals/us/en/l-vancouve...
> In short, Twitter is not keeping up with the broader economy at Musk's price. You're telling the investment banks, mutual funds, and most-senior vested employees that their company has the same worth as a low-risk government bond or a bar of metal.

Exactly! The stock has been a terrible investment since IPO, and Twitter management has done a terrible job of unlocking value. It's current management that has failed to keep up with the broader economy. Musk thinks he can do a lot better if he has full control. Musk's price is a reflection of how poorly current management has done; he is not trying to compensate you for future growth.

If you think current management can drive the share price much higher, then you should not sell to Musk. If you think current management is just going to be more of the same, Musk is giving you a big premium over where the stock had been trading, and you should take his offer.

If Musk thinks Twitter will be worth $400 in five years' time, then he can realize that value for himself. He'd be very foolish to offer you that price now.
People get banned from yt and twitter for quoting scientific papers that don't align with "the message". In fact it's been yts official policy since mid 2020 to ban anything COVID that doesn't conform to what the WHO is saying.
Sure. What I meant is that you don't need the 100% to go private. But maybe that was obvious.
That’s a really nice idea. Maybe I could do the same with Dropbox. A good project for the Easter weekend - thank you!

I haven’t tried abiword as I didn’t use it “back in the day”, but I might give it a go. I’m also using AppleWorks on my iMac G3 with an identical setup. The G3 is nice because it’s fanless and therefore almost silent, though it has a bit of CRT whine nowadays.
I agree with most of what you say but

> why would a GPU have it's own TLB in the first place?

is because modern GPUs have their own MMUs and have for quite a while. More or less ubiquitous MMUs on GPUs are half the reason why Mantle/Vulkan/DX12/Metal came into being.
Twitters ads never generated as much as facebooks, and FB offered as services on 3rd party websites.
>Current user of FogBugz

I'm so sorry. Fogbugz has been in maintenance mode for years now, stuck in the middle of a half-finished redesign.
The step they seem to be missing is _the entire development process_.

If you're using API keys to access stuff, you do it on your backend, there's no excuse for that stuff to make it to the frontend.

If your "client" needs access to sensitive API keys, you need to rethink your architecture.

As a (senior) backend software engineer, this reeks of a person/team who doesn't know how to architect and/or implement web applications/software.
Gitlab has enterprise and community versions that are self hostable. You may be thinking of GitHub.
Hacker News isn’t comparable to Twitter. They’re not doing coordinated censorship with other big tech companies or working on behalf of intelligence agencies to spy on their users etc. Twitter & other large corps aren’t just private companies because they have such strong relationships with the government. Politicians also threaten to penalize them for not doing censorship the way that they want, so they aren’t really acting in a free market regardless.
> Biden administration ‘flagging problematic posts for Facebook,’ Psaki says

If you think that social medias speech policies are developed in a vacuum from influence from politicians, then you're mistaken. How could it be? Imagine being a CEO and getting dragged in front of Congress every 6 months to explain yourself. Or politicians calling your platform a threat to democracy and threatening to break you up. You think that would have no impact on your speech policies?

What would government restriction on speech look like if not soft (effective) influence on big media companies?

https://news.yahoo.com/biden-administration-flagging-problem...
Thanks! On the fence about whether to use as an excuse to try something small in python for the second time in my life... or just steal the idea and pretty much copy it line by line into something my non-programmer mind will find easier (php). Though maybe it'll be so simple to run and not need future tweaking that it won't even force me into learning by keeping it in python.

Though also, I was hoping for the interesting sources too :P
Around the world? I think you are overestimating Twitter by a large margin. My guess is that in the US Twitter has marketing deals with media outlets which make it a relevant platform to post and consume breaking news in the first place.

In other countries I haven't seen a lot of Twitter logos on TV.
Why would he get a fine from the SEC? He filed this takeover with the SEC in the first place. He's following all of their rules.
Is Elon one of the interesting people? Let's look at a couple of his most recent tweets:

"Weather is fake. I seen Truman Show!"

"69.420% of statistics are false"

Personally, this content is exactly the type of thing I try to filter out. Unfunny, uninteresting fluff.
Yes , there are a lot of quirks in the chrome book platform . I have a 2015 hp 11e and nothing works on it but chromeos, win7 and gallium. No Ubuntu , FreeBSD , NetBSD or red hat .
It's possible to go very far down this rabbit hole, and end up browsing Sony GDM-FW900s from 2003 for thousands of dollars.
I always thought Ruby has symbols because

const String ACCOUNT_FUNDS_EXCEEDED = "ACCOUNT_FUNDS_EXCEEDED"

is plain retarded :D
probably just wants to get Benioff or someone else to step up, make a couple of billion, further buff his edgelord street cred.
If you wanted to get particularly philosophical, everything is observed by its effect on other things.
I booked a hotel stay (in Canada, not Australia) and got an error page at some point that dumped out all env vars including database credentials.

Tried my best to report (not publicly disclose) it, including asking the front desk for contact information for IT; no response.

I think we're (on HN) often in quite a bubble of being (or striving to be) hot on this sort of thing, or frankly far trickier to exploit sorts of things, when really the bar for a lot of ('IT is a cost centre') stuff out there is extremely low.

I don't think this sort of leak or vulnerability is anywhere near as rare (which isn't even that rare) as it seems - I think an awful lot must just get quietly exploited or go unnoticed. We're only hearing about this one because someone thought it was 'lolz', I didn't publicize the one I noticed (in my normal user behaviour of just trying to book a room!) nor did I see if I could connect to the database and book myself in for free or something. And I only noticed it because it a) experienced an error; b) dumped env vars in the event of an error - i.e. I didn't have to look for it. How many other sites have I used since with similar problems but which just didn't happen to serve it up on a silver platter for me?
> Minimizing windows fucks me over when using voice control software

I think this is a good example of wanting macOS to work like how you were used to with windows. Try cmd+h to "hide" instead of "minimizing" [0]. Multiple desktops also works well, and using "mission control" to switch apps vs minimizing things.

> Switching between windows from the same app is a pain in the ass, because it requires more clicks, which literally equals more pain for me

I actually find this pretty convenient on mac with cmd+` (cmd+tab to switch between applications, cmd+` to switch between windows of an app)

[0] https://superuser.com/a/543072
It's, in fact, the opposite of free speech.

Now, there may be an argument that Twitter, for example, has become such an integral part of the public square that the government SHOULD compel Twitter to allow every form of speech on it. And that could be a reasonable argument to make.

What it wouldn't be is free speech. It would, in fact, be coerced speech.
I don't think this is actually a problem, since when casting from `&mut T` to `*mut T`, the returned pointer can only access the data (the T value) directly behind the reference.

The raw pointer would be synthesised with the capability for only the pointee of the original reference.
You say that like there aren't hundreds of social media platforms out there now and like it isn't trivial for a technical person to set up your own social media service on some "bulletproof host" in Lithuania or Russia.

There isn't a dearth of social media. There are a couple of GIANT social media websites that have sprung up in the last 2 decades, but there are dozens of semi-popular niche-ier forums that cater to any rant you might want to leave.
The key here is its "near ionizing" the mechanism is still based on photon energy for which RF does not have enough.

Near ionizing and up have non thermal effects, RF's much lower photon energy's only known action is thermal which requires orders of magnitude more power to create enough heat to damage DNA.
> Sure, but you can also survive without sewer. It's just a lot harder to live a normal life.

Not really but that sense of learned helplessness is certainly good for their bottom line. I imagine it increases your propensity to buy whatever crap they're spamming your feed with.

In reality life without social media is a much happier existence.
This argument always revolves around whether the authority with the power to restrict speech can be trusted not to abuse that power. I don't think the state can be trusted to decide what is propaganda and what is a conspiracy theory.

Historically, states have been the foremost perpetrators of propaganda and conspiracy theories. Democracies are not immune. See the propaganda efforts surrounding the Vietnam and Iraq wars, just the top of a very long list. The protest movements against these wars were so powerful and inspirational because the state had so little power to suppress them. Similar movements in Russia and China essentially do not and can not exist.

State power is a ratchet. Limits on state power, once removed, do not come back. Every power we give to the state today will be used against us decades from now, in an utterly different context, with utterly different people in charge. Giving away limits only makes sense to stave off imminent demise, which, panicked op-eds aside, is not what we face today.

I mostly agree with the people who currently have the most power to censor speech. My interests and viewpoints would be advanced by increased state censorship. But I am still against it for the reasons above.

I'm more okay with private companies deciding these things, because other private companies can do things differently. They do not have the monopoly on power that the state does. I think a cultural norm favoring free speech should apply, but it's reasonable for platforms to apply judgment to set more limits.
> at what point does an utterance stop being an opinion and start being assault?

At the point defined by the letter of the law
Web 1.0 didn't tend to use:

width: 600px

to artificially constrain content to a tiny horizontal sliver. Some sites did it with tables, but most didn't bother to try to dictate so much style. Part of the wonderfulness of web 1.0 was taking advantage of browser defaults: Background colors, default text fonts, and not doing so much specifying exact style.

The site is pleasantly readable and "responsive" to different browser sizes when you turn Style Sheets off!
How do you define free speech absolutism? Is it literally anything goes? Anything legal? Is porn ok?
Nice to hear there are more people out there doing this :)

I'm currently developing a very specialized desktop application for a laboratory and it has been an amazing experience. Working closely together with your users means you get to prioritize what really matters and that you can clearly see the effect of your software in people's lives (in this case, at least 5x increase in productivity and a more healthy distribution of work). I especially enjoy demo time, because I see the enthusiasm in the faces of my customers. It can be tough, though, establishing your reputation at the beginning.
> When that privately-run website becomes the public square (as Twitter wants or has done), it should forfeit some moderation rights

That’s fair. Twitter is far from the public square. To lazy journalists and addicts, sure. But plenty of discourse manages just fine without it.
There could be, and there are, but the article focuses a lot on the negative effects the modern web (and especially social media) had on society. These effects would not change with parallel systems.
>the public was informed by the news

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inform (v.)

early 14c., "to train or instruct in some specific subject," from Old French informer, enformer "instruct, teach" (13c.) and directly from Latin informare "to shape, give form to, delineate," figuratively "train, instruct, educate," from in- "into" (from PIE root *en "in") + formare "to form, shape," from forma "form" (see form (n.)). In early use also enform until c. 1600. Sense of "report facts or news, communicate information to" first recorded late 14c. Related: Informed; informing.
Sure, but my point was that dark matter is not just an artefact of equations.
> He has no background with any org that works on protecting free speech.

I would argue Starlink occupies that role.
"the hacker[/journalist] decoded the HTML source code" and must be prosecuted.

I can't believe what I just watched.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas suggested extending common carrier legislation to cover social media platforms. That would essentially prevent them from censoring any content legal in the US.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2021/04/09/justice-t...

I don't understand your point about user experience. Twitter is already mostly low effort flame wars, political proselytizing, and porn. But people seem to still use it anyway.
> Then he proposed legislation which would give himself wide-ranged emergency powers, which was approved by the democratically-elected parliament

I'm German and graduate with polish-german history as honors class.

Where to even start.....

First of all, the only reason they took the political path was because Hitler's coup against the German government in 1923 failed.

The "democratic" approval you paint here happened while the SA, the NSDAP's personal thug squad, as well as the SS (no introduction necessary) had infiltrated the building and were "observing" the voting procedure. This was illegal, especially since they were uniformed for intimidation.

You are also ignoring the fact that this "technically constitutional" decision was only possible because they spontaneously (same day) changed the legal framework in a way that meant that non-present (intimidated) representatives count as present. Only this way they achieved the necessary votes.

What even legitimized this situation in the first place was an exploitation of the weak Weimar constitution (as in abuse of loopholes due to it's young nature of 20 years, same applies to the German democratic history as a whole, first time a democratic persistent government was in power was in 1918).

You are completely ignoring the Reichtagsbrandverordnung which eradicated the fundamental rights as well as the divison of powers (!) which should not have been able to be touched. This was a breach of the Weimar constitution by the way, so the Nazi rise to power was 100 % not constitutional.

And lastly you decontextualized the comparison since Hitler obviously did a lot more than just being a cheater in politics
The "ctrl + alt + u" attack vector.
Twitter can employ the engineers to build and run the system just fine today.
SLAPP may be too strong but I don’t think it’s an unreasonable position that libel rights be enforceable at reasonable levels of financial risk. Some lawsuits are lost on technicalities and missing a technicality shouldn’t force someone to pay not only their own legal bills but also the journalist’s. There should be a very high bar for having to pay someone else’s legal fees, especially in situations where a publisher can use disproportionate resources in representation. The NYT is likely to spend over 10x on their defence as I spend on my case if they libel me. Do we want the financial bar to being able to defend oneself to raise by an order of magnitude?
For others: The ad claims that the news outlet that published the fact that the state website had teacher SSNs was part of the "fake news media" exploiting privacy for political gains.

Apparently the SSNs were embedded in the pages html. The ad makes it sound like a huge reverse-engineering job.
> Now if you're not on the big platforms your opinion may as well not exist.

I'm no so sure about that. Since leaving social media, I've become quite involved in local politics. I now know some state legislators on a first-name basis and multiple directors of state departments in multiple states. I can call up people I've helped get elected and get my thoughts right to them. I find my opinion to effect much more change than it did when I was shouting into the digital void.
my go-to writing system was a repaired (got two broken ones for free, cobbled together 1 working one) 800MHz Celeron Sony VAIO with an 800x600 LCD, xubuntu, and abiword. The thing /couldn't/ connect to the internet (required a dongle I didn't have) but had a USB port for using a thumbdrive.

I got so much work done on that thing.
Are you somehow under the impression that having your opinion published on Twitter is the same as having your opinion matter?
Driver support might be an issue - and it might run TOO fast!
Don't get distracted. I used to sell big software solutions and the mistake is to invest your hopes in maybes. Keep it in mind but work at other stuff.

I spent well over a year on a sale and a week from contract signing I got a call "the press have a story we are being bought out. Do not call or contact us in any way". The sale never happened.
I agree with the overall sentiment, but it seems a little ironic that this author is pining for a return to the simple old days of hand-written HTML but has written a site that doesn't even show links to its own pages with JS disabled.
Neoliberalism as a term is something that the Left came up with to describe all policies they don't like.

There was something called Neoliberalism in Europe but doesn't really fit with what is called 'Neoliberalism' became and was basically a term had very little use for decade and was basically not used anymore by anybody.

Then the term 'neoliberalism' was used in a article used to critic the Chile Coup and from there spiraled into a everything that is not far left. Its really a critic of the Far left against the Center Left and has from there expanded to basically encompass everything.

Its a terrible term that the supposed neoliberals have never actually used. But I guess is a great term if leftist hang around with each other and try to prove how smart they are. Anybody from the center left to the far right is an evil neoliberal apparently.

Because if not then claiming that traditional neoliberalism is the 'local religion' is crazy as you could win a single election with classical neoliberal ideas.
> Spreadsheets, accounting software, financial software, municipal software, inventory software won't need GPU. Desktop publishing applications don't need GPU.

All of those use the GPU since modern UI toolkits are designed to use GPU offload.

> CAD software doesn't need GPU.

Wat.
Putting "Christ is King!" in your Twitter bio has the same problem as putting a Christian bumper sticker on your car: the person most likely to read it is the person you just flipped off.
> How do you provide your secrets to your apps? Using an external service? That would still require another set of credentials. Using environment variables? A file only the user running the app has access too? Another way?

It sucks for a small team or for anyone who is trying to run a free tier, but terraform plus aws secrets manager or vault works really well. Using a db password as an example, for our app we generate a random password, store it in secrets manager, and our containers on fargate run with an iam role that allows access to that secret. Our state is stored in S3, and the infra is applied on commit to main with a terraform plan run on the merge request to main.

Our biggest security vector is always going to be someone using elevated credentials to access something, but this way there is no state on a developers machine at any point for any of our production infra.
How does this do on hills? This video shows a small, flat yard. Mine is many times this size, and has lots of elevation changes. I looked into robot mowers a few years ago, but I still would have had to mow at least 30% of my yard by hand because of the steeper parts (that really aren't that steep).
I certainly understand, hopefully you see my point though that being right sadly isn't enough for many/most in our country anymore :/

Good luck with things, it was just a warning and hopefully not a dissuasion from continuing on.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/mar/08/melbo...
So long as everyone using the platform can modify their own list, no it's not the same problem at all. The question is: do I get to decide who I listen to, or do you?