skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Twitter is _excellent_ at making its user base seem more important than it is

Most of Twitter is a shitty microcosm, yes; but on the other hand, more than a few objectively "important" people seem to only engage with the sphere of public discourse through Twitter.

Right now, that's just their voluntary engagement, and they could switch. But a single policy forcing use like e.g. "the Office of the President will make all non-press-conference communications only through Twitter" and suddenly there'd be a dire need for regulation.
Longer conversation than I'm willing to go into here, and I assume that you already know this anyway, but this is a point that Cory Doctorow pushes a lot. His take is that sites like Facebook in particular got where they are because they were able to scrape and remotely manage other sites, and that after they rose to dominance (among other things like buying competitors) they also pushed to shut down a lot of those systems and make it harder to do what they did.

I'm interested in seeing how EU legislation works out here. I tend to sometimes be relatively skeptical about EU legislation because I think the final results tend to miss the mark or get compromised or have side-effects, but I have seen a lot of people that I respect a lot say that this legislation is good, so I'm really curious to see what happens with it.

I don't personally think that network effects are the only thing that's factoring into current tech dominance -- my evidence for that is that Facebook has had to buy competitors before, and I don't think they would have felt that threat if they were confident in network effects alone to save them. I've also gone through enough internal emails from the various leaks from Facebook to where I can see some the anti-competitive strategies they tried that (in my mind) were in a very different category than just locking down an API. But network effects are certainly an important part of the puzzle, and even ignoring the market, having more user agency to remotely control accounts and build/use their own clients for services is (in my opinion) a really important part of individual freedom, so I'm all for improvements in that area.

And highly agreed, the problem with Facebook is not that people want to talk to friends and family. I don't think that people's instincts to be connected to each other should be treated as something that's unreasonable or bad.
I sense that you're using "marshmallow test" as shorthand or euphemism for essentially calling people stupid, or undisciplined. Basically saying that as long as people have some agency to avoid a consequence, experiencing that consequence is their choice and fault.

Anyway these things and more are part of "the market" too. If a market framework can't find effective solutions in the presence of real people with human faults and weaknesses, then what value is it to us?
I use Gmail with my own domain for free. My domain registrar (namecheap) allows forwarding of email for free. You can add extra email addresses in Gmail itself.
Twitter has underperformed the market overall.
Collabora is also a major LibreOffice developer. They're pretty great from about all standpoints.
> 5. all alternative to / review sites like capterra, g2, alternativeto, etc. They might have some good suggestions but they always hide the link to the software/site and instead link it to their spammy page. So you have to select part of the link and then re-search it on Google. Doing this for OSS projects can sometimes lead to a whole new rabbit hole.

Wow I've never had this pop up for me tbh. I wish alternativeto would come up more often, it's a really great resource and it's all crowd-sourced so it's very valuable information. Definitely wouldn't classify it as seo spam
OpenStep a lot of the time. Browsing via X, but yeah.
The Canadian cans used to be 99 cents too. They also used to be bigger. I haven't seen the 680ml Arizona cans in a while. Now I think they are 473ml.
The current regime is not a monarchy (who do you think the "king" is...?), it's a shadowy extension of the MIC, apparently with the primary purpose of monitoring and managing narratives of importance to them.
My account got banned for an obvious joke. I feel this personally.
Right it's baseline off the current price. Things have changed since IPO (for the worse for Twitter)
My take is that the Sakura "looks the same" to me even though it is different. Is there some way to make it look more different?
Did you consider someone is messing with you? Just mark it as spam and continue on with your life.

Also the way email lists work, you may get removed from one, but still end up on a different distribution list from the same organization so you can remove yourself but still get them.

I also don't see anything about actual malware, you are just receiving undesired solicitation. Without the error from the antivirus, there is no telling why it's suggesting you leave. It could be serving something, it could also not be using a valid cert.
Funny how it's all about money printing and not about greed. Businesses? Greedy? No way! Couldn't be.

Dude, this is capitalism. Everybody uses every excuse, from the most justified to the least justified. Assuming it's greed is dumb, but assuming it isn't greed is spectacularly dumb.
The free market obviously didn't work because it was a third party being harmed - unless you're in a capitalist anarchy like Snowcrash with gangs for hire there is no market-based mechanism for representing the interests of anyone not party to a sale. The real question is why the liability plus liability insurance system (the actual alternative to regulation) did not work. Why did those companies not fear litigation when it started becoming known that they could be subject to a class action with the size of the entire population?

Who was protecting them, and how?
You're saying that oligarchs taking control is good because it will cause more people to realize that oligarchs are taking control?
> in the event of bugs or security vulnerabilities in your application

The article talks about keys being published as part of the web page configuration.

That's far worse than "they could hack a server and gain its credentials!"
Not just effort: there usually are many costs associated with change. Perhaps user disorientation, downtime, as well as a lack of long term understanding of how the change plays out in combination with other factors.

A small improvement may not be worth it right now.

Perhaps it can be deferred. Perhaps it makes sense to bundle it with other changes later. *

* Some changes might reflect better on a product when they are rolled out together; e.g. to signal a major release.
I disagree with the framing. For some good reasons and some insane reasons the US government has decided to treat corporations as “people”. Corporations are otherwise strictly regulated in thousands of ways but somehow regulating their ability to shape narratives with selective suppression and amplification of the speech of their users is sacrosanct?
> A mutable string is replaced with (in Lua) a mutable array containing immutable string fragments, which are made into a string using the builtin table.concat.

That's what TruffleRuby does internally! We give you 'mutable' Ruby strings, but really they're made up of fragments of immutable strings.
Not in the US, the tiktok was of a can priced in canadian peso: https://twitter.com/DrinkAriZona/status/1351916465889406976
Lawsuits by the shareholders suing the board for not accepting the offer. Happens all the time.
> If Musk thinks Twitter is that valuable to take such risks, current major investors will probably want to unlock that value themselves.

Doesn't this depend on if you actually agree with Musk's thinking and valuation of Twitter in the first place? Given the share price has been all over the place, clearly the market is not on the same page.
> modern currency symbols are already fast-tracked anyway

For national currencies, perhaps. New national currencies aren't introduced all that often, and there is a lot of pressure to support them quickly as their use is often mandatory for anyone living in that jurisdiction. For new private currencies, including crypto-currencies, we don't see quite the same eagerness—the observation that new crypto-currencies were more likely to reuse existing Unicode symbols than invent new ones was a consideration in getting the Bitcoin symbol adopted, as they didn't want to open up the floodgates to large numbers of new currency symbols. The tag-based system offers a compromise.

> and more than one currency symbols for given ISO 4217 code can exist so I don't think it would work

That is a bit of a problem, but it could be handled with the variant selector codepoints, for example ¤MOP = MOP$, ¤MOP(VS1) = 圓, and ¤MOP(VS2) = 元, if the symbols have the same meaning. To save some space the VS could replace the end codepoint. For fractional units there could be a different prefix such as ¢ for 1/100 or ₥ for 1/1000 in place of the ¤, or incorporating one of the Unicode fraction codepoints for other ratios up to ⅞ (or ⅑ or ⅒). These would be rendered verbatim in the fallback version, like ¢USD.
If this offer is rejected twitter stock will go -30/-50% so if your north start is prices this is as good as it gets.
Interesting, thanks.

Is there anything you know of that does the opposite? Uses pressure to generate electricity?
You are mistaken about the curriculum, not that what you've said is entirely false, but that you are incorrectly attributing too much weight to these things in CS. Countless centuries before software or hardware existed, there were computer scientists. How could that be possible? Because software development is not computer science, nor is study of hardware architecture.

A decent CS program will include a some amount of history as well, who first did what and when, why the thing is called what it is, etc. Does that mean historians are computer scientists?! No, a university will round out a curriculum to include germane information that isn't really considered an essential element of that curriculum. In CS, the math is critical. So we can remove the computers and remove programming from the CS curriculum and still have a computer science program. But without the math, there is no CS.
Fully agree. Open source the platform. Nobody cares to copy Twitter's software. It's not revolutionary. It's tailored to their infrastructure specifically. They have the network effect going for them. If they were going to be displaced by a technologically-superior platform, Mastodon would have done it already. There really isn't a downside.

Let people censor who they want for themselves.
The notion of free speech is so central to the American ethos that, when a company which espouses to be a function of the town square idea takes it on themselves to suppress and censor "right speech", it just doesn't sit right with a lot of people. Even though a non-government entity may have the right to do it, it doesn't make it morally right.
The article is from 2 days ago, and Arizona's tweet about it seems to confirm they're still $.99 in the US https://twitter.com/DrinkAriZona/status/1513958532328030208

I think in Canada they're $1.29 now, though.
> "if my offer is rejected i will reconsider my ownership in twitter."

Thats an immense amount of selling pressure on the stock... This is a threat. He's negotiating with a gun to their head.
You posit that if Twitter pursued financial goals like Facebook it would be a better platform. Hard disagree.
MSRP is $0.99, however, retailers can set their own price [1].

[1]: https://drinkarizona.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/150000325...
"small" appears to be key here:

> When we get to larger matrix-matrix operations, such as 100x100 * 100x100, we can effectively write off any overheads due to memory allocations. But we definitely see that there is a potential for some fairly significant performance gains in the lower end! Notice too that these gains are realized by using the pure-Julia LoopVectorization.jl as the standard BLAS tools tend to have extra threading overhead in this region (again, not optimizing as much in this region).

> But, if you have been riding the GPU gospel without looking into the details then this plot may be a shocker! However, GPUs are designed as dumb slow chips with many cores, and thus they are only effective on very parallel operations, such as large matrix-matrix multiplications. It is from this point that assumption (2) is derived for large newtork operations. But again, in the case of small networks such GPU kernels will be outperformed by well-designed CPU kernels due to the lack of parallel opportunities.
Also, 4chan still exists and is relatively popular in some communities. That is something, to some people that's worth more than money.
It seems that this ad infinitum gibberish posting deflecting from the topic at hand is somewhat of a pattern for you, which would explain why you felt the need to deny you engage in "gish gallop" and other such dissembling off the bat -- because you'd been informed so many times that you do.

Since you've been unable to articulate any substantive issues with the original post with quotes from it and your most convincing arguments against them, it seems we can assume you agree with it, and are arguing for the sake of arguing, rather than for the sake of personal learning.
It's almost like including a BNC automatically rules it out of use as a consumer like there's some ridiculous royalty payment owed or something. I love BNC over every other type of connection for a coax cable. Nothing in the consumer world makes as sure of a connection.
I mean, it's mostly (cheap) sweetened water... They may take some small margin hits but keep or grow market share.
"Because you're seeing it through the lense of western media."

No, I'm seeing it through taking a series of factually established premises, and comparing them. Critical thinking (however anecdotally a position one launches from) isn't a byproduct of "Western Media".

"If you start with the assumption that Chinese government is trying to do good for its citizens, those are straight forward decisions." Are they?

"CCTV protects people from street crime" ...or just makes investing in ski masks popular? Your statement is so absent any context (who has access to the CCTV, what legal recourse is there for auditing the footage from a privacy or legal evidentiary perspective), are there controls to prevent abuse, etc.

I said nothing of a credit score. I said a social score, which is a very different, and much more contentious issue: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit-system-e...
Instagram beyond pics: Sexual harassers, crypto crooks, ID thieves
>also diesels are by design very tolerant of fuel types

While combustion process is tolerant, modern high-pressure pumps not so much. I don't think you can run automotive engine on Jet-A without detrimental effects on lifetime of injection system (as it uses fuel as lubricant). Does these aviation diesels use some specially hardened pumps?
Reposted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31028433
I do think we should consider one point - SF has an open border with a country of 330 million that has no comparable welfare state. Imagine if you transplanted Stockholm, city only, to the middle of the US. Swedish style welfare and government benefits would be available to anyone who moved there, from regions that do not contribute financially to this welfare state.

I think it would all fall apart pretty fast.

Now the disclaimer - I bring this up as a point of discussion, and I think it is a factor. However, overall I agree that San Francisco's government is profoundly dysfunctional, and I suspect that left-leaning European cities in terms of economic policy and government benefits are actually much more aggressive with law enforcement than SF.
> Why didn't the free market solve this particular problem?

The Free Market doesn't care about externalities. Whichever solution produces the desired results for the lowest amount of money wins. If it happens to destroy the environment in the process the market has no idea because the environment isn't on the market. This is the reason regulation exists, and why sometimes regulation causes companies to go out of business, because the regulation can't be applied globally and if there is somewhere else in the world where the environment can be destroyed to produce the product more cheaply then that is what will happen. It is a tragedy that we apply environmental regulation locally when the environment is a shared global resource.
In UIKit under iOS/iPadOS, there’s a concept known as “readable width” which is dynamic and changes depending on the width of the device’s screen, and apps can take advantage of it to make blocks of text flow in a readable and pleasant way regardless of device form factor and orientation.

I think this concept would be immensely useful in the browser. The closest one can get to that currently is to use media queries for a variety of screen widths with hand-tuned content widths, which is laborious and doesn’t leave room for user customization.
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The GP means that the journalists at the TV stations are getting their leads on what to cover from Twitter; not that audiences are watching Twitter in place of breaking news.
Good points. I just wonder why Amazon wouldn't raise the base rate they charge sellers rather than tacking on a "surcharge." It's not as if inflation is transitory :D
That's awesome and exactly what we need. Never any shame in plugging an open source and free project. Would love to see this as a standalone browser plugin some day. Maybe even making it easier to create and share custom lists
> I really like the idea of them being able to say "don't worry, you can't get overly addicted because we only offer one a day and don't let you binge."

I think their motivations are a little bit less altruistic. Which your post helped me figure out. They don’t want an archive because that requires everyone to visit their site at least once a day.

If there is an archive people could skip a day without repercussions.
> Twitter has the absolute right in the free market to moderate as they see fit when free speech only protects from governmental actions

You confuse free-speech-the-legal-concept (which yes mostly deals with governmental actions' with free-speech-the-principle. You treat the law as if it was equivalent to the moral norm, and that's just not the case.

Yes, twitter is legally allowed to moderate as they see fit. But just because what they do is legal does not mean it is right.
FBA fulfillment of e.g. 1-2 lbs "large standard" item now costs $5.40 instead of the previous $5.14. Does not seem that huge to me.

Note that the general referral fees are not affected, only the FBA fulfillment fees.
This is just opinion.

Twitter lost the trust of important users who have seen people censored for tweets that go against management's politics. Nobody thinks it's cool to build a community of hundreds of thousands of followers, only to be censored out at the most critical moment. That confidence will never be regained as long as Twitter has the same management and the same board. You would need to replace the board (the owners) and the management. Musk will also add his own name—a powerful brand itself—to Twitter's brand; but for the thing to work, Musk needs to be in full control. A private company also has less disclosure obligations, which is a valuable plus.
Stalking is not free speech
In the same vein, what is the biggest risk vector? My general impression is that AV will NOT catch new malware 99% of the time. I am to the point where I don't keep ANY/identity personal info on my computer.
It was amazing when computers were both new and social. Limitless potential pursued through room-sided machines with the power of today’s toys. Bits and scraps like this blog capture the spirit.
Please read the HN rules, they’re not long.

The downvote button is for low quality comments, not for disagreement. If you had been here for any significant length of time, you would know that.

It’s also a bit ironic when you say “stop spamming” from a sock puppet account you created specifically to reply to my comment, but you probably already knew that when you did it.
Does everyone consider Elon Jet a malicious actor? Who determines what a malicious actor is? I guess soon it could be Elon!
Profit margin hike surcharge*.
You might enjoy foxhole a lot. It’s a grand scale mmo war game where two sides fight over a giant map over the course of a few weeks. There’s extensive player led logistics lines, massive front lines, and every battle, base, and item are all made by players.

From my experience it’s got a great community, thousands of players working toward the same goal, participating in little excursions, fighting the front lines, supporting the bases ect.
If I thought I could be sued for damages I would be less likely to talk about some subject than if the threat was I could lose my twitter account.
> I'm wondering why there isn't a standard protocol for transmitting audio over the network.

Bluetooth isn't the same as your WiFi network. Most of the comments here are talking about IP-based protocols that aren't relevant for Bluetooth anyway.

Bluetooth is probably the best example of a widely adopted protocol for connecting to devices and sending audio streams. The protocol isn't exactly the problem. It's the buggy implementations of Bluetooth stacks and Bluetooth software in embedded devices.

Getting it right is actually extremely difficult because Bluetooth grew in complexity to be everything to everyone. It isn't only an audio sending protocol. Almost nobody owns the entire Bluetooth stack, so it's a mix of pieces from different companies and vendors.

Apple's implementation isn't perfect, but from experience I can tell you it's 10X better than the nightmare that is Android Bluetooth. It's getting better, but for years you had to collect a lot of different Android phones so you could make your software work around all of the different quirks in each vendor's different Bluetooth stacks.
Gas is more expensive. FBA requires Amazon to buy gas to run trucks to perform fulfillment.
Can you elaborate on this? Perhaps share some threads or an article summarizing the effect?
yeah, it's already a dumpster fire. How much lower can it get?
Low barrier-to-entry to share inane thoughts is not the problem.

The problem is centralized systems attempting to maximize acquisition of attention by baiting for that attention with outrage and controversy.
That's correct - his offer is not hostile. If they reject it, he could attempt a hostile takeover by buying up enough stock to install his own board.
4chan is 18 years old and moot stepped down 7 years ago. I can totally see younger engineers having no idea who he is.