skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a bit like coal mining.. even the default new account experience encourages subscribing to a bunch of spam, when what is needed is mining one seam in that mess containing just the desired content (people).

Finding a tight-knit specialist community goes against everything the Twitter UI encourages, but it's how most folk who are deeply loyal to the platform actually use it. When configured well, the timeline should be significantly comprised of conversations between known people talking about desirable topics.

Personally I think this is the core of the tool - free, open access to specialist communities with no membership requirements, and no need for upfront reputation. If some conversation between experts interests you and you have a question, you can just ask.

One approach is to start by following one account you really like, then mining their replies following the folk they actively engage with. Do this for a few iterations and the result will quickly become an extremely intimate, engaging, and topical timeline. It only takes a few meaningful questions and comments added to these conversations for the follows and inclusion to start flowing your way.
400k is an insane amount for a laundry mat
Lol. There will be about 99 new accounts sharing the same information, since ADS-B data is public information.
If that was true why are unregulated platforms, like 4chan, not popular?
Someone made an IPFS mirror of Wordle before it got acquired: https://bafybeic4blel5vf4il73n3nzt6vw7npsov6or3cp3myjms4npii...

This link (theoretically) can't be taken down.
I wrote a scrabble word generator a few months ago when I was really into playing scrabble online. It's too time consuming to use for a complete game of scrabble, but I use it regularly to help with Wordle:

https://i.imgur.com/f7KuOUy.png

A password storage app and generator I first wrote 15 years ago, then re-wrote 10 years ago.

Various Greasemonkey scripts (not sure if they count) to bypass paywalls on various sites.
Sounds to me like this guy is a deep state insider and understands what the FBI and CIA would do if trump was reinstated LOL
I think Erlang has them for a more specific reason: in general it eschews all forms of data definition (records are just a fancy syntax for tuples with an atom at the start), which makes hot code reloading and transparent network communication simpler.

Both cases would require some synchronization of data structures (across time or over the network), and with user-defined types this can get complicated, and atoms make the lack of user-defined types much more pleasant (and more performant than strings).
The title of this should be changed to the title of the article, "Elon Musk Makes $43 Billion Unsolicited Bid to Take Twitter Private".

The current title given here implies that Musk is likely to take over Twitter, which doesn't seem true after reading the article (which includes a quote about the proposed price being too low to be taken seriously).
> the vast majority of progress civilization has made has been under conditions much more regulated in terms of which ideas may propagate.

Lots of good things have happened in spite of bad conditions that hampered progress. These bad conditions have often revolved around a lack of freedom of expression, especially in the modern era, where this has been extensively documented.

For example, there has historically been intense stigma for expressing skepticism of the local religion, and scientists have famously suffered for it. Should we bring that back as well, since most progress has been made under such conditions?

If not, why? Do you like today's authorities better than those of centuries past?
If we exclude smaller scripts then one thing that stands out is a small CLI application (written in nodeJS) which takes all emails from Gmail marked with a special label and uploads their attachments to special Dropbox folder for my company accountant.

So forwarding invoices to my accountant is as easy as throwing a special label onto the email and boom, done.

Was totally worth automating, been using it for like two years now.
Patent a car? 'Tis but a carriage with engine!
My conspiracy theory is that Musk foresees the decline of society and owning a massive platform of communication provides him with a lot of power. Why buy a newspaper when you can buy the communication of so-much-more?
IIRC the regulations are such that if you make a takeover offer, you can't do that? Not sure though, my work is only M&A-adjacent, so I'm not an expert.
I have the feeling I am creating one every two weeks. If you tolerate windows, C# is a great multi-purpose language to develop quickly tools across desktop GUI, CLI and websites.

A UI over ffmpeg to look into downloaded movies and add/remove/rename/change default tracks without recompressing (or re compressing certain tracks only). And to autorename files with imdb titles and ids. And another one to collect timestamp from videos to edit out segments. Or to merge videos, auto finding the best size, fps, etc.

Own mp3 player with ability to exclude songs, import files from different sources and sync playlists with itunes on windows through COM. (Had so many bad experiences with itunes that I don’t trust it as my reference for song data, ratings and playlists and only use it to sync iphones).

Various tools to edit and manipulate gpx (fix time zones mostly and apply gps to photos) or srt files.

All sort of web scrapers.

A nimbletext-like on which you can drop files

A home website that contains the downloadable imdb data to manage my movie library and suggest movies I don’t own already.

Music sorter to try new songs with fast keyboard shortcuts to fast forward/flag/discard. Same for photos.

Lots of CLI tools: CLI for my domain names (for instance to maintain a dyndns-like subdomain). My own ACME client for wildcard certs that also updates various softwares with the new certificate (IIS, mail server, will look into synology soon). Tool for wake-on-lan my devices. A tool to auto-update the other tools based on a central repository. Various commands to put in a powershell script to send notifications, update my own "dead man snitch" website. Watch new real estate transactions in my neighbourhood on land registry (UK).
Python has had enums [1] since Python 3.4 (2014). You can easily convert back and forth between enum values and their string and numeric values.

I don't know anything about Ruby or Erlang so I don't know if that's really relevant, just your comment seems to imply it doesn't.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/enum.html
Not you specifically.

The free speech advocates really confuse free speech (in the global sense not just the American amendment) with saying anything

Free speech isn’t freedom to plan a drug deal or anything or illegal

There are definitely unenforced laws regarding harassment but they fall into the illegal category

Where it’s interesting is silencing say a pro Russia person or an anti vax person
I think social media is a real negative force in the world and welcome this as potentially a way to make it better, or at least destroy Twitter and remove one outlet.

I don’t think public companies can reform social media because it’s too profitable. As a private company it may be possible to reform it to still be profitable, but not in a way that harms people.
Well, you're getting it free: if you don't get any use from it, don't use it. Try doing an iterated search of every possible route on every possible airline website and let us know how you get on!
I feel like most people must use Twitter wrong. Despite how common a criticism it is, your description is not even remotely my experience.

I don’t know why. Maybe most users follow people who they like or respect or think are good people not people who share content they care about or write interesting original tweets? Maybe they think the only recourse to not liking what they see on their timeline is to complain and wish people were better rather than unfollow? Or maybe some whole major topics/spheres of interest are just entirely toxic to the core.

Twitter is incredibly valuable to me as a source of news, insight, and discussion on a wide range of topics (from programming to space to politics to skiing and more). It’s been nothing short of revolutionary for my consumption of news and information.

Twitter is actually better than RSS (though I do miss RSS being a thing) at what RSS was designed for, because curating your follows can give a better signal to noise ratio than taking everything from a given site, AND gives you a wider range of sources because you don't personally need to discover a source to see articles from it.

It also provides for some excellent debates, discussion, and interactions between really smart people.

I do agree with Elon though. The direction of the product is poor and there are many baffling decisions. It sometimes seems like Twitter themselves don’t even know why their product is valuable or what it’s potential really is.

I’d love to see some really radical changes. The kind that might not work and could be the end of Twitter if they fail. I’d love to see Twitter become really open, even open source, become a federated network, integrate privacy and anonymity tech, etc.

We don’t know his plans and I doubt it’ll happen, but Elon is one of the few people who has demonstrated willing to risk everything on an outcome he thinks is important. I hope this is one of this cases, and his instincts are at least reasonable.
You can do that on email, irl, with real letters, etc. It hasn’t been a problem. If someone is particularly harassing you then it becomes a legal issue.

What Twitter could do is just stop promoting and spreading content people don’t like. Rather than completely ban problem users like trump, just stop showing them in trending feeds and give people the option to block the users so you don’t see them.
When polled abstractly if people support spending trillions of dollars on war they don't. When asked if they would personally spend $6000 for every man woman and child in their house and send their son to die for just one war (of many), they also don't.

Yet decades worth of corrupt politicians on both sides have gleefully supported these criminal wars.

Again, how are they so unable to do anything when it comes to what they allege is the biggest problem ever to face humanity?

And a carbon tax on corporations which has bipartisan supprot does not mean everybody suddenly has to noticeably cut back on all those things. That sounds like the kind of fear mongering lying-by-polling that these crooked politicians love to use to shift the blame from themselves on to the people who in fact do want change.
>As a result, I am offering to buy 100% of Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, a 54% premium over the day before I began investing in Twitter and a 38% premium over the day before my investment was publicly announced. My offer is my best and final offer and if it is not accepted, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder.

This seems like he's mostly trolling them or looking for an excuse to sell. The chances they accept and he can get 100% seem low, this is a one-time offer with something of an ultimatum, and it seems a bit unlikely he wants to share that much Tesla to get the money in the first place.
Can political or civil society organisations exist without access to social media platforms these days? No. These platforms are utilities of the modern democratic and pluralistic society.
I created m4b-tool[1] (audiobooks), labelmaker[2] (html/twig to pdf) and graft[3] (file transfer) for my personal use :-)

[1] https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool/

[2] https://pilabor.com/projects/labelmaker/

[3] https://github.com/sandreas/graft
> Also, if there are people complaining of censorship you can always give them a '4-chan mode' and watch them come back asking how to switch it off after 5 min.

I'm not so sure what a four chan mode would look like. Can you please elaborate? Inspite of the constant mockery of the janitors, my understanding is they work practically around the clock for zero pay trying to keep the boards (not that I go to /b/ much) as clean as possible. It definitely is not a free for all and my understanding is most people gladly support heavy handed IP bans for example if someone posts commercial pornography on a "work safe" four channel board like technolo/g/y.

Moreover, some of the boards are very slow to the point that frequenters seem to get annoyed by a low quality post pushing down better posts by saying things like "thank you for your blog post" (I assume sarcasm, I don't know for sure) or "a thread died for this".

Also there are (from what I've read) filters available to filter out posts with certain keywords and people coming up with ways to have their posts show up for people with filters using different techniques.

I don't post anything on 4chan as I don't feel like a part of the in-crowd though and would genuinely like to know what a 4 Chan mode would look like.
In my former South-West London circles, "mentalist" rarely had the negative connotation you describe. More frequently it was used to refer to someone's (contextually) outrageous/daft/extreme behaviour.

"You ran 15km before breakfast? You bloody mentalist"
"You carried on drinking even after I left? Mentalist"

and so on.
Any twitter employees here?

Whats your take on this? Do you feel happy or anxious or do not care?
I think about Twitter occasionally and I'm always amazed that the company has thousands of employees.

If he charged $2 / month for an individual to get a blue check and $100 / month for a company to get verified then eliminated ads, could he get the staff count down to under 100 people?

I remember when Facebook bought Instagram. Instagram had something like 13 employees. Why does Twitter need two orders of magnitude more?
I have created a Node.js program that would scrape comments from a certain blog, look up websites for email address (some commenters had a website attached) and put them into HubSpot. Then I have created a Chrome extension that would extend HubSpot page and show all scraped comments that belong to the profile, in a popup. This was back in my junior years, trying to get leads for my first product attempt. I felt so smart lol

Also, more recently. I created a simple command line program to print a password.

I.e. you enter b003q3gqbba-

and it prints it like:

1: b

2: 0

3: 0

4: 3

5: q

6: 3

7: g

8 q

9: b

10: b

11: a

12: -

What's the reason? The stupid, insecure password masking that some banks use.
I think you got your definitions mixed up.

Even the name means: "it's dark, no light, as in no data, because that's what light is in this case"
Elon Musk doesn't seem to be a promoter of free speech when it affects him
https://www.wired.com/2012/02/tesla-vs-top-gear/
This seems like a Docker issue more than a GitLab issue. We run ours in GKE, so the infrastructure is managed and auto scales.
In scheme you usually use symbols instead of strings because the whole equality story is simpler and much faster. I once changed a tight loop in some code from dispatching on strings to dispatching on symbols and got a 15% speedup. Why? String equality is expensive. A symbol is basically a readable fixnum, where two similar symbols are always the same objects (errr... Don't quote me on that because it isn't strictly true).

Most places where you can use symbols instead of strings you lose nothing and gain speed.

I am not sure how it is in ruby though.
I was recently looking at the payment options for a M3 RWD and have actually paused everything last week when the first Twitter news came out, because that's exactly where my mind went too.

If this whole move ends up with trump reinstated, I just cannot support any of his companies with my money, ever. And I'll do what I can to dissuade colleagues if their values align with mine.
Aren’t we already there? Just replace local religion with local ideology/belief.

Edit: parent expanded their comment.
How to sign off an email. Epistolary etiquette for the 21st century
The potential value of a communications platform is always handwavy up to the point the revenue is realised. It is well-nigh impossible to forecast what the social media landscape will look like in the medium-long term; especially if someone cares about profit. Twitter has only been experimenting with making money since 2018.
A lame waste of time and money in order to bully people and introduce fake scarcity of something that is in of itself incredibly simple and recreational to boot. Ridiculous! It’s so easy to punch down, not easy to adapt and be creative.
> For me Twitter has become full of people marketing themselves with lists, tweets that don't make sense out of context, replies full of bile or inane comments and animated gifs.

I've found twitter's quality is a direct correlation to how discerning I am about who I follow. I don't really tweet or reply, so for me it is a read-only exercise. As such, the people I follow tend to be really high-quality (I am not typically following "regular" people like friends, etc.). Journalists, experts in specific domains, etc. And I try to make sure I am following people that have views different than mine along with those I do agree with. As a result, I've noticed I read pretty detailed information well before I see it break in major news organizations, and it is surprising balanced on the whole.
I'm afraid a long sales cycle (6-12mo) for B2B products that target big companies is a typical case. This remains relevant even if your product doesn't fall into an enterprise software category (in other words, it is low-cost for them).

They can schedule your product evaluation ("integration project") according to their schedule, but very often this doesn't happen at all - so the answer "we'll continue this somewhere in the future" _may_ mean that they don't consider using your product.

You cannot do much in this situation. This lead should be considered 'cold' so it would be enough to ping them from time to time to remind about your product.
* A replacement front-end for "tar" and various compressors

Could you elaborate on this? I feel like this is something that could save people hours of time. I'm so incredibly sick of the various decompression flags and tools, (de)compressing something on the commandline should be as easy as it is with a GUI.
not talking about your feelings in your relationship is exactly what opens you up for abuse. you both need to communicate openly with each other about everything you feel. if you can't do that then the relationship has a serious problem, and i would seek counselling
https://github.com/facebook/draft-js/issues/1077

_Perhaps_ it wasn't intentional, but it started happening around the time FB started forcing people to use Messenger and now you can't even access messages via the mobile website so who knows.

I haven't used FB for several years now so I'm a bit out of touch.
Well, their point is, allowing all speech may aid in spreading such stigma nationally, even if not globally. Local pressures are at least contained.
That is an illusion about the current situation, European politicians have the closest relations to industry and are far easier lobbied than decentral governments and bureaucracy can act as a defense of established actors. Privacy laws are build with contacts from Google and Facebook. Once the relation is established you will never get rid of this anymore.

Exchange some popular issue for access to user data, the same that happened with telephone providers. Just be realistic about it.
But the chips are placed on the gold mirror here - more likely is that they just sit idle until you connect the circuit ?
Finally! More and more people should embrace alternatives to gnome
This is quite interesting. Regardless of which way you vote when it comes election time, Trump would have a much better chance if he had social media access again. If Musk takes control of Twitter and gives Trump access again it could have an enormous impact on the outcome of that election and the future of America. It’s interesting (and terrifying) that someone could take Twitter private and exercise that level of power. I can’t imagine it would be long until the government regulated it at that point but given the US strong protections for free speech I’m not sure how much regulation can occur.
Caveat here is that you need to be a sufficiently large shop for this to pan out. Need the economies of scale on your side.

I've seen several times smaller organizations attempting to adopt this model (because Google does it or whatever), with the result of the tools team being an enormous bottleneck for the organization.
I'm not sure I really get the points you're making here. You've said "I don't have an opinion over the consequences for politics over this" but also "free speech absolutism is possible and is beneficial". And "Filter bubbles? Doesn't have to be a thing" but also "degrade [bad actors] reputation and amplify the defence of the victims".

I don't (apparently controversially) think that a lack of "free speech" is anywhere near top of the list of Twitter's problems. It's way more pressing that the amazing content on it has become completely drowned out by a cacophony of bad actors. It's not just the bot armies, but the legions of individual contributors posting and sharing obvious churnalism and outrage bait that it's _impossible_ to escape from.

I had to stop using Twitter regularly maybe a year or so ago for my own health. I could feel my blood pressure spiking every time I opened the app, and it wasn't because of algorithms or filter bubbles or censorship – if anything, the opposite. It was just increasingly not possible to use it for the things I had always loved about it—breaking news, shared conversations, interesting updates etc. from people and organisations I was interested in—without having to wade through buckets of deliberately rage-inducing shit.

Twitter itself might bear some responsibility for that. The obvious bot problem is out of control, and it was becoming increasingly user hostile to anyone who wanted to _avoid_ their attempts at "bubble popping". But maybe the bigger problem is that it's fundamentally hard to get people to behave respectfully in a a global public forum like that.
Excuse to sell? by doing this and then selling though would dump the stock price.

Why not just simply sell?
How would the price tank if he holds all the shares?
The Enterprise-Readiness of Vue.js – Is Vue.js Right for You?
That’s not how any of this works.
What's the relationship between Jack and Musk? Are they buddies? Do they hate each other? Is that relationship a factor here?
> all the problems it has ... can be solved.

I'm not sure I see much reason to share your optimism about this.
Yes, that should be doable.
"...absolutely could be the modern town square and would be great if it supported real freedom of speech, in my opinion."

My claim is that (in the US) if a platform allowed everything that was legal it wouldn't be popular.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220413164440/https://www.econo...
The bizarre drama behind a pinch of moon dust that just sold for $500k
You offer zero evidence for this claim.
Take the real money if offered, and think whether the stock swap makes the assets any more real. As with any social media company, it’s built on sand as the user base can always move on if given a reason. The technical resources to make another twitter are small and word of mouth is pretty easy anymore. I figure most of the HN community has entertained “I can do it better” thoughts.
Also passwords you can select by double click (ie certain special characters) and don’t have characters that look ambiguous (ilI, oO0, etc)
Lots of politicians have chosen to make Twitter their main method of communication. I am able to speak to my representatives via Twitter quite easily while they ignore my emails. They can choose (if they wish) to block me on Twitter and limit my ability to communicate with them or see important information they post there and not elsewhere. Either it’s a utility or our politicians need to be held to stricter rules re communication with their constituents.