skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
43 Billion Dollars!? Of all the important issues in the world, Twitter is where this sort of money might go? Twitter! Oy vey have we lost sight of whats important. That's enough to give every research PhD student in the USA a sorely needed extra $15k every year for the next ~50 years. Sure glad we aren't living in an age where incentivizing technological breakthroughs on a societal level is an important thing to do.

I use twitter, I get something out of it, and I probably disagree with Musk politically on several issues. But if he were to take Twitter private, and change it, or whatever... Honestly, that's his prerogative; I'm certainly not in a position to stop him. Whether it's "good" or "bad" is not something that's really under my control. It's just a shame that this wealth isn't used for something more productive.
The reason I react (no pun intended haha) this way is because I have seen with my own eyes blue chip (US -- is that the right expression for "company name known quite literally the world over"?) companies doing exactly these sort of things.

I have seen the plastering of webpacked-gulpified-obfuscated-minified-hoistpropified-younamedifiedit mind-blowing amounts of Javascript to create the latest "cool" app.

I have seen web pages best described as "this webpage is so heavy not even light can escape it". The (not full) cast, not in order of appearance:

. 5MB+ of Javascript (not kidding) -- _after_ the above

. gazillions of HTTP requests

. internal data bled through to the outside world (not always problematic from a security point of view, but one may as well: 1) save on the bytes 2) not give malicious ideas to you-know-who)

. code coverage is inversely proportional: with grand score hovering around 3-5%.....

End result:

. from inside: a bloated over-engineered chaos (see entry: "Big Ball of Mud")

. from outside: catastrophic load times of around 35 seconds w/o a primed cache.

Talk about the latest shiny new "single page application".....

Granted, it's not always like that! :)
Hyperlocal Software: How Web3 opens new opportunities in software development
If you're in the Apple ecosystem, file sharing through iCloud and the Apple quite of apps is pretty good (not quite as good as O365, but worlds better than Google Docs)
I don't think they offer "free speech" it's just not what most any site offers.
Adam? You mean Dominic/trueadm? We have some ideas for supporting RN once we have iOS/Android versions of Lexical.
Pharma has the additional problem of inelastic demand. Deciding to purchase a candy bar or not is qualitatively different from deciding to purchase cancer treatment or not. Personally, I extend your idealism to any good that has highly inelastic demand. Using markets to price goods efficiently is not a goal I have in mind when I'm considering the distribution of these type of goods.
Ask HN: Why my post is not showing on HN
My post is not showing on HK if it contains a URL. Am I doing something wrong?
I thought it was "general public"
This is obviously the right take. But people won’t hear it. Which further underscores why this is good for society, not just the platform.
Elon Musk isn’t an oligarch that word has a specific meaning
It may be when the supply chain gets back into shape
At least there's a copy on the Wayback Machine of a good portion of it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20211002154145/https://www.badmo...
> If there is inflation, the prices of the good would be raised by the seller and that automatically increased how much Amazon makes.

I don't think that this is the case. If I sell XYZ product and my costs increased by 4% so I raise prices by 4%. Fuel costs for Amazon increased by 18%. The prices of the goods wouldn't necessarily offset what Amazon makes. And now you have to generalize this across all products they sell and all of their global logistical considerations...
I think the scale of automation and spam is far larger than any given individuals at a keyboard.

The "anything goes" forums are hardly the land of free speech and different views / ideas.
That's my preference as well, but I can understand how someone might want a more complex design while still using hand-written HTML.

Perhaps a good compromise would be to put a link to a navigation page in the sidebar, but when available, use JavaScript to replace the link with the navigation page content.
They protect free speech they agree with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMUZ2sVjLfY
Thanks for the feedback. I think increasing the randomness on branching creation can improve the visual variation. Will try about that!~
It is complicated and although money can help, many of the problems have to do with corruption and graft, rather than a lack of resources. The United States alone gives 3.7 billion dollars a year in aid [1]. And the sum total of world aid is much greater.

But if the dictators and juntas on the ground aren’t willing to help, and if the logistics companies and war lords redirect it to their friends, more money doesn’t really help.

And nor does a clever plan from the UN, which is already trying to avoid the grifters, but also has its share of internal corruption.

1. https://www.usaid.gov/food-assistance/faq#:~:text=In%20fisca....
And video games, too. Small models may be useful for procedural content and dynamic environment and actor responses. The barrier, so far, had been the performance overhead of using them.
It's not for the board to decide if they accept the offer. It's the shareholder's decision.
> Oligarchs controlling every form of my mass communication can only make things worse, though

How can it make things worse when it has literally always been the case as long as there has been “mass communication”?
That is entirely baseless. I'm fairly certain that whole affair was just some social media assistant offering money to someone for Musk to have slightly increased privacy and PR(since private jet use is really bad for the environment). They offered like $5k to take itf down which to Musk is literally like giving a homeless person a couple quarters. All flight traffic is public though. Banning a Twitter account would do nothing as all that information is already public record. You can track whoever you want on sites like Flightradar. I really doubt Musk cares that much at all, if he was ever actually even aware that the Twitter account existed.
So everyone makes custom websites, but 90% of them are hosted on the same service because nobody likes managing a VPS.

This isn’t any better than current social media imo.
That's not what free speech is about. Free speech protects your opinions from the state. Someone offering you money to take down public information about them is just a transaction between citizens. Nothing to see here.
I'm pretty sure CCP is trying its best to protect itself.

It basically wants to be the single source of truth in the country, but algorithms interfere with this goal by providing "bubbles" to users. Once a person falls into a bubble, his view will start diverging from what CCP wants their people to see, causing instability inside the society. This is obviously a huge threat to their authority.
In the USA we have due process rights so that the government can't just randomly disappear people for months [1] or forever [2]. Unfortunately some guilty people go free when the government fails to prosecute in respect of these rights, but it is the price we pay so that the rulers can't just suppress their crimes and destroy anyone they dislike.

In China you can be the son of a powerful official, kill someone with your car in front of everyone, scream “Go ahead and sue me, my father is Li Gang!”, and the government will indeed go to work to suppress witnesses to your misdeeds, even though the incident is already a viral meme on social media [3a]. But I guess you can give them credit for finally charging this kid who murdered someone with his car... 3 months after the fact. [3b]

But make sure not to compare Xi to Pooh-Bear, your future will not be bright! [4]

[1] https://www.thecut.com/2022/02/the-disappearance-of-peng-shu...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforced_disappearance#China

[3a] https://globalvoices.org/2010/10/22/china-my-father-is-li-ga...

[3b] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Gang_incident

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/china-bans-win...
I'm of the opposite opinion. I think being even more lax than Zuckerberg on psy-ops, hate speech, denialism, racism and misinformation will be quite dangerous to society. Some of the necessary conditions of speech itself might collapse, in a way that the very idea of 'speech' will become nearly impossible.

It will be terrible, for the Western democracies anyway - it will likely help Putin and Xi tremendously though.
People seem to gloss over the fact that while she married an ambitious man, he also married her. If he did not want her to have equal say in their life (note this is his and hers life being impacted!) he should not have married her.
Yeah I think coders should give up on search engines to meet their needs and instead rely on coder-specific search engines like

- https://searchcode.com/

- http://symbolhound.com/

- https://publicwww.com/

etc
He's trying to intellectualize his disapproval of "cancel culture" I imagine.
Everything is transitory over a long enough timeline...
for((i=0;i<=99999999999;i++));do
curl https://site.com/info.php?id=$i > $i.json
done
It’s also not really relevant to the normal situation where you are exposed to low levels of non-ionizing radiation through radio waves at energy levels much lower than enough to generate heat, let along burning. If your phone is causing burning, you have an bigger, immediate problem beyond radiation exposure.
I never understand the hate Teams gets on HN - I use it more-or-less all day in both $WORK and $CUSTOMER environments ... rarely have more than a momentary hiccup in file sharing, screen sharing, group calls, chats, task tracking ...
I know someone who was banned for posting pitbull attack statistics. The pitmommy battalion mass-reported her account for "racism".
> It's not unlikely we'll enter a period of hyperinflation soon that breaks all historical records for the US.

I'd say this is pretty unlikely. This is like saying that because the weatherman was wrong and it's 10 degrees colder today than predicted we should expect a new ice age to hit next week.
So, what if all the publishers in one country just so happen to decide that Mr. Solzhenitsyn's book "Gulag Archipelago" is politically very uncomfortable to the ruling elite and all decline to publish it? This was Finlandized Finland in the 1970s. (To be clear, government didn't formally ban it. All publishing houses were privately owned companies. Yet somehow the decision was made.)

Maybe nobody is entitled to book publishers providing "free reach" of publishing your book, especially in thousands of copies. Yet something went wrong there. I don't have a catchy slogan for it, but sometimes the decisions to prevent reach are functionally antithetical to the purpose of free press.
Yea, it seemed all so new and joyful. People were still able to grasp the full software complexity and really make the best out of it. I miss this time I never got to live, weirdly enough.
The Zuck needs to be in that 2nd graph.
If you start with the assumption that Chinese government is trying to do good for its citizens,

Please explain how the continued lockdown in Shanghai is “the Chinese government” doing good for its citizens vs. not wanting to lose face on an absurd zero covid policy?
Dutch $1.2B Chip Initiative Aims at Photonics
You're mixing terms. "Leveraged buyout" is really a term of art referring to a purchase largely financed by debt issued by the purchased company. It only works with well established businesses with really reliable revenue streams. If the business fails, the debts go unpaid.

I would be surprised if Twitter could raise as much as 10% or 20% of its own purchase price.
"Small" is difficult, and it is actually in many cases, harder than "big". Small needs language support, GC support, runtime support, and is delicate - any one thing can throw off performance. You can't hide behind library calls. In Julia, since we can orchestrate everything, from the abstractions all the way down to the instructions, making small problems work well has been possible.

A single grad student can make large problems work (my thesis was large linear algebra and I could just hack away on enough C and MPI to get it done). In our early days on Julia, we realized that 90% of the world actually needs small linear algebra and it is a tantalizingly difficult problem. The work done in the Julia community over the years has made it all possible through a collaboration across lots of different teams and disciplines.
Twitter is the public square for elite discourse in the US. It's surprising the price is that low. As a business maybe not, at least not in the short term, but the externalities are...compelling.
Madlad here....
I agree with you wrt. Twitter being a decently sized hub of possible vital information. I’m actually writing a paper for a national security course at the moment on Russia’s combined cyber warfare strategy that emphasizes misinformation and misdirection.

I’m just attempting to make sense of what I view as a hypocrisy from free market advocates and point out that as far as the Constitution goes, private entities aren’t responsible for upholding your speech on their platforms.

I see what you’re saying about legal scholars, and in my mind that raises the question that if monopolies should be regulated by even staunch free market advocates, shouldn’t extremely dangerous speech be regulated in some capacity on some platforms by even staunch free speech advocates?

I know and recognize that can be a slippery slope, but people far smarter than me haven’t untangled it so I won’t even try.

Maybe I’m wrong, please change my mind if you think I am :-)
The question is where's the line?

---

1) "I'm skeptical about climate change"

2) "Climate science is obviously very wrong, the Earth is changing on its own."

3) "Climate change is fake and it's a conspiracy"

4) "Climate change is fake because George Soros is trying to hurt America so his secret Jewish cabal can rule the world"

5) "Climate change is fake because George Soros is trying to hurt America so his secret Jewish cabal can rule the world and here are specific plans for the violence necessary to stop it"

---

We cross the line into "not truthful" at 2. Moderation doesn't take it seriously until 4. Law enforcement doesn't take it seriously until 5, if ever.
I had a pretty good time running an 8Gb rpi 4 running BSD with the Lumina D.E. I did the same experiment on a rpi 3 and found 1GB just a little too limiting for the type of work I was doing. 8Gb was definitely overkill for my workflow but I couldn't help myself when I was upgrading.

I think some of the productivity gains definitely felt like a placebo though. Having a device that just had the github repo of the project I was working on, with a fresh OS install with no other distracting things installed, is not a unique experience to the rpi. In fact I could mimic this by just creating a "work" user on my current desktop.

But it was at least an exercise
It definitely is. In this specific case, LHC will almost certainly yield improved mass measurements. Just as Fermilab published this result a decade after the Tevatron shut down, increasingly refined measurements like this will continue to emerge from LHC through ~2050 or so.
He doesn’t lose $43 billion. He goes from osning $43B of one thing to $43B of a different thing.
This is going to happen , and it will be driven by the availability of high-speed home connections. More and more users will start self-hosting things they outsource not simply becuase they have control, but it's also better.
> You've still got to contend with the draft, wartime rationing, censorship during WWII, the Sedition Acts, and many others.

The only comparably broad measure you've listed is wartime rationing. But the fact that wartime rationing was as broad in scope as the COVID restrictions hardly renders the WSJ's claim absurd.
Surveying SQL parser libraries in a few high-level languages
The negativity here falls a little flat - water, sugar, and tea isn't really something I think of turning my nose up at. Of course I assume it has a lot of sugar and is therefore unhealthy, but your ingredient list isn't exactly offensive.
Can confirm had the same issue. Begged someone in their team for 2 weeks to help until they did.
Colorado and Texas Lawmakers Push to Keep Space Assets Within State
For whatever reason people think we live in a democracy and not an oligarchy. I guess it’s in the oligarchs best interest to keep that facade up.
Use rclone to grab them instead.
I would have to hard disagree. I think free speech is one of the most important issues we face today, it's worth any price IMO, including the ultimate price.

Having research without free speech is useless.
Power is a pre-test measure, and a p-value is a post test measure.
Free speech absolutism, to me, means that the speech cannot be punished, but if the speech causes direct and immediate harm to others, you can be held accountable. Shouting "Fire" in a crowded theater is fine, but if there's a stampede and someone dies, you can be held liable at some level. I think that's a reasonable balance between zero suppression of speech and consequences for actions.
I’m too lazy to Google if this is true, but I recall studies linking drinking hot beverages (tea, coffee) to esophageal cancer, presumably from heat damage.
Wouldn't it be cool to collaborate on videos as we do on Google Docs?
> Commentary from abroad should never be regarded as a threat to sovereignty in a mature democracy

Unless it is from the US or europe that uses "human rights" as justification for war and toppling governments. You'll notice every country we want to attack ( india, china, russia, venezuela, cuba, iran, myanmar, libya, syria, etc ), we've always bring up "human rights".

> India has the right to comment on the US regardless of whether the South Block thinks that there has been some provocation previously, and vice versa.

Sure, but india is too weak to be a threat to the US. Their accusations of human rights violations are merely an annoyance. But when the US accuses india of human rights, india knows there will be US funded attacks, riots, sanctions, etc to destabilize and overthrow the indian government.

India is just lashing out in anticipation of pressure from the US. Of course we don't care about human rights. Never have and never will. Otherwise, we'd be liberating the aborigines in australia or maori in new zealand or the inuits in alaska who are currently undergoing actual genocide. The only question is how badly we are going to punish india to get them to obey our orders concerning russia. We are putting a lot of pressure on china and india to abandon russia. Which one will be the first to crack? Only time will tell.
Imagine having the possibility of feeding millions in the Global South but instead decide to spend your money in bullshit like this...
A vulnerability that requires very specific, very uncommon setup is of course still a vulnerability, but not a high risk one. The setup described in this exploit is wildly uncommon - possible, but uncommon. That's more my point.
There’s some selection bias since only people who can afford a house are included. Tons of rich boomers out there giving money to their kids. I unfortunately am not getting anything either.
It is a percentage increase, not a fixed increase. And their normal fees are structured as percentages. Therefore, their existing fee structure adapted automatically to changes like money supply (or more specifically differences in exchange rates for their suppliers/third parties).

If it was a fixed increase, I'd be a lot less critical. But percentages piled on already percentage fee structures strikes of profiteering from their market position, and using the economic climate as a lazy excuse.
I don't really trust Musk on his word.
There are bountiful examples of regulated speech in the modern world and yet the world isn't only China and Russia.

Speech is regulated right here on this platform, where you clearly have no qualms with participating. Speech is regulated in Germany, where it is outright illegal to express Nazi-sympathizing opinions or to deny the Holocaust. Speech is regulated in the US, where you cannot shout "fire" in a crowded theater or promote investments you haven't disclosed your stake in.

Not all slopes are slippery.
I think Musk believes that Twitter is the primary meeting place and seemingly unified-ish mouthpiece of anti-capitalists in the west and he's seeing that they are making dangerous progress. He's someone who is a capitalist and feels that $50B is a worthy investment to disrupt anti-capitalist momentum.
They genuinely care for people and are doing this for their people's best:

Please explain how the continued lockdown in Shanghai is doing good for its citizens vs. not wanting to lose face on an absurd zero covid policy as a way to secure political points?
Sounds like someone forgot to fill out the form twenty seven B stroke 6.
The median may very well be zero.

When you have a lot of 0s in data the average can be misleading.
IMO it's General Public
We need an 8 cent coin.

Maybe put the faces of several recent/current presidents on it.
Browser cookies can silently cause tax payment fees to increase
Burning (damaging) a cell can cause damage at the genetic level. If the cell divides you can get mutations. Any cellular damage can increase the risk of cancer via this series of events. Animal bodies have mechanisms to identify and eliminate aberrant cells, which is not 100% effective. This is biology 101.

> If that were true you'd expect burns to skin to have a higher risk of cancer.

There are a number of studies still trying to figure it out, since there is a high number of cases reported, despite evidence showing that it shouldn't increase. Some papers:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03054...

https://www.medicaljournals.se/acta/content/html/10.2340/000...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20486296

https://burnstrauma.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s4103...

(from googling)
Well, the solution proposed 100 years ago was to blend ethanol in with the gasoline. Ethanol has one oxygen atom leading to more even combustion (less explosive, less 'knock', more complete combusyion) in an ICE. You have to blend in ~10%. Tetra-ethyl-lead does the same thing but at a concentration of 1% or so IIRC, with lead serving the same role as oxygen. Later on, a compound called MTBE (methyl-tert-butyl-ether) which contains oxygen was used, but has been mostly phased out in the USA due to serious groundwater contamination issues related to leaking storage tanks.

The basic market reason ethanol wasn't used originally is that it was produced by farmers not by oil distillers, so this meant taking profits away from the oil sector and giving them to the agricultural sector. There's some evidence that one reason the JD Rockefeller pushed Prohibition in the USA was to lock farmers out of the automobile fuel business. Since 2003 in California at least, ethanol is the major fuel additive that's replaced TEL and MTBE.

Markets are not free in the energy sector, they're highly controlled and monopolized, and basically always have been. This is why many counties have chosen to essentially nationalize their energy production and distribution systems. All other market activity relies on a stable energy supply, it's similar to water in that respect.
They don’t call it thirsty Thursday for nothin’!
Perhaps by sharing that value with others in the company, thus diluting it from any one person.

Like, there are tens of thousands slaving for these big companies, and a few on top reaping the rewards.