skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The value-add distribution for software is not quite right. It never goes negative.

Most software exists and can sell because it does things rich people who run corporations want done. That usually means it's good for them and bad for society, since our world is run by people who think in zero-sum terms.

So it's a two-tailed distribution.
And potential doesn’t have to translate to financial success.
There are four goals.

#1 make twitter efficient. firing 80-90% of the employees and replacing them with effective workers and management saves a ton of money.

#2. Mitigate the bots and trolls by requiring payment and identification.

#3. Open the feed algorithm and give people more control

#4. Reduce the silencing of users.

The last one is probably going to turn out to be harder than Elon expects. If Elon owned Youtube this week he would be sued for enabling the NYC subway terrorist. Same thing will happen on Twitter once he owns it.
Huge segments of the world don’t see value in Twitter (and they might have a point) and don’t use it. It’s the “public square” of a subset of people.

I’m interested and a bit nervous in what changes Musk will usher in. But I definitely see the opportunity for him to make a lot of money.
I personally think this is excellent, in the great scheme of things, maybe this will open a real discussion about the real oligarchic nature of the US political and societal life at the top.

I mean, with tech titan (and second wealthiest man on the planet) Bezos owning the WaPo, the moment the tech titan (and the wealthiest man on the planet) Musk will put his hands on Twitter hopefully will also be the moment of some "enlightenment" for the educated masses. Or maybe I'm just day-dreaming.
Hmm, I have my own Jira client for desktop. I’m sure I’ll get around to publishing it one day, but for now I get to enjoy it myself.

I just cannot deal with enterprise installations of Jira and their forced insanity/slowness. So now I get to define my own fields, categories and icons, query everything locally, and I never have to worry about it again.

Oh, and if I were using atlassian cloud I wouldn’t have lost all my issues :P
Lets get preoccupied with some obscure low traffic toy website that was about to be memory holed. Get some very important meetings going on the calendar, throw some billable hours to your lawyer friend, I do get why they did this. It sucks, but I get why.

Kudos for not turning it into a lawsuit.
I find this topic of great interest, as I think it's one of the most important technologies on the horizon, with applications both on Earth and on Mars.

A great place to start on this topic is with Robert Freitas' 'Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines', which covers pretty much every advancement in the field up until the date of its publication. Adrian Bowyer (inventor of the RepRap) also has a chapter in 'Biomimetics: Nature-Inspired Innovation' that is worth a read.

There has been some work done on the topic by Gregory Chirikjian's lab at Johns Hopkins: doi:10.1109/CIRA.2003.1222279

A lot has also been published on this topic by Alex Ellery at Charleton University, including an exploration of 3D printed electric motors and analog neural network control systems: doi:10.7551/ecal_a_026

You can also check out this wikibook I found on seed factories - a topic which I think will be relevant going forward: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Seed_Factories

Following the citations in the above papers will lead you to more labs working on the topic. I haven't looked into the topic since *2019, so I would love to hear about new developments. I would love to hear from you if you find something of interest: anlum [at] protonmail [dot] com
Not banning and suspending people or hiding tweets for alleged violations of vague and arbitrary standards would be great, to start with.

Go to any political tweet and you'll see countless hateful messages, why aren't they banned, yet others are? I've never seen any reason for it. Clearly they take a side or draw a line on some issues they consider important to control, but not others.

It seems to me it would be far better in my opinion for twitter to foster strength rather than fragility by empowering users to take responsibility for their own feelings and have the tools and maturity to not read things they can't cope with, rather than trying to police what people write centrally. It absolutely could be the modern town square and would be great if it supported real freedom of speech, in my opinion.
to do another IPO
I think this code wasn’t supposed to go into effect until Microsoft moves beyond their friendly stage and moves into maximum revenue extract stage.
Ooooh, maybe this is what the

> "There will be distractions ahead ... let's tune out the noise and stay focused on the work and what we're building"

from the other day (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30984215) meant...
Free speech absolutism and "ensure that someone is not gaming the system" are opposites. Having multiple accounts isn't the only way to game the system. There are plenty of trolls out there and they are creative.

Once you are large enough to attract some trolls, if you don't have good moderation, comment quality goes to hell, and users care about that. Running a large social media site isn't kind to people who aren't willing to do what works for ideological reasons. You are fighting the trolls with a deliberate handicap and they will absolutely take advantage. So are you going to ban people who are disruptive or not?

TikTok is heavily moderated. That's why they became popular - the moderation was better than the competition.
It has to, if you want to keep employing the engineers who build and run the system.
That's what I exactly said. Read it again please.
One small thing corn-sourced ethanol has going for it is that it’s using current carbon rather than ancient carbon.
That’s a perfect example of solving for the problem you have and not over engineering.
So I want to spam the n word on twitter as replies to popular users that should be ok even if it causes users to leave and damage the business?
He was hung for among other things recruiting Irish POWs to fight for the Germans during WW1.
So.. now the platform knows your name. And the Afghan/Saudi/Russian/China gov tell twitter to release the name of the user. Sounds like a great result for the LGBT users.
I Don’t Want the Best Deal Anymore
What is the relation between a user of a service and what they do off that service ?
That's not contrasting evidence. Defects are certainly common sources of error, particularly with cheap commodity components like those used in google's fleet. That does not prove cosmic rays aren't a significant source of SEUs [in any computing device].
that may be so, and yes, it may be a sign of emotional immaturity

but telling my wife that she is ridiculous and childish is not going to help. on the contrary, responding like that would be immature on my part, it would only make things worse.

i need to listen to her and try to understand why this bothers her so much and then we need to work out a solution that we can both accept.

who is right or wrong is not relevant, only consensus and unity matter, but you can't achieve unity by insisting to be right. on the contrary, instead of continuing to disagree it is better if we choose the wrong solution as long as we both agree with it, because only when we are united and neither of us insist to stick to our egos, we will be able to eventually accept that the solution was wrong and find a better one.
Reminds me of the "we don't need more vaccines" FDA
I mean, it's literally the 70's game "Mastermind" but with letters instead of colours, so any patents are out the window and copyright is dubious at best..
Hey Rapnie! We will look into this to allow FF Android 99 once our QA test that our app is stable on with this FF version. When you clone the app, the unsupported page restriction standards can be adjusted to your needs easily :)
Hey Adam, is Meta using / planning on using Lexical for React Native as well?
Being more aggressive with changes to the company and its product without a market freaking out over it.
> Free speech absolutism is possible and is beneficial once you ensure that someone is not gaming the system, i.e. someone pretending to be more than one person

You can have free speech absolutism or controls to stop gaming the system. Pick one.

After that it becomes a debate over which controls to have, and the argument that multiple accounts is worse than incitement to racial hatred or antivax nonsense isn't a clear cut one.

A lot of the "free speech" complaints about social media amount to complaints about social media platforms adding content warnings about [alleged] sensational lies or penalising their reputation anyway.
I’ve been very unhappy with my Twitter use because it has an addiction pattern. I set a short screen time limit on my phone, but I keep breaking it. Yet browsing the feed generally makes me feel sad and anxious.

This news may be what I needed to delete my account.
When polled abstractly, a majority of people are in favor of fixing climate change. When asked if they’d personally cut back on beef, private car usage, HVAC, house size, and flyaway vacations, support is considerably lower.
Elon Musk’s SEC Schedule 13D to buy Twitter
Free speech absolutism is a choice that does not promote the open discussion of ideas. It is a choice that promotes the loudest and nastiest voices and pushes out everyone else.
I believe a lot of interesting and original content is created these days: books, music, games. The problem is it is difficult to find them. They are not in the top of Google search or reddit. “Best original fiction 2022” query will not work.

Can anyone share some recommendations how you find original indie books, games, music?
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...
Well you can't trademark, patent, or copyright fonts. Nor can you do that for fashion (clothing/bags/shoes).

So the companies that make these things, in order to exploit the legal regime for profit, work around it. Such as Louis Vuitton or Nike shoes using trademarks as part of their styling. The fashion isn't copyrightable, but if you were to copy it you would violate their trademarks.

These laws are very arbitrary. Much more than the marketing for them suggests.

For example:

> Patents apply to inventions. Think: methods of doing something to achieve a particular application.

Patents, in the most literal sense, are just algorithms.

They are a series of rules that must be followed to achieve certain "inventions" or solve problems in a particular way.

People read patent's summary describing the invention and think that is the patent. It is not. The actual "meat" of the patent is the series of steps needed to achieve that invention.

The idea that software can both be patentable AND copyrightable just goes to show just how far off the rails the whole "IP" stuff is.
quick question: I assume it ships(or supports a plugin) with a serializer to convert an editor state JSON to HTML. Does it depend on browser APIs to do so? Can it be somehow liberated out of native DOM APIs and language bindings for JSON-2-HTML in common languages like Java & Rust.

This could be a huge win for simple multi-platform rendering.
Scientific Functions in NumPy and SciPy
Good. Twitter is a hate factory. And it is failing as a business. A shake up is overdue.
I think what some are arguing, is not that their mission isn't important. It's that the FSF, at this point, is neither capable of carrying that mission, nor relevant (beyond historic interest) to that mission. Their inability to function without RMS shows that.

The SFC is today a much more relevant and capable organisation carrying the mission of software freedom.
I think it's the look and feel that upset NYT, but it's probably the list of words that they used to shut it down. A random list of words is still part of the copyright (even if you reorder them, I think).

I don't think there's much NYT can do about someone creating a functionally identical game with a slightly different list of words.
$RANDOM has low entropy, a predictable sequence and it's even more predictable if you use modulus.

$RANDOM provides 15 bits of randomness (32768 possible values) from an LCG[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator

LCGs are multiply followed by add followed by modulus, which is usually implied by a mask or a native word bit length rolling over. You should observe that multiplies have patterns in the lower digits which an add will only offset, and the modulus will only throw away high bits rather than mix them back in to the low bits. Consider the low digit in multiples of 7 (what you'd get picking a number between 0 and 9 inclusive via modulus):

7 -> 7
14 -> 4
21 -> 1
28 -> 8
35 -> 5
42 -> 2
49 -> 9
56 -> 6
63 -> 3
70 -> 0
77 -> 7
84 -> 4
91 -> 1
98 -> 8
105 -> 5
112 -> 2
119 -> 9
126 -> 6
133 -> 3
140 -> 0

The lowest digit has the sequence 7418529630 repeating, which isn't very random. Modulus preserves low order bits and throws away the magnitude of the number. The result is that if you want to get half-decent low-valued random numbers from an LCG, you should take x/range * limit rather than %. You can do this with integer arithmetic via multiply and shift if you have an integer twice the size of your LCG.

But again, don't use an LCG for generating your password.

[1] I looked at the source. Bash looks like it tries to use random(3) if it's available, otherwise it seems to use this, which doesn't have an add:

x(n+1) = 16807 * x(n) mod (m)
the things Musk says about twitter in the press release, dont seem to be necessarily true - that twitter has some unique social utility, or a great deal more value that is not being maximized. I guess reality distortion fields work, but people are wise to twitter, and what it is and isnt good for. and any changes or enhancements that make it worth 70 per share once more are likely to be more about new engagement models like 10 second videos or something, not crossing some imaginary line of maximal free speech. I dont know.
Facebook blocking valid NY Post articles (just one last week) is not a content warning… it’s flat out censorship
americans. we had a discussion about that a few days ago
Using separate databases or schemas per tenant comes with the following problems

* Managing schema migrations across every DB

* You cant query across the DB, want to know some cross tenant thing for ops? That's now a lot harder

* Connection pooling and resource usage can be harder to manage

Most systems I've worked on use a single DB with a `tenant_id` col on every relevant table, it's easy to have your query builder slap in the auth'd tenant I'd. This approach does come with issues like saving and restoring an individual tenants data

Like a lot of things in life, it's a trade off
> So.. now the platform knows your name. And the Afghan/Saudi/Russian/China gov tell twitter to release the name of the user. Sounds like a great result for the LGBT users.

Oh I missed the part where your identity is actually encrypted, not known to the platform in plain format. To challenge the platform censorship and put back your removed comments you decrypt your identity. If you are afraid of state actors coming after you, you simply move on and your identity stays secret.

The platform doesn't need to be solving all the problems if the world. For example, if you are Russian dissident in Russia you first need replace Putin IRL, then you can use it as a westerner to engage in politics.
> Free speech absolutism is possible and is beneficial

I don't think we have evidence to support this. Pursuant to the last major thread on the topic, I was thinking further about it, and realized that the vast majority of progress civilization has made has been under conditions much more regulated in terms of which ideas may propagate. We've never had a situation where fake news can and does spread the way it does today, where authorities are being undermined like this and casually dismissed by people with no knowledge of the respective fields, etc.

The notion that all speech should be allowed actually seems stupid to me on its face, the more that I consider it.
The bots are necessary for the quarterly user counts to look good during the shareholder report.

Once they've finished pretending the bot accounts have ad-watching eyeballs, they follow up a couple months later with a token crackdown of some small amount of them.
Deleted my 3 twitter profiles last week when this started going down.

I feel incredibly healthier mentally.

You should try it.
I think there's a little more work involved into writing a book than into randomly shuffling a list of words.
To be honest it needs this kind of shake-up, the bots, the impersonators they don't deal with, 'verification' has nothing to do with proving identity/security and everything to do with exclusivity.
It's legal to use the n word in the US as far as I know, but I think harassment probably isn't ('spamming' sounds like harassment), that's where the balancing act is. Now, it is not legal to throw the n word at someone in most European countries. Hence why I said that these platforms need to filter on a per country basis for all countries they want to operate in.

As I said, Twitter and other major platforms have become de facto utilities and it's no longer a valid argument to claim that as private businesses they are free to do as they please because they yield too much power.
Buying Twitter is probably an easy way to get that Twitter account tracking his airplane to be closed down

Personally, I am seeing this a potential way to limit the freedom even more on Twitter than already happening.
> Free speech absolutism is possible and is beneficial

The jury is out for me, how can we say it's automatically beneficial if it's not sacred and only a mean to an end for society/people, that end depending on your views (GDP, happiness, sustainability...)?

Also IMHO like any liberal absolutism, the forces will inevitably make who has the more money own and game the system, it's a proxy for Oligarchy. It can be good but only under certain philosophical positions and economic theories that not everyone agree on.
The problem with Twitter - and any social medium - is that moderation is very hard to scale. And that's exactly the trade-off big platforms have made in order to grow their userbase. That's just one problem.

Centralization also generates other problems: authority and lack of partipation. These platforms lack proper affordances regarding discovery and curation. As a user, you're automatically gravitating towards the loudest voices, the biggest or most active communities.

For instance, on Reddit, there's a canonical /r/sports subreddit. It has 20 million fans, but it's mostly focussed on american / UK sports. Searching for "sports"doesn't yield anything comparable. Only a fraction of those 20 million fans is really active posting and commenting. There's an /r/worldsports subreddit but has a grand total of 350 redditors.

When it comes to Twitter, the net result is that only a fraction of users is responsible for the vast amount of tweets, while about 50% are basically lurkers. [1][2] In that regard, the "free speech" argument is only a real concern for a very small, yet extremely vocal fraction of Twitter users. The same applies to Reddit as well.

The worrying part isn't the "free speech" argument such as it is posited. It's that all of this results in a lack of participation in any debate. The userbases of social media might be more akin to the placid crowd on a market place listening to someone ranting of a soapbox, and less a salon where everyone actively engages and interacts with each other.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/03/16/5-facts-abo...
[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/11/15/2-comparing-...
I would have thought that before it failed to happen for "Truth Social"
Musk has had success with Paypal, Tesla and SpaceX. All of those are/were mostly engineering problems first and then marketing problems second. None of the major problems at Twitter these days are engineering problems, but rather they are all related to politics and human group psychology. I don't see what Elon could bring to the table that Twitter does not already have.
The US president has just won the largest popularity contest in the world, and by nature of the role has a mandate to bring ideas into the political discourse for a couple of years. It isn't so much that there should be special protection. If Twitter's policy bans the president it is way out of line with actual as-measured community expectations.
Great answer! Very much appreciated!
That's a hand-wavy platitude about the general human condition that has nothing to do with Twitter specifically.

Yes, global communication marches on, but that says nothing about specific platforms. Just look at MySpace.
> he would be sued for enabling the NYC subway terrorist

The problem with that is that yesterday it was swastikas, today is the letter Z, tomorrow who knows what else we might have in store?

Also, putting in prison all the people who have displayed their swastika-love thingie online [1] would have meant Mariupol falling sooner to the Russians, a thing contrary to the beliefs of many who propose laws like that.

[1] https://twitter.com/tyengeni1954/status/1503955204059938817
From watching a mathematical breakdown of playing, there are like 13k 5 letter words in english and wordle uses about 2400. There are some really bizzare words that people wouldn't know so the wordle list is narrowed down to common words.

I think the only likely thing that might be illegal is using the same name. Game concepts are copied all the time, from what I understand. I'm not a lawyer.

Kudos to the guy that wrote it and sold it. I don't see how NYT can monetize it - if they put up a paywall usage goes to 0 real quick.
You can intern strings without preventing mutability using the copy-on-write principle. PHP does it.
> Platforms like Twitter have become de facto utilities.

No, they have not.

I cannot live without water or electricity; perhaps also a general Internet connection (in the modern world). I live my life just fine without Twitter.

Twitter is an online service that some people find useful and others ignore completely. There is nothing utility-like about it.
“I do get why they did this. It’s sucks, but I get why.”

Please, do tell.
The term is pretty self-explanatory. Audiophiles are people who love audio equipment. People who love music are called melophiles.
> If he declines to do so, it will be damaging to his business with government.

How would failing to reinstate Trump's account be damaging to his business with the government? Wouldn't it matter whether the Federal government is under a Democrat or Republican executive?
I'm sure you're right, but IMHO allegations of human rights abuses should always be given due weight regardless of the intentions of the accuser. What matters is whether the allegations are true, and that's all that matters, otherwise the debate simply degenerates into whataboutism.
How did it actually get to the situation that none of the Twitter co-founders have any significant ownership?