skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Twitter can continue exactly the same way but just be transparent.

No it can't. If the algorithm was transparent the only thing you'd see is spammers who have put tons of resources into figuring out the exactly optimal way to maximize engagement. Grassroots engagement would be impossible.
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I choose people to follow. If somebody is flooding my feed more than I like, then I unfollow them. Truly do not understand why anyone would want it to work differently other than marketers.
I think NN=kNN is reductive to the point of near uselessness as a statement. You can treat human object recognition as a sort of kNN as well in that we 'detect' a large number of features, the grouping of which ultimately allows us to recognize something. But of course that doesn't actually tell us much about how we recognize things, since that explanation just changes the question to "how do we detect useful features?".

Similarly, I think most ML people recognize that NN classifiers are just learning to look for groups of features, yet that doesn't really count as an analysis because what we want to understand is why it arrives at the features it does.

>The magic of ML is a sleight-of-hand trick -- we dont really need to know how its averaging of our data does anything useful -- it almost never does.

I strongly disagree, we do need to know how the 'averaging' does what it does so we can improve our models further. A lot of big steps in NN architectures have come in part from applying theories and insights regarding the properties of the training process, so a deeper understanding of the process may allow us to make better models, ones that have better accuracy as well as ones that train faster with less data.

>Rather, it is our "experimental design" which produces the usefulness of the system. ML algorithms are just interpolations and averages through data prepared to produce useful averages by (literally millenia) of human ingenuity.

>It takes actual intelligence to do this because the world isnt data, and almost any measurement one cares to make (with eyes, even) produces endless ambiguities and coincidences that you have to "be in the world" to resolve; and resolution is a dynamic process which you "have to be here for".

I think most of the industry agrees that current ML models are sort of like being able to make the icing but not the cake (i.e AGI), so I'm not really sure what you're trying to say. Of course the models need a general intelligence to filter general data down to a specific problem and set things up for the model to learn?
I'm pretty sure the "algorithm" is "we count the number of end-user flags/reports, and if > X we remove it"?

Public knowledge of what "X" is doesn't really help, I think, other than to aid spammers? And a requirement to "talk to a human" upon hitting X would surely immediately degrade into "Google has reviewed your appeal and has determined that the infinite block of your account remains in effect. There is no further appeal"?
So by the same logic McDonald's should publish its secret sauce recipe. There is business value in keeping it hidden. It'd have a chance of happening if Twitter was taken private by someone with the intention of experimentation and improving the world in the long run.
On occasion, people make the same argument about all open source software, that making it public makes it insecure.

Fortunately this has not turned out to be the case in reality. If there are flaws in the system they will probably be easier to find and fix with more eyes on it.
Dinosaurs never died. They just became the world government. (/s)
Yes, of the people I choose to follow.
Looks like someone (GP) beat me to the punch with my sibling comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31053031)!

> we have infinite sampling

We don't. You're taking the learning out of the process you're discussing by using an infinite sample. Of course, then, the machine learning part becomes trivial, and it's just an optimization problem for minimal training error!

If we have all the data, like infinite data, then we have the classification for every one of the (finite) number of possible images already. At that point, why stop at kNN? Use a hashmap!
they're attemping brinksmanship but the reality distortion field doesn't work 25 miles outside of moscow.
I don’t think they’re joking. I would be curious to hear from them.

A lot of conspiracy theorists think they’re in the middle. They identify some crazies in their group but still hang out with them and use their presence to justify their own, still extreme, opinions as the moderate view.
It's never been cheaper to build your own chips and systems. More people should start to do that. There is so much cool computing we can do.
Musk could probably raise the money.
Whenever I see a comment that starts out bragging about someone’s accomplishments I always assume the rest is going to be simplistic at best and nonsensical at worst.

I was not wrong this time either.
I find so many things objectionable in this article that they are three-stoogesing my cerebral cortex and I find it impossible to write about just any one of them.
"Open up the algorithm" is such a charmingly naive take on community moderation at scale that I can almost forgive the author for literally parroting Musk as the source of a lightweight take synthesized mostly from other people's thoughts in order to attract attention to his "Every" newsletter platform.
> written in Zig instead of C++, uses significantly less memory, and represents a modest performance improvement

That's particularly interesting considering the rust compiler in rust has never been as fast as the original OCaml one
It’s not so he “didn’t need to wait in traffic”. It’s so someone can’t pull dump trucks in front of and behind his motorcade and create a kill box.
Yea I mean I m not a hardcore gamer or graphics guy and I am not able to find a reason to upgrade from my MacBook pro 2014 retina. It works like a charm even though I m concerned if Apple would let me change the battery which may need replacement
Tracking ships at sea can help catch sanction-busters
I've used that workflow before, but it was called "merge requests", presumably because you're not actually requesting anyone to pull from a remote, but requesting someone to merge one branch into another.
I always do

await Promise.all(…)

And now?
Find the spreadsheets people run their business with on a daily basis and turn them into web apps. Instant SaaS ideas.
That's not the same as saying the market wasn't taking the offer seriously.

> The whole "merger arbitrage" industry works around that premise.

If the market price reflected the probability, then an arbitrage strategy should not be profitable.

Usually, these folks have better experience/skills/knowledge about M&A, antitrust, etc than the market average. In other words, the market doesn't reflect the probability of an event happening.
> for free, as it was American taxpayers who financed this project.

Just because something was financed by taxpayer money does not mean it should be free. It is definitely not a rule or how things work. Although I am curious what are the disadvantages of making it free, I bet there are some, even if lightweight.
Does anybody interested in algorithmic game theory? I've looked around but it's seem like only researcher interested in this.
You sound like a young fanatic. Most of those words like "freedom" and "tyrants" could have been replaced with other perceived goods and evils throughout history to defend or fight for any number of causes. In the end you just end up being cannon fodder.
If you saw the user 'shairyar', he works at Travis based on linkedin profile page (but not based on github profile page). I was confused as well when I saw that.
Dave Grohl still sells out large venues. He’s still pretty popular.
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That’s not true. The M1 has 8, the M1 pro has 10, and the M1 ultra has 20.
Unrolled version : https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1514810917908717577.html
You misunderstand, it’s true that a private company can be opaque, but a public company cannot be altruistic due to the composition of the shareholders. No one was able to prevent the Saudis from buying a major stake in Twitter, and the Kingdom is historically opposed to free speech.

A publicly traded company cannot solve this problem but a private company might be able to.
So, for your 200k downpayment, you now have 200k * 1.047^35 = 1MM as the total house value that you own even without house appreciation, so almost a 5% rate of return.
This is a ridiculous claim. While you won’t be able to make use of the code, it would still provide insight of the inputs in relative terms, and evidence methods that do not apply.
This is absolutely correct why is it being downvoted lol
> Consolidation of all ownership onto a few large players is not a good thing for society.

For the past few decades a large percentage of new housing has been built by large developers who buy cheap land just outside of town, clear cut it, then build a bunch of cheaply made identical houses in complexes with nothing else allowed, leaving behind an HOA to enforce conformity. The laws encourage these large developers, and sprawl. It's too much overhead for an individual or a small developer to build in an established neighborhood, especially if they are not building expensive housing.

Even lately hedgefunds and other large investors have been buying up housing at a greater rate, because they know the supply has been restricted by law. They'll squeeze everyone they can for money and lobby to keep their gravy train going.
D has a C compiler built-in now, I wonder if we could bootstrap all the toolchain now.
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Really? You want a guy who publicly trolls people on Twitter and libels others as pedophiles leading a social network?
Dave Grohl is the Paul McCartney of the 90s - survived the breakup of a band that had massive mainstream success, reinvented himself as a solo artist, now gets to be a lifetime musician with more money than god. I like Nirvana and I like early Foo Fighters, but modern Dave Grohl has been churning out hard-rock oatmeal with copy-paste lyrics since Colour and the Shape.
> Oh my. Twitter, or any other platform, is not your megaphone that will amplify your opinion without restrictions

Where did this sentiment originate from? I never heard of it before and all of a sudden in the last few years I hear so many people parroting it. Why is it that all these people were silent for so long and now they're yelling in unison about how bad Twitter as a megaphone is?
Both filtration(moderation) and sortation(the algorithm) should be handled exactly as Adblock handles it. People can create any list that they want, and people can choose to either subscribe to those lists or not, and can at anytime decide to see what it would look like if they were not.
The consumption of FOSS and the consumption of tweets are so different I don't really see the merit in comparing the two.
You could unfollow the people who spam you with unwanted posts. I find strictly chronological feeds to increase the control I have over what I see by not prioritizing the more popular posts of those I follow. It also makes it much easier to say “I’ve caught up to where I was last time, good time to stop scrolling”. (Parts of a website that center around discovering new content do need curation for the reason you mentioned, but content discovery is to me not the primary purpose of twitter style sites)

Chronological presentation is less useful for serving advertisements though, so I don’t expect it to show up very often.
I think I’ll try “end of email, goodbye” and see if anybody even notices. The odds of somebody reading to the bottom of an email message are already low as it is…
> and provide insight as to some things that are not being done.

That's not an algorithm, that's product strategy & management.
How do you keep up with the deep learning community? There seems to be a deluge of new papers, and most of them aren't worth our time. What do you do?
Unfortunately with Adobe I'm a victim of a self-imposed sunk cost fallacy. Even though Adobe drains my bank account every month for $20 I can't throw away 20 years of practice and muscle memory on Illustrator and Photoshop.
I can’t tell if it was sarcastic, but the answer was trump
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That was Commodore. Remember they owned MOS. The VIC-20 and 64 couldn't have existed as cheaply as they did without that.
Many founders & VCs have believed this, notable spectacular failures include Vessel & Quibi.

I don’t claim to know exactly what it takes to successfully achieve this but one or even several content / creator verticals won’t cut it IMO.
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I’ve seen it running gtpj locally (which needs 48GB ram so this is the first apple laptop that can run it). I didn’t check how many threads were at full tilt but possibly my entire cpu was maxed out.

Still no perceptible fan noise :)
Very funny. But I found some of the comments seemed a bit odd or blunt. You do not say something like that to your interviewee. It finally dropped when she said why she cannot use apple software since young… what!!! I missed the same surname in the first page. Her daughter she was.
> Elon’s views are extreme in the sense that no current and popular social media is being run with a light touch approach to moderation. I’m not sure how he plans to combat scams and bots, two issues which go against an absolutist free speech approach.

Bots can be shut off in a pretty easy way. Detect and prevent any kind of automation (something that randomly mangles the javascript/html to prevent scraping for example) and also completely delete the Twitter API that allows automated tweeting. Tweeting should only be done by humans.

Also auto IP bans of any "rapid" tweeting coming from any IP.
Musk mentions both his team, and his family office, in his communications to Twitter, and includes transcripts of those in his SEC filing.
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Sounds like a re-visit of a lot of the ideas in "situated action", popular in some AI circles in the 90s. That also included concepts about how we reduce cognitive load by storing information (and procedure) in our built environments.

I'm not, though, that I agree about the pen example. I mean, you're completely correct in your description of all these different elements of your "pen". But to the extent that a concept of/about something is really never anything like the thing, it's not a particularly important aspect of concepts. I think that what's important is that all of these embodied, semi-reflective elements of your "pen" concept sit in parallel with some abstract concepts about pens. Pens do have properties that are already there, but in many contexts as you note, these are less important than the ones embodied by you.
I think it’s fine to have this as part of your interview but I would be worried to have it as the only thing.
Human can't visualize a tesseract, but human can conceptualize the Idea of a tesseract in the symbolic space, by math, physics, or in other words, by Reason.

The Symbolic is a radically simplification of all the complexities impossible to be fully sensible. Even though the simplification is always particular, contingent, and full of ambiguity (human languages) and often inaccuracy (Newton's laws vs relativity), without the simplification, without Reason, ML systems are probably like animals, eventually succumbing to the full force of the complexity of reality.
I was thinking of learning Rust but it seems a bit overkill due to manual memory management as compared to languages with similar speed like Nim, Zig, and Crystal. How would one compare these languages?

Is it worth learning Rust or Zig and dealing with the borrow checker or manual memory management in general, or are GC languages like Nim or Crystal good enough? I'm not doing any embedded programming by the way, just interested in command line apps and their speed as compared to, say, TypeScript, which is what I usually write command line apps in.
You're missing a couple of points:

1) It's not a Trumpian charade because many of the things he says actually work out. He'd already be done otherwise.

That's what makes it so interesting. I suggest he would buy Twitter if he could - and - he benefits from the free PR either way.

Yes, it's a bit cynical of him, but the PR is worth it, and, it's not like he's playing with election outcomes, or starting wars.

2) We know he's not 'doing it himself' and I suggest his Eng. knowledge is way overstated, at the same time he is very 'detail / hands on / insightful at that level' and with the big vision stuff he gets people motivated. I disagree with almost everything he says publicly and loathe is fanboys, but he still deserves enormous credit.
More likely he likes attention and lifts the veil if the profiler has enough juice (Guardian-yes, your podcast-no).
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> So what i'm interested in is machine systems for which we have (1) no prior specification of the environment; and which in the end (2) anticipate permutations in the environment which arent specified.

But there are no biological systems that do this either (other than to the extent that by virtue of their embodiement, they may necessarily come more of a builtin "understanding" of the (physical) environment)).
>She launched a short-lived solo career, record label and clothing line, but her “brand” appeared in terminal decline. So she started her own booking agency, with herself as the sole employee, calling up clubs across the country masquerading as the personal assistant to one Lisa Maffia, formerly of So Solid Crew, now an international solo star and occasional fashion designer. Her PA, “Celine”, was tasked with asking clubs’ management if they’d be interested in a personal appearance. “The bookings came in almost immediately,” Maffia beams. “I hustle. Never been afraid to hustle.”

That's some startup hustle!
From a strictly ethics point of view, government in the general sense exists for its people and their well-being. I think this should be a fairly uncontroversial starting point.

Now the question is whether one can show that the people are in a very general sense better off if a desirable city is affordable accessible compared to the alternative. I say “very general sense” because I want to avoid any argument that involves the minutiae of utilitarianism; it should be overwhelmingly in favor regardless of your exact ethical framework.

With that in mind, my argument would be that [cities should be affordable] is the obvious ethical choice if and only if the city in question is designed / planned in a pro-social manner. Where pro-social is defined such that the addition of new people is positive.

This should sound fairly tautological so let me give a few examples:

Pro-social design:

shops that rely on foot traffic are pro-social because adding more people (housing etc) to the immediate vicinity increases foot traffic

Mass transportation is pro-social because as more people are added to a particular neighborhood, this justifies expansion of train lines, bus routes, etc

Anti-social design:

Shops that rely on car traffic are usually anti-social because (a) adding people to other neighborhoods can still increase traffic to the shop, (b) removing parking space to add housing is a net negative to the shop (as parking capacity dictates shopping throughout)

Road systems are anti-social because adding more people to the system increases traffic at a nonlinear rate (ie: a road system at capacity decreases in throughput as more cars are added)

In other words, cities designed like cities benefit from more people, and thus everyone benefits from lower housing prices.

The kicker is, the United States doesn’t have a single city designed as a city. We have dense pro-social urban cores surrounded by anti-social suburbs and exurbs.

In contrast to a place like Tokyo where literally every resident has a bus or train (or combination thereof) to get downtown, America has split between two designs, and progressing along one design hurts anyone living in the other.

A noteworthy corollary is that if you live in a suburb or exurb (and are a homeowner protected from rent increases), property values going up to the moon are almost always positive, because your environment is anti-social in the first place. While in the city core it’s more complicated, because your property value going up raises your net worth but harms the pro-social environment around you.
At least according to this Twitter both agrees with you and is in the process of exploring transparency for both.

https://blog.openmined.org/announcing-our-partnership-with-t...
Seems like searching "fmovies" also gives some results.
> The most contentious moderation happens via subjective human intervention rather than an algorithms.

1. Source?

2. Thought experiment: if said subjective human intervention was recorded and codified into an algorithm it wouldn't be as contentious?
Diagrams.net works great. Just needs more shapes for bio, chem and physics and it would be a perfect tool.
> I don't agree with the author that we shouldn't use async/await because it _looks like_ synchronous code.

Not having code that is actively deceptive sounds like a good idea to me, so agree with the author.

> We _should_ use it to keep syntax simple and clean wherever possible!

Having clean and simple syntax for async operations is a laudable goal.

Having code that is actively deceptive about its semantics seems less than ideal for accomplishing this goal.

Maybe we need to figure out new and different syntactic constructs that are clean and simple, but do not pretend to be something they are not?
but not in the browser
> Twitter, or any other platform, is not your megaphone that will amplify your opinion without restrictions

It will be so satisfying for Musk to buy Twitter, open it up completely, and then be able to use this argument in reverse.
> NSA commits illegal massive surveillance at a global scale

has illegality been proven?
From what I could find they performed surveillance under FISA warrants.
There are obviously greater conspiracy theories, but are they supported by evidence?
As a fan of Elon I completely agree on your second point. Tesla and SpaceX are WAAAY more important for the future than Twitter.
This also explains why the only places where these polyglot systems seem to be really common is at giant companies, where they have the power to enforce that stuff is interoperable. If your employer tells you to do extra work to make sure that your package can be used by others in the company, you're going to do it, but if you're working on some personal open source project and have the luxury of deciding what to prioritize, most people are generally not going to be spending time on figuring out polyglot build systems and will just use whatever's easiest, which will generally be whatever the language's default is.
മലയാളം

(Malayalam — it's a palindrome btw :) )

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam
He's popular among a core group of ageing followers... his die hard fans (and yes, there are a lot of them). But he's not popular in the sense that he's the new "it."
But property taxes are local. Raising them only supplies more revenue to the local area. For the US, also, one needs to take into account many states have limits on property tax rates and revenue raises in general, such as millage rates have to be fully balanced with spending, which in turn, has limits. Excess rate increases will simply make those areas less valuable, which will push people to even lower taxed areas, which, at least in the US, are even more rural areas, thereby increasing the concern for climate change and a reduction in population density.
Well, they're junior devs. You're supposed to help them get past that stage, not just throw away all your tools.
Because fundamentally when people complain about being censored on places like twitter or TikTok, they're really complaining about not being broadcast loudly enough.