skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Timeline is actually just a SQL expression with 500 sub-queries
I hope Elon opens the firehose back up. I would also like to see a return of the tweet count API, and reasonable pricing for Twitter Premium API calls.

Twitter premium API pricing right now is ~$0.25/call. How about $0.01/call?
Same here, I'm thinking about installing it to try it out but I'm not going to give them full access to my profile.
my second or first trip back to the UK from OZ in the 90s, we got stuck at Kings X because of "leaves on the line" and I remember how we cracked up laughing at the image of the entire network stalled because of leaf litter, but in truth its a real problem.

Rail corridors are some of the last vestiges of semi-wild connected space in the UK, since they stopped spraying herbicide. This in turn was responsible for the extent of what londoners call "fire weed" into northern britain -Rose Bay Willowherb: it was a southern plant, carried by wind borne dispersal of seed due to trains passing along the lines.
I think if you're aiming for adoption, a IDE environment would be necessary, otherwise the hurdle to learn a DSL is too high.
I think that's should be left up to parents. I personally don't want my kids to learn about sex at all until puberty. There is plenty of time in life to learn these things.

So if anything, this bill gives freedom to whatever you please with your children as parents, but don't dogmatize them with controversial sex education as teachers.

Btw, this is NOT a fringe view. The rest of the world operates like this including most progressive countries in Europe.
Firefox has a handy color picker called Eyedropper in its Browser Tools menu. I'm not sure about other browsers.
With sqlite your server, api or application can be hacked. The most common and likely hack would be somewhere in your application. It really doesn't make sense to use sqlite here.

Setup a separate database server and use it for all of your projects. That one hour pays off each and every project.
> it doesn't boil down to 50 lines of code

No one said that. You created a straw man and are arguing with it.

This comment says more about you than you think.
The fact that there are so few examples doesn’t tell me its hard, it just tells me its unprofitable. Look at these examples, primarily bankrolled by the megalomaniac billionaire themselves vs the value investors who dollar cost average into lockheed martin et al.
haha that's what I figured, someone decided to quit if Musk acquired Twitter and figured they'd just leave one last practical joke
Circumventing a system firewall is not an opinionated default. By default, the firewall isn't enabled. Nothing requires the traffic to leak here, it just doesn't need to behave this way. This makes nothing simpler. And, this is undocumented behavior. Don't buy into the argument that this makes some UX better. It doesn't.
FWIW, what you wrote here is very similar to the situation I had and the mistakes I made that led to the lesson learned and that sentence being in the piece.
> a function over discrete data, otherwise known as an algorithm

'A function over discrete data' is a far broader concept / far larger set than 'an algorithm'.
Do your politicians never lie or "actively target" people with misinformation?
AGI is very unlikely to happen within the next 50 years. Dangerous limited AI exists now and it's going to get worse. I don't worry about malevolent AI, because we don't even know what consciousness is, nor the limits of a (presumably) nonconscious entity's attempts to emulate intelligence.

I worry quite a lot about malevolent humans using enhanced technology (note that most things in technology, once accomplished, cease to be AI) will do. Authoritarian states and employers can already learn things about you (that may or may not be true) that no one should be able to know from a basic Google search. This is going to get worse before it gets better, and if corporate capitalism is still in force 50 years from now, we will never achieve AGI in any case because we will be so much farther along our path to extinction.
I don't think this is the best way to send that message. The best way to send that message would be to stop breathlessly covering the various goings-on on Twitter. If done well, that sends the message that there are plenty of other ways to have public discourse than on two specific websites. Edit: Trying to compete with Twitter specifically will just reenforce the impression that what's happening there is uniquely valuable.

Attempting to clone Twitter, even if only for their staff and subscribers and/or in a federated form, opens them up to the exact same issues that motivated them to get rid of the comment sections. There would even be the additional problem that they'd need to advertise the thing. The software being available off the shelf doesn't matter, because the software is not the only hard part.

Of course NYT are more interested in buying Wordle than in trying to "combat" the big tech oligopoly. They also didn't try to compete with, say, Ma Bell or Clear Channel, but they have been a big player in the word game space for longer than the personal computer has existed.
This is not correct. The board negotiated a deal with Elon after putting the poison pill into effect. If Elon had made a deal directly with the stockholders, that would have triggered the poison pill. He surely spoke with and lobbied the stockholders for support, but the deal he agreed to was approved by the board.
It would end up being the same as today.... make your own algo would be nice though (they could terminate processes that arent efficient enough)
Congrats on shipping! I cannot wait to try it out, how does this compare to Scallop?

https://scallop-lang.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31060265
This is a bad take. Just because it is a stupid unaccountable heap of shit now doesn't mean it has to remain that way in the future.
Ok, so once users discover 1990s leetspeak what happens then?

Better mind than yours have chosen to solve this problem, they work at facebook and twitter and it's been a disaster! Twitter has been impotent, and facebook have been a public danger. The hard truth of it is that HN just isn't a scalable solution. It ropes in users to self-moderate which results in some really unehealthy issues at scale.
> This is absolutely central to the entire discussion, and I'm trying to remind you of it.

I don't think there's much to remind me of. I'm not on twitter and never really had the debate until now.

> What should we, as an internet / online society do, to bad actors and/or trolls?

Point out where they're factually incorrect. Ignore them. Ridicule them.

> I think the solution chosen is obvious.

This doesn't make it right.

> Once you and I agree that some actors deserve to be banned from online platforms, there's not much else to discuss.

I don't agree. And frankly, you just pointed out a a slippery slope that is exactly why I think you shouldn't ban anyone.

> But I absolutely see value in moderating forums / discussions.

I'm on the fence. Moderation is probably fine, but I don't like when megacorps do it. Centralization of power is my biggest concern.

> The #1 thing going all across conservative media right now, is...

I don't care. In my mind conservative and liberal media, cable news networks, and NPR, Etc... are just mouthpeices for the government and or corporatocracy. So long as the funding comes from a government or advertising, it's junk media in my mind.

> There's "free speech", and then there's "inciting rebellion against our entire system of government".

I would like you and me to peacefully rebel against our current system of government. Stop voting and stop paying taxes. Stop registering your vehicle, and stop getting government involved in marriage licensing. Let the whole dirtly system dissolve so we can be free individuals.

There, I openly incited rebellion. I'm sure you disagree, but that's not the point.

> I don't think that supporting the Jan 6th insurrection falls under the "free speech" camp

I disagree. But I think we're running in circles now.

> If a group of people want to spread conspiracy theories about the inadequacy of our election systems, then they no longer fall under "free speech" and are instead well within the category of "high treason" and/or "enemy of the state".

Wow, that's pretty dogmatic. Who watches the watchers? At some point a hammer like that will be used against perfectly peaceful people. Your statement sounds like it belongs in 1984 bequeathed by the Ministry of Truth. What if there at some point is an issue with the voting systems?

> particularly Russian propaganda sources like RT

One man's propaganda is another's BBC. BBC and NPR are both sponsored by governments that have bad track records of abuse of human rights. Why is Voice of America still allowed to operate on Twitter?
In what situation would you want private relay on, but block traffic to Apple?
I think this represents an event horizon for both Twitter and social media, beyond which it is a little more difficult than usual to make accurate predictions.

We know Musk wants a less moderated Twitter (less censored, depending on your point of view). But it's hard to think that all the changes would stop there. I can't imagine Musk just opening the door on content and then... Stagnation. But what else would he change? A more comprehensive social platform than just tweets? Revive the Vine concept to compete with TikTok after completely missing that opportunity the first time around?

And since Twitter is one of the social media pillars, whether they succeed or fail will strongly influence the direction of the other big players. They could follow suit in content policy, or lean harder in the opposite direction to distinguish themselves in the marketplace: Twitter is open, some other places are more of a walled garden, users choose what they want.

It could also mean slightly less antitrust & political attention for other social media players: again, market differentiation would mean that mainstream social media still provided all users with a top-tier platform. It's difficult to argue that Big Social Media (BSM™) is stifling free speech, or has a collective monopoly (or Cartel), and therefore needs to be regulated or broken up. Not when one of the most influential outlets is a much more open platform.
Chrome desktop, too. Fun.
>has sued a kid for making a twitter bot

Any source on this or is it just made up? I see news articles about him casually dming the @elonjet account run by a teen and offering him $5k to take it down. I guess that could be construed as a threat, except nothing else happened and the acc is still up
There are exactly 0 reason why the private relay couldn't be routed within the VPN or vice versa. There's exactly 0 reasons to make the private relay traffic circumvent the firewall.
This will never happen, not even under Elon. It makes them wide open to litigation.
In my experience, those "recommendations" only appear in the algorithmic feed. Are you sure you haven't been using it unknowingly?
That $1B is money directly going to Uniswap and liquidity providers. They do over $1B in volume PER DAY and from that change a ~0.3% fee.

You should really google this stuff and challenge your assumptions rather than assuming.
> Works pretty well on Reddit.

Reddit doesn't actually work that well, and it only works as well as it does because of human moderation outsourced to people volunteering for a for-profit company.

> Finally, I swear I saw downvotes on the Twitter app some time in the last few months. Unless it was an April fools joke, it was briefly a real feature! What happened?

They did some A/B tests. I don't use Twitter, but it was in the news.
They don't necessarily have to publish code to the repo though, they could just as well publish papers that document their algorithm.
> Twitter has a clear policy about posting and linking to doxxing

Excellent. So when is Twitter going to ban Taylor Lorenz for doxxing an anonymous Twitter user LibsofTikTok? This is her tweet right here: https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1516399663305297920

It has been up since April 19th, 2022. Twitter immediately blocked New York Post's tweet.

I wonder why the algorithm is so slow when it comes to Taylor Lorenz? Maybe we'll find out when the code is open sourced. Then we can all legitimately blame "the algorithm" for causing all this divide between the left and right wing in a neutral, faultless, perfect digital town square called Twitter.
Unfortunately It depends on the agreement. You could get nothing or something. There will have to be an SEC filing with details soon.

More commonly, twitter will try to do something to prevent people from jumping ship. It’s likely your RSUs will be converted to cash grants. Then they might vest as cash awards on a schedule. The vesting may be on the same as RSU schedule or different.
> As a 'consumer' - I want a good service and cheap (i.e. free) with no ads.

And I want world peace, people to start using their turn signals, and a pony.

We can want whatever we like. Doesn’t mean the world is going to, or even capable of delivering it.
The problem is that it's proof that PF firewall can't block all traffic. This essentially means one cannot trust PF to protect themselves from leaking traffic.
The pandemic disruptions to the supply chain showed us how vulnerable we all are. Since we don't really have general purpose family farms anymore, I expect a global catastrophe that cut the supply chains would kill 90% of the population from starvation. How many of us can butcher a hog? know when to plant? how to make soap? Even if we did, we'd die anyway because the world food supply depends on fertilizer.
The standard for copyright infringement in the US is access and substantial similarity. In other words:

1. Did you see/hear/read the original?[0]

2. If so, does your work look like the original if you squint a little?

My gut feeling is that use of an AI with a copyrighted work in it's training set would constitute access for the purpose of determining copyright infringement. Substantial similarity would be determined on a case-by-case basis. It's trivially easy to get AI to spit out fragments of its training set; GitHub Copilot would infamously fill out the Quake inverse square root hack if you asked it to complete the comment "//evil floating point bit level hacking"[1].

There's no case law supporting any of what I just said; but I can't think of a counterargument to "training set = access". This creates a problem for anyone who wants to use AI to generate art and also follow copyright law. I have no fucking clue how you would go about clearing AI-generated art, other than to just pay whoever complains. This is actually how the creative industry works internally. Everyone just buys whatever they can license, tries not to do obvious infringements, and pays to make the problem go away. It's only the FOSS types like us that actually worry about being non-infringing, since we want to avoid copyright virality[2].

Also, I have a bit of a disdain for the current state of generative art. The people hyping up the technology want to use it to kill and eat artists, by replacing them with AI that can bury them in post-scarcity. In practice, current AI requires a lot of human effort and cajoling to corral it into creating something good. For every amazing demo of it spitting out an amazing work that matches the prompt, looks good, and is consistent; there's about ten or so failures where the AI just puts stuff wherever, never converges into an actual picture, or otherwise hands you back some kind of disgusting nightmare.

AI has no taste.

[0] There used to be 9th Circuit precedent for the "inverse ratio test", which says that if you have a lot of access, the judge or jury can squint harder when determining substantial similarity.

This has been overturned for obvious reasons, but not early enough to save Katy Perry from getting sued over an ostinato.

[1] Microsoft responded by... turning off Copilot if you entered in said comment. Not a good look.

[2] No, the GPL did not invent this problem, it's just a different strain of the virus.
This is what I always say as well--I really mean it!
It's like D&D campaigns with rules lawyers. You either shut them down or kick them out early on or eventually everyone else will stop showing up because all the fun gets sucked out of the game.
Hey thanks for the comment :)

I'm glad someone validates my belief that "location matters". I moved to the US 2 months ago after 2 years in Covid VISA limbo working remotely for a US team. Settling down has been extremely painful so far but I hope it's worth the effort in the long run.
You’re proving my point. “Hate speech” is defined by a very small group of nerds, who are in the 4th sd of privilege with white liberal jesus syndrome and who’ve spent most of their lives on computers or on vacation posting about how oppressed their lives are by christianity or patriarchy or some other malarkey. In other words, free speech is a better alternative to the people making decisions having god complexes while being completely detached from most of the rest of humanity.
How is epoch times as a news source relevant to the credibility of Professor Robert Epstein in his research area?
If he's actual top talent as opposed to a poseur who's good at self-promotion, he should stay in academia for his own sake because he'll be crushed in the corporate world. Actual high IQ people get clobbered in corporate, while OKR-ing charlatans climb the ranks effortlessly... yes, even at FAANGs.
I only have a twitter account, just because.. I never post anything but planning to do so to piss off some people with "holier than thou" attitudes, especially ones who are screaming they are going to leave twitter if Musk acquires twitter. It is gonna be fun.
For those snowflakes who are going to leave, don't let the door hit your tushies.
It is talking about year to date.
Washington Post was one of the news outlets that denied Hunter Biden's laptop story and cast shadow on its authenticity until it had to do a major U-turn one year later. I wouldn't touch that publication with a 6-foot pole when it comes to unearthing Truth about Hunter Biden laptop case at the very least.
I don't think I will respond to your comment just based on how emotionally charged, toxic and unpleasant it is. It is frothing with falsehoods, not sure where to start.

I've seen the rest of your comments, please be nice.
There is some nuance.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tesla-rides-higher-prices-...
That is true, but one "young staff" I know was initially assigned to a dead-end project. She made it her life's mission to find something more interesting and promotable, and succeeded. But there's definitely luck involved.
Ask HN: What are the main difference between Zig, Hare and V?
Yes but this got me thinking is it makes more sense to sleep after timing out the caffeination instead of keeping the sleep command running ;) that's enough Unix for the day haha
The issue is about what is rewarded by the algorithm in terms of increased visibility. A downvote could act to reduce visibility, rather than as another dimension to engagement that adds to visibility. This could fix the incentive people have to post politically extreme content.
The progressive/liberal side of politics has been hijacked by the elite, just as they did with the conservative side.

And they shut down speech because they feel it threatens them.
We wanted Mars landing instead we got an edit button.

- Peter Thiel, 2025.
Absolute stab in the dark:

You’ll need to store a good chunk of the web in order to allow for retraining/reindexing when algorithms get added or updated. That’s expensive as disk space is not cheap, and bandwidth is even less cheap.

You then beed to be constantly processing all that content through multiple algorithms, and storing their resulting indexes in relatively fast storage so it can be retrieved. That’s a lot of processing and even more storage.

Even if this all works, your algorithms need to be performant in order to be usable. That means time and expertise.

Finally you need to figure out who actually cares enough to pay for this thing. Who pays for my crappy algorithm that is just wasting cpu and disk that no one is using?
This is totally backwards advice. If you're going to teach C/C++, it makes far more sense to start with modern c++ which takes care of so much for you. std::string, std::vector, std::unique_ptr, and std::shared_ptr all alone make C++ far more approachable (and readable!) than C. And you can just entirely avoid pointers for a while, avoiding the need to cover things like avoiding returning pointers to stack values until much, much later.

After that you can then peel back the layers and discuss things like manual memory allocations, how vectors work under the covers, etc...

But C is an awful language to start with. It's incredibly complex to actually use and full of sharp edges. The grammar simplicity betrays the extreme mental complexity to actually use it without crashing or leaking memory everywhere. Not to mention the huge overhead in just doing simple things since nothing is included, and nothing is straightforward (like containers like hashmaps - hugely complex in C, trivial as heck in every other language)

And that's before you get into the fact that you can't even just learn C. You have to also learn macros at the same time to actually do anything effectively, which is basically a second language full of its own quirks and problems. With C++ you can reasonably avoid learning macros for a long, long time.
Didn't Apple show that "this is the way?"
Certainly there is room for some form of group response to bad behaviour. The Will Smith slap is a good example of something that was fairly roundly condemned, and I think we had sufficient evidence from which to form an opinion. Interesting to note the lack of 'accountability' forced on him in this case however.

Not sure where your 'rule of elites' angle into play here, good faith and rationality are things that are debated and roughly agreed upon within societies and institutions (perhaps I do agree with your statement "These are emergent properties that come from free speech"). My point(s) were explicitly that:
- Cancellation often happens with ill intent from bad actors: partisan, one sided policies that don't apply to 'their side'. You'll see little in the way of due process, benefit of the doubt / chairitable intepretation.
- That combined with reactionism and little desire to combat base stereotypes, makes an easily weaponizable army.

I found Jonathan Haidt's description of cancel culture to be on the mark. It's all about intimidation: Not just for the one being cancelled, but of everyone else who's watching. It's a prelude to a wave of self-censorship.
>This was true of Usenet.

plonk!

I don't need someone else shielding my delicate sensibilities for me. And anyone claiming to do so "for the greater good" should be called out for the vipers they are. There is no right to not be offended!
> but the deal he agreed to was approved by the board.

Yeah, probably as qiskit suggested, because the major shareholders told the board to pull their heads in and take the money.
By default this feature is also disabled.

What happens when multiple features in conflict are both turned on is a classic UI problem. Quietly doing a compromise between them is the exact kind of opinionated default that I am talking about.
Blank page on Chromium on android /:
A serious question about Ukraine's sovereignty (2021)
The article summarize his research. He had published many articles on the topic, and most have linked pdfs you can download for free in his bibliography here:

https://drrobertepstein.com/pdf/vita.pdf
Yeah the go one looks terrible but then you take a look at it and it's just creating slices, looping over stuff and appending stuff to the aforementioned slices. The syntax is much less expressive, therefore very verbose, but it's basically doing the same thing, without the sugar of being able to inline some of the logic.
Even in this case, that Epstein-Barr virus didn't kill himself.