skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've pretty much all tried having comment sections, and removed them. Turns out, it's kind of hard and the incentives discourage it.
Look at Amazon. Fake accounts are hard, so hard to make that they sell in the $1000s. Then it's still incredibly hard to actually use that fake account because so many actions will get them suspended. That's not to say Amazon isn't rampant with scams because the profit incentives from a single account are so great. You can sell a couple hundred 2TB Thumb drives for $30 per day and it will take a month or longer to accumulate enough bad reviews to have the account shutdown.

I don't think the profit motivations on Twitter will be similar enough.
I dunno, but coinbase is doing it pretty effectively. So it is objectively not impossible, unless you want it to be.

> Coinbase has more than 89 million registered and verified users

https://earthweb.com/coinbase-statistics/#:~:text=4.1)%20Rel....
Here's what I have a problem with: He's probably going give the donald his twitter account back. I can hardly express how much better things have been since he was de-platformed. Like him or hate him, you can't deny his tweets were both divisive and a huge distraction around anything else happening in the world because everyone and every media source had to repeat them and give their reactions or hot takes. I hated every bit of it. I don't even use twitter but it didn't matter, I could not escape Trump's tweets. This, by analogy, is like being told your previously cured cancer is back.
Even the most hardcore linux enthusiasts that tried the pinephone claim that they can not reliably make calls, have constant crashes and the app ecosystem is limited. If you are okay with not being able to reliably make calls, fine, but don't oversell on the definition of "daily driver".

> You can't upgrade Linux on your phone due to the proprietary drivers.

Hardware-specific binary blobs don't stop the UBPorts devs to make constant updates to my old BenQ phone. The software part is still up-to-date, but the application catalog is almost non-existent, the hardware is limited (1GB RAM) and the camera is shit. Eventually I want to turn that device into a networked music player, but as a smartphone it didn't last two years.

If I manage to get 7 years out of this Fairphone, its ROI will have been unbelievably great, I will gladly buy whatever comes from Fairphone in 2027, and I will try to find another use for this device.

Hopefully by then Linux on mobile will have matured, but I don't need to compromise on my actual needs just to please the FOSS-purists.
Yeah. IMHO the thing people don't realize is that all of the wealth elite are only in it for themselves. They don't go against each other because ultimately they all have the same goal - more money for the wealthy elite no matter what the cost to the planet and everyone else, so a lot of their attitudes and goals are going to align regardless of political ideology.

Completely unmoderated free speech is beneficial to them because regular people that can't even tell what's real or fake aren't ever going to organize to the point where the privileged positions of the elite are challenged.

Trump starting Truth Social and Musk buying Twitter are literally the same thing to me. They're both tying to prevent any kind of unison or popular movements that could de-throne them from their positions as the ruling elite. They both also want to ensure their status as the loudest voice in the room can't be taken away because they use that to convince the average person they "deserve" to rule the world.
> Just give us a web filesystem already.

WebDAV is kinda that. I subscribe to a (super cheap) hosted version from Hetzner and I'm happy with it even though the server is on a different continent. As mentioned somewhere in another comment, I also use rclone mount to use it, but there are other options as well (the client built into GNOME is reasonably good, the client built into Windows 10 is terrible).
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The NHS is one of the cheapest universal healthcare systems in the developed world. There is an easy answer: pay closer to what many other developed countries pay per capita.

UK tax payers pay in the same ballpark as much per capita for unicersal healthcare as American taxpayers pay per capita for Medicare and Medicaid without getting anywhere close to universal cover.
It's the secondary effects that would likely cause this. Having read a good deal about the Chernobyl (Rhodes, Arsenals of Folly) and Fukushima disasters, basically it's the loss of coolant in the reactor cores and the evaporation of water from the cooling ponds for the 'spent' (i.e. too hot to handle) reactor fuel that lead to a runaway meltdown event and associated fire.

So, a 500kt blast over a reactor site will destroy all the surrounding infrastructure, evaporate the water from the cooling ponds, and while perhaps the steel reactor containment shell itself might not be completely obliterated/vaporized at once (or it might), the whole zone is going to be unapproachable, and the kind of heroic efforts employed at Chernobyl (notably a graphite core reactor that burned, Fukushima having no flammable graphite) and Fukushima are not going to happen. So, total meltdown of reactor core, hydrogen explosion, venting to atmosphere, some fraction of the core liquifies the rest vaporizes. The spent fuel in the ponds, all the water flashes to steam, they burn / melt. Nobody comes rushing in to manage the situation, it's full-on runaway.

So Chernobyl IIRC lost about 1% of one of its reactor mass to the atmosphere, and that was one of four reactors at the site. This resulted in significant fallout across Europe and a 30-km radius long-term exclusion zone. Now let's say instead oh, at least 50% of each reactor mass + spent fuel goes into the atmosphere, the rest melts into the ground... I don't know how this would scale. A 300-km radius exclusion zone perhaps at minimum? To get accurate estimates you then have to do a bunch of modeling, atmospheric fluid dynamics, etc.

I can't imagine there aren't top-secret studies in some military branch or other on how this would all pan out, but they've never been publicly released to my knowledge.
It's really not that bad the majority of the time. However, you train yourself not to have a reaction to stuff... because if you are particularly offended by {extreme porn, seeing penises, people criticizing your favorite team, taking "your mom" jokes to heart} that's an easy button for someone to press if they get bored.

Submarines are pretty unique places in that every person is pretty critical in an emergency. So while it can be brutal at times, it's also pretty collegial.
Yea see, Elon opening the floodgates to shit like this is why people want to run for the hills.
Just because you have had a bad experience with a landlord does not make all landlords bad. Just like you probably had a bad experience at a restaurant, does that mean all restaurants are bad?
He claims to be solving general intelligence in 20 years. Your advocacy is not enough to convince me.
I don’t think HN is a good example of verification considering SWIM made an account with a disposable email address to segregate shitposting/anything-interesting from the sterile corporate persona that the account bearing their actual online handle uses.
How about, I had Twitter, left it, and now I'm going to rejoin ?
Ok, I'm looking at the examples. What's wrong with them? What am I too stupid to understand?
>Muslims constitute over a billion people. Chinese are over a billion. Toss in Latin America, Slavic countries, and so on, and you have a broad swath of cultures which views out-of-line with woke Twitter employees.

The same could be said if you compared these groups to Republican Trump voting god fearing peoples. Thats how we ended up with things like the Muslim ban and evidently a response to that mentality in the form of the extreme left(Twitter woke mob, Antifa, etc.)

On sites like HN and popular commentary like Joe Rogan I only ever hear this argument in one direction: against Leftists and never hear the criticism of the same being done (for a lot longer) by the Right.
Does anyone know what happens to call warrants in this case?

I have some 48 USD call warrants. I was surprised to see them crash in value today. They showed some really weird behaviour.
You kinda touch on something I think is interesting and I'm hopeful for - a more return to balance. It seems a lot of people and groups who go against the status quo were effectively banned or suspended until they fall in line. Where's the fun in that?

Do I want to see it turn into Voat? God no. But I'd appreciate way more diversity in thought than they currently allow.
Speech has always had guardrails...

"common limitations or boundaries to freedom of speech relate to libel, slander, obscenity, pornography, sedition, incitement, fighting words, classified information, copyright violation, trade secrets, food labeling, non-disclosure agreements, the right to privacy, dignity, the right to be forgotten, public security, and perjury."
is... anyone able to get to this thing? has it been Slashdotted?
If he replatforms Trump or brings in fb-esque name transparency (ie real names only) then I'm out. Till then it's lets wait and see.
Ah but its much more fun when everyone hosts their own blog.
Shotwell doesn't "run" it. She is president and COO, sure. The vision, strategy and engineering is all Musk. Read the book Liftoff. Musk doesn't get much credit for his engineering work and often gets written off as just "investor" type.
> Please cite how you can't criticize Saudi families on Twitter.

That wasn't the claim, if it was one. This is what I wrote:

> A Saudi prince and his family control access to the square, along with a group of incredibly rich investors. Criticism of them is strictly controlled.

We know that certain critical speech is suppressed on the platform, part of the problem is we don't know how much (hence Musk's wish to increase transparency). That does not, however, mean that all criticism is stopped at source. Do you reject, for example, the existence of shadow bans? If not, do you think they are only used against trolls?

As to citations… I'm not giving a viva. If you want me to clarify things I write, you can ask in a normal way.
I don't think you'll see changed policy, but you'll see the one-off demands of a guy who gets what he wants. So Trump unbanned, people who upset him randomly banned, etc.
There are CO2 scrubbers on board, the crew turns them on/off to control concentrations. It's one of the things I checked before I went on every watch as OOD (officer of the deck): the CO2/O2 concentrations. (One of our weapons officers was really sensitive to CO2 concentrations and would s*t all over any OOD who let them get too high.)
>the elusive path of maintaining free speech

What's so elusive about it? Let people say what they want and give users a robust word and account filtering system.

If you think your ideas and values won't stand up to public scrutiny, then perhaps you should do some self-reflection. If it's just a matter of your own comfort, use the block/mute/blacklist controls.
Apropos of nothing except the comment I am responding to, I just idly clicked the next comic and completely forgot that I had read it already, until the last immortal line: "I wonder where it will be when it dies." It's weird that
Charles Schulz had like 800 billion dollars and Chris Onstad is working in a greasy spoon or something.
Excellent question!

The distinction here is between droplets and aerosol transmission. As I understand it, droplets are relatively large chunks of water (or whatever), and aerosols are particles in suspension in a gas. At the beginning of the pandemic, most scientific professionals assumed that COVID-19 was transmitted by droplets; the 6 foot distancing advice comes from that assumption, since droplets don't have much range.

(Which is not to say that increasing distance didn't help, but 6' wasn't a magic number.)

This article goes into useful depth on our new understanding: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abd9149?url_ver=...
I remember the "I'm moving to Canada if Bush gets elected" crowd.

Dukakis lost and as far as I remember nobody moved.
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I think in words, but I do not hear voices.

I can tell the difference, because I can easily imagine voices too, it's like remembering them, but you make them say something else :)

But normally my "inner monologue" is voiceless.
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If he allows the trolls back on to tank the S/N ratio again then I'll probably have to leave, but I'm not jumping ship just yet.

I don't expect him to do anything to actually improve the situation, but it is possible he just maintains the status quo, minus that "Elon Musk Private Jet Tracker" account of course.
That is largely a myth. The nazis routinely got beaten up even when they were outnumbering their enemies. The Battle of Normandy is a good example of that. The allies dominated Germany after the landing despite the fact that the germans allocated more Panzer divisions to France than to the eastern front (!!!).

Also, While the soviets were overall outnumbering the germans , Operation Bagaration is another example of superb strategic and tactical out maneuvering. The domination was total and the entire army group center was anhilated, in such a way that the mere numerical superiority couldn't really account for.

And even when local numerical superiority favored the germans, the soviets were able to win.

Plus, the "hitler overruled his generals" is another very persistent exaggeration that mostly came from post war nazi generals memoirs. As you might expect, those memoirs were very self serving and were a convenient way to wash away responsibility and incompetence. In reality, most of the bad decisions were taken by the army command, and hitler only became more dominant after the German army had already suffered huge defeat. And even at that point, he wasn't exactly overruling the brightest plans. Most of those generals in the army command didn't even support the plans that ended up being massive victories for the nazis, like the invasion of france for example.
Such large shill operations would be next to impossible to keep secret over the long term. The more people involved, the more difficult to keep secret.
They are probably TSLA shareholders. Otherwise, who cares?
> As to what this will reveal, or how this will be changed, we don't know, except for a general direction of less censorship. So far he mentioned to want to strike a balance where both extremes (left, right) are equally unhappy.

This is how uninformed internet people think things work. I think you'll all be disappointed
been on the fediverse for years now, no reason to head back.
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It's empty.
I was always reluctant to make an account because something never felt right about Twitter, and over time the feeling became much more evident. But now, from the looks of things, I'll probably be on there as soon as I see what some of the changes will be.
I'm saying selling books that promote controversial or even heinous ideas is not the same thing as allowing someone to broadcast those ideas at will in real time.
I’ll bite on the above loaded question: Define experience. However you do, it should at least include work, education, and life in general, given that such experiences relate to the context or situation.
I predict Elon changes nothing but letting people like Trump and Thomas back on there, otherwise he won't interfere much. He might step in occassionally but he'll mostly be a silent partner. He just didn't want his tweets blocked because that is rough on his ego.
8 hours is a ridiculous length for something like sonar. Sonar, even if you are just steaming from one location to another, you are constantly working, thinking, checking, updating. I'm not sure how it has changed since my time, but it was exhausting, and we had to do 8's a number of times when we were short operators.

For me though 6's were worse. You lose your sense of which direction 'up' is in time.
Musk's offer 10 days ago didn't have financing secured. Today's offer does.
Did it get taken down already? I think open-sourcing the algo would materially change the value of the deal.
Does that mean that car prices will drop a bit since Cobalt is the most expensive material used in Lithium batteries?
Yeah, that's for sure a possibility. The purchase might even end up as a marginal improvement since he actively uses Twitter and might request some QoL features once in a while.
Is this supposed to be a joke? It's clearly an empty repo.

Either this is a mistake, or this is a really, really misguided attempt at a joke from Twitter.
Yeah I might start using it if I have a way of getting rid of ads and rage bait
Is Rust an efficient compiler? (Rust vs. Zig)
It's a performance.
He actually said he won't be coming back no matter what according to Fox News. He has his own twitter competitor now so that makes sense.
> having complete type and test coverage over a codebase ensure that you can do so fearlessly.

here's a bit of hard-won wisdom. if you have a company codebase in a monorepo where the different components (products, libraries) in the monorepo have a fairly uniform level of quality standards, and there is a uniformly high level of test automation & tooling to detect regressions and enable confidence when making sweeping changes, it is incredibly productive.

however, if you have a company codebase in a monorepo where some regions of the code have wildly different quality standards, and test automation may be patchy or missing from some components, the lack of flexibility and coupling caused by how a monorepo resolves internal dependencies can produce a miserable experience. low-quality code without a good automated test suite or other tools to detect regressions needs to be able to pin versions of libraries, or some other mechanism to decouple from the rate of change of the high-quality components.

E.g. a single developer may be the sole person allocated to a project to attempt to build a prototype to try to win a new customer, so they may be bashing out a lot of lower quality code -- often for a good business reason -- without much peer review or test automation. If that lower quality codebase is in the monorepo and depends on core libraries in the same monorepo, then you get a situation where core library developers expect to be able to make breaking changes to core libraries, and if the test suite is green, merge -- but the low-quality prototype codebase doesnt have any tests and just gets increasingly broken (the consultingware prototype code test suite is always vacuously green). Or conversely, the developer trying to get their consulting project over the line might end up telling the core library developers that they're not allowed to make breaking changes as it keeps pulling the rug out from underneath business-critical prototype project delivery, and then you're in a situation where it is no longer possible to refactor the core libraries.
The platforms themselves, expressions of free enterprise and free association, are part of the discourse - not merely a location.

We're not, and never really have been over the full course of the information age so far, in need of new, online public fora. (Go to your city council meetings.)

They are just neat.
Trump will not be eligible to run in 2024 because he engaged in seditious conspiracy against the government. He will be disqualified under the 14th amendment along with his sycophants.

"Fourteenth Amendment

Section 3
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/amendment-14/sectio...
Other than Facebook and Instagram, There are no serious or viable alternatives to Twitter
> Replacing White people in medieval England

The period in question isn't medieval England.

> can’t simply tell a story as it makes sense.

Using a literal historical setting unchanged doesn't make sense when the central premise of a story is taking a particular ahistorical (though historically rumored) fact proposition and dialing it to 11.

It's like making a complaint about the political intent of the X-Files because it shows unrealistic FBI procedures rather than telling the “story as it makes sense”.
Many people have commented that it is empty. However what they do not realize is that there has never actually been an algorithm and that is why it is empty.
https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/15155048325509447...

Oh man the second one is at least a little funny. I can certainly say seeing that may have kept a horrifically bored 6th grade me a little more engaged on that paper.

The one about the sexual abuse is too extreme though and def shouldn’t be a casual subject for word problems.
People want to be able to criticize Enron Musk without being doxxed or worse. He has done it in the past and didn't even own twitter back then, so it's only logical to think that there'll be a huge collection of info on critcs.

He's the most thin skinned person in the world, takes everything personally and he's all around mentally unstable.

Also Musk PR dept. will be able to leverage twitter infrastructure.

Basically what Putin wants to do with Ukraine, Musk will do with Twitter, it's only natural that the digital outflow of people is going to replicate the real one we are seeing in Eastern Europe.

People are repulsed by autocrats. And if they have an opportunity, they leave. It's a win-win because it both improves one's life and diminishes the relevance of the autocrat.
I did say that

> For more typical results,
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The problem with Twitter (and Elon, this one is free) is that Tik Tok exists.

I'm serious.

Both are platforms that exist to connect a poster with an undefined (but hopefully as large as possible) audience.

Tik Tok does a very good job of giving audiences exactly what they want and nothing else. Twitter constantly forces audiences to see the content that the other side likes (even the replies to a tweet you do like may be content you don't like).

This causes the audience to be generally unsettled and somewhat cranky while using Twitter, which causes them to generally focus on the platform's problems and resent their usage of it much more than their usage of other social media.

It will be very hard to 'fix' that with 'free speech' but I welcome Elon's attempt.
For anyone wanting a non-empty version, check out my article on how Twitter's algorithmic feed works from last week https://transitivebullsh.it/oss-twitter-algorithm-part-1
I am very pleased to see this out in the open!

Looks like a very simple, yet readable little language. Reminds me of C's glory days.

I know that we already have a couple of "better C" languages out there, but Hare seems like it truly grasps the simplicity of it's older cousin.

I love the focus on open-source only, by the way. It will keep the spirit of the language. I just hope that Drew will stay on this project for a while longer. A language with this kind of vision must persevere.

Good luck to Drew and the Hare team!
If it feels similar to a fluid simulation, that's because it is how many grid based fluid simulations are computed. They take into account density, pressure, velocity, divergence, etc, of neighboring cells, and compute the state of the current cell. The higher resolution the grid (can be a 2d or 3d grid), the higher quality the simulation.