skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep! But irrespective of whether the story was real/fake, the GP comment said that people "believe" that `Google have a guy in a room somewhere turning the "conservative search results" lever down a notch during elections`.

Now if you truly want to address this concern of the people, the question obviously would be if it was the algorithm that blocked the article or was it "a guy in a room"? I don't see what is the difficulty in admitting that it was "a guy in a room" because our values/ideology does not align with ideology of New York Post.

When you start to say that it was the algorithm that did it, and that there was zero human interference, without any proof to back up those assertions, then it is much the same as saying that it was a "popup" that triggered when one is caught watching porn. "I did not do it, it was the machine."

Then it becomes even more important to open source the algorithm so everyone can see what is happening internally. It at least puts some doubts to rest. It is better than saying "believe me it was the algorithm not me".
And then you add this to the universal surgical risk of abdominal fistulas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKMBWOBbyws

You seriously want to ponder whether you should get any surgery at all...
Digital Markets Act: Ensuring fair and open digital markets
I'm gonna go ahead and say this comment is misleading. The board is obligated to make decisions that they believe in good faith will maximize shareholder value. If they can come up with a reasonable explanation for why twitter is worth more than 54.20 (like it being worth 70 last year) they can go ahead and decline the offer.
I don't. I think this interview gives away a lot about his plans, as well as his character:

https://www.ted.com/talks/elon_musk_elon_musk_talks_twitter_...
Which is also the Trump alternative, iirc. Just the far left seems to respect the license.
Yep it was!
> How can a prepubescent second grade child be trans!?

Do you mean “how can they have a gender identity”? or “how can it be different than their assigned gender at birth“?

I’m trying to figure out what you don't understand here. Do cisgender identities in children that age surprise you?
>"Wonder if their RSU grants have a clause that converts them to cash in the event of a takeover"

This is interesting question since RSUs are a big part of total comp but how are unvested RSUs dealt with when the stock is retired? Are those put on a future cash comp schedule? And if so at what conversion rate?
That sounds like a variant of this joke:
https://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
They are not discriminating. Elon can purchase the same amount of stocks (proportionally) at the same price as every other shareholder.

It's just that since the strike price is lower than the price he is offering to buy the company at, other investors are better off exercising their warrants and then selling to elon.
It seems that there aren't many of them, and they're not all that useful really.
At the time of posting, Will Norris (the open source lead at twitter, admin of their github account presumably) posted this. It has 44 retweets, 193 likes, 17 quote tweets, on github it has 1.6k stars.

That seems... bizarre to me?
Thanks! Now I need to find some documentation.
Whoa. I was wondering if it was "just" the Windows version but they are aiming to open source the new web version with all the Windows tools brought over. I hope they make it!

The editor itself:

https://goldwave.com/editor
Transgender is also not a sexual identity, so then what exactly is the parent horrified about? If they misspoke and meant to say open gender identities, then my question still applies.

> If a girl likes to dress in what is traditionally recognised as boys clothes and play with trucks, that just kids being kids, there's nothing transgendered to be found there.

There is nothing *necessarily* transgendered about this. However, the grandparent stated there are openly transgendered kids in a second grade class. Are you saying it’s impossible for a child to know if they’re trans or not? I think we generally accept that some gay people knew they were gay at that age, why can’t the same be true for trans people?
> Do you even Jan 6th insurrection?

This is gross language. I assume apparently implying something so obvious as to make my points absurd?

Regardless free speech should be welcomed in this case too. People can then just ridicule his opinions and tear them down directly. It's not like he can't reach his audience on Gab or some other network.

For background, I'm not pro-Trump. I'm libertarian and think both sides of the spectrum are just legs of the same body that stomps on our freedoms and makes us poor.

> Do you support letting the Russian bots reign free on Twitter?

With regards to propaganda I think I have an operating brain. As such, I can make up my own mind. As for bots, I do think it would be nice if we could come up with a technical solution guaranteeing a human is posting the tweet.

> In any case, having a "jackass" as the leader of Twitter (Pedo Tweet, Elon Musk "funding secured $420", and other such lies) is definitely a reason to leave the platform IMO. Elon Musk will attract other high-profile jackasses at a minimum.

Sure.

> since RSS itself is not as popular these days

Which is really too bad. I really love RSS based podcasting though!

> 2-sentence long debates is... not useful for any form of discussion

I completely agree.
Deadly outbreak of children’s hepatitis linked to lockdown
One of the ideas of tcp checkpoint restore, at least for me, is to avoid a round-trip delay when restoring the connection. Wouldn't a key renegotiation cause at least one round-trip? I'm probably being dense here...
The robots on their site look pretty clunky to me, not to say they aren't doing smart things.
Which is a fair assumption - putting 16 hours of work a day seems much less likely than someone working remotely and doing the bare minimum at 2 jobs for as long as they can get away with it.
>>The difference before the Internet is that if I found your idea odious I could punch you in the nose you even if you were "anonymous". And, in return, you were not likely to be attacked by a mob unless you actively did something really horrible.

That is false, you do understand that many seminal works like the Federalist Papers where penned anonymously with attribution only coming by way of historians looking at other known works, the entire purpose of Publius was to ensure people were debating the IDEA's not the people.

You seem to be operating under the false idea that before the internet the only communication was in person verbally.

>I have no way to directly punish you

that is not a problem and you should not be empowered to "punish" anyone for their speech, it is very sad you do not respect the concept of free expression but people like you are the exact reason Anonymous Speech is required. You reject the premise of "I may disagree with you but I will defend your right to say it"

Respecting speech you approve of is easy, respecting speech you find offensive is what requires protection. We have lost that in principle in modern times

>You are unlikely to say something really nasty to my face if I could slap you for it.

if you did, you would and should be jailed for battery. Physical violence is NEVER an acceptable response to speech. This modern "punch a nazi" narratives prevent in the authoritarian left is an affront to the principal of free expression
It's not a binary question.

1) You listed a broad range of issues.

2) Each of those issues have different definitions. "White supremacy" means KKK in red states, and "the dominance of white culture in the design of American institutions" in woke culture. "Child abuse" can mean paedophilia or spanking.

My experience with these questions is that one answer leads to one definition, and another to the other. I've been down this road with woke individuals before. "Yes" takes you to a definition which makes you look like a KKK-supporting pedophile, and "No" to a definition which leads to policies offensive to most people in the world.

And that's about where I think Twitter should place standards:

- Algorithms should poorly rank inflammatory, polarizing content. This is the bulk of where Twitter's market cap comes from, so Elon loses money.

- Humans should remove content which most people in the world would find grossly offensive. Not woke white Westerners, but most people.
Which side is on a book banning tear again?
> Next thing, you'll see announced a platform for reusable container services that can be dynamically linked from other containers

DLL --> JCL ... Joinable Container Libraries
A comparison I did from four months ago across google, ddg, yandex, and search.brave, searching for "are conservatives being silenced by big tech"

https://i.imgur.com/MVlshAT.png

You don't have to be conservative to see there's a pretty significant bias, just in the headlines. I'm a Pacific Green and I can still see it.
They are treating them equally. Elon has just as much of a right to purchase those shares at the same price as any other shareholder.
Nobody knows yet why the board relented, but the scuttlebutt seems to be that Twitter arranged an internal valuation once Musk put a price on the company, presumably as justification for an internal plan that they'd announce as their alternative to acquisition, and the valuation actually showed Musk was overpaying for the income Twitter was likely to generate.

(If the board hadn't relented, Musk's next step would have been to arrange for a tender offer, which goes directly to the shareholders, but does not involved Musk acquiring new shares, but rather just a commitment to buy those shares if the board drops the poison pill. Successfully getting that commitment would be a very strong signal to the board, which would likely then drop the shareholder rights plan and allow the acquisition to proceed. But Twitter's board skipped those steps.)
Works pretty well on Reddit.

It's not perfect, but reddit threads sorted by "best" are a sight better than threads sorted by "new".

Upvotes-only wouldn't get you the same effect, since "best" is about the ratio.

Honestly twitter should implement downvotes and just copy reddit's thread-sorting system verbatim.

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?
> A laser printer uses simple carbon

No, it uses what's basically a fine plastic powder. By mass it's mostly carbon, yes.
This is a false equivalence.

Air travel is a tightly regulated business and all flights are registered with and regulated by the FAA, which requires certain information about all flights to be publicly exposed. Thus, a function of air travel is that publicly available information is governmentally mandated to exist. The usage of this publicly available information is clearly enshrined.

The day to day of a child on the other hand is something that should not have information published publicly about, and entities who were to collect and share this information may be violating the law. I will not comment too much on the legality, but the ethics of such an action as described are also extremely questionable.
Twitter Locks Down Product Changes After Agreeing to Musk Bid
Yep, but when you're dealing with something to run your desktop or other software inside most of that software is dynamically linked tools and utilities.
There absolutely are explicit lists of controversial words that get weights on the models for up/down ranking or hiding content or flagging for manual review.

It's also true that these lists are only a small part of what affects your fringe website or twitter accounts.
I got it in 33 on my first play today but my guesses were way off and it was saying things were highly similar that ultimately threw me off the course. I could see that being a lot of fun to train yourself to think along semantic lines like that.
This is a well-documented A/B test they've been doing for some time now - you can find enough complaints about it littering HN comment threads.
Mastodon is from a far right?
agreed, I see this more as a simplification of how a network of interdependent systems operate, just because its not simple doesn't mean there isn't a fundamental structure the farther and farther you zoom out.
And that hasn’t happened? Google got fined by the EU for manipulating search results. It definitely happens.

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/1248099002

https://www.vox.com/2017/6/27/15878980/europe-fine-google-an...
Let us try a thought experiment. Let’s suppose you have male genitals, and everybody called you a girl in your early elementary years. Would that have caused you to feel confused? angry? depressed? If so, why?
I’m pro censorship. We have and need speech norms.

The left and right are not equal. The left does not rely as much on lies to advocate its positions, and the left is not as oriented around destruction and regression as the right.

We need a more robust understanding of speech than “allowed or not”. Emphasis & volume matters.
(f) Allow people to easily get read-only API access for their own clients, and make the firehose more accessible
I'm not so sure about that. I'd have to travel past approximately 15 CVS and Walgreens locations that are already full of the same kinds of goods in order to pick them up at Whole Foods, and I'm rarely thinking about Bluetooth headphones when I'm shopping for tins of beans. And whatever they'd be removing from the shelves in order to make room is probably generating more revenue and/or doing a better service to the Whole Foods brand than Amazon Basics cell phone cases would.
I'm very technical and I think it would still be valuable to have a list of all the things that weight into the timeline view, even without the models or underlying data.

Like, there's no public admission right now of whether "shadow banning" or "ghost banning" is even officially a thing!

Some transparency seems unquestionably more powerful than none, and we can work from there.
Nope. People are just excited that the Twitter cesspool might finally improve.
The government, at federal, state and local levels, all rely on Twitter to conduct official taxpayer funded work. Taxpayer funded work should not happen on proprietary systems that operate with zero oversight or public transparency.

Elon polled Twitter users about this and the response was overwhelmingly in favor of open source and transparency. Everyone on Twitter got a vote.

If you oppose transparency, as many now are, you lose your credibility. So it’s another one of Elon’s people hacks, and look at all the morons falling for it.
That's what I was wondering. But if there is a latent infection and the immune system knows it (by attacking the myelin), then shouldn't the body already be creating those antibodies?
> I think it's just a dog whistle to the people who believe google have a guy in a room somewhere turning the "conservative search results" lever down a notch during elections.

Even if that's precisely true, is it not good to be creating a more trusted space for everyone? The grievances, regardless of merit, are mostly coming from the right. If you want to create a service that caters to all you're going to have to address their concerns. If he can do that in a way that is fair to all, it sounds like a win to me.
I read the paper briefly on this. I get that you can 'transfer' a socket to another host by sending where you are in the stream and its state. What I don't get is how exactly does the 'peer' change to the new socket? They will be sending packets to the old IP. Second machine has it's own IP.

If the purpose of using tcpcp is for 'load balancing' or w/e, then why does it seem to need the connections behind a single machine for routing? I assume this is what redirects inbound traffic from the peer to the new machine. But if it still requires a single machine for routing then it will be just as congested and not load-balanced.

What am I missing here?
The person you're responded to stated: "There is no discussion on the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese concentration camps of WWII." You're making their point by disregarding that bit.
Ok well I'm going to remain on topic to your original (now obviously rhetorical) question. The article was not propaganda. It was disproving Biden's previous statement that he “never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings”.

I would invite you to read the article again if you think its propaganda:

https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden...
I disagree with your idea, that basically conservatives think only they get banned from twitter. I'd describe it as people making repeated hate speech, threatening, and/or misleading information that leads to death. A liberal example of a banned twitter person is Naomi Wolfe, writer of the "Beauty Myth". The problem for facebook and twitter and similar things is that accelerating inflammatory speech that outrages increases people's use of the system. It's really hard for them to get a lot of use without just resending the outrage of the day.
Meta collaboration uses conditional VAEs to formulate low carbon cement
UMass started phase 1 trials of Moderna's mRNA vaccine for Epstein-Barr virus this year.

https://www.umassmed.edu/news/news-archives/2022/01/phase-i-...
It's an unfortunate effect of some climate change worries. We have a problem with letting “Perfect” be the enemy of “Good”.

Far too many people worry about the 100lbs of CO2 emitted because of rail cleaning while ignoring the fact that a diesel train is spewing (literally) tons of CO2 in the atmosphere. And the trains are one of the best options for low carbon shipping!
No, it's not THE trump alternative.

It existed before.

Open source, such that anyone can use it
> [...] if you try to access the Option value and fail to handle the error correctly, [...]

It's consistent with the way Go's error handling works. Turns out it's not anywhere near as much of an issue as you might think. In practice you always notice that the function you're about to call returns an error and handle it.

> There's nothing preventing you from defining these functions directly on pointers, they'd be just as safe.

Pointers aren't Optionals. They happen to be nilable, yes, but their semantics are broader. A pointer can be used to avoid copying large structures around. How would you distinguish such a pointer vs one that's used as an Optional?
Wonderful, from now on I'll be imagining nymphs powering anything that moves on its own. Thanks, Demeter!
I guess I kind of think about these things not as algorithms, but as a collection of frontends and backends. Collectively, any human request (typing [ ramen shops near me ] as an example) will be handled by a bunch of different code, typically that code is structured as RPCs.

We can think of the main interaction as being a query which is an RPC payload. The contents contain the user request and a wide amount of other context (either referenced by a collection of keys like cookies, or materialized like fields that specify the user's age) and the response is a web page which contains sections (the web search response to the query, as well as the ads; either these could be rendered to two different frames, or interspersed, by the result presentation engine).

That query -> frontend translates into a tree or a graph of requests which collect up various bits of contextual data required to satisfy the query. For example, the query terms might be rewritten slightly and then sent to a web search backend which searches/ranks documents and returns the top matching documents on the organic web, or sent to an ads backend that returns the top matching bidders for those query terms. Again, just RPC/responce, although the actual context that the frontend and backend systems are dealing with, and use to modify the result, are truly enormous.

Each of those backend systems itself was produced with an enormous amount of data processing and contextual data that is available at serving time. All of this is implemented using various algorithms; everything from the TCP algorithms that manage bandwidth to the neural networks doing inference on the joint product of the user context and the query context and the ad context, and the logging system that writes the queries and their clicks to centralized storage for more ML training.

In theory though you could set up a system that compiled the full web stack, and ran the end to end of a user query, dumping all the intermediate RPCs, etc, from a modestly sized instantiation of the production system. and people could sit down and inspection what terms affected query result order, or which pages were omitted at which part of the filtering, or what data was logged.

It would be hell for a team to maintain and keep up to date wrt the production system, but many folks do this any way to have a simple version of the system around so they can make quick changes and see if it breaks part of the complex system without doing a full deployment.
https://cnn.com/cnn/2022/04/25/politics/mark-meadows-texts-2... is a 404.
Not "the algorithm", but you can check if twitter is silently suppressing your account here: https://taishin-miyamoto.com/ShadowBan/
> Some naysayers may point out that The World Championship match is always the high-water mark for interest in chess and watering it down with a series of dueling World Championship titles could cause damage to the sport as a whole. What those people don’t realize is how much money we’re going to make off of this! Perhaps in the long term a World Championship schism will “kill the golden goose” as it were, but in the short term? I want a Jet Ski!

Was this supposed to be a joke? I don't get it Lichess!
> other pretty important stuff that can still bubble up, like the person reinventing the wheel where a well known library could have been used

OTOH, reinventing the wheel as a hobby and to deepen understanding makes perfect sense.
> Lol, you make it sounds like we're about to lose Einstein due to overwork.

If I had to make a choice b/w Musk and Einstein, I'd pick Musk 100:1 in Musk's favor. Musk moves things forward with whatever tech/science is available right now. Likes of Einstein are absolutely needed but we have way more tech than we make efficient use of right now.

> Musk is an opportunistic man-baby

Name call all you want — he's changing our world for the better today and for your kids and their kids like no one else has. or ever will.

> not the second coming, let him burn out...

I'd give my money to keep him healthy, alive and kicking long before spending a cent on any charity, as do many others who don't have their heads up their asses.
Notably, from one of that post's own links:

A board can use the protection of a rights plan to respond to an underpriced bid, counter the tender offeror's timing and informational advantages, and force the hostile acquirer to negotiate with the board.
> I also can’t get past the paywall

I mean, there is …one …way
That's more stars than I'll ever have on any of my repos. Maybe I made a mistake not joining a faang
It appears they believe that SpaceX is Musk's personal slush fund.
Water is essential for life. That doesn't mean you can't drown in a swimming pool.
What is the threshold for someone to become a"public figure" and lose the right to basic privacy?
Can you mention the source of your information?
The Amazon Labor Union beat a behemoth – can it keep winning?
that's kind of a silly meta search query, not checking for bias in coverage of climate or race or religion or whatever.
I don't think George Costanza ever had two jobs at the same time. He did have two girlfriends at the same time once. He found it exhausting, so arranged for both of them to meet in the same place(Monks), in order to sabotage the relationship(s). Neither of them were willing to break up with him.