skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Note: not picking on this guy, because when this video was recorded these apps and DeFi didn't exist. But I am critiquing anyone who still agrees with him in 2022.

Finance is not a product. In every society in human history finance came way after companies making products and services. Blockchains and crypto have been around for 12 years and could not find a usage which isn't speculation, swapping assets or some variation of that.

The guys who tried to use blockchain for real world products such as "THE_DAO" guys who were gonna use it for smart locks ended up in smoke. Same for those who wanted to track food, luggage, containers and essentially everybody who tried to apply blockchain to the real world. Those who didn't end up in smoke are losing money (literally) or in terms of opportunity cost because a blockchain is inferior to a database and doesn't solve the main problems of garbage_in garbage_out as well as how true the data input is.

If you are using a sensor you'd still be relying on the validity and integrity of the sensor, so at that point why not use a database?

Of course I only say these things on here, out there in the real world I act like Blockchain is the second coming because in SV truth doesn't matter anymore, if you don't have irrational exhuberance about anything and everything and don't drink the kool-aid produced by cult members of Tesla, Bitcoin and Ethereum then you are not allowed with the in_crowd.

On the bright side it enabled me to polish my acting skills.

> Another unimaginative researcher

Every person who doesn't drink the kool-aid = unimaginative

Next on the setlist if I remember correctly there are attacks on evil shortsellers.
Yeah, nah. First, that information isn't posted publicly and accessible via a public API. Second, it's tracking a plane from one airport to another. Not Elon from door to door.
I don't think even Musk thinks doxxing falls under free speech. That would be like saying "I never committed fraud, it was free speech" when stealing from someone online. Bullshit, not a single free speech absolutist thinks that's how it should work, I don't see why Musk should.
I mean that ambiguity does exist currently (see https://twitter.com/willsmith) but would certainly get worse. And it would be way too easy to get a verified account and then just change a few things to look like some famous person
>Germany has an advanced industrial economy with half the percentage of college graduates we do (just 1/4). So why do we need to act like “cost of living” for everyone has to include saving hundreds of thousands of dollars for college?

Because Germany doesn't treat non-college graduates working class people as "losers".

Germany also has a quite solid social protection, not a cut throat environment where tons of people are a medical bill away from homeless.
This would be some pretty funny semantics... but, however it works, message is the same: Transparency for how these work

- Search results

- Comment Order

- Timeline Order

- Trends

- Human vs code

Personalization in general. Big gigantic “why” when it happens to you
After 16 years I still struggle to concede the value proposition of Twitter. I don't think it's the best platform for advancing democracy, and I'm convinced we should aim higher.

Take a cue from StackOverflow, which does a better job surfacing quality content while letting drivel sift to the bottom. It has an incentive system where those who demonstrate expertise build up reputation over time (instead of a simple popularity contest won by the loudest voices). Even here on HN the culture nurtures a forum that holds more interest for me than Twitter.

I know politics is a different game, but I think the internet's still barely scratched the surface when it comes to transforming democracy. There's so much runway remaining to elevate constituent engagement without the toxicity. When I see examples like municipalities using apps to let citizens photograph and report potholes it gives me hope. The internet is powerful at enabling people who care about a given set of issues to congregate in convenience and without limits of geography. We can figure out how to do it more constructively.

I envision a more issues-centric platform, a kind of one-stop you can visit to get a concise picture of the best-informed discussion around hot topics of the day (or archives of the past).
With elements from Wikipedia, and the ability (and allure) to dive deeper where you're interested. Integrate fact-checking efforts (something like Snopes / PolitiFact) to encourage authenticity. Maybe you could even plug in a feedback loop where local officials can open polls and allow granular voting on matters within their jurisdiction (borrow ideas from Change.org) or facilitate grassroots organization ("garbage cleanup at the park today swing down if you can").

Democracy could never exist without the invention of mass media. Historically that's been a one-way street. The internet upgraded the pipe to an instant, two-way connection to almost every citizen. Yet we've stuck to the same old pattern (figures with lots of followers using it to broadcast their message) with a bit of incremental evolution (interesting or provocative replies can get upvoted). But that's just baby steps. The internet has transformed nearly every other industry, is even transforming banking and finance, and I believe the way we run our civil institutions is up next.

Just like invention of mass-media enabled democracy, the internet is about to facilitate the evolution of some kind of Democracy 2.0. I for one want to see that nurtured into something amazing and special.
There was a case in 2017 of a Twitter employee who deleted Donald Trump’s account for 11 minutes.

In 2020 hackers who gained access to Twitter admin tools that were - at the time - apparently accessible to thousands of employees were able to use that access to compromise multiple verified (blue check) Twitter accounts including Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama and Bill Gates. They used it to promote a lame Bitcoin scam.

In the aftermath of that things were supposedly tightened up a little but don’t doubt a Twitter employee could do some damage.
Also, why offer the original creator $50k to remove the bot?
If it gets removed, other developers will obviously create other ones - it's a public API, after all.
Apples are red. The sky is blue. Twitter shadowbans and tinkers with who sees who. I wonder what the old guard will do with the codebase over the next few months.
Why do you want to do that? Accessing a member of a namespace is conceptually the same thing as accessing a member of an instance, and in many languages like Python or Zig its literally the same thing too.
Will be! Thanks :)
I ask because many implementations of interpreters in Rust that I've seen will reach for unsafe for aspects of the systems that might be inefficient or awkward to implement in safe Rust. I'm curious if or where the author felt the need to do the same or not.
That just moves the terminology around and doesn't answer people's questions. Everyone would simply start asking, "what software or lines of code directly affect my timeline?"

The "timeline algorithm" is a perfectly normal way to describe what people ask about.
Matt Levine has been talking about this in most of his recent newsletters. Today's includes a play by play overview of the recent moves by Musk and the board along with explanation of why these steps happen the way they do: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-25/elon-c...
No, it is not. It is public information. The only thing kid did is tweet information that can be accessed by all persons in the US. Do you mind not being stubborn on things you don't know about?
Just because it has evolved to be a complex monster that is unnaccountable doesn't mean it has to be that way in the future.

There are ways to translating trained ML models and associated systems into understandable hierarchical rules.

Twitter's timeline is NOT AGI.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518677066325053441 states that Elon Musk is to looking "make the algorithms open source."
Yes it's an algorithm, but as software engineers we shouldn't pander to people who actually think there is a small flow chart dictating what happens in your search results. It's idiotic or dishonest.
I think that, as far as the public is aware, there weren't terms prior to the adoption of the poison pill. Musk bought a bunch of shares, and was looking to buy more. The poison pill was the board preemptively saying "we see what you're doing, and you have to go through us to accomplish it".
Oh that’s totally fair. A spectacle absolutely can be art. This is a bit of a different goal post than above though, isn’t it? And while we can speculate that Cage might say this, it’s (speculating) also possible that he wouldn’t approve of his music being used as a town attraction, or that he wouldn’t approve of music that can’t physically be experienced by humans, right? Either way, isn’t it equally fair to question whether a spectacle is musically and culturally relevant, like @TheOtherHobbes did?
His point is moot because twitter has never claimed to be a free speech platform and I wouldn't expect rights guaranteed to protect me from the US government apply to a private corporate entity.
I’ve been managing a while and a striking difference between profitable established companies versus quasi profitable growth companies is the culture of delivering value. It goes without saying that you want your reports to thrive at work, and as a manager you want to build a great atmosphere and culture.

But what I often miss from posts like this is focusing on the value the group of individuals is meant to create (maybe it’s implied).
> Sure, maybe fair. I don't know. I feel that if he removes moderation and adds free speech, then it will be a net positive.

Do you even Jan 6th insurrection?

Donald Trump was removed from the platform because he has, and continues, to be a Jan6th conspiracy theorist. Donald Trump still believes he won the 2020 election.

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There's also a severe amount of Russian propaganda going around the internet right now. Do you support letting the Russian bots reign free on Twitter?

Russia / Moscow are clearly trying to use the internet to spread false information on Ukraine.

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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.

The dumbass celebrity shitposting is the worst part of Twitter. I like Twitter mostly as an RSS-like replacement (since RSS itself is not as popular these days), with well-intentioned bloggers sharing information on a "push to serve" basis.

But the long-back-and-forth of 2-sentence long debates is... not useful for any form of discussion. It generates traffic and ad-revenue for sure, but its not useful to me. Good debates need longer-form formats, blogposts with multiple paragraphs and data to discuss.

I think "thread-reader" and 1/x and 2/x style long-form posts help a lot, but Twitter really isn't designed for medium-form discussion.
The idea that second graders have "open" sexual identities should be absolutely horrifying, and is exactly why Florida is trying to pass it's bill to protect kids from this sort of thing.
> Actually I can.

Sure, in the normal sense of the phrase. But the argument for Musk at Twitter about “free speech” relies on a different definition:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31161156
Put that way, ok I can see it.
In most empires on the way down, the scholarly narratives and the truth on the field are different things...
Yes and yes he was impeached. the law of the constitution was followed.

I don't believe anyone can make a good faith argument that his rhetoric did not incite violence. During the campaign, during BLM protests, and most important Jan 6
I like your thinking, this is the correct direction. As cherry on top I'd remove the retweet button entirely or severely rate-limit it.

For example, you can only retweet so many times per day (budget). Only after a tweet is a certain age (slow down). Tweets need a negative feedback option (thumbs down) so that poorly appreciated tweets do not spread further, or less so. Yet of course done in a way where downvoting isn't misused, which is hard.

Remove quote tweets as it's only used to talk AT people behind their back to one's own followers. Join the main thread if you have something to say.

Detect screenshotted tweets as this too is only used to weaponize conversations and normalizes obsessively digging for dirt. When such screenshots are overused, consider rate-limiting the tweet or the entire account.

Similarly, punish false reports. When continuously reporting tweets that do not break any objective rule, take the ability to report away and rate limit the account.

In general, detect mob patterns where out of the blue at breakneck speed you see mass negative actions, and rate limit it. Put out the fire.

I don't expect much of this to happen, but one can dream. As for engagement, the current type of engagement is exactly the problem with Twitter.
People want to keep doge off their screens.
Sure, I accept that it's legal in the US. It just seems strange that there isn't some rule saying that the board has to treat shareholders more or less equally. Since the board is elected by the shareholder votes it seems weird that they can just redistribute voting power at will.

What if there was some minority shareholder that the other owners disliked for some reason, could they force them out too? Or this power is restricted to particular circumstances?
The trouble is, there could be literally millions of ORDER BY queries. Hell, each user could be given a fine-tuned cnn…
if constexpr is the static if we have at home. It's rubbish.
I've been trying Deno on a personal project and it keeps impressing me more and more. If Deno continues to improve like this, I can see it being the future of JavaScript development. This might go against the grain nowadays, but I'm really productive with JavaScript/TypeScript and any innovation in this space is appreciated. I've had to deal with so much ESM crap these last couple of months and using Deno has been a refreshing change of pace.

Edit: I'm especially impressed with its dependency management. Import maps are a breeze and a welcome change to... whatever is going on in Nodeland. Like, I don't have to set up my imports both in tsconfig.json and package.json and walk this delicate tightrope to make sure that things don't just start breaking. With Deno's import maps it kind of just... works. I also love that I don't have to deal with a `node_modules` folder, and I can choose to vendor my dependencies if I'd like. It reminds me of the Go approach, which I really enjoy.

There's other things I like but these are the big ones. The more I can get switched over to Deno the better.
> Private Relay turns itself off when a VPN is enabled.

I tested this on iOS and Private Relay does not turn itself off when a VPN is enabled.
Isn't Twitter written in Scala now?
They lose the most important property of being trustless and miss out on all the composability that comes along with being on the same chain.

It can be done but not in a better way, a centralized equvilent is strictly worse than these.
The point of NVM is to be NV. A few GB of DRAM for cache and a super-capacitor would not increase cost notably, but would eliminate any performance impact, and also give a more reliable recovery.
Once upon a time they could perform all sorts of admin-level actions. One of my friends was there back in the day and said you could literally delete someone's account or use the built-in impersonation to see someone else's DMs. Another thing they could do back then was leak PII of specific accounts. I think it was the Saudis who paid someone to get someone's name. A friend of mine was part of the FBI team that caught one of those spies.
That could be a starting point for a DSL that realizes the algorithm.
It was somewhat tongue in cheek, but roughly what Facebook seems to be doing.
I don’t understand people like you. Just because Elon Musk used the term “the algorithm” in conversation, it must be interpreted literally? And for someone like Elon Musk, he doesn’t know the complexity and need you to point out?
> Because the charge that this is indoctrinating young children to be anti-conservative would be valid.

Is a hard truth indoctrination?

> This isn't a free speech issue, it's a question of appropriateness.

Excellent point. Doesn't this apply to the so-called censorship on Twitter as well? No one is getting arrested, and thus is cannot be a free speech issue. Should Twitter not get to decide what is appropriate on their platform?

> Making an comment about how conservatives are more racist than liberals is not appropriate for a math textbook.

What if the purpose of math textbooks should be to teach how math is applied in the real world? A graph of oranges vs lemons isn't going to be good at that.

This sounds like the same argument used to justify "shielding" kids from homosexuality.

> How would you feel if that graph instead showed "56% of all crimes are committed by African Americans"? That statistic is true, but is that appropriate for a math textbook without a deeper conversation about underlying causes?

This is a great rebuttal. Alone, I would agree it's not appropriate. But if the textbook then proceeded to use math to show why that might be the case, then I would fully support it. In fact, that would be an excellent addition to a statistics lesson for kids.
That gives even more reason to open-source it, right? If Twitter isn't using that codebase anymore.
Scientific knowledge is written down and freely available but I still don’t understand most of it. I think a public algorithm would increase SEO business if anything because it would get more effective once the bullshit was debunked.
Not to mention the risk of fire if something goes wrong in the cooking process. (Or, less directly, the risk of getting sick from improperly-cooked food.)
This is the typical "no one is perfect, so beeing bad is also fine" - argument (which I personally disagree)
Downvoting is to desperately needed that Twitter users invented their own way: a ratio. To those that don't know, an unpopular tweet will have many more comments than likes, which is considered downvoting.
Even if publishing the underlying algorithm isn't useful, they should be able to do research on what the end result of endless a/b testing has created in practice. I'm sure you could find the highest level heuristics and that would be extremely valuable to both the public and decision makers internally.
I am also optimistic because of these 3 D's.

1. de-censoring

2. de-radicalize

3. de-politicize

The twitter addicts aren't going anywhere. The de-censoring will allow left and right to meet on a level playing field. This should help de-radicalize the fringe extremes and allow for discourse without discussion or users being banned. With more room for nuance the center of the road folks will feel better about discussing their views. Also this should ultimately de-politicize platform and be a win for, at least, America.

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PS. I would like to see censoring of violent terrorist groups increase. That would also be a win. Also new features!
> What happens if you enable two VPNs concurrently today?

I don't believe it's possible to have more than one VPN configuration be enabled simultaneously.
the argument isn't against freedom of speech, it's against this mythical implementation of free speech in which content moderation is magnitudes better than what is known.
If someone digs into MOTU synth firmware there is a an easter egg picture of a couple of dogs. No idea how to access it but I've seen it.
Retail is brutal low margin business. I don't think you can grow to the fullest extent without both physical and on-line presences. It' difficult to see couches to consumers, if they want to try them first. In 2021 you had to buy on-line, and that isn't true now.
You can. Today I learned how. You just have to press Shift+F10 to access the console when it asks you to connect to a network and then enter 'OOBE\BYPASSNRO'. That is all.
To skip the security questions set no password initially and then set it later using ctrl+alt+del.
I completely agree, but it was very interesting to watch a top professional of Starcraft2, "HeroMarine", take over as the top player of the newest Age of Empires.
The French Fight over Reuniting Rimbaud and Verlaine in the Pantheon
Recording Robocar Data with MCAP
Project is "secret" pre-alpha, not yet done... and the person is complaining that docs and tutorials aren't fully polished.

Seems like a trite complaint. docs (let alone polished) is not something you usually expect from pre-alpha software.
I get better framerate by zooming in and out with ctrl-/+

Looks nice very cool flying over that terrain. I wonder if it would be better with higher resolution I'm guessing if the graphics is better you get the uncanny valley problem.
I like some of Netflix's content but always have the impression that Netflix casts it net very wide - perhaps too wide? Their library stretches from low-quality reality shows to expensive high-end drama. It's a strange mix - trying to be all things to all people?

To be fair to Netflix, they have invested in a lot in non-US content globally - probably more than other production/streaming services. They have also given some highly-regarded directors creative freedom and financed their films e.g Martin Scorcese (The Irishman) and Bong Joon-ho (Okja).

Whether Netflix is 'crisis' mode or I don't know, but it will be interesting how Netflix changes (if at all) in the coming months.
For someone who worked on recommendation systems, you really don't seem to understand the concept of an "algorithm" across the abstraction of multiple systems and at different layers of the stack you worked on.

In fact, a lot of people here really think what people are talking about is the equivalent of what is handled in a subroutine.

No, what people are talking about when they talk about "the algorithm" is anything affecting the result set they're reading. Concepts like eventual consistency and edge computing are... well... a part of a model which laypeople, and even reasonably technical people call an "algorithm."

Being pedantic about whether or not this happens in an SQL query, or across multiple codebases, or by region, doesn't escape the question.
Open sourcing is in this is not about the implementation or the CS algorithm. It is more about transparency. I think the idea is that the public should know how tweets are ranked, why tweets show up in timelines and which timelines, what makes tweets popular etc. Imagine Google publishing a document detailing how their system ranks pages aka publishes internal SEO rules officially. I don't know if it is a good idea or not. People with enough resources might be able to game the system (if they don't do it already).
Grep/Sed/Awk [pdf]
The tweet announcing it was captioned "watch this space":

https://twitter.com/willnorris/status/1518694675909013504

Which seems like a promise they intend to actually open source something there.
Do you honestly think it was ok to stop the spread of the hunter biden story and suspend people for spreading it?