skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why this gets so much hate. I think he's a bit too optimistic about AGI prospects. But in his position these are all interesting and reasonable options.

I'm a bit sceptical on this 10,5,1 whatever year ahead metric he pulled from wherever.

Interesting read regardless.
My opinion about the next few years is that most value will come from finding your niche, creating Datasets, iterating and building your ML model (a bit like he wrote but without this AGI...)
Lines 97-101 say that you can't even legally teach a child sex-specific pronouns until they hit 4th grade.

So strange that you would miss what people are actually upset about.
It would be gamed 100%.
Yes. It is. It's been an option since... forever? Many many years at least. https://i.imgur.com/JM6saa2.png

For about a week they made a change that prevent that chronological timeline from being the default, but they reasonably quickly rolled that back.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/14/22977782/twitter-default-...
Pony.ai receives license to operate self-driving taxis in China
It's also that. In general, getting "ratiod" is when two metrics about any given online posting have a ratio that is on the (perceived) wrong side of 1.
This died when the web became mostly a marketing tool for businesses. It's a shame, but inevitable.
Nobody is trying to “recreate a perfect copy” of Twitter. Do you think that code which produces random numbers is also not an algorithm because it doesn’t recreate a perfect copy of a previous random number?
California is seismically active, but not like Japan: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/EQs_1900...
Like at any company, the people at the top aren't the ones who do the work. They need to have a broad understanding of the problem space, business opportunities, challenges and risk. They need to be able to understand what work is being done and understand the message that comes up to them. With that they can make high level decisions. From what I have seen, Musk deeply understands the problem space and can suggest engineers do low level stuff. I bet he suggests lots of stuff that the engineers go "erm no that is not possible". Those suggestions will never be seen by us. We will see the suggestions that happen like a rocket ship nose being changed by Musk.
that's ok, they are bayesian
How you _think_ it works from 1000 miles above.
I can see why this has been downvoted, but I didn’t mean to sound like a luddite. I really just think there is a lot of low quality research, especially in the social sciences, done primarily to keep an publishing schedule up for pressured academics. We’d often be better to spend more time thinking about and planning fewer better studies.
You mean the one with a few leaked emails used to promulgate at repeatedly debunked conspiracy theory? That one?

Once it became clear that the conspiracy theory was just that, repeatedly promoting said conspiracy seems to be of questionable value, to anyone other than the GOP, who themselves repeatedly sued twitter for the identity of critics.

So yeah, I do think it was reasonable to stop that propaganda after it became clear the conspiracy was false, and "reporting" on the laptop was being used solely to continue promoting that conspiracy. Is that a more borderline case, sure, I'll accept that. Is the literal president promoting the overthrow of the elected US government something that is debatable? nope. Is that something the anti-woke people say was wrong? yup.

So I generally equate "anti-woke" with: anti-law, anti-democracy, pro-violence, pro-bigotry, pro-segregation, pro-conspiracy, etc and I have yet to see any evidence that the anti-woke/pro-"free speech" people clamoring for changes to twitter do not fall into those buckets.

I have never seen any evidence in fact of an "anti-woke" person not defending hate speech, I have however seen many vigorously demanding that all LGBT content be silenced to "protect children", or that American history be censored or rewritten in school.

Given that track record it is hard to see that the "anti-twitter-censorship" folk are operating out of a position of good-faith.
'rising cost of doing business online' is a disingenuous way to say that platforms have increased the # of ads they're serving in order to pretend they're still viable businesses, and therefore user acquisition is bananas in every category

retail bounceback / showroom-ification may be a short term trend for a few lucky online brands with scale, but ultimately mass customization has to eat apparel. The physical location of auto-tailors will depend on turnaround times, scanning tech, and consumer prefs
He also never doxxed Musk, given that all the airline data is freely available online and Musk is a public figure.
Sort by recent is an available setting. Whether you can keep up with the volume is up to how many people you choose to follow.
What do you mean by the US gov't has fronted him more than $4 billion?
According to Matt Levine’s column today, the poison pill may have just been a tactical move to guarantee time for negotiations while preventing the possibility of a hostile takeover (a potential BATNA for Musk).

This seems to be what happened.
I’ve spent the better part of a decade writing open source projects for few to see. An empty repo gets hundreds of stars immediately. It’s all a popularity contest.
>The Radioman is the most elusive of the Coners. He spends his time locked in his >‘Radio Shack’ both off watch and on. This limited access space offers a small >amount of privacy not seen anywhere else outside

I dont understand this.
Is there one and only one radio person, and that person sleeps, and works
in the same "office".

Since messages might need to go out at any time, would it not require a shift change? A different nicely rested radio person?

I suppose in most cases when you can send messages is limited and thus scheduled ahead of time. (When the sub is close enough to the surface?)
Yet the persons constant presence would indicate that a message might have to go out at any time.

I just feel bad for the person who has to be on guard 24/7.

Also is there then only one radio person per crew?
Seems like a role that would require a backup.
But then so does docs, and there is only one of that person?
Comparing a trivial <500 LoC program between languages doesn't tell you anything that's useful other than the terseness of the syntax. You might as well chain unix utilities together at that point.

Maintaining a 5k+ LoC java/c#/go/rust/crystal codebase is orders of magnitude simpler than standard ruby. Sorbet/RBS bridge that gap now, but are a pita to use compared to natively implementing a type system. I know with rust/go I get a simple binary at the end to copy over. Rust, unfortunately, has slow compilation times still compared to go, but I really can't stand error handling in go compared to rust.

That said, "ruthlessly productive" is an apt description. I just don't want to have to maintain a large rails codebase again without sorbet/rbs. I'm hoping phoenix/elixir or something in rust catches on.
Right...what is the revenue of Uniswap?

Zero, because the point is not to make revenues but to bake in any form of perceived utility into the appreciation of a token. Again only use is speculation

Also how many lives would be disrupted if Uniswap disappeared tomorrow? None, those who hang out on there would simply download Robinhood go to Vegas to satisfy their need to bet compulsively

What if Exxon, Shell, Microsoft, Walmart or Amazon disappeared overnight? What about Xiaomi a company founded in 2010 , 2 years after BTC whitepaper?

If your goal is to make revenue and improve the quality of life of people 10 years are a whole lot to get somewhere and have your product become a vital improvement in their lives. Crypto got nowhere in therm of real world use because the goal was never to make a difference in the real world. It's all about pumps and dumps, hype, kool-aid and build virtual casinos for compulsive gamblers. The goalposts of adoption are always moved into the future because as long as there is the hope of adoption the general perception is that people will come flowing into the ecosystem in the hope of striking it rich.

Just like Tesla. If you ask people it's a startup, in reality it's a 22 years old company. Standard Oil managed to achieve total domination in the oil business and be broken up by the govt. in the same timeframe and we are talking about the 1800s
> 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.

I'm highly skeptical that putting the extremes in greater contact would cause de-radicalization. I think it's more likely that would cause the extremes to further polarize and dig in for apocalyptic battle for the fate of the world.

I think a more-likely "de-radicalization" path is to hyper-amplify the center while suppressing the extremes. Specifically exposing users to a lot of content one "notch" toward the center and some content two "notches" in that direction (e.g. extreme right user gets a lot of moderate right and some centrist; a moderate left user gets a lot of centrist and some moderate right).
Nice, making it much easier to game!
i always use chronological, atm following very few people, but in the past following too many to keep up w/.

even when following too many to read everything, i preferred chrono because it would yield a coherent slice of what was happening. an unbiased sample.

twitter is basically a medium for conversation.

imagine there's a large party. would you rather listen to an out-of-order "most important" set parts of the conversation, or just a slice of conversation from a particular time?

well, actually, both can be interesting, but generally the slice is more coherent. :-)
Paywall. Is there a tl;dr for how adding immune cells targeting a virus turns off the autoimmune response?
Further, they have no other platform to go to.

If we're talking about the same people here, their position of "power" is uniquely granted at Twitter. For better or worse, Twitter is dominant in setting the cultural and political tone.

There's no other platform that offers this.
It's so weird. We get it, data scientists, your implementations are a garbage mess of last minute paper submission levels and you yourself are blind to half the things happening. That doesn't mean an implicit algorithm doesn't still exist. The term is perfectly applicable and it would probably do you a world of good to abstract it to the point where you can legitimately put it into a single repo.
look up confidential user information for the saudi government?
It is worth having Deno even if you are not using it: just as a Js/Ts LSP server (it's inbuit). Smaller and better than tss etc.

Also makes much more sense for local scripting. Give it a try even if in doubt for production.
The idea is that people should be able to find out if there is such a function. It's taking a stance that Twitter has nothing to hide. In my opinion, it's a great way to build trust with users, something that all of the popular social media platforms lack.
Yeah, but the big difference is with VR you have to build a completely different experience.

iPhone already had a massive amount of apps for it as you could visit any existing website on it.

You don't have that with VR. It has to be built. Which is what Facebook is focused on. Building tools and AI to help creators build "worlds" that can be used in VR.

Imagine you favorite band is playing live, they don't visit your town. You can put on a VR headset join in on the event and experience it like you are there. You friends can come along without any of you guys being in the same country.

Your a primer league fan in the US, you can still experience the game like you are there.

All these experience will come as tech to build them gets better, but these are WAY harder problems then what the iPhone needed to solve when it first was released.
The price is the same. Matt Levine's coverage so far has implied that the effect of the poison pill was to force Musk to be more concrete and less hypothetical, which happened.
It's just a declaration of intent at this point.
"Among the elite, and within Twitter specifically, there is much more inclination to ban the right.

I say this as someone whose political views, if you force them onto the left-right spectrum, probably end up about 80% toward the left. E.g. I've spent millions over the past several elections supporting the Democrats.

It used to be that censorship was something the right did, and free speech was something the left were in favor of. But over the last few decades, banning "problematic" ideas has become a huge component of left culture (http://paulgraham.com/heresy.html).

Plus tech companies in general, and especially Twitter, lean to the left. Imagine walking around Twitter pre-Covid. You'd find plenty of openly far-left employees. How many openly far-right employees would you find? I don't think you'd find any.

The combination of (a) the left's recent focus on banning heretical ideas, (b) the leftward lean of tech companies generally, and (c) the leftward lean of Twitter even among tech companies, means that right-wing speech is much more likely to get banned on Twitter than left.

That's why people on the far right keep starting lame Twitter alternatives. You don't see people on the far left doing that. They don't need to. They have Twitter."

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1515235822890532864
Wait until Musk finds out its a bunch of gnarly PHP 5.4 code much of which is a black box everyone is afraid to touch.
> It's like me calling you and you liking what I have to say and then calling all your friends to tell them, modern tech makes that easier. Robocalling is more akin to running a script to spam users via a bot, wouldn't you say?

When you share something on Twitter, there is literally a script (executed by Twitter) that shares that same thing with all your followers. That's essentially the primary mechanism of Twitter, and I would argue that it's fundamentally very different than you choosing to call everyone to know to tell them something (at least for people with more than, say, Dunbar's number of followers). Because of the fact that it's automated, essentially instant, and essentially unbounded in its reach, it is mechanically much more similar to robocalling than to calling your friends to tell them something.
> When you analyze total tax burden properly. There's only a few countries in the world whose taxes are near 100%.

Define “properly”, paying particular attention to explaining why the standard “revenue/GDP” method is wrong, and show your supporting data for Japan being near 100%.
I don't know if this is really the case or if your prediction will pan out but I do worry about very rich people losing ability to make difference. I was reading the book "Happy at Any Cost" which is a story about Zappos founder, how he got on drugs and lost focus. If you think about it, this is the fate of many billionairs. You no longer hear about Larry Page or Sergey Brin for years on despite they having all the time and resources in the world, for example.
I hope this really means a return to the free speech absolutism of the old internet.
O I read it, it’s just clear you don’t understand the topic at all. Which makes picking just a few things to correct hard.

Ex: “you need to minimize fluctuations on power going through your transmission line.” That sounds reasonable, yes you need to maintain grid frequency etc, but it’s got almost nothing to do with transmission lines. Further there is equipment to deal with various transitory issues that is much cheaper than a giant battery + required equipment to connect those batteries to the electric grid.
>There’s a reason all these sites have come to the same solution: it’s the most feasible one.

Are you sure the reason isn't ideological? After all, the people running them are all ideological cousins.
Substack made it quite clear: https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status/1511376638487019524?...

Personally, I think this is great. Leave your activism at home and don't bring that to work.
There's a bit more details here:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10719181/Multiple...

I think this is the original study?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04432-7
I think Musk might just make it public again, or turn it into a nonprofit.

True, I'm going a little out on a limb here but IMHO makes total sense.

Since Twitter is - in Musk's words - the “de facto public town square” - it doesn't make sense for it to be a private company at all (which is much less open to outside scrutiny and/or criticisms).

Which is kind of an oxymoron given the fact that the changes he supposedly wants to implement will only be possible if he takes it private.

All of this leads me to believe he might just implement the changes he wants and promptly go public again, keeping control of the board or as CEO (prob also at a much higher eval). This, or maybe he'll turn it into a nonprofit.
I think it is unfortunate that "the algorithm" has become the popularized phrase for the thing, though. Yes, clearly an algorithm which evaluates the entire state of the universe and uses that as an input is still an algorithm. But it is also clearly not what people are looking for.

I'm pretty sure people expect to be able look at The Algorithm and find the part that is trying to destroy <whatever their hobby-horse is>. I bet whatever we see will lean more toward "big dumb pile of A/B tests."
it comes from Orwell's 1984 - someone who has been removed from all records/books/photographs and killed. I don't think the kill part applies here.
Someone tell me if it's true but it seems Twitter is becoming more and more like Google+ in certain areas?! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B
It's hilarious to me when cancellation defenders call it "being held accountable", as if the she\her anime-profile-picture pronouns-in-the-bio low-IQ types doing the cancelling are some sort of neutral indifferent court that persecutes all equally and without regards to wealth or power. As if the result of all that impotent rage is actually more order and justice and not random lone heretics being burned at the stake and more and more silent mass of people hating the inquisition ever more.
> Imagine IT people are the same, instead of assuming they're all idiots who are too stupid to go out and buy desktop computers instead of servers like your genius self.

Nearly all of your assumption here are incorrect or flawed, except the redundant PSU (we only had one). But, I do think they're just like me: working in a non-ideal environment with constraints outside of our direct control. The non-ideal constraint that they had, in that instance, at that time, was that they could only give us a VPS with 4 threads. It wasn't possible to do what we needed with their server. Or, to put it into your language, five nines doesn't mean shit if, in practicality, it makes a reliable space heater.
Source needed, plenty of liberal disinformation gets into search results as well and all kind of spammy SEO bullshit. Google search results have been getting shittier across the board is my intuition on this, censorship is less relevant.

IMO they just stopped caring about accuracy along time ago and have shifted into "engagement" and recommendation based results instead of accurate ones. Now when you search for something and very few results come back or they think your search terms should be something else, your given a shitty recommendation instead of what you actually searched for.
Seems like a perfect troll/joke, especially given everything.
> Or maybe you're misinformed about his free speech claims.

I’m not discussing his free speech claims, I am talking about the claims about Musk from the opponents of any restriction on legal speech on Twitter.

They may be misinformed about Musk's free speech claims, but I’m also not concerned with why they are in error.
> In this blog, we examine what goes into remotely exploiting the Linux kernel in 2022, highlighting the main hurdles as well as the differences and similarities with local exploitation.
Girl and Boy are not sexual identities and should not be misconstrued as such.

Those terms in this context refer to prepubescent children.

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.
But Musk didn't sue them so that's irrelevant.
The human body has been optimized for a very complex objective function, and in a very different environment to a robot. If you specify what the robots are doing, and the set of constraints like power source, size, weights, etc., the optimal design will unlikely be humanoid.
The Bloomberg Terminal can’t be terminated
The power balance aspect to me is extremely interesting. On the one hand, there is a lot of power a manager has:
- do you get the good assignments?
- will your performance review cherry-pick out-of-context a worst sampling of 'goals' that were created in the last few weeks, or will it be a glowing report of what you did?

I think those managers that ask their software engineers to pound sand are generally going to be bad managers. Notably, who should you ask advice from, someone that has designed 10% of the system specs, or the person that designed 90%? (Guess what, software engineers design about 90% of system specs!) Citation needed, but the amount of specifications that engineers have to fill in is quite mind boggling (what happens to this web page if DB is slow? What happens when a user clicks this button while this other thing is still loading, etc..). So while the 90/10 split is an exaggeration, the point remains, software development is a highly collaborative activity, particularly with the engineers. Some have said that a software's engineer main job is to figure out how to achieve 80% of the benefit, with 20% of the work. This aspect is missing from the typical unit-level command and control example, notably the "commanders" in software really don't know what the hell they are talking about unless they engage in actual conversations with the developers and users.
These days it makes more sense to start from the other end if you ask me, and that has been true for quite a while.

I find that my C++ style has drifted further and further into value land with time, which is a major difference to C where the same style is pretty much impossible to pull off.

From one perspective, the language gets less and less complex; but the flip side is that all the old stuff is still in there and has the potential to cause a lot of trouble if you're not familiar with the details.

Taken as a whole, it's pretty much an impossible language to master and has been for some time.
Enhanced photosynthetic efficiency for increased carbon assimilation
take a look at the Twitch leak sometime. There was a hard-coded list of bad words (largely racial epithets & other 4chan constructions). Presumably there is a way to create some kind of config file to penalize "bad users" of Twitter, I know these things existed in other orgs I've worked at
There is none, or at least no more than any other site. In fact, Twitter moderation is leagues better than old forum style moderation (dang is an exception :)). I waited for years post-2016 to see any real evidence of the “fake” news that is demonstrably false and has somehow infiltrated the world and… there is none. People just don’t like the ideological spin of the headlines and moderation decisions which, I mean, what’s new?

My advice is don’t hold your breath. This is exactly what you think it is.
It's not a dog whistle, it's just a simplification because it's easier to say "the algorithm" than describing the system. Moreover, this nomenclature was mainstreamed by left-wing concern about "racist algorithms", especially in law enforcement, so it's not a partisan phrase at all.