skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe privacy is a right. Rights have to granted equally otherwise they're not rights. If you cross a certain threshold and lose your rights then they are not rights. And if rights can be granted and removed arbitrarily without due process then they're certainly not rights.

Do you believe privacy is a right?
He's definitely going to minimal moderation. It lines with his stance and it lines with the business cost. The risk is people turn off the service because it becomes even worse than it's current state.
Are you saying that the UN has come up with a novel "human right" to having dysfunctional families around? I wasn't aware of that, but it makes a lot of sense now! The UN itself is certainly dysfunctional enough.
How has Neurolink failed? They've successfully implanted within a chimp, allowing the animal to control a game (pong) via its brain.
They're now moving onto human trials before the end of the year.

How has Boring Company failed? They've successfully opened the Vegas loop, have a pitch to open a similar project in (I believe) Miami? And now they're looking at building a Hyperloop 'in the coming years'.
Interesting! So the problem of LSPs (or code tools like IDEs) approaches automating the evaluation of "one-level up" abstractions similar to the feedback during code reviews.
It goes without saying that this is a highly presumptive hypothetical. “If” is being asked to do more than its fair share here, as it not only bears the weight of these future aspirations, but must also disprove and disavow a fairly long history of social and managerial incompetence and malfeasance on the part of Musk, his following, and his companies.

Let’s not forget the current lawsuits against Tesla for its treatment of minority employees, or the dead-on-arrival roll-out of the cyber truck, or the Boring Company’s baffling underground-tunnel-turned-traffic-jam-generator.

The evidence and history points against “if.” Best of luck to it.
Absolutely, well put.
> Taiwan has less than 20% of Taiwan.

You are mistaken. Taiwan is 100% of Taiwan.
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I’m not criticizing him for that, just pointing out your comment saying otherwise is clearly incorrect
I am not sure there is such a thing as "respect" at the very high level. The public opinion is easily swayed and important actions are dictated by pragmatism

>Despite what Russian state TV is telling you

I am trying to read as many different sources as I can. I think the only thing that every party could agree on is that ukrainians are fighting harder than expected. Nearly every other event and opinion is controversial and you have to check many sources first to get a vague idea of what's going on. The fog of war is real, despite what Twitter's collective opinion is telling you

>Your dictator deliberately creates refugee crises around "enemy" countries with the aim of exploiting their compassion and generosity to cause political unrest

Right, our dictator bombed Libya back to the stone age and killed Gaddafi who kept economic migrants from countries devastated by our colonial past and present at bay. Oh, wait, I am not from France!

>The country has been hollowed out economically by seemingly endless and endemic corruption

>Case in point, here's a list of Russian oligarchs who have conveniently decided to commit suicide after killing their families

Even the thought that another great purge has begun fills my heart with warmth and childlike joy
It could be portability stuff, like compiler-dependent attributes.

It could be fixing shortcomings of the languages without a huge complicated system that needs to be built into the language (and if it isn't, you can't just switch languages).

It could be dirty hacks that abstract a problem at the syntactic level (this is the kind of macro that is most likely to be replaced).
> Exactly! And in Turkey people get charged with supporting terrorism by tweeting negative stuff about Erdogan.

Sadly, not just in Turkey but increasingly in what you'd consider developed "western" countries. This is concerning.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/14/introduction/enac...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country

Certainly he could retreat from places like Turkey and China. Alas, increasingly there is nowhere left to run. You can be inclined to believe what you want, we can just wait and see what happens no?
Kerosene is pretty good, but these days it seems like methane is all the rage.
>It's a bit annoying there seems to be no way to force a process to only run on the P cores with no throttling.

I'm not sure about the throttling side of things as I've mostly worked with M1 Mac Mini, but Logic Pro has CPU thread settings to limit things to just P cores. My guess is that it will take time for other DAW's to implement similar features.

Can't say I've had many issues performance wise in Logic, but I've had some crashing with newer plugins like Korg's recent plugin version of the OP-Six. Especially when memory use ramps up. Reported my findings back to Korg's tech support, but no solutions yet.
Regardless of what you think of Trump, it is absurd that a major medium of public communication has banned a former president. I'll concede that a big part of the absurdity is the fact that Trump was president, but the idea that people need protecting from someone's words, and that Twitter's leadership are the appropriate people to make that call, really doesn't sit right with me.
> he could see that revenue rise quite a bit

The premise for this is that Twitter saw a huge loss of revenue as a result of deliberate actions like removing @realDT (Twitter share prices actually peaked a few weeks later in February 2021).
"If" he can do all that, you might be right. But why will he be able to do what current Twitter is not capable of? It's not like these are deep secrets to success nobody but Musk knows.
Elon has never said this is what he wants to do with twitter. This is just something people keep assuming.
Because he has money and so can easily make everyone listen to him, unlike most other programmers who are stuck behind business/product/finance/management guys.
HIPAA (not HIPPA) violations are common. Not all mandatory reports get made and even then ~2 of the largest >=500 class violations are reported each day totaling hundreds of millions of records per year.

I spent ~10 years in healthcare IT infrastructure (mostly server and network) at various places. Even the well funded ones with competent management and established IT have occasional breaches. And a lot of healthcare places don't have either of those things.
I feel like one page is enough unless you have a truly remarkable career. At this point my earliest roles just don’t earn their keep; no one cares any more that I was a Micro Computer Support Specialist in undergrad.
This is an emotionally charged topic, apparently, but I just do not see any reason to believe that if Elon Musk takes Twitter private that they will start banning unions, journalists, and forcing people who are trans to come out. No evidence of that.

W.r.t removing current limits, again I see no evidence of that, except maybe people who were banned for making fun of journalists for telling them the same thing they were telling other people (learn 2 code) might get reinstated. Death threats? No chance. Blatant racism? Nope. Harassment? Well does that happen already? It's not clear. Sexism? Again no clear lines here. Trump I hope never comes back and it may stay that way. I don't think Elon really cares about Trump.
Elon, if you're reading: this is yours now. Kill it.
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> has shown time and time again that his ideals of climate change or whatever are not genuine

Who cares. He delivers.

I’ll take the guy who delivers, with possible ulterior motives, over someone who really cares, but uselessly. The latter describes most of our leadership to date on EVs and Mars.

Would it be nice if the genius came without the bullshit? Sure. Am I convinced those are inseparable? No. Is this relevant if you don’t care about EVs or Mars? No. But a lot of people do, and for us, he’s worth the tradeoff.
I like this article on the trouble with not censoring:

But once you remove all those things, you’re left with people honestly and civilly arguing for their opinions. And that’s the scariest thing of all.

Some people think society should tolerate pedophilia, are obsessed with this, and can rattle off a laundry list of studies that they say justify their opinion. Some people think police officers are enforcers of oppression and this makes them valid targets for violence. Some people think immigrants are destroying the cultural cohesion necessary for a free and prosperous country. Some people think transwomen are a tool of the patriarchy trying to appropriate female spaces.

Each of these views has adherents who are, no offense, smarter than you are.

I would like to give people another perspective on events like Tumblr banning female-presenting nipples or Patreon dropping right-wing YouTubers or Twitter constantly introducing new algorithms that misfire and ban random groups of people. These companies aren’t inherently censorious. They’re just afraid.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread...
He wants to charge for a checkmark. This both increases the cost of bots and is a form of authentication. It’s much easier to compare payment methods between accounts.
>Looking at the problems Twitter has, why does anyone think Musk can even solve one?

Transparency about moderation is the easiest to fix. All everyone wants out of Twitter is to know why posts are moderated, promoted, shadow-banned, etc. It doesn't have to be super specific, in terms of moderation, but giving everyone an overall sense of how and why things are moderated the way they are, would help to restore a sense of fairness.

If he does well with Twitter in that regard, all the other platforms aren't hard to replicate if you've got the servers and money.

OR

He loses most of his wealth selling off stock to try to do this, and we learn the difference between paper and real wealth.
I'm not completely sure that's true these days.
Distributed Systems Shibboleths
I think more organizations should have candidates (especially senior ones) give a job talk. It's standard practice in academia, but academic job talks tend to be overly long and high-stakes; basically an hour-long lecture about one's research. An industry job talk could just be a 15-minute presentation about a technical topic of the candidate's choosing, followed by Q&A. The candidate has full control over what the topic is, and the audience (i.e., the hiring panel) gets a good feel for that person's interests, communication skills, and soft skills.
The caveat, I think, is that what he describes is quintessentially American. I'm pretty well travelled and have only seen such overt and absolute polarisation in the US. I'm sure there are others but I haven't seen it in Europe, Africa or the far East. It's quite the source of amusement in my circles.

I say this knowing Elon is (was?) South African.
Do you have any experience with Pine64's creations and whether they involve this fuckey?
There are exactly zero examples through human history, of individuals who did enormous things for the species, although they had their extraordinary or even mundane faults.

This is not to excuse Elon - or indeed any of us. The expectation that any human being is free of these kinds of moral sins, is unreasonable. And such parody is exactly why, indeed, [1] the imperative to make humans multi-planetary - i.e. with strategically enhanced survival potential, is important.

Unless of course you are in the 'humans are dumb and must perish' camp. Jump you to [1], human!
Tesla is a car company, not a speech platform. Not sure why he should have a problems SA holding a % in Tesla? His comments were specifically targeted towards how their prince was opposing selling twitter without holding a vote from the shareholders.
He said that moderation is working well if "the most extreme 10% of the left and the right are equally frustrated."

That actually kind of mirrors my politics. I think freedom is what you get when every movement, crusade, and ideology simultaneously fails.

This isn't nihilism. It's a belief that problems are best solved without force.
Ask jack.
It also sounds great until you consider other countries. Most people on Twitter are not in the US.
True, but those tend to be the very same cultures that have high rates of marriage and low rates of out-of-wedlock births (e.g. Indians, Arabs, Turks)
That is a good read, but being a child of the old internet, I agree with his axioms but disagree with his conclusions. I would rather Elon let these so called dangerous ideas fester into bad behavior, letting twitter turn into 4chan, where every day someone successfully advocates for hatred and arguably causes multiple deaths, than see a single 140 character post censored. You can call that naive, but the reality is that many of us have aeen speech turn into physical violence, and still prefer that to nervously polite dialog that avoids ideas that are likely true but might make someone act poorly.
I've found this works to great effect. I ask the prospective interviewee ahead of time for an example of some code they wrote that they're proud of.

And then in the interview, I ask them to teach me how it works, what could be improved, etc. I might not know anything about it, but I can tell when someone's pretending to teach a thing.

Once had someone bring in a device driver in C for a JavaScript position. Now, I've never written a device driver, but I know the general concepts, and the applicant's description was cogent. They got the job, and they were a great hire.
> this will allow him to make even more funny posts on the internet

How so? I hadn't heard of Twitter, or any media (social or not), preventing him doing exactly that already? Quite the opposite.
> I couldn't disagree more. He's the richest person in the world, he's so tremendously successful whatever attributes that you want to apply to him is literally only something to learn from. Hubris? Overconfidence? He's basically the world's first trillionaire.

Am I right to say that Elon is not going to dinner with you?

> He has had how many doubters along the way and he's right every time?

So the robo-taxis have released on time as promised at the end of 2020 then as he suggested.
They come constantly atleast for me. Better use lightweight alts such as nitter.eu
Musk has some interesting goals and amazing accomplishments. But I'd also argue he isn't necessarily genuine or correct about electric vehicles/batteries helping the environment. Now a ton of resources and effort get allocated to it and potentially away from things that might be more helpful.
Yes, but unironically.
What makes you sure that WW3 won't extend to Mars?
How would I trust the programers who implement automatic memory management that they are not going to make any mistake?
At the very very terrible TED interview last week:

Interviewer: You've described yourself, Elon, as a free speech absolutist, but does that mean that there's literally nothing that people can't say and it's okay?

Musk: Well, I think obviously Twitter or any forum is bound by the laws of the country that it operates in. So obviously there are some limitations on free speech in the US, and, of course, Twitter would have to abide by those rules. [...] No, I think, like I said, in my view Twitter should match the laws of the country
> Deprecate dynamic properties

That's pretty big one. Lot of JSON can be deserialized to basically bunch of objects with dynamic properties, since it's parameter in deserialization.

For example `json_decode("...", false)` where second parameter (false) explicitly says it should return object. After that it's typical to set values such as `$post->name = 'Name';`, which would now give warning and in PHP 9 an error.

Maybe we shouldn't characterize PHP as dynamic language after the change?
Yaknow, I've helped build sites for Nazis and furries and fisting fans and others who were not anticipating a broad welcome; and their boards were remarkably civil places. Even with the inevitable and never ending "yall are sinners and need jesus" crews such places attract.

Just maybe its the enforcement of orthodoxy that makes "content moderation" so toxic?
Archived version: https://archive.ph/3iTOh
extremely simple fix: limit the recursion depth.
So it would be okay to you to list the home address, movement and acquaintances of senators, congressmen, judges, etc?

Who writes the rules about "public sphere"? If I donate to a cause that hopes to influence public policy, should I be doxxed? How much money? Does it depend on the cause I'm donating to?
Personally I'd consider it an improvement, but that might be because of my naive assumption that people will finally stop mistaking twitter for a sensible way of communicating.
No and Elon clarified in his latest TED interview that laws of the US would still apply to Twitter in regard to hate speech and the like.
Oh come on, I was literally called a koolaid drinker by bootlicking warmongers.

Dreamy fantasies are the only reasonable response in such circumstances.

My understanding of the human condition, led me to exactly this moment, 'mmkay?
Ya and also it’s clear Elon cares a lot more about Twitter than Bezos does about WaPo. He’s paying 100x more and publicly obsesses about content moderation policies daily. If some government regulating Amazon tried seriously to coerce Bezos into doing something at WaPo, he probably just would have sold it to someone else
It's not even that, if he added "lookalike audience" for ad publishers, it could bring revenues significantly higher, twitters ad platform is disaster compared to other social media
> i never ever ever finish a discretionary project

This is the exact thing I said that had my therapist wonder whether I have ADHD.

I am a brilliant software engineer, my employers have always been pleased with my performance, yet my hard disk is full of hundreds of great ideas I have started and never finished. I have never in my life been able to stay on the same idea for more than 3 coding session. The last side project I worked on that I am proud of has been written 19 years ago, as a teenager, while pumped full of alcohol, cigarettes and weed.

I have started medication, and I am slowly starting to pick up the pieces, writing some code in my spare time (I just finished writing my first Emacs config) but unlearning that I am a failure at motivation will not be easy.
I feel that most people have invested in Elon because he knows how to make a lot of money and they want to be part of it.

Investors are here for the money. While some will favor some companies over others for ethical reasons, no one invests to lose money. In the case of, for example, Tesla, the reasoning is usually that governments all around the world want to move away from fossil fuels and because Tesla is in that market, it will eventually make shittons of money.

That Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter shouldn't have an impact on the potential profits Tesla can make, Elon or not, Tesla will continue making electric cars in a world that demands electric cars to move away from fossil fuels. As for SpaceX (the "interplanetary" side), it is private, so you can't invest.
I never understood this attitude (assuming it's serious). If a job is created in a city that wouldn't exist in the country, where is the stealing? To me this sounds like the city is creating value _ex nihilo_, and the "payment" here is an orthogonal, collectivist redistribution.
Someone might’ve said, how is Elon going to make space flight far more affordable?

I have no idea, but he’s a better bet than most other folks I’d say.

Will he succeed? I’d bet not, but I can’t think of someone better to try.
The toxic people are currently on Tw while many interesting or funny people have been removed. Remember: diversity is better than conformity.
Well of course you don’t think someone is delusional or a narcissist if you ignore the things they do and say.
Living in America entails your daily expenses and significant portions of your tax money go to China and other dystopian dictatorships around the world. It's implausible to live ethically - like the meme of personal recycling, the problem is corporations and regulatory capture. Citizens don't make a dent.
If you need to safely have multiple processes read and write to the same data, it does that great. The writes are serialized, but that's typically how an in-memory shared resource would be implemented as well.

Do you mean shared across networks?
I think the best alternative to the Resume is Q&A. I think job applications should include a long list of questions to get specific information from the candidate, which would (for example) show how much they know about coding, about working with peers, about what kind of company values they care about (if any).

Of course, filling out the same hundred questions for every job would be terrible. So there should be a website that collects all the questions and lets you resend them to each employer, and lets the employer pick which questions they require and which they don't.

The employer could also fill out questions from candidates, because the candidate should have a lot of questions for the employer. Candidate should be able to select the questions they want answers to.

If both candidate and employer answer questions, an algorithm should automatically sort for which candidate and employer had the same questions, and (assuming multiple choice and weight/priority) which answers were the same or closest. In this way you could simply fill out questions and immediately find the job that matches you best, and the employers could find the candidates that match them best.
It's almost like this kind of thing does not exist. Just go to 8chan or whatever it is called now. You will want to pour Clorox in your eyes. Feel free - enjoy "free speech".

The Internet was actually LESS free back in the day, in the sense that we hung out on tightly moderated Perl CGI discussion boards, where idiots and trolls were not tolerated. Usenet was great too, without moderation, as it required one to be pretty technical to get there.
Paper. It's proven technology: written records last hundreds of years. You can easily encode arbitrary data as 8 bit mode QR codes and print them out. This gives you machine readability and error correction. Data density is not that good but it's very effective, especially for small amounts of data.

I wrote some binary decoding patches for ZBar for this exact use case. You can, for example, store video games in a QR code:

https://youtu.be/ExwqNreocpg
> Twitter, despite being a toxic place the majority of people avoid, brought in over 5 billion dollars last year. If elon removes bots, welcomes non-extremists back on, gets comedians and entertaining accounts back on board and lets people say what they want instead a bot army of shills repeating verbatim over and over and over...

Elon Musk is absolutely not the right person for this job though. Indeed, he's one of the main forces hell-bent on making Twitter a toxic place. Look at this tweet for example (I'm not cherry-picking something from way back in the past; this is the third most recent thing he's tweeted):

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517707521343082496

The quality of that post is significantly below the quality of anything that routinely makes it to my own personalized feed. And in case you don't understand the context of that post, it's because Bill Gates may have shorted Tesla or something. So in retaliation for that, Elon is making fun of Bill Gates's appearance on the largest platform he has, and countless of his followers will take up this mantle and run with it.

It's actually hard for me to think of a worse person to come along and try to improve the quality of Twitter, except for maybe Trump.
Elon Musk, that famous lover of public goods, will totally make his $43 billion investment a public utility.