skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think, If forgetting is inherent to any neuromorphic human-like cognition, being able to accelerate subjective time would not be that useful, as forgetting would just be as accelerated as learning. As subjective time progresses beyond what would be several human lifespans, and our AI amasses knowledge, at some point it will eventually spend a lot of time just reviewing materials trying avoid to forget what it already learned.
Let's say that in the near future there exists a Google Maps API that gives real-time satellite imagery of the entire planet. We seem to be headed in this direction.

Is a Twitter account that uses this API to post all movements of a single private individual, or their vehicle really so unobjectionable, just because it comes from a public API?

At some point we will need either very strong social norms, or case law, or most likely legislation to address this issue.

Addressing the privacy impacts of programmatic operations on public data (i.e. what you can see from a window, or a satellite) is an important frontier for privacy and a largely unsettled question. You're just seeing it play out in this case because data for this particular vehicle type is public.

(Which, I should add, is surely just for legacy reasons and definitely a terrible idea. There's no public interest in being able to track everyone with a plane any more than there is a public interest in being able to see comparable data for anyone with a bicycle, car, or cellphone. Or look at it this way: when private flight become 100x cheaper and safer to the point where we fly instead of drive, do we want our movements tracked just because we were in the air? Of course not.)
Elon has no idea what he is getting into.

Why would anyone work for Twitter if they take it private?

They are going to have to pay cash at crazy salaries.
So buying influence, not sold on this idea.
Because if he succeeds next time you don't want to get executed with the other liberals
The US badly need more than two political parties.
The only thing I really miss about the Navy was the night sky when you’re in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. You don’t see stars, you see galaxies, it’s truly breathtaking when there is no light pollution from anywhere.
His website claims he’s open source lead at Twitter: https://willnorris.com/
As far as I know, the only instance of a poison pill being triggered was Versata Enterprises, Inc. in December 2008.

TL;DR: A competitor (Selectica, Inc.)--wishing to purchase Versata--bought over 5% of the shares. The IRS considers this an ownership change, and it imposes a penalty to discourage trading of Net Operating Loss (NOL) carryovers. A poison pill was in place to prevent this tax issue. The board executed the poison pill to dilute Selectica ownership from 6.4% to 3.9%, and that action held up through appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court.

https://www.lw.com/upload/pubcontent/_pdf/pub2563_1.pdf
Let alone those 10s of GB of embeddings which might be user identifiable, without those, how do they claim to 'open source' the algorithm?
Is there a conversation on Blind about it?

Maybe reddit?
Both! The difference is in what they target.

"On the right, banning books means trying to prevent their kids from reading them. But on the left it often means trying to prevent anyone from reading them." https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1515563419386191880
That EU fine is a totally different issue, about defining the barrier between Google Search and other Google products.
Twitter isn't the town square of the internet. The internet is the town square of the internet and you aren't owed a fair ranking in relation to a certain search term user or combination thereof because no singular definition of fair.
I actually dislike this font - it reminds me of Microsoft console fonts. I love its name, however.
Systematic biomedical science like this is not done enough. Governments should be funding large-scale studies with extensive tests taken at regular intervals.
Not a dumb question!

They cover different needs - Tailwind is a low-level CSS library that provides a different (and some claim better) way of styling HTML. It doesn't provide markup, interactivity, etc.

AntD is a high-level component library that provides components with pre-built markup, JS interactivity, accessibility, etc. Any of the component libraries in this thread are a good point of comparison.

You might use Tailwind if you're building out your own components, or styling a page that doesn't need much interactivity. It is fast, lightweight, and easy to integrate. You can compare it to any CSS-in-JS tool, SASS, and other styling solutions.

You'd typically turn towards a component library (like MaterialUI, Ant Design, or Tailwind UI) if you're looking to quickly build a webapp that needs a lot of interactivity out of the gate. These solutions are larger and heavier, but provide a lot more functionality (interactivity, accessibility).
> But Elon has stated numerous times his reason for the takeover is not for economic reasons.

This is a hedge. If Twitter loses money Elon will say "I wasn't trying to make money"; and if Twitter makes money Elon will say "I made money despite not even trying". Win-win.
Honestly what diff if he does drugs with pop stars, How does that neg impact his contribution over someone else?
That's an interesting proposition. I'm interested in the platforms out there to add in the missing nuance, but I must say I'm sad by what's happened with both Snopes and these 'fact checker' sites.

I think a big problem is the short attention span of most people - myself absolutely included. But finding ways to amplify the influence of those who have paid attention and reduce it from those who only read the titles - that could be interesting as well. There's lots of info out there to use ML to discern low quality input, it'd be interesting to see it applied for good instead of evil!

Maybe this is OpenAI's next challenge :)
Yeah seriously. If they are not able to put into words or diagrams what the algorithm is doing then the company itself has no idea how it works. And that to me would suggest it’s far from optimal.

Many complicated research papers have had no issues describing their models at a high level. This should be no different.
> This is gross language. I assume apparently implying something so obvious as to make my points absurd?

Jan 6th insurrection is what started this "Twitter moderation debate" when Donald Trump was banned from the platform.

This is absolutely central to the entire discussion, and I'm trying to remind you of it. What should we, as an internet / online society do, to bad actors and/or trolls?

I think the solution chosen is obvious. We ban bad actors from online platforms of note. Russia (particularly Russian propaganda sources like RT) are another group, like Trump, who likely deserve the axe.

Once you and I agree that some actors deserve to be banned from online platforms, there's not much else to discuss. Its simply a matter of moderation, who truly deserves it or not. I think that moderation is a difficult and thankless job (I've done it myself on occasion).

But I absolutely see value in moderating forums / discussions. Twitter banning some bad actors is just a continuation of the online moderation model that we've used for so many years (since USENET at least).

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The #1 thing going all across conservative media right now, is how Elon Musk (might) bring Trump back to Twitter and reverse the Trump ban. Is this hypothetical something you'd support?

There's "free speech", and then there's "inciting rebellion against our entire system of government". And alas, I don't think that supporting the Jan 6th insurrection falls under the "free speech" camp, and that Donald Trump's ban should remain firm.

If a group of people want to spread conspiracy theories about the inadequacy of our election systems, then they no longer fall under "free speech" and are instead well within the category of "high treason" and/or "enemy of the state". That's the kind of talk that almost took down our entire country, and still threatens to do so in the next election cycle.
As others below have pointed out, gender identity is distinct from sexual identities.

But, this does not preclude young children to not have sexual identities! My wife’s best friend knew he was gay when he was 6. He didn’t have the understanding to know this precisely, but he did know he was different from the other boys. This is not an uncommon experience.

If there’s anything this thread indicates, based on demonstrated ignorance of these topics, it’s that clearly schools should in fact be spending more time teaching this subject.
A quick Google (ironically) confirms this has happened, beyond the anecdotal evidence of people (including me) who remember it on several occasions.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/ex-google-engineer-says-glitch...

I'm not making any comment on the theory in the article, but it has certainly happened.

Edit: more context in thread here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31161790
Perception is reality and right now the perception is a clear bias toward the left on Twitter. Anything that can be done to combat this fairly is a good thing.
Top result from google for me is: "Big Tech’s Conservative Censorship Inescapable and Irrefutable" from the Heritage foundation.
Thanks for answering directly. I agree that Twitter's UI is not great for contextual reading (and therefore discussion), but I wonder if it might result in a greater diversity of content when browsing? A "better" UI might lead people down more rabbit holes and echo chambers.

I'm really just playing devil's advocate of course, but I do have a comparison to draw: Reddit and Slashdot. Reddit, which is heavily popularity-based, arguably has a friendlier UI, but Slashdot's, once you come to understand it, seems much better at avoiding landslides of groupthink.
netlink has all you need https://github.com/tgraf/libnl/blob/master/src/nf-ct-add.c

The Linux kernel stack is crazy.
General intelligence has been 20 years away since the 60s, along with fusion power and a bunch of other things.

In marketing, they say 5 years when it's actually 20 years away.
I think problem is that 10 million people take 15 seconds to repeat something without verifying, the target can lose their job and housing, only to be proven innocent months later.

Arguably, the root cause lies with the employer that fires them or landlord that evicts them, but it take a lot of integrity to stand up to a large angry mob filled with ignorant and self-righteous anger.
In this chain of replies you talked about how the product was used by broad sets of people.

Not Musk specifically.
Ask HN: Tauri or Node-GUI?
I'm searching for an Electron alternative to create a native desktop app using Svelte as renderer. Should do it with Tauri or node-GUI?

PS: the app is an IDE that connects to remote Smalltalk backends.
Yeah, that's fair. The perils of reading code on a busy Sunday, I suppose - I didn't get as far as noticing that Textual has basis in a much more heavily used and tested library, and that definitely changes my evaluation.

Thanks for the steer!
Take a Deep, Resisted, Breath
I built a tiny desktop app around it, purely for myself. It was fine.

What I learned from that though is that I would never use it for actual business software, no matter the scale. The fact that it doesn't have proper timestamp support is enough by itself to be crippling.
I'm surprised. Apart from DALLE, I haven't seen any AI approach that's off limits for 4 highly motivated people with 3090 GPUs.

At that compute level, you should be able to at least replicate SOTA in optical flow, structure from motion, speech recognition, text to speech, translation, text summary, sentiment analysis, image classifications, image segmentation, and of course playing video games or optimizing processes with reinforcement learning.

I mean thanks to KiCad even custom sensor hardware is cheap these days.

Can you give more details about what you tried to do and why that wasn't possible?
Twitter has a clear policy about posting and linking to doxxing / stolen private files / revenge porn. They never blocked based on commentary about the the laptop or the Burisma allegations, and only blocked NY Post account until they stopped trying to post the doxxing / revenge porn content.
New York Still Reviewing Public Comments for Bitcoin Power Plant
I’ve been using little snitch for a decade+ and as far as I remember it was the only time, and was probably a mistake by Apple.

From your link:

> Objective Development, the developers of Little Snitch, also writes about the discovery - and that they take it for granted that Apple will correct it. (Update, 14 January 2021: Apple indeed appears to have removed the whitelist exemption in macOS Big Sur 11.2 beta 2.)
I paused for the same reason.

I logged in using my Gmail. I assume a sizable number of people here have a throwaway Gmail. It didn’t need access to anything in the mailbox like with GitHub.

Neat project. Cool for a proof of concept, but not solving any needs I have.
Doesn't work on Mac Firefox, FWIW
Wow... this is so seamless I didn't even notice VSCode using `deno fmt` under the hood. I'm gonna have to double check to make sure I don't have Prettier running.
"it" is carrying a lot of weight.
Yep, if some linux kernel component would bypass iptables and called home, Linus would probably use some very very profound words, before denying the patch and effectively killing the "new feature".
For clarification, the children I mentioned changed their names, appearances, and pronouns to match their own gender identities. It’s not just “boys playing with dolls, girls playing with trucks”.
And the Kobold mining economy just tanked.
"does not rely as much on lies to advocate its positions"

To be honest, that's hilariously false. The left suppressed Hunter Biden's laptop story for two years, saying it was misinformation, before admitting it was true. The IRS targeted right-wing and Christian non-profit organizations deliberately for auditing. Obama claimed that forcing nuns to buy health insurance covering birth control was necessary, and claimed you could keep your doctor under Obamacare, which even PolitiFact called a Pants-on-Fire Lie. The left claimed that a baker needed to make a personalized cake supporting gay rights, or it would open the waves to discrimination, even though the baker was willing to sell any other cake to them that wasn't customized with that particular label.

I can go on and on.
This sounds great, and I’m ready to download the app, but the problem is that most of my recipes come from Facebook groups, YouTube, Insta, and Pinterest, and while some of them have corresponding web pages for the ingredients lists, many of them do not, which would make the web import feature non-functional, if I’m not mistaken. I wish there was a way all of these sites could share metadata for ingredients that the app could read.

Another future feature that would be nice and convenient is to add in-house aisle shopping directions to the smart grocery lists for selected (or default) grocery stores. I know stores like Safeway share this info with apps like DoorDash (possibly UberEats as well), and both Home Depot and Target apps have aisle by aisle directions too, so it’s not beyond the realm of the possible to include this feature. Being able to view a smart grocery list in my kitchen and then to go to the store with aisle by aisle directions is a dream of mine.
As much as wokeness is about inclusivity, it is also about redefining out-groups and, usually implicitly but often explicitly, justifying prejudice against them. I'd personally be appreciative of less of that negative activity.
Everyone seems to think that accept for the left on Twitter who believe there's a clear bias towards the right.
Musk has repeatedly talked about "open sourcing" twitter's algorithm. Given Musk is (understandably) super impatient, this repo may be his first move. I expect this to start with bunch of readme and other high level docs and evolve into details and eventually code.
True, but there is a collateral that often is dismissed, entire topics can die when the only people interested on them quits.

Is not uncommon to find obscure species that are forgotten for the last 60 or 100 years. The only good definition of the species lies in a book written in dutch in 1923. With internet finding sources is much easier, but can accumulate errors and, as browsers and social media are replacing specialists for free, there is not incentives to pay specialists anymore.

This could mean that those people will never return and that all that remains is politics and ideology. Politics are more willing to pay people in their own ideology or blocking "people incorrect" from having funds, So the next generations will focus more and more around politics wishes and you'll soon have one different "scientific truth" for each party. Is a vicious circle.
How big is metaserver these days?

I might run three deployments at each data center: the primary, and secondaries for two other regions. Replicate between them at the block device level, bypassing the mysql replication situation entirely (except for on-disk consistency requirements of course).

Of course this comes with a 3x increase in service infrastructure costs because of the two backups in each data center that are idle waiting for load.
>huge cultural and infrastructure amenity

The amenity is simply walkability. If the same mix of businesses that are spread across many square miles of ordinary suburbia were structured in the form of an old-style main street, that would be just as much of a huge cultural and infrastructure amenity.
What do you mean? The laptop has been proven to be hunter's, and most sources agree that the contents are real (especially the emails, which have been proven to be true). So what gives?
10% of the 666 most popular Python GitHub repos have these f-string bugs
I have a TON of old HP LaserJet printouts from the 1980s and 1990s have have done this - if you have them stacked in a box, you find them stuck together and pulling them apart takes the print off with one or the other sheet.

I haven't experimented with work arounds but perhaps separating with wax paper or parchment might be helpful.
I work design/construction/commissioning engineering industrial machinery and plant, including automation/controls software.

On site standard days are 12 hours, crunch time 14's become normal. Depending on project this might be month on month off, 5 days on 2 days off, 8 + 6 days, sometimes every day 3 months straight, or more.

You do get used to it and can be overall productive for the hours - usually company is paying (big) by the hour so they wouldn't be paying if they are not getting.

Not everyone can do it, or wants to, but different people have different capabilities.

I've been doing it for decades.
Please, do go on and on. You can stop when you get to the left attempting to overturn the American presidential election.

Edit: are our neoliberal overlords a bunch of cold hearted shit heads? Yes. Should we elect and promote barely disguised fascists in response? No.
My whole point is that the task is sufficiently impossible (either technically or in terms of satisfying people) that aiming to do it feels like pure bluster. It will never be fair - you can interpret that sentence however you see fit.
How about also remove user hostile obsession with diverting users to the app?
No, Tesla will capture that as margin.
Oh hey - I didn't know he'd left Google. He was a big part of open source there too.
This should be a poll: will this walling off of the public commons increase or decrease? Will apis ever be let back in for real or is that age over & control control control is the ongoing name of the vame?
I’m confused , doesn’t this already happen on Twitter? Isn’t one of the popular Christian’s on Twitter that if you say the “wrong thing” a mob will come for you ?
In some industries (or academia) a 20 page resume listing every project, publication, patent, etc. is considered normal and desirable. If could be that case.
I'm someone on the left and I fundamentally disagree with literally every point you made.
theres gonna be a few crazy guys who devote their entire time to understanding some obscure part of this algorithm
I applaud the work that went into this, but unless I'm missing something, they've recreated a terminal server, where nomachine has delivered desktops for ages and works over a connection as poor as dial-up.
1960s were 60 years ago, we're talking about AI, a fast paced field in the last 15 years.
Whoa, that link 100% breaks my back button on Chrome Mobile.
Interesting, couldn't have guessed

Hmm there's also something about he who picked the name (which wasn't Linus apparently) meant "master" as in e.g. "master recording", see the Twitter tweets in the comments to that answer. And that he doesn't remember if maybe he was influenced by BitKeeper, was 15 years ago
Excited to see more re-usable components based on tailwind, but have also really come to appreciate the tailwind ui model for helping support open source. The core of tailwind is still there and free to use, but tailwind ui gives a premium option for a lot of off the shelf components that I have issue at all paying for.

I know some have pointed out in other threads they wish tailwind ui components were more of a complete working example with Alpine examples included, it's a fair complaint and area of improvement. But overall I don't have any issue with the model for tailwind ui.
Yes, there is. I had a friend accidently shadow ban himself by posting nsfw art without marking it as nsfw. After that his future posts wouldn't show up when searching hashtags he had tweeted on. He had to make a new account until the older one was good again.
Well that’s discouraging. Thanks for commenting.
Not to mention: media relations, community management & risk exposure are all really really hard problems. Hard problems that an entity like twitter has to sink huge effort into just to be bad at it.

Musk brings absolutely nothing to the table in any of these arenas and has been publicly terrible at at least two of them.

The internet is full of agendas, opinions and viewpoints. All this move shows is that there's also at least one idiot will to watch 45billion evaporate.

Ok, ok, it's Elon. So he's willing to talk about it and anything substantiative coming out of this will probably arrive just after full autonomous self driving vehicles.
FWIW, Mr. Musk has a history of creating only closed, proprietary things.
What was “confirmed” was that many emails placed onto the hard drive were, in fact, real emails. (The content of those emails is fairly innocuous, neither illegal nor even particularly corrupt. But a year of continuous drumbeat spun GOP partisans into a frothy outrage about it.)

Those who investigated thoroughly found that the chain of custody of the hard drive was incredibly sloppy and the content of the hard drive was changed multiple times, making it impossible to confirm where the hard drive came from or who put which content onto it.

The speculation is that someone obtained Hunter Biden’s emails in some unrelated way (e.g. from other hacks) and then placed them onto the hard drive in question as a way to obscure the source/method.

Here’s the clearest story explaining the details: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-...
Well, all FAANG companies are public.
interestingly 69 of the 666 repos had the f string issues
Paul Graham's tweet with zero corroborating evidence other than "believe me I'm paul graham" is not a source.
The PDF[1] that the second link points to gives a very good background on why a refactoring tool should be part of any software engineer's toolkit.

Thanks for sharing!

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Don-Roberts-4/publicati...
Trolling your new boss is a sure way to get your ass fired.

EDIT: in case you're not aware, Musk has stated that one of the first things he'll be doing after taking Twitter private is to open source its algorithm.