skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have never understood this aversion to Anonymous Speech, free speech requires Anonymous Speech. Some of the most important events in history (like the Founding of the United States) would never have happened with out Anonymous Speech.

The difference before the Internet is that if I found your idea odious I could punch you in the nose you even if you were "anonymous". And, in return, you were not likely to be attacked by a mob unless you actively did something really horrible.

There are two big problems with social media:

1) I have no way to directly punish you when I find what you are saying sufficiently irritating. You are unlikely to say something really nasty to my face if I could slap you for it. I am unlikely to slap you if you can do so in return unless there is a really good reason. I don't have a good suggestion as to how to implement something which works for this.

2) You have no way to defend against a mob who finds what you are saying sufficiently irritating. In the US, we, nominally, run on presumption of innocence before we punish someone, and the defendant has the right to confront their accusers. Mobs are anathema to both of these. The solution for this is that social media should not be granted safe harbor. If you need moderators, you should also be liable for what is being said on your platform. If you want safe harbor, you should only schelp electrons.
The block syntax is a wonderful way to build and chain flexible iterative logic, the object model is fairly straightforward and the standard library strikes a good balance between functionality and brevity. Once you start to pick up on ruby idioms, the language is pretty fun to use IMO.
https://investor.twitterinc.com/corporate-governance/board-o...

The board includes karaoke maker, computer professor and a salesforce co coo. You might be on to something, I doubt many characters will find themselves on such a high profile board in the future.
Are you claiming that you have comprehensive objective knowledge of what did and did not happen in privileged Twitter operations across time, or is this more like your opinion on the matter? And if the latter, how is it that some people's opinions "don't make sense" or "are dog whistles", but yours are epistemically flawless (assuming you actually believe them to be true, of course)?
Interesting. I reckon Google wasn't causal here, but rather access to unfiltered information was. A goodly portion of conservatives/conservative-leaners I know and love are fairly gullible to Fox News and other bastions of ten-truths-with-a-lie approaches. Unfiltered information and data literacy sometimes helps to overcome that problem -- 2% - 5% of the population sounds about right for that shift to my prior.

Your mileage may vary.

Also, The Epoch Times is a far right source -- not trustworthy generally.
> will shift control of the social media platform populated by millions of users and global leaders to the world's richest person

The subtly terrible journalism continues. The implication of this phrase is that Twitter was previous controlled "by the people", whereas now some rich oligarch will control it. The irony, given that Musk hopes to make the platform more neutral than ever before.
You know this how? Because you were that guy?
Twitter is transparent in how they do shadow bans?
They still deny they are a thing but it's clear to see the network effects of them.
Twitter is transparent - that's the most hilarious thing I have read today!
Nice for some things. Absolute death for discovery in a lot of cases though. Either trim your follows down dramatically, or miss some incredible stuff...
Create your own Xkcd-style comics using HTML markup
I work in the world of dyslexia and assistive technology. I find it unfortunate that people (including folks who work on WCAG) emphasize using simple words and short sentences as the primary ways to accommodate dyslexic readers. These strategies are helpful in making text easier to understand, but they also undermine the nuance of communication. Before doing this, designers should think about how text is laid out so that it can be made maximally accessible in its original form.
The only change is that people with resource would stop guessing how to game the system, and start employing people to ensure they systematically game the system.
I don't think that most people actually believe "the algorithm" is like a Python script or something.
But just imagine if those journalists had to live without twitter ? They would have to report things from "the real world" ! I've been there. It's awfully complicated, and sometimes people disagree with you and you have to talk. Insane.
Ask HN: On your CV do you use a different title from the one your employer uses?
Why or why not?

I've heard about people changing their own title to be more descriptive but it always felt dishonest to me. Especially when the title reflects some kind of progression (e.g. a data analyst changing their titles to data scientist because it will help them land a better job in the future).

My personal policy has been to always use the exact title the company uses, and then list responsibilities in the bullet points which hopefully explains any potential discrepancy between title and responsibilities.

Thoughts?
At least during initial days, Musk spent 90% of time on engineering at SpaceX. He self-thought in rocket engineering and can easily match knowledge of many experts in the field. Many of big engineering decisions were done by Musk, at least until Falcon 9.
You'll like https://b612-font.com then.
Yeah I recently went through something similar too. Spent a ton of time just digging through GitHub issues.

Basically I've been dealing with the ESM changes. Add in the TypeScript complexity and all of the sudden I've now spent hours debugging some obscure issue rather than being productive... I've debated moving away from Node.js altogether because of it but there's no real realistic alternatives right now (for frontend development/bundling using React/Remix).

I probably can't do any better, but the whole ESM migration has been completely mishandled. Even more infuriating is the response that things are working _as expected_... Hopefully Deno gains some traction and we can put this all behind us.
How did you work with a system that couldn't be understood even with access to full source and documentation? Surely your engineering process wasn't purely stochastic.
Who is that guy even ? Is he even associated with twitter ? Calling it an announcement seems like a stretch
Yes, each row is written with one call to the sqlite command line. I was going to do something where I wrote inserts into a file and flushed them into sqlite in batches, but sqlite is not the bottleneck, so once retries were taken care of, it was good enough.
This is simply wrong. The board outright rejected musk's offer and instituted a poison pill to prevent a hostile takeover of twitter by musk. So elon simply bypassed the board of directors and went to the major shareholders. It is the major shareholders who has final say, not the board of directors. Elon convinced enough of the major shareholders to accept his deal and once that happened, the board of directors has no real say. They have to do what the major shareholders say since the major shareholders are the ones who hire and fire the board of directors.

> I.e. the board was saying “you can only buy Twitter if we say so”

The board say "you can't buy twitter". So elon just talked to the board's bosses ( major shareholders ) and the board's bosses said "elon can buy twitter".
This is the kind of thing the 15% disclosure rule is designed to prevent.
I've heard about this, in different contexts. What it mainly comes down to is that incremental improvements can have massive impacts when you can apply them at a scale available at FAANG. I first read about this outside the context of machine learning, but it certainly would apply here.

For those of us who don't work at such scale, can you (maybe with a little fuzziness to avoid telling too much about an internal project) give a few examples of the kind of projects where a fairly simple model can have a 1M+ impact?
> The idea that second graders have "open" sexual identities

“Transgender” is not a sexual identity, it is a relationship of gender identity to gender socially ascribed at birth, usually on the basis of the appearance of external genitalia (but possibly on the basis of genetics where that has been previously tested.)

And people usually have an open gender identity by second grade.

(Second grade also isn't particularly early for children to have an established sexual orientation, though it's a bit earlier than the median age for that.)
This article was published in April 11, 2017.

Please add the year tag to the title.

Professor Scott Galloway also mentioned about this study in his book "The Algebra of Happiness".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMW6xgPgY4s
Masked ROM.
2022 and a game with a handful of polygons makes my new laptop spin its fans at full speed.
Twitter should charge every account a monthly fee based on the number of followers they have, unless they have fewer than 100 (or some other n) followers.
The Linux kernel does the same thing as Gstreamer with file operations etc, I r thought it pretty neat, not really a perversion at all.
Secretum
Issue: NVM endurance limits.
Poison pills have been settled law in the US for decades.
I feel silly to have to defend him again, but you misrepresented what happened. Grossly.

The chief of the UN food program, so most definitely not the EU, claimed that 2% of Musk's wealth would solve world hunger.

Musk invites them to do the math, and would agree to provide such funds if the claim were to be true.

They couldn't produce a sane plan. Instead the idea was to give 40 million people free money, for one year. Which is great, but it's not a sustainable approach or way to "solve world hunger".

So the UN was bluffing and the bluff was called. Musk did not bluff as immediately after, he donated 5.7B of his wealth to an undisclosed charity (on record with the SEC).

I guess this shows the power of narratives. Musk is a rogue character but if there ever was a technical or economical way to solve world hunger, I'd put my money on Musk.
You won’t know what they were A/B testing though.
Verification only exists for a small group not the general public.
You can always do something like

namespace rng = std::ranges;
Wrong, it's that those houses are in locations that are now the epicentre of a huge cultural and infrastructure amenity that did not even exist in the 1900s. The physical houses are not the value there, it's the location and amenities.

While the location is the same in a geographic sense as in 1900, a google maps view of that era would show them being in a small town compared to a city with incredible amenities these days.
As you probably know, the algorithm is NOT the code, never has been.

It can be pseudo-code or diagram or whatever that can be used to understand what logic lies behind decision making.
Twitter CEO tells employees no layoffs planned ‘at this time’ following buyout
Does Truth Social still violate the AGPL?
The bitcoin network generates fees too. Doesn't make that a form of revenue though.

By the same token an insurance company doesn't treat the premium taken in as revenue, it becomes listed as Asset under management.

Revenue is when the consumer buys something from a company and it improves their quality of life. Like buying a 10 gallons of gas from Exxon. It is very direct, straightforward and most importantly it's an exchange of money for a good or service, not asset for asset, loans, RePo or any other form of financial engineering, all that stuff comes after commerce, not before and is listed under capital/trading gains, not revenue
I think this is the presentation and press release they published for this trial:

https://d1io3yog0oux5.cloudfront.net/_d9ae571e8ab35abbf8204c...

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211013005398/en/Ata...
I don't think it's very good to saboteurs.
This seems like an excellent way to create superweeds.
In other news, accurate information shifts voters to Democrats. Did Robert Epstein analyze how many Fox News viewers shifted to Trump? My own experience in watching relatives slowly radicalized by Fox News hints this may be a fertile ground for some peer-reviewed research. :)

Also, The EpochTimes is not a good source, it's a far-right site run by IMHO a religious movement that borders on a cult. It publishes Q-Anon theories on its front page uncritically.

And "peer-reviewed" by whom?

https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/robert-epstein-google-b...

"Epstein is a senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research, but other than a technologist who doesn’t appear to help with the studies, Epstein is the organization’s only staff member, according to the AIBR website. Epstein is the co-author of a study published by his employer, only the summary of which is available, that claims that biases in Google’s search results may have tilted millions of undecided voters to vote for Clinton in the 2016 election. That was the study Epstein described in his Senate committee testimony, where he didn’t mention that his huge claim is based on monitoring the search results of just 21 undecided voters out of 95 voters for a 2017 white paper. In his submitted testimony, Epstein did provide seven pages of citations—but all of them are papers or op-eds he wrote or co-wrote himself. Only one of them—a 2015 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, about how biased results produced by search engines could have the ability to sway undecided voters—was peer-reviewed. Even that study didn’t demonstrate that this has actually happened."

There you go, n=21. This guy fails high school stats. Fails 30% large counts condition, fails 10% sample condition, probably isn't a random sample either.
Ironic seeing this from the EFF. This is after we had CORPORATE control of twitter (which they apparently applaud) that provided us with endless spam / scam bots and tons of crap.

I don't doubt Musk poses critical threats to the old way of doing things. Does EFF get a bunch of corporate type sponsorship? This is such a weird read.
Definitely not his forte, all his projects in urban planning have been so, so bad.
A thousand and one postmortems [video]
> the concept of publishing or open sourcing "the algorithm" doesn't make sense

Whatever. He paid for it. Private company. Do what it wants.

> it would be very difficult to make sense of the entire system

No. Not buying that. Difficult isn't the same as impossible and, if only to game the system (harder,) people will figure it out. And even if it isn't 100% possible to reproduce the results based on what is released significant insights will still emerge.

Further, there is some ceiling on the complexity. Twitter operates at scale and that means they can't actually burn 52kWh of power for every tweet or store TiBs of metadata for every user to do the analysis or take 30 minutes to publish. Likely it's a pretty efficient system and, therefore, limited in complexity.
>That's a very good question. Probably because modern California was settled by European colonizers, who brought their traditional construction and property practices with them?

Like lawns! Like California is the completely wrong state for lawns.
It would require a number of transactions as there is no single other shareholder that owns 51% in this case. So you can do a large number of transactions in a short window, which would cause the price to skyrocket. Additionally, there are disclosure requirements in place once a single shareholder reaches 5%+ ownership. Once the word gets out, everyone else starts buying.
That Twitter never claimed to be a free speech platform? Please check the history of Jack Dorsey's statements, he was very much a proponent of free speech on his platform.

Regardless of if his or the company's official claims, when network effects centralize virtually everyone into a small number of platforms, it becomes a defacto utility. This has wide ranging and damaging effects on actual democracy. I don't particularly care what statements Twitter has made, if their platform has such wide ranging negative effects then it becomes an issue that needs to be addressed. How that's addressed is another question, but being a private entity doesn't magically free them from accountability of the negative effects of their platform.
> 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 because they have cool Twitter alternatives. Like Mastodon.
> Laser prints have the bad tendency to "unstick" themselves from the paper, you end up losing everything.

That's bullshit.

It's the other way around. Inkjet fades out and gets washed off by a little bit of moisture, while dot-matrix "just" fade out.

Don't skimp on toner and paper, don't get it to rot and it'll last centuries.
I think allowing both extremes makes it clearer where precisely the center is located. Look at it this way -

In a balanced system you can see how far each side stretches. You're better able to understand what truly is the "extreme" and what isn't:

LLLLLLLLLL <you> RRRRRRRRRR

In a system where one side is censored, what you see doesn't change, but your perception of what you see is warped. The extreme L may not seem so extreme given how much closer you are to it. And even the mild R can begin to look more extreme compared to everything else you see.

LLLLLLL <you> LLLRRRR

Allowing both sides to speak without censorship may not have any impact on the actual L and R extremist, but it will hopefully have an impact on "normal" people and stop warping their perceptions.
Shareholders are discriminated against all the time; companies have "preferred" and "common" shareholders. Meanwhile: nobody is actually discriminated against, because it's economically irrational to buy more than the shareholder rights plan trigger; from some light reading, it looks like no poison pill has ever been triggered (the whole point of the poison pill plan is to prevent that from happening).
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Needing to use shortened URL's in my daily work several years ago, I put together a small side-project SaaS site called WebAddress.Guru that is free, has no ads, and respects your privacy. Thought I would share in case someone was in need of the service. If not, then share it with someone who might need it. Have a great day!
You can dynamically link container services from other containers. Look up "docker layers".
I agree. I doubt the Twitter moderation system is more complicated than the Linux kernel or any of the open source compilers. Sufficiently motivated individuals contribute, find a fix bugs all the time.
Why would it vary by state, if it isn't a legal requirement in any of them.

It is purely on the employer's end, and I cannot find a legal restriction against it in any state. So it would only vary by employer.
Even just releasing the audit trail of shadowbans, upranking, downranking would be meaningful. Full transparency of actions taken in the past and going forward.
Has there ever been any actual indication of twitter shadow bans being a real thing, or are we putting it in the same "weird conspiracy theory" category as "facebook listens using microphone to target ads"?

I follow a few people in "gamer/twitch twitter" and every now and then this meme pops up of twitter secretly deranking "go live" twitch.tv tweets, which is much more palatable to these people than the reality of just no one caring about their boring tweets.
> since the beginning of the industrial revolution people have been dreaming about robots doing things for us

The dream is much older than that, I suspect. There are references to self-weaving looms, self-playing musical organs, self-grinding mills in classical literature, often in descriptions of some sort of idealized utopia or afterlife. But I think some in antiquity would have considered them quite possible in this life, if only their construction and the underlying principles were understood. That work, in the physics sense, can captured and redirected by machinery is an ancient realization. Around 20 AD a Greek poet (Antipater of Thessalonica) made a passing reference to how machines had already freed people from the toil of grinding grain by harnessing nature's power:

> Hold back your hand from the mill, you grinding girls; even if the cockcrow heralds the dawn, sleep on. For Demeter has imposed the labours of your hands on the nymphs, who leaping down upon the topmost part of the wheel, rotate its axle; with encircling cogs, it turns the hollow weight of the Nisyrian millstones. If we learn to feast toil-free on the fruits of the earth, we taste again the golden age.
And we all know when Trump says he's not going to do something he really really means it.
He is a big source of inspiration for a lot of people, especially those in the science and tech industries. Not just anyone can build multiple successful companies, let alone ones that work on hugely ambitious problems.
What do Chinese expats think? I can't provide strong statistics but anecdotally I've found the support of this policy is at least in the single digits among expats.
No, it's much worse. The general public thinks it's a one line mathematical formula. The secret sauce.
Bezos paid $250M for WaPo, for an old fashioned thing.

Musk is paying $44B, 176 times more.

Seems different.
You'd be surprised but some people want to call the grocery store and ask questions. Ask if X is in stock, if they can rent a rug doctor, if they can buy propane, if they can go there to pay this or that bill, what hours they're open, do they renew vehicle registration, etc.

Source: worked at Kroger when I was a teen.
Hard agree, it's like a diet of pure sugar - it corrupts the body or in this case the minds expectations.
To be clear, I created this site quickly on Deno Deploy this weekend (I'm the author) and didn't bother getting a proper domain yet. Hacker news is cutting off the subdomain of david.deno.dev and this is just a personal post about the dprint CLI and dprint-plugin-prettier, which aren't available in Deno's CLI.

Deno does use some other Rust-based dprint plugins for deno fmt though and dprint-plugin-prettier uses an embedded Deno runtime with Prettier snapshotted in it. Also, Deno now has a similar built-in incremental formatting and linting as of 1.21 last week, so those subcommands finish almost immediately after the first run... though they were already very fast https://deno.com/blog/v1.21#incremental-formatting-and-linti...
Oh, was this finally confirmed? I stopped following that story a long time ago.
Sardines, mackerel, oysters, mussels and sea vegetables... this sounds a lot like me, except I also eat salmon regularly.

My understanding is tuna, especially the premium kinds like blue fin that show up in sushi, is loaded with mercury, PCBs and a lot of other bad news. The deleterious effect (of PCBs in this case) is already showing up in orcas that eat large prey like tuna
https://phys.org/news/2018-09-pcb-pollution-threatens-killer...
Ask HN: Is Twitter now demanding registration to view a tweet?
It keeps happening all day today, I thought they'd forbade any product changes?

Perhaps they couldn't resist the urge to scoop up another bucket of users?
I feel the same way about Elon superfans, if it makes you feel any better.
> Also, what are you talking about? Tailwind absolutely does NOT give you out of the box components.

Well, no. And that's by design. Should you want components, there's an official Tailwind UI[0] that the dgb23 also mentioned. Not to mention the uncountable amount of open-source component libraries.

[0]: https://tailwindui.com/