skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet Twitter is full of hate tweets towards white people and men. And they rarely get banned. I've reported hundreds. Do you care to guess how many got banned?

Also, Muslim isn't an inherent trait. It's a religion that is taught. Even your examples are faulty.
He just has a different kind of decision power by owning 100% of a private company. But he doesn't need to be involved on day to day operations and can appoint a CEO to do his bidding.
It is alarming that you, and so many others, talk about freedom of speech in such a derogatory or negative manner. Humans and human societies are capable of self governance. It's worked just fine for speech in the real world.
> Up to 40% of your taxable income can be paid as Furusato nozei

No, 4% of your taxable income. There's a 10% residence tax on your taxable income, and 40% of that 10% can be paid as Furusato Nouzei.
In Canada, protestors had their bank accounts frozen for saying mean things about Trudeau. It's not exactly the same as your example but it does rhyme.
If I am on Twitter's Trust and Safety team, I'm sweating bullets today.
This sounds like kicking the can down the road because the quality of technical tests seems to keep getting worse each year. All these supposedly low-risk hires have caused the quality of engineering to decline over the years which caused a decline in the hiring process which creates a vicious cycle. The risk actually builds up in the long run. It's not surprising why security is becoming such a big issue for big companies nowadays.

If you always hire below your current level of talent (I.e. the apparent 'safe zone'), overall talent will keep declining.

Unfortunately, developers in many companies feel uncomfortable hiring people who might be more skilled than them because they don't want to risk being displaced from their current position or introduce more competition for future promotions. I've seen it happen from the other side where I gave my approval for a candidate who was very good but they were rejected in favor of a different candidate who was below average. It was obvious that the second one was not as good but I suspect that my colleagues may have felt threatened by the first one.
This.

I've started using twitter heavily over the past year, and honestly as long as you keep it focused and immediately unfollow anyone who starts tweeting unrelated things it's a pretty decent experience.

Just pick a theme, and follow people who tweet about that theme. If they go off track, just unfollow them.
I’ve shipped two projects wholly in c++20 in the past 4 years with modern practices spanning three platforms (win/Lin/OSX).

No plans to go back to an older standard.
I kinda doubt it. Notable people were using Twitter long before blue checks were a thing, and although people threaten to leave twitter for other platforms, they usually come back.

Instead, I think his ideas for blue check verification won’t happen because blue checks are unofficially a carrot that Twitter can hang for brands that spend on their ad platform.
Pure speculation -- Lawyers are scary. Someone with an army of lawyers is a formidable opponent.
This isn't just freezing. Dry ice is far colder than wet ice. Whether the ambient temperature is above/below 0c won't make that much difference.

The lasers were never meant to heat the rails. Heating a shiny metal is very difficult. The leaf-cleaning laser system works specifically because it doesn't heat the metal. It bounces off the metal surface, heating only the non-shiny gunk on the rail.
Wouldn't he need to buy the SEC then?
Doesn't the author's sentence mean: hospitals and insurance companies have coopted regulators for the benefits of their own businesses, at the detriment of medical device companies (developing AI)?

I think the author's point still stands.
Even though the furusato nozei system was originally created around the same time as local mascots started to become popular in 2008, there wasn't competition from municipalities to try to attract donations until around 2016.

Mascot characters like Kumamon, which were created after 2008 but before the furusato nozei system really started attracting attention, were specifically created to attract tourism, not to attract donations.

So even though it might seem that the timing would match up, it's not really true that there is a connection.

Furthermore, when municipalities started trying to compete for donations, they didn't use mascots, they just started bribing people with return gifts. Maybe in theory municipalities could have used mascots to try to attract donations, but in reality they don't seem to have done that.
I think you undervalue how political the corporation of Twitter has become. That's where a lot of the red tape for changes were, and that red tape gets nuked if Twitter accepts his offer.
See their statement on it below. Inciting violence against others is against their ToS, and his comments about marching on the capitol building were interpreted by the team responsible for banning accounts that break ToS (presumably a specialist committee with it being Trump) as a violation:

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...
In essence.

The thing to keep in mind in all of this is none of this was ever about what's best for the users (current ownership vs. new ownership). It was always about whether the existing owners would get screwed in the takeover. User welfare barely enters into the story.

This is France and Germany hammering out the details of who owns Alsace–Lorraine; Twitter users themselves are just Alsace–Lorraine peasant-farmers.
You might unintentionally be proving the point of the person you're responding to: that mRNA vaccine you mention has been filled with examples of the problems with modern academic science. One of the main developers of mRNA vaccines was demoted at Penn because she tried and failed to get grant funding for how to develop them, and was told to stop working on it because "it wouldn't work" and wasn't bringing in money to the university. There were other stories by others involved in developing SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines that their papers on the topic were repeatedly rejected from journals before the pandemic.

It would be a mistake to attribute mRNA vaccines to any one person or even small group of persons but it's not clear to me that it's a good example of how the standard academic system is working.
Common Lisp does have macros, but not hygienic macros.
Exactly, if Twitter were biased less people would be pissed, not more
Good point, although it makes me wonder what a 'mechanical metabolism' might be.

I've heard of the worm with a fool's gold shoe before (or iron sulfide of some kind). There are also Antarctic fish that make antifreeze proteins that bind to ice crystals to stop them grow. Also trees make themselves by extracting smoke from the air using light and water.

Ok, so maybe I have to work on the analogies. However, my point is that organic systems (biological organisms) are embedded in physical systems. They can manipulate the environment to collect energy and use bits of it to repair themselves.

Talking of iron-sulfide, there are tiny cubes of Fe-S in many enzymes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%E2%80%93sulfur_protein). I remember talking with my supervisor at Glasgow about the possibility of these being fragments of ancient catalytic machinery from when biology was much closer to the metal (as it were) and these parts have gradually been enveloped in protein.

I liked Alexander Cairns-Smith's book that describes a 'rope' of systems, starting with a thread of replicating clay that templates replicating RNA that leads to DNA and so on. It makes sense to me that the origin of life would have to involve the rocks and minerals. Nick Lane has some theory about serpentinite as well.

Summing up, biological systems can absolutely have metal parts. They even have rotational engines (of a sort) in flagella. However, biological and non-biological designs are often very different because of the different scales and levels of organisation. A human is organised across at least 7 levels (atoms, molecules, organelles, cells, tissues, organs, whole) where a tractor is really just (atoms, parts, whole). A fruit fly swims through the air due to its tiny scale, while a plan e forces its way through.

Apologies, bit of a ramble - I'm a little tired today.
> Let's talk about covid. Twitter banned any and all mentions (and accounts) which discussed the possibility that covid came from a lab in Wuhan.

This is the one example everyone who is getting their knickers in a twist about Twitter censorship loves to bring up, but it doesn't seem to be a great example. There's only weak circumstantial evidence in favour of the theory and banning discussion of it was something Twitter realised was a mistake and rolled back on.

I don't think it's unreasonable for mistakes to happen as long as they're corrected. I think there are plenty of things you can criticise Twitter for, but this seems like an odd one to highlight.

> Twitter even suspended Chinese virologist Li-Meng Yan who fled the country to talk about the high likelihood of a lab leak.

"Even"? This is a misrepresentation. Yan is a political hack. She refuses to have her work peer-reviewed. See e.g. [0]. She's a useful pawn for Steve Bannon.

[0] https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archiv...
This does not work AZ / zones most likely, also how do you transfert the state from the upstream routers?
You're suggesting that Windows is equal to Linux as an alternative to MacOS if you favor control and privacy???
As long as someone's getting their work done, nobody will notice. People have their own problems to worry about. In that respect, it is "fine." Everyone is getting what they paid for: results.
do you have any details about the situation you were facing?
To be fair this is very anecdotal given the volume of very subjective, context-dependent content that is on Twitter
Good thing that I didn't do that.
Is there a reason we can't use abandoned fracking sites? There are thousands of them.
>Why are people imagining the network which invented contextless hot takes is somehow now the most important public square which must be protected from what? Twitter will be destroyed and we won't have what?

If you don't find it valuable, why are you in this thread arguing about it? For the past year the baseline opinion on HN about twitter was that it should be considered the public square and trump should not be banned (no one would say this specifically but if you poke people this is what they actually care about).
OP is probably in the best situation to judge this since they likely had competing offers or at the very least know peers with competing offers at FAANG+ staff level.
Ahahahahahahahahahha, that was good.

No, not comfy at all. Too cold, too hot, never just right.
The problem with AGI is that it is people like this who are developing it.
Interesting juxtaposition of technology, cryogenic CO2 spray heads on the rattler.
Tech has a bad habit of conflating comp/prestige with skill. I have no doubt the OP is quite good at what they do, but you not being where OP is does not therefore imply you don't have skill.

Unfortunately the tech world is not really a meritocracy.

When I look at my own circle of technical people the most incredible ones from a pure technical ability are divided between working at FAANG making 500k+ and working a relatively unknown companies making ~200K or less. One of the most mindbendingly brilliant people I know is working in relative obscurity, known very well only among other people that are top in the field, but their resume looks very ordinary compared to their behind the scenes contributions to major projects.

Managing a career in tech is largely independent from technical skills and abilities. I have met a shocking number of people making lots of money at prestigious institutions that are "meh" as far as technical ability goes (of course there's some great ones as well), and have met plenty of brilliant people working relative obscurity.

The success is largely a function of both background (Brown does beat a "no name EU university") and personal desire to have a prestigious career. There is a lot of self promotion going on in this piece, in fact the OP has already convinced you that they might be just a wildly better person than you. If they can convince you they are this amazing, then they also can convince the leadership team at a start up. But do recognize that their skill demonstrated so far is only in convincing you of this.
The futuristic crime dramas and games where they replay events in a simulated 3D space is getting closer. Imagine public spaces constantly scanned and recorded right down to the dropped cigarette.
I wonder about the potential for Twitter to improve as a product with a little shakeup/different priorities.

Stuff like not needing to login to browse or a better system for longer tweets/threads. I'd also be a fan of a very fast/lightweight interface, something closer to nitter.net.
The point of anesthesia is to shut down all the conscious parts of your brain and many of the unconscious ones. It's a fundamentally difficult task, and by a lot of standards you are in real trouble during it.
Sir, This is a Wendy's, not TikTok. Please don't call people names.
Ubuntu 22.10: Kinetic Kudu
> amount to 40% of ones paycheck

3.2% of one's paycheck. 40% of the residence tax, which the article asserts is about 8% of one's pre-tax salary; 40%×8%=3.2%.
Twitter is already a cesspool. I doubt it could get any worse. The only real change I see is more users crying that theres more "transphobia" on the platform.

We're about to see a digital clash of cultures.
One person's weird vibes is another person's great vibes.
I love how you just mentioned this and people jumped in to prove your point. You never said these groups were oppressed, or anything about being silenced, just that interacting with people can be toxic if this is what you believe. Suddenly, people are jumping at you, claiming you're crying and putting all these words into your mouth. Everyone, this is the toxicity he's claiming! Not that he's oppressed, or he has no free speech.
enjoy the end of democracy, i hope it makes you feel whole.
> How come he is banned forever?

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...

> due to the risk of further incitement of violence.
you do realize that "word2048962062" is the format of username suggested to you when you signup, right?
Most of my gamer friends, game with real people. Not sure if there are statistics on this or not.

For what it's worth this is a correlation study and not causal. I'm sure there are some loners out there that are very happy, but when I've had turbulent times in my life, it was my friends who helped me.
> find the elusive path of maintaining free speech, following the law and not having Twitter being a toxic cesspool used mainly to shout down those not our your "side".

Verified, real people will change the dynamic.

> Admitted he doesn't understand people, is a self-confessed troll & edgelord and and Tesla's culture seems less than ideal.

He got all those self-confessed trolls & edgelords together, created companies in hard sciences and made everyone rich in the process. I worked at Tesla, it was a good time.
Another approach is to look at all the people you admire, and I mean ALL of them, and read up on the things they've done, and recognize that you either take the good with the bad, or you end up alone. Musk was wrong about the "pedo guy" thing. There are also stories of him firing people for no reason, to satisfy his own petty emotional needs. None of this is okay.

Einstein (and Ghandi, and MLK) cheated on their wives. Harvey Weinstien is a predator who produced Pulp Fiction. Ben Franklin (and Henry Ford) were virulent anti-semites. Von Neumann wanted to preemptively nuke Russia. Lincoln freed the slaves but was overtly racist.

So go ahead and cut Musk out of your life for his behavior. But don't forget to cut out everyone else who's done what he's done, and worse. And cut out all those who don't agree with you, and certainly do not dirty yourself by the use of their discoveries. Do not watch, listen, or use what they've made, for these are the products of bad men, and by using their work you become bad, too.
I bet 5 dogecoins that we won't get anything of this.
DE/ML ops/ Software engineer(data) is many ways new DS. Lots of greenfield projects and less competition.
I don't agree with this. In the limit, an AI (if it is ever as smart as a human[1]) will just introduce malloc/free and stack allocation at the right places.

[1] at memory management. I think that it is only a matter of time until machine learning, region-based memory management, and inference of ownership (which really is region-based memory management, tbh) are combined in the right way to get superhuman results.
He could maybe do different colored "verified" (maybe green?) checks.

Obviously anyone with a blue check is going to be inclined to defend the exclusivity of it, but that's the problem. There are also notable people who aren't verified because they didn't jump through Twitter's hoops to become verified.

Personally I'd like to see real human verification and filtering based on "real human" and I'd pay for something like Twitter Blue if it had this. Sam Harris recently interviewed Eric Schmidt (former CEO of Google) and he had a very interesting and related point which was free speech should be just for real humans, bots don't have such rights. Unfortunately it seems that there is Blue Checkmark land and then spam land for the rest of us. If it kills Twitter for certain people to lose their status symbol, well, it would have killed Twitter in the long run anyway by maintaining it.
The post is not only too braggadocious for my taste, but some of the figures quoted are highly unlikely. I would personally not work for someone with this kind of ego, but there are many such people in positions of power.

This article is representative of an attitude I'm seeing around the tech industry, and if this is indeed the level of "confidence" in the Bay, I don't think that's a good sign.
You're conflating two issues.

He got in trouble because of what he said given his responsibilities to Tesla and the market in general, not where he said it.

He'd have gotten in just as much trouble had he posted on Instagram.
This doesn't seem to work in Firefox, tale as old as time.
While I don't think you are wrong... I have to wonder what % of the staff at Twitter that is. I'm sure their core application doesn't have a bus factor of 1 but... a mass exodus of staff (5%? 10%? 20%?) could be an interesting problem.
No one on the planet at the time was as wealthy as the current crop of ultra-rich, including Musk. Perhaps no one in all of history, really, though that becomes a complicated comparison really fast.

But yes, he absolutely comes from wealth. Just like most of them do.
Right now VC++ is the only viable option for C++20 modules, and even it isn't without warts.
I mean, you have to respect Elon's consistency, if not the substance - "funding secured" filing to the SEC on 04/20 for an offer at $54.20.
In England recently there was a teenager that quoted a snoop song on her instagram got threatened with an ankle bracelet and a $1000 fine for using a slur - post was not even directed at anyone in particular but rather in memory of her friend that died in a car crash.

Incidentally, Ahmadinejad is quoting 2pac on twitter:
https://twitter.com/Ahmadinejad1956/status/10519371063927521...

Of course this is nothing new, the slippery slope in the UK started over a decade ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Joke_Trial

"Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!!"

Chambers was arrested by anti-terror police at his office, his house was searched and his mobile phone, laptop and desktop hard drive were confiscated. ..was found guilty at Doncaster Magistrates' Court, fined £385 and ordered to pay £600 costs. As a consequence he lost his job as an administrative and financial supervisor at a car parts company.
To get to the other divide.
Twitter has been immune from being an advertising cesspool, and an excellent information source. As much revenue as an Edit button would drive, you can imagine the kinds of abuse and scams that one will encounter right away.

Being financially sound is not always great for society.
Things I sort of believe about making music
500 (pay) channels and nothing on...
???

Toyota made green cars a thing before Tesla. And Chevy and Nissan made EVs. Without the Prius and the EV1, there wouldn't have been a market for Tesla.

SpaceX launches rockets into space. 7 countries and 3 private companies were doing that for decades before SpaceX. SpaceX just does it cheaper. And note that SpaceX's research is almost entirely funded by government sources, and is largely just a continuation of reusable rocket research begun by NASA in the 1970s (which ended when their budget was cut by the Reagan administration).
You know... it's kinda ironic when the humour of a British troupe that was so radically innovative is quoted over and over again to the point that most people recognize it.

Is like reheating a souffle, every time you do it, the taste gets more stale.

I was so fortunate to see that movie in a movie theatre when it came out, without knowing what to expect... And I miss that surprise so much...
This is a common problem. Bulk inserts should be done within a single txn if possible. The limit isn't insert throughput, but transaction throughput.

I've commented elsewhere here for docs referencing this problem. It's FAQ#19 on the SQLite website.

Was your inserts based on HTTP requests or was it more of a batch process? we're they grouped in txns? Obviously user http requests would be harder to group up, but kudos if your service is handling 100 QPS writes as that's pretty rare level of scale approaching the real "need a beefy concurrent db server" type of problem statement.
I can only speak for Boston area, but I've been on teams who regularly welcome those with only 1-2 years of experience (even if it wasn't that relevant, as long as they had relevant schooling). I don't know if you consider that positive or negative evidence, but there it is.