skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what about your friends retweeting.

You are able to block the account and then you wouldn't see retweets. If they screenshot something then you could shrug and get on with your day in the knowledge that you'd stopped most of the stuff, or block your friend. I'd give users more tools, like the one Twitter itself has, to rate accounts and shape the kind of tweets one can see.

> it's also about public good and legitimate intention to stop attacks on the foundations of our republic and stop the spread of dangerous (imho should. be libelous under law to combat) lies.

If stopping lies comes at the cost of undermining free speech for everyone, then it would be the thing undermining the republic, far more than a known liar lying.

I rely on Mill for my views on bad men speaking bad things:

> It is also often argued, and still oftener thought, that none but bad men would desire to weaken these salutary beliefs; and there can be nothing wrong, it is thought, in restraining bad men, and prohibiting what only such men would wish to practise. This mode of thinking makes the justification of restraints on discussion not a question of the truth of doctrines, but of their usefulness; and flatters itself by that means to escape the responsibility of claiming to be an infallible judge of opinions. But those who thus satisfy themselves, do not perceive that the assumption of infallibility is merely shifted from one point to another. The usefulness of an opinion is itself matter of opinion: as disputable, as open to discussion, and requiring discussion as much, as the opinion itself. There is the same need of an infallible judge of opinions to decide an opinion to be noxious, as to decide it to be false, unless the opinion condemned has full opportunity of defending itself. And it will not do to say that the heretic may be allowed to maintain the utility or harmlessness of his opinion, though forbidden to maintain its truth. The truth of an opinion is part of its utility. If we would know whether or not it is desirable that a proposition should be believed, is it possible to exclude the consideration of whether or not it is true?
Show HN: Sqwok – A social chat alternative to Twitter and Reddit
I previously did a Show HN late Dec 2020:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470672

That was a great experience and in the past year I continued to develop the site to bring it to a level of stability and maturity that I felt necessary for it to have a chance to succeed.

Sqwok is all about answering the question: Can we have better open conversations on the internet?

I wasn’t satisfied with the existing means of discussing topics such as culture, history, politics, and technology through threaded comments, and was simultaneously impressed with Slack bringing the IRC experience to the browser for a more general but enterprise focused audience. I wondered why not create an open Slack-like chat app for general discussion? Not gamers or enterprise but rather for people to have open, kitchen-table discussion on the matters of the day (or just for fun!).

I set out to build this because I wanted to use it myself and felt that existing chat apps weren't designed for open public discourse in the way Reddit/Twitter are but for threaded comments & mostly unidirectional communication.

This past year I’ve been very grateful to have a group of people continuously show up, offer support of the site and the idea, encouraging me to continue. Without those people I would have probably gave up!

But alas I want to see this through and I believe now is the moment to make it happen.

Since the last Show HN I’ve added:

- markdown support in chat messages, post text, and user bio in profile (soon coming to full text post).

- User profiles including bio, location, photo avatar, and chronological post listings.

- New “who’s online” list that shows the top 10 ppl online and helps steer people to active conversations.

- @mentions now work in posts, user bios, as well as chat messages.

- Email notifications to be alerted when someone @mentions you.

- Settings pages with ability to change password, delete account, and manage notification settings.

- Upgraded image handling to support higher res photos with upcoming features allowing enhanced viewing.

- Major refactor of the chat handling to stabilize it and fix many bugs with presence, locations, etc.

- Many improvements to the codebase, frontend, backend, UI, tests, etc

- Updated mobile web UI that drops you straight into the chat in a single view.

- Ability to toggle full width chat view on desktop.

- Live message counts displayed on the post list items that are updated in realtime.

- Updated location handling for realtime location display.

- Backend stability & aggregate analytics.

Through Sqwok and particularly through the last Show HN I've met & got to know numerous people living across the entire Earth from Laos to Europe to Africa, all through a silly piece of software that for some reason seemed like the thing to work on.

Truth be told there is much, much more I want to do with this. I believe now is the perfect time with the state of existing social networks and I’m hoping to find more people to support the site and help drive it to the next level.

Let me know if you have any questions,

Thanks!
I seem to understand it's not a constant occurrence for most people. Also, great nickname.
Speed of iteration is all that matter.

That is why all the big like Google no longer push things forward, even with the best engineer and Phds and with so much money.

That’s why I think that Optimus at Tesla will crush all the other robotic platform.

On the positive side success of Optimus will help startups to get funds or get acquired by corporations that want to get a slice of the newly proven market.
His words might suggest free speech advocate but his actions do not
There is reason to expect that with today's educational practices; the effect, funnily enough, does manifest partly through social relationships: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ746290.pdf

> A 20-year longitudinal study has traced the academic, social, and emotional development of 60 young Australians with IQs of 160 and above. Significant differences have been noted in the young people’s educational status and direction, life satisfaction, social relationships, and self-esteem as a function of the degree of academic acceleration their schools permitted them in childhood and adolescence.

> The considerable majority of young people who have been radically accelerated [skipped 3+ years of K-12], or who accelerated by 2 years, report high degrees of life satisfaction, have taken research degrees at leading universities, have professional careers, and report facilitative social and love relationships. Young people of equal abilities who accelerated by only 1 year or who have not been permitted acceleration have tended to enter less academically rigorous college courses, report lower levels of life satisfaction, and in many cases, experience significant difficulties with socialization.

> I believe that all the young people in this study would have benefited greatly, both academically and socially, from grade advancement, while the considerable majority would have benefited from radical acceleration. Sadly, only 17 were radically accelerated, and indeed, the majority (33 of the 60) were retained with age peers for the duration of their schooling.

> Several of the nonaccelerands have serious and ongoing problems with social relationships. These young people find it very difficult to sustain friendships because having been, to a large extent, socially isolated at school, they have had much less practice in their formative years in developing and maintaining social relationships. Six have had counseling. Of these, two have been treated for severe depression.
It might empty out if that happens and be the end of it, but I know that the prospect of a forum for discussion that isn't constantly trying to poke the outrage center of my brain sounds very appealing and I think that would be the case for many people.
What would be even more magical would be a complete outing of all the dark PR that's going on. Flip over and show the filthy astroturfing underbelly of so much of the internet these days. That's probably not going to happen in the way that I wish but I'll still hope for it.
Supports only Linux and a bunch of other Unix-likes in the long tail that almost nobody uses, no generics, similar philosophy to Zig but without the interesting async stuff and comptime. It’s not clear to me why people keep doing this. Why wouldn’t you just take C and remove the footguns if you think that’s all that needs to be done? Seems like it would have much better chances of adoption.
After how many years of Facebook, instagram, youtubers, LinkedIn do people still not get it? This is the internet. How on earth can you verify the veracity of the authors statements? Everyone is discussing this like a blog post on themselves is an accurate portrayal of reality. It might be, but it might not. I'm not saying they're being dishonest, with they may be, but they are definitely not incentivized to give you an accurate portrayal of their life. This is instagram for IT nerds and there is no way they have a Badonkadonk that big.
> Why would Twitter want to be associated with a guy who attempted to overthrow the US government?

Because there's a better than even odds chance he'll be the next POTUS and if you're a billionaire with a reputation (deserved or no) for sketchiness, why antagonise the party that explicitly supports sketchy billionaires?
Can I finally get verified now?
I think it would be fair to say that "fixing Twitter" would be more in line with Musk's actual experience (ie: running a tech company) than rescuing kids in Thailand or fixing water supplies.
> If it where so easy why hasn't Facebook, Reddit, YouTube or any one else figured it out?

The hard part isn't the technical part, but the human part. Human systems are hard. Beyond around a hundred people, the hard problem is the organizational one. I (and many of the other people on HN) can tell you what Facebook, Google, Twitter, Apple, Microsoft, or many other organizations ought to do. If they did it, they'd be wildly more successful. On the other hand, if you made me the CEO, I (and the other armchair generals) wouldn't be able to make them do it.

* Beyond the original founder, the CEO usually doesn't care about the company, but about their annual bonus, their next job, their golden parachute, keeping the board happy, and setting up for their next job.

* Employees don't care about the abstract company. They often want to make the world a better place, a decent pay check, interesting work, and good work-life balance

... and so on.

Facebook is a bunch of people working on pet projects from monopoly profits. If you make me the CEO, I won't be able to fix that. Google is managed in crazy ways around short-term objectives which don't align to overall success. Can I tell you what it ought to do better? Sure. Could I make it do it? Heck no. Microsoft, I haven't followed in a while, but used to be torn apart by internal feuds. Etc.

The upsides Elon has are:

- He owns the thing, and has aligned incentives for himself, at least.

- He has a pretty good track record with actually getting things like this done in organizations he's been at.

From a technical perspective, I know a few people as good as Elon. That's hard, but not that hard. Elon is top 0.01%, probably, which means 1:10,000, which means I can find 30k Americans as good at him, and many more people worldwide.

On the other hand, managing thousands of people in a coherent direction? That's *HARD*.
Libel laws are at least about false statements. The difference is now you can still get in legal trouble for speaking the truth or making jokes, just as long as somebody was "offended".
Google stock is still up YoY, what is this exactly talking about?
You can check if twitter is silently oppressing your account here: https://taishin-miyamoto.com/ShadowBan/

Mine currently has "reply deboosting" applied. Twitter didn't notify me of this either. I had to actively hunt it down. And there's nothing I can do to change it.

Such a shady company so far.
I used to work in the healthcare vertical. While there are regulatory hurdles, they are there for good reason. Move fast and break things does not work in this industry and will get you fired.

You will have better luck working with one of the larger companies who have a good history with the FDA, and more importantly, have good relationships with hospitals and physicians. They are aware of the time and resources it takes to push something out. Pay will not be FAANG level or anywhere close, but they usually have great work culture and WLB.
> activity that could perhaps be done better by machines, if the environment is adapted to prevent show-stopping accidents.

Like Roombas. No pets, children, floorstanding houseplants, rugs, clothes left on the floor, etc.

For self-driving cars: no non-powered vehicles or pedestrians, no variant uses of the road, no road surface problems.
A plausible hypothetical counterexample is sufficient in this case to demonstrate logical incompleteness.
I've always believed that Democritus(the laughing philosopher) was onto something with his work "On Cheerfulness" that inspired many stoics like Seneca to pass on the idea of enlightened hedonism.

While loneliness is a factor that is getting worse each year and the stats seem to also prove it, I do believe that the idea Democritus provides for "moderation of everything" is the key. This sense of relatedness and having a strong sense of community/relationships still needs to not fall to either extreme.

Seneca for example outlined a few things on-top of this work in "On the tranquility of the mind / on peace of mind" for living a good life:

1. Attitude is everything.

2. Don't compare yourself to others, only yourself.

3. Love and be loved.

4. Do not harm others.

5. Cherish the present.

That the right treatment is to follow nature, find the right balance between sociability and solitude, labour and leisure, sobriety and intoxication, and to "watch over our vacillating mind with intense and unremitting care".

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/democritus/

https://medium.com/@s.sekulins/a-guide-to-happiness-senecas-...
Hello from Europe (Eurasia?) and welcome to the club.

Independently I came mostly towards the same conclusions: there isn’t nearly enough progress in treating chronic disease. There is a multitude of possible causes such as: the sheer complexity of degenerative processes, chronic diseases confused with normal aging (and social normalization of different classes of people aging at different rates - functionally close to indistinguishable from medical neglect of the classes with less purchasing power), and most insidious one - lack of proper incentives for treatment of chronic conditions subtly and slowly eating away at quality of life. We live in a society - and once the society stops perceiving you the person as being unfairly and gruesomely destroyed by a sudden treatable disease, the positive and negative incentive for curing you suddenly drops. Not to say the medicine of chronic diseases is a total failure, as there are some bright lucky spots here and there, but for now for most people "becoming unwell and feeling diminished” is a certain destiny.

I don’t really have a good solution of course, but as a tech person with long-standing interest in biology of aging, I can entertain some hypotheses and study & comment on some recent research and business developments in longevity industry.

If this sounds interesting to you, feel free to join the Healthspan discord: https://discord.gg/vPGFsfpN

We have some scientists and techies, some students and a lot of curious amateurs.
I've not written Ruby since about 2006 except with a stint in a Rails codebase which did nothing to give me any faith. How do you go about e.g. extracting a group of fields and renaming them? Or reorder function arguments? Is there a static tool that can do this, or do you have to do some kind of text search and hope you got them all?
It's not the first time Apple allowed certain applications bypass the firewall / VPN (see https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/apples-own-programs-bypass-f... ).

It is very bad indeed; not even Microsoft dares to do this in Windows (you can still very much block any network request from any part of the system via firewalls or DNS ad-blockers).
> Last I had seen he still owned the stock but rejected Musk's offer.

Musk did ask him a) how much stock the Kingdom owned, and b) their views on freedom of speech[0]

I didn't see a reply :)

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1514683079968931841
Arguably, but is that against the terms of service?

https://twitter.com/hashtag/DeathToAmerica
Ironic jokes are dangerous, especially in a professional setting.

If the words you are saying are not literally true, you're increasing the chances of misunderstanding, and it will happen more often than you think.
Cone - er

But its spelled differently. The correct spelling is `conr` for Can't Operate Nuclear Reactor.
https://archive.ph/Fay8D
I'm not the guy you replied to but this springs to mind.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/15/angela-merkel-...
Twitter being toxic is one flaw that would be very complicated to address, but I'm talking about flaws at the feature level.

The character limit in combination with a completely unusable threading system basically makes any non-trivial discussion impossible.

Reply counts are buggy, and make no sense. Notification counters are broken. There's obvious bot armies. Reporting doesn't really work. Verification is broken.

Discoverability for "common" users, the non-influencers, is a major problem. They're all basically tweeting to a wall.

I could go on, but can sum it up as Twitter being far less usable and robust than it can be.
We are in uncharted waters. Never in history the barrier of entry and the cost to spread an idea has been so low.

I can start a campaign reaching hundreds of millions of people claiming insane things like that the earth is flat and dominate the mindshare because nobody on the opposite side has the time or will to counter me.

Then I can have groups of followers propagating my nonsense and keep expanding the insanity bubble. Eventually the average Joe will observe the size of the bubble and conclude "hey everyone believes that the earth is flat, so it must be true"

The closest to that was the TV but TV does not have that interactivity multiplier that the internet has.
> It's not unlike the military priority of 1) mission accomplishment and 2) troop welfare.

I hear what you're saying, but I would be careful taking a military type model and applying it to a team of software US engineers mainly because I think the power balance is so different.

If I'm in the military and I tell one of my subordinates that they need to dig trenches in the rain all weekend for the next 6 weeks, they may bitch and moan, but they've signed a contract so they're just kind of stuck. If I tell one of the engineers on my team that they need to work weekends for the next 6 weeks, they can probably have 3 interviews with other companies lined up by Monday.

I agree that achieving results is still priority #1, but the distance between that and #2 is very different.
You are confusing speed of iteration with speed of announcements. There is a lot of stuff that happens, like research and process building, at a big "slow" company like Google that Tesla doesn't even realize is needed yet. Tesla makes a stream of wildly optimistic announcements that makes it feel like it's closing the gap with Waymo for example, but there's no evidence that it is
With regards to privacy and control, yes. There’s loads of telemetry you can’t turn off in Windows anymore, and you can’t even setup Windows 11 without an internet connection.
Which coins has elon pumped? I have mostly seen him talk about Dogecoin, I think there was some discussion of Bitcoin and Ethereum from him. Has he promoted deep-catalog derpcoins as well?

(There are definitely a LOT of ~"@elonmusk59393259" fake accounts pretending to be him that try to pump coins or offer fake giveaways, but I don't think he's done so himself?)
Not for me. Bootstrap is very mature, has sane UX, is adaptable, has a good balance between general styles and utility classes. I find that Tailwind clutters your HTML and I fail to see the benefit over writing pure CSS in isolated components in a framework like e.g. Svelte. The reason I would use a CSS framework in the first place is to avoid having to write everything from scratch myself. All (the free parts of) Tailwind affords is an indirect way of writing styles using classes. In that case you might as well bite the bullet and learn CSS properly.
This is the ideal use-case for Airbnb. I hope to see properties like yours on that platform!
Imagine someone making over 200K complaining about CoL when the median income in the US is 36K... Astonishing lack of self awareness
I'm surprised no-one on this thread has mentioned the Magic Catalog:

http://freekindlebooks.org/MagicCatalog/magiccatalog.html

Download it onto your eReader and click on a book in the project to get it onto the device.

Genius.
Erasure Coding 101
There are a lot of potential strategies. One big suggestion I've seen is to ensure that pileons aren't artificially amplified by the "what's happening" sidebar.
Very cool, but having other people mess with the patterns is pretty annoying.
Seems like a bit of a hostile interpretation. I'd say it's written to sound interesting to readers. Nobody would click to read and share an article where half the word count was technical details or moralizing about how they're all potential mass murderers.
Indeed. To be fair, I clicked the back button about five times before getting cranky and losing patience. It wasn't even remotely obvious that pressing it did anything, since the state of things is changing whether I interact with it or not.
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I agree that complexity could be an issue with Python's typing, which has some flaws, although it's been improving.

Type aliases are okay if they're not overly complex, having used them in Python and other languages to good effect, e.g. to avoid duplication or for clarity.

I'd suggest using type annotations where it's not overly onerous--which is probably most places--to get the benefits without much effort but perhaps avoid them or use simplified types where it's too complex.

I also agree that there are places where typing is unnecessary and doesn't add much value, such as in certain scripts.

Like many things in programming, it's all about finding the right trade-offs.
Propaganda doesn't mean that it's fake, or that it's brainwashing. It's just "primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda." [0] In this case, the agenda is to recruit for the armed forces. In other words "government marketing."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda
i'm working remotely from EU but company thinks i'm still in US
We'll see how many employees leave. Might be some good job openings soon...
You see, I don't believe in God at all. And I think religion is generally more harmful than helpful. And yet... while the study was kind of boring, and most of the comments here too, there is something in your comment that touched me very much. You put a smile on my face after another difficult day. Thank you.
Famously, "Germany" had cracked literally all the ciphers the Allied armies were using, but each was cracked by one outfit that would not talk to any other. The Postal Service had cracked one of them, e.g., but nobody in the army wanted to hear anything from the post office.
Who We Spend Time with as We Get Older
It can’t even stay connected to my wifi for more than a few days!