skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hmm, maybe HN related problems? Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information), some nextJS issue, so maybe server side?
OK so fire that one person and let everyone else WFH? Your work force is not a single antagonistic entity that must be punished when 'it' misbehaves.
Nobody is ready for US style free speech.

In Europe some of it will be illegal.

Musk is seriously underestimating the toxicity of "liberated" social media in its current form and seriously overestimating the nuggets of truth and criticism we would not be able to read in the absence of it.

His human authenticating scheme is unimplementable in the EU.

It's a shame, because I'm all for a real free speech platform.
This is how you do it from Objective-C:

// Call NSProcessInfo to disable AppNap et al.
NSActivityOptions activityOptions =
NSActivityIdleDisplaySleepDisabled |
NSActivityIdleSystemSleepDisabled |
NSActivityLatencyCritical;

NSProcessInfo* procInfo = [NSProcessInfo processInfo];
m_NoSleepActivity = [procInfo beginActivityWithOptions:activityOptions reason:@"Running some stuff"];
I agree he's not supposed to. Maybe I just think that since the SEC thinks he has already broken that rule, that if he were to own the platform, he might break that rule even more.
liberals =/= progressives.
> Netflix just streams videos?

Netflix funds content. Netflix licenses content and has a say on how future content from that IP is produced. They are not just a streaming platform. When you look at every new show as of late you see themes commonly associated with wokeness. Replacing characters with "BIPOC" (I hate this term) when adapting from source material when it clearly seems out of place. Mixing in subtle commentary about immigration, healthcare, "hate" speech, etc. Women are always the strong saviors, men are always the aggressive out of control beasts or they're docile homemakers.

You can see it in pretty much every show. Witcher Season 1/2 (immigration, replacing characters, men/women tropes), House of Cards Season 6 (all of the above), Altered Carbon, etc.
why? Elon Musk isn't even running Twitter yet. how about wait and see?
> The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Profit as a Series of Asymmetries
the case should have been dropped by the prosecutor without going to court, someone was incompetent

how do you think this is on par with Turkey consistently persecuting ---dissidents---?
> - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter.

What problem does that solve? Nobody on Twitter sees or engages with posts without a blue checkmark anyway. Twitter is the Hollywood of social media. You're either an influencer or you're a lurker. There is no middle ground.
> Presumably your stance here is that the fetus does not have the ability to apply defensive or retributive force, and therefore has no right to it.

No, that "therefore" does not follow. One does not lose a right just because one lacks the power to exercise it. The fetus would not be wrong to employ violence to resist any attempt to kill it—though even putting it in those terms presumes a degree of conscious decision-making and self-ownership which is not in evidence.

> Taken to its logical end, wouldn't this imply that any murder would not be immoral…?

No. To begin with, I never said that abortion wasn't immoral or a violation of the Non-Aggression Principle. Both of those are debatable; from a libertarian point of view the answer to the latter question hinges on whether the fetus can claim self-ownership, which presumes a degree of conscious control and responsibility for the effect of one's actions on others.

That is all quite abstract, however, because in practical terms it would be a violation of the NAP for anyone else to intervene. An adult, or even a young child, who found themselves harmed or threatened with harm could consent to allow someone else to fight on their behalf; or, just as importantly, could withhold that consent. (For example, they could be a pacifist and believe that fighting back would be immoral.) In the case of a murder one could look to a will or the like as evidence of the victim's wishes. For an abortion, however, there is no such evidence. Anyone responding to it with force is doing so entirely on their own, and not in self-defense, which makes them the aggressor.
Do your moonlighting under a single-member LLC with an EIN.

You can generally do this for less than $100 per year in your home state. It can be a challenge to get the IRS to issue an EIN to such an entity, but if you read the rules you can find the exact flowchart of yes/no questions to force them to do it (pro-tip: do that first, so you actually create the business properly). As a bonus, you'll probably end up with a 20% discount on your income come tax time ([1][2]).

[1] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/2018ntf-twenty-percent-small...

[2] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/td-reg-107892-18.pdf
Again, not questioning your goals/intentions at all.

I'm more questioning the reaction to the project. The project suggests some ways that Customize could be improved, but the reaction doesn't seem to match that.
Are "Biden officials" working in the best interest of the US or the Democrat party?
That's a very good observation. I should've made sure to say that not all illegal acts are created equal, and those which are illegal to advocate for, are specially listed [1].

In summary, those basically are high treason, murder/manslaughter, assault, robbery, counterfeiting, creating fire/explosions/radiation, destroying/interference in infrastructure (planes etc.).

[1] https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/138.html
I'm not saying it wouldn't be a violation of the SEC rules. I'm saying that if he is alleged to have violated them already when he didn't own the platform, there may be a chance he violates them more if he does own it.
If you read more carefully (I can not stress enough that I am not Canadian, if you ask me the protests were dumb 'etc) that does not at all refute the point I am making.

One day Mark Strahl or somebody like him will be in power and the shoe will be on the other foot. If you start banning people you don't like (from twitter, bank accounts, whatever) left and right you will end up in a very dark place by setting that precedent.
Thank you m8, all ears for any feedback.
I wonder that as well. From the 25k articles I've got, 51% have 0 comments.
Unlikely. I've been a regular user since 2006 and both on the web and the apps, the algo timeline has been there for a long time but I never use it.
I think it’s similar to doctors: a combination of traditional and demands of the job/flow of work based on existing process.
He's also the Techno-King of Tesla. If you think he's actually doing any of the real science behind rocket design, I have a bridge I'd love to sell you.

As influential as Musk is, he's not a real world Tony Stark.
> However even a saudi prince incorrectly believed he still owned twitter stock.

Wait, did I miss something on this? Last I had seen he still owned the stock but rejected Musk's offer.
He is certainly a big fan of using Twitter to illegally manipulate markets for personal gain.

He may not be a supporter, but certainly has similar methods. Using mobs of useful idiots to flaunt the law is a bad thing.
Pretty sure Elon will change the rules.
This could be dangerous for democracy. The worlds richest man can influence whether a politician is de-platformed or re-instated to Twitter whilst legally protected in such decision making by section 230. We have seen him act petty when offense is taken [0]. We have seen him be quite opinionated on tax proposals [1]. Is no one else concerned by this? It seems a more powerful control of the narrative and politics than Bezos owning Washington Post.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-democrats-billiona...
If social networks worked like TV and there were only a few popular channels / pieces of content, sure.

But algorithmic feeds are endlessly unique and composing them is vastly more difficult than doing chronological order.
Twitter PR has released that the offer was accepted.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elon-musk-to-acquir...
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/31/23004339/uk-twitter-user-...

Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service in UK for posting ‘offensive’ tweet
I'd like to call out that individual responses to this don't matter. What matters is if Twitter remains a place for public discourse. So long as we allow public discourse to happen on private platforms that aren't held responsible for maintaining the availability, accountability, and freedom (as in speech) of these public forums, Twitter will continue to be problematic.

Whether it's Musk or a private group of shareholders, the ownership doesn't much matter if whoever controls it at the time can decide what the public is or is not allowed to discuss or share.
We all have different backgrounds and different interests, you know.

Maybe you can share your knowledge, so those of us who are not dealing with mergers/acquisitions/takeovers can learn something?
I gotta ask, I'm a bit of a submarine novel buff...

Could I get submarine book recommendations please!!

Bewarned however, I've read (listened) to a good few already. ;)
Every single answer to this has moved the goalpost by the way. Unbelievable.
Superb question. If I were an employee there, I certainly would be sending out applications elsewhere.
Wasn’t YouTube deleting content that suggested covid was airborne transmitted? Now we are seeing the scientific community agree it is in fact airborne. We should not have guard rails it only leads to censoring and whenever there is censorship there will be abuse of it.
I'm optimistic from a nihilistic point of view: for Twitter the only way is up, and yet even a complete failure would be a net improvement to the world.

There's a laundry list of uncontroversial improvements he can make to the product itself. Twitter as a product is broken in so many ways. Musk is the kind of outcome-driven character to get things done. And it will be done in a way that does not directly conflict with existing pressures, like ads.

He claims to commit to get an understanding of the algorithms for both censorship and promotions/verifications, and make them more transparent. As to what this will reveal, or how this will be changed, we don't know, except for a general direction of less censorship. So far he mentioned to want to strike a balance where both extremes (left, right) are equally unhappy.

My hope, but I expect to be disappointed, is that the influence that both extremes have on Twitter is nuked. A reversal of roles, where sane and reasonable voices capture the majority of attention, instead of rage-addicted mobs.

The truly tricky thing though is that if you dis-empower these extremists, you'll find that there's not much else. Twitter is basically those people and the rest retweeting it. What remains when you take away this outrage snowball activity...not very much. Twitter isn't at all a mainstream platform.
This (https://www.d52.io) is a variation which does work in Firefox. Trust me!
The question is after the acquisition, presumably after changes start happening, so you could respond to the poll with "depends on the changes"
I have it reset just about every day.

Perhaps I'm on the wrong end of Twitter's A/B testing.
In the future, every successful tech company will use their data moats to build some variant of an Artificial General Intelligence.

Is that what one gets paid 7 figures for - to go out in public and claim they "know" things like this with a straight face?
Agreed, but I'd still pay for Twitter _and_ Tweetbot (without which I'd probably have left the platform years ago)
I did not. The algorithmic feed was not an option when I joined twitter. They were still basically a group sms system, and probably still running on Rails! Also I was not given the option to switch to it when it became available. They just switched everyone.
The Army may prefer specialization simply because they’re large enough to be able to, eg have enough redundancy that if one specialist dies there are more to replace him.

The Marines, subs, and the other examples you give are smaller units, and simply may not have that size-based redundancy.
"Human" and "pseudonymous" aren't exclusive, and there's a number of ways to verify the former w/o documenting real identity.

Keeping things as human only as possible means that you can't scale-up apparent vocality of opinion via automation.
> Freedom of speech also means freedom to leave.

It does but you could also not look at his tweets. Shouldn't other people on the platform be able to decide whether they wish to see (or not see) the tweets they wish to?
Periodic liquidity events
Already done a few months back. Also logged out from Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and removed those apps from my phone too.
> Worst of all (from a financial perspective), they want both of their average kids to spend 4 years at an expensive university.

Expensive only because it's been allowed to become expensive. Decades ago it was normal for a good university to be nearly free or at least quite affordably by the student working part time to pay their way.

> dental care, better medical care

People "want" health care. I mean of course, but it's not a whim, it's a basic necessity. Which like the university, was very affordable to nearly everyone decades ago.

Not sure people want bigger houses either, every housing topic on HN is full of desire for smaller apartments to get built.
Elon's statement suggests forced "authentication" for all users, so that'll presumably be the end of anonymous Twitter profiles and the start of needing to prove identity at sign-up time:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518677066325053441
EFF: Twitter Has a New Owner. Here’s What He Should Do
There are a lot of shitty employers and employees around and the rest are trying to avoid them by different means.
Presumably they'll be cash-settled, like most options are anyway.
I don't know why, my block list is over 60k.

Why? We used to be able to import block lists, so I have 59,990 or whatever accounts blocked that spam.
From a pure self-interest perspective, they should be worried about this. Allowing republicans generally to return to one of the most active public squares in the country will have a huge impact on their ability to control the narrative.
I don't know if we should blame Twitter for the toxicity that Trump rained down upon the US for 4 years, or the big media companies for front-page reporting his daily ragers.
First part I agree with. The second part, maybe I guess? But that is, if ever, decades away so we can worry about that when it becomes a realistic prospect.

I don't think any of the current sitting life time appointed supreme court justices have expressed any will at overturning that decision.
Phobos Solar Eclipse
It does not mean what you THINK it MEANS...

1.Pretend that there are specific problems where groups of people loose trust in the systems they interact with.
2.Pretend that social networks currently implemented as social platforms are strongly biased towards noise.

Assume for the sake of debate that Elon is ware of this.

He may be after the crux of the issue in that monitoring is
an indication that social platforms are amplifying noise from
interactions with broken systems.

He may instead be after an algo change rather then re-instatement of those who were banned.
Executive Job
As 2024 approaches Trump will want the largest platform he can get. So my bet is that he will tweet again.
By what metric? Love it or hate it, Tesla is a huge success story.
> it seems like only BZip2 parallelizes nicely.

That's odd. Zip and Rar, at least, have indexes that point to individual files in the archive and it should be trivial to decompress files in a thread pool with as many cores you want. That's not as easy when you have a tar.bz or tar.gz2 file because you only see files as the .tar file is extracted.
"Cancelling" is not a good thing when it's done by a mob of knee-jerk reactionaries with the attention span of a fruit fly.

"Being held to account" is only meaningful if the ones holding you to account are doing so in good faith, and via a semblance of rationality.
Eric Jang is top ML talent, these numbers are accurate. I work in ML and have followed his work for years
Why wouldn't they just use the older version of C++? If you don't want non-c compatible c++ you could just stick to C++20 instead of upgrading to "C++breaking_changes".

I ask because its not like support will ever be phased out like Python 2.
> Storage at the receiving end of a transmission line

Require vast investments to add the capacity to handle storage and would be less efficient.

Your proposal is basically to spend 20% to 30% more money, loses and extra 4-7% electricity every charge discharge cycle and gains effectively nothing which is why nobody is doing it.

> how you top up local storage during supply peaks when you haven't got a local surplus.

Peak + filling storage requires extra transmission capacity which costs money to build and energy to use.

> At the end of a different transmission line.

Transmission lines work in either direction and are generally set up as an interconnected mesh. You want redundancy from the solar power plant to customers, but you also want redundancy from batteries to customers.
Maybe people will finally start moving the "official" accounts of politicians and government agencies to something federated like Mastodon or Pleroma.
Its now been accepted: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/25/twitter-accepts-elon-musks-b...
> The divide already exists. Talking about a union is just verbalizing your recognition of it.

This divide only exists in somewhat dysfunctional workplaces. In most roles, I have not felt this division. A good manager is an ally and someone who gets your back.
I wonder how much this will distract him from Tesla and SpaceX.

Also, social media is now an attack vector for misinformation from hostile foreign adversaries. How will he fight that?
Calling what Trump was banned for as "political dissent" is extremely reductionist and naive. He was banned because he was inciting violence and insurrection.
Super awesome. Watch out -- Stephen Wolfram might get all excited and jealous!!!
Someone needs to buy them and shelf out for up a second Raspberry Pi so they can double the amount of comments they can process per minute :D
I kind of doubt that it's a caching issue. Twitter feels a lot like email to me -- sending a tweet is a lot like emailing to a group of followers. (Though it's unlikely they implement it that way because of the number of tweets that go unread.) Email providers operate at a scale similar to Twitter and don't replace your email with popular emails to increase cache hits.

Maybe to improve profitability you'd want to improve how much you can serve out of memory, but I think Twitter has more than enough compute to just generate your page for you when you visit. (I haven't seen a fail whale for over a decade!)
You and I have very different experiences with Twitter and how it is used.
- Better search. Not necessarily in all of Twitter, but better search in a user's own tweet history.
I opened /g/ in incognito mode without an ad blocker, and I was actually surprised by the ads. There are no lowest common denominator "horny babes near you" ads or viagra ads. But there are ads for a crypto lottery, ads for a cryptocurrency, ads for a niche forum, etc. These aren't that different from the shitcoin ads on Twitter or reddit.

Then I opened /wg/ and there were anime porn ads.
This is amazing, but damnit, why do people disable the back button? I've been seeing so many people do this lately that I wonder if I've missed a memo.
I think a lot of people did delete Facebook?
> sparc solaris

Me too, Pure nostalgia. Just like to log in sometimes and party like
its 1989.
:)
Remember when Blackberry said Alicia Keys was their creative director?
There's a long and healthy discussion about this question in many legal systems. The topic of discussion is the definition of 'public figure'[0] and what that entails. Public figures usually don't enjoy the same right to privacy as other persons.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_figure
I mean it's there, as in, there's a button to switch to it, but I don't think I've ever had it switch automatically.

The one thing that is mighty annoying though, is how it keeps pushing "recommendations" on you. The "someone liked", "someone follows someone", this kind of stuff. If only there was a dedicated button to make someone else's tweet appear in your followers' timelines... I somehow managed to break that misfeature by muting a bunch of "words" that are apparently contained somewhere in the recommendation objects because apparently the mute feature checks not only against the text of the tweet but against some kind of serialized form of it. So I no longer have these neither on the web nor in the Android app.
That information was incorrect. Any member in a PKZIP archive can be decompressed independently of any other files in the archive, which is what parzip does.

What you can't do is decompress a single archive member in parallel.
I took a microeconomics course and a macroeconomics course in college. Mergers/acquisitions may have been mentioned briefly, but they weren't a point of study. Microeconomics focused on why individual entities make decisions, and macroeconomics covered stuff like why we have currency, why is inflation useful and how the Fed manages it, etc.

In my decade on HN I've seen a lot about funding, IPOs, and acquisitions of private companies, but very little about hostile takeover of public companies.

Where are you expecting people to have developed an incidental background knowledge on deploying / overcoming poison pills?
How do you deal with the downtime. I also find myself constantly resizing instances (although for data analysis where I sometimes need 80+ cores only for a few hours), and the constant restarting and reloading drives me crazy

Maybe for sqlite because it's stored in ssd, it's only 1-2 minutes to shutdown+change parameter+restart if it's scripted?
Every 6 mos, SpaceX goes to investors, determines a price, and allows employees and other investors to sell shares to these investors if they'd like to get some liquidity.

Lets them stay private longer term while still allowing employees to benefit from stock appreciation.
> In fact it is making me judge whether I should defect and not vote for Democrats in the next election.

While I don't think your position on free speech is unreasonable, to overlook the harmful things the right is doing and base your vote on Twitter's moderation policies seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Off the top of my head:

* Don't say gay bill
* Huge restrictions on abortions that have been enacted recently and will undoubtedly be upheld by the SCOTUS. Even in cases of rape and incest.
* Gerrymandering, ensuring the right will stay in control even if they are not supported by the electorate.
* Restrictions placed on voting that target minorities

I also think phrasing this as crushing political dissent is a gross exaggeration. We're talking about very extreme people being suspended from a social media website. No one is getting arrested. If you want to see examples of people being arrested, look at Texas where a woman was recently arrested for suspicion of having an abortion, or Florida where Desantis had a researcher arrested for releasing COVID data.
I’d rather subsidize a handful of slackers than return to the office.