skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the style, design and sound effects, but as someone who is not especially great at computer games, and trying this out as a coffee break game, I found it pretty unforgiving:

- it initially took me maybe a minute just to work out that the things on the display were craters, not bases

- having worked out how to find a base, I made several journeys (each a couple of minutes) to get to one, but each time either crashed or landed short. When I landed short I then always crashed in my attempt to shuffle along a bit further.

- I'm not sure exactly which bit counts as the landing zone? initially I was hampered by not realising you have a separate display of the area directly beneath your craft, maybe it's more obvious if you use that.

- I then practiced landing on the starting base for a bit to try to work out the max allowed vertical + horizontal speed. I think maybe the vertical speed is approx max -8 or something, or at least seems pretty forgiving. Meanwhile I think possibly the horizontal speed maybe needs to be exactly 000, and that arrow next to 00 isn't allowed? Ran out of time for further experimentation.

- If you land on the starting pad you get a message congratulating you on landing but I can't work out how to close the message (other than refreshing)

- I then had several more attempts at flying to another base, and crashed several more times, as well as landing short several more times.

- when I eventually landed on another base, nothing happened and I wasn't quite sure what to do next. Did that count as delivery? Do I just keep flying between bases?
I've often thought that if they 1) allow anyone to verify their account and 2) let verified accounts choose to only (or mainly) interact with other verified accounts, it can make it more obvious which accounts are anonymous or bots. I think it should work unless/until the anonymous and bot accounts figure out how to break the KYC process.
Not at all just you.

With the flexible content controls that Twitter already has in place, you can make Twitter to be just about as nice as you want it to be. If you mark your profile private, selectively follow, and either mute or block things / accounts that interfere with your worldview, it can be quite pleasant.

The problem is that you have to be public to get virality, and that virality opens you up to people who disagree. Locking your account and developing your own content haven is an easy tradeoff for those people sane enough to not need internet likes from random people.
I just hope the free speech absolutists consume their daily dose of asbestos shavings to exercise their freedom
There is none. Things are significantly worse for everyone, and for children in particular. This is obvious to anyone with eyes but will not be studied (source?!?) because the arsonists are the investigators.
My father had a significant cognitive decline after two surgeries within 6 months of each other (Cardiac Ablation). The second surgery resulted in septicimia so the inflammation is definitely a factor but both me and my mother also noted decline after the first surgery.

It was very obvious in term of decline, my father had trouble with doing some tasks on his computer (when he never did before having been an early adopter and programming some educational software for schools in the 80s), he no longer could concentrate enough when reading and became more extreme in his politics (he went from voting from the parti socialiste and being mostly center left to being very left wing). He also had less control over his emotions and would sometimes explode in a rage unlike anything he had before.

He himself felt diminished mentally and that greatly bothered him during the last years of his life.

On my side, I've refused general anaesthesia as much as I can because it scares me deeply. When I was a kid, I had an operation under general anaesthesia and I woke up with a very strong asthma attack, completely unable to breathe. Reading this, it does give argument towards my stance to asking for local anaesthesia as much as possible.
>Cybersecurity is a lost cause. We just can't fix it.

It's not... it just seems like it because our current way of using computers seems to make sense, when actually it's insane.

If we thought of money the same was as compute, image going to buy bread at the store. You make your selection, then hand over your wallet, and sign a power of attorney, have it notarized, and hand it to the clerk. This clerk has been checked to me a good clerk by both your AntiBadClerk service. You get your wallet back, and take your purchase home, confident it has had no bad side effects, and the correct amount has been taken from your wallet.

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Or... you could take $5 from your wallet, and hand it to the cashier, very confident there can't be any larger side effect than the loss of the $5.

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We use the principle of least privilege when we take money from our wallet to pay in a transaction. The largest side effect possible in a normal transaction is not getting the correct change back.

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We use the principle of "don't trust the user, blindly trust the software with the user's rights" with our programs on computers. We hope that our firewalls and antivirus have stopped anything bad from happening. Unfortunately the halting problem is impossible to solve, and you can't enumerate bad software, or limit side effects using this model.

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Every time I bring this up here, objections are made that it's too complicated, wouldn't actually work, etc... Fine, I expect those, and will try to answer them, like always.

My main point is, least privilege works. WASM seems to be holding up fine, and it uses it. Virtual Machines and Containers are a way too course model of it.

Cybersecurity CAN be solved. Please don't give up hope.
let people filter for themselves. someone is offended by pornography so chooses an algo that accounts for that, another is offended by anti-trans sentiment and another algo accounts for that. everyone should be more broadly free to speak but we are not all forced to listen.
Very KSP-esque, except there you usually have only one engine to work with har har.

Is the vertical velocity in the same units as altitude? Seems like I can get like 5 m/s downward speed and altitude barely changes. Or is it set up as one or two decimals less?
> Try being colored or not part of the in-crowd on Twitter and you get to see how toxic it is.

Try being a white right-of-center man and see how toxic it is. Try being a Christian and see how how toxic it is. Try being a gender-critical feminist and see how toxic it is. Etc.
> and false as standalone types

That's just wrong. Boolean is the type. False is just one possibile value of that type.
The main use of Twitter, to me, is that it gets news out of places that have poor, slow or no mainstream coverage, and does it fast - seconds after the event, in some cases. That won't be helped at all by unblocking the howling id of the right wing and (barely distinguishable) the paid and volunteer troll farms of every (would-be) dictator with a hate-on for reality. That will just adjust the ratio of piss to pool sharply in the wrong direction. To the point it may lose its utility.
He's talking about the case where the applicant explicitly provides a github link in their resume or profile. In that case, they could have been expected to pin their favorite projects or remove the ones they don't want seen. Plus they are merely suggesting it be used as a jumping off point for conversation with the candidate.
Why not? It seems like some kind of categorization system (even a really naïve keyword-based one) is already used for things like advertisements. If such a system was surfaced, and you can filter out specific categories, you are then able to see what the hypothetical racist $relation posts about the family, without having to see their hot political takes.

Remember that we are talking about words on the screen 99% of the time. I would be willing to bet most of us are reading on a post by post basis and don't know the full spectrum of every given persons beliefs (in fact, I'm not sure this is healthy or desirable).
> Twitter's true customers are its advertisers. It's who pays. And they are even less likely then the normal person to want an "everything that isn't illegal is allowed" approach. Advertisers don't want their ads seen next to hate speech and certain other types of speech.

Hell, advertisers don't want their ads to be seen next to Elon's current Twitter feed ( https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517707521343082496 ), let alone what Twitter will look like in a year after everyone starts posting using the owner's timeline as example.
Like Fibers? https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.fibers.php
The "public interest" the FAA repeatedly cites as the main reason for their indifference and denials is extremely bizzare.
Trading what?

IB lends leverage at like 2%.

20% implies a ton of risk compared to what’s available.
There’s one obvious flaw in “Everything that isn’t illegal is allowed”: determining what is illegal. Free speech laws are some of the trickiest legal issues we grapple with in the US, and many statues hinge on the intent behind the speech. How is Twitter supposed to implement this (hypothetical) new policy? Do they always give posters the benefit of the doubt? Seems ripe for abuse. Assume the worst? Probably more censorious than it is today. Punt to the courts? Great, moderation now takes years and costs thousands of dollars. What is the standard of proof to take down a tweet? Preponderance of the evidence? What evidence is admissible? Does Twitter just internally recreate the US trial court system to manage this? Do they do that for every country? The point is, the law on these issues is complex and frequently requires significant interpretation. Maximalism is no silver bullet.
> where literally the CEO of VW said that VW was not able to produce vehicles as fast

Musk's RDF in full effect here.

That quotation was about quality control - and Tesla's relatively abysmal QC compared to other production lines.

VW's CEO said that an average VW took nearly 30 hours to come off the line, versus approximately 10 for Tesla.

He also said that they're targetting 20 hours in the next decade. Huh. They're not even trying to beat Tesla, there. Wonder why? Maybe it's so they don't deliver cars with mismatched tires, leaking sunroofs, _missing brakepads_, and so on.

I think it's hilarious that people like you believe with a straight face that a $250B/year production line hasn't fired up a spreadsheet and done the numbers on costs of "implement another line, so we can spend more time on each car and push more out in parallel" (VAG manufactured 8.4M vehicles in 2021 versus 900K for TMC), than "hey, if we just cut some more corners, and deal with things after the fact, it'll be cheaper".
It seems that our fundamental disagreement is that you do not believe speech can cause harm OR rise to the level of abuse, something which, I as a random dude disagree with, but moreover, people qualified to evaluate harm to people disagree with, and the people who wrote our laws criminalizing multiple forms of harmful speech disagree with.

So, I guess nothing really left to discuss, unless you want to make a convincing case in advocacy of your position.
TalkRadio in the UK has a lot to answer for. Self-important blowhards spouting this nonsense day in and day out but, like you say, when you probe even slightly in to the detail, there's nothing.
It doesn't matter what the users think. The companies clearly care what kind of content their ads are placed next to.
Splitting hairs, I will assume you knew what I meant because them being public as far as having shares out does not change anything about this argument. They are not a government system.

To answer your question, yes. Rules (like laws in government) change overtime. Twitter helpfully has a section outlining their rules https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-rules . It also clearly states that they can update these rules at any point.

As far as who sets the rules, Twitter. It is their platform. How is that a question?
If moderators are good, why cant you just hire more moderators?
Many of the replies here attest to the simplicity and fast performance of SQLite particularly for serving pages or data. But how well does SQLite fare in concurrent write/insert situations?

Although SQLite is not designed for this type of scenario, this discussion higlights there's a strong demand for a concurrent client/server RDMS that is simple, performant and easy to deploy. PostgreSQL is powerful and feature-rich, but not simple or easy to delploy. Hence the appeal of SQLite.

For example, could SQLite power a discussion forum of moderate (or more) activity i.e. users posting comments? The Nim language forum is powered by SQLite, but activity in the forum is fairly low. [1]

Between the simplicity of SQLite and the complex, heavyweight that is PostgreSQL, there is a wide gap between these database opposites. It's a shame there is no concurrent RDMS to fill that gap.

(Note: Another poster mentions the concurrent Firebird RDMS as a possible alternative, but I haven't used it. [2])

[1] https://forum.nim-lang.org/

[2] https://firebirdsql.org/en/features/
I worked at an old fintech and SQLite was the main db for all client data. One db per user.
I always disable capslock - it's about the most useless key on the keyboard 99.9992% of the time
I'm genuinely curious to the reasoning behind austerity - I confess to not having any academic qualifications in economics but it does seem to me that deliberately removing services from the poorer sections of society is going to introduce more friction to the system, which will lead to poorer outcomes in general. The fact that our public debt continued to soar, even before the pandemic, seems to me to suggest that even on its own terms it wasn't a winning argument.

Do you have any sources that make the argument for austerity? This is a genuine question - as I say I have no formal background in the subject but from what I've managed to find I have found little in the way of convinvcing arguments.
Yeah it's not even a mysterious lesson. A handful of "we won't censor or moderate except illegal activity" twitter clones have popped up and rapidly learned why moderation exists.
Trading what on what exchanges?
Now you need to flag each post individually instead of just banning troublesome users.
There is a context behind that tweet, apparently Gates has shorted Tesla.
Twitter is/was unique in that there was a minuscule chance that someone rich and famous would actually read a regular response to a tweet, especially if it got a lot of traction.

And that is what scares some people.

The only other place I’ve seen it happen is some Reddit AMAs and it was always clear which ones were being coordinated by PR and which got unhinged and out of control.
More Users Flock to Mastodon After Musk's Twitter Acquisition Bid
No,

What I'm saying is that this guy is a run-of-the-mill antivaxxer, even outside Covid. Check his tweets and blog : he writes fallacious pieces against childhood vaccinations like : https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/florida-vaccine-hesitancy-...

And no, he's not acting rationally. It may have the flavor of it at first glance, but the implications of what he says being true would invalidate large swathes of science. So is he a genius or a crank ? I don't have time to comb through and debunk every single claim (Brandolini's law !) but good old Occam's razor says he's a conspiracist crank who fallaciously massages data until it fits what he set out to prove. That is to say, an ideologue.
And covid finally killed it. There’s what, two remaining music related shops there?
Agora vs. Twilio vs. Jitsi vs. Zoom vs. 100ms: A Quick Comparison
My use case is closer to RDP, but as I understand it, you cannot host RDP through a firewall without Windows Server, which I don't have (plus, I don't have much interest in opening a port into my home network). I'm looking for something that is always enabled, so I can access a machine while it's unattended (so Zoom and the like are out, since there's a 1 hour limit and you need to click a link).

Maybe Chrome Remote Desktop? Or RDP, but using a VPN of some sort? I know there's a little-hassle tunnelling setup you can use a la WireGuard that's been on HN, but I can't remember the name
He did say that, but see my sister comment. It was actually a disparaging remark about Tesla QC, and how even VW's plans to improve their line productivity would still see their vehicles spend twice as long as a Tesla on the line (but hey, you would at least feel pretty confident your car would be delivered with four brake pads, so that's a bonus).
I'm not really trying to make a strong case. I'm just a little disappointed when people say "He has not built anything".

Isn't that a little mean, and elitist?

No person is perfect. And Elon Musk certainly has flaws. But saying he's not built anything about someone playing a crucial role in 3+ huge companies just feels wrong.

If we compare him to the CEO's of the other Fortune 50 companies, he seems like one of the most engineering-minded.
“Moving forward, McFarland is analyzing the racial disparities of childhood lead exposure, hoping to highlight the health inequities suffered by Black children, who were exposed more often to lead and in greater quantities than white children.”

https://today.duke.edu/2022/03/lead-exposure-last-century-sh...
> We are not anonymous atoms in the fabric of an unconscious universe

You can resolve your confusion if you consider that the universe itself is conscious in some form. And those atoms have some form of consciousness.

There is no scientific, objective, measurable, external evidence for this, so don’t bother looking to prove or disprove it. You have to find it yourself.
Really, what are the attempts to make hate speech illegal in the U.S.? That would come up against the first amendment really quick. New constitutional amendments are unlikely to succeed in todays polarized political environment.
I don't have to guess. I was there since 2008. The 2013-2015 time on reddit there was huge uproar and discontent due to the corporate VC money being accepted and immediate changes in policy thereafter. If you don't remember this I'm not sure anything you say about reddit can be taken at face value. The CEO literally resigned after weeks of protest.

> At the same time, Reddit has been trying to increase monetization. In the aftermath of Taylor's firing, reports surfaced that the company was planning to add more video interviews and other sponsored content to generate more money with popular features on the site, something that Taylor apparently advised against.

You're talking about the obvious in your face censorship and bans that were going on at the same time as these other changes to become attractive to advertisers (and their target demographic) fleeing facebook. But these changes all happened at once and they came from the same source. They cannot be separated.
Until last week, I had a full Debian amd64 systemd container to run invidious on an ARM64 machine (a ROCKpro64) running Armbian, since crystal (the language in which Invidious is written) does not have arm64 Debian packages. There's nothing special to make this work, regular commands work, for instance just running systemd-nspawn -b in an arm64 root folder works.

Now I found a way to get arm64 crystal binaries. I got rid of the container, but Invidious still cross compiles to amd64, so qemu is still used to run an amd64 build Invidious of transparently.

binfmt and qemu-user do wonders. It works well. One could use box64 [1] instead of qemu and it should provide better performance because it uses the native versions of some well known libraries (including libc6) instead of emulating them, but I failed to compile box64 this weekend so I stayed with qemu.

[1] https://box86.org/ | https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64/
Now imagine this playing out on a global scale. Canada grabs a ton of doctors from developing nations. US grabs tons of Canada's best home grown talent for whatever economic purposes.
Start with who, not why
Advertisers care that the market doesn't primarily see that as the point of twitter - i.e. the average user doesn't think that Twitter is primarily about that.
That supports the claim “Most people on Twitter are not in the US”.

It says there are 206 million active Twitter users, 77 million of them in the USA. That’s less than half of them.
It's not money laundering when it's rich people in mansions; it's tax evasion, which is what smart people do. /s
So free speech only applies to humans? I thought in the US it also applied to corporations?
> I'm careful about who I follow, most of whom are tech people or educators

I tried to do this for years but I’ve been unable to do this because everyone just tweets about politics (or Twitter finds a way to inject their recommendations into my feed). So I gave up and stopped trying to control that.

Even when Twitter finally made the option to use ‘latest tweets’ instead of their feed, after a decade of making that difficult, it still seemed to be too far gone.

Now I only use Twitter when I get linked to it from other sources.
>rejected by everyone

It should be clear now, that this is a wrong statement.
> The irony is that it was much less a cesspool back when it had virtually no limits on speech.

The irony is that there were far fewer mice running around when we didn't set out mousetraps.
Incorrect, advertisers very much care about brand safety this is like saying mathematicians don’t care about numbers. It’s the foundation of the craft
Note that parts of somewhere like NYC are extremely expensive. Of course, those are the large parts of Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn where young professionals want to live. Other boroughs can be significantly less expensive but it's not what most professionals mean when they think NYC. Of course, the general point applies. If you're talking about a lower income job you can get just about anywhere, moving to many big cities isn't a great financial decision.
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Yes. But at that point either you change their minds, or you gear up to kill them first.
I'm thinking it'll be more like, once there's a viable colony on 16 Psyche, it'll spend its time transmitting F/OSS designs to the universe.

It'll be pretty hard for Earth beligerents to be genociding when there are Starships dropping in on the starving villages and keeping them alive.

Yes yes, there is still a lot to be done before we can manufacture a Tesla on an asteroid, and land it back on Earth wherever its needed.

But, if you think about it, its definitely a better way forward than to just stay here and keep killing ourselves over what is .. admittedly .. a pretty small planet.
Likely because outside of external force a leaderless board is going to just slowly continue what they’ve done before until everything goes away.

Very few companies make major changes without a major champion. Could apple have turned around without Jobs? Maybe. Did it? No.
> Just give advertisers different options.

It's hard to explain how much you're understating the difficulty in doing this. It would likely require AGI to do this well. Until then, advertisers buy ads on entire platforms (like a given TV network), and they have to rely on the platform to ensure that the content is advertiser-friendly.
I agree with you. Also, it would be great to be able to pay $5/month for no advertisements.