skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No problem IMHO if they are a consenting adult.
I wouldn't object any more than if someone wanted to run an ultramarathon or raise 5 kids.

Not for me, but your desires may different
I actually browsed through the showcase gallery and liked what can be accomplished with it. I care mostly about the writing but I also want to be able to add some images and get a little creative - I want -my- site to show off some of my personality, ultimately - and Lume seems to accomplish that. Will be exploring it. Thanks!
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Care to explain "thought bubble Brooklyn based reporters"? Did you choose Brooklyn for the alliteration? Or is there something about my home I should know about?
> Ruby is just ruthlessly productive.

Not disagreeing, but the nuance is productive for writing new code/features. It really feels counter productive once you have a large codebase/team and you need to refactor existing apps.

Spent 5 years at a Rails shop and it's crazy how much engineering effort was spent on keeping this app going. Adding typing seems like a nice step to help here.
In that case the same applies for the microservices
Interesting bits about pulsed LiDAR. Is there any camera available to buy on the market that uses this technology?
I don't understand the concept of open-sourcing "the algorithm".

First of all, "the algorithm" is probably hundreds of thousands of lines of code, including all the tedious boilerplate like cache policies and multi-AZ logic.

And second of all, doesn't the algorithm include machine learning components, which are trained on terabytes of data? That data will likely be impossible to open source. And open sourcing the neural nets without the training data is mostly meaningless from a transparency perspective?
Because the charge that this is indoctrinating young children to be anti-conservative would be valid. This isn't a free speech issue, it's a question of appropriateness. Having a graph showing about oranges vs lemons is appropriate for a math textbook. Making an comment about how conservatives are more racist than liberals is not appropriate for a math textbook.

How would you feel if that graph instead showed "56% of all crimes are committed by African Americans"? That statistic is true, but is that appropriate for a math textbook without a deeper conversation about underlying causes?
I disagree with you about Covid. That said we don't need to get into it. Just saying that arguments like:

> ..."COVID19 will go away as soon as the election is over", etc. etc. Tons of terrible takes on the subject...

are not terribly likely to sway me. In the same nature as you thinking people like that are crazy, I personally find your views to be wild. But it's nice we can both voice them and remain civil.

> Musk was just part of that, and I daresay that falls into fall on conspiracy nut now that we can look back upon the pandemic with 2+ years of hindsight.

Particularly:

> falls into fall on conspiracy nut now

Conspiracy is when a group of people conspire. To have a bad opinion is not to be a conspiracy theorist. If you want to call him a nut for a bad opinion, fine, but I just don't think conspiracy theorist makes sense when it has nothing to do with groups of people conspiring.

> But if the COVID19 issue is a bad example / too political for your tastes, then I pivot to the Thailand Pedo guy tweets instead, which hopefully you can agree with me are uncalled for?

Maybe I'll check out the Pedo guy tweets. I'm not on twitter, and don't know to which you refer.

Frankly I couldn't care much less about Musk. I care a great deal about free speech and throwing conspiracy theorist around as a pejorative.

The use of conspiracy theorist as a pejorative is an echo chamber way of attacking the message deliverer and dismissing what they have to say out of hand without consideration of their message. We do that too much in today's society, and considering the corruption present, we really shouldn't.

> All-in-all, Elon Musk is NOT a good poster on Twitter, and if he takes over Twitter, I don't think I have much confidence in the long-term benefits of the platform. Its as if other online-trolls decided to take over various media outlets.

Sure, maybe fair. I don't know. I feel that if he removes moderation and adds free speech, then it will be a net positive.

If any billionaire puts their slant on content moderation, I think its a net negative whether I agree with them or not. So, if he somehow does _just_ bring free speech back, then good. If not, then twitter will just be another biased platform as it has been, but with a new bias.
I think he means it for his friends like Trump and Bannon.
Doxxing isn't illegal. Assuming the kid had enough money to fight Musk in court, he'd run up the score on Elon and his entire legal team.
> So if you should only marry to reproduce, does that mean old people shouldn’t get married? Should we stop people who take steps not to reproduce?

Except the current debate isn't about marriage law, it's about what kids should be taught in school, and when. It's one thing to have marriage law accommodate different groups with different beliefs about the basis of marriage. It's a different thing to teach any particular view or set of moral judgments to kids in public schools.

> Conservatives use to fight to outlaw birth control and it is still the stance of many.

As I noted in my post, it's 2022, not 1992. Today, 90% of conservatives agree with 93% of liberals that birth control is morally acceptable. https://news.gallup.com/poll/257858/birth-control-tops-list-....

Conservatives and libertarians were on opposite sides of this issue in the 1960s. But today, the political dispute is over privately owned companies being forced to pay for birth control for employees. And on the contemporary issue, libertarians and conservatives are on the same side.
The characters we use to interact with our computers were mostly designed to be hand-written and minimize the amount of movement your hand has to make going from one letter to the next. I theorize that they don't translate all that well to existing display technologies. Not so much because of the shape of the fonts, but because format isn't conducive to sharing or receiving information as quickly as our machines and our wetware could allow.

If you think about this a little more, programming is actually a way to overcome the limitations of spoken/written languages to an extent, since the machine can parse the text faster than you, and it can read other forms of data that are even more efficient. In my view a monitor displaying human-readable text is similar to a legacy ABI that's kept around because of the technical momentum and mindshare it has, not because it's particularly good.
At least the system can aim to be less selective in its application and apply all across the spectrum rather than target some groups and not others.
As I understand, this happens before anyone acquires 51 percent.
Yep. I imagine Twitter has a employee base with a very strong activist streak. I'm sure some of them wouldn't mind martyring themselves to make a virtuous statement.
Twitter was kind of a shithole that I was thinking of quitting anyway, so being bought by an obnoxious billionaire meme lord was just the kind of push I needed.
One example of Twitter's obvious role in election meddling is this: before 2020 elections, posting new york post's article on Hunter Biden's laptop leaks would result in an error. At the time all the msm said this was fake news. The New York Times, more than a year later accepted that the laptop indeed belonged to Hunter Biden. Twitter is heavily biased towards promoting progressive 'ideals' and hollywood propaganda. It's trending section, even after muting and blocking several accounts and words, keeps suggesting biased 'news'. It also played a huge role in the Arab Springs which arguably is the largest criminal act in 12 years. I'm glad censorship is being taken seriously. Hope Musk is a true libertarian when it comes to free speech.
Where's the promised UN plan? What they published is a nice starter but definitely doesn't cut it when you're asking someone for $6B.
So central or eastern Europe ... yeah, thats gonna be tough!
I am sure there is a small set of Vocal employee's blasting internal communications with the end of the world messages, a majority of employee's just wanting to keep working and get their salary, and a different small set of employees hoping Elon purges the first set of employee's making the work place better.
Twitter has a history with this.

- Rogue Twitter Employee Briefly Shuts Down Trump's Account [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/us/politics/trump-twitter...
Just like people who cheered Twitter and other social media companies swinging the ban-hammer left and right in the last few years, I would like to remind you that freedom of speech does not mean absence of consequences.

I still would be surprised if we saw Musk abusing his powers to make user-generated things disappear from Twitter.
I was looking at SQLite for a product I’m working on. It looks awesome and has improved significantly since I last looked.

The reason I decided against it is that it doesn’t have proper stored procedures. I use them a lot in PGSQL. They result in far fewer lines of code.

They also have the benefit of significantly reducing round trip calls to the database, which is one of the key advantages of SQLite.

But having used stored procedures for years, I can no longer bear the thought of writing SQL code in a host language, so I’m going to stick with PG for the time being.

Would be great to see something similar in SQLite; there are other advantages such as the single file database, that would work well in a microservice environment.
I mean US is the one which gives arms to SA. US also destroyed Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and so on. No one’s hands are pure when it comes to the military industrial complex.
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That seems far from impossible actually. Especially if you consider the likelihood of all of their followers posting even once per day. You can scroll pretty quickly if it never stops.
Isn't it weird to use the word "sprawling" here? A world where major cities are affordable would be more dense. It would be easier to preserve land for its natural beauty. The US today is sprawling.
What does engineering leadership mean to you? What factors make it easier or harder to practice engineering leadership?

For me, I like having a budget and a staff - it’s way easier to influence my organization with a budget and a staff, than without.

I’m saying this only to encourage engineering leaders not to be afraid of formal management roles. You can make them your own. You might find what I found.
What's your suggestion for censorship then? How do you know the current understanding is correct?

You can censor comments suggesting the current understanding of the science might be flawed, but then what happens when the understanding shifts to that censored understanding? Do you go censor all of the comments, CDC articles, and news clips that communicated the incorrect understanding? Do you remove the censorship for the old comments? Are there any repercussions for unknowingly leading people astray, and perhaps even causing some deaths for those who thought they were protected by flawed guidelines?
Sure it's fast but it seems the deal is done. A practical joke by an employee seems more unlikely than an official release.

The engineer from the OSS team at Twitter linked to it and said "watch this space"

https://twitter.com/willnorris/status/1518694675909013504

Sure I guess it could be that engineer gearing up for a joke, but I think it's more likely that it's a real release.
Thanks for your input :)
I would like to go simple but not straightforward 100% plain text. I'd like room for experimentation. Add images, a colour palette, search functionality,...

Even though I like Mataroa's philosophy, it seems waaay too minimalist for me. I didn't know that was possible!
Even a statically linked program can have dependencies on the system it’s running on, like system fonts and root certificates. Containers ensure a standard environment that accounts for those differences, in a language-agnostic way.
#drama?
If it's a simple, constrained problem where the number of available features is low then inherently the complexity can never be high.

I've built hundreds of models and run a ML company and I don't believe it's technically possible for this rule not to be the case.
I assumed that the board did't want to end up in court for breaching their fiduciary duty [1]. But that could just be spin.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1514718700674306052
This shouldn't be downvoted. Any black box with inputs and outputs is a function over discrete data, otherwise known as an algorithm.
Maybe not. It could all be event-driven, distributed, and just pulling off various prioritized queues.
It's amazing. You have to think that $54.20 is a number that Musk insisted on just for a prank. Do we seriously believe that the deal wouldn't have been done at a round $54? If you think it could, that's Musk overspending by >$150M in order to make a pot joke.
Rocket to Mars, arguing with small-minded people in 140 characters... I know which one I’d bore off more quickly.
(a) Requiring login would reduce what little utility Twitter has.

(b) That's impossible, but a linear timeline with people who I actually know comes close.
Yes or work on things that are fundamentally at odds with Google's business model, or on systems that in some way are difficult for Google to do because they have company-spe ific constraints or legacy systems
The poison pill is to make it so that the person can't ever get 51% because it's not good for everyone else.

The 'short answer' to the question of 'why no poison pill' is simply because the Board reached some kind of agreement with Musk.

I like Musk when he's in his lane, I don't see any good coming from this.

Everyone is nuts to talk about 'shareholders' - who cares? As a 'consumer' - I want a good service and cheap (i.e. free) with no ads. I have zero interest in 'shareholders' of a company I'm not a shareholder in, other than legal protections.

Caring about 'shareholder value' while not a shareholder, is like caring about some rich guys bank account - when often it's a zero sum game.

Every dollar in an investors pocket should be a dollar on your pocket in term of reduced price etc..

So aside from some things he may be able to do t bring the share price up ... I'm wary that much at all will actually benefit Twitter, and he could ruin it.

I don't personally care about it, but it's an important media tool - it's how a lot of information gets out.
What does "unperson" mean?
Macros were one of the biggest mistakes that C allowed, along with the undefined behavior.

Not allowing macros means a more standardized reference implementation, which translates to a more readable code overall.
If that's the case, let it be client side RNG and not an RNG run server side, thanks.
No, I certainly don't believe that. But if they report on one billionaire buying a major media platform / outlet, shouldn't they do it for the others? I mean, it's not like this stuff happens everyday.
only because the job market is so good.
That's nice. I don't think that has anything to do with the actual definition of fascism, but I'm sure you feel like you have made a good point, and that's really special.
> in the US it is $400k and rising

Actually the latest quarter median prices fell in the US, which may continue as interest rates increase.

Broadly speaking though, prices certainly are up over the last couple years.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS
Turns out they never actually scaled their mailbox pattern. As a result, what you see is what they delivered before timeout.
To be fair, in order to produce co2 as a brewer, you must first have a sugar source for the yeast to eat. This is typically grain, which captures the co2 from the air using solar energy. Farming clearly also has an impact on the environment requiring energy and water to produce and transport, but the co2 locked up in that grain would be released to the environment most of the other ways that grain could get metabolized. Seems like not that bad of an outcome really.
They aren't taking away anything, they would be diluting the 51% shareholder's shares. They're giving themselves the option to fend off a hostile take over by making the pool bigger so that no one can get to 51% ownership.
Didn't you have to maintain an inventory of burned out bulbs for the duration of the lease to pull off the swaparoo here?
So far, I just deal with the annoyance. It is indeed only a <5 minute operation, but it's just a pain (shut services down, shut instance down, resize, start instance, start services).

The problem is it's the exact kind of pain that I avoid, so many times I just keep the larger (8-core) instance up and just eat the cost. I should probably script this to solve this pain point, but I'd SO rather have a setup that doesn't require this sort of jiggering.
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Are the soldiers carrying 32 inch satellite dishes with a clear view of the sky?
I've worked on very large scale recommendation systems at a FAANG. If Twitter's system resembles anything like ours, the concept of publishing or open sourcing "the algorithm" doesn't make sense.

Even if we were to open source all associated code and publish all related documents it would be very difficult to make sense of the entire system. That is precisely why companies such as Twitter A/B test the hell out of everything. What most people think of as "the algorithm" is a complex system that receives many inputs (maybe hundreds) and has dependencies on many other internal Twitter services. Tweets likely pass through multiple filtering steps as well as scoring before you ever see them. Each of these steps is highly contextual, depending on: location, past tweets, verification status, etc. You can attempt to predict the effect of a certain change, but you never know the actual outcome until you test it.

I think what will ultimately happen is that _some_ details will be published. Elon will parade that around as a victory for free speech as Twitter is now more "open". In reality, nothing of value will be gained as "the algorithm" isn't a simple function.
At this point, what harm would that do to Twitter? The company's tech has been stagnant for years, and the only real features recently have been attempts to exploit Twitter's network effects to ape Clubhouse & Substack. (Seems successful for the former, kind of a failure for the latter.)
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> I don't that a compelling argument for defining hate speech.

I'm not trying to define hate speech, I'm saying that there's no hate there to begin with and so all we're left with is an argument over reality (or the terms we use to describe it): is a woman an adult human female, or is there something else we have to consider?

In your counterexamples, black people/women are being declared strictly inferior. That's not the case here - Levine isn't lessened by being an adult human male.

If you want something censored, the onus should be on you to prove that it is hateful, not on someone else to prove that it is not. For that, you need to define hate speech and explain how the Babylon Bee's post fits that definition alongside the examples you just gave.
You can open source the model code.

And developers will be able to train a model using it on a subset of Twitter data. Just that the quality of the outcome won't be the same as having the full set of Twitter data.
Ever heard of Pseudocode which happens to be human-readable? If they are really going do it they will release source code for programmers and in general computer scientists to analyse and on top of that they will release pseudocode which non-techincal people can somewhat understand.
We have real life examples of "Real names" polices simply creating further extreme rhetoric canceling out Moderate voices. Anonymous Speech enables moderate voices, contrary to the popular narrative that is only enables extreme voices.
Or is it six cats in a basement with a laser pointer and a mouse?

The point of releasing it is to let people know exactly why they see the tweets they do in the order they do. I hope Elon just goes back to time base ordering of tweets.
Our code tends to be shipped running on top of a relatively up-to-date version of linux. So we tend to go through the pain of testing/refactoring needed to get to the next version of C++ when we upgrade to the next stable version of linux that we're going to support.
It's engineering, at this point.

I'm quite sure that Musk understands the engineering totally and makes important contributions. Plus, his instincts in providing direction as a CEO are excellent. Very few CEOs understand tech like Musk does.
> 100% agree that submarine life is better than a surface ship.

Maybe it's different now, but I spent a week riding an SSN as an NROTC midshipman, when I had orders to nuke school a few weeks later (I was commissioned right after first-class cruise and had already gone through The Interview with the KOG; long story). In nuke school I switched to surface, asked for and got sent to the Enterprise, and was pretty happy to be there at the center of the action with great port calls. Standing OOD underway on a carrier — the officer on watch who's in charge of the entire ship, and de facto of the task force — was the most rewarding thing I've ever done professionally, especially during evolutions such as night flight ops. And you deal with (and learn to lead) sailors of all educational levels and from all walks of life, not just the cream of the crop as on subs.
If you click to zoom an image and then zoom in more using a mac touchpad, the website throws an error and ceases to display any content. I miss the internet of the 90s
If skills worked like official titles and acquiring one meant losing another, this would be a serious problem.

Fortunately, people can and regularly do gain expertise in multiple things! Just as learning how to program doesn't destroy one's previously acquired drawing or writing skills, learning how to manage capital doesn't destroy someone's ability to combat fraud or detect malicious bots.
Why does everyone use child porn as an argument against freedom of speech? Child porn is legally required to be taken down per section 230.
Structured light is modulated in space rather than time. Accordingly, distance is inferred from offset in space (pixel, ie. angle) rather than time (phase).
I have seen the modern version of piracy and there is no way to compete with it.

Full polished web-apps to browse and select titles to download, automatically, which appear almost instantly in your plex/emby/jellyfin server, which give a superior UI for queuing up titles and tracking progress, that play on any and every device in your house. Full quality, (usually) the exact same bits, no DRM.

Here’s the killer - there is now a multitude of services that will do ALL of the above for you without having to lift a finger. They run the backend infra, put the media server on a 1 Gbps pipe in a datacenter, run a reverse proxy somewhere nearby that you have decent peering with, and it just works. If they have a large enough base of users, you hardly ever have to do the request step and just have a firehose of literally everything being released, plus the back catalogue of almost everything released on Bluray.

You basically have the dream of Netflix (aka Spotify for video) right now and it can cost as little as $10/mo. Share your media server just like your Netflix login with your friends and family even. It’ll spread just like that, and it’s impossible to compete against.