skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
old.reddit.com/r/PromptSharing/comments/ubff9u/celestial_sea_floor/

This is art. Generative algorithms are simply new tools to work in digital visual media. Fancy stencils. They're tapping into the same algorithms humans might use to generate things by hand, since they're function approximators trained in human output, but they're not ethically or legally more interesting than photoshop, to me, until there's a reason to question whether the tool or software is conscious. Until then, it's cleverly arranged math modules used to good effect.
Thank you for the thoughtful rebuttal. It’s definitely making me rethink my analogy within your framework.

Long live HN.
I am looking forward to stop using Twitter myself, but there are so many communities not related to politics and social division on there. Amateur Radio is a big one that I’ll miss.
I'm glad he's doing it.
Question: Twitter is currently trading at 51.something USD.

> Twitter stockholders will receive $54.20 in cash for each share of Twitter common stock that they own upon closing of the proposed transaction

Isn't there an arbitrage profit here of ~$3 per stock or something? Am I completely nuts or is it a sure thing to throw literally all money at twitter right now haha.
My instinct is that the causal arrow begins with earthquakes and disposable (timber-based) building practices, which keep housing/structures from being viewed as stable long-term vehicles
Super secret things often go this way too, to avoid potential loss or theft.

I was working on the demo software for the on-stage reveal of a certain super secret cell phone from a certain manufacturer. Every time the phone had to have its firmware updated or the hardware switched out some guy had to come to my office and carry it back in-person to the HQ.

I remember one time I wrote the codename of the device on the outside of the anonymous box because I was worried the courier person might end up just leaving it at the reception at HQ and then the box would get opened by someone who shouldn't be seeing it. I thought having the codename on the outside would at least let it get routed internally to the team working on it.

I got a very, very angry phone call from someone at certain manufacturer swearing and cursing at me saying that someone could have seen the name and everything would have been exposed, blah blah. Total bullshit.

In the end the demo went ahead successfully in front of a world-wide audience. The live demo was supposed to be loaded onto some certain servers, but time ran out and it ended up running off a PC in my business partner's closet over his home DSL. A certain CEO was not aware of this as he held the device on stage. Watching the event on a stream from the BBC was a pants soiling moment.
Two shots in 5 years ago . PTSD free for 5 years

U don't have to do it forever. If it comes back take another shot
The structure of the German high command also encouraged infighting and squabbling for resources between the Wehrmacht, Kriegsmarine, Luftwaffe and SS
What does less wokeness mean? Does it mean being more tolerant of abusive language? Does it mean being less tolerant of inclusive language? Both? Something else?

I've heard folks ask for less wokeness, but I don't know what that would look like.
I don't see how there can be a functioning democracy without freedom of speech (with very few limitations) and equal treatment under the law.

What I find really scary is that since left-wing has become to mean the same as liberal, a large part of the US population has come to define themselves as anti-liberal when I really hope that is not true.
Remind me of Drakon Editor.
Unfortunately, I think it will require new laws for people to have any control over how their content is used in training ML models. Current models seem sufficiently transformative to meet today’s fair use criteria.

> If not, how big does a data set have to be before I can claim the output is novel and proprietary?

There isn’t some exact N. That’s like asking how tall is tall. It’s fuzzy.
I suspect they will be more fairly applied than what is currently done.
Trump says he won’t return to Twitter if his account is reinstated
Please cite how you can't criticize Saudi families on Twitter.
Okay. Now actually let's see how "free speech absolutist" Musk will deal with this account:

https://twitter.com/elonmuskjet

It's will tell us a lot about his plans with Twitter.
If you are serious, you want the people working on your compiler to have been doing paid work, and to have demonstrated some capacity for abstract thought. Your language might not be meant for those people; Go and Java, famously, weren't, but demonstrated a language for "the rest" had a ready audience.
I get what the author is saying, but static analysis aside I would do all that I can to avoid a 178 file update. I get that sorbet is allowing them to do this with higher confidence but even in a language that's compiled (thus performing a similar role to Sorbet) that much change is asking for trouble.

If making a single update touches that many source files, then they may want to take a look at their code organization and architecture as that is a whole heck of a lot!
I agree with you (and thanks for the nice discussion) and think it's really a different cultural interpretation. I would say that most Germans would say free speech is a value in general, which should be upheld by the government and for example the work place (and there are laws to protect people there) whereas the U.S. is more focus on the government part (just an observation).

I think both have their historic reasons, place and differences.
Interesting approach I learned about today… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
Got it - thank you!
That's one approach. Regulation is another--we have regulatory models and regimes for broadcast television, radio, and newspaper. Social media is a bit more complex as it is both broadcast and at times bi-directional, but I suspect a lot of concepts between mediums still apply.

EDIT: I'd appreciate counterpoints over downvotes. This isn't Reddit. Make your thoughts known, I welcome insights or opinions other than my own.
Not going to work for the sort of use case this discussion thread seems to be aimed at - people that are working 2x (or more?) run-of-the-mill 'day jobs'.
propaganda, spam, shilling, bots. If they have a see only verified (maybe ideally as a default) it would help a huge amount with the big societal problems that have been created by government sponsored lies.
As a german history student, I think this is the pretty commonly held view. I think the best German example was Ludendorff. Early in the war, as a fairly junior officer, he bluffed the citadel at Liege into surrendering all by his lonesome. It set him up for the eastern command with Hindenberg and then later as the proto-Hitlerian dictator of Germany at the end of World War I.

That said - the word on initiative and discipline is right. Prussian military tradition gave German officers very wide latitude to make their own decisions, until it interfered with the political state or their superiors commands.

That said, even great officers can't win against overwhelming odds and opponents with dramatic material superiority.
I don't know that its current to the latest version of Tailwind however
The development of SQLite as it matures into more and more production ready DB reminds me a lot of the story behind the GE J85 engine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_J85

It started out life as a disposable engine for a decoy missile and so the engineers took a very lightweight approach to it and kept the costs down. It would later be adapted to be used for more permanent aircrafts and ended up being one of GE's most successful and longest serving engines.
Basic concepts referring to what precisely?
Do you think it’s possible for the understanding of complex scientific phenomena like the type of spread of a novel virus to change as scientists gain more knowledge? Or do you just get one shot, and that’s the final answer forever?
You'd be surprised how many people active in the M&A market don't know. For instance, I regularly get glazed over eyes when I ask parties to sign a letter of non-reliance.
I use it and still like it...

Except 5.1 that broke my homemade dark theme implementation with their use of css variables ;)
Bezos' Post, Musk's Twits, what did Zuck buy? who else is joining the party?
I wonder what the support % of allowing Trump back on is.

At least it would make his social media scam/grift less valuable. but big societal damage imho
Every time i need to read some text longer than a few lines, I run Firefox Reader mode. It is great.
> I had to learn this in college, many years ago.

I majored in Computer Science and Physics. Which of these disciplines would mergers and acquisitions have been in? Should my algorithms class taught us about diluted stock and RSUs vs ISOs? Does my quantum mechanics professor have a unit on hostile takeovers?
It still boggles my mind how none of the big media conglomerates haven't even tried to set up their own servers.

To me is the biggest evidence that big media doesn't really care about the the quality of public discourse of the dominance of closed platforms, and all those editorials are just posturing.
More likely, use it as a political platform.
... and? That's not related to whether the said functionalities get implemented or not is it.
Some other rich men already had that control.
The fact that the comment you are responding to seems to represent a mainstream and legitimized perception of twitter and the broader concept of free speech gives me zero confidence that we are headed towards more free speech.

I'm considering running for president on a one issue platform: A constitutional amendment to criminalize false claims that a non-governmental actor has violated your free speech.
You cannot remove Elon Musk from the discussion. He is a public figure[0]; the same discussion would not apply to you (I presume) or me (I know).

What exactly a 'public figure' is depends on the given legal system. But its pretty clear that is a public figure, by any definition. He's among the most wealthy (some might say; obscenely wealthy) persons on the planet and thus enjoys outrages amounts of social and political leverage.

Of course he doesn't enjoy the same rights to privacy as you and me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_figure
This. PHP is PHP just like Javascript is Javascript. Their growth process was a bunch of people needing things and just implementing them one by one without a grand design. It kinda works, but it'll never be Good in a theoretical sense.

Disturbingly for us language geeks, it doesn't seem to matter at all that they're not very good.
I would expect that feature roughly the same time I expect full self driving in Teslas, or the Cybertruck, or a mission to Mars. Musk makes lots of promises.
To be fair, 'free speech' isn't even something a company can force themselves to follow. Short of selling to the US Government (who would have to explicitly accept such an offering), being bound by free speech isn't possible without making your own rules for what qualifies as free speech and what happens when the platform 'violates' it - ie. you can't say "take all matters of violating your first amendment to civil court" since corporations, by design, cannot violate your first amendment rights.
Ha!, it hadn’t occurred to me to call it a workflow – but it is, I guess. Sometimes it’s just hitting Print in the browser. Sometimes I turn on Safari’s Reader view and print that. For some reason,
things printed on the Booklet setting tend to get read sooner. (“Booklet” is a macOS printing feature. It prints two pages on each sheets and orders them so the pile of paper can be keel-stapled into a booklet. Some printer drivers have it too, and Acrobat Reader as well I believe.)

I try to have fonts set to those two ones I mentioned. Through overrides or preferences. On occasion I’ve converted to Markdown and applied a stylesheet. This seems to work. I read a bit more. Get around to it easier. It might be the ritual, it might be the result. Probably both.

I tend to be quite picky about monitors, though I wish I wasn’t. (It’s a handicap,
being this fussy!) The models I end up buying tend to be pretty well calibrated from the factory. LG IPS monitors are good. Right now I have an LG CX 55” OLED TV as my programming display. It is very good. It’s fussy to set up; macOS doesn’t support HDMI 2.1 so right now it isn’t possible to get full, crisp 4:4:4 color and 120Hz at the same time. I go with 120Hz 4:2:0; Some color/background combos are noticeably blurry, but the fluidity of 120Hz is so, so nice. I don’t agree with it or want it to be that way, but it is :)

I want a color calibrator. Haven’t got one yet. I have borrowed one on occasion from a photographer friend. I find that it makes a difference. There isn’t a glaringly obvious difference, but everything feels tighter and more relaxed at the same time. Grays are more neutral, colors are more vividly themselves. It’s easier on the brain? Kind of like putting fresh tires on a car. Or working in a quieter place. It adds up.

Last time I looked at color calibration devices, the info over at the DisplayCAL site seemed to be very good: https://displaycal.net/
The flip side of that argument is that the home computers of the 1970s and 1980s (the only computery things that would've been priced comparably to a household appliance) had only tiny amounts of storage available to them (and even that storage was highly impractical for sustained use) - they really were little more than glorified desk calculators. So the widely imagined uses in the kitchen or for other sorts of household management tasks could not realistically pan out before the price of modern computers started to slowly drop down in the mid-1990s. Of course the Internet took over not long after, and we all got used to things like looking up recipes on the Web. So there's that, too.
People tend to not create new Twitter accounts all the time.
I got one free from work. Used it once. It’s in a closet somewhere . Until we have full immersion somehow I think it’s not going be for me.
It makes no difference to me who owns it. I barely use Twitter but I guess I might use it more if there are any improvements made. I really don't like Twitter
It's a shame the article ends with "So as usual, consider not writing Ruby, but if you do, ...". That's worthless advice and many people, myself included, have Ruby as their most beloved programming language.
There's a lot more to running a service than getting it running easily. Longevity/stability through applying updates should be engineered too.

The problem is when using Docker, you can't tell what the dependencies are for your app. Telling me i need node or Go or php and/or what database or redis, etc etc gives me an instant feel for how the deployment, as well as how security updates, need to be applied.
Docker is just a black box by comparison... at least to me. All my attempts at running docker solutions on small vms have ended badly (ports opened publically, rampant disk use, poor log files management, lack of security updates...). Seriously, I wish devs would at least list the tech stacks they're using in their apps in the readme.

However, i do grok that people who've embraced the ecosystem would like it that way... but not all techs like it.

For me, the best projects are those that lay it all out, warts and all and then have a separate repo that manages the docker state.
will start using
It is real
I previously deleted my account, will create a new one
I feel like I'm missing some context here... care to share?
Could twitter allow real people to stay anonymous?

As AI generated content approaches 100% of internet content over the next decade (gtp-powered bots, russian troll farms, etc), it will be good to have human verification…

If, after human verification, twitter can implement a zero-trust software means to allow those humans to post anonymously to protect certain dialogue… that would be great.
> The test stimuli were at an approximate 8th grade reading level, which matches our recommendation for web content targeted at a broad consumer audience.

that's depressing to read. but i suppose different people have different strengths.
Probably not leaving unless it gets significantly worse in some way or there is a big enough exodus to other platforms.
The money is going to be a big problem for retention. They'll then be limited to right-wingers but maybe they wanted to outsource the software engineering anyway.
Where were you EFF when Twitter was agog in deplatforming voices that went awry of progressivist ideas? Not hateful stuff, just things that questioned certian things, like effectiveness of masks, source of the virus, etc.

Now these ideas are important again?

It seems the EFF pays attention to political winds.

I also seem to recall them saying, well, free speech is nice and all, but as a private company, eh, it wasn't actually censorship.
It's the sticky crap - sap, cellulose, sugars, plant fats. This can fix larger debris in place, accelerating pitting and weathering of the rail. The co2 pellets freeze the sticky crap, which then gets shattered and dispersed, leaving clean bare metal behind. A scraper or brush would leave nasty residue.
Most people wanting chronological quickly find out they don't really like it anyways, is my guess. Most twitter users I see now follow over a thousand people, scrolling through all that every day is impossible, it needs to be curated somehow.
I think that means making blue checkmarks available for all humans.
It is rather pretentious of one to think that they and only they will be able to deliver justice and freedom to the masses. To think that without their help, the world would not be able to provide for itself on its own and would need course correction or in this case, to be led. Even though intentions may be good, the way chosen to fulfill those intentions may not be. Historical examples of populist leaders and their relationship to the masses have been recorded. Most fearful thing is that the masses may start believing that only the leader can provide for them and may loose the sense of distinction of right and wrong and self-help. The notion of committee and consensus are forgone. When Marcus Aurelius was to be ascended to the throne, he asked his brother to reign alongside him. He took the throne because he had to and not because he wanted to. However, this is an example of savior syndrome at play, which is the fundamental pattern of Musk and his works. In my opinion, it is not gonna be as bad as people think. Nothing is going to change in my view (I may be wrong). However, it is amusing to watch.
> "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.

Why not? How much time and effort have to go in to recognizing shitty behavior (cat calling, brown face, jerking off in front of someone without consent, etc)?

Besides, if they have such a short attention span, they can't cancel anyone -- canceling only works if you keep shunning them for a long period of time.
"Voluntary, non-regretted attrition"
> Twitter is a megaphone, not a public square.

I agree but the analogy is still a bad fit. A better one would be a phone company back in the days of of AT&T's monopoly. If they kicked you off of their service then you'd lose access, in practical terms, to all those people. This was considered enough of a problem in the past that you weren't allowed to lose your phone service for the content of your speech, on or off of the phone.

I think the analogy extends quite well when we consider the lengths other concerns have gone to in crushing competition, the Parler debacle being the most obvious.
>"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.

canceling is a label applied to play the victim when people are being held accountable for things they don't want to be or by people they don't consider equal.
Hell no, Donald Trump is guaranteed to have his account restored and I want to be there for the absolute sh*tstorm that ensues.
Moving to Canada requires moving out of the US. People can, and mostly do, have a presence on more than one social media platform. This is more (exactly) like "I'm not using Digg anymore if they don't role back the changes", which actually happened.
> Social media sites do this because all their stats show that users actually ‘like’ non chronological order even when they say they don’t.

I think the issue is a little deeper: it's not that people want chronological vs. non-chronological timelines, it's that they want a way to get the "best", "most relevant" content to be surfaced from those timelines and presented in a sane way. Non-chronological timelines are better at producing the "best", content (for some relative definition of "best", at least), but by presenting it out-of-order, it requires more of the user.
Hostile takeovers were much more common in the past as well.
To me this is the fascinating thing about Musk that really sets him apart: He has succeeded at building several companies that make real stuff and tackle hard engineering challenges. And it's not just having money to throw at the problem, we know that because Bezos also wanted a Rocket company and threw tons of Cash at it.

Hard to say from the outside what it is exactly that allows him to do that. It makes sense that its hard to say what it is, because if it was easy to describe, chances are it wouldn't be what sets him apart (the other option being that it's hard to emulate).
I honestly don't think it'll change that much. Musk's statements thus far suggest that he lacks a basic understanding of the problems inherent to running a platform like Twitter, so he'll probably just get frustrated and lose interest once he starts running into them. I suspect that the company will end up in the hands of a group indistinguishable from the current board, except they'll be Musk's friends.
As an introverted high iq nominal eq person with an execution bias I routinely find companies that are keen to move me into senior leadership roles.
This post reinforces why I want to work for a good manager but also how I have zero desire to become one.
Maybe in only some states?
Still.. do you think being a top talent in ML guarantees success for your own company, for example? I think there are a lot of valuable skills to have, being an expert in X is just one of them.
> watch Bridgerton (playing on my TV right now) and observe how half the people in regency England, including the Queen, are now black.

Bridgerton is not a documentary, or even historical fiction, it's a romance set in a fantasy setting largely spun off of an extended what-iffing of a long-standing popular (but rejected by all current serious sources) rumor about Queen Charlotte.

Not sure how it's existence supports claims that Netflix is “woke”; sounds a lot like the fringe Christian Right descriptions of any fiction including magical elements (but not exclusively explicitly Christian miracles) as satanic.
That’s bye bye to Twitter then.
Tim Röhn – German Investigative Reporter – So You Know What's Going On
Even beyond "compulsion", it might just take longer to see what I want to see because there is other junk mixed in. If they are just measuring how long I scrolled and how many ads I accidentally clicked in the processed, they might be measuring inefficiency and mistaking it for engagement.
Let’s be honest, cancelling is a good thing as long as you are in power and doing the cancelling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_30

Wolfram believes that Rule 30, and cellular automata in general, are the key to understanding how simple rules produce complex structures and behaviour in nature
what about your friends retweeting.

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.

complicated and can become paternalistic, deciding what is best for someone. but we do that (or used to, vaccines and mask pushback) all the time on other dangers.