skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the de facto only place you can get lots of useful information in tech twitter. The overwhelming majority of good posts I find about interesting snippets, articles about anything from css to typescript and haskell I find them in tweets.

Signal to noise ratio is indeed very high, and sadly I see too much content I don't care about, which makes me abandon Twitter for weeks, but I think that it could be fixed.
Google App Engine: Cloud Control to Major Tom (2008)
I don't have many complaints with this currently. Appreciate the more power-user type syntax they have in the interface.

Also searching users with curl and the api works great too.
Musk could have screwed the other shareholders by buying 51% and leaving it at that.

Hostile takeovers haven’t been common for a while, and so twitter was unprepared when one started.
It's reset on me 6 times across two accounts. I know because I complained ... on Twitter
I think that its quite qualitatively different if they aren't being directly funded by Elon's pocketbook.

True shilling feels significantly more morally repugnant than these sorts of 'coattail-riders', but their impact is certainly similar.
They've gone full circle: this is bootstrap implemented in tailwind. How funny.

EDIT: It is funny because I've been looking for something opinionated like Bootstrap, but that can be tree-shaken to a smaller package, like Tailwind, but I don't want have to redesign every dang component.
Trolls existed back in the days of Aristotle as well, so "the existence of trolls" is not quite sufficient. The part that is new is the ability for trolling to have hugely asymmetric impact. Before it was a voice in the town square everyone knew to ignore, now it's troll farms from the other side of the world.

But I'm starting to think even that doesn't really get to the heart of the issue. I think there's something about the network effects that leads to a dumbing down even if everyone thinks they are arguing in good faith. I feel like I've noticed a negative difference in discussion quality even over the past year. I can read a reddit headline now and feel more confident I can predict the content of the top two or three comments, the lazy popular thoughtless replies. And I've seen emergence of widely upvoted opinions that you know people adopt not because they've thought through it themselves, but because they've seen it two or three other places and thought it sounded good, irrespective of truth or accuracy. So I think we're seeing behavior that appears trollish even though it may not have come from actual trolls. Call it structural trollism, maybe.
this is/was important because people can copy someone's profile pic and come up with a username that's close ie @elonmmusk

this used to be a big deal because people could steal celebrity handles. that's why many famous accounts start with @theReal...

celebrities being reachable on twitter is a big part of the appeal. anything that helps them to protect their brands is good for business
There's basically no tool for doing that, aside from relying on tests to tell you a callsite is now incorrect. "find and replace" is... okay, up to a point, but obviously that has its limitations (especially once you start metaprogramming).

That being said, I still love Ruby. I have all sorts of little tools written in it that would have been a pain to do in another language.
That “1956 kitchen of tomorrow” is still gorgeous and futuristic.
A 21st Century Software and Ethics Manifesto [pdf]
A 21st Century Software Ethics Manifesto
:facing unbridled realities brought about by software

Bradley A. Pliam

Copyright 2022, All rights reserved.

Preface

I am, more often than not, prone to withholding my work from the public’s view until a refined,
complete end-product has been arrived at. However, the issues addressed by this manifesto
have a level of urgency, such that it made sense to relax in my commitment to this rule with
regard to completeness even though I hope and believe that I have paid sufficient attention to its accuracy. Given the ticking of the clock on many of the problems that humans face, I felt
compelled in this instance to deliver a document into the hands of readers as soon as I could.
By my calculation, 2022 was the time, ready or not, polished or not, to pull the trigger on getting this thing out.
Did a judge confirm your allegations ? Are we still governed by the law ?
Initiative always sounds great but it only works in a proper information environment. This is where the officer/ncm divide comes into play. Showing real initiative means apparently disobeying "orders". To do that you have to understand both your commander's intent when giving those orders and your commander's commander's (your 2-up) intent. That means knowing about other units and their roles in the operation. That's the stuff of officers. Supporting initiative means pushing information down, keeping lower-level officers aware of what is happening in other units. A senior NCM will spend time with his subordinates getting and keeping them ready. The officer will spend time way from his subordinates at meetings/briefs learning about what other units are doing. Long-winded chats with senior officers is how junior officers come to understand their intent. WWII Germany was very good at pushing that information down to junior officers. Russia, recently, has not.

Example: A platoon sergeant may know that the platoon has been ordered to be at X location at Y time. They can do lots of interesting stuff to make that deadline. But they don't have eyes on the entire reason for being at that location because they weren't in the planning meetings at the HQ. The LT was. The LT may "show initiative" by deliberately being late/early to the location because he perhaps sees that the operation is progressing more slowly/quickly than anticipated. The sergeant's job it to know everything about his subordinates in order to get them to do what is needed. The officer's job is to understand everything about how his platoon fits into the larger picture and, occasionally, adapt orders to support that vision.
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I would love for an investigative journalist to try to find an Elon-funded shill network.

I personally suspect that his army of stans is large enough he doesn't need shills, but it'd certainly be a huge story if they could prove he was funding shills.
Ask HN: Are there viable alternatives to Twitter?
> do you have any evidence this has resulted in a worse mathematics education

Yes. Holding back advanced kids from taking Algebra I or other higher level classes until high school materially harms their progression and ability to learn college level math as teenagers, which in turn harms their ability to learn higher math in college. When I was in middle school I took the equivalent of Algebra I in 6th grade. That's a 3 year gap to taking it in high school.

In China they teach Algebra I in elementary school. How does mandating everyone stick to the same track of mediocrity help America's competitiveness?

> Is it possible that is just your perception as a person who may not support education on gender and race?

Modern woke "education" on race/gender focuses exclusively on black/latino races and LGBT peoples. There is no discussion of other races which have historically been, as woke people say, oppressed, such as Middle Eastern or Asian people. There is a single minded idea that black/latino/LGBT/women must be the only oppressed groups and that anyone else with a dissenting opinion to this is invalid or privileged. That lack of critical thinking and discussion is not what our kids should be learning.

For example, no discussion is given to the fact that Jews were historically discriminated against by Harvard and other prestigious schools, because Jews are mostly white. Similarly no discussion is given to the fact that Asians today are discriminated against by Harvard and other prestigious schools and corporations. There is no discussion on the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese concentration camps of WWII. Why? Because Asians are "overrepresented" and serve as a counterexample to the narrative that systemic discrimination can't be overcome with hard work.
>I've always wanted a feature that just bins similar reactions together, so I don't have to read them. For example, I'd love replies to be binned into categories like "cruel disparagement", "wilful misunderstanding", "mindless agreement", "fallacious", "opinion as fact", and "threats and doxing".

The problem has always been who gets to decide those things, not that it would be nice to have. And since no one can be trusted to do that, we don't get to have it.
I set it two years ago too, and then a couple months ago they changed the app and again tried to foist it on me twice. I changed back twice, and had it changed once again - this last time seems to have stuck. I have another Twitter account (newer) that I don't log into frequently and it's happened on that one 3 times for a total of 6 between my two accounts. Oddly, I have one biz account that's never changed.
Charges were dropped and the law was changed. The case was handled really bad so by Merkel.
Not to mention the resource utilization. I feel the code could be more optimized for a WebGL-based project.
Stupid is as stupid does, Lieutenant Dan.

This twit started his own social media platform and as of this date, is still yet to use it himself.
For a long time referring to ____ race (or women, etc) as having a naturally lower intelligence was "an objective statement of reality" to the vast majority of people, so I don't that a compelling argument for defining hate speech.

Especially in this case where it was targeted at an individual, and not just a conservative blog post on transgenderism being linked to etc. Notice that Ben Shapiro et al have not been banned.
range-v3 is a great library allowing you to bridge the gap: https://github.com/ericniebler/range-v3
Dangerous speech, under US law, is that which is a credible and imminent danger to a person.

> Trump's right to lie, attack our Republic, spread violence.

I'd be happy with a right to lie, because it implicitly protects the rights of all others to speak truth.

Would "attack our Republic" include via speech? Then I support a right to "attack" a republic, any republic.

How does one "spread violence" that one is not engaged in?
> What the fuck happened to us?

The system appears to have come under existential pressure.

I used to be a free speech absolutist. I'm wondering, now, if absolute free speech is like direct democracy. It's fine in theory. But if we look at its history, the track record consistently veers towards chaos. (Much more for direct democracies than free speech, though.) A value set can be laudable but useless if any attempt at manifesting it tears its host apart.

I haven't made up my mind one way or the other. But the debate unfolding across society doesn't seem unreasonable. (My hunch is the problem is dark-box amplification algorithms married to ad-supported business models. Not Billy Bob tweeting KKK NFTs or whatever.)
Clive Thompson on the Death of the Phone Call (2010)
There's also a tutorial by the guy who made that site in the OP https://selforglive.github.io

I haven't gone through it yet, but plan to in the next few days.
If you watch any of the starbase videos (part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t705r8ICkRw)

It's clear he knows a thing or two about rockets. Obv no single person is designing the thing, but it's clear he's highly involved.
It's interesting that this happened soon after Amazon closed its physical stores. If online retailers struggle to get distribution with non-targeted ads, then physical retail is an expensive answer. Maybe the right format (Obvious mall kiosks for digital shopping, etc) might help.
Truth is only some of the "trolls" historically have been banned on Twitter. The ones the board agreed with were allowed to keep at it.
Like I leave the house…
you have noooo idea then :cringe:
The “legal” section has goofed “black diamond question marks” in it; I think they might be single quotes. Hopefully the paste below shows them around ‘Terms’, ‘User’, ‘you’ and etc.

> The following terms and conditions (the �Terms�) govern your (the �User� �you� or �your�) access to, and viewing and use of folio.ink�s ("we," "us," "our") website located at http://folio.ink (the �Site�).
Judging by Tesla, Elon isn’t big on UX.
I read the first two pages and still had no idea what this was supposed to be about, so I stopped reading it. Needs an abstract at the top to get me to commit to 78 pages.
Could someone tell me what things “woke” Twitter has removed that were wrong to be removed?

I am genuinely curious - because I recall terrorists, white supremacists, Nazis, homophobic, transphobic, and antisemitic content.

I recall them stopping promotion of the violent overthrow of the US

None of this seems bad, unless you are a free speech absolutionist, in which case you also have to publish Al Qaeda, ISIS, child abuse, etc, alongside your storm front streams
Author could have said the same coming from a Masters-level degree in biology, not just as an amateur. Especially if not burdened with the necessity of speaking the truth from their real name.

While I appreciate the selfless heroes of ER, to truly eradicate diseases of aging a more fundamental approach is necessary. It likely starts with a decent education in life sciences and continues in biotech/longevity entrepreneurship or in public-private scientific projects.

If someone is so inclined and is bright enough to retire early in tech, European universities provide a cheap and solid path to necessary knowledge and credentials.
'Looks remarkably similar to The Simpsons' kitchen.
The rub for me here is that making one change in a core library ideally wouldn't touch 100+ other source files. This feels like a separation of concerns issue in which a module is being over used.

Perhaps I'm just in the wrong headspace, as I have never had to work in a monorepo fashion. That being said just because your code is in a monorepo, does that directly mean that you aren't versioning your libraries?

To my understanding most package management tooling in most echo systems allow for versioning. With that said, wouldn't you slowly roll out the version to the downstream projects Monorepo or not?
This resonates with a basic "anti management" feeling I have. I don't hate managers as people. I often really like them. But I hate what the title "manager" does to people. Like "domestic engineers" and "waste engineers" of the past, it's basically become a title grab for "get paid more money." In particular for managers, it usually establishes a "the principal said I can climb higher than you on the jungle gym, and from this point, I'm to wield authority over how you play on said gym." They may even protest "how bad it is up here" and "how I'm suffering for you."

What I really wish would happen, is that we'd abolish the title "manager" as overly vague and oft abused, and instead just call it what it is.

- Public Relations (go to meetings)

- Clerk (push papers, manage minutia)

- Meeting Caller/Planner

- etc

Anecdotally, an off the cuff euphemism from my Advanced Fluid Dynamics Professor in the early 90's still holds too true all to oft in my experience. He had great rapport with our class of ~100 students. After one test, the class was collectively whining about grading to a curve. After humoring us for a bit, he said something like "Look, you A students, you're going to go out in industry for a bit, but the lack of idealism is going to frustrate you, and you'll be back here soon with me. You B students know what compromise is. When it's good enough. That's why you're going to make great engineers." And then he turned to begin his lecture like that was it. And someone yelled out "wait, what about us C students." "Management" was his terse reply.

(Apologies to the venn intersection of managers <-> HN readers <-> "A" students.)
I think a much better guardrail would be better context. Unfortunately much of the average population may not be interested in that so much as getting their rage or cute animal picture hit, and that's going to be a huge societal challenge going forward as misinformation itself is now its own lever of power. Just muddying the water exerts a powerful influence on societal stability. But a platform designed explicitly to fill in the details surrounding an issue so that simple mistruths lose some of their power could help. Using dark algorithms and UI for light instead, and using all those carefully researched nudges to get people to find facts instead of rage mob.
Mastodon, scuttlebutt
Doesn't look so potential anymore: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/25/twitter-accepts-elon-musks-b...
Yeah, the book also passes Taleb's Skin in the Game test: the author is also the practitioner of what he wrote about.
> "Linux doesn't come close to Windows in terms of reliability..."

I can't tell if you being extremely sarcastic or lack experience running both of these OS's...
I suspect the "words" are post-hoc rationalization for default mode network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_mode_network
Yeah, you know, it could be fake, or maybe the owner of that account wasn't literally calling to use nuclear weapons to kill Jewish people.

But come on, the account name is, literally on it's own, a violation of the first rule of the Twitter Safety rules.
Using Single Sign-On with Discord and FusionAuth
Yup.

A project that can absorb refactors safely has a lot more headroom than one where every change has to be an incremental one near the leaves.
There is a school of thought in robotics/AI that believe embodiment is necessary (or at least the fastest way) for us to learn abstract thought. Embodiment can really span the gamut of meanings, but there are definitely researchers that believe humanoid robots are the best path forward to that goal.

If you have a more specific goal in mind, e.g. solving a small set of industrial/commercial use cases, that changes the calculus dramatically.
I think the answer was Verdana years ago but not so much today with higher dpi screens. Verdana was designed for CRTs around 800x600, with wide letter forms and kerning, to get ample spacing between glyph elements. It's the champion of readability in that format, but on a modern 1920+ display with subpixel rendering rather than an aperture grill, Verdana feels too big and clunky.
> Taking a moment to think about how utterly crazy it is that in 2022 a company with a significant dataset of private and public communications, that has municipalities, companies and governments on the platform, can switch ownership with pretty much zero scrutiny

What you're saying is why do regulations allow for this? Idk, but this is a regulatory question, and therefore it should be directed at the government not at the billionaire in question.
> Instead, teach them to yearn for a system that's not total bullshit.

I worked for an organization full of such people. Intelligent, competent, and worked hard. And yet... the system, ehh...

(I've read the Citadelle on a long bus ride many years ago. It was exactly what I needed to read back then, I enjoyed it very much. Thank you for reminding me of it.)
The problem with this line of thought is that there are sites like Gab that serve the exact same purpose as Twitter but without content moderation. And the problems there are pretty obvious. How does Musk-Twitter avoid becoming Gab? Or is that actually somehow a desirable outcome?
Show HN: Unbiased Product Review Platform
Good analysis from Matt Levine for those who are interested:https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...
> My very limited experience is that teams can generally self-manage this sort of thing.

My experience is that they can absolutely not self-manage these things, it leads to literally living out lord of the flies in chaotic and dysfunctional teams, that are full of infected conflicts and stalled progress.

On the other hand, what exactly is it that gives you the impression that decision making is suddenly not needed? And what makes you believe that a group of people with different goals and interests, should spontaneously just "get along", especially when there's money involved?
The most accurate, currently used ICBMs can have a CEP ranging from 10 to 130 meters so they can probably be used that way. Most ICBMs also have a configurable "detonation" height, meaning they can probably be set low enough to severely damage a nuclear plant reactor containment building. Not sure if they are powerful enough to vaporize the fuel rods though.

But as you said, at that point, it wouldn't really matter anymore.
> You're opening the floodgates to massive governmental and corporate control.

The irony of this statement in a discussion about taking a public company private
> What’s the consequence for employees? People with 3 years left of vesting RSUs. Will those keep vesting somehow? Or they’ll get an upfront payout?

It varies. I'll preface this by saying I am not privy to the specifics of this deal, but in general this depends on the terms of the options plan. Some employees may have their options accelerated upon triggering events like a change of control. Others may have options accelerated on a "double trigger" such as a chance of control followed by termination.

> And what’s my incentive to work for an established private company with no stock growth prospect? I guess Twitter will have to pay 500k senior eng. salaries in cash instead of stock?

You don't need publicly traded securities to have deferred compensation. Shares continue to exist even if the company is private and liquidity events can be structured to allow employees to cash out in a "controlled and deferred" fashion. Plus you could structure deferred compensation entirely without those liquidity events or shares for that matter. Just promise to pay people $X in Y years
Thanks for the input. Google docs gave a nice outline but the exported .pdf doesn't provide that. I'll work on this
Musk doesn't care what the Kingdom does, he is just trolling.
I contributed to this project for this reason. Hare exists as itself and for a purpose. The libre ethos, the simplicity, the design, with people and the future in mind. The dilligence in having a standard, the commitment to supporting libre platforms, and not bending knees to non-free ones just because they are the norm; e.g. not being afraid to dream. Not adopting whatever hype-train technology bandwagon or corporate interest. Hare stands out as something special.
Would be cool to do a deep analysis of all of the dark PR and astroturfing, then once they have solid data, make all the data about it public. Expose who is paying for shills and what the shills are saying.

Could be a wikileaks-level society shaking revelation.
I belief the Netherlands uses a high powered laser much like a rust removal laser in some parts. But it’s not widely rolled out.
On the co2 argument. The release of the co2 itself is one thing. But keeping it cryogenic and applying it isn’t free either. Not sure if it’s more energy intensive than a high powered laser though.
It appears you are mistaking 're-platforming Trump' (more similar to selling books) with actually being Trump (more similar to lying to people).
how many applications could this hypothetical process handle in a day? 100? 1000?

twitter has 213 million active users. imagine if 20% of them want to get verified. it would take decades
I would add an ability to follow more than 5000 people. I follow mostly AI/ML researchers in the field and this limit is nausiating. Why can't there be more than 5000 interesting people in the world?

I would also add ability to privately mark people as "Friend", "Collegue", "Trusted" etc so that I can influence algos to show more stuff from people I care. Facebook has this feature to mark friend as "Favorite" and it has seriously improved my newsfeed. Unfortunately, they limit it to 30 and it's just nonsensical.
Twitter Locks Down Product Changes After Agreeing to Takeover