skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not clear to me that you can't have it both ways to at least a degree: The corollary of twitter's moderation practices is not "at least there is no abuse".

Even though I'm not a twitter user on multiple occasions I've had to deal with impersonators there pretending to be me and acting abusively towards friends and colleagues with threats and harassment, only to have twitter dumbly respond with that no rules are being broken and only taking action after enduring months of it and rolling the report dice over and over again. In the mean time, I got to watch friends calling out abuse get suspended for harassment and forced to remove their posts.

A lot of people see twitter's moderation as politically motivated, and while I don't doubt that some of it is-- a lot of it is just bad and chaotic: allowing deeply abusive behavior to persist when randomly raining hell fire down on someone who merely said something a bit controversial. That inconsistency convinces people that it's politically motivated because they notice when someone is suspended over something inconsequential while at the same time so many examples of serious abuse continue.

There isn't any guarantee that it's possible to do better, for sure-- but I'd like to think that it's possible. Certainly there are other sites (like HN!) which do a much better job, but they tend to be facing challenges of an entirely different scale.

All that blather aside, the obvious implication of that 5 billion dollar revenue isn't that it could be grown-- it's that much more of it could be returned to twitter's owners. For all twitter spends on development, it still manages to be a service where even its CEO posts photographs of text to tweet longer messages. Perhaps there is a good reason for all the longstanding gaps in functionality-- perhaps twitter is all it could be -- but if so, it could be returning a lot more value to its owners.
Hum... It would be a great point if it was about people tracking him giving money to politicians, buying communication platforms, ads spending, or even random investments.

But tracking where he goes on vacation is really not relevant.

(Yes, the point about airplanes not having privacy stands, so the kid is obviously on the clear. It's just not a worthy social service.)
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What a horrible take that censoring civil truthful factbased discussion is ok because some nutjob might draw wrong conclusions.
Or do the opposite. Change the options to show only flagged content.
This is easily Google-able, or you can follow the links in my previous comment.
This article suggests that inflammation in response to the surgery is the problem, but as far as I know, anesthesia itself is very dangerous. It can reduce the amount of oxygen the brain is getting for several hours, and if the brain doesn't get enough oxygen, neurons can die. Some of the cognitive changes following anesthesia could be brain tissue death due to the anesthesia itself. Careful dosage and monitoring is required, and you should probably get local anesthesia if possible.

Anesthesia kills brain cells, but what does it mean?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5119529
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"The first thing I look for in a resume is a GitHub URL. If I can find that, I stop reading the resume and start reading code."

Many others have commented on this line so just throwing in my opinion.

I have long wondered if my lack of having public code on GitHUb has been an issue with getting hired. (Not that I really have issues, but you have to wonder what opportunities you did not get).

My lack of any code isn't out of a lack of love of coding (I in fact do, I have a few personal projects I have just never chosen to open source them... largely because I know that I made some questionable decisions since I had no code review). I also struggle with getting into working with other projects, not necessarily out of a lack of desire but it just feels daunting.

I do truly understand the desire for this, but if this is something the hiring manager was looking for... I would hope that once they do hire someone they encourage them to open source some of what they are working on or contribute to projects while working.
> I can't tell you how depressing I found it when Musk described Twitter as the "town square"

I'm now imagining a medieval town in an all-out drunken brawl.
They aren't. There are sometimes hacked verified accounts being abused, and I guess charging for the checkmark would result in less verified accounts and thus less hacked accounts... but bit of a reach :)

Those are also not really the problem.
So Mars will be a totalitarian state where conflict is verboten?
I suspect that it'll be for replies from accounts with substantially the same name and avatar as the original poster, and that it won't be just for him.

And that's good, I think - a better investment direction than NFT avatars.
That may work.

Though it will also exclude people that can't afford it. I'm thinking of poor people and children. The kind of people who use computers at the local library, because they can't afford their own device (and more expensively) the Internet connection to make it useful.

And yes, I realize that some of the above groups are also absolute shits, who I would keep off the Internet (if I could) until they decided to grow up.
Man, another million comment thread with the same arguments.

Of course it can turn into a cesspool. Of course there are ways around that problem. Like allowing more customizability for users.

For example: an ‘old Twitter’ filter that would only show content compatible with the old moderation norms.

Use your imagination, intelligent tech folks, instead of airing the same hyperventilating opinions.
He's still on Twitter, as recently as this morning.
Who is going to pay? There's at most a few tens of thousands of people who care about their identity being verified on Twitter (because they're journalists, company leaders, politicians). How much is Twitter worth to those people? Probably not $10,000 per year, so we're talking about a very limited additional revenue source.

For a lot of other people on Twitter, the pseudo-anonymity is a feature not a bug.
The article gives an example of an extremely expensive wedding in the US.

I was married in America in a mainstream church. There’s a lot of pressure to spend.

It’s largely a result of commercialization. Lots of wedding related businesses creating fake traditions.

“An engagement ring should cost a months salary,” etc.
And then there's the perfect exit scam when you collect a bunch of abuse bonds from your users on the way out and run with the money.
You got me to, literally, look at Musk tweet for the first time in my life. How old is he? Twelve?
>If I were to make an account tracking a random person's movement I'd likely be banned.

He's not tracking a person's movement. He's tracking a vehicle, via public information, traveling through public airspace.

With opinions like these coming from the Elon army, Twitter is going to get worse.
Just to note, there are many reasons to not want to "require identification to use the site" that aren't related to "[wanting] bots on there". Cost, friction, safety/protection, etc. - the list gets quite long with a trivial brainstorm.

Also note: that's not the same thing as saying "Twitter shouldn't require identification to register" (though personally I don't think that it should). It's just to say that it's WAY more complicated than "bots vs. ID".
>why can Elon, and only Elon solve the bot problem

To me it seems that he's the only one who wants to.
> Twitter is a private company and do whatever they want to do. It is their platform.

They actually aren't a private company, yet, but it sounds like they probably will be soon.

Just because they can do something doesn't mean they should. A huge amount of our public discourse flows through platforms controlled by companies. If you want those platforms to start to ban everyone who disobeys some set of rules, who would you like writing those rules? Are you comfortable with them making them up as they go along?
They’re not? I feel like Twitter is wildly unpopular outside the US.

The US has more than 30% of its population on there, the third highest- India has about 20 million of its 1 billion+ people.
To add on to your observation, reading mode is even better to look at and loads just shy of 16KB.

As an aside, I still don't understand what Web3 aims to solve but I feel Web 2 is good enough if people don't go crazy with js, images, ads and other shenanigans.
I have used SQLite for Django applications with a few thousand users. It has had no problems. However, I just use the ORM and never configure the SQL directly. The vast majority of LAMP stack style web applications would be an ideal use case.

However, I would consider how important RDMS features are to you which are not available in SQLite:

- less sophisticated type and constraint system.

- a severely limited ALTER TABLE.

- No stored procedures.

- limited selection of math and statistical functions.

- no permission and user model, not to mention row-level security.

To be clear, I don't think it's bad the SQLIte doesn't try to be an RDMS, but I would consider this perspective when making a decision, not performance which is great, and difficult to max out.
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No, because it would be WW1 on Mars.
Probably severe nepotism with industry consulting or someone has some idealistic child in colleague and their guilt about neglected parenting made them force the issue as it has been adopted in some parts of the industry. At least official, never seen anyone use different terms by now and I don't even know the substitute. It is always something like this. But yeah, they certainly are white as the snow, so much is sure.
What makes you think that all the censored stuff is about hate speech, misinformation and threats of violence? To think that you must be either very naive or benefiting from that political agenda yourself.

There are hundreds of records of censored content which doesn't have anything to do with all that. This is a fact whether you agree with it or not.
> obnoxious / disturbing / spam-filled / miserable race to the bottom of the lizard brain stuff

What you are describing is the heavily moderated, arbitrarily censored social media experience the entire planet experiences today.

> Unfortunately the result of that is a place that very few want to spend time in.

Perhaps social media is a place that we should not encourage people to spend inordinate amounts of time in. Perhaps the idea of combining all the world's people into a single centralized location to communicate with one another, should carry with it the very explicit notion that such a place would be chaotic, high-energy, and risky --- just like going to the casino for the night.
I'm sure you are right about what you said, but the whole tone and field of photography reminded me of a photograph we hired.

He imagined himself as such a great artist that although doing work for hire was afraid we might use our personal family photos without giving him credit.

In the end... he sent another team to do our photographs and wouldn't even give the ~20 "edited" photographs except as a flash EXE.

I'm a programmer and I know what copyright is but that photographer was deluded.
>30 years in the future is likely more comparable to 60 years in the past. Hello punch-cards.

this part is a pro for S3 not a con. In this analogy OP is trying to store the information held by the punch-card, not the punch-card itself. So giving the information over to a business means they will preserve your binary data by moving it from punch-cards to HDD to SSD, etc - they will handle the hardware changes and redundancy.

Your first point stands strong though
I think cesspool-ness is almost entirely dependent on community age and cohesion.

The longer a service is around, and the more broad (less cohesive) its userbase, the more likely it is garbage.

Focused communities can last a long time.

Broad communities flame out, particularly when user-interaction becomes the gauge of what's shown by default.
Looks like the herd avoided this post this time round
It’s brilliant for people who think Twitter bans too much to … give them a monetary reason to ban more?

Crypto won’t solve the problem only make it worse.
According to my testing, SSDs would greatly reduce the contention but were not a complete fix.
Fascinating read. Thank you for sharing it.

But in here, even the author seems to point to testimonials that indicate that value of unique discussions gained just by allowing the conversation to happen.

It is sad that it ended partially because author was harassed for hosting it, but I suppose this is the price you pay in 2022.

As it pertains to Musk and article linked to Musk, I am relatively certain he can handle the mob.
Elon said this. I don’t know what anyone else is saying.

He must think it will work?
That sounds like a social credit dystopia, only that the credit is actual money.
I do agree. I can't think of a precedent for this. Usually wealthy people get that way by making good investments. This is like the richest person in the world spending 15% of their net worth to buy Blockbuster in 2006
> But the mission of twitter should be free speech within the bounds of the law, at least according to Elon.

The problem is, his past actions don't inspire any confidence in that being the truth.

> Currently it seems to be to move the Overton window so much to the left that you can be banned for giving the definition of what a woman is that was commonly accepted by everybody in 2010.

That's the right-wing view and there are countless examples of the left-wing getting banned, and they are angry as well. I don't thing it's cut and dry.
Trump is nothing but good for Twitter. He generates tons of engagement from his fans and his haters
Imagine you’re hiring a structural engineer to work as part of a highly skilled team on a skyscraper project. They previously worked on a bunch of major building projects around the world.

What you’re going to do, though, is ask them to let you have a look round the treehouse they built on weekends in their backyard.

After all, the choices of materials and techniques they use there in that ‘not for production’ context probably tell you a lot about how they approach their work, right?
A loss of stability and safety in what is supposed to be the most safe and stable part of a child’s life.
Two out of your three examples are independent to programming languages. Wordpress vulnerability is dominated by XSS and SQL injection both of which are natural issues arising from the boundary of multiple systems. Java logger vulnerability is mostly about the unjustified flexibility. These bugs can occur in virtually any other language. Solutions to them generally increases the complexity and Hare doesn't seem to significantly improve on them over C probably for that cause.

By comparison memory safety bugs and shell script bugs mostly occur in specific classes of languages. It is therefore natural to ask for new languages in these classes to pay more attention to eliminate those sort of bugs. And it is, while not satisfactory, okay to answer in negative while acknowledging those concerns---Hare is not my language after all. Drew didn't, and I took a great care to say just "not a good response" instead of something stronger for the reason.
Those places are civil because they are homogenic. Most minor boards with a narrow subjects are civil. Mix in anti-nazis/furries/etc. and everything will quickly devolve. It requires surprisingly few hostile users to destroy the tone of a board for some time. As anyone that have taken part in raids, or seen them happen, can attest to.
That post seems very savvy to me: If you admit to shorting TSLA stock, expect to be savaged
> Formal verification simply doesn’t scale to global properties

This is an assertion you are making with absolutely no evidence, and also totally self-contradictory with your statement "Rust’s borrow checker is nothing else but an included proof assistant for rust code".

While we're at it, also Ada does this, which has long been used for large scale mission critical applications where formal assurances are necessary (with even more available optional safeties than rust provides).
No, instead the person behind it will be doxxed.
Yes, the moment I heard Musk say 'open-source the algorithm' I was onboard, although that needs to be watched carefully. The algorithmic structure itself is one thing and the kind of data that is fed to it to train it is another. In particular, how it learns what is an 'authoritative source' and what isn't needs to be made clear.
What would make it more unpopular outside the US than inside the US?
Tuning was the key. Once you understood the protocol and the robustness of your connection, it was easy to configure Kermit to run fast.
…says the person who needs to call others “idiot” to get his point across.
> have not provided an explanation as to why this is the case

Perhaps because they realize it effectively boils down to thought policing at some level and do not want to undermine their own intentions.
Yes. The discourse was courteous and polite, usually; folks would calmly discuss the most heinous horseshit and could actually in that setting be open to education about facts where available.

Its very hard to get people to learn things by shouting at them
As another commenter pointed out, it actually doesn't matter too much what the users want, from a business perspective.

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.

It's been clear that Reddit and YouTube have been censoring at the behest of advertisers for years, and I don't think Twitter is or will be any different.
Perhaps women's clothing shops and pet shops are for money laundering too, since they have no direct relevance to my life.
Possibly treat this as a public performance?

From https://www.bmi.com/faq/category/copyright

A “public performance” of music is defined in U.S. copyright law to include any music played outside a normal circle of friends and family that occurs in any public place.
It's just crazy that people fawn over him this much. He's the richest guy on earth, he doesn't stick it to the man, he is the man.

Good luck to twitter I guess.
How could you have missed all the Coca-Cola in that show?!
Congrats on this !

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>Indeed.

He received an offer to shut it down, then countered the offer. Then said he was joking. You're not a lawyer, by chance?
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There might be some value in opening these algorithms up but, also, the moment you reveal how they work you will immediately start to see them gamified. Aspects of content recommendation/moderation will always be adversarial, and there are many good arguments in favour of some opacity in these types of systems.
And what if I’m not tracking that in such detail or even thinking about viewing it like that because it’s a side project?

My repos are hidden specifically because I do them for fun. I’d make them public if tinkering were an understood thing but its not.

> If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Better to have a clear separation between work and play.
I'd put the over/under at 365 days before he sells, and take the under
What evidence is there that American families were worse off in the dozen or so generations prior to widespread no-fault divorce?
Honestly, if there's no device that can read SPI in 100 years, then not having access to your digital artifacts is probably not a big concern...

I would say that an e-ink display might last that long, and you could build a system with a microcontroller and a pretty adaptable power source. It could connect to a keyboard, or you could use a few buttons for a browsable interface. As long as nothing corrodes too badly. And you would want to inspect it for tin whiskers using a microscope or loupe before starting it up.
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> Musk has demonstrated that he can hire engineers to solve engineering problems. How well will that translate into sociology problems?

I can't wait to see!

Either he improves Twitter, which is great because it's in really bad shape, or he destroys it, which is great because something else can fill the void.
> Our founding group is a set of high school friends, currently all juniors at Caltech, CMU, and MIT. In our first batch, we have numerous groups with high Putnam scores, high ranking competitive programmers, and 2+ FAANG internships. There will likely be a sense of FOMO for companies in order to recruit these groups, as they'd be losing out on multiple highly regarded talents.

Don't take this the wrong way, I don't want to subtract anything from your accomplishments. What you are describing as "highly regarded" is primarily different forms of artificial tests that provide a leading indicator of talent or quality, but are not the same thing as having a proven track record of success shipping high quality software.

Most companies, especially larger companies, even tech companies, are more conservative than they let on. What you are essentially doing is showing "benchmarks" for a team the way one would for hardware, but the thing that really matters isn't how well something scores on benchmarks, it's how well it runs the actual application that your business cares about. Conservative companies don't buy hardware on the basis of benchmarks, they wait for reviews using their applications or get a proof of concept built. So it goes with hiring as well.

As someone who's hired many engineers, when I think "highly regarded", I think someone that people I know and respect in the workplace speak about with positive reviews and references, not someone who has a high rank on LC, a high GPA, and won a math contest. Of course, this is unfair for new grads because they cannot have met anyone who would refer them yet, except perhaps through internships. That's the reality of things though, and it's part of why who you know is often as important or more important than what you know in life.

I would find this program more compelling as a hiring manager if it was a team of people who had previously worked together (even if that was in college) but had individual separate work experiences showing success outside the team, e.g. 2-3 years after you have all bagged your first full-time job. At that point, you would have each individually demonstrated success, and have described a preference for working together with strong camaraderie. That's worth hiring as a group at a premium, since team morale and camaraderie is often one of the most crucial pieces of performance.
I would like to have gone to the New York World's Fair, I was seven or eight, but the World's Fair I really regret missing is the 1939 New York World's Fair. As a fan of Art Deco, that place is amazing! And they had Elektro, the robot! It's high on my list of places to visit when I invent a time machine.
We're still at the stage of trying to apply the crypto solution to more non-problems when the existing solutions would completely suffice. Crypto adds nothing to the original thought outside of shilling.
It's not extortion to respond to an offer from that person to accept a sum of money to take that information down. Nor is it extortion to negotiate on the sum.
What are the axes? Is that number of posts per date or total number of posts?
probably to someone in the house of saud lol