skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pushbacks on Elon threatening to bring free speech back ... were seemingly orchestrated by incumbent billionaires with their own mainstream media outlets feeling threatened

The alternative facts and hate speech that dominate Facebook have been incredibly harmful for society, and I think there should be tighter guardrails for online content moderation. There are legitimate reasons to disagree on this issue.
Right. It seems a bit odd that our goal in friendships is often to find someone who will “just sit and chill.” If you want any diversity in your friendships, they’ll likely need to be made “shoulder to shoulder,” ie when working toward a common cause.
I sometimes interview candidates for ML engineering roles, and let me tell you most of them have trouble with basic concepts. It's great when I find someone fluent, for a change.
>I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!

—Barry Goldwater, 1964
It's in the same place it was for Facebook.
Okay, so imagine Germany does not allow gay marriage (not so hard, considering it did not do that until 2017, and had no legal recognition of same sex partnership at all before 2001). This would make gay marriage an illegal act. Do you think Germany then should be allowed to criminally prosecute people for advocating for the illegal act of gay marriage?

Ability to advocate for illegal, repugnant, or offensive ideas or acts is in fact the entire point of free speech, so being able to do it is an essential right.
The Twitter, Inc. press release is here: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elon-musk-to-acquir...
You should never believe the elites follow the rules they put on the proles
My guess was actually that it's more efficient to show users a bunch of popular, cached content than it is to show them a truly chronological timeline full of new and unpopular content, which is unlikely to hit their cache so readily.
Second this, an excellent series.
Let's be honest. Not many people are going to leave. Just look at #deletefacebook, #deleteinstagram, #deleteTwitter. They didn't delete anything and stayed on the platform.

The shit show must go on.
That’s the point. Musk doesn’t need to maintain the ad business. Reduce the headcount, get enough subscriptions to break even and take a write off on the deflated value of the business. Just making it a great product, free of ads and better at spam.
That's not really a 1:1 comparison. You don't go through any identify verification process, other than "First name Last name." Go on Facebook Marketplace, there are dozens upon dozens of dup accounts solely for the purposes of evading a bad review, or to scam people outright.

vs.

An application process, with identification verification. While optional, would allow any one who cares about their feed to completely turn off anyone who could be a scammer or bot. I don't remember that option in Facebook. I would definitely have it turned on.

Not sure how these are even remotely comparable.
Probably, even just the prospect of it and the similar nonsense has encouraged me to leave the platform.

They can have at it.

Freedom of speech also means freedom to leave.
Has any other submission got so many votes and comment on HN before ?
Liberals != left wing, at least in philosophy. They don't even have to be related at all, like communism was thought of as left wing and is certainly not liberal.

For some insane reason in the US left and liberal have become synonyms. Now, I am both, but I want the separation to be there so I can be both and distance myself from the illiberal left.
Not sure where you get your numbers from, but they are incorrect per WSJ / NYT. A quick Google doesn't validate your 6.4 million number anwhere.

On Ford -
"The Detroit automaker sold 1,905,955 vehicles in 2021, ending up behind new U.S. leader Toyota Motor Corp (7203. T) and rival General Motors Co (GM. N). Ford had sold 2,044,744 vehicles a year earlier.Jan 5, 2022"

VW (not including sub-brands, which are managed and mostly built separately):
4,896,900

It's worth noting both of those companies production is failing, while Tesla is increasing 50% YoY.
Asking the real questions :)

They do share a great many similarities. Both seem incapable of logically structuring their content, but most of it consists of gibberish and made-up facts anyway.
Drivers of today also have this problem in the form of a lack of standards for vehicle height and headlight power.
> ... actions > words. Actions: building the world's largest EV fleet/tech, building alternative energy sources, investing in renewable tech.

It's possible, of course, to hold different political views on different aspects of society.

Musk might believe that we need to take better care of our planet, and also hedge against the possibility that we destroy it and need to find a new home.

He can also believe that freedom of speech should be near-absolute, and that Trump (et al.) deserve to be allowed to be on Twitter.

He can also believe that high taxes, large government, and business regulation of any kind is bad.

None of these views are necessarily in conflict with each other, and many of them might be considered liberal, but they can still result in a dystopian future.
"Trolls" is probably too broad a term since it covers "far-right trolls" as well as shitposters/clowners. Musk is against the former, not the latter. In any case, I'm excited about the potential to shake up moderation; my politics aren't "unfairly censored" by any means, but I'm having the most extreme, caustic positions shoved in my face all the time by an algorithm that optimizes for en(r|g)agement.
SFBA (maybe w/ Sacramento Area and Monterey Bay Area), Greater LA, Seattle Area, Portland+Vancouver and that’s just the West Coast. Add in the 4+ in Texas, two or three different parts of Florida and we haven’t even touched on the Northeast or Midwest still.

Nah, the US would not become merely 3 or 4 large sprawling City-States. For all of us city dwellers, there’s plenty that want nothing to do with anything that resembles a City.
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That's not a risk, that's just an inefficiency further down the line (migrating data from sqlite to a "real" database can indeed be quite a chore, but far less so if you formalized your schema and constraints beforehand, so that a migration mostly involves exporting to SQL, rewriting where needed, and then importing into whatever dbms you end up using later on in the lifetime of your project).

When we're talking about risks, think security exploits: how is sqlite3 more likely to get your data leaked, or flat out copied in its entirety, compared to using a mysql/postgres/etc.
What's your definition of run? It certainly seems like he's calling at least some shots? Are you saying he's a holding company?
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It is, though. There's no need to re-platform Trump for "free speech" reasons. He can speak at ay time and people will hear him regardless of the forum.

The asymmetry of the disinformation war markedly benefits the fascists. There is no need to bow down to them "because free speech."
TIL my 69m^2 flat in a mid-sized Central European city is "worth" broadly the same as a larger house in the Greater Tokyo area :-O
> Parag was not going to make it. He was a lame duck [..]

He was recently quoted as having "[..] encouraged employees to remain focused and told them 'we as employees control what happens'"?

Is that quote accurate?

If so, not only is the latter part apparently a straightforward falsehood, but seems to demonstrate more ability re: daft virtue-signalling than creating value for shareholders.
How about a spaceship?

Should spaceship flights be private? :)
>It makes a lot of sense to decide public policy of how driving should be managed based on those statistics, but is hilariously inappropriate to base your decision to get in a car and drive based on them.

Driving and surgery both involve a lot of risks you can do nothing about, making statistics (selected for your demographic, of course) the most you can know. Statistics are not a good way to predict whether one's self will buy a red shirt or a green shirt (when you can know exactly what you will do because you are deciding), but you have no say in whether or not your anesthesiologist will guess the right dose or whether your surgeon will put the sutures in exactly the right positions to stop a post-op bleed. The same goes for most accidents, which are called "accidents" because culpable negligence is actually pretty rare.
But owning 100 % was Musk's offer all along.
Yet theming with exactly two options (light/dark) is quite popular.

It was a UX problem, not a problem with the core concept.

Now, decades in to The Web, it's also a chicken/egg problem, because almost no sites are designed to behave OK under reasonable customization by the user, and almost no users customize their browsers' default styles, so why would sites change to accommodate that? Aside from the light/dark thing, of course, and you do see users pushing for support for that, and sites putting in effort to support it.

If Apple expands Dark Mode to include a half-dozen other options for a11y and such, I bet you'd see support for those become fairly common. It's just got to have a decent UI and the push has to come from a browser with a large enough user-base to encourage site operators to care. Once upon a time, Firefox could likely have done it, assuming they could manage not to screw it up. These days, Apple, Google, and MS are the only ones who could realistically try.

Actually, we have another version of this, now that I think about it: reader mode. People seem to really like it.
> He seems more willing to tolerate nationalist flamebait when America is the target of it.

I thought you were gonna say when Americans are the ones doing it. (I think you mean the opposite, when non-Americans are flaming the US - let me know if I misunderstood you.)

I see far more toxicity allowed about China and (recently) Russia than about the US. I've even seen misinformation allowed in the titles of posts (which are usually heavily moderated to remove even hyperbole, much less misinformation), when the target is Russia.

This only reinforces your "Dang is not without his biases" point though. As a (presumed) political leftie, he's probably more inclined than the average US-ian to allow self-criticism of the US. But as an American in the first place, he's inevitably imbibed some of the caricature of places like China and Russia, and likely doesn't even see the toxic flaming of them for what it is. You see the first bias as the one stands out, while for me the latter is the one that seems visible and obvious.
If your contemplating the ecosystem then Django beats Flask, the framework has the rest of the parts you haven’t even contemplated needing yet. Django Rest Framework is awesome and worth investment in learning and potentially applying… however For all internal APIs I’ve abandoned RESt, even using Django and the Django ORM I no longer use REST for internal APIs, it’s gRPC for anything internal. The simplicity is a massive win, the performance is a fantastic windfall and the ability to just “lift and shift” any code in a supported language into a load balanced GRPC API is life changing.
Low-Latency, High-Throughput Garbage Collection... twitter?
So you can judge how much they are harassed? Why would you care?
The entire point is that the _platform_ should not be doing the censoring. The local government can legally, according to their bogus laws, jail and censor their own population, but the platform should allow those posts to appear in the first place. So stuff like "hate speech" (what exactly does Twitter define as hate speech?) should not be censored.
I set my timeline to chronological order years ago and have never had this issue.
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I wasn’t aware or a plan to merge wal2 and BEGIN CONCURRENT into main. That would be awesome. What is your source about this?
I envision they would implement a strategy that strengthens digital identity while not affecting those who wish to stay anonymous. Basically they would grant digital identity to those who want it, with that would come additional digital rights. Twitter could contribute a lot to this space.
I don't recall '45' getting any amendments to the constitution through.
Seems like it changes if you swipe horizontally about a 3 quarters of the screen. Pretty trippy effects
It has to but it won't. The central point of the essay is that in order to keep going up in the next 50 years like real estate has in the last 50 years, the average house has to reach prices that are 128X an average income by 2072. When you consider supply and demand, the number of people in the market at that price point is too small to reflect a reasonable real estate market. Ergo, prices will either go down or grow far more slowly to reflect a more reasonable price point where more people can participate in the market.
Strange, my father's entire family (emigrated from the region in the late 1800's) still refer to themselves as Czech and Bohemians almost interchangeably. It has fallen out of use, but "bohunk" was an ethnic slur that was semi-common for most of my grandparents lives.

To be clear, I am not saying that the word bohemian is used as a slur. I am merely finding it ironic that people who have qualms about things like "master" in git or "microagressions" have no problem using a word that was used in France to make light of any genetic eastern Europeans. "bohemian" as an artsy, free living, dirt poor hippy utterly erases centuries of history of a real people (not even the people they thought it applied to).
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There’s more (or less) to that story: https://vancouversun.com/news/politics/mark-strahl-briane-tr...

Sworn testimony in parliament makes it seem as if Mr Strahl’s story is either wholly or partially manufactured. No accounts were frozen for donating when the protest was still allowed.

Additionally there is no evidence that a person by the name of “Briane” lives in that town, and no one with that name was listed as a donor to the protest.
I only learned what the "Sparkle Button" (that really does appear to be its actual name) does the other week in an article discussing its terrible design too. Instantly earned a spot in my personal UX Hall of Shame.

Click the "Sparkle Button" to change the timeline sort algorithm. Right, totally obvious...
I have never understood this aversion to Anonymous Speech, free speech requires Anonymous Speech. Some of the most important events in history (like the Founding of the United States) would never have happened with out Anonymous Speech.

We should debate idea's not authors. Anonymous Speech enables idea's to be spread not personality cults, one would thing those opposing Elon believing that people just support him because of his personality and fame would want more Anonymous Speech not less
It happens to me once in a blue moon. Enough that I know the folks complaining aren't making things up, but yet something is different between their setup and my own.

It usually takes me a few minutes to notice. I'll see a tweet that I recognize from a previous session, or from someone I don't follow, or something like that.
Just checked... nothing goes over the wire when you paste, at least.

Seems the error is:

*Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: ClipboardItem is not defined*
First of all, I am not a mental health professional, so I might be wrong here. My understanding is that ADHD manifests itself with a collection of symptoms and degrees. You get diagnosed when you reach a certain threshold of all the possible ones.

The inattentive aspect, which is the one I predominantly have, seems to have "missing social cues" on its list of symptoms.

There's also the indirect problem of children avoiding ADHD children and them getting less social practice as a result.

This might be relevant https://www.foothillsacademy.org/community/articles/adhd-soc...
Grounded, and loving it. Can giving up air travel bring joy?
Without knowing the deatils, it is mostly #4, with a good doze of #3, and potentially a decent amount of #1.

Basically, yeah, small/not-yet-massive startups have insane overinflation in titles. Had plenty of former college classmates who became "VPs" or "staff engineers" at super small startups a couple years out of college. Getting plenty of recruiter messages on linkedin myself for "staff engineer" positions at random startups, despite me not even being a senior at a FAANG yet, and only being about 4.5 years out of college.

Another thing is, no matter how smart or hard working you are, being in the right place at the right time is extremely important. It won't help much if you lack skills, but being in the right place at the right time is like a force multiplier on your skills and the work you do. Which is partially why most of the big opportunities are still heavily concentrated in a few geographic spots (despite there being no tangible technical need for that).

Don't beat yourself up over it, titles don't mean that much. You are able to start a one-man-shop LLC and call yourself a VP, a director, or whatever else you want. The real question is, with that title, are they being compensated as much as you are? If they decide to quit and get a job at a "regular" tech company after, will that VP title translate into anything more than an L4/L5? Just some food for thought.
What about National Security Letters?
Yeah, I just haven’t used one in over a decade. Most of the communities I used to use had one.
This reflects my experience working with Ruby over the years as well. I find it a perfectly pleasant language, but as with many other scripting languages, things get difficult as a project increases in size, complexity, and number of contributors.

Types are a great way to remove certain classes of issues. It's my hope that newer versions of Ruby really push gradual typing features I've been hearing about forward into common use. The productivity gains of preventing all silly Nil and type errors will be enormous.
Possibly that was the intended meaning, but the point is still invalid. Hospitals want more cool gadgets. They want to be able to treat more conditions and charge more for it. If anything, the FDA is a constant annoyance to a healthcare provider because it hamstrings them from providing care. This is why so many patients are enrolled in clinical trials, to get care ahead of the FDA approval time frame.
I think it stopped doing that a year or two ago, certainly I can't remember the last time I had to change back to chrono order.
> they want to teach the “Lost Cause” version of the Civil War among other things

Are we in 1992 or 2022? Because I learned the "real history" of the civil war growing up in Virginia in the early 1990s back when it was solidly Republican.

It takes immense willful blindness not to acknowledge that the opposition to "CRT" in schools arose at the same time as school districts began paying folks like Ibram Kendi to come lecture to teachers: https://www.fox5dc.com/news/fairfax-county-schools-defending....

If you're a parent whose school sent them a reading list including Kendi, who writes in his latest book:

> The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.

Maybe, just maybe, you might have objections that while not supporting "Lost Cause" narratives of the Civil War?
There is more to being a great tech employee than just being 'brilliant' at the hard skills. Soft skills are just as important, and play a role behind why I have been promoted more than peers who surpass my skills ten-fold. Some people also don't want to be in management.

We all have different trajectories and choices. This comment makes it seem like if you aren't a technical wizard then you might as well be useless. This is not reality
I have been blocked by so many people solely because of people I follow - many of whom I don't follow because I like them, but they have an effect on broader communities and it's good to keep tabs on them.

There are notable actors/actresses who've blocked me because of this. It just immediately makes me dislike anything they are in because I just can't think of them as a person worth respecting.
Struct was already a feature in Jovial in 1958, but I digress.

Plenty of very hard 1970's features at Bell Labs, weren't a problem at IBM, DEC, Xerox, Olivetti,....

As for the way C compatibility taints C++, I agree, however Bjarne made juice with the lemons he had, and if it is to do a Python 3 in the C++ world, then most would rather migrate to Rust than use such C incompatible C++.
Everyone agrees that the word "everyone" in discussions is not be taken literally. Citation not needed.

Netflix is extremely woke. If you doubt this, go watch Bridgerton (playing on my TV right now) and observe how half the people in regency England, including the Queen, are now black. Then go watch Manifest, and observe that in the final episodes one of the characters suddenly starts talking about how the government is "putting people in cages", quite out of the blue.

That's just the last two shows watched in my household. Manifest isn't as woke as Bridgerton but ... let's just say none of the characters are suddenly espousing the wisdom of Adam Smith.
Two separate cases. The "bomb threat" I quoted here in full, it is right in front of your eyes. Make of it what you will of course.

You're welcome to explain to me how a teenager quoting snoop on her instagram is deserving of a court case whether somebody is familiar with the quote or not as opposed to Ahmadinejad quoting 2pac.

Or the Taliban being explicitly allowed to stay on the platform for that matter:
https://www.mediaite.com/news/twitter-says-taliban-spokesman...
Here is a recent interview of Elon speaking about what changes he wants to make at twitter, https://youtu.be/cdZZpaB2kDM.

TLDW: He wants to open source the ranking algos and make the history of each posts ranking transparent.
I’m not saying it’s not a real problem. It’s a symptom of long standing issues that have been kicked down the road for my lifetime.

I grew up in a farm town where 30 farms circa 1990 are down to 4, and the factory in the next town employs 80% fewer people. The nations strategy for dealing with this has been to suppress the business cycle with endless cheap cash.

IMO, it won’t get better until it gets worse.
Just put your phone / email in and it should get unlocked. It should take less than a minute. It isn't hard to do.
And yet stuff like /r/BlackPeopleTwitter exists where if you don't "prove" you're black you're not allowed to post. There's a fundamental difference between being required to comply with a legal order to take something down and taking down content because you decided someone _might_ not like it.
Depends on what you mean by "trust." A public company has more accountability in various ways than a private one.
Does this need any regulatory approval, or will it go through as is?
I’m more referring to how the history taught in class about the initial settlement of Europeans to America glosses over all of the atrocities that were committed.

As far as the “Lost Cause” not being taught..,

https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/education/20...
It is though. Being removed from twitter isn't being censored. Twitter is a megaphone, not a public square. If I take my megaphone away from someone in the public square I'm not censoring them. They just need to find another, or get their own, or stand on a box and shout. They are still in the public square. If I hand my megaphone to someone I am explicitly endorsing them.
They made it sound like Starlink was footing the entire bill to send them to Ukraine which wasn't factual.

He said Starlink had been jammed in Ukraine then a few weeks later said it had never been jammed.

Enlighten me, why did he cancel that car order?