skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm jaded because I was in charge of the ELTs division for a while, and during that time, I had one guy pop positive on a drug test (but he said he didn't take anything) and another guy submit a letter saying he was a drug user (even though he never popped positive for anything.)

And this was out of a division of ~5-6 people. So...
I think that would be a bad idea because it might make the person a target for haters.
So nobody is being shadowbanned or suppressed?
Surely you guys don’t think that twitters sorting algorithm is already factored out into its own repo. Of course it’s empty.

That doesn’t mean it’s a joke, I see it as a show of goodwill — that there are a handful of people inside Twitter that are excited for transparency and for a revenue model that isn’t entirely based on ads, that are excited to get to work on this right away.
Ridiculous. "Distributing meals and vouchers" doesn't end world hunger. It just puts it off.

You probably can end world hunger and it would involve absolute dictatorship in Africa. China is working on it, it seems.
Damn, I have reply deboosting and search ban. I post rarely to complain about services being down or for customer support.
Agreed. I'm not saying they should, just that they have to follow the laws. But they don't have to police their platform according to what an extremely sheltered SV-adjacent elite thinks should be okay. It's not an either/or question, they can not bend down to police states and also not let that minority have the last say over what is okay or not across the entire globe.
Absolutely. Twitter (and similar social media) have become a cesspool for negativity, flame wars, left-versus-right, and spam that make it intolerable.
Looks like a wise move to keep potential destructive protests at bay.
I'm curious about those voting option 5 — thinking about joining now.

What do you expect to get on a Musk-owned Twitter that's not there now? Is there a specific promise made by him that you find appealing?
That's not at all the way the product is used.

There's a reason people talk about "Black Twitter" and "Gay Twitter" and "Poll Twitter", etc.

There are massive ad hoc communities with the product.
I'm sorry to hear that you have had bad experiences with landlords.
I have had some really good ones, and some mediocre ones.

Both groups helped me have a place to sleep when I saved to purchase a house, so to that extent, they upheld their part of the bargain.

I would rather work with them than live in a charity shelter or rent from the government.
Coming from a Clojure background which is … different. But I understand the enthusiasm around similar language features.

But to borrow words from another comment I find Kotlin “ruthlessly productive”. Apart from the lambdas, functions, data classes and immutably, it’s the ability to quickly and correctly refactor that makes me feel like I can work at speed and try stuff out.
He's certainly involved enough in the development process to be able to talk about technical details at length with even some of his previous top employees confirming that he's been heavily involved in development: https://twitter.com/lrocket/status/1512919230689148929 (Tom Mueller is one of the leading experts in the world on rocket engines due to his work on SpaceX's engines), which is a lot more than most of the other big competitors (the only exception is ULA's Tory Bruno since he too has a strong engineering background).

Shotwell is an excellent president and pretty much directly responsible for many of SpaceX's prominent contracts (as well as their survival in the early days), but she handles the 'business' side of things (although, since she has a mechanical engineering background I assume she also keeps up with the technical side), while Elon mainly deals with the technical side.
The rails monolith is long gone.
> Everyone has been very civil and even the "Good ol boys" have been very respectful with them to my pleasant surprise. There are plenty of openly LGBT working in the local stores.

Speaking from experience, they're going to be on good behavior around you and others. It's what happens when they think no one will notice or no one will hold them to account when real discrimination occurs.

I've met plenty of people who claim to be LGBT supporters in public, but have no problem harassing LGBT people, discriminating against them and calling them slurs when they think no one else is looking. Same thing goes for people in power, like bosses and owners, or police and judges. Discrimination doesn't always look like American History X or the Westboro Baptist Church, the vast majority of it is low key and insidious.
There’s a reason all these sites have come to the same solution: it’s the most feasible one. If Musk orders Twitter to relax content moderation it’ll fill to the brim with absolute garbage (at best, at worst it’ll be child porn) and they’ll backtrack. Nothing new here.
Musks first order of business?
Twitter has many problems. Some of them will be solved by an open, interoperable standard.
$46 Billion dollars worth? Does not seem likely.
The "engineering" is not all Musk. Vision and strategy, yes.

Musk is not a rocket scientist.
I'm also interested in the cognitive effects of CO2, and I have a great deal of skepticism in the studies that say small amounts cause noticeable deficits precisely because we know people can carry out complex tasks for months on end inside a submarine. I know other people have also remarked on this (absurd!) inconsistency but haven't seen it satisfactorily resolved.

I will say that it's much easier to believe that the studies are somehow flawed and people don't get seriously impaired by 8000 ppm than it is to believe that we've gone nearly seventy years without noticing that the people who are supposed to launch nuclear strikes in the event of WW3 have been retarded all this time.
Any worth that "the algorithm" has is not in it's implementation (probably pretty standard ML prediction systems), but in the training data and weights. In isolation from the data and the rest of the code it is probably pretty useless as anything other than an example of real world ML use.
Setting aside all the dynamic stuff that you can't statically check, what does Ruby offer fhat makes it so "pleasant" to use?

I'm trying to understand what a statically typed Ruby could bring to the table.
In the end, it's still code that is being executed, which can be called "an algorithm". Algorithms are under no obligation to be simple or only include "one algorithm".
It's really hard explaining to people how the brain of an autistic person works. Most people are quite happy to accommodate the special needs of a person with one leg. But you show them a person whose disability means they don't comply with your social rituals and have an abrasive personality and suddenly it's time to moralize.
Japanese houses are low quality (they have single pane windows, no insulation at all, and no central heat because they think it builds character). But they’re no more timber based than US houses are, and there’s nothing overly temporary about building a house out of wood, especially new forms like CLT.
The one true algorithm!
This sort of repression of free speech is a very slippery slope. It starts with publicly stating the location of Elon's private jet becoming a crime, and ends with a dictator in control of the world's most powerful armed forces.
...Twitter ... a place for public discourse..." lol
Nix-shell, but make it lovely
My sincere, however unlikely hope is that the division regarding Musk's acquisition causes enough users to leave to cripple the platform. I don't think there will be another Twitter if this one fails. I can't foresee any single platform gaining the same network effect now that the idea of this style of site has been replicated. I think that Twitter is already waning in relevance, and too politically fractious as is.

I legitimately think that Twitter has a net negative moral utility, and I hope it dies.
So because Saudi prince + rich investors are bad, it's better to have one centibillionaire own it instead?
If you think people on Twitter are crazy, go to your city council meetings. Especially if you live in a major city.
If there is a total set of data, and a subset of it is produced for users, there is an algorithm. `SELECT TOP` is an algorithm. A ML model with a trillion parameters is an algorithm.

There is no "no algorithm."
No. Unlike the right wingers, I don't actually want to delete people I disagree with from the world.

But my timeline would definitely be improved without "speech" like that.
> By the time the courts or regulators are ready move on the issue, the practice will be so established by big commercial efforts like Copilot that my money is on a fairly permissive approach if only because of inertia.

Yeah, I think you're probably right about this, for better or worse.
I'm led to believe that the CO2 concentrations still routinely go above 2000 ppm though. Is that right?
"This is the first time that passenger trains have been used to clean the line anywhere in the world"

This sounds unbelievable to me. Has there really never been a single occurrence of a passenger train clearing the tracks in history?
This is most likely the correct answer. I doubt there is a single piece of code or algorithm that controls all of twitter. From my limited perspective it's just a catch phrase to simplify what is likely tens of thousands of lines of code.
I don't care what's going on in their life.

If I'm ever in a position where I need more than 500k/yr, it will be my problem, not somebody elses.
Musk's primary reason for the twitter buyout is to allow Trump, Bannon, Musk, Thomas etc to speak freely on there, I suspect the amount of vitriol on twitter will go up at least one order of magnitude when these type of people are allowed free rein to do whatever they like on there. Elon is killing the golden goose with this buyout.
tsk, nobody appreciates Sylvia Plath anymore.
I stopped reading after the first paragraph, couldn't get past the obvious slant from the authors.

Genuinely curious, did EFF write a similar article when Bezos bought the WP? (I searched but couldn't find anything). I hope so because otherwise this is very hypocritical. I'd be glad to be wrong on this but I suspect I'm not.
If this was a personal desktop then maybe something like Hamachi/Logmein would work.
Do you know Elon Musk? I feel like this is the opposite take I would expect.
> I'm someone who's confident that truth will win the day given a fair hearing, hence, I want freedom of speech.

I think this is a 19th/20th century idea that generally held because of, and not in spite of, the natural barriers to mass communication. Those barriers were the "fair hearing" (an author needed to spend weeks/months/years on their work. They probably spent several years before that studying their topic, or journalism, or whatever. It needed to pass through editors, maybe peer review, etc. It had to compete with others working just as hard, etc.)

For the first time in human history it is easier to broadcast disinformation, lies, and propaganda than it is to broadcast accurate information. This form of truly unrestricted access to mass communications has nearly put a stake in the heart of western democracy in less than 20 years. I am not at all confident truth will win the day.
No? I'm not sure what drove you towards that question. Stealing and comparing are unrelated I'd say.
The article you’re linking in fact says they the Lost Cause is not being taught. It is talking how it was being taught 40+ years ago.
There essentially already is a statically typed ruby: Crystal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_(programming_language)
Wait a minute. I read the first 20 or so comments and the following strikes me. Most comments are about -- Musk could try toake Twitter better but will probably fail... This is not the first thing that came to mind for me.
How 'bout: a very rich man is capable of doing what a very powerful man is/was not capable of. Being able to influence in a major way the policies of the most influential social network in the world. A US president was kicked of the very same platform.
Resolving Disagreements
Show HN: A reasonably reliable traffic per application monitor using BPF
picosnitch helps you protect your security and privacy by "snitching" on anything that connects to the internet, letting you know when, how much data was transferred, and to where.

It uses BPF to monitor network traffic per application, and per parent to cover those that just call others.

It also hashes every executable, and will complain if some mischievous program is giving it trouble.
wikipedia moderation system works.
Just a quick FYI, poll option orders are randomized on HN iirc.
Except for the hundred people or so that I follow and are drunk on their popularity with zero incentive to leave, I guess?

My wet dream is for New Twitter to open up the API so that I can implement a bi-directional bridge and do full POSSE.
Not my views personally, but there was a time on Twitter when doubting the effectiveness of certain drugs, expressing views about the 2020 election could get your account suspended. I think people are hoping that things like this won't happen any more because of Musk's views on free speech.
>Both of my children have or had classmates in their second grade classrooms that are openly transgender.

What does that even mean? That a boy prefers to play with dolls? How can a prepubescent second grade child be trans!?
> If you are okay with not being able to reliably make calls, fine, but don't oversell on the definition of "daily driver"

This is an outdated information. The development pace of Pinephone is unprecedented. Even here on HN I saw many recent posts saying that calls and MMS work fine already.
Many thanks for the pointers!
You're not just standing watch, though. There's training (SO MUCH TRAINING), drills (SO MANY DRILLS), meals, and at least a little time for movies/relaxation. Trying to fit all this in is more complicated with 8 hour watches. (With 6 hour watches, you do all training/drills in the 0600-1200/1200-1800 time periods, and it works out easily.)
They don't need it if they get Elon on board.

But they won't. To get out the value he poured in, he will need to run it the way Murdoch runs Fox News, the WSJ, and lots else. Twitter is a bigger megaphone than even the Murdoch empire.
During a hostile takeover, someone buys 51% of the shares. They then elect a board of people who will approve whatever they want.

Then they can do things like 'merge' the company with some other company they own at a board-approved value-per-share. That value will be much lower than what they paid per share when buying it on the open market, but not so low that the government gets involved. Eg: Musk buys the shares at $50/share, and then 'merges' the company at $25/share, effectively forcing 49% of the shares to be sold at half price. Those shareholders get screwed because they didn't sell their shares during the initial takeover.

Edit: Or, just run the company however they want and share the profits with the other 49%, but ignore their votes, etc.

The Poison Pill says "If a hostile takeover starts, we'll create and sell new shares at a reduced price to existing shareholders- other than the attacker- to prevent the 51% scenario". This is done not to prevent any takeover, but in the interest of the 49% of holdouts who would have been screwed over. It's an effective block against the takeover.

The board represents ALL the shareholders, after all. They don't want to see anyone get screwed.

But now Musk has made a deal that the board has approved. All shareholders get a specific price that is approved. The board wants this to happen, so there's no poison pill.
checkmate right?
Why would EFF care about a newspaper?
That’s a pretty controversial opinion here.
no self respecting PM would ever allow something so trite and simple. this was obviously copy&pasted from stackoverflow. something like this would never web scale, so obviously they need somethign written from scratch preferably in Go/Rust/Node/anythingButSQL
Legal or not, if you tell your manager that you are also working for another company half the time (unless you work odd hours), will they be OK? If so then good. If not then it's a matter of transparency and trust.

Also doesn't the contract has something about the number of hours? It may not be enforceable, but it's on paper.
This is nice short-hand that I've wanted for a while. I do wish they would have made them overloads of the existing functions in the same namespace, rather than in a new ranges namespace. Oh well, you can always use that namespace, and even if you don't "::ranges" is still less typing than "begin(), end()".
> in the history of England, the United Kingdom and the whole Commonwealth there has not been a single instance of a king or queen being anything other than - here comes the dreaded word - white.

This is, in fact, (while completely beside the point) wrong. There are several non-white Kings and Queens in the history of the Commonwealth; e.g., Mswati III of the Kingdom of Eswatini.

> what's the point of making them black?

What's the point of alternate history and historically-inspired fantasy? That's a kind of big question. Do you literally think every film or show should simply depict life literally exactly how it actually occurred at some time in the past?

> in the US, I guess you could make Lincoln, Washington and Reagan black.

Or make Lincoln a vampire hunter.

(Of course, there isn't a long history of rumors that Lincoln actually was a vampire hunter taking as their starting point a too-literal reading of contemporary descriptions probably meant as throw-away insults.)

The complaints about Bridgerton seem to be highly-selective blindness to the entire concept that overtly fictional entertainment is typically something other than an exact recreation of history. (And/or assertion that race is somehow a uniquely unacceptable thing to fictionalize for unspecified reasons.)
How do you reject crazy people without them thinking they are being censored?
If their bot followers are removed and nobody sees their posts, isnt it just the same as if they were banned?
The Perils Of Perfect Introspection (2013)
You're not wrong. But would it be useful to define better what we mean with algorithm then? Like: we mean "non-obvious algorithm"?
So rich people can be obnoxious online with impunity while poor people have to watch their every move? Sounds awesome.
> perhaps a bit thin on the introspection

Surely the one thing you don't want these people to do is to think for themselves about whether they should kill tens of millions of people! (the joke is that I'm completely serious and that's morbidly hilarious)
The Vanishing Farm
> you can use the C preprocessor in front of any language.

You will be paddling upriver if that language doesn't have a mostly C-compatible token structure, or has white space sensitivities that C preprocessing doesn't preserve and such.
Well sure there is "ORDER BY" something, and there are batch jobs to calculate this something from different variables. Maybe it is partially a ML black box, but I'm pretty sure they are not flying completely blind. There's got to be an internal Wiki or some PPTs where they list what goes into the mix. Number of likes, retweets. Attached media, hashtags, trending or not. Do they do sentiment analysis and use positivity as a factor? Do they do PageRank so that likes from important people have more weight? Are there manual debuffs for certain topics? Are certain posts removed or added in a second pass? These are all answerable questions in principle.
Sell RSUs and get out.
Any of those should work for learning and job prospects, pick one and get going!

Later: The other two.
I think, after this change and Musk's chatter about "free speech" things; there will be steps that Twitter becomes a more cannabis friendly advertising platform -- before Meta(FB,IG) and Google become 420 friendly.
You just print a few recovery codes
Njoya the Great put his African kingdom on the map
Perhaps in an ideal sense, it’s like a group chat of people that you find interesting, sharing their thoughts and ideas. It’s also useful as a mechanism for distributing your own work and ideas.

I agree with you in that, it sucks for content consumption, outside of keeping up with things in a shallow way.

I don’t know if you could rise to higher levels of understanding by continually using twitter, in the way you could by reading a lot of books.
The full quote is “ elusive path of maintaining free speech, following the law and not having Twitter being a toxic cesspool used mainly to shout down those not our your "side".”

The path is balancing all that. It’s not just about people being “uncomfortable”, there is very real & hurtful abuse on social media, some of which breaks laws that Twitter will also need to respect. Just adding more filters does nothing to build the open public square that Musk seems to want to curate. More filters & blocks just creates smaller echo chambers.
>My take on all these “fixes” for a “broken” Twitter is that pretty much everyone has a point of view of what is broken to them and frequently the fixes for solving them are contradictory.

This is exactly right. This leads to a surface level consensus from all parties that Twitter is in some sense broken, without a consensus on what exactly that means.
Wonder if their RSU grants have a clause that converts them to cash in the event of a takeover.

And having been in a company that was taken over, it's a mixture of emotions - is my job safe, will this be the same culture I joined for etc. etc.
> Twitter imposed the temporary ban to keep employees who may be miffed about the deal from “going rogue,” according to one of the people.

What could a rogue employee do?
So then "open sourcing the algorithm" likely means opens sourcing the entire Twitter codebase?
> The equivalent esports player is probably sharing a house with 4 other guys and eating ramen.

Riffing a bit on your point, as best as I can tell, they all pretty much live in team houses or compounds depending upon the country where the team is located — when in China, my relative's then-current team would have lived in dedicated athlete housing that was part of a larger indoor/outdoor multisport stadium complex (COVID changed that and they evacuated to Korea). In the US it's typical to have a large rented team house, often with amenities like a swimming pool.

They eat ramen too, but that's because they like it. Efforts are made with team cooks, but what are you going to do, especially given the fact that these are all young people. Balenciaga kicks and 99c bowls of instant noodles do make an odd combo...
This applies to your feed but not to replies in a thread.
as usual, it is up to personal preference, but I've used Unifont, specifically Unifont CSUR, a bitmap font, tho in ttf form, as my sole font across the system, terminal, vim and web browser (firefox) which allows me to enforce a singular font in webpages by disabling font downloads, rotation and scaling. for me, it appears that having text align to a grid and not have any annoying ligatures or oversized characters makes it more readable.
Another unimaginative researcher who thinks databases can do everything blockchains can.

Tell me, how do you build a better Alchemix with a centralized database? How about Uniswap? Balancer? Aave? Curve?

So far nobody has been able to answer this. Maybe one day those who parrot this trope will learn about DeFi and understand the purpose of blockchains. Or maybe they'll continue to live in ignorance.

Note: not picking on this guy, because when this video was recorded these apps and DeFi didn't exist. But I am critiquing anyone who still agrees with him in 2022.
Thanks! Good to know.

I was actually wondering some people may want to remove traces of what they have been doing.

I wish someday we can see the internal communications lead to the Hunter Biden laptop story ban.