skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I am saying is that liberal has nothing to do with left-wing or right-wing, conservative or progressive.

The first line of wikipedia for liberalism is: "Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed and equality before the law. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but they generally support individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), liberal democracy, secularism, rule of law, economic and political freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, private property and a market economy."

I sincerely hope that is something we can come together and agree are important in the US. Even though it sounds like you and me have very different political views it also sounds like we agree that all of these are good. That means we have a wide array of items we agree on, but that are in danger at the moment. It seems to me there is a common platform most of us could agree to, but both parties have been to some degree hijacked by extremist so both of us to some extent are supporting illiberal candidates when we really don't agree with that.
For anything meant to self host its perfect(Except for things that should have been text. Text can be version controlled).
You are seriously missing out. C++17 has worked fine for years with clang - and I wouldn't ever go back to writing sfinae code since c++20 concepts are there, it's a massive simplification; likewise for structured bindings (for(auto& [k,v] : map)), if constexpr, ...
Right but "the algorithm" is inextricably tied in with scaling. "the algorithm" is designed to handle updates at scale and the model probably has different parts updating to different events on different cadences.
Why London was the right place to take Darktrace public
I guess that'd be astrophysics: Two large piles of money circling each other, causing distant ripples on the stock market.
Computer systems, even AI/ML-driven ones, aren't uncomprehended the way some areas of science that we haven't developed a strong understanding of are.

Systems comprised of (or generated by) comprehensible parts can be comprehended, we just often opt not to put in that work. There's a reason model interpretability is such a significant and increasingly-demanded area of expertise.
As far as I'm concerned, the algorithm is and can only ever be an implementation detail. If the leadership of Twitter changes overnight, it'd be highly likely the types of content that gets recommended will subtly/not-so-subtly change... because the algorithm has been changed.

It's an interchangeable function, it would only be publicized if it's clear to leadership that it wouldn't affect their revenue if people started trying to game towards the published algorithm.
I reworded it, should be better now
I agree that there's a 0% chance that 100% of moderation will go away, but isn't it the basic idea of communication that someone will always be alienated? Large segments of any user base are always alienated from things they aren't a part of by necessity.
If those who already own stock in the 49% sell, then someone else can buy up to 49% even if the 51% holder never sells.

The amount of ownership can change for one already owning 51% if the amount of stock issued changes - that changes the denominator

Finally: there is proxy voting. Normally common stock holders have 1 vote per share. However most votes are "proxy voted" where you give your vote to someone else because "reasons" - like you can't attend but an institutional investor seems to represent your position so you proxy to that investor.

Via proxy voting, it's possible to push past 51% as a minority shareholder.

Related to this, you can create an informal alliance with an institutional investor owning a larger share in the same company. This appears to be how Musk "borrowed" the money for his takeover - the money came from a large institutional investor that makes money on both ends: interest paid on the loan plus the promise of higher returns on Twitter stock. That's what's called a "can't lose investment" that no ideology can beat.

Of course, the Twitter board famously owns no significant amount of stock which is problematic but reality - this means they have ZERO skin in the game so are more likely to shirk (or risk to shirk) their legal obligations for fiduciary responsibilities. They apparently got a legal wake up call over the weekend about this however.
With regards to the no functional programming, functional programming aspects make code less buggy for doing standard things. Sure functional programming isn't as explicit as a 5 layer dip of for loops but to me less code equals less bugs and functional programming doesn't entail more abstractions, in fact it could mean less abstraction.
+1 Insightful

But your opening sentence would be much more effective with a bit of rewording; "inspired many stoics like Seneca to pass on the idea" is hard to parse, and fatally ambiguous. Did Seneca "pass [the idea] on" (ie, propogate / endorse it), or did he "[take a] pass on it" (ie, reject it). Later context makes it clear you meant the former. Anyway thanks for the links, HTH!
Not saying Google is turning down conservative search results, but they absolutely can. Using the same cycle of human raters and tweaking weights they used to push down comparison shopping sites.

See http://graphics.wsj.com/google-ftc-report/
That almost sounds like the "Sillycrisis" portion of a thing called "Silly 64", by "Silly Software". I can find almost no information about this program other than the actual program itself. Pretty sure the whole thing was written in BASIC.
> Add a downvote button so the rabid folks of either extreme will downvote each other into oblivion.

Downvoting just adds fuel to the fire. It's a classic technical "solution" to a social problem. We've known it doesn't work since the early 2000s, but people keep trying it because it's cheap.
As a company, if their financial troubles exceed 500k, why is that my problem?

Especially if I can get an equivalent resource without the excessive financial troubles for 200k that isn't moonlighting?

just because you want money doesn't mean you get money
I could have written that whole comment you make, except I have only one dream I can remember from my whole life and it is a nightmare. Have not had it for at least 10+ years.

I mean how do you do a dream log when you wake up and it is just like I have no idea if I dreamt or not.
Bloomberg mentioned two loans to cover the shortfall in his equity swap (one external and one drawn on his Tesla stock), with annual interest payments in the ballpark of $1B each. So Twitter's take home pay just lost $2B of the $4B it nets annually. Losing further market share by re-engineering retweet algorithms to be kinder/gentler looks like a better bet to bury Twitter than raise it.

But mature media giants are supposed to lose money, right?
> For me, thinking in words and sentences sounds like thoughs being weighed and slowed down. Seems very unnecessary. On the other hand, I did and always had the the issue of putting my thoughts into words properly. Like the translator is pretty bad and I always struggle and feel like most of the information is lost.

Fwiw, while i do imagine thinking in words is slower than non-words, i myself have an inner monologue and it is far from... structured when typically active while i'm thinking. It sounds much more like the mutterings of an insane person. Ie while i'm chewing on a problem the majority of my thoughts are without form - but sprinkled in between them are voiced words. Sometimes a run of words, sometimes a single word, often nothing at all.

Similarly while i think best when i talk out loud to myself, what i verbally express are structured quite similar to my inner voice ramblings. They are trains of thought weaving back and forth almost without meaning. Large gaps of jumps, usually cutting myself off mid sentence.

> I think there might be some correlation between this and being introverted, socializing is exhausting for me because the translator is not well trained as I don't use it while thinking, and it has to run at 100%. I've talked with my better half about this and she said it's easy for her because the sentences are already there and it takes zero effort to say them, which aligns with my theory.

I struggle immensely with socializing as well. Unsure if it's related, but i tend to talk _too_ much. It's like i always push the conversation, and i have to fight not to talk. That or i forget my points/etc. Despite talking heavily, i dislike most socialization. I often leave conversations wishing i had said nothing.
What you are misunderstanding is that there is more social clout to be gained by complaining about twitter than exploring the available features. The ability to sort by latest doesn't stop people from feeling self righteous by demanding this feature exist.
I haven't understood why people obsess so much about someone's death. Shouldn't they be thinking about them more when they were alive?
is this performance art?
This comment reminds me of https://www.theonion.com/new-study-finds-most-of-earth-s-lan....
As do Java, Common Lisp, Ada, Javascript, and probably a lot of others. Breaking from inner loops is a common thing and having to use special condition variables is error prone, in comparison, and potentially more time intensive. Labeled loops let you keep the premise of goto-less programming in structured programming while permitting a weakened jump-to-label (the program can't jump from anywhere to that label, only in the context of the loop). Since they aren't (usually) able to be used from other arbitrary points you still get the cleaner control flow that structured programming promotes.
Thanks for explaining. I always thought it was that a reply to the comment got more likes than the main comment.
That you still believe there is truth in anything that Trump says is absolutely mind boggling. Given the chance, Fat Boy would be back on twitter in a heartbet.
Is that not also true of lsp-mode?
That's pretty cool. I imagine a lot of the concepts are the same, just a lot of learning which units to use, when to use them, counter matchups, hotkeys and such.

But there's definitely a lot of parallels between the games.
Sounds like negativity to me! Silence!
Why do we want to know the "algorithm"?
Anonymous hacks into Russian energy companies, exposing over 1M emails
I don't believe the point was ever to convey an complete understanding of the system, but to allow for the identification of "red flags": Specific functions that would be deemed controversial or counter to equal opportunity speech.
A machine in a glass case with cueballs going around a maze? I think I remember it too. It may be by Roland Emmet
That danger is already present in the entirety of mainstream media, and twitter before this announcement.

Why do you think Elon is uniquely dangerous in this regard?
> You haven't, this is the first time I've seen.

You haven't seen me say that I oppose indiscriminate hatred and retribution towards people on the basis of their nationality? I've repeated that in almost every single reply I've made to you.

> Because it's obvious you have more sympathy for hurt feelings than people who are actually being killed.

Don't pretend you know where my sympathies lie, especially when you don't even understand what I'm saying to you. If someone replied to me arguing that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was justified, I would argue with them. Instead, I got you and that Finnish guy both arguing that indiscriminate hatred of Russian people is justified.

> Funny enough, the Russian people I do know who are truly decent people aren't upset about anti-Russian feelings, they're truly sympathetic for the Ukrainian people, without having to try put the attention on themselves.

You said earlier that Russian people are "silent or tacitly supporting" the invasion, which justifies indiscriminate hatred towards Russian people. Which is it?
The 6+ month lead times on couches makes them difficult to sell full stop. I want a new couch but I don't care enough about 6-month-future-me to actually order one. Extremely delayed gratification is an interesting "accidental" strategy for cutting down on consumerism!
I was a VP at a startup (~200 people) before I was 30 without a PhD. It was all BS and I had less manager qualifications than a FAANG line manager. I got lucky.

It's clear from the blog post that the author is in the same boat. They lament CEOs not having time to do research but took a VP position. An actual VP doesn't have time do research so they're clearly not an actual VP. So they're likely a tech lead with an inflated title.
This is pretty standard in the machine learning world. You'll open-source the code and weights trained on a public data set (these are often licensed specifically for non-commercial use). But in production, you'll be using different weights trained on a proprietary data set.
Insider risk is hard as heck.
I read that article with interest, but there's nothing in there that says "Musk tried to have an employee whistleblower murdered by the police by falsely accusing him of being a mass shooter".

It says that Tesla contacted law enforcement about an anonymous tip that the whistleblower was planning a mass shooting.

It also says that the whisteblower expressed the opinion that Musk might be the caller.
It also did not solve world hunger. It just explained how they would spend his money. If anything he called their bluff
All of the Amazon 4 stars that I'm aware of were in expensive locations like larger malls.

Amazon also owns Whole Foods, which is already a B&M operation. The natural thing for them to do is to have an extremely thin warehouse and return presence in these stores and put some of the smaller and frequently purchased impulse buys out on part of an isle.
The point is not to recreate it or explain it, or to have a way to say "tweet X will get rank Y" but to open source what there is. It doesn't matter if no single person can explain it, it'll still be open source and readable and the types of inputs will be known. But this doesn't look like a discussion on open source and more about politics at this point.

I for one haven't worked at FAANG and think it'll be super interesting to read this code, I can't believe software engineers are complaining about a potentially super complex bleeding edge codebase for timeline recommendations / ranking being open sourced. This is going to be great reading material if it ever gets published!
I know who Trump and Bannon are, but who is Thomas?
Simple but no simpler!
Thanks for sharing :) (already added your Good Reads articles to my pocket list....)
Not for gay children!
Then how am I to communicate to you, the hiring manager, that I held significant responsibilities for a longer period of time (eg 6 years) than an applicant who ducked out the moment their new title kicked in (eg 6 weeks)?

How much does that matter to you, anyway?
If Elon Musk can reform the bluecheck system to stop lending 'journalist' credibility to 'professional take-havers', he will have done society a great service.
You can not lump all lies together. There are different degrees. And most important a difference in who is telling the lie.

Intent can not be separated either.

What do you mean you support the right to attack a republic? You want to attack our government?

We have a means to make change in our country/government. It's called Democracy, activism, and yes through protected (non violence causing) speech.

Directly trying to literally overthrow a free and fair election & government by the chief executive and Members who are sworn to uphold the law and constitution is explicitly sedition and their 'speech' that caused and incited this should not be and is not protected. Trump's lies directly caused this and his actions were (and still are) a threat to the very foundation of law that protects our speech.

He WAS involved in violence and is 100% responsible for instigating it on multiple occasions. He directed his supporters to act multiple times during first election on through most important Jan 6 obviously.

Congress was attacked. People with guns and weapons broke into the Capital. I do NOT support the rick to literally attack our Republic/country it's crazy that people support this. There was permanent injury and death to multiple people. It was violence. Many explicitly intended to kill members of Congress.
No, cancelling is a bad thing. It represents a barabaric and ignorant Hobbesian paradigm of "justice" by the mob. The people who praise cancelling only do so out of ideological agreement with the dominant cancelling mobs and will be the first to cry if a mob of opposite ideological polarity did the same to them.

Anything legal should be allowed, this already excludes 95% of cancel targets. For the rare illegal 5%, only the courts and public authorities should be allowed to investigate and administer punishment.
Is it possible to acquire up to 51% in atomic move, so there is no fade in that would make poisoning option too late ?
Twitter's gambit since its inception has been the ability to magnify your audience more than a blog. This is _despite_ its counterproductive format for actual discussion and debate. All the critiques for how broken Twitter is now bemuse me. Compared to the blogs it supplanted, it's been broken since the start as a medium of informed communication. You're just not going to educate me of much of anything in 140 characters.
This "stores as ads" trend has really destroyed a lot of previously nice neighborhoods in Manhattan, as all the commercial real estate is gobbled up in areas in SoHo and Greenwich Village by stores that actually lose money based on retail sales at that location but use the store to create brand awareness and feature the store prominently in online ad campaigns. These drive up commercial real estate prices quite a lot forcing businesses that actually sell things to people out, so so for all the days you're not buying a suitcase with a built-in cell phone charger or a $7,000 neon orange jacket you'll have a harder time finding a bar, bodega, or any kind of shop you'd use on a regular basis.

This make ironically some of the most prestigious addresses on some of the prettiest streets less nice. Particularly in SoHo there's a bunch of super fancy very beautiful lofts that sell for many $10s of millions, but if you need to "run downstairs for some eggs" or grab a coffee or something, you'll be walking many blocks through what's basically a luxury mall to get there. Also makes the streets feel deader at 7:00 when the shops all close down.
Harder to do on mobile.
Except we don't say shrimp: that was translated when Paul Hogan did the advert.
At the very least they can stop putting woke tweets in my feed. That would make Twitter x10 better instantly for me.
Forgive me if this is a dumb question: why would I use Tailwind over say ant design when the latter is free and has hundreds of components?
Crystal has local variables. I didn't mean to imply that ruby & crystal are 1:1 drop-in replacements, but there are a great many similarities. Enough for me as a ruby/rails dev to start on crystal projects with relatively little issue once I learned a bit about the standard library and the ecosystem.

Ruby's way of handling types is abhorrent compared to Crystal, though. Sorbet/RBS are unfortunate systems tacked on after people realized that type systems are actually really good and not really that verbose.
It's the man in a room part I was emphasising. It's simultaneously massively incorrect about how software actually works, misunderstands social dynamics inside companies, and massively stokes the fire when it comes to conspiracy theories along these lines (in this case at least)
Well you’re reading about it here so clearly there are employees who aren’t above breaking the rules a bit ;)
I think absolute free speech and direct democracy are very different. DD results in disastrous consequences if the public is not informed and media is owned by corporations or worse, by the state. If US had DD, it would be untenable. It is a direct coupling between laws and zeitgeist of the people. Representative democracy is sort of a "buffer" or acts as a damping factor. Otherwise, US would become an instant socialist/communist/facist/leninist nation based on who controls the media sphere.

Free speech ensures we can talk about pros/cons of lockdowns. It ensures there is space to discuss COVID origins. It ensures people in power are held accountable. It ensures people are able to challenge the status quo and debate.

While there is a clear line IMO when it comes to speech – that line has been moved quite a bit far in CCP-like censorship by the kinds of Google/Apple.
If you don't understand the value of finance then of course you're not going to understand the value in decentralized finance.

Finance is still a multi trillion dollar industry, and will continue to grow and be useful to millions of people regardless of your opinion.
> And it would be way too easy to get a verified account and then just change a few things to look like some famous person

To me, this is proof that verification isn’t about security feature, just social status. It’s been exploited by hackers to mimic famous accounts, including Musk himself https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46097853.amp
> turning the "conservative search results" lever

It may not have been algorithmic, but it definitely happened.
You're making it too simple for yourself with that label. I'm not a crypto hater.

I am a disillusioned early adopter. The Satoshi paper blew my mind and I still have my letter from the Japanese court liquidating Mt. Gox's assets.

I have in fact looked at all of the things GP mentioned, hoping to find something that might get me interested again, unsuccessfully.

I just can't get excited anymore by people trying to do mundane, perfectly solved things, but this time with Blockchain.
I imagine that interview was like a cold shower for the interviewer. It was enjoyable to read, though.

Smil steadfastly rejected the (almost continuous!) politicizing attempts and dissed the virtue signalling. Well done.

(Reporter: "I eat less meat [...]; I'm [...] looking at solar panels and heat pumps." Smil: "There is nothing wrong with the heat pump, but proper insulation, that's much better in the long run. ... People will stop eating meat, then fly for a vacation in Toscana.")
I feel like this is a line from The Program (https://www.programaudioseries.com/)
> total tax burden being at 100% means you cant raise taxes.

You still haven't explained what this means. The Japanese tax to GDP ratio is 31%, below the OECD average

https://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/revenue-statistics-japan...

Japan spends 38% of its GDP, about the same as the US does.

To balance the budget the government would thus have to take 38% of GDP. That would put it in the same range as Germany, Norway, Netherlands, and way below Italy, Sweden, Denmark, France,
Anything with moving parts requires maintenance, and trying to claim otherwise is absurd — particularly so when statistics to the contrary are readily available.

https://repairpal.com/reliability/lexus/rx330