skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's not an algorithm to order timelines?
I don't get it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://archive.ph/VIjYf if you want to read the article without the paywall.
That crowd has been around for every presidential election since I was old enough to understand what it meant. Don't remember one person ever carrying out with the threat from either side.

However, this comment is a decent litmus test on how I can safely ignore anything from them after that point.
Why do people keep saying he'll get frustrated and lose interest, as though he has a history of giving up on things once they get hard? People were saying that about his bid too.
Eminent Scientist Says Climate Activists Need to Get Real
Makes me wonder how Twitter employees internally are handling the news. If they are celebrating or commiserating?
It was all in your head ;)
Seems weird to start as a non-private repo until there's some content. Also bit of an unusual name. Can't tell if this is internal trolling or the future
Someone pays, just not you at the point of service.
This seems to be a practical joke by a Twitter engineer as opposed to an actual release.
That Chief Engineer sounds like a good dude. (And he said "sure", so...)

100% agree that submarine life is better than a surface ship. I personally would have had a much harder time with the officer/enlisted relationship on a surface ship, in particular.
if you want to experience lack of self awareness, go talk to some lawyers charging $800/hr
I believe you're 100% wrong, but we'll just have to wait and see what transpires, because it's all speculation at this point in time.
Social Media is so horrible. I'm absolutely convinced that humans haven't evolved to handle the insanity that is social media. Yet, they are the public squares. And isolating myself from the cesspools (FB, Twitter, etc) has also isolated me from everyone.

Twitter was the last one I used a very small amount (never more than 5 minutes at a time, not more than once a day). This was the final straw for me. No good options when the choice is: participate in communities I care about + my data being abused, or maintain a sliver of privacy and control over my data + social isolation.
That's why you set vague site policies like "no personal attacks or tweets inciting violence in public or against individuals"
You mean the platform that's doing so well that two of the executives (chief of technology and chief of product development) left in April?

Yeah, not really counting on it.
>Elon Musk told the United Nations he would give them $6 billion to end world hunger if they showed him a detailed plan of how they would use the money. They called his bluff and gave him their plan— and then they never got the money. Now he’s buying Twitter for $45 billion.

https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1518658761979842560

>Here is the executive summary of the UN’s plan for how they would spend the money. Musk publicly ghosted them after this was provided.

>Months later, they told Forbes they never received the money. “Whether WFP receives any of this money is yet to be seen”

https://www.wfp.org/stories/wfps-plan-support-42-million-peo...
Taken down by whom? It was posted on the official github account of twitter.
For poll results, see

https://gabrielsroka.github.io/hnpoll.html?id=31159585
It was created 20 minutes ago. Maybe a WIP?
Just because you disagree with it doesn't mean it's worthless advice.

I always have a fond flutter whenever I see Ruby (which I used to write, and really enjoyed) but absolutely wouldn't start a new project with it, for practical reasons. It's slow, it can turn into a big ball of mud as applications scale (there's no named imports for crying out loud, everything is just in a global namespace with side-effects everwyhere), etc.

Certainly there are still people/projects where, upon consideration, Ruby is still the best choice (eg; small Rails shop has a standard CRUD app to build quickly that will not likely ever scale to be huge). But you should still _consider_ not using Ruby.
Really, what planet do these people live in? Musk has sued people he disagrees with, has sued whistleblowers, has sued a kid for making a twitter bot. They expect him to be some kind of free speech paragon? Fuck me...
On a related note, on the 100th anniversary of the CCP, Elon Musk had this to say:

>The economic prosperity that China has achieved is truly amazing, especially in infrastructure! I encourage people to visit and see for themselves.

Source: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1410413958805270533

And never, ever a word about freedom of speech issues in China. We all know why.
Yeah I tried it on my phone and it said something about how I'm controlling 153 views, and then whatever I was doing on my phone was showing on my laptop in real time.

Actually pretty impressive if you ask me
Turns out, it's been RNG this entire time.
This is a great news for freedom of speech.
Tesla and SpaceX are technology/engineering problems. This is what Musk is good at and can take huge risks to go after it. Twitter is NOT engineering or technology problem. The politics and policies are not Musk's forte, at least not yet. However, the more concerning part is his continued defragmentation of attention. Tesla is now genuinly falling behind with massive new competitions rising up. New models haven't been on market for a while. Previously announced models aren't getting delievered. Pace of growth of superchargers is not keeping up. There is a lot at stack where Musk can make huge difference.
that's an even more depressing thought.
I'm thinking Twitter is in dire need for a little of his "abuse". It's a dysfunctional company, product and community.

I think Musk's abuse should be seen in a larger context. Not as an excuse, rather as an explanation. He takes on seeming impossible missions and is then ruthless in achieving them. Anything that gets in the way has to go, from employees to institutions.

You can debate whether these methods are required to achieve the results or not, I wouldn't know the answer to that. But I do believe he's not intentionally abusive like some evil villain.

He's autistic. His mind doesn't work like the mind of most of us. He cuts straight through politics and social rituals and doesn't read them or comply with them like the rest of us. You could say he's not good at people things, and perhaps that's why he overachieves.
Back during the age of sail it was common to divide the ship's day up into seven watches with five four-hour watches plus two two-hour afternoon "dog" watches. That way no one had to stand the same watch every day. But fatigue was still a problem, especially on vessels that were short handed and only had two watch sections; crewmen were frequently punished for falling asleep on watch.
Speeding up Prettier locally and on your CI with dprint
again, you have no idea what’s going on with their life or finances. people find themselves in situations all the time they think would never happen. hope you never end up there.
There is something vaguely threatening about this.
Depends, what you want in the alternative that Twitter is lacking, or what's on Twitter that you don't want on the alternative?

I use Mastodon as a secondary social network. But way less than Twitter
I decided to take a break from social media this week so logged out of Twitter & Instagram prior to this announcement and removed the apps from my phone. Depending on how it goes over the next week will depend when and if I will resume using it. I deleted my Facebook account in 2020 mid-pandemic and noticed an improvement in my mental health. Deleting my Facebook account had an interesting side effect, I found myself actually conversing more with my social circle instead of liking posts.
That's a large team. I don't think it makes sense to have 15 direct reports. You probably want to split that into 2 teams so you can feed your team with two pizza boxes.

If you do have a team that large, then you need to have a weekly or biweekly meeting with an agenda set beforehand. You can make announcements and possibly have a rotating presentation by somebody from the team about what they've been working on.

If you are managing this many people, you are managing people, projects and comms.
Totally blew my mind a few years ago when a coworker revealed he didn’t have one and had no idea what we were talking about. I always found him to be a little narcissistic and pretty unemphatic; always wondered if they were connected to the lack of an inner voice.
It entirely depends on the dynamics of the team.
> Hoping new age compiled languages like Crystal & Nim fill the gap of performance, types & productivity.

Yes, go is verbose at times. But the go language server for example lets you not write a lot of the boiler plate you see there.

E.g. instead of typing out a for loop, i'd just (start) typing `foo.range!`, or for sorting `foo.sort!`.

I'm not going to argue that writing it in go even with those would be more terse, just that I think it looks worse than it is.
Did you come to Nim from a Ruby background? I've been using Crystal and am very happy with it but would be interested to know what the jump to Nim might be like.
I have a deep hunch that it gets far stupider even than measuring compulsion.

Suppose that your feed refreshes itself while you're trying to read a particular tweet. You go back looking for it--now badly ordered, irrelevant content is positively correlated with your amount of scrolling and time spent in-app.

So the app isn't just optimizing against your lazy attention, it's probably in some cases also rewarding itself for actively hindering you.

These software patterns are anti-human. Imagine using a hammer that is trying to maximize your engagement with the hammer itself. Well, I know I'll be more engaged with the hammer if the head keeps falling off, but that isn't what a hammer is for.
They could use zero knowledge proof
How to minimize time spent in meetings
You mean to say 2x W-2 jobs? Yes, you are likely correct, though it may actually work out if you can convince one of them to switch you to a 1099 status.

Part of your benefits as a W-2 employee don't really do you any good to have 2x of them. 401k plans - your max contribution is the total, not per employer. Health insurance? Well, maybe some people would be better to have two policies (but then you'll get demands for the rest of your life to document whether or not you have two policies for the purposes of coordination of benefits).

Honestly, having one W-2 and one or more 1099 job is better than one or more W-2 job - if you can get it that way.
This is not what I mean. What I mean is that they (CNN, FOX, MSNBC, NYT, WSJ et caterva) could, e.g, set up a Mastodon server and give accounts to their staff and at least encourage cross-posting. They could give free accounts to their subscribers. There is so much that they could to send a strong signal that they are against Twitter/Facebook as the single place of public discourse.

But of course they don't do any of that. The NYT is more interested in paying 7 million dollars to buy Wordle than in combating the Big Tech oligopoly.
Twitters main value is its user base (especially including most journalists, "stars", politicans, companies,...)

I would say the algo itself is worthless, but my estimate would be nowhere near even 1B$.
Will Norris who works on OSS at Twitter posted this[0]: "watch this space https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm"

[0]: https://twitter.com/willnorris/status/1518694675909013504
Residential housing take up only ca 5 percent of UK land. The only reason it's that high is due to huge amount of low density housing (e.g. my terraced road w/houses and gardens take up ca. 40,000m2, near my local station the same number of people will soon be housed on ca. 2,000m2). Space is not an issue. Other infrastructure, maybe, but UK is going to need increasing amounts of immigration over coming years to offeset below replacement fertility rates to prevent a demographic crisis.

With fertility rates plummeting worldwide, there's no realistic scenario where the UK will be overrun.
Wouldn't Stripe's efforts be better used in making payouts available in more countries then?

Also, what are the geos where all 3 are true:

1) Stripe can't payout in USD
2) Strip can payout in USDC
3) USDC to USD (or any fiat) conversion is freely allowed
Delta Clipper landed 25 years ago, too. Vertical landings of suborbital rockets aren't anything new. Reuse of orbital rockets are.

Blue Origin has accomplished practically nothing compared to SpaceX, even if they "landed a rocket before SpaceX". In the 7 years since New Shephard first flew, they've not flown anything new. To this date, BO has not launched a single gram into orbit.

For comparison, 7 years after Falcon 1 first flew in 2006, SpaceX had flown F9 v1.1 and had built a spacecraft that flew to the ISS.
Trump said that he will be staying off Twitter even if his ban lifted, in order to focus on TRUTH Social.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/trump-say...

Personally, I wouldn't bet on it though, he sure loves the attention that comes with Twitter
If Twitter learns your identity through the verification process are you really anonymous, though?
I'm a huge fan of Paprika, their app is slick, they have apps on iOS/Android/Mac/Windows, and it all syncs. They have a ton of features under the hood that I don't even use (like meal planning, pantry management, etc) but I do love their shopping list feature. Just click the shopping cart icon on a recipe and it will let you add all the ingredients to one of your lists. You can easily uncheck all the things you already have and it respects recipe scaling and it will combine ingredients (so if one recipe has 2 tomatoes and you scale it 2x and then another recipe has 3 tomatoes and you leave it at 1x you will end up with 7 tomatoes on your list). Sometimes you need to clean up a recipe a little bit (brand name in the ingredient list or odd naming) but the nice part is you do that once then reap the benefits for forever.

Also, if you are feeling froggy, their cloud sync API is pretty easy to reverse engineer (it's a super basic REST service) so you can build on top of it or write little utilities if needed.

Having all my recipes in the same format is so nice and I can edit a recipe if I want to tweak it or if I find out that what a recipe called for wasn't quite right. Like the icing I make for my red velvet cupcakes called for an insane amount of powered sugar (aka confectioners sugar) and so I edited the recipe so next time I wouldn't over-buy the sugar. Same with tweaking the flavor profile, cook times, etc. And I can add things I always have to look up like sous vide temp/time, I just have a "Sous Vide Steak" "recipe" that has the times in the body of the instructions.
> you're comparing speech to actions other than speech in order to justify that speech being curtailed because you don't like it

I think it's more than this. Trump's tweets have had significant real world consequences. Questioning the integrity of the US elections based on no real evidence eventually led to an insurrection at the US Capitol. When someone's speech is actively dangerous, it makes sense to block it, akin to shouting fire in a crowded theater.
Lab-Grown Meat Producer Upside Foods Raises $400M
Tokyo had tremendously expensive real estate before the 80s bubble burst, so I wonder if it's the result of wise planning as much as the outcome of the 30 years of stagnation.
Sell now? Might be at it’s peak?
> I think the only way to make crowd-sourced content flagging and moderation

I think the issue is that there’s no reputation cost for false or wrong reporting. They need some way to have reputational value for positive contributions and negative.

This is hard but I’d like to see some company try rather than give up.

Maybe make reports public for who reported them. Or just false reports.
I guess the difference is you think they have more resources, more bright engineers, and I'm quite certain they don't. I'd guess Tesla has several times less engineers working on FSD than Waymo and making much lower salaries, and they are spread across large parts of the stack that Waymo can just tap into Google for.
I don't agree.

The things I mentioned in my comment above seem pretty neutral to me, benefiting all users when fixed.
Delightful Fediverse Apps
Twitter Locks Down Product Changes After Agreeing to Musk Bid - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-locks-down-product-ch...
I wouldn't say it "counters" it, rather it very much depends on the events and/or circumstances. Winning the lottery won't make you happy. Losing your job and failing to get another one will probably make you sad. Traumatic events can be very hard to get over.

Funny enough the only example I've found of an "event" having a long term positive effect is cosmetic surgery
Is Bret Taylor has one of the best timing in recen t Silicon Valley history?
He was a co creator of Google maps, then became co founder of Friendfeed, it got bought by FB then he became CTO of FB.Later he became Salesforce Co-CEO and now he was in board of Twitter? How common is anything like this?
Does it remind anyone of Po and the Dragon scroll from Kung Fu Panda?
if ($has_blue_checkmark) show_post_to($everyone);
Probably not unless most of the people I follow leave or he doesn’t something to really fuck it up. Like Reddit: that redesign and crippling of the website on mobile made me drop it pretty fast.
Rails is frankly a double-edged sword, though. While it helped propel Ruby, and is a great framework, it also seems to have permanently marked the language with a notion that its simply a vehicle for Rails.

Ruby is probably one of the more coherently designed general purpose programming languages (in my opinion, much more so than Python, a language that dominates the industry) but doesn't seem to get much use in that domain, which is a shame.
I have been Twitter-free for about half a decade now. Why change a good thing?
Eh. Older folks on social media don’t seem to have any qualms with associating their real identities with toxic posting behavior.
Did you delete your account before he got banned from Twitter? If not, what makes now different from then?
A Covid Hotel Stay
> has sued a kid for making a twitter bot

the @elonjet account?
Bring on the Twitter Mafia
Before opening this article I sure expect something like a computer in the kitchen, which for some people is the iMac 24 and for me it have been iPad Pro 12.9 + Magic Keyboard for 3 yrs. Surprised to see it was something like a cooking robot.
But there's a difference between "it works, but more slowly on <windows or macos> (people's development environments)" and "it doesn't work atoll"
Hard to say exactly why it happened, but users of those sites were quite unhappy with the lack of moderation from what I saw at the time.
Perhaps Twitter will be the new Mozilla if it decides to open-source 'everything' then.

Maybe that is where it is going.
I think he's more likely to be involved in relatively high-level (but still critically important) engineering decisions rather than "science". That distinction aside, I really wonder what makes people so sure he isn't involved, when every indication (interviews, etc.) is that he actually has a pretty good understanding of the principles SpaceX's rockets are built on, and the reasons they're designed the way they are.

Can you enlighten me? Why is this such a common refrain?
Kind of unrealistic but I hope Twitter now open-sources not only the algorithm but also the Rails monolith itself. Would be kind of interesting to see how everything is done
If it’s a list of tweets ordered based on a kajillion ML data points that varies per user is it still an algorithm?

And does every user have their own algorithm?

And could it be made readable to a human?
> why hasn't Facebook, Reddit, YouTube

Well, until today, Facebook, Reddit, Youtube and Twitter are all doing exactly the same things with regards to content moderation so at least Elon can try doing something different for a change.
Tesla is the first U.S. auto company to go public since Ford did so in 1956. Is that not good enough?

Seems well run enough to pull that off.
He is going to allow back the rule on calling pedo guy to divers saving kids...
If Musk dies tomorrow, I don't see anyone else leading up charge for all the progress in space exploration. No one is gutsy enough to go after Mars landing as much as Musk. I would fear that Mars mission will die out if Musk goes away and we won't see it happening in our life time. All the EV race is also purely due to Tesla lead. No car manufacturer wanted this change and they are all now getting dragged into it. If Musk dies and Tesla goes stagnant, I can bet car manufactured will return to same-old same-old in no time.

I am less worried about Musk "overworking" and more worried about him getting identified as sacrificial scapegot in one of the political fights and get "cancelled".
If open-sourcing the algo allows bots to game the system then it has value to the bot wranglers; if the feed becomes full of garbage that gradually destroys Twitter's value.
Or a commit is being prepared? It's only 20 minutes old.
> Now he has a problem where his resume start/end dates don't match what he's claiming on LinkedIn or (presumably) putting on his resume. He also burned the entire team (they figured it out) so he's not getting any positive references from anyway.

Or he only lists the J2 from which he hasn't been fired.
> I understand what your point is

Yay

> but Canada has a history of going after left leaning protesters in FAR more concerning ways than this

Sigh
There probably is not "an algorithm" on a site as large and complex as Twitter, no. There are probably dozens if not hundreds of algorithms spread throughout the codebase which affect the timeline for individual users, possibly even code entirely self-generated by ML systems.
Install an adblocker. I literally never see ads on twitter...
ORDER BY timestamp DESC;
I know the algorithm i use, it ends with ORDER BY date DESC.
Can someone explain this to me? All I can see from this link is an empty GitHub repository. Not sure what I'm missing here.
>More free speech

>Less of [thing you like most]

How does that work?
Yeah, but that's a problem with dynamically linked dependencies. If you statically link all your dependencies into a single executable, doesn't it work conceptually the same as a Docker container with all your tech stack contained in a single package?
A side project I've been trying to find time to work on - a Tailwind/Styled components fusion. So imagine just being able to do this:

<Question
mt0
textCenter
p8={extraPadding}
p2={!extraPadding}
/>

Or you could have another variation, but optimization is more difficult:

<Question
mt={0}
text="center"
p={extraPadding ? 8 : 2}
/>
just birds poking random tweets
There are elements of their algo that I think should be openly defined, and perhaps there should be some regulatory branch that reports to Congress that has full access. However, obfuscation is often necessary to countering bad actors.
Yes, irrelevant, and the code somewhere is readable.

Take an example like gravity: is there an algorithm for how gravity acts even though it varies per each molecule based on a kajillion other molecules? Of course there is.
I think a ballpark to aim for is 95% reality, 5% overlay. Whether that's achieved using passthrough or not is a minor detail.

Since the benefits will be pretty subtle QoL things, the form factor has to be very ergonomic to make it worth it, so widespread use could be decades away.
Different injuries. RSI beats traumatic brain injury, but it's still no fun.

The teams are investing in trainers (as in going to the gym) and the like, but the players often still have issues. It's also not helped by the fact that, based on my admittedly outside observations, few if any were all-star conventional athletes who had to decide between collegiate swimming or the like and eSports.

t. I have a relative who is a prominent pro in one of the big leagues.