skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like Musk is spending $108 per Twitter user, in order to have access to all of their account data. That he wants to sell micro-targeted ads, with the aim of changing the outcomes of elections.

That's my hot take.
> "the most extreme 10% of the left and the right are equally frustrated."

yeah that sounds great but the devil is in the details and they have always been. I feel like Musk gets tunnel vision in his thought process. Like he goes "A leads to B, B leads to C, and then C leads to D and done." without contemplating the complexities along the way. It's interesting because he's not naive to business and how things work. He's certainly gotten things done in timelines that people thought impossible and even laughed in his face but other times he has wildly missed.
> It doesn't change my fundamental point in any way

Yeah it does. The letter of the law isn't being violated at all. The spirit isn't being violated either at FAANG companies. The wages are in the top 5% nationally - they should have no difficulty attracting domestic workers, if they existed. The visa burden is so onerous. Why would any company go through that willingly?

> How do the other thousands of U.S. tech startups have any U.S. workers at all

Usually by underpaying workers by promising equity that will be worth way more later, recruiting through a sense of mission, giving out higher titles, or simply hiring lower-caliber talent or less-experienced people who don't know their worth. I've experienced all of the above.

> Or is it more likely that they'd have to increase the offering to an even higher number?

How does that increase supply? Where are the large numbers of people who are otherwise interested in and capable of doing software engineering but $300k just isn't enough money?

> don't believe any reasonable judge could disagree with the main point that the program is not being used as intended.

I don't know what a "reasonable" judge is - I assume it's whoever agrees with you - so that's meaningless. However, no judge so far has agreed with your opinion, as far as it relates to the FAANG companies.
The problem with rigid systems of control is they are often terribly blind at even recognizing what enables exploitation due to faulty boundary conditions.
> And if you manage to successfully create some hybrid structure

The problem I have with that stance is the difficulty of "manag[ing] to successfully create some hybrid structure". Personally I've never seen polyamory succeed over multiple attempts, and each time results in at least one person being hurt. There's something to be said for discouraging activities that are unlikely to work out and can potentially be damaging.
Real name policy destroys Twitter the way the no-pornography rules destroyed tumblr. It's a position from a place of privilege and is actively harmful, but don't take my word for it, here is a link to the EFF's position: https://www.eff.org/de/issues/anonymity

Which is besides the point; why do you think Elon will do any of this, when the previous board/company/ownershop did not?
Ask HN: Will Machine Learning replace animal experiments?
i'm sometimes wondering why we're still using animals to conduct experiments?

can't we use Machine Learning models to stop all the animal suffering?
I've tried twice to make it clear that I'm talking about the wider societal issue of the growing importance of these platforms in public discourse combined with their moderation policies (and the arbitrariness of those policies — since they can change at any time without notice).

Since each of your replies ignores this and focuses on individual issues — unrelated to my comment and uninteresting to me — like which platform(s) a person chooses to use, whether Twitter has the right to moderate, or whether they have historically used their arbitrary moderation power in a way that you find acceptable, I'm going to disengage from this thread at this point since I don't think we can enlighten each other in any meaningful way.
Literally everyone goes to the gymnasium nowadays.
we considered PouchDB[1] (client) and CouchDB[2] (server) for an PWA back then (2017). nowadays i would probably favor WatermelonDB[3].

[1]: https://pouchdb.com/

[2]: https://couchdb.apache.org/

[3]: https://nozbe.github.io/WatermelonDB/
Vulnerability of avian populations to renewable energy production
I agree. It's a bit tricky to study these things because you can't necessarily (ethically) assign people to different trial groups and use different dosages, but just recording data on what type of anesthesia was used and doing a subsequent followup a few months later could already be valuable.
Send them a 2fa key token with their fee and call it a day
Ok, so if I track your car driving on public roads and post it on Twitter it's cool?

Elon army? Where did you get that from?
10+ years as a copywriter/copy editor across multiple industries. Location: Nowhere, nothing, all the time.

Rates in our world are often per word but what’s comparable is how it translates to an hourly wage.

I don’t go for anything less than 100/hour unless that difference is made up by me wanting to do pro bono work.
> The right has plenty of criticism for Sanders but they don’t criticize him for being an identitarian because he largely isn’t.

It feels like you missed Sanders' entire campaign then [0] [1] [2].

The main differences between Warren and Sanders is that Warren's policies are better, and Sanders is a Jewish man (I feel like potentially being our first Jewish president didn't get enough play, but it would have been a powerful moment for the US and humanity as a whole).

> it seems pretty sexist to imply that men oughtn’t be cheerleaders

If you use phrases structured as "[stereotype] [people the stereotype is used against]", that's a stereotype. If your excuse is that the stereotype isn't absolute, it's a tacit admission that you used a stereotype against people. Own it or don't, up to you.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3mvbxeA1UA

[1]: https://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-racial-justice/

[2]: https://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-womens-rights/
1. Retailers have had issues curbing bots hoovering up video cards, PlayStations, etc.

2. Most of the Twitter bots people are worried about when they talk about bots are state-funded.

If companies can't prevent a self-funded scalper, what makes you think Twitter will be able to prevent Russia? There are a lot of ways to obfuscate payments so they don't look to be coming from the same source. Even more ways when you control the banks.
Austerity is not a difficult policy to understand.

If your personal debts had grown exponentially over the past year, and your income showed no signs of exceeding your outgoings, would you not make some effort to reduce your outgoings?
Except those were peaceful protests
There's a resolution, but any resolution will bring additional problems. If Musk's approach brings increased radicalization along with it, that's not a solved problem, even if you don't particularly care about radicalization (since the media definitely will and you're painting a bullseye on yourself).
Ask HN: What's Your Research Process?
Whether you do research as part of your job or for personal reasons, I'm curious to know whether you folks have a system or process for managing, organizing etc the research material?

How do you search and gather the initial material? Then systematically (or haphazardly) filter through to see what's relevant for further examination?

How do you organize the material? Do you use a particular software? Do you have a preferred way of sorting and/or naming it?

How do you process this material (eg taking notes)? Making it ready for the next steps, whether that's some sort of synthesis, analysis, writing, etc.?
I don't see evidence that it's the only way, Twitter is unmatched in toxicity in the social media landscape yet most other platforms allow anonymous accounts.
Honestly, I think “Everything that isn’t illegal is allowed” is fine as long as Twitter only shows me content from people I follow. I think the whole "content moderation" problem is something Twitter has brought on itself. I am perfectly happy moderating my own content if they would only let me.
I don't think many Zig programmers miss C macros. Comptime is extremely powerful.
You are 100% correct and most of us think that way. There are some people though that think just the ability to say terrible things or even just things they strongly disagree with is proof of the collapse of society and will lead to the end of all things. This is not meant as an attack on these people that feel this way as I think they are just unable to control themselves, and I think have just never been able to adapt to the concept of social media. They ruin their lives obsessing over what others may be posting or saying and how dare the rest of us not be outraged as well. I had a sibling disown my entire family over something like this.
Youtube tried this years ago and then later quietly rolled it back. Turns out many people don't have a problem having their name attached to them being awful people on the internet, and it exposes others to real world harassment. (It also had to do with Google+'s pressure on the rest of Google, but Youtube could've kept it after Google+ failed if the real name policy was actually working.)
Pteromys: Interactive Design and Optimization of Model Airplanes (2014)
For Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East in general, yes, the language and some kind of cultural knowledge. The same reason why a lot of Vietnamese, Laotian, or Lebanese refugees went to France some decades ago. They need to know about the quality of life, which happens mostly if there is some kind of cultural contact.

Quality of life in the UK is good, don't get me wrong, but not orders of magnitude better than what they could find on the continent.
That won't solve the problem. Soon you will complain that you can't live in a mansion on your $300k/yr salary.
There's very little value in elementary-grade humor, though. It's not advertiser friendly. If Twitter turns into primarily shit posts of this caliber then it ends up being worth a lot less money than it is now.
> cars are something we should be moving away from…

Well there are lots of things humans should be doing, and never do. But I do believe Musk already did accomplish Tesla’s goal of accelerating electrification of the planet. Combustion is just less efficient. The ball is now rolling. Resistance is futile.

I believe it is arguable that some of the more damaging climate change scenarios are possible. So anyone moving the needle there could be extremely beneficial in the long run. Musk moved the needle more than anyone in modern history, hasn’t he?

I also do buy into the long-term goal of making Earth’s life spread beyond Earth. I happen to believe that complex lifeforms are extremely rare volumetrically. It does seem worth it to me, and I truly cannot think of a greater goal. SpaceX has revolutionized orbital boosters with F9 and FH already dropping costs by at least half. If/when Starship and Superheavy are up and running, then the economics of getting to space may be 10x better.

On the other hand Musk is not omniscient and scares the crap out of me sometimes.

The boring company plan for West LA didn’t make sense beyond paper and pencil prototyping.

I got banned from multiple Tesla forums for being upset about Tesla’s proof of work crypto investment. Eventually Musk came around on that too, but why did it take so long? How did this even pass muster?

The scariest thing is Neuralink though. The goal is to give humans a fighting chance to compete with a possible future AGI by greatly increasing our i/o bandwidth. Ok, but assuming AGI is created, then it’s fair to assume that it will be possible to increase the AGIs speed using various methods. Maybe we will have a chance to compete up to some point, but that time will pass as AGI develops further.

We are trading a fleeting advantage against a possible future threat in exchange for giving read/write access to our brains to the governments, corporations, and NSO Groups who we all know and trust. Would love to be talked down from that one because this appears to be monumentally dumb to me right now.
Not if you make Twitter federated and let people host their own instance. For example, let Stephen Fry host his own Twitter server and he will choose what is allowed and what is not. This Twitter will integrate with other Twitter servers over ActivityPub. Something like Mastodon.

It's not going to happen because this model is not going to generate any revenue unless Elon figures out something.
Yeah you're right. Still terrible PR. It just sounds petty.
I used made-up units (and they are not even internally consistent). I was more concerned about providing enough resolution to help the player but limited by 2 or 3 digits (Nixie tubes) — I was less worried about being consistent.

You caught me, though.
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The problem with this idea (aside from the gratuitous use of bitcoin, and the pricing out of people who can't pay) is that punishing people isn't the hard part of online moderation. For most simple cases, a system of warnings, temporary suspensions, and permabans mostly works. Yes, you've got to deal with sockpuppets, but my understanding is that they're usually fairly easy to recognise, and the extreme cases are usually rare and notorious figures. Nothing in this process is so complex that it requires a stake system to be fixed.

No, the problem is that determining bad behaviour (or at least, doing so in a way that is fair, just, and broadly accepted) is very difficult. There's no objective naughtiness meter that detects when someone's behaving in bad faith. There's no set of words that always, regardless of context indicate undue rudeness. There's no perfect demarcation between just asking questions, and harassment.

So basically any system is going to have to make a series of judgement calls, and those judgement calls are going to be specific to the context of the person (or people) making the judgement. And most importantly: other people will disagree with that judgement call! Not least the poor victim of your unfair banhammer (or the poor victim of the abusive spammer you choose to do nothing about).

Money's not going to fix that problem - if anything, it'll make it worse when people have more on the line.
> Stop overfocusing on cookies and instead remember to add this geolocation process, and why you do it, to your privacy policy. Please name the geolocation service provider (sub-processor) you share the users IP with, so your users can audit how their data is used.

Or don't be lazy/cheap and use a geolocation implementation where you don't need to share the IP at all.
This submission, at least for me, pulls the "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" lever.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Irony of Canceling Everything Russian
Avoiding the Power Trip
A lot of CS degrees are just an expensive and totally crap javascript bootcamp with algo drills. I'd say so. However the science of computing is a thing, but I rarely meet anyone who's gone and received that education. The few people I've met that have usually got an EE masters with a focus on IC design. I think there is definitely room for splitting them up.
The slight advantage here is that the Option returns an error if the value is a zero value (which nil is). Existing linters will throw warnings about not checking errors. I don't believe I've seen a "not-nil" checker, although I could be wrong.
Many of these, could be principles for life.
nicotine is a well studied noortropic. It enhances neuroplasticity and focus
No. No one wants 'real names' online.

People just got tricked in to doing this because Facebook was centered around connecting people at college, where you interact with people in real life. It was obsolete and an aberration the moment Facebook decided to open up to the wider world.

Rate limiting solves the problem of bots crapflooding the service and turning it into a sewer. Not every account you find objectionable is a bot.
I mostly interact with github via a standard git cli, which does NOT bug me about it.
To see what half of the others already have. That should get them queueing!
That's probably how self-help books started. Short and to the point. But it's hard for people to take the steps necessary to change, so I can imagine a lot of people simply stop doing the steps laid out in the original pamphlet, thinking there's a 'better way', that's less inconvenient.

And so we get Self Help Book 2.0, now with a lengthy introduction describing all kinds of relatable issues that convinces you that this is the right book that seems to 'get' you as an individual. But beyond the motivational first chapter, the book still contains those hard-to-do-regularly steps and insists that you must change if your habits are to. So we end up dropping that as well, choosing instead to wait for the next book that makes all the right promises.
Twitter does not have a free speech problem. Twitter is not the US government, it's a private organization, and has no obligation to allow any speech it does not want on its platform. If it serves the political agenda of some people, that is entirely within it's own free speech right and we should celebrate its ability to, or found new organizations to compete its free speech.
A Whiteboard coding challenge is the exact thing you describe. But instead of interviewers looking over your shoulder, they look at the whiteboard as you stand in front of them and write code on the whiteboard.
Self-hosting is a very last-millennium form of wankage. Back then, a compiler was a pretty significant program, and compiler construction tools weren't mature.

Nowadays, self-hosting your compiler doesn't demonstrate much of anything. It takes a lot more than a compiler to prove anything meaningful about your language. Time spent on self-hosting is mostly just time wasted. It mainly suggests you were not really serious.

Make a front end for LLVM, and get on with things.
>The ONLY way to solve the toxic nature of Twitter is to enforce a)a real name policy, and b)fully verified[1] identities for all users/bots (opt-in, where others by default filter out non-verified accounts in their feeds)

I'm gonna call nonsense on this. Practically every social media platform that forces real identities are cesspits because of the real name policy. Largely because of the soap box celebrities/influencers who shill their views and monetize their followers.

I prefer reddit/HN a thousand times over the garbage of twitter/FB/etc..
Lol what? We're social animals. You realize that forums were also social media? Just because the term didn't exist 20 years ago doesn't mean it wasn't a thing.
Part of the reason I and many others love twitter is precisely because it retains a spark of that early internet forum style community, with pseudonymity for those who want it and "Real ID" for those who want to treat it like LinkedIn or Facebook or whatever. Awful suggestion.
> He had thousands of replies to that tweet with people posting pictures of Musk looking even worse. Sure he posts low quality garbage on Twitter but so does everyone else.

You're missing the cause-and-effect here. People are stooping to his level. He's serving as a prime example of the worst kind of behavior to emulate, and emulate they are.
You can also look north to Canada where the American notion of “free speech” does not apply. There are reasonable limits on hate speech, obscenity, defamation and the like.
Real identity is usually a very bad idea for most platforms with few exceptions in my opinion. Wouldn't help Twitter if exchanges get even more personal and the bottom quality content is almost always people whose identity is known anyway.

edit: Anonymous accounts that allow for detachment and people need to learn not to consume media they don't like. It is pretty easy actually. People in the public, even small ones like streamers are putting themselves out there and it can become a problem. But there isn't a technical solution, these are the age old problems of PR. This is why popular people in the public sphere have agencies just for that single problem.

The real name idea is overall pretty bad for numerous additional reasons.
I was simply pointing out to the parent commenter that Jordan Peterson does indeed have some rather negative views on trans people, and that it’s not just a narrative made by “the media”.
Right, but what about `Optional<Integer> x = null`? Is there any static check to make sure this can't happen, or is it something you have to just avoid? I can imagine someone might accidentally return `null` instead of `Optional.ofNullable(null)` in a method that returns an Optional, but maybe in practice catching this with a lint is enough.
The "people want to see me eat shit on live TV so I'll eat shit on live TV" mentality. Exactly what this world needs indeed
> Scientific methods and the institutions in charge of applying resources towards it are not perfect but our life has seen incredible improvements in the last few years

Private research is doing just fine, it is public research we are talking about here. The examples you mentioned were developed by private companies.
Those regulatory constraints are there because people want them to be there.
Retailers didn't really care. A sale is a sale, and scalpers are less likely to return or ask for a refund.
A great way to advertise Tesla would be to fully weave it into the very fabric of Twitter. Every tweet then has the potential to inject Tesla's brand into eyeballs.
Rural hospitals have been shut down quite a bit in the last 20 or so years.

https://sidecarhealth.com/blog/181-rural-hospitals-have-clos...
UPS was founded in 1907. Bu thanks.

Fred was trained by the US Gov to fly, went to the most exclusive schools and inherited 40million in the 70s! That's 250million today... You can think this is a story of a selfmade man but you'd be wrong. He may have built a business, but he did it from the highest rings of the ladder having been placed there by his privilege.
My guess is you didn't touch down in the base center. Care to make a screen shot and open an issue?

At the very least I should let the player know they are off by a hair on the landing (if that turns out to the the case and not just a bug).
>Those societal expectations have been getting programmed by hollywood and media for so many decades that a massive amount or even majority has very unrealistic expectations.

Hollywood is not going to stop hiring physically attractive actors, that's another impossible intervention.
On what basis have you earned the right to reside in the U.K.?

Don’t say “I was born here” - you didn’t earn that. How would you fare on the points based visa scheme? Would you support an initiative to strip undesirable people (i.e. all those who have inadequate points) of their citizenship, so “better” people with more points can replace them?
>I would love to get my students using slide rules, but it's difficult to find physical ones for a reasonable price.

What's your idea of a reasonable price? I know it's going to be a bulk pack.

This sounds like a hobby project challenge. The scales are easy to do with CNC and computers, or laser printers. You need a small bit of routing, or a rabbit plane, to make the groves to hold the slide in. The two ends. The hairline/scale is the trickiest bit because you want a leaf spring making it slide nice, but hold its position.

It might be something the folks at your friendly makerspace find an interesting challenge. I know I would, were I not having eye surgery and a month or two of "don't do anything fun" ahead of me tomorrow.
But who is suggesting that Musk is going to enforce non-US laws on Twitter more than it currently does? He seems to be for the opposite of that.