skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Minor correction: the countries' peoples don't really have a lot of say in any EU-level policy

That's factually false:

Every single Eu rule and initiative must be approved by the European parliament. The European Parliament's members are elected directly by the European people through proportional representation. Its much more democratic than the UK with its veto-powered royals, upper house with hereditary aristocrats and FPTP system.
Can you list left wing sources that are banned from twitter? I'm struggling here. The KKK, maybe?
Same. Looking forward to left-wing content being treated equally. Twitter did some internal research to find out their biases a while ago: https://cdn.cms-twdigitalassets.com/content/dam/blog-twitter...
> Please don't deny The Science.

I'm not denying anything. In four short words I explicitly accepted my interlocutor's claim. Please don't misrepresent.

> You sound like an antivaxer.

Empty insults aren't helpful either, or allowed by guidelines. When they're obviously contrary to reality, they're actually laughable. I mean, really? This is the level of counterargument you have to offer?

> If something is true who cares if a lot of people talk about it and like the content?

Strawman. This isn't at all about who talks about or likes the content. It's about attempts to mislead people, even if no actual untruth is uttered. Even the law, which is usually pretty strict about requiring proof of wrongdoing, recognizes that omission and misrepresentation can be equivalent to actual untruth. My "good guy with a gun" example makes the same point elsewhere in this thread. When a person or group of people goes around Twitter citing the same weak study about myocarditis and vaccines a hundred times, they're trying to inflate its actual significance relative to dozens of stronger papers on all sides of that same issue. They're using it to instill fear, not to inform. When done for an ideological purpose, as it often clearly is, that's disinformation.

Please note that I'm not trying to prove or disprove any point about vaccines or myocarditis. Go have that poo-flinging contest somewhere else. Consistent with the topic of this submission, I'm trying to address the issue of an uptick in certain tactics that people on all sides use, which pollute public discourse and make all of our lives worse. It's really sad that every one of the responses has only illustrated more of the same problem.
> sometimes you just need to kick someone out of the platform for being a caustic shithead.

This isn't what people are moderated for on twitter. You can pick a random woman on twitter, and identically reply after every tweet she makes that she's just saying that because she's ugly. You can get your friends to join in and organize under a hashtag. Twitter is not interested in moderating that.

I blame it on the hundreds of celebrity reply guys who just wait for a Trump or an Ilhan Omar to tweet, and reply with abusive non-sequiturs. It really should have been nipped at the relatively-benign bud when Zuckerberg's posts on facebook would be accompanied with thousands of comments filled with friend-me spam, or even way back when "Tom's" posts started the same thing on Myspace.

Internet moderation has become fixated on silencing enemies, when it really should have been focused on removing the irrelevant and facetious. Instead of ever censoring the stupid and the spam, the targets became the naysayers and the contrarians. This is nothing but a boon for government and corporate covert interference, because their aim is to disrupt conversations, not to participate in them.
On all Linux distros on all hardware , one should use the (latest(stable)) vendor drivers. :)

The distro drivers (and/or) kernel drivers, are almost always garbage. Also make sure the NIC firmware is up to date.
americans are pretty heterogenous, in all ways relevant to this situation.
I run it on a Librem 15. For more laptops have a look here: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/laptops-that-just-work-with-qub....
Thank you, interesting details on MS. Some of the classic "yield farming"...Twitter deal as the black box this time.
I never said they don't - rereading, I should have used the word "manipulated", because I meant "moved (by a person)": a PC[1] gets opened more frequently often than a car hood.

1. Especially a pc with an RTX 40X0 card - because only enthusiasts are buying them at this point.
> No one has legal power to change their terms of service governing my data, or issue secret warrants, or extralegal power to outright take my digital property.

I don’t see how this is even close to true. Governments seize property all the time.
Again, this sounds very different from a scenario where a civil war is on the table. Biden's concern with "MAGA Republicans" is that they might win political power locally and use it to subvert national election results, not that they might shoot him and seize power by force. (Scare quotes because I find the term unhelpful, not because I disagree that such a group exists.)
none of this is fun
I am perfectly fine with not flying anywhere, my friend. :) Nor did I not blame any janitors, as they are not usually capitalists. They usually do not have any capital, nor do they make any decision on how to increase profits, etc. And besides, this is a false analogy - janitors that work at office buildings are different from government employees, such as teachers who disseminate state ideology and cops who enforce state laws with threat of violence.

What you're saying is capitalist entities are blameless because there is no moral obligation for them to stop polluting, and as long as someone pays them and consumes their products/services this is ok. This falls completely within theory - as I mentioned somewhere else in this thread, it has already been established that capital has no moral obligation and no social contract with the society that it subjugates.
> They were supposed to have a $35K version.

They had a $35k version, it was just off menu as recently as early 2020[0]. But it was discontinued around November of 2020[1].

[0]: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1127490_the-35k-tesla-m...

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/16/21569524/tesla-model-3-3...
Up for me, unfortunately. The world's mental health would immediately surge in a positive direction if Facebook disappeared overnight.
After all there are no facts, only “diverse viewpoints”.

Big Tech is doing great.
Facebook also touted this. But they would never do it, as it would almost immediately spawn a competing copycat substitute service that would receive a massive userbase for free at its inception, risking creating a formidable competitor.

Or even worse - no substitute service would even spring up, giving a strong signal that people don't actually need the service FB/Twitter offer at all!

They only stand to loose for exiting a market as a protest.
FTA: “Although “Transformer” is aimed at laypeople, it’s not a particularly easy read: there are diagrams of chemical reactions alongside talk of succinate, oxaloacetate, and the reduction of this and that. Reading it, I had to consult Wikipedia and Khan Academy.”
I'm not so sure. It's something like Christians vs Transvestites, then you ban one of the groups and that's valuable because otherwise the other one will attack Pepsi?
> for example one of Putin's absurd false justifications for his invasion is to 'clean nazis out'.

False accusations of Nazism are indeed really common and a big problem today. Actual Nazism is next to nonexistent.
> Musk hasn’t said all that much since the takeover on Twitter, but he has replied to a couple of users who have complained about platform censorship in the past. One is a user called “catturd2” who claims he’s shadowbanned and who tweets COVID misinformation among other things. The other is Canada Proud, a right-wing propagandist group that also spreads COVID misinfo and focuses on attacking Canadian PM Justin Trudeau.

What a nasty comment from an otherwise fine article. A reply is not an endorsement, and not even linking the tweets in question really lets the author hide the evidence and twist the paragraph into whatever he wants it to mean. Besides, it's not like Justin Trudeau is lacking on things to attack him for.
So the whole “let’s not escalate to nuclear war” thing is what convinced you he didn’t want to save humanity.
WebSQL is dead, long live WASM SQLite.

And in all seriousness, WASM is exactly the way this should be done. It doesn’t tie a db engine to a specific standardised version. It’s far more important to develop low level block storage apis like the OPFS that WASM SQLite is using.
Those are the terms. If you can't tolerate having to re-share that which you were given, then great news, you don't have to. You can write your own software or buy software that has some other license.

Derivative works are just a form of giving the next guy that which you were given. It's not stealing anything from you even though the derivative is more than the origi al. It's only "radioactive" if what you wish to do is take and enjoy and profit from without paying back or forward in the same manner which you benefitted from, which implies more than merely the MIT style original still existing out there somewhere.

It's only radioactive to someone who wants to steal. It's incompatible or unusable in a purely traditional commercial business model, but that isn't "radioactive" any more than a commercial library is "radioactive" if you don't want to pay it's fee. It just means the terms aren't a fit for what you want to do, but they are not in any way bad or unreasonable terms.
No? You can set your tweets to by replied to by only those you follow, or only those you mention.
I dont agree that it's fraud.
My main take away from this is the importance of getting to grips with the codebase first. This may seem completely obvious but right now I'm in a context where the codebase is spread across different dev teams whose code 'meets in the middle' through an API but is never considered in a holistic fashion. In other words, there is not even a coherent codebase to review. The project is overdue and over budget by 100%, of course.
> …insects… are a million miles from the mindless, unfeeling creatures they are traditionally believed to be.

Is it truly a common belief that insects are mindless and unfeeling? I would imagine the vast majority of people, when polled, would guess that insects have some form of consciousness and feeling.

Of course, that doesn't stop people from squashing or swatting them when they get in the way. In fact, it hasn't fully stopped people from killing other people either.
Sure. But ultimately there is some level of arbitrary lines where you have a trade-off of overbanning or underbanning.

Say you have a committee of 9 people? What's your cut-off? There isn't a clear answer - especially as norms change a bit and the committee members change.
haha funny.
STH = Serve The Home

STH is a review website and YouTube channel that reviews a lot of prosumer and enterprise grade equipment.
Sure, I agree Musk underestimates the scope of the challenge.

I'm personally of the belief that network effects have granted Twitter a relatively unassailable cultural position, or at least enough of a moat to greatly reduce competitive pressures, and so should be subjected to different standards than a local bar or paper -- and if the analogy is to a newspaper, then Twitter should be treated as a publisher with all the attendant regulatory baggage that carries. It's hard for them to argue they have a right, as a private company, to shape the conversation, and in the same breath claim they're shielded from legal responsibility for what takes place on their site.

It's definitely a tricky debate, but in my personal value stack I place individuals' freedom of speech much higher than a private company's right to refuse service, so that's where I fall.
> In hibernating bears and newborn humans, the turbines generate heat, which is stored in fat. More commonly, though, each turn of the wheel assembles a molecule of adenosine triphosphate, or ATP—the energy currency of our cells.

Interestingly, there is a (very effective!) weight-loss drug called DNP whose mechanism of action is to interfere with ATP generation in this manner. Essentially it makes it so that some non-trivial percentage of these "proton turbines" do not actually generate ATP. This means you burn a lot more calories at rest to generate the same amount of ATP, and also generate a lot of excess heat.

The risk is that if you take too much your core temperature increases too much and you can cook yourself to death. There's no treatment and overdoses are invariable fatal.
The weirdest part to me about this saga is the extent to which Elon Musk is getting away with pretending he didn't spend the last six months trying very hard not to purchase Twitter.
Twitter is a microblogging site. Not a messaging platform. He could have bought snapchat which is based on messaging.
Very well put. It should go both ways, and the perception that the platform is fair to each respective stakeholder need not be symmetrical. It should be possible that one political demographic is "deplatformed" more, based purely on their promotion of values that are antisocial and immoral in a community setting. Fairness cannot be determined on a demographic basis alone.
I'll never understand how people can justify seeing the world in such binary terms. You don't honestly think someone is "bad" or "good" based on political ideology, do you?
Very nice. I built sqlite3 for WASI/a-Shell to use on my iPad (https://github.com/rcarmo/wasi-sqlite) and it still has a few issues, I hope this will help (although right now the biggest issue seems to be that the REPL has some sort of memory leak when run inside WASI).
From what I heard he bought twitter months ago. The drama since then was about whether he'll need to be taken to court to pay for it and recieve the package.
A Redditor Ended Up with an Industrial-Grade Netflix Server
> I have never been called "cis" except by people with antagonistic tones trying to get a rise out of me.

I can tell you from personal experience that this says more about you than the word.

The majority of people in my circle would self describe as cis, and most people I interact with would self identify as cis if the meaning was explained to them.
True, there are definitely better and more consistent developers than me on the project. However, that's the term the gitea project uses. I should've linked to the maintainers list: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/MAINTAINERS
“Eutrophication is the process by which an entire body of water, or parts of it, becomes progressively enriched with minerals and nutrients, particularly nitrogen and phosphorus. It has also been defined as "nutrient-induced increase in phytoplankton productivity"

What is happening to Reddit?
https://archive.ph/PMvWz

Here's an archived Bloomberg quick-take back when the debt was financed last April.

Here's some commentary on the subject:

* https://fortune.com/2022/10/05/elon-musk-flipflop-twitter-ba...

* https://www.axios.com/pro/media-deals/2022/10/05/musk-twitte...
The immediate change Elon should make is to remove the high-pressure “login/open in app” stuff… it’s ironic that I can’t even read his tweets (without being logged in, at least)
As a submarine comms expert, this is more true than you might realize.
> Maybe sites will stop using them

Yeah, good luck getting someone like the BBC to pay for embedding tweets.

> and take screenshots instead.

I'd assume that would be against TOS (probably is already.)
GTX 1650 has 75 watt TDP and has low profile variant that can fit small form factor case.
Finally, diversity of ideas, and not diversity of skin color.
This library paves the way for Zuko, an impetuous young interplanetary computation system.
> Such speech is considered equivalent to yelling "Fire" in an open theater, to use a common internet retort on free speech, because of the effect it has on the masses, and we have laws on blasphemy specifically for this.

Just FYI, the "fire in a crowded theater" is actually a widely-spread yet terrible example, as it was actually overturned in Brandenburg v. Ohio in 1969. So, yelling fire in a crowded theater is actually legally not addressed by either decision and the famous quote is part of an overturned ruling.
Can you expand on the parallelism features you use and what shell? In bash I've basically given up managing background jobs because identifying and waiting for them properly is super clunky; throttling them is impossible (pool of workers) and so for that kind of thing I've had to use GNU parallel (which is its own abstruse mini-language thing and obviously nothing to do with shell). Ad-hoc but correct parallelism and first class job management was one of the things that got me to switch away from bash.
I feel like this "content moderation council" would be a fine idea if there weren't a large segment of the US population (the country which will almost certainly dominate the council) still living in a complete fantasy land where Trump won the 2020 election by a landslide and explaining the continuing effects of racist policies of the past is secretly a plot to kill off white people.

Those people might not be a majority, but they certainly aren't a "vocal minority" that can safely be ignored, either.
Oh, it totally is. All the weird performative porcelain stunts won't change the fact that he tried like hell to back out.

He just escalated things too far before he realized what he was doing.

So now he's acting like everything's all cool now so people stop talking about what a colossal clusterfuck this entire thing was.
"It's not censorship if we use a bunch of ideologically identical people to do it rather than one."
All Meta services are including WhatsApp and Instagram
... based on an opaque "popularity" metric [1] which reminds me of TIOBE (which is also nonsense).

Some of the "databases" included in this ranking are pretty questionable, too. Notably, it includes a number of hosted database services and analytics platforms, like Splunk, Microsoft Azure SQL, and Algolia, which aren't really comparable to database server applications. There's also a couple of WTFs, like etcd and memcached, which are only databases by the most stretched of definitions.

[1]: https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_definition
Nanowire synapses 30,000x faster than nature’s
Because you still have the issue that you need to push insane amperages if you’re limited to 12V.

600W out of 12V require 50 amps. This means you need more connectors, thicker cables and you have more resistive losses (= heat).

If you can get 48 V rails in, then you get down to a much comfier 12.5A, you can get that through comfortably on a pair of small-section wires.
Claims that right wing voices are being censored are from my own observations. including the examples I cited in my comment. To be clear I do not think left voices should be censored, I am 100% opposed to all censorship, banning ect

In the 90's I was fighting conservatives that wanted to censor the much smaller and newer internet from things like violence (games) and porn.

Today it is the left that is attempting to censor the internet over much more nebulous and undefined terms like "misinformation" and "hate speech" all of which have very subjective definitions and seem to be a moving target.
> Also he likely has a plan to get more revenue otherwise he likely (caveat he is quite impulsive) wouldn't have jumped in

I mean, just 3 weeks ago he went to court trying to get out of this deal.

I don't think he actually wanted to buy Twitter anymore. As these numbers came in, it became obvious that this was a bad deal for him.
She has already been fired so the lesson is moot.
Some concepts about privacy and perhaps features to prevent being a tool for child pornography and other illegal and immoral content.
I wonder what the catalyst finally is/was to cause such an acceleration
It's the age old root of trust problem. In practice the good enough is that if it passes SSL/TLS authentication on the official domain then we wouldn't be able to stop an injection attack either way. Validating against the source is no good if it is the source that is compromised.

That's also kind of the issue with a lot of these shell injection attacks. Sure someone could insert environment variables or other shenanigans to take over your machine, but if they have that much control over your shell there are countless other ways they could also do it. Guarding against this one particular case doesn't buy you much.
I've never heard about anyone banned from Twitter just for losing a debate.
Younger than the other companies on your list. Microsoft is 47 years old.
The banks own the debt and will try to syndicate it out to new investors later. This is standard in an LBO. The banks provide "bridge financing" for the deal while they line up end debt investors. But the banks are ultimately on the hook if the debt market freezes up, as happened here.

ETA: Financing the Merger section of the proxy lays all this out:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000119312522...

Pursuant to a debt commitment letter (which we refer to as the “debt commitment letter”), Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. and the other financial institutions party thereto committed to provide to Acquisition Sub (which we collectively refer to as the “bank debt financing”):

• a senior secured term loan facility in an aggregate principal amount of $6.5 billion;

• a senior secured revolving facility in an aggregate committed amount of $500.0 million;

• up to $3.0 billion in aggregate principal amount of senior secured bridge commitments (which commitments may be replaced by the proceeds of the issuance of one or more series of senior secured notes (in escrow or otherwise) pursuant to a Rule 144A offering or other private placement, as contemplated by the debt commitment letter); and

• up to $3.0 billion in aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured bridge commitments (which commitments may be replaced by the proceeds of the issuance of one or more series of senior unsecured notes (in escrow or otherwise) pursuant to a Rule 144A offering or other private placement, as contemplated by the debt commitment letter).
With an open API, you even open up the door to "moderation bots" that autoban users from your timeline if they appear to be bots

Hmm...this may turn into "Ban speech from my account that's promoting right/left wing agenda" moderation bots

Let the bot wars begin
This is a possibility if diplomacy fails. But diplomacy and dialog should happen first. Going public and publishing this open letter is a sign that other forms of diplomacy did not work (including private messages).

Although people secretly created the company month ago, the first public hint of its existence showed when someone inadvertently mentioned being bound by an NDA. Which raised questions that they could not answer... because they were bound by an NDA.

That was in July 2022.
oh no, not k-means clustering
Because sovereign monetary policy is a much-underappreciated but absolutely key element of sovereignty. Joining a monetary union and ceding independent control of monetary policy is extremely risky, especially when that monetary union is not accompanied by large scale intra-union fiscal transfers (i.e. on maybe 10x the magnitude existing in the EU or Eurozone).

What happened to Greece is a cautionary tale, and Britons would be wise to reject joining the Euro absent major political and fiscal reforms.
Thinking you can cycle "most of Twitter's existing team" with new employees in just 6 months without any impact to service availability or velocity also shows a "limited and almost comical understanding of" the importance of organizational knowledge, operations management, and recruiting.