skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So yeah actually, I was thinking about this but advertisers have abandoned Fox News in droves. They have a relatively narrow advertising block it's mostly middle of the road car and insurance companies and other big brands with big money who don't mind focusing on that particular segment. (Don't get me wrong it is a lot of companies, but I don't think twitter has the grab to be this picky yet)

I suspect part of the problem with Twitter is that then you probably are ending up trying to build a conservative social network, and I suspect there isn't a big enough market for a conservative social network, at least as big as the one that Twitter wants to be. Maybe as time goes on and more conservatives end up younger.
> The whole "advertisers don't want their ads appearing next to xyz" has always felt contrived to me, like, I can use Gmail to receive all sorts of wrongthink and I'll still see ads on it

Good point, but...

The advertiser mostly cares when "everyone" knows they advertise for Nazis. If it's just you who knows, no biggie. They don't want it to be common knowledge.
CSS can completely change the position and semantics of a tag.

Floats, z-index and position:absolute/relative are especially tricky.
patience, leave some stuff for later, otherwise the experiment will end soon
> But how many talented engineers want to work with him, on interesting challenges, for very low compensation. Because historically with his other companies that's what he offers.

But people still take those jobs at the other companies. Whatever he wants in his employees, recruiters will offer the lowest it takes to hire them, just like anywhere else.
> biology beyond the very simplistic instinctual-automaton model

This concept belongs to behaviorism, which is one school of thought in biology. Its massive and unjustifiable dominance in the benighted 20th century notwithstanding, it is far from the only one. My experience has been that the results of ethological research into hymenopteran behavior, at least, yield far more predictive power than much of anything from the behaviorist school. It would not at all surprise me if this were one case in a much broader pattern.
It's more like predicting humans won't be able to fly a few months after the Wright brothers did it. Exhibit: Cruise cars driving happily in SF: https://youtu.be/DNOJFcwXdec?t=61

OK they are not at "omnipresent scale" and aircraft took decades before we had proper flights with queues for security and baggage reclaim but I think tech moves faster these days.
He doesn't have to completely fix Twitter. All he has to do is make Twitter Ads actually produce a decent ROI for the average customer.
Class A players especially don't like working with slackers and non-performers. If Elon cracks the whip and gets the bozos out of the performers way, they'll love him for it.
> What I really want to see next is an eventually consistent sync system between browser and server

Another CRDT + SQLite project as a native extension: https://github.com/aphrodite-sh/cr-sqlite

Should have a release out here shortly but feel free to browse the code, tests and readme till then to see how it works.
Stop caring. No need to put your heart on the table.

> I'm at the verge of quitting

Quit, but have another job lined up first.
It's just a really bad pun on Elon's part. I don't think you can blame the mainstream media for that. I certainly didn't realize what he meant by it until I saw something explaining "let that sink in" because it was never my perspective about this whole thing
Now imagine what happens when anyone, anywhere has explicit endorsement from the owner of a public Internet forum to post completely unfactual claims on that forum, under the specious guise of "free speech". Or when "reputable" "news" outlets get to use forum posts as sources for their breaking news (they already do). Imagine how this might revise societal norms also around specious, unfactual claims about racial groups or other segments of the population, to the point where instances of "hate speech" are adjudicated only in the court of public opinion (on a private platform no less, ha, ha).

The best outcome for society is for people to stop blindly trusting, or at least be much more skeptical of, what they read on the Internet. This is probably unlikely to happen.
>>>> Writing effectively is a superpower, there is no denying it. As a software engineer, you write a lot. Most of the writing you do is for computers. Businesses, however, consist of people.

Someone wrote that code is meant to be read by people, and secondly, by the computer. Lack of writing skill could spell trouble for the quality of the code, should anybody need to read it, days or months later.
My understanding is there’s an industry standard corpus of images from child protection agencies used to train machine learning models.
The 400 motherboard is laptop like/long and narrow vs. the credit-card style Pi4.
Generally all ToS and EULA that do not require an action of explicit consent (an "Agree" button or checkbox, not checked by default) are not enforceable. This is well established case law.
The second part of the Tweet is equally interesting.

> No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.

This gives him at least a temporary respite from the Trump question.
> Why do EU folks use malware laden streaming services that harm the earth (wastes electricity) rather than torrent stuff as needed then hold onto it in the medium term?

I want to be sympathetic to your position on moral grounds, but I am having a hard time understanding this more technical complaint... I certainly have a lot of downloaded media but it isn't clear to me that it saves electricity?

I also feel like you are making an assumption that people watch the same content over and over again, which maybe is true for a hardcore fan of a show like The Office, but I am a heavy user of these services--watching content (maybe only passively while doing other tasks) almost all day, every day--and it is extremely rare that I watch the same content even twice.

(It is sufficiently rare that I can cite a very notable-to-me example: I decided to watch How I Met Your Mother through a second time this month, but since the last time I watched it was a decade ago it isn't clear to me that it would have made sense--with respect to your stated electricity concern--for me to maintain the storage locally for that entire show for a decade--during which time I have needed to replace all the disks on my home RAID array at least once--on the off chance that I suddenly got inspired to watch that show again.)
Zuko will boast 50% more honour than Iroh.
I see what your saying here, and it might be a relevant discussion in a different context, but here it's really not. If they wrote a deep thoughtful article about Rachel Levine, but simply misgendered her because they don't believe in trans people for religious or whatever reasons it'd be worth asking " If you have a problem with transgenderism how much do you need to support it to be tolerant?". But they didn't. The entire point of their post was to misgender her. Not misgendering her didn't require showing any kind of support for transgenderism, it simply required... doing nothing. Instead they deliberately singled out an individual person to mock for being transgender.

If this was some random trans Rachel from Boring, Oregon, I'd call this a clear case of bullying and say the ban was 100% justified and shouldn't remain, but I think there is a much, much higher bar when the target is a government official or celebrity. But that doesn't change the fact that the entire point was singling out an individual for mockery.
This is weird, because you're crediting sovereign states for having their "own" national health care, retirement, unemployment, and housing systems, and in the wildest dreams of the Democratic party we wouldn't have a national system for all of these things.

It makes sense if you sort of skim over the idea that Germany, Sweden, and Spain are just "states" in a federation. But obviously, they are not.
Stars have a magnetic field and rotate along their axis, similar to planets. The burst is emitted along the axis of rotation (the geographic north and south pole).

Many stellar objects rotate and/or have a magnetic field, and thus an "up", "down", and "side" in spite of being a sphere. Pulsars (extinguished stars that emit radio waves from their poles) are another famous example.
> What does “pointed in the wrong direction” mean?

Gamma-ray bursts [1] are a class of observations, not single event. (Like how we first saw pulsars, and then learned they're neutron stars.) Some GRBs may originate from relativistic jets [2] emitted by massive, spinning, charged objects colliding (e.g. black holes) or collapsing (supernovae). Those jets' intensity is not uniform, they emit from the poles. (See: spinning, charged.)

There are other proposed mechanisms that columnate emissions [3][4]. These involve a star's rotation creating a radiating column along the star's axis. (I'm not sure if the atoms in that column radiate with a bias.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysical_jet

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9808355

[4] https://www.plasma-universe.com/gamma-ray-bursts/
Same idea, but it also has sponsorblock and the bring dislikes back thing. Also less limited resolution options. They are very similar, but I generally prefer piped
Journalists don't have any special protection under US federal law for publishing false information. Anyone can sue them for libel. Although it's difficult for plaintiffs to win such cases, regardless of whether the defendant is a journalist or anyone else.
What about it is nasty? It doesn't say he endorsed those posters, it literally just says he interacted with him. I think the point is that he is interacting with these kinds of posters instead of, like doing something useful or relevant, or like anything else at all? I can see why you'd think it'd be nasty if you have an incredibly partisan view that has to sort everything into either being for or against something.
I think I'm taking him at his incentives. 44 billion is a lot of incentive.
Who says other services have. Any examples here on your part?
Ah yes, the solution to the social media echo chamber is to join an even worse echo chamber!
> The fact that he was essentially "cancelled" by the mainstream for doing it suggests it was not in fact normal at the time.

Good thing I never said anything of the sort.
You might want to revise your assumptions. These are the top lobbying recipients: https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-recipients. All things considered it's not a lot of money. The vast majority of lobbying spending goes towards mundane expenses like payroll at lobbying firms. The reason lobbying is so powerful is that regular people don't pay attention to actual legislation, so politicians spend too much of their time campaigning and end up outsourcing the hard work of writing legislation to the lobbyists. Regardless, it's definitely not "literal legalized bribery."
I think Twitter should have a concept of silent ban i.e. only people that are following the account can see someone's tweet and other's could see that only by opening full link and not through search. While it was obvious that Trump's tweet was causing negative emotions in people, it is also clear that Trump had other sources in which he could express opinions and it was liberal newspaper who are the first to report that he said something wrong.
They should try to detect bots not using the API and ban them.

IMO all modern freedom of speech issues stem from not being able to differentiate between humans and bots. And it may be the case that it's not a solvable problem and we should assume any sentiment expressed online is always just noise.
In vitro neurons learn&exhibit sentience when embodied in simulated game-world
infographic for those who need them https://www.wbm.ca/blog/article/how-working-from-home-increa...
OK. But it's far from efficient, and I think that you're exaggerating the difficulty associated with improving the situation.
What about Web9? Oh yeah, I forgot… Web7-8-9.
I guess we'll have to wait and see. The signals coming from the "liberal" side are certainly tipping the balance on the "non-liberals" being the more level-headed ones, at least that's what the recent nonsense written by The Verge editor [1] makes me believe.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitt...
Set aside the custom uBO filters and add "Remove Youtube Suggestions" to your arsenal. You can block a huge array of UI elements.

I too only do subscriptions, watch everything my subscribed channels put out by placing them in my playlists (custom watch later lists for attention spans/activies), and only find other channels through my current channels. If you don't watch everything from specific channels (some big ones really pump them out), I recommend PocketTube's Subscription manger (and playlist manager).

Youtube hates us. It takes away tools for us to watch how you and I want, and refuses to add basic tools to playlists like "removed all watched" and "sort by length". I'm subscribed "watch later" still exists. They want you to just watch "recommended" videos one after the other like tik-tok-television.
Babylon Bee's Seth Dillon put it[0] this way:

> "The Babylon Bee was tossed in Twitter jail 7 months ago for a joke that referred to an adult male as a man. We could have restored our account at any time by deleting the tweet, but we refused. It was the right call. Never censor yourself, and never apologize for speaking truth."

[0]: https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1585633678977544192?s=...
Accelerate Matlab with Python and Numba
The Numba jit compiler can make computationally demanding Python applications run much faster. Since MATLAB can run Python code, Python and Numba can make compute intensive MATLAB applications run much faster too. The article shows two examples: a simple Mandelbrot set computation, and a much less simple Navier-Stokes incompressible fluid flow solver. In both cases Python + Numba translations of the slower MATLAB routines make the MATLAB code run multiple times faster.
Word of caution to anyone thinking of using this for pfsense: the realtek 2.5G drivers are not included in the pfsense image and have to be installed manually. A real pain if you don't have easy access to another freebsd machine.
I didnt mean they should apologize, i meant that they clearly were trying to keep the JimCramer brand from being tarnished
Right it's as if the low-information people are saying (and believing) "I have just as much the right to be correct as anybody else. It's my right. Don't tell me I'm wrong because it is my right to be the one who tells what is the truth".
> cutting a large amount of staff

I wonder if he needs to do this.

Maybe I've just been working for tech companies in the Bay Area too long. But I don't want to work for a company where I don't have equity that I can cash out.

And now all those engineers are working for a company where equity doesn't exist? An exception could be a Netflix model where you make a buttload of money. But Twitter isn't that.
I wish that Twitter - or some other social network - would experiment with the type of moderation seen on HN. Some would maybe call it heavy handed but I think of HN as a place that is mercifully relatively free of trolling, outrage culture, political bullshit and other toxic behaviors.

In my experience there's no place like HN on the internet, and that's due I suspect to having a highly professional moderator (@dang) who uses top level communication skills to firmly but politely pull people into line.

That in turn creates a virtuous circle where users socially moderate each other.

It's hard to describe just how relaxing and pleasant it is browsing HN. It's always jarring to read the comments on e.g some Facebook groups I belong to, which feel like they're authored by a bunch of teenagers that have just found the key to their parents liquor cabinet.

If Twitter was like HN I would spend time there.
There's also the minor matter of the $258 billion Doge lawsuit.
So, is this person seriously thinking that, after a prolonged legal tussle between Twitter and Elon Musk, he should have left the head of legal in place? I doubt she would even want to remain, and being fired probably gives her more "golden parachute" bonuses than if she quit, but regardless of that, there was absolutely zero chance of a person in such a position remaining in place, and I would expect that all sides were aware of this.
The problem I see with that is that it doesn't scale to the size Twitter is.
I'm Jewish (feel free to believe me or not) and I disagree. I choose to ignore the overt bigotry and focus on addressing the underlying distrust.

What he said represents quite common black nationalist views and were espoused by most Black Power activists in the 60s. Those views are still highly relevant in the black community today, due to things like this[0], promoted by popular thinkers like Prof. James Small. Yes, they can be hurtful, but I believe the proper response is to make the sports and music contracts transparent and re-do them so they don't screw over black talent, as Kanye says, to address the underlying distrust, and rebuild proper ties between the Jewish and Black communities. Conflict is sometimes healthier when it's out in the open and gets addressed, rather than repressed and buried.

There's enormous dangers in following the "destroy Kanye" route; it makes everything worse, and the impulse to ban anyone who doesn't "talk right" will eventually lead to historic catastrophe as resentments get buried and build up, rather than getting hashed out.

There's a huge difference to me between people with zero grievances (except being incels) turning to hate, versus being with huge legitimate historical and current grievances where I just disagree with how they express it. I still view it as my (and our) duty to address those grievances; we can address the distrust between communities afterwards once they're solved.

[0]: https://www.972mag.com/%E2%80%9C2pac-killed-by-jewish-gangst...
They need to stop ruining the experience for those of us without an account. Everyone was using Twitter as basically an open bulletin board and then they go and make it visitor-hostile. I look at ads either way.
There is simply not many places to go. You can’t really keep running t from madness all the time since with social media platforms the destination must be at least somewhat inhabited, and also the exodus must be coordinated.
It’s more like moderate left left left, the extreme right were expelled, and extreme left stayed out of grit and also because Twitter was sort of left to them .
I don't know, sounds more like a Christian process than a Maoist one.
Lots of the “bots” are people. The solution is to show high quality content and suppress low quality content,
regardless of input.
> What do you think is the fundamental joke the article is making?

That a man was voted “Woman of the Year”.

By any non-tautological definition of “woman” and “man”, that’s objectively true.

Are we not allowed to point out obvious truths when people claim the opposite?
What baffles me is that he would have just followed the tried and tested procedures of acquiring a company he would have paid less and would have had a chance to reconsider if he reaely wanted to during due diligence.

Instead he made a take-it-or-leave-it offer with a ludicrously tight schedule and locked himself into an unfavorable deal without any obvious reason.

I am certain there is a bad decision in there sometimes and I'm wondering what it it might be.

A small part of me thinks that maybe he was uncertain and scared that he would back out so he took that option off the table preemptively.
One of the secrets of getting positive value out of Twitter is to block all or most politician accounts you come across. Mute the names of the popular politician for extra measure.
Yeah I basically try to think something along the lines of "for 10% more effort can I make it so when the Product Manager changes their mind I can either have 0, or minimized additional work to do" . In the case of changing the csv to ndjson, we can actually just treat each row as "just data" and not try to parse it into whatever the PM said.
Stars, like planets, rotate around an axis. GRBs that are emitted by collapsing stars are believed to be directionally aligned with the axis of rotation.
Based on an interview I saw I suspect Musk will strive to make Twitter a platform for user-to-user messaging and payment services. Community moderation without banning might be possible by establishing "spheres" akin to reddit boards so things people see is to some degree curated.
Medicine tends to neglect the first derivative due to the amount of complication that more rates introduces in making claims about the body, similar for impulse or step response, studied here.

The favored route is chemistry, cellular, genetic factors.
I see pricing columns for Amazon, Best Buy, B&H, ebay, and newegg, but yes it does seem limited to WD branded drives.
You do that BEFORE legally committing to a purchase price, not after.

He thought he could get away with an "epic troll" for his acolytes to croon over, like the stock price manipulation Tweets. Turns out the Delaware courts have teeth.
That's not the topic I'm talking about. I'm talking about the factual events of what occurred. The comment is neutral on whether it should have been suspended or not. The comment is just stating that Babylon Bee was never banned, the account still exists and it's status has not changed since that initial event and Elon Musk has had nothing to do with it.
Bittle, a pet robot dog that will teach you how to code – BBC Science Focus Mag
Using your own resource:

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-spenders

I believe that’s at least 4 orders of magnitude higher than “thousands of dollars”. I rest my case
It does not need to be libel to be permanently damaging to the public.

The "OK" sign as a symbol of "white power" is a great example - nobody's reputation was tarnished directly by the reporting... but the entire story was made up and never true. Yet, there's folks today that insist it truly is a symbol of "white power".

Libel is also notoriously difficult to establish grounds for, and be successful with a lawsuit. Intent is difficult to prove - yet I would assert a journalist that does not thoroughly vet their story before publishing has a malicious intent, even if it was indirect.
> The trans debate is extremely polarizing and aggressive on both sides. I'll leave it at that.

While that might sadly be true in some countries, please know there are many where people are perfectly happy to let people be whoever they want to be.

It does not have to be aggressive.
I love the hardware Nvidia makes, but for the good of our field and for progress, we need our ML stacks to work with all other vendors. CUDA is the wrong platform to build our future on.
Eh, no it's about the publics interpretation of appearance. Your Gmail filters out a metric shitton of spam. If they stopped doing that and all you got was thousands of penis enlargement emails per day the number of advertisers would drop significantly because the tools utility would drop significantly.

The reason 'xyz' gets banned where xyz is negatively viewed is because it tends to end up everywhere and reduce the utility of the platform.
It certainly could be, and probably likely was for those in the earlier portions of the Renaissance, though less likely for those in recent rears.