skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same functionality could and would be abused to make sure you were running a specific version of Internet Explorer on a certain version of Microsoft Windows (or equivalent locked down system) to get access to a website. Freedom relies on the the authority boundaries created by open protocols, and such "remote attestation" schemes would be the death of it.
Well, speaking in those terms, I think the thing to watch will in fact be censorship. Elon is extremely idealistic, so it will be fascinating to watch him melt down when confronted with the reality of how complex free speech and censorship issues really are. I predict that he will succeed in turning Twitter into the rightwing safehaven that "Truth" Social, Parlor, etc have all been trying to become.

He's making a deal with the devil to fund Twitter, and if that means selling out to guys like Peter Thiel and other conservative power brokers, then he will do it. Just in time for the 2024 presidential election media cycle too...What could possibly go wrong?
In the spirit of trying to be high-information and add value:

Where Musk is going, there are no maps. So it's very very hard to project. But we can predict likely developments.

At a very high level, it's going to involve: bringing back controversial personalities like Donald Trump; increasing Twitter's commitment to 'free speech'; assuaging skittish advertisers; retaining users who might be concerned, while bringing in new ones; managing the exodus of users (size:?) that will happen regardless; cutting a large amount of staff, while keeping Twitter's lights on; open sourcing the code, discussing the impending rearchitecture; and - long term - folding this into Elon's vision of America's WeChat, and ultimately expanding Twitter, under X.com.

That's a lot. But at a high level, I think that's correct.

I would expect Elon to take the fight to the media. Whether he's going to focus on neutrally spreading a message, going more on the attack on media outlets that would support him, or doing something in between, is unknown.

Musk has an unusually large amount of media power: that's his unique value add, in a way. I would expect this to be a 'bigger deal' as a story, as multiple stories, than I would for any other company undergoing a takeover. We'll be hearing a lot more about Twitter in the weeks to come, since the developments will keep piling up, and the press/public loves to read & discuss stories about Twitter & Musk.

We'll see how it goes.
Bobs mods are also good, not quite as complex as spaceex, but adds some interesting depth to the base game.
Seriously.

If a company spends $5B on a new factory, there will be some investors that only see that their profits dropped $5B that quarter and will sell, completely ignoring that in a year when that factory goes online, they'll be able to match a much bigger demand.

I'm not citing any specific event here, just describing the mentality.
The latest in outbreaks of note
Where's the funding come from, then? That was not a cheap purchase.
I think people would be perfectly capable of justifying farming humans if it made economic sense. Slavery is not far from it and we were perfectly comfortable with it for millennia.

We have religions that contain or contained at some point rules on how to be moral and have slaves. Some of those religions are not only still active today but are still huge.
You can replay live traffic. Though I usually do that already in testing.
I don't think twitter has the same pull as those companies because Tesla and SpaceX are doing something totally different and largely unique
There are many people who support Elon and the policies he intends to enact. And if you don’t believe that’s the case, then I’d encourage you to have more conversations with people who don’t align with your views. I’m fairly confident he’ll have no shortage of talent willing
to help implement his vision.
I like deploying proof of concept branches to a staging environment and giving non-tech product owners early access, so that we could confirm that we're on the right track, even before a PR is ready.

What would be the best way of approaching that without staging?
Air dropping starlink terminals onto protesters is the solution.

In fact, if you live anywhere outside of the US, owning one "just in case" is good for future proofing your freedom, IMHO. Kind of like being armed.

Edit: in fact, starlink v2 global LTE-from-space coverage will be a true game changer for world freedom. We can only hope this comes to be sooner rather than later.
I think the A380 is, but the only one I can find is ASRock and is too tall to fit in my case.
That’s very anecdotal. You’re not going to get the best engineers who could get a job anywhere giving up much better compensation because of “idealism”
There used to be a bumble bee that, I was convinced, would come around to play with my dog, a Labrador. It was entertaining to watch. When the dog was outside the bumble bee would hover near his face to get his attention. Once he noticed the bee he would growl, jump, and bite at the bee but not in an aggressive manor. It was in his playful tone, the same as when I played with him and his toys. Every time he lunged at the bee it would dart back and always stay just out of reach. Then the bee would zoom in closer and they would repeat this for a few minutes until one of them would get distracted. As far as I know they never made direct contact. RIP good boy
For me it shows captions in the preview, so I actually get what they're saying. I don't have captions on for videos, so no idea why it's different between us.
No. This difference in the clocks will remain even if you could somehow slow down the photon without it being absorbed. This is why if you sync two atomic clocks, bring one atomic clock up to orbiting speed (such as on a gps satellite), then decelerate it and return it to earth the clocks will still read different numbers.

Which is why if you could accelerate yourself to say 90% the speed of light, then decelerate and return to earth, you would have essentially traveled into the future and outlived everyone you ever knew.
People at Google don't use Google products, YouTube in particular. It is quite astonishing that so many features are nonsense or not yet implemented. Why I can't search comments in comments section of a video; if a video has 100+ or 1 000+ comments I can't easily find comments that are relevant to me. Why I can't search my playlist videos and my liked videos; I have 1 000+ liked videos and 1 000+ videos in my Watch Later playlist. Maybe I'm disorganized with Watch Later playlist but I'm also a power user which is not satisfied with only casual features. Any yea you can't sort channel videos like you use to(Newest, Oldest, Most Popular). Like you said it's now only Most recent and Most popular. And one thing that I almost forgot, in Web version of YouTube you can search channel for videos and in native mobile app you can't search channel for videos. When I say search channel for videos I mean query with keywords(there is no Search Bar within Channel page or within Videos tab).
I agree. I think he understands that, as indicated by https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585619322239561728 That doesn't sound like someone burning Twitter to the ground.

Also, many are acting like Musk has free rein in running the company. Yes and no.

Beyond needing employees to actually run the thing, he also has loans to pay back ($13B!) and investors to maintain good relationships with. More on that here: https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/who-is-financing-elon-mus...
Working under Zuck I would imagine is much different than working under Elon.
Elon Musk wants to set the bird free. But is the bird going to be free? Even free speech people don’t like speech that is critical of their beliefs, the pressure on Elon Musk to widen the definition of hate speech will be significant. The pressure from advertisers will force him to cave.

There will be pressure from platform owners like Apple and Google as well. If the moderation is weak Apple could decide to remove the Twitter app like they did to Parler.

Elon buying Twitter isn’t going to set the bird free, for sure it made the cage a little bigger.
I was super confused by the authors use of neoliberal and I'm also confused by how you use the term.

A liberal is someone who values individual freedoms and human rights.

A neoliberal is someone who values deregulated economy, privatization of all things, free markets, free trade, and open economic borders.

The Iranian regime would be a conservative one, where they value limited social rights that favor some social morals over the individuals own, like what women/men can and can't do, what you can and can't eat, what you can and can't drink, what you can and can't teach or believe in, etc.

The Iranian economic model is a mixed bag, kind of a social-caputalist mix, with lots of state owned and managed enterprise, but also allowing private ones. That said it comes with a lot of regulations to have them enforce the conservative social norms.
They’re not, they come in opposition to each other so the more you value one aspect the weaker the other becomes.

I don’t know how people who describe themselves as free speech absolutists and claim no one will be censored are even given the time of day when they simultaneously discuss enforcement policies.

We already have and had multiple sites for absolute free speech short of actual government intervention on the internet. They are either small(the various chans) or go out of business(voat and the like) because no advertiser wants to associate with the content that is created, and free speech absolutists only appear to value free speech as long as someone else is covering the costs for propagating said speech.
> Twitter has never been nor propertied itself to be a bastion of free speech

"We are the free speech wing of the free speech party"[1]

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/mar/22/twitter-tony-w...
I have no problem with trans people, but making someone like Rachel Levine woman of the year on the basis of her accomplishments does ignore something important. Namely that a lot of the 'woman of the X' awards are meant to inspire or encourage women in fields they are discouraged from, and that having been perceived as a male for a lot of her career meant that Levine didn't experience early career sexism and that some of her accomplishments may not have been possible for a cis woman. My mother is about Levine's age, and she wasn't allowed to go to college for what she wanted because it wasn't appropriate for girls (engineering). If the only way you can succeed as a woman/the only way you can get accolades is to be perceived as male for most of your career, that is DISCOURAGING, not ENCOURAGING. I feel similarly about Caitlyn Jenner's awards.

Whereas it would be perfectly appropriate to give such an award to a woman who transitioned earlier and would have faced similar difficulties in career progression as cis women.

ETA: This also differs by generation. Levine and Jenner's generation denied a lot of opportunities to AFAB people. Excluding cis women who are now in their 60s from science growing up and then celebrating woman scientists who were only/partially allowed the career because they were in the closet is...odd.
My bet is he will charge people for blue checks
And what pray tell would technology which isn't made by horrible look like? Like the guns which only hurt bad guys and encryption for good people?

What made Von Braun's rocket designs more evil than those by others? The transitive morality is a deeply dubious assumption.
Yes, but there is a difference between "I don't think what this team is currently working on provides value to the company" and "I don't think this team or anyone on it can provide value to the company". That second viewpoint is much more definitive and should require more time and evidence to reach.
I'm still shocked that Henry Kissinger is still alive. At this point, it should be a hn story

```Kissinger still alive``` (200 comments)
Even outdated, they would still catch the brain-dead mistakes pointed out by the OP's blog post.
Removing my comment, it was misunderstood as me supporting hate speech, which was not my intention.
This is apparently FOSS under the GPLv2: https://github.com/wibyweb/wiby/

FWIW I don't see any mention of suckless on Wiby itself, so the headline may be misleading. As someone who has a negative impression of the suckless community, despite agreeing with their goals of "keeping things simple, minimal and usable", this matters.
Twitter is already biased towards right-wing sources, despite the right being the loudest at claiming persecution. [1] If Twitter actually became more platform neutral, then ironically we should see a shift towards the left.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/22/twitter-a...
I'd say it returns more to Twitter of 2010. It's the 2010 - 2013 era that people dig up "now-offensive" tweets from most often.
Thanks for clarifying. I admit it's anecdotal but was wondering if these new features are rolled out automatically or with humans deploying them? If the latter it might explain why expats in China have said it [access to VPNs] gets worse at times.

Years ago one provider that rhymes with krill was pretty consistent, but in the end it seemed one could get the most mileage(err uptime) by rolling their own v2ray instances on a VPS provider that had "Hong Kong" servers in Hangzhou.
It's be great to go back in time to 2001 and tell Slashdot: I am from the future. Linux runs on a billion devices more powerful than any desktop computer it currently runs on. A quarter of people in the world use Linux daily. However, Linux still never had it year of the desktop.
> Second aspect is I don't like the behavior of LLVM ecosystem which is trying to subtly EEE gcc toolchain.

As opposed to GCC, which not-very-subtlety added extensions onto C which hurt portability?

GCC really shot themselves in the foot by making their architecture so difficult to use as a library, even from GPL code.
Alternatively, could produce an adversarial workload generator and inject faults.

That way, if the changes work for a week in staging, they'll probably work for years in production.
There are still a lot of smart people there that are working on hard at scale problems. Just because the stock is stagnant doesn't mean there aren't smart people there keeping it running.
They don't need to worry about valuation, they're just going to cut costs and extract revenue.

Politicians and sports media aren't going to abandon twitter any time soon, so I expect revenue will hold for quite some time.

It seems that many people abandoned FB already. If those same people abandon twitter, where will they go? I personally don't use twitter because I don't want to see updates from random people on the internet, but is there a replacement for that? I'm not sure.
He literally said it will not be a free for all. He may be chaotic, but he's not stupid.

There is a huge difference between no moderation (anarchy), and not targeting conservative voices solely based on ideology.
And some trans people "have no problem with their birth name being available," even if they have stopped using it. "Blanket statement," and all that...
platform neutrality is antithetical to profitability in the social media world.
I guess you're right. But only if we redefine the term "capital" in defiance of hundreds of years of usage and practice.

Do you expect this kind of "capital" from all businesses you patronize? Do you think you should help decide strategy at McDonald's if you buy an Egg McMuffin?

You can come up with a novel idea like radically defining capital, but that doesn't mean you're correct or that anyone will agree with you.
W1 and W2 barely make any splashes in the story department when W3 is in the picture. You might as well just spend a weekend to read through Sapkowski's six novels instead, W3 takes over from the point where his last novel ends.
I find it kind of shocking that Musk likes Twitter that much, but at the same time it makes sense. If you ignore the wealth differential, his behaviour is similar to the average Twitter user. He may be the perfect owner in that sense. I also think it will be a clusterfuck within 5 years like some of his "side project" companies.
The 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump was formally launched on June 16, 2015, at Trump Tower in New York City.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2016_presidential...

My guess would be that parent commenter is talking about the time before Twitter was fighting back against the “alt right”.
People join social networks to socialise --there's a clue in the name. If said network respects their privacy, doesn't shove ads in their face and doesn't annoy them, those are all welcome additional bonus points. But the primary reason is to interact with other people.

I think you're pretty misguided if you think many people will flock to a social network that [with respect] is almost unheard of, when they; can't even see how many other people are using it / read what kind of topics are being discussed there / gauge what the 'tone' of the place is / see whether anyone they know is already there.

You're doing the equivalent of asking people to pay to get into a nightclub, without letting them know what kind of people go there, what kind of music they play, or even whether there's anyone else inside.

It's not bandwaggon jumping to point this out. It's just a really obvious barrier to entry that you refuse to recognise, even though you've had it pointed out to you more than once and for over a year.
Social media are free because they act as a lubricant for commerce, especially e-commerce, via advertising. The whole freedom of speech thing, the public square, section 230 they are a bunch of distractions.

At the end of the day you gotta do what media entrepreneurs have always done: shove stuff down people's throats in exchange for money. That's it. There is nothing tough, poetic or ideological about it.

Twitter has been trying to monetize its users but they had scarce success. That was without an ideologue at the helm. Or an ideologue-lite when Dorsey was in charge.

With an ideologue at the helm the bird will fly right into the ground. Twitter needed somebody who knows how attract the crowd which buys stuff online. Paradoxically Bezos was the right fit for the bird app.
> Neutrality means I get to say what I want and you can't get mad at me or get my job to fire me.

Twitter as a company/platform never went after anyone's job.

Free speech does not mean that speech is without consequences.
I have to disagree strongly with this response.

I do not think the post you are replying to, intended any sort of humor and I also think they made a correct and important point. I would have posted if they had not already done so.
Assuming the same financing as prior to trying to cancel, it will be $13B from banks loaned to Twitter the company. ~$7B from friends of Elon. Then I think something like half of the remaining was supposed to be margin loans against TSLA stock, but since the stock has tanked recently the margin requirements were too high and Musk has indicated he plans to simply sell a bunch of TSLA stock (or otherwise directly from his personal assets).
Exactly this. I use other people’s blueprints for balancers because I find those complicated and not particularly interesting, but for everything else I’ve deliberately avoided looking at other designs. Creating something mediocre and inefficient and then inventing better ways to do it is half the fun.

I also highly recommend playing with a non-engineer friend. It’s an interesting way to watch someone gradually develop an intuition for abstractions and service-oriented design.
Musk might own it, but musk's lenders now own a sizable piece of him.
House/plot registration is a common place where most folks encounter bribe. The person/company selling you the house/plot will ask you to bring INR 15-20K in cash to the registrar office. It'll be paid to an agent who is a conduit.

Driving license is another. You'll see tens of touts in and around the govt office; you pay about INR 2-3K and get your drivers' license. Again, a tout/agent will handle it for you end to end.

Both are very well oiled machine; money goes all the way up to politicians. Getting a posting in those offices in turn requires millions of rupees of bribe, besides influence, caste angle etc.,

Speaking from personal experience.
You got it upside down. Exactly because too many people think like that, this whole corrupt system works. Imagine the whole country refusing to pay bribes. They would disappear tomorrow.

This whole "but this single action won't change anything " attitude may feel rational, and even be (selfishly) rational, but the effect comes through the aggregate. Lots of people in society behaving like that, and you get emergent properties caused by the aggregate of those individual choices. A dangerous (and pretty selfish) path to go in societies.
> I got a Zfc(20MP) for my studio when the photographer complained about our D8xx(36MP) cameras being too heavy and not having articulated screens

As someone who used to lug around the D700 everywhere I went years ago (I stopped when I got my Olympus mirrorless), this complaint from someone about D8xx in studio use blows my mind.
I strongly disagree. If Russia was destroying a U.S. unmanned ship in international waters, it’s identical. That would not be allowed. Neither should this. Fear of repercussions is the only thing which keeps Russia from challenging the US. At a minimum, destroying every Russian satellite is the appropriate response. While SpaceX has a cost advantage in satellite deployment, Russia can’t win a satellite destruction battle. The US should take advantage of that asymmetry.
oh, no, that's not what I meant.
I want Musk to exercise his corporate sovereignity and make Twitter an open forum.
I'm still surprised that Google didn't just clone or buy Twitter in the 2009 "Fail Whale" era. Seems like they had 95% of the work done already: a highly-scalabile real-time infrastructure that took Twitter years to catch up to.
(Yes, Google+ came later, but the UX of the boundaries, of where the network started and stopped on the web, felt too amorphous for most people as a social media destination)
I hold my own data on devices that I own on property that I own.

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.

Would those situations ever have seriously impacted me in the first place? Probably not. Thing is though, they can and do affect a lot of people.

The more people that learn to take back control of their digital property, the safer we all are.

I was just making the point that Apple hardware and the data on it is not in your control. If you fully trust Apple and your politicians to never mistakenly target you or anyone you recommend the same practices to, then you are all good.
Agreed. Although I do think following just a few hand curated accounts has a lot of value as a topical news feed. Or to get local news in near real-time. The rest of it is worthless to me.
Prior to 2015, Twitter was the pre-child view source generation tweeting interesting articles and what they ate for lunch.
Cargo is best there is in this domain so far. Poetry is good. I rarely use anything else.

Important things:

1. Consider what developer need and what devops need. Those are different needs.
2. Packages should be immutable.
3. Take care about what text you print. This should be to the point, no spamming.
4. Having reliable package repository is the best way to go. Getting dependencies from random git repos is a recipe for production issues, as those come and go.

(I do not now Rel, so maybe this is irrelevant).
I plan on applying to work for Twitter now that it supports free speech.

I’d like to think I can provide a net positive to the org with 15 years experience as a developer, founder and CTO.

Maybe it’ll end up being a net zero brain swap.
That’s a great name for the president/coo of a rocket company.
Upcoming ‘critical’ OpenSSL update prompts feverish speculation