skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They’re not equivalent statements. Dictators can be fine with making their countries poorer but still maintain internet access. There is a critical point (which isn’t well defined because we’re probably the only species in the universe at our level of tech that has no social science of any merit) beyond which policies will start backfiring. At the beginning of their reign, the dictator will take risks and push that window. Once entrenched, they will have to use a lighter touch unless they entirely go the North Korea route (which is difficult to do in 2022).

So in essence, this is a positive move because even dictators willing to destroy their countries for power will have to make a choice on internet access well before they gain enough power to cut it off entirely.
Corporation or government is not the only choice. It could be a non-profit. It could be a protocol. It could be run by universities or public libraries.
There is clearly speech that is harmful without considering that case. Basically the entire concept of “conspiracy” is harmful speech. That said, Twitter is a private company and the First Amendment isn’t the holding factor.
Despite being on Linux for 25+ years, I'd never heard of that one. Cheers
No doubt the R6S would make a great media machine, a bit expensive though. The RK3588 looks like an awesome procesor. It suports dual monitors too. I'm hoping to use the Orange Pi 5 as a desktop when it comes out.
That’s really interesting
It was such a perfect illustrative response because your post said nothing of the sort and in fact explained how anyone can pick up the skill
"Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech."

Congress, not Twitter.
After being both a technical cofounder and a senior brought in for an MVP rewrite at different points in my career, I completely echo @codingdave’s opinion. Unless it’s the 1940s and you’re recruiting for the Manhattan Project, skill sets are not as rare as we engineers like to think.

Assuming you want the job, the goal is not only to demonstrate the value you can provide, but also the ability to build a good working relationship with the founding engineer. Regardless of his or her shortcomings, the founders will be loyal (to a point) simply because they got them this far.

Prove you have the expertise to evolve the system, but also that you can be a team player. The combination of these two traits is really what’s rare; either in isolation is comparatively common. Business stakeholders can’t really tell the difference between a mediocre engineer and an outstanding one; they can only judge their communication skills.

Whatever you decide, keep in mind that both issues—rearchitecting the product and learning to partner with its original author—present enormous opportunities for growth. It’s a rare job where you know what the challenges are going in.

Lastly, should you get an offer, make sure the salary is one you’re happy with. Equity is a lottery ticket that can be diluted or invalidated at any time. Don’t count on it.
Logistics is in direct support of, and enables, Russian military action in your example. Designing a propeller for a flying vehicle does not further surveillance.
This is all good, but unlss @realDonaldTrump unblocked I will never use Twitter again. I don't care if you agree or disagree with what was said. But if even a pressident of united states can be banned, best not use such platforms. Period!
How to Deactivate Your Twitter Account
So that isn't an example of silencing dissenters, or of undermining democracy. I agree it's some pretty ugly character on show. But that wasn't what I was asking.
> Heck even Wikipedia is not "content-first" enough to be included in the results.

try searching “wikipedia” on wiby before claiming this next time, thanks.
> Whenever I go on vacation overseas Twitter shows me ads in a language I cannot understand. This is one of many clearly-identifiable problems that are not rocket science to fix.

I like this feature. For a brief moment, I can't be marketed to.
As much as people dislike Musk, he draws excitement and captivation not only to himself, but to whatever he touches. Now for the first time people actually care about the "future" of Twitter, or in a sense, have a vision for its future that isn't defined by its frequent moderation-related controversies.

Is Musk's financial success and unparalleled cultural relevance a science that can be replicated? I mean, as much as people don't like him he has gotten to a financial position where anything he wants seems easily achievable. Is it the fact that he always carries the implied promise of "bold new future that will change your life" more than any other cultural entity?

Obviously Mark Zuckerberg is trying the same thing with Meta, but that's been a failure.

People hate Musk's personality, but no companies occupy the reverence in people's mind as much as SpaceX and Tesla. Even a man for a while much richer than Elon, Bezos, couldn't muster much in terms of cultural relevance for Blue Origin than a PR stunt with William Shatner.

Does Musk have a internal "toolbox" of guiding principles and behaviors that tremendously advantage him in his current position as outgoing tech CEO, or is he just extremely lucky? Is it merely because of his seeming utopian ambitions that make him more than a guy merely obsessed with financial success that he has ended up much more wealthy than if he were a much more grounded, brass-tacks CEO?
What IPFS lacks that I think would be ideal is a distributed file system. Let's say that Wikipedia shares some data, and I only have 100GB of space but want to help them out, then being able to dedicate 100GB of storage to help Wikipedia or whoever else would be awesome.

Also, if I have a complete file or backup on multiple computers being able to immediately start sharing that across multiple servers without having to use like double the storage to also share it with IPFS.
so you’re storing the checksums locally for each script then?

is that much different than just storing the verified copies of the scripts?
Someday I want to own a company that fails like blockbuster
Before these 3 elites could choose, now this 1 elite can choose... I'm not sure it's worse, it's definitely not improved, but we are still letting a class of elites have control over our political discourse.

If Elon sticks to the ideals he has espoused and open sourced more of the algorithms and policies of Twitter, that is possibly an improvement.
You might be right, though I do wonder how much Elon and Zuckerberg look at risks and think "doesn't matter I'll still be insanely wealthy".

He has to deal with actual issues if he's bought Twitter, I agree, but I don't know if the financial incentive is so key, even with borrowed money.
no need to reinvent html. the static fixed whatever layout doesnt render properly.

From “oh nice” to “useless” in 15 seconds.
SpaceX has no public equities and has no problem attracting talent.

You guys are really thinking Musk is some bozos that have never done anything in his life. Its quite incredible. Last week 4 astronauts went to ISS on his rocket and the first stage landed, again. Tesla is still growing at close to 40/50% top and bottomline when all car companies are contracting, even FAANG.

Twitter is yet to be seen. But its quite incredible the dismissiveness around here. Making Twitter work is peanuts comparing to trying to get a car company and a space company (both industries where successful examples are much harder to find than social media companies. Even if we point fingers as Meta and Snap, they are profitable and not bankrupt like most car and space companies in history) to survive through the 2008 Financial crisis.
All my life I’ve been moved by the struggle against oppression. This was partly the result of my parent’s decision to escape from the tyrannical Islamic Republic of Iran in the early 1980’s. Ever since, I have done my best to fight on behalf of innocent people subjected to violence. An opportunity after 9/11 allowed me to contribute to the fight against those responsible for the senseless killing of civilians.

After working for the Department of Defense and the CIA, I was inspired to write a series of espionage novels about Janusz Soltani, whose Polish mother and Iranian father immigrated to the United States to escape oppression. Through these tales of intrigue, I hope to both entertain and inform readers about terrorism, the dangers of radicalization, and the threats posed by regimes that support Islamic extremism. Unlike other stories in the spy novel genre, I explain what motivates the extremists by delving into history, ideology, and the world-view of their leaders. This is done to inspire you to conduct further research on this topic.

https://www.amazon.com/BILLIONAIRES-CONSPIRACY-Janusz-Soltan...
Or this one: https://www.amazon.com/Machinerys-Handbook-Toolbox-Erik-Ober...

> For more than 100 years, Machinery's Handbook has been the most popular reference work in metalworking, design, engineering and manufacturing facilities, and technical schools and colleges throughout the world. It is universally acknowledged as an extraordinarily authoritative, comprehensive, and practical tool, providing its users with the most fundamental and essential aspects of sophisticated manufacturing practice.
Only change is that you have to tell the compiler that 'undef-fn' exists but you don't have to provide an implementation. So, before all of that just do

(def undef-fn)

It should work after that.
It needs to stop being political for people to change anything. It's relatively easy for people to solve engineering problems in front of them. Nobody (well only religious converts) are going to sacrifice because you tell then the end is nigh. There is not going to be some scientific report that changes anyone's minds. It's purely political at this point.

The most realistic thing we can do is build sustainable technological solutions. This idea that we can implement some kind of forced socialism will work out as badly as it did ~100 years ago
Yup, it's the worst possible political system, except for all the other systems that have ever been tried.
> He clearly didn’t mean to go this far

He signed a very clear contract to buy Twitter, he meant to do this.

He started to try and reneg when stocks dropped and his financing was looking extremely shaky.
A lot of bands barely have enough quality songs to fill a single side of a record, but they've managed to spread it out to a 4-album deal, a Best Of, and a comeback tour two decades later.
The parent comment said that non-autistic people often assumed that people knew what they knew and failed to communicate.
Let's look at this from another angle.

If even a president of the USA can behave so poorly and break rules so flagrantly that a service like Twitter -- that has tremendous incentive to keep him on the platform -- sees that they have to block him from the platform, best not to rely on such presidents.
Can you explain how a $1 dividend on a $100 stock drops the price to $99? Theoretically wouldn’t the stock become more valuable, because its average returns have gone up? (As an extreme example, what if I gave a $1M dividend on that same stock?)
> Sorry to see you go. #GoodBye

Farewell.
On someone elses boot code. There are tons of blobs from the cpu onward. Your x8664 mobo and cpu are anything but unlocked or open.
From advertisers perspective TikTok has already won in the social media space. It’s going to take another year or so for advertisers and TikTok to figure it all out but from talking to the guys who do focus on brands social media spends they can’t get on TikTok fast enough.
I tried this for a while. It was definitely a functional computer. What bothered me and made me buy a $300 mini PC instead was how long it took Chrome to render a website. On a normal computer, it's basically instant. On the Pi, it took a second for the page to fully load. It wasn't bad, but using the web was no longer a smooth experience which was VERY annoying.
Wtf, how fast am I supposed to respond to you and why should I bother down-voting you?

Anyway, no it has nothing to do with him buying Twitter. It about the thinks he himself has tweeted in the past, and how he acted in the past especially wrt politics.

Should be obvious if you had followed him in the past with an objective mind and don't just blindly assume things, but I guess that's to much to ask (EDIT: the blindly assuming things, the other part is opinionated)
> If he introduces a subscription model TikTok will pull ahead and take over the entire social media space.

No it won't. A lot of people simply aren't interested in short form video.

I think there will be another app that is half way between Twitter and LinkedIn.
At want point to do you accept you’ll have to buy into _some_ vendor lock-in? Should you always program in a way that ensures your application will function a Zaurus running OpenBSD?
Copied from another submission:

"Droughts, deluges, heatwaves, blizzards, tornadoes, cyclones, forest fires, floods, crop diseases, sea level rise, reservoirs and rivers emptying, crop germination and pollination failure, harvest failure, desertification, coral bleaching, fishery collapse, novel pandemics, old diseases returning from the permafrost, insect apocalypse, apex predators disappearing, life expectancy falling..."

That was this year. Oh, fuck...?
At some point the hyperscalers end up decommissioning their servers because of perf/watt concerns. I don't think they bother with single failures for the reasons you've stated, but they do decommission full sections of DCs once the wattage calculus no longer makes sense.
No, he signed a contract to buy something with no contingencies at what everyone quickly came to realize was 2x to 3x what it was worth.

Twitter’s management, acting in the best interest of their shareholders, used the court to force him to hold to the contract when he tried to walk. Musk decided to buy the company for the agreed on price rather than have that imposed on him by court order after (more) embarrassing discovery.

Seeing Musk as a business genius in this deal requires ignoring nearly every event in the saga.
I don't think he'd sell. At this point, I think it's more of a "crown jewel" for him—like the tech nerd equivalent of owning a baseball or a basketball team.
South west of France / nord est of Spain.
They did, in summer 2007. They priced it for a dollar less than Netflix. They stuck with it almost 6 years, ending it when they left the retail business (except for the one franchise store remaining in Bend, Oregon).

https://www.reuters.com/article/industry-blockbuster-dc/bloc...
At this point what happens with Twitter the service is not as interesting anymore. Everyone is going to be watching what the X app is and how Twitter fits in it
How you said it:

> Twitter’s already headed down the uncool social media curve like Facebook before it. There will be an exodus, but it would have happened either way.
Once the parents get on, it starts the decline. When the grandparents are there…

> The “political” polarization is part of it. The older folks bring it with them. The majority flock to sites for information and escapism. The back and forth is just exhausting.

> It’s clearer for geek sites. Slashdot died when it got corporate and the content went to crap. Digg was the same. Reddit’s in process except niches. It’ll be same here.

> For everything there is a season.

What you sound like:

Yes and there shall be an exodus from the Twitters.

The parents shall come in, then the grandparents shall follow. Once those generations arrive the decline shall start. Not before. Not long after. But right after the grandparents, whence they arrive.

The polarization shall induce the decline. This wrought on by the older generations. And this is when the majority shall flock to sites for information and escapism.

Just as Slashdot, and Digg, declined before it, so shall the Twitters decline as well.

For everything, there is a season.

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With your prescience, you must be a billionaire. Why don't you just buy Twitter off of Elon?
"Once your account is deleted after the 30-day deactivation window, your username will be available for registration by other Twitter accounts."

That could lead to problems, btw.
>Virtue signaling was not really a thing before social media.

The specific term may have arisen post social media, but the behavior itself is as old as humanity. We used to simply call such people frauds or posers, moral crusaders or social justice warriors. Tom Wolfe described the same phenomenon in the 1970s and called it "radical chic." The New Testament has Jesus calling out hypocrites for empty, public displays of religion 2000 years ago.
Ah, thank you for finding that. I did my best but search kept turning up things like thermal printers and laser printers that required toner. May I ask how you found these?

I wonder if there is a DIY equivalent of these, similar to a rep-rap. I'd likely be building my own or creating plans for someone in my community to assist me in building. It looks simple enough in hindsight.
Falcon Heavy was delayed for 8 years. Launching another one and simultaneously landing 3 rockets there after.

Hard stuff takes time. People with no patience and perseverance never gets big stuff done. Musk is not the same.
It's possible. The file format is JSONL, you just need to export the raw version before uploading.
We all know that 99.99% sites that need a client-side database will use $subj or its derivative regardless of these kicks and screams. Because there is no decent 300kb RDBMS which could be ported into a browser. All that was achieved by that decision was to put the whole industry on hold for more than ten years.
yea exactly. seems pretty sweet
He will definitely make a lot of changes to the user experience of Twitter, and add a lot of features. He has already outlined some of the features he wants to add around billing and commerce, similar to super apps in China like Wechat. He has been thinking about this for a long time under the X banner.
> The award is only ridiculous if you think trans people shouldn't exist in public as openly trans.

This is simply your skewed view and not how many people read the joke. She was named as "woman of the year" BECAUSE she was trans, not because she was/is a woman. That's the joke. USA Today itself probably doesn't care if she is or isn't a woman, the award was issued to get engagement.

> I don't know why this is framed as progressives shutting down the debate on the topic.

Because that is how Progressives have treated the topic in general (at least publicly, privately not so much.)

> It denies the very existence of someone like Levine.

This is not true, it denies how this person views themselves, not their existence; and your existence isn't whatever reality you have chosen for yourself. For example, being gay is something you don't force society to see, you are simply attracted to the same sex. When you change your sex or gender, you are asking for a societal buy-in. That is much different.

> You are free to continue debating whether trans women and cis women have the same experience or whatever, but neither the USA Today or the Babylon Bee was making a statement in that debate.

Actually, both are very much connected, because the idea that you could not experience what a naturally born biological female could is perceive in the eyes of many as to why you cannot yourself ever be a biological female...when you were born male. These are very integrated topics.
Lots of people have rich fathers. Almost none of them found multiple multi-billion dollar companies and become the wealthiest person in the world. Do you think there's not anything different?

If "having a rich father" is the only thing that matters, why isn't everyone with a rich father a billionaire?
The Taliban is somewhat of a different situation - they are the de facto government of Afghanistan, and are far less extreme than ISIS. While they have supported anti-Western terrorist attacks in the past, they claim to have changed, and it looks like their claim may be true.

I still wonder about the legalities of Twitter allowing them to use the site, given they are still under US sanctions. It is possible, however, that the US government has (quietly) asked Twitter to allow it, as a diplomatic/political calculation. Sanctions concerns disappear if the government is asking you to disregard them (they can give you a formal legal exemption from them - even secretly; even without a formal exemption, if the government asks you to do something, that is an estoppel against them taking legal action for acceding to your request.)
Make people pay for a subscription and use some of the money to fund moderation?
He just accidentally bought twitter for $44,000,000,000.
Yes people will still take those jobs for less, but less talented people.
I like the story from the announcement[1].

> We have a long history of trying to bring Factorio to other platforms, including consoles and mobile phones (not including April Fools). We even worked with some external companies, but the projects never even got to the point where they would run technically, let alone the complicated part of making the game playable using controllers or touch screen.

> We had some history of starting Factorio-related sub-projects that ended up in development hell for years

This reminds me of their post on good foundations[2].

It sounds like they discovered the pain of growing tech debt and paralysis due to an aging stack, and the lack of results when you throw money at the problem (in other words, contract work to some external entity).

What's also interesting is that this work ended up being a one-person project. It's just too hard to make progress fast when you add people to a project: people don't agree, they need to communicate not to overlap or to understand the changes added by others, this all slow things down. And if the stack is complicated, this can really put a stop to productivity.

I think there's a real case for having one-person teams for the first X months on a new project. As long as the one person understands how they can later scale themselves. (This usually requires documentation, good architecture, good delegation, etc.)

[1]: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-370

[2]: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-366
It sounded like this interaction was special because of the super high energy of the photon and the super strong magnetic field near the supernova. At lower energies there would not have been an interaction. Presumably another occasion when those conditions existed was the Big Bang. So a lot of the universe's dark matter would have been created then, under this picture.
> More dishonesty.

Reality says otherwise, check the thread.

> Yes. That's the entire point.

So we're back here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33368082

Do you admit you choose to inflict pain and suffering and death on animals for your own comfort, as you condemn others for doing the same?

> A law that is never enforced

Source on the wild conspiratorial claim that environmental and animal rights laws are never enforced? Don't make me google a counter example that proves you wrong for the nth time.
* rapid, consistent posting cadence

* try audacious things and don’t give up

* aggressively, rudely shut down everything around you that’s not contributing to your audacious goal

* spend 80 hours a week working ferociously

… so, if that’s something you can do, it’s replicable