skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope you will agree it is safer for everyone, including the p2p network and all users, if we apply a global list of exclusions for content like that.

There is a list maintained by NCMEC and other similar lists can be added.

Thanks for bringing this issue up.
Well of course someone with your parentage would say that.
I don't want to call it insignificant, but the US has a long history of more significant political violence that did not signal impending civil war. With a nation of 330M people, there are going to be a rather large number (in absolute numbers) that are unhinged.

If anything, it's kind of amazing that the combination of a large population, low regulation, and easy access to firearms hasn't resulted in more violence than it has.
The base model 3 starts at 48,490. They were supposed to have a $35K version. I think they sold one to a guy once at that price with bike tires and folding chairs as seats.
The reason why Musk eventually bought Twitter, when he did, and at the price he paid, was to avoid having to testify under oath in the lawsuit against him. He was going to be deposed, exposed, and in the end he was also going to lose and suffer the indignity of having to pay a high price for something he fiercely said he didn't want anymore. Better bite the bullet earlier than later.

Now that doesn't explain why he wanted to buy Twitter in the first place, but there doesn't necessarily need to be a strong reason. He got frustrated as a user, he got bored, he thought "hey why not buy that thing" and that set a series of cogs in motion that couldn't be stopped before it was too late.

(He's the richest guy in the world; one would assume there are armies of people around him making sure his desires are met fast. If he says "let's buy Twitter", then those people make it happen.)

I don't think he has the beginning of a plan. He said "free speech!", and then also "but not hellscape!" But, some amount of free speech without being a pure hellscape is close to what Twitter is right now. That's not a plan for the future, that's an observation of how things are at present.

If he can simply wait for Twitter to be worth as much as he paid for it, so that he can sell it again and cover his losses, that will be a fairly good outcome.

Easier said than done, though.
I totally agree with you! But thanks for accusing me of bias anyway.

The only question I ask is, "is there a sustainable market for affordable satellite internet access?". There is no debate it is the best connection for some people right now, but if it is unsustainable that's good for no one in long term. Before Starlink, satellite internet was far more expensive.

Yet to turn a profit, and some big headwinds in way of competitive pressures from other cheaper technologies.

I am also a Starlink customer and live in the middle of nowhere, so... For the little my example is worth as well, I haven't seen anything like as good as those speeds where I am in Washington State, for some time. Over the same period, cellular has appeared in places it wasn't before.

Cellular doesn't need to reach everyone to be big enough to end the dream of affordable satellite access, and the cellular providers fight for the same government money many countries provide to improve connections for the most poorly connected regions. Assuming you are free of trees (a big problem!), Starlink so far only works well at really low density deployments - a huge detractor in many assessments comparing it to cellular deployments, even in remote regions.

Leaked slide deck from company declared optimum deployments is 100 customers per 300km squared, their "100 per 300 rule". Maybe this is better today and gets better with time, but cellular has a lot of radio advantages and a lot of existing infra to expand from. Also doesn't need spaceships.

> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UOI7b5flgAjJrPs2HDa64p_ZABc...
True, it's not entirely new. But re-defining concepts that are fundamental to democracy has bad consequences. Jan-Werner Müller has written about this in his book "Democracy Works":

“Now, it’s true that populists, when in opposition, criticize sitting governments (and, usually, also other parties). But, above all, they do something else, and that is crucial: in one way or another, they claim that they, and only they, represent what they often refer to as the “real people” or also the “silent majority.”
At first sight, this might not look particularly nefarious; it does not immediately amount to, let’s say, racism or a fanatical hatred of the European Union or, for that matter, the declaring of judges and particular media “enemies of the people.” And yet this claim to a distinctly moral monopoly of representation has two detrimental consequences for democracy. Rather obviously, once populists assert that only they represent the people, they also charge that all other contenders for office are fundamentally illegitimate. This is never just a matter of disputes about policy, or even about values; such disagreements, after all, are completely normal and, ideally, even productive in a democratic polity. Rather, populists assert that their rivals are corrupt and simply fail to serve the interests of the people on account of their bad, or indeed “crooked,” character. ”
I think he would've gotten much better value for his money if he acquired Reddit instead
the hypothesis that attaching real names to posts improves civility is over ten years out of date
TIL! Thanks for sharing!

Edit: X11 as a source, not xterm. At least from what I can see.
What did you install it on? Qubes has tempted me for years but it's weight/lack of hardware compatibility has put me off.
as long as it's not homogenously american it'll be a good thing
I recently watched Kelsey Hightower's Strange Loop talk on "The Secure Software Supply Chain", which incorporates a humorous narrative about deploying code found on a flash drive in a coffee shop. I think the talk was especially captivating because of that.

I'm trying to incorporate that narrative aspect into my own demos and presentations now.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JC-xCXcyNXI
There's a huge amount of history there, though. It didn't just get formed this week. It's got some members who have been on the court since the early 90s. Some since the late 90s and others in the aughts. The SCOTUS has long-lived institutional memory and norms of behavior. It's members also tend to become somewhat isolated from what's going on in the culture outside.
This comment sounds like it was written by Elon himself.
If your boss loses his/her job, that's a promotion opportunity.
Buildzoid is great, but worth noting he has a very specific perspective which is that of a hardcore enthusiast (hence the name of the channel), and he often points that out, but here I think he ends up kinda just saying "why not just stick with the old ones", which is fine in comparison to something that sucks, but it doesn't hold up more generally for most people.

I get he may not care, but plugging four individual power cables into a GPU is a pain for consumers, and having a single connector for everything is great from the normal consumer perspective.
If you want the actual answer society pays people commensurate to their individual value. NBA stars make millions because of the level of entertainment they provide, and the value they bring to sponsors. I make a lot of money because not everyone can do my job and I provide an outsized value to tech companies. Despite many attempts to drive developer wages into the ground with code camps and other non-sense apparently it's a difficult enough job not everyone can do it. For comparison, garbage men make a LOT of money (at least where I am) because their job isn't easy and no one wants to do it.

No one wants to hear they're worth less than someone they perceive to be doing an "easier" job. Truth is, that's how society values people.
But they sell everything they produce with good margins. Cheaper vehicles can be introduced when needed, it’s not necessary to announce them too early and it could even reduce the sales of existing more expensive cars.
Just an industry example...

Ford’s average transaction price (ATP) edged 4% higher to $54,008, according to Cox Automotive calculations. By comparison, Ford’s ATP was about $40,000 in Q3 2017.
Given that approximately 5% of Germans use Twitter, I don't think many people would care or even notice.
rw operatives at fb were allowed to bypass their "court's" oversight
No one said he was. Not all dictators are Hitler. But they are still dictators.

My friends, engineers at Twitter, are saying they received demands they work overnight to deliver features and changes last night.

He's absolutely a dictator within Twitter.
Another idea: create an easy way to set up pirate LTE base stations.

Hacked femtocells? SDR? Something more clever?

Distribute eSIMs to everyday people.

The pirate operator takes all the risk and technical difficulties.
A lot of people seem to still believe that the UK has the worst Covid death toll in Europe, even though that isn't remotely true, because ever since Brexit the only comparisons with the rest of Europe that most of the British media make are the ones which make the UK look worse. (I think it may have briefly been true near the start of the pandemic, but all the numbers coming out of Italy were such hot garbage that means extremely little.)
If Tesla could have been reliable in comparison the other solar companies must be pretty bad.
It's kind of funny how many commenters expect all results filtered to their liking. Most often when the topic comes up, the crowd often denounces Google et al preselecting content. Can't have your cake and eat it, too.

Have you ever tried scrolling over things you don't like?
The world is running out of helium. Here's why doctors are worried
Ah yes, the classic "MOLEX to SATA? Lose your data!".
Reddit became wildly successful as a clone of 4chan's textboards using digg's "comment section of the internet" idea of bare links as threadstarters, and barely moderated anything until a few years ago. For that matter, twitter itself barely moderated either until the lead-up to the 2020 election.

I won't energetically argue with you that 4chan and Reddit aren't shit, but plenty of people would. They've both been massively influential on world culture. I would argue that twitter moderation has been almost strictly political and along culture war lines. Reddit, instead, mainly targeted cruelty and child exploitation for moderation.
Wait, doesn't the US generally have really high standards for what can meet defamation/slander? Esp. compared with other western countries?
For me, his name hashes to Jerry Lewis the comedian so I did do a double-take at the article.
I'm sort of a fan but I still think I'd be leaving - he has shown open disdain for the status quo there, including the rank and file.
All major car manufacturers already set earlier dates to phase out their ICE production. This announcement has basically no impact.

I also don't buy the argument that this is going to be a problem energy- or grid-wise. It's 12 years out and the grid has to change anyway. If it doesn't until then, then it will be the least of our problems.
The UK will never ask, because one ironclad requirement will be adopting the EU's financial transparency laws.

Avoiding those laws was the reason for Brexit in the first place. London is the money laundering capital of the world.[1]

1. 2017: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/economics-and-finance/lon...

2014: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/london-is-money-launderin...

2022: https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/world-int/21280-why-is-london-m...
"Liberal" is at least a really imprecise synonym for Democrat party in the US, ditto for "conservative" and Republican.
Boy oh boy, I should take you to some Board of Education meetings.
Well you have to keep people in the uniparty otherwise they vote for extreme candidates.

The problem if living conditions don't improve, things get extreme regardless.
> So I think saying it's all of the community is a little generous

Indeed, most of the community isn't easily reached. Hence the open letter and the ability to sign. I see the open letter as an invitation to have these conversations. But this time according to community processes and in the open.
> What if the shareholders do not agree to sell their shares?

That's not an option. They all have to sell their shares. It was a corporate decision.

In fact their was another vote that meant Musk couldn't accumulate more than 15% on the open market.
If you take a quick scroll through the quote-retweets of Musk's "the bird is freed" tweet [1], there are a lot of slurs and bigotry. Musk might or might not be bigoted himself, but lots of bigots seem awfully happy at the prospect of him in charge.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585841080431321088
Free rhetorical tip: stop using the word "leftist" if you want people to take you seriously. Just because people are opposed to the Republican Party doesn't mean they are leftists. Suggesting they are is to present a false dichotomy.
Wtf, pls go on
There have to be grades between banning and free for all.
Suckless for me stands primary for the idea, only secondary for the suckless.org crowd.
Proud owner of the most inexpensive Tesla ever sold. Black 2019 Model 3, $36,500, less $3750 tax credit. Only took 3 years order to delivery.
Nothing I said was hubris. I literally work a 12x5 on call, sometimes 24xN when things get bad. I don't ever really get the chance to "clock out". I've spent a long time developing a very special set of skills not everyone has. I am paid well for it. I am not going to waste my time doing CSR work. I won't be good at it, it makes my schedule even more complicated, it provides no value to me nor what I am paid to do, etc. The hubris is that PHBs and spreadsheet jockeys think they understand my job better than I do. It's a tale as old as time: clearly the guy who sits in front of a computer all day drinking coffee must have an easy job and can take on more unrelated work.

Maybe I'm not truly talented and you're right (nice no true scotsman though). My paycheck and the fact I can leave a job tomorrow and get a new one for even more money says someone thinks I'm extremely valuable.
> How about charging anyone with more than X followers?

Excellent idea, let's deplatform people by creating lots of bot accounts to follow them so that they have to pay for it!
I doubt they can give examples. The UK had input into all the EU laws. A great deal of the early EU standards were taken wholesale from UK laws.

The papers bring up various laws often, usually out of context, occasionally just made up. There are problematic farming laws (same rings true just about everywhere though).

An old colleague of mine used to run a farming operation under greenhouses and sold the business due to EU law changes that would make it unprofitable. This might be ridiculous, or it might be sensible across the whole EU, but he was unhappy about it.
Way too much worship of this DoOcracy word on this story.

It's not as end-all-questions as a lot of people seem to think. It's the kind of thing people say who just find caring about anyone else's concerns about bad behavior annoying and wish for a way to shut them up and and also green light their own bad dehavior.

One problem with doocracy is it not only doesn't care who does something, it also doesn't care what the holy doer does.

DoOcracy is no valid excuse for being a dick.

"Why did you punch me in the face?"

"Shut up, it was free."
If it was so easy, most companies would succeed.
Fair, but I doubt that would be in China's interest. For example, we haven't seen China try to do that with Apple Podcasts, Apple News or (less significantly) Apple Music content that might be anti-China. I'm not seeing a track record here.

China will do what it always did before with other companies: try to hack Twitter to get sensitive data, and try to place spies in high places to obtain trade secrets, IP, and technology.
No doubt some people have / will leave. I think there is a very interesting opportunity too - even if it's just to see what happens from the inside, but more actively to try and be part of a different vision for the company. It seems in one sense like being acquired, which can suck but can also be interesting. And in another sense (possibly) the opposite of being acquired, optimistically going from corporate bureaucracy and overhead and lots of rules and politics to something leaner and more interesting. In any case, it would be cool to see it from the inside
QWERTY and similar keyboard layouts are not designed for phones. I recommend MessagEase: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.exideas.me...

(Unfortunately it's proprietary and patented, but I haven't found anything better)
How does it work in Clojure?
Attempting to compile/evaluate this:

(defn foobar [] (undef-fn))

gives:

1. Caused by java.lang.RuntimeException
Unable to resolve symbol: undef-fn in this context

Attempting to call foobar:

(foobar)

gives:

1. Unhandled java.lang.IllegalStateException
Attempting to call unbound fn: #'user/foobar

Environment info:

;; CIDER 1.3.0 (Ukraine), nREPL 0.9.0
;; Clojure 1.11.1, Java 18.0.2
Feels like WASM is hitting an inflection point this year. After nearly a decade of hearing "someday", that day is finally here.
> The distinction between "having a lien" and "owning the company" is a false dichotomy.

It's 100% not. It's secured debt, that's it. If Twitter becomes worth $17 billion, they get - $15 billion. If Twitter becomes worth $170 billion, they get - $15 billion.

To say nothing of if Musk misses a payment, are they really going to foreclose? Or would they renegotiate?
Disagree. They have nothing until Musk needs to pay them back, and if Musk pays then back they have nothing.
> What are some examples of non-profit open-source companies? Is that typical?

The Apache foundation? FSF? The Mozilla foundation (which is different but related to the for-profit Mozilla Corporation)? The rust foundation? CNCF? Probably many others.

It would also probably be possible to find a suitable existing non-profit that could act as a steward of these resources.
I mean maybe, I sort of literally just mean not drive his investment into the ground by opening the floodgates, that could take a lot of forms.
This comment strikes me being rooted in a limited and almost comical understanding of business finance, especially at this scale. This isn't Hollywood. Since neither of us are privy to twitter's books (and Musk is, btw) it is equally (and more likely) that he's dumping positions that are double and triple redundant - a common occurrence in bloated bureaucratic teams of large companies that are poorly run and/or structured. I fully expect Musk to lay off most of Twitter's existing team and cycle through most staff in the next six months. He still has to weed out bad actors and saboteurs, as well. I also find it irresponsible for you to assume his motivations and intentions when you've been given none that reflect your supposition.
The Art and Science of Interoception
> I'd love to see some clear examples of conservative voices being targeted solely based on ideology, cause I don't think they exist.

Certain biases are baked into Twitter's content moderation policies. For instance, on COVID and gender. It just so happens that conservatives statistically disagree with the positions taken by those policies significantly more than liberals.

Is that an anti-conservative bias? Well, liberals often make the argument that the drug war was prejudicial against black people because the laws specifically targeted drugs that were more common in black communities. If you accept this argument, by parity of reasoning, you should also accept that Twitter's rules are prejudicial against conservative views.

For examples of prominent cancellations, there was Alex Berenson, Megan Murphy, Jordan Peterson, among others. These people aren't all strictly conservatives, but they were banned for views that conservatives mostly agree with.
God, stop, don't give me that much hope. Elon blowing 44 billions on a site worth maybe 5, before making it unavailable to half its userbase ? As well as reducing the amount of russian propaganda (that Elon does like to regurgitate all on his own anyways) that can be spewed on social networks ? This could be the biggest waste of money since the Tumblr acquisition, I'd love to help set records.

Can we nuke Facebook on the way too ?
For one, the lack of any nuance. 240 characters is not enough to accurately articulate a persons thoughts, so people infer meaning from otherwise harmless statements. Places that allow for longer comments, like HackerNews, have better discussion because you can post what you actually think.

Second, I just don't like the site. You go to the site, click on the news ticker for any topic, and you see a million of the worst takes ever dreamed up by mankind. The format also encourages mob mentality which I find very disturbing.
My experience has been tradeoffs.

Real identity has those most vulnerable get more threats, the majority get less.
I agree that it's their job, I don't agree that they've adopted a policy of isolation, but whatever. It's just not a good way to start a tech article.

The author mentioned some of the blocking methods, so that's cool.
And while Cybertruck is definitely not releasing this year, Tesla Semi is going into production
It is only money.
How does this work with things like "ratio-ing" or "dunking" or libsoftiktok that intentionally take clusters of media from one group and shoving it into their group explicitly to hate them?
That's going to be tricky too because I could imagine someone offering a service to actors and other public people to help manage their twitter accounts (maybe discourage them from posting stupid shit at 1 am. I'm looking at you, Elon), in which case you wouldn't even have a 1:1 ratio.

The usual solution, historically, it to provide different levels of service based on your account type. The couple of times I've worked somewhere that the admins had a disjointed set of servers from the users was really a huge stress relief. You want admins to 'see' what the user sees, but to be able to work even if the site is being DOS'ed. And ideally you want users to be able to use the site even if the admins manage to DOS themselves (admin functions tend to have a higher fanout than end user functions, so the danger of catastrophic fanout is always higher).
Yep. As an example, rustup happens to be in this category as the checksums for rustc, cargo, etc. aren't checked.
That article is misleading because it doesn't break down the Tesla purchases by model or even price range. Obviously most of them are model 3s. The model 3 is not a luxury car by any stretch and many model S and X owners will say the same about those models. Still, the people coming from the common luxury brands are not typically buying the "cheap" model 3.
That could be it for me too. Weird collision.
I guess those sales are US only, prices here in Germany are far higher.
Uhm... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Radio_Mondiale ?
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