skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh that's what I mean - he will enforce his own definition of free speech and censorship. It will be usual "Rules for thee but not for me" kinda thing. It will be a constantly shitfing goalpost, and he will always have some bullshit justification for why whatever he decides is correct. It won't be free speech, it will be Elon speech. He is a petulant child with too much money, and not enough humility. His sink stunt tells you everything you need to know - this is all about Elon. God help us all.
What contributing guidelines were not honored?
California also has stronger fleet emissions requirements, etc. Manufacturers prioritize sending to California due to a combination of proactive government policy, a large market, and interested consumers.
People are already calling the departing employees "crisis actors".

https://twitter.com/danahull/status/1586060026866638850
Highly recommend the episode about him from Mike Judge’s Tales from the Tour Bus. A lot of overlap with the Rolling Stone article but a little more dynamic!
> all the functionalities presented in this post have been designed and prototyped to the point where it’s just a matter of doing the methodical part of the work.

Pretty sure that feature is still very much WIP
Since I go to work exclusively to exchange labor for money, if, most other things being equal, I can find a job that allows me to exchange more money for the same amount of labor, who wouldn’t I be looking for another job anyway?

Working for Twitter in 2022 sounds about as exciting as working for Yahoo as it was going through the same type of turmoil.
That would require deploying the code to production. But at this stage the code is not ready for a PR/merge yet; e.g. it introduces a problematic dependency, requires a complex schema change, or similar.

Edit: Parent comment has been edited, originally it was just "Feature flags tied to user accounts." To address the rest: screen recording is sadly not always enough; screen sharing, pairing and mobbing are not ideal either, the stakeholders want to spend more time with the feature than I'm willing to spend on a call.
No one has been targeted on Twitter solely for being conservative.
The fragility I think is the main concern here, like you said. I hate when I have three 12v, 8 pin connectors on my GPU. I would be ecstatic between that and a small connector that catches fire if it's not perfectly 100% seated and strain relieved.
Am I crazy or did they remove 1.15x playback? That one seemed like the right mix of "I don't have 30 minutes" and not skewing the voices too much.
> not targeting conservative voices solely based on ideology.

This literally does not happen, and is entirely made up in a form of projection. In fact, Twitter has been found to be biased towards recommending right-wing sources. [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/22/twitter-a...
So they are bad because they are harder to pull off?

It sounds like you work at small companies and haven't ran into the kinds of problems microservices and database-per-service patterns solve.
Nothing can travel faster than light, so no, nothing can catch up to something traveling at the speed of light.

Really though the physics says nothing can _attain_ the speed of light, so light (or some other photon) could still intercept something with mass traveling at 99.9999999% the speed of light. And that thing with mass will never reach 100% the speed of light.

If you want to look deeper I suggest checking out the accelerating expansion rate of the universe, and what that means for information traveling throughout the universe over the next billions of years. Humanity is actually extremely lucky to have been born at a time when the universe was young enough to still be mostly visible. Civilizations that come about in the next 10s of billions of years might actually assume their galactic clusters are the only ones in existence (much like we thought initially until Hubble found another galaxy).
“Major”
On a different note I have encountered a bug where I reach a page with a video title and description but the video being played does not match and is instead from another one. I think it has happened especially after going to a full page video from the homepage when there is a video in the mini-view being played and about to switch.
As an HPC system administrator who also works on hardware, I'd say that the servers' life are equally hard from power and temperature perspective. Their life is not easier because they are not vibrating.

A server under max load 7/24/365 is really testing its design limits.
"Pressure from advertisers" implies the advertisers are paying more than the marginal utility of the ads themselves in some kind of corporate-back-scratching model.

If the ads provide a ROI, then other advertisers will gladly jump on board.
My entire life free speech was a liberal value and I believe it still is. Why are people saying it's conservative all of a sudden?
That's very clearly stated - I recognize it so much from my son (who has autism)! Thanks for putting it out there!
That kind of info will be difficult to get - he is taking the company private - no need to make all those bothersome public disclosures.
They also made a whole lot of progress on those big problems before Musk's public face-heel turn.

IMO Tesla -- we owe them a bit, for revitalizing electric cars. Now that the big brands have come around, I'm not sure Tesla has such a huge draw (?). Like if you are an engineer, you could work on the same problems at Ford, but with fewer CEO antics, your designs will probably be implemented with better build quality, and I bet your employment would be more stable.

SpaceX is still pretty impressive though.
> felt attacked

No, they were attacked.
Indeed. You would need a starlink competitor from another jurisdiction to fight US censorship if that comes to be.
> Dark Matter. Or maybe it's axions!

This would be proof that dark matter, or at least some of it, is axions.
> This combination enables us to detect CSAM on our platforms at scale, while keeping our false positive rate extremely low.

Yeah, right!

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-cs...
A lot of new wave personal websites are using the 1990s as inspiration, due to the 1990s having far more web design versatility than the utter boring designs that every copies nowadays.
Now that we know this was a hoax, it's sad that some people took this "news" and ran with it, with wild criticisms of Musk (even trying to psychoanalyze him).

I hope people take some time to reflect on their personal bias here.
4chan has always been around if you want platform neutrality and free speech.

The results are unsurprising.
“Free speech absolutists” is just a propaganda term for “People who say things I don’t like.”
Home and Work: Apple Macbook Air (M2, 24GB RAM, 2TB SSD) running MacOS Ventura

I also have a couple Linux PC's as well as several servers.
I think it is unverified, that is the issue.
Wikipedia (a feature-rich site) is operated by 500 people.

Twitter, with roughly the same measly feature set it had 15 years ago, is operated by 7500 people.

Maybe some "brain drain" would not be a bad thing?
I always thought Textile was the superior Betamax to Markdown's VHS, but John Gruber's popularity is what helped Markdown take over.
Surviving the Bridge in Squid Game
Gah, but thanks
Maybe if they go private they can work on user focused stuff. I'd like to be able to use the site again without being forced to sign in.
Your account was created to make this comment?
There's no real point discussing the way the site is run - they're not interested in user input and a lot of people like the idea of "reddit for professionals and VC bros". Causing trouble will just net you getting rate limited or a shadow ban.
The entire operating system is extremely well documented and thought out. Everything is done the traditional Unix way, so you don't end up with problems from churning half-baked subsystems. It's also routinely + repeatedly security audited. If they can't maintain quality+security for some subsystem (e.g., their bluetooth stack), then they delete it.

I run it on my router. I've had zero problems in many, many years.
That, and he still knows how to keep his hand near the steering wheel when the Management Autopilot begins to stray. Geez now that I think about it, his fascination with FSD makes perfect sense.
The brain drain started months ago.
I find that is not the case. At least if one cares about the outcome. Ever fight feeling that it would be faster to just do it one’s self?

There’s lots of skill involved in finding effective people, developing trust, communicating goals clearly, evaluating outcomes, adjusting.
I think a company like Twitter probably have some sacred cows stopping them from profit. Any new owner might fix that. I deleted my Twitter account years ago because most of the content is spam. Instagram is about the same and I will remove that too soon if it does not improve.
I kind of wonder if the performance at Tesla will improve as his attention is drawn away.
Addressed in the document:

> Meritocracy: In a meritocracy, the most qualified people for a job are selected for that job. In a do-ocracy, whoever does the job gets it, no matter how well they’re qualified.

I'd add that "merit" is a less useful concept to construct an organization around than "doing". Merit is impossible to measure, and every measure prone both to being gamed and to unfairly underestimating people and shutting them out, but is also the wrong thing to optimize for. The thing you want to optimize for is the work being, and for the overall effort to result in a high quality end product. Most parts of a given project aren't particularly critical and it doesn't matter who does them as long as they're done. If a particular part of the project is struggling, then the problem is that they needs support, not that they have "insufficient merit;" taking the unnecessary moral component out of it makes it easier to see what the problem is and to organize the resources to solve it. If some role is sensitive and requires special qualifications, that's an exception that can be dealt with as it arises (and if you're in a problem space where that's the rule and not the exception, fair enough, perhaps this isn't the approach for you).

I've not been in an organization that labeled itself a "DoOcracy", but it sounds like it's potentially less political and more productive than meritocracy.
Looking at those photos, they're not terrible but it's clear you're using a flash.

Here's what I would do (have done) instead: build a small box with bait, light the entire area using multiple diffuse lights, and point the camera (mounted on a sturdy tripod) at the bait, put a green wall right beehind the far depth of field. Disable autofocus, focus on bait, and set the ISO to the highest level you can tolerate.

Sitting nearby, watch the camera's LCD or use USB cable to do live view on a computer. Wait for the subject to come into view, then do bursts. This approach frees you from focus, you're not close to the photo volume, and gives you far more options with ISO and DOF because you're lighting the whole volume.

I haven't upgraded from my T4i since it does pretty much everything I need here.

Of course it's still fun to get into a the flow state while doing photography, controlling everything by hand in real time, but the above technique makes it much easier to produce large numbers of good images. I have used a similar technique to photograph hummingbirds in their first flights.
Specifically implied there is that one of the technical complaints was "draw distance" at speed and issues with "pop in" where things that should be visible aren't visible until "too late" after when they should be. If you build and tune a game engine for traveling at horse speeds and then add in vehicles that move three/four/five times as fast and some of them can fly, that puts a lot of strain on however you tuned the engine for drawing things at horse speeds and the expected results line up with many of the complaints about "draw distance" at speed and issues with "pop in".

Which is not to say that that was definitely the reason for some of those issues existed, but it does line up with what you would expect adding faster vehicles to an engine that hadn't been prepared for that.
Great!

If they decide someone has to go, all they have to do is say they found CP on their Google Drive. Who is going to believe the person when they say it was planted?

If you're having a hard time assessing the risk, imagine Trump was back in office and he was out to get all of the valiant anti-fascists.
That's because crimping is a more reliable connection, mechanically. It's less likely to fail.

Solder has better electrical characteristics, but that benefit is outweighed in the field because the connections can break and fail.
Matt Levine at Bloomberg has been talking about it frequently as the deal evolved. You can read back through the articles that reference Musk or Twitter in the headline and get a good idea.

"The Wall Street banks involved, led by Morgan Stanley, are also ironing out the steps needed to finalize funding about $13 billion of debt commitments."

"Banks that committed to help finance Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter Inc. plan to hold all $13 billion of debt backing the deal rather than syndicate it out, according to people familiar with the matter, in another blow to a market that serves as a crucial source of corporate funding."
I've read a bunch of articles about this and I just can't see how there isn't more to the story.

Whether the original ban was automated or not, one of their specialists must have been involved by now, not least because of the media coverage and the fact they reported it to the police. While the police declined to investigate further (from what we know, last time I read about this), there must be another reason for the account ban to remain in place.

I'm biased, I work at Google (I don't know anything about this that hasn't been reported), but I also just don't believe that a company would wilfully ban accounts that they don't have a good reason to ban, after human review. It would be a stupid move, especially considering the media attention. Hence my guess that there must be more to this story. Again I have no insider knowledge, this is purely personal speculation.
> The failure doesn't necessarily have to happen at the junctions for the junctions to be a cause.

Indeed, it can also happen that because some connection is failing, too much current flows through the remaining ones, but this is clearly not what is happening here (because it's not the inner connectors that are melting, and also because Igor tried and couldn't replicate this). This really looks like heat from high resistance, and the outer connectors are simply those experiencing the most mechanical stress, and it's really easy for these 2-slit-connectors to get bend out of shape.
Related recent discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33371297

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33365948

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33366137

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33370270

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33371581

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33367063
Hard problems, they are hard.

“I can build a twitter clone in a weekend” is famous for a reason.
My entire life private property was a right-wing value. Why are they against it all of a sudden?
I did. I loved it, and I am only superficially familiar with the chemistry being discussed in the book. It's quite eye opening!
And don’t restore accounts even when law enforcement decides not to pursue charges.
> people pointed out that molex melt all the time and that this wasn't a big deal.

They're insane.

I've been building my own PCs for over 20 years. I've NEVER had a connector melt.

I've never HEARD of anyone having a connector melt outside of maybe a post to /r/WellThatSucks of a single melted connector.
Just a heads up. Powerpoles melt too. Nasty things.
This sort of justifies the viewpoint that despite all his bluster, Elon will probably run Twitter the way a "reasonable executive" would. Not just release the hounds.

Keep the advertisers happy, but try to reduce the reliance on advertisers. Keep moderating content to reduce abuse, maybe eliminate the high profile banning but a person on the ground will have largely the same experience. (probably less action on more contentious issues, but you still can't use racial epithets and call for violence). Evaluate most employees or teams on the merits, there will be layoffs, probably big layoffs but they'll be managed incremental and strategic. Build more products and pivot the product strongly but again, not in the image of a Parler or a Truth Social.
Twitter won't become a cesspool because he understands that people need to be able to control what they see or they'll leave. Essentially try to create more safe spaces on twitter, not less.
wouldn't be surprised if he went to jack for ideas, we've seen how he texts, and not that long ago he didn't even appear to have a concrete plan on how to improve twitter
I wouldn't say it's a literal bug but maybe they were talking about this:

https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6
I'd love to see some clear examples of conservative voices being targeted solely based on ideology, cause I don't think they exist.

The replies so far seem to just confirm my point. Doesn't seem like any of them were banned "solely based on ideology" at all.

Come on y'all, show me one example where someone was banned for asking for lower taxes!
Doc who thinks vaccinated people are magnetic is in big trouble with med board
Did your sensibilities keep you from reading the rest of my comment? Sadly, it didn't keep me from reading the article - which had no interesting information on the GFI in particular or even firewalls in general. I should have went with my gut on this one.
Well, Elon changed the TOS. He can now make shit you like against the TOS. You can't rely on unelected rich people to determine speech even if they make decisions you like
Metaverse is full of hard questions and big problems, is running a 9B deficit, and provides 0 value.
Depends on use case I suppose. I can not think of many practical applications for one-time-use keys other than disaster recovery flows.

The real world use cases I most commonly support are things like CAs, TLS keys, financial transaction signing keys, and sensitive document decryption keys. All of these require single keys to exist that needs to perform automated operations, and needs to be on systems that can be backed up, restored, upgraded, and maintained, while able to prove no single person can access or control the keys.

The scheme I described can allow one key to be created, split, restored, used, and split again many times without full trust in any individual.
Major, in this context, is a weasel word. It lets them off the hook for nearly any unbanning.
It would be easier to intercept the open() for the /proc/cpuinfo file with a LD_PRELOAD library. Of course that would still be detectable by the benchmark. You could also use a modified libc to spoof it. Then their only way out would be static linking.

You could even just modify the kernel to report arbitrary strings in /proc/cpuinfo.

So they use the CPUID instruction instead. The CPUID instruction can be trapped to throw a SIGSEGV instead of returning real values on x86 with arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_CPUID, 0). So an injected SIGSEGV handler could then spoof it.

But even then, you could also trap the CPUID instruction in the kernel, and spoof it from there, which would be even harder to detect from user space.

In the end, the benchmark program always needs to trust the kernel. Is it really worth trying to detect spoofing?
I think the best one can hope for is.

An actual stated policy that is followed by the company instead of some arbitrary internal morality police like the last lot.
> I do think the PI is great from the hobbyist and industrial perspective, but to just use it as an inexpensive PC seems like a waste.

Given the current availability and prices, yes. Mind you, they started much, much cheaper.
Yes! It was an episode from season 2! https://arthur.fandom.com/wiki/Binky_Barnes,_Art_Expert
My best, charitable guess is that their goal is to make YouTube as easy to use and low-friction as possible for anyone. For all of us here, using technology is second nature, but for a lot of people, especially in 3rd world countries where I imagine YouTube is expanding, adding another button means adding a nontrivial mental overhead for those people
> If you could only have three things in your fridge, which would it be?

It's a matter of personal taste, but for me it would be: avocado, high-quality cheese, high-quality meat.

> If you and I could never talk again, what single book, article or video would you recommend for me to turn to in order to find my own way through this topic?

Book: "Thiamine Deficiency Disease, Dysautonomia, and High Calorie Malnutrition" by D. Longsdale and C. Marrs.

Video: [1]

The materials present information with the focus on specific vitamins, but the knowledge about metabolism is universal and can be applied to all similar situations.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuIhjlFYYZY
This doesn’t address the issue of banning and locking a parent out of a Google account from sending a photo to a pediatric medical provider during Covid telehealth: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...
While that's generally true, something you don't have a choice.

The good news is I have yet to find any issues.
There's a philosophical thing here and people have different views. The ACLU used to defend the right for the KKK and neo-nazis to parade around in jewish neighborhoods doing holocaust denial, etc, and if I remember correctly many of their lawyers doing such work were Jewish. The view if those people are idiots, and they can say this if they want, and more decent people (who outnumber the bigots) will counter the bigoted speech with their own.

No one can credibly deny that some speech is harmful. We'd all like to suppress some speech that we don't like, but the reason free speech advocates take the position they take (generally) is that once speech is prohibited the status quo regime will ban legitimate criticisms. So the good has to be accepted with the bad.

It's a tough issue. If I'm honest I favor censorship of views that I believe are harmful, but would object strenuously if my point of view is censored. I also think being called slurs, etc, is an unpleasant user experience, to say the least, so from a business perspective if nothing else I get why that is censored. Still, the censorship has gone too far in my view. We need to figure out a way to circle this square.
>It's just so disrespectful

I think you're seeking that out. Someone more relaxed might just respond with "what's it doing?" and let them share the details. Some people chat over messengers like they talk in real life and you can learn to cope with both styles.
OK, so far, not much.

Musk is getting stretched rather thin. Space-X seems to be doing OK with Gwynne Shotwell running things. Tesla, which Musk apparently does really run personally, is doing OK, but their side ventures are not. Self-driving is a mess. Solar panels (yes, Tesla has a solar panel business) are not doing well. The Cybertruck is years late. (Maybe next year.[1]) So is the Tesla Model 2, the low-end vehicle.

There's still no low-cost Tesla. The market for high-end cars is somewhat saturated. Tesla's order backlog is now 78 days, much less than usual for Tesla and about typical for the auto industry. Remember, Tesla has to become bigger than Toyota to justify the stock price. It is not possible to do that at Tesla's current price points. There are not enough buyers with that much money.

So Tesla has to compete on price with the Chevy Bolt, the Nissan Leaf, etc. Electric compact sedans are a crowded sector. Solving that problem is Musk's job.

Twitter is a distraction.

[1] https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/tesla-cybertruck-might-fina...