skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That wasn't a general purpose "whoops, takesie backsies" clause, it was contingent on financing falling through for an otherwise best-effort deal.

Those sort of breakup fees are to give the company some compensation for non-bad-faith purchasers having external problems, because a failed acquisition is still an expensive thing for a company to have gone through in those situations. A cold-feet buyer throwing shit at the company in public even though he has the means to close the deal? Different story.
>likely isn't among the 1000 most powerful people in government

Why does that matter?

>has led to her getting death threats

OK, punish the people who did the illegal thing. Imagine having personal responsibility!

>Being a satire site doesn't mean we can laugh off all their behavior as a joke

Yes, yes that's exactly what it means.

>Their behavior was a part of a harassment campaign against someone who is largely a private citizen in this instance

No, one article is not a harassment campaign.
this is misleading, market cap isn't the same thing as net profit. if anything, the massive loss in market cap makes meta a way better investment now than it was before it "lost $650B" because the p/e ratio went down below historical averages (it's 9.46 now, historical average p/e ratio is like 13-15 iirc)
Twitter should remove Communities, Lists, Professional Profiles, Long Notes (their new take on blogging smh) and Spaces (you know that audio thing)?. These are failed experiments no?

Twitter should improve Bookmarks. I bookmark a lot of Tweets since it was introduced to the public and scrolling down for hundreds of tweets is not fun.
The battery on my Amazfit GTS 2 mini also lasts 2 weeks,it has a beautiful OLED display and gps. And with Gadgetbridge it's just as privacy friendly.

I was a first hour pebble backer but its time has passed. Sadly.
Can’t they just give the advertiser the ability to control what kind of content they want their ads to appear alongside? Actually, don’t they do that already?

> The advertiser mostly cares when “everyone” knows they advertise for Nazis.

There are likely some advertisers who would have no qualms about targeting Nazis for advertisements, and little or no qualms about anyone knowing that they do either: criminal lawyers, divorce lawyers, mental health treatment services, drug and alcohol treatment services, certain kinds of charities (such as extremism prevention or anti-racism), etc.
That's one big problem with these (US based) companies. They don't apply the spirit of the laws in their own home country that allowed/allows them to exist.
Zuckerberg has even claimed that fb is a "digital town square".

They don't mind enforcing speech laws of other countries, lowest common denominator.

No tears would be shed if they were broken up, nationalized, etc.
> satisfied governments globally

This is the easy part if he really wants to choose the free speech absolutist route. Close the European offices (which will probably happen anyways due to mass firings), bank accounts and move it all to America or other friendly jurisdiction if needed for tax purposes. They can sue all they want in Europe but American courts won't enforce a judgement that isn't compatible with American law. European governments can decide to block Twitter but then they'll have a bunch of unhappy voters. But this is unlikely.
How things have changed. Maybe 30 years ago I got stuck in Gibraltar for a few days having returned by ferry from Morocco, because the airport was closed due to weather. No problem for most, as they just bus passengers to the bigger airport in Spain. But a problem for us, because we had run out of entries on our Schengen States visa. It also used to catch a lot of people out on the trains, with people not realizing their passports would be checked mid journey when crossing the borders.
This was forced error. They didn't need the metaverse to be relevant.
Yes, you can get a waiver if you apply for something called the "Letter of Undertaking" which allows you to not pay anything for exports. This was not available at the start.
Or how you end up with a search engine for passion projects, open-source projects, community hosted sites and more.
Top of the page literally says "WD external drive price tracker."
I wrote up how to compile SQLite to WASM and also include an extension: https://github.com/llimllib/wasm_sqlite_with_stats

You can play with the wasm-compiled extension at the version of the sandbox I compiled here: https://llimllib.github.io/wasm_sqlite_with_stats/

I tried to be thorough with the writeup, so hopefully it helps somebody if that's something they need.
> It's entirely fine. The problem YT/Facebook have is user's lack of control on what gets recommended. Play the "wrong" video once or twice and you will be flooded by stuff you don't want.

This is the same problem I was describing...

Users have no control over what they see, and open communities have little control over where the bar for who should be banned is or what other communities they are in contact with.
A new owner who was forced to complete the purchase by a court order. He'll dump it as soon as there's a good price for it.
This is how I explain innovator’s dilemma to others
Interestingly our bodies can increase the refresh rate and processing of smaller slices of time when needed. I remember an experiment scientists did dropping people from a bungee with an led display that had a display rate too high or fast for normal humans to see it. During the drop they could see the number it was displaying. :)
They should get like, a million P-Wings for this.
As much as I wish FOSS could conquer all, honestly the number of users on twitter alone would convince a lot of people to migrate back
> There is certainly a huge irreconcilable divide on how January 6th is viewed on either side.

Yes, insurrectionists typically see their actions as justified, and will frame them as such. What happened was an insurrection though, and the 1/6 committee and DOJ have done much to prove that.

> Lets not forget Hillary Clinton has always held Trump stole the election

She’s free to feel however she wants. But note she didn’t go to Twitter to foment insurrection.

> she even reiterated a few days ago the republicans are planning to do it again

Probably a safe bet, given Trump hasn’t even given up trying to steal the 2020 election.
But the Hyper in HyperCard literally means hyperlink.
Guy trolls media gathered outside TwitterHQ pretnding to b a fired data engineer
And when SNL satirizes a political figure, absolutely no one refers to it as "targeting"
> Twitter wasn't doing anything special, and it's easy to launch a clone of their business model.
And yet nobody has done it? People think social media is easy to start and succeed. FYI, its like catching lightning.
All good points. If you look online for industry-wide comparisons, you tend to find them behind paywalls. That's why I used SEC filings, which are public. It's also very tedious. I suppose that's why people think they can charge for having done it.

A list of "comparables" for Twitter might be hard to compile. If you take a really new company, of course they have to invest in R&D, a lot. Twitter really isn't coming out with radically new products, AFAICT.
The problem I have is that I dont have a Google account. So I basically can't even use the website except through the recommender.
> But for me the point of Linux is being able to understand and customize how everything works.

I have always thought that is a valuable feature of a Linux system, too. That being said, I’ve also contemplated init scripts and wondered how that could possibly work. And, as anyone who has troubleshooted a stale daemon subprocess, a malfunctioning pidfile, or a messed up rc symlink can attest, legacy init scripts do not actually function very well.

Systemd may be far from perfect, but it’s a vast improvement over initscripts.
I'm pretty sure most of those Reddit clones get flooded with "undesirable" bots as a way of killing them off. The people who currently run bots on Reddit, have massive power over public opinion etc, they want to keep their victims centralised, and on familiar territory.
Something that respects the rights of marginalized people not to be harassed or threatened?
yup, that's my understanding too; the self-hosted compiler just landed.
I'd rather read what people really think than what they are allowed to think.
I noticed you have released some source code on GitLab, but it appears to be all rights reserved (no license information in the repo), but is also still viewable by the public, did you mean to make it a private project on GitLab instead?
> 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.

He literally just had every engineer print out the last 3 months of code lol
This link opens a Dreambooth training & inference notebook in an A6000 machine

Check out the full guide here: blog.paperspace.com/dreambooth-stable-diffusion-tutorial-1/
Then he's in real trouble because he's taken on a whole lot more loans, and Twitter is not growing that quickly and liable to actually shrink now. The US market for it is saturated.

If expenditure (hiring) goes up and he's not finding revenue then that's the end sooner rather then later.
The existing investors - that own the company - are probably not consoled by the fact that their once valuable stock is now a good buying opportunity
The PowerShell Best Practices and Style Guide
The hatred exhibited in all these Twitter-related threads, both here and elsewhere is truly something to behold.

In a free society everyone should be for the protection of free speech. Note that this does not mean unmitigated slinging of fecal matter. It does, however, mean that platforms with significant reach should not be engaged in explicitly favoring one side or another. They need to enabled open and "color blind" discussion. And, yes, while moderation is necessary even in places like HN, it cannot, should not, be ideological. That's how you end-up with China, North Korea, Iran, etc.

Cue arguments about the first amendment only being applicable to government. That isn't what this is about. At all.

Imagine an extreme case where all social media outlets, news stations, newspapers and even universities are controlled by, say, the Chinese Communist Party or some other extreme. Yes, a crazy out-there hypothetical. Sometimes exaggeration is able to lend clarity that is hard to convey in other ways.

Well, that's the kind of thing we have had for years now. Don't believe me? Kindly present a list of right wing, left wing and independents who have been banned from places like Twitter and Facebook. One side of that list will be almost empty. And that, precisely, is the problem Elon wants to solve. He isn't interested in tilting it in the opposite direction. He wants that list, when it comes to Twitter, to be equitable and, more than likely, as small as absolutely necessary.

What is wrong with that? Why the hatred?
50% what? And Private Eye has also covered the NAO report, which found no evidence of this, and the GLP court case which attempted to prove the price paid was excessive and failed to do so.

No, the priority list wasn't. To approve a vendor through the normal process would have taken years, the fast track process was created to get PPE quicker than normal. I believe all but one person was unrelated to the Tories, the only person who wasn't (as I have said) repeatedly lied about their connection to the vendor, and is now facing criminal charges.
I think that’s fairly self-evident, hence my inclusion of “in theory” :)

Are there other internal engines that have been used for open-world games with detail and scale at the level of GTA or RDR?
> “most apps”

Please do not put words in quotes as if I said them when, in fact, I did not. Thank you.
The concensus is so bearish on the metaverse, it almost makes me bullish.
thanks, but that seems to be passing tests, like QA, not benchmarking for performance, do I misread it?
If you want Wikipedia just search Wikipedia. I don’t need the first page of results filled with sites I already know about. Why does Wikipedia even need to be indexed at this point?
People will get bored, eventually, slumbering in a Pablum of like-mindedness.
Wouldn’t that be an unforced error?
Stop desperately trying to change to definition of hate speech.
Yes, with luck we can get both Hannity AND Colmes.
Everything is darkest just before it goes pitch black.
I'd stick to having a unified vfat boot+EFI partition mounted at /boot. systemd-boot is the simplest bootloader and it doesn't support loading it's config and kernels from non-vfat partitions anyway. Just make a 5GB boot+EFI partition so you can store plenty of kernels or even a recovery image.

For security, I recommend following Madaidan's Insecurities Linux hardening guide, it has good explanations of most of the same sysctl options and kernel flags. [1]

The only option that may be best left disabled is `init_on_free=0` since this is one of the few options that has a measurable performance impact (besides the normal spectre/meltdown related options).

For NTP, systemd-timesyncd works fine and is probably the default for any modern distro.

Desktop security is still a nightmare, if you use a Wayland based desktop environment and Pipewire for audio/video streams then maybe in 10 years you'll a secure clipboard and no unauthorized keyloggers.

[1] https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/guides/linux-harden...
Treat paywalls the same as ads.
Investing in Meta is saying you believe Mark Z has some kind of edge or grand vision to keep their platforms relevant that he hasn't shown the world yet. What do you think that is? What do you know that the market doesn't?
This is faulty second-order thinking: you shouldn't jump from a bridge just because someone tells you to, but everybody jumping from the bridge should be a strong indicator of what to do.
If I thought 30,000x faster I would kill myself. It's sort of like that "Flash nightmare" where he goes so fast he's waiting an eternity for someone just to breath a syllable. Imagine being able to process information 30kx faster but still be limited to communication methods through senses that are radically more limited? That is hell, that is "The Jaunt".
A single stone is different than a system consisting of large numbers of stones in some non random configuration.

It’s like the flaw in that “Chinese room” thought experiment. The person following instructions isn’t the room any more than the walls are. All that thought experiment demonstrates is a CPU has a more limited perspective than the computer it’s part of.
Why would business accomplishments not make someone a genius? Business requires creativity and intelligence just as much as any other field of human endeavor.

Tesla (the company) didn't invent electric cars, but they were the first to make electric cars that people actually wanted to buy.

Pre-Tesla, the public perception of elecric cars was something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2HX5wsQVEA (this did not age well)

They were expensive, small, underpowered, and had poor range. Musk took a weakness (expensive) and turned it into a strength (luxury status symbol) by just embracing that making a high-performance electric car was going to be really expensive and marketing it as a toy for rich people to show off how rich they are. Then, he used the profits from that to scale production and bring down the price for future models.

I don't know if he invented this business strategy, but it's a least a pretty brilliant application of it, along with the admirable goal of reducing fossil fuel emissions by putting more electric cars on the road. He also open-sourced all patents developed by Tesla, so other manufacturers could benefit from whatever they discovered along the way.
Most things require workarounds, some things aren't possible (or we haven't found workaround yet) and it's not as fast as CUDA. But stable-diffusion inference works, and so does textual inversion training. I was also able to run training of a T5 model with just a couple of tweaks.

I'd stick with PyTorch 1.12.1 for now. 1.13 has problems with backpropagation (I get NaN gradients now when I attempt CLIP-guided diffusion -- I think this applies to training too), and some einsum formulations are 50% slower (there is a patch to fix this; I expect it'll be merged soon), making big self-attention matmuls slow and consequently making stable-diffusion inference ~6% slower.
As a developer, not really a tweeter, I'd be super-happy if a read-only API was opened up again. It was a gold mine when it came to creating cool things back in the days, especially analysis stuff.
They would have gone for Web4, but it was too square.
Yes, I think we should do that (there are massive issues with both the civil service and civil service procurement, Scotland has significant issues here...these are probably bigger than with politicians) but we have a system with robust checks and balances (for example, ministers don't make procurement decisions...if a firm was fast-tracked, they delivered something...that doesn't mean there were no issues, but ministers aren't writing cheques to people).
1) Both are ok imho, I just thought there was a period in 00s when Java was popular for various apps, even for some YouTube downloader you needed it to be installed, and now I didn't see requirements like that for ages. YaCy started in 2003, and I think the language could be one of the reasons the interest in this project waned.

2) I didn't look into Common Crawl closely, but I think they maybe have smaller sample datasets for testing or home projects? It just makes sense to use freely available crawling data which already exists and not wait for people to join your project.

P.S. Previous YaCy discussions on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=yacy.net , there are some feature requests in comments probably.
I think this all rests on your definition of safe. So let’s consider it from the perspective of each affected party. I’m thinking…

1. Customers would want, at minimum, an alternative solution; the smoother you make the transition for them, the better.

2. Employees would appreciate a good severance and referrals to similar roles.

3. Investors would be content with their principal reimbursed.

As a founder, I could walk away with a clear conscience having done, or at least having made genuine efforts to achieve, the above.
Hover flies compete with other makes for the privilege of hovering in the 'best' spot over a bush or wherever. They'll fly at whoever invades their space and then return to hovering and defend it.
mp3PRO and HE-AAC work in essentially the same way, but AAC is more efficient.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Efficiency_Advanced_Audio...
May not be a panacea, but it's the healthiest option.

> Misinformation spreads insanely fast on WhatsApp, even after limiting Group thread size and # of forwards.

That's true, but it's relatively easier to solve: really viral messages are a minuscule minority, and can set off internal alerts and be reviewed by humans; to prevent hysteria and murderous rhetoric.

And the problem also existed with word-of-mouth, centuries ago, before the masses ever startied reading "the press"; rumors could spread across entire nations. Fake stuff will spread, and people will become more skeptical and adapt, as they did before. Skin in the Game makes a related point.¹

The whole problem with censoring "disinformation" is that it removes society's self-healing mechanisms. Public discourse has always been messy. Louis Farrakhan is labelled hateful, but he ran the Million Man March and is credited getting many African-American men to register to vote. Malcolm X would have been considered an extremist and banned. But it would have been wrong; he may have been flawed on the micro level (that's subjective), but he was beneficial and heroic on the macro level. Censorship has huge second order effects, including self-censorship, introducing status-quo bias. It also promotes conspiratorial thinking, since people who think information is being hidden from them are more likely to seek fringe sources.

How do you censor real disinformation, without ending up with things like the Hunter Biden story being censored too? It also allows governments to lie with impunity, because accusations that the government is lying are treated as disinformation, while actual government lies (like the intel agency staffers who said the Hunter laptop was a Russian psyop) are spread everywhere.² People need to be able to spread "conspiracies", since while they may be factually incorrect, they may be directionally correct, while the "official" narrative may be total BS. Note I couldn't care less about Hunter or his laptop, but it's a clear recent example.

¹ https://medium.com/incerto/the-facts-are-true-the-news-is-fa...

² https://greenwald.substack.com/p/biden-the-media-and-cia-lab...
This seems suspect. Without more confirmation, I’d hold off on believing this narrative in its entirety
Just a thought that might be related to both problems: I had a brain injury that causes me to have low testosterone. When it’s low, and especially if it’s dropping, I get restless leg syndrome. Also, low testosterone isn’t great, mentally speaking…to say the least. It might be worth checking out.
No thanks don't want another Cambridge Analytica on our hands.
Actually, fading the crowd has a pretty good track record. Go look at the comment history from any major new product category.
If he manages to resell it at a gain, he will have flipped the bird.
AI-generated art sparks backlash from Japan’s anime community
The people who held all the stock have lost a combined 650B since that date. It may be a better investment now - but 650B was literally lost by these folks.
In fact 4D chess is a hermenutic in post-modern exigesis.
"Nobody has ‘thrown out’ the voting rights act. That’s an opinion. Part of it has not been upheld as constitutional."

Semantics.

"The decision on gerrymandering is real."

Yes. It is.

"But you seem to be thinking this is evidence of a conspiracy to end democracy rather than just normal bias. Even that piece admits that gerrymandering was invented by the democrats. This is just normal US politics at work."

Do you not understand the difference between democratic and Democratic? Otherwise, what's the relevance of gerrymandering having been invented by Democrats. The court upholding it is anti democratic
That is like killing all the mongoose since no one dies of snakebites anymore
I fully expect the logo and UI to change, but he isn’t going to suddenly prevent people from following people, sending / reading tweets or do anything else that would drive most users away because that would just be setting billions of dollars on fire.
Or, the majority of people are fine with limiting hatefullness and so you end up with just the people who want to spread hate online, which in turn makes it a cesspool
From the context I think "own goal" is the sports analogy that was meant?
It’s hard to solve. I’ve read blogs where people find it condescending but the opposite can be harrowing, especially if it is clear the other party is annoyed.

Empathy tends to drive my own novelistic explanations, not conceit. It might help to mention something if you haven’t yet. Everyone is different though.
Freedom of speech exists as a philosophical concept outside of the 1st amendment. The 1st amendment is simply the application of that concept to the American constitution.
The loss of a higher buck ratio is not insignificant. It requires higher voltage rated mosfets which generally have worse performance, as well as increased switching losses resulting in more heat where you least want it. Most other use cases for 24/48V involve significantly longer wires than in a PC case. I think the actual net win, if any, would be quite small.
It's cherry picking who he's replied to.