skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are taking him at his word when he has demonstrated time and time again that he should not be taken at his word.
Fair enough. I still think conservatives (and liberals, for different reasons) are vastly overestimating how much Musk will protect free speech. Slurs will obviously still be banned (likely automatically; I don't see why the platform relies on human moderation in those cases). These people are just getting a fast-track ticket to not-allowed-on-Twitter.
We also use 100 million barrels of oil every day. Each barrel carries equivalent energy to ten years of human labour.

Let's forget for a moment about other energy sources, and also pretend we use all that oil just for energy. That would mean that every day, the 8 billion humans on Earth are using the same energy that it would take 365 billion humans to provide by hand.
Saying it is some country’s WeChat is like a curse… as WeChat is notorious for its closed mindedness and probably hated by most of its users… and they won’t even have any other option because Tencent is actively striking down all potential competitors…
You know what is crazy. I recently heard 20% of adult population in Iran is in Revolutionary Guard. This puts things into context for anyone who says "why don't people just overthrow the dictatorship". However, there were dictatorships with an even stronger hold on their population that fell. Usually for economic reasons. I hope Iran's regime will follow.
> Here's some evidence.

These are opinion pieces.

> They ruled to allow state legislatures to override voters by changing state law to allow that

No they didn’t. Nothing in the pieces linked states this.

> and an upcoming case to watch, where they're expected to further undermine laws:

This isn’t a meaningful sentence.
China and America are very different. We can't use one map for the other.
Short answer is no. The field is full with tenuous analogies. Then again „Neural Networks“ are also at best metaphorically related. More accurate existing Neuron models are actually also plagued by lots of limitations among them that they are typically implemented in 3 ancient domain specific languages with lots and lots of hardcoded constants copied from research papers.
Thanks, I didn’t know this one :)
What about incitement to violence?
Interesting take. This reminds me of what I am working on:

https://deliberati.io/truthtelling-games
I keep mine on chronological sort so I only see people I follow.
> How do you think this ends if the Western powers keep funding the war and Ukraine takes Crimea? Do you think Putin will just say "OK" ?

You mean if Ukraine returns to their sovereign borders and has a crap ton of weapons and can physically repel any Russian attacks? Doesn't matter what Putin says.

> Comparing Russia to Canada is in bad faith.

What? Ok, how about just pretend Russia takes over the Alaska and the western seaboard. Does that work for you?
I disagree, this is much better than WebSQL. WebSQL would have been tied to one specific version of SQLite, and developers would have to work to the lowest supported version. There would have been no extension mechanism.

WASM SQLite is the correct solution. It’s extendable by the developer using it, they can uses SQLite extension modules, and build their own.

But almost more so it proves the idea of a WASM db engine backed by a low level block FS api. We will see other db engines uses this architecture. DuckDB have already done it. I’m sure MongoDBs Realm and CouchBase Mobile will do the same soon too.

We are in for an exciting time in the next few years.
Civil discussion requires high trust societies. Our elites have been doing everything possible to destroy that recently.
I can't square that ambition with the idea that Twitter is 4x overstaffed and needs to shed 75% of its workforce, though.

If he has ambitions to turn Twitter into an Everything App, he'll need to diverrt a significant portion of the workforce onto that project, leaving him with a fraction of a fraction of the current workforce to keep Twitter's microblogging and ad shilling platform up and running.
Not to mention that the person who attacked Pelosi's husband with a hammer was also posting transphobic crap (along with a lot of other right-wing garbage). Hate online definitely has real world impact.
Those become a lot easier to work with when you differentiate them from good-faith bots.

Discord does something similar, although I feel they've gone way too far with policing it.
That’s a trivial problem to solve.
They were satirizing the confusion between sex and gender. Disagreement isn’t necessarily hate speech.
> They just called trans woman a man. It was hate speech, pure and simple.

This perfectly encapsulates the problem. So-called 'hate speech' is in the eye of the beholder and incredibly, just incredibly subjective.
Same here. At 16GB of VRAM and only $349, it could fill a really nice slot for DL.
Posters Aren’t Heroes
I find flying games, or anything that motions on the height axis - really really sickening. I don't think we'll have the solution anytime before brain interfaces like Neuralink being well advanced
I feel like bash/sh should have this built in
> Musk also intends to do away with permanent bans on users because he doesn’t believe in lifelong prohibitions, the person said.[0]

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-28/musk-is-s...
No reason to take my word on this, but I think that this will blow up in his face agonizingly in a way similar to Zuckerberg/Meta. I think that US-owned social media platforms as we them are beginning to flounder into a sort of soft irrelevancy. In other words, they are stagnating and their user bases will likely plateau in terms of growth and overall culture of the platforms.

Culturally Twitter has been dead for almost a decade as far as the quality of the posts go and the general “vibe” of the place, sort of like Reddit. I really think social media has become low-brow entertainment with a little more reading involved than a Television. Social media is almost an online iteration of the airport bookstore.
I highly recommend the "Tales from the Tour Bus" episode on him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UogkCxWJWw
I think his goal is to figure out how to do this and keep it sane and keep the advertisers and grow the membership. It will take a long time to get there, and Twitter will have to look very different to get there.
Linux has randomised TCP Timestamps per-connection since v4.10 so there's no longer any need to disable them: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
> Isn't this what you call "begging the question"? It's hedonic because it is intrinsically rewarding.

I think what they mean is that it was not connected to an external reward (at least not one that the researchers could identify). For example, they did not train the bees to roll the ball in order to get sugar water or something.
Those already do kind of exist, I recall scripts existing which can be used to block users from lists, and inevitably those were used for reinforcing echo chambers.

On the other hand, providing users with tools to curate their timelines is much better than having the company shove some arbitrary rulings down everyone's throats.

Edit: In a sense this would be one of the things I have come to really enjoy about running a Misskey instance. The content is all out there on other Mastadon, Pleroma and Misskey instances in the fediverse, both stuff I would enjoy and stuff I would find extremely offensive but that doesn't really matter because what I can see is entirely in my control.
> a few thousand dollars

You might want to revise that assumption.
Its interesting to me how in Northern Ireland I see very few electric cars, I'm imagining its because were typically more rural?
Their platforms are siloed off. The point of a mega app is that it's not siloed off; the reels, videos, DMs and tweets would be part of the same experience, and rely on the same usernames, hence the moat.
Mods here are really great.

Obviously (IMNSHO) Twitter must be a little less strict than a niche forum, but it would be a great start for Twitter if they were as balanced as HN is: here you get a talking to or a ban if you deserve it - regardless of what side you belong to.

On Twitter it seems you can get away with some amazing things (haven't I seen death wishes?) if you are clearly left leaning.
100%. Allow open, reasonably rats-limited access to the API, and use the absolutely gargantuan amounts of data Twitter has built up to sort through bots. If other services can do it why can’t Twitter?
Ok, I bit. At 6:50 he explicitly decides to "call out" all Jewish people, and makes a claim that he's a victim of their behaviour.

> "And what I'm doing, I'm calling out the Jewish community as a whole to say. People say to me, all, we grew up on Ye. Talk to your brother, ask him why is Ye upset? Everybody, all they [the Jewish Community] want to do is silence and shoot the messenger."

That's plainly antisemitism.
GM temporarily suspends advertising on Twitter following Elon Musk takeover
Is a 12v to whatever voltages the chips on the card use smaller than a 48v to whatever voltages the chips use?
...and then there are stories like this[1] where Tesla is refusing to release autopilot data to an owner who claims Tesla's autopilot caused his car to crash.

That's not very open.

[1] - https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2020/02/26/...
The problems with bots is they jack up advertisers cost and don't buy things and cannot be influenced. Follow the money.
Has a guestbook, old internet confirmed.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the framework of the evolutionary dogma as I know it, this behavior wouldn't make sense. It comes at the expense of energy and time, yielding no benefit, and thus is a net detriment and should therefore be bred out of the species with the one exception being some sort of higher process like emotional gratification.

At least I can't imagine any sort of logical pattern where this improves fitness other than because it is emotionally gratifying, which I would posit necessarily intersects with biology beyond the very simplistic instinctual-automaton model.
> being honest is a tax

Being honest is an investment in an honest society and a just future. Of course, the problem with being honest is that, as with any ideological conflict, those who volunteer for the front lines make the most sacrifices, and have to trust that the tide will someday turn in favor of their side, even though they may never see it happen. So there's a lot of "you go first" noise instead of active effort to walk the talk.

Nonetheless this trending fad of referring to any cost that has no obvious immediate benefit to the payer a tax is starting to outgrow the original, and usefully narrow, scope it once had.

It would be equally valid, semantically, (and I would argue more valid prescriptively) to observe that having to constantly verify at great expense what in an honest society you could you could otherwise trusted at nearly zero expense, is the more costly and pernicious "tax" on total human productivity.
The wealthier you are, the bigger the cost of certain actions, sure.

I'm not at all convinced that the rate gets higher. I'll go ahead and bet the opposite, that the cost of being honest represents a smaller fraction of your wealth as you have more.

Somewhat analogous to "fuck you money". If you badly need a job, you have to be silent about many issues.
You're conflating consciousness with intelligence. The two are not the same.

One is the experience of qualia, and the ability to hold preferences.

The other is the behaviors associated with making predictions and intentionally manipulating the world to achieve tasks.

We have a hyper-intelligent chess engines that cannot be argued to be conscious. We also have small mammalian minds, like Koalas, that are dumb as a brick, but are very likely conscious.
While I'm no fan of Elon anymore, I think some change is desperately needed for Twitter.
"42 million Americans don't have high-speed internet"

That's just in U.S. Starlink is world-wide.

Back of envelope calcs:

$100/month == $1k a year.

1 million * $1k = $1 billion

10 million = $10 billion.

Estimated cost to replace all Starlink satellites every 5 years: $10 billion.

That's $2 billion a year.

Cost: $2 billion/year. Revenue: $10 billion/year. Profit: $8 billion/year.

Assuming only 25% of Americans currently without high-speed internet will opt for Starlink, not counting world-wide users, not counting commercial applications (boats, planes, gas stations), not counting using Starlink as internet backbone (i.e. alternative to under sea fiber).

Most likely Starlink will be a cash cow (and finance Mars colonization).

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/11/1098368187/42-million-america...
Oh nice, those are a good deal. Looks like the cheapest board with RK3588S announced yet, and with all that ethernet to boot! Those were just launched a couple of days ago, looks like. [1][2]

1: https://liliputing.com/nanopi-r6s-is-a-single-board-pc-with-rk3588s-8gb-ram-and-three-ethernet-ports-for-119/
2: https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/10/28/nanopi-r6s-rockchip-rk3588s-router-mini-pc-dual-2-5gbe-gbe-hdmi-2-1/
> What I really want to see next is an eventually consistent sync system between browser and server

We’ve made one:
https://electric-sql.com

Active-active SQLite to Postgres with transactional causal+ consistency based on CRDTs.

Disclaimer: founder.
They said that because there's no apparent reason for the behavior, it must be "intrinsically rewarding". Is that really a proven conclusion, or a working premise?

It's listed on equal footing with the observation that bees don't engage in the behavior under stress (also a finding). The later can be observed, while the former seems to need access to the inner experience of the organism.
Yeah, can't ever compare two groups of people, it's snobbery.

The median MIT student is of the same caliber as the median University of Miami student, and suggesting otherwise is snobbery.
False accusations of being a Nazi have on occasion led to successful libel claims, so I’m not sure it a whole lot less serious than a false accusation of child abuse (if that’s what groomer is supposed to mean).
I hope Rolling Stones will be still around to lend their music for web95 media tour. Seeing how things are going (in rotten minds of marketing people), it's only few weeks away.
I think you are making the other poster's point for them, as Musk seems to have no interest in increasing the moderation.
isn't it the far left that's all up in arms about musk buying Twitter in the first place? to me the average left leaning person could give two shits about who owns Twitter, yet a ton of Twitter employees vowed to quit if the deal went through. subjective as it is, those of which I'd consider far left.
Democracy didn't get us Trump. The Electoral College got us Trump.
>> It is difficult to get the boundary right between code which can and cannot be dynamically loaded. This is the same issue with using embedded dynamic scripting languages like Lua or Python—how much of your application should be written in them?

> All of it.

Hard disagree. Games, which the OP works on, cannot be written in traditional scripting languages due to performance. Thus, games use ad-hoc methods of either segmenting non-critical paths off that can be written (and reloaded) in slow languages, or putting reloadable code in DLLs, which comes with a host of exceptions and special cases you have to keep in mind.

What he's proposing is basically writing a clever .o loader that allows you to ignore all of the above, write plain C or (presumably) C++ code, and have it automagically show up in your running process when you hit the compile button.

Sounds pretty compelling to me.
I'm happy for web7's return to sanity. I could never remember the 32 digit hex url's in web6.
Maybe because so many people say the hate riot or nvidia but can't really tell you why and continue to use their products?
"Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured."

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/court-...

> A U.S. judge has determined that Elon Musk's 2018 tweets that funding had been secured to take electric car maker Tesla private was inaccurate and reckless, saying "there was nothing concrete" about financing from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund at that time.
Works perfectly in w3m over Tor and returns useful and interesting
results in a fraction of a second. Bravo!
"Free, clear, and correct: check"
All: this thread has several archaeological layers.

Submitted URL was https://twitter.com/anthony/status/1586047790341398534

When that was deleted, we switched to https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-employees-.... Both the title and content of the page have since changed.

Once an article appeared that reported the hoax more accurately, we switched to that. Commenters were pointing out the hoax before that, of course.
The classic definition was basically the freedom to criticize your government without repercussions.

Conservatives now define it as the permission to spread deliberate misinformation and overt racism and bigotry without consequences from either the government OR private entities.
Telegram does something like this.

But it also allows (even encourages) third party clients, which can act on behalf of ordinary users.
saying it’s hate speech gives me Alice in Wonderland and 1984 vibes, 2+2=5 or you’re guilty and must be punished, regardless of what your senses tell you
TinyCC is not heavier than would be a JIT generating code of comparable quality. And as for maturity: I have used tcc. It is buggy and lacks useful features.

As a point of comparison: luajit is 600k, and unlike tcc, it actually generates good code.
Can you tell me more about his private teams and their interactions with Elon? How often have they been reaching out to Elon, what do those communications look like, and what does it look like when Elon declines to provide them that information?
Yup. He's now a "gentleman" blueberry farmer.
VR is amazing. Metaverse is not.
They aren’t working to standardise SQLite, the are working to standardise a low level block based file system api that SQLite and other database engine can use. Thats much more exciting than “standardising SQLite” for the web.

The Origin Privet File System api is going to provide the opportunity for any db engine to be used in offline first PWAs.

There is no “one size fits all” database engine, that was proved by both WebSQL and IndexedDB. The OPFS in combination with WASM is the correct solution to in browser DBs.
Good example:

AwareOps tweets every time a solution goes down: https://twitter.com/awareops

Is that spamming bot stuff or useful or both?

How about the kid who wrote an app that tweets everyone position of a billionaire's airplane location?

That's the point.

> but if you tweet through the API then you get a big "BOT" tag next to your username on the feed.

What if I do this through Zapier? What about Hootsuite? Who's a BOT and who isn't?
I think all (or at least some) of Igor's articles are machine translated to English
Indeed, the forum-style moderation will not work on Twitter.

What I'm saying is that all of these things: low-information, high-indignation comments, such as flamebait or ideological battle...

...can and perhaps should be allowed on Twitter. It shouldn't be removed, it should stop being amplified. When you do any of those things, your post should rank low, not high. It should get organic attention only, and no algorithmic boosting. It should have a low visibility and it should not lead to a massive amount of new followers.

So don't remove it, make it ineffective.
Free speech argument is BS. Free speech cannot repay his investors. He plans to launch a TwitCoin or some other scammy type endeavor.
Humans Are 8% Virus–How Ancient Viral DNA in Our Genome Plays a Role in Disease
If a fish gets through a net, why would you need a better net?
What’s wrong with hardcore pornography?
Then it might be a bit alarming to you that the connector itself is soldered to the board.
Conservatives have shown they have a blind spot for perceived persecution, at least from the perspective of moderates on the sidelines.

It leaves conservatives open to being conned by everything from Chinese electronics manufacturers [1] to bankrupt reality TV stars [2]. Misconstruing TOS agreement violations as censorship persecution makes it easy for billionaires to win conservative admiration without actually doing anything.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/foxconn-sharply-scales-back...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/us/politics/trump-save-am...
Pi 400 is about $70, or with power supply and mouse and a few other goodies it is $100. It is essentially a 4gb pi 4 built into a keyboard. The power supply is a basic 15 watt usb-c cube, so you probably have one around already. 400's are fairly easy to buy, unlike 4's. It would be nice if they made an 8gb one. I wonder if DIY upgrade is possible.
> WebSQL would have been tied to one specific version of SQLite, and developers would have to work to the lowest supported version. There would have been no extension mechanism.

Why not? Web SQL would not be different from WebGL/GLSL or even JavaScript itself in that respect. Developers use feature detection and and work to the lowest supported version. APIs and languages can evolve, but in (mostly) backwards compatible ways. Extension and versioning mechanisms can be made. That's how the web works and Web SQL could have worked that way too.

More broadly, you could apply arguments like this against everything in the entire web platform. Maybe everything should be a WASM module that developers could choose themselves! Image loading, video decoding, font rendering, DOM, JS engine, why not? It's actually a beautiful vision and I'd be all for it if not for cache partitioning. Every site would have to re-download and re-JIT an entire browser engine before it could do anything.

The base platform needs to include a diverse set of commonly used features so that apps don't have to download the world, and on a list of ubiquitous libraries SQLite is right up there with other libraries backing the web platform, like zlib.
Tesla is a battery company, not a car company. GM, Ford, Toyota, and all of the other automakers will be buying batteries from Tesla gigafactories, not the other way around. The bluster around FSD is a smoke screen. I believe that it's just R&D for vehicles operating off planet, like the robots.

SpaceX delivers boost to orbit at a cost that beats every other major player.

Clearly, he's done nothing. /rolls-eyes
The way I'd solve it is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33377423

Basically, more siloed converations would ironically create a better "public town square", because it would reduce the need for moderation and allow freer speech.

> That’s awful. And I’ve also witnessed the same kind of abuse that goes ignored.

Honestly, it wasn't. Maybe due to my temperament (and I certainly received far less hate than high-profile people do) but I could never empathize with the "online bullying" concerns. It's the nature of the internet, and you just develop the mental strength to tune it out, or use it to your advantage as fuel. Even after those experiences I'd still be much happier with Musk's content policies, or Dorsey'd blockchain-free-for-all with users being able to choose the moderation algorithm they want. I have friends who were suspended for BS reasons and that's a far bigger concern to me.
Nice to see inaction being taken against hacked verified accounts promoting scams:

https://twitter.com/carlyodellnews/status/158610304420216832...

https://twitter.com/SSSINGHDHIRAJ/status/1586070067476840453

https://twitter.com/IllingworthCC/status/1586086464730824707

https://twitter.com/TishaCustodio/status/1586103112263094272

https://twitter.com/chscott8/status/1586102966582661120

https://twitter.com/AlianaNieves/status/1586086297906446336

right on musk's post. This person is hacking into 10+ verified accounts/day. Did it yesterday too

some things never change
Which is a sane viewpoint.