skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My predictions:

1. Musk is going to discover (and maybe admit?) that fixing Twitter is harder than he thought. It will be just like self-driving, which seems straightforward, but which actually has thousands of edge cases which are hard to solve with a single general system. Nevertheless, he will persist, because that's what he does.

2. Current Twitter makes a profit on advertising, which means Twitter needs to encourage high levels of engagement, which means they need controversial (emotional) content, but not so emotional (toxic) as to drive people away. They need to be as close to the line as possible, which is why they spend so much effort on moderation. Musk's solution is, I predict, to try different revenue sources so that engagement with the feed is not the primary metric.

3. Musk has already stated that his goal is the Everything App (which he calls X). The Everything App has news, social media, games, videos, and a payment infrastructure (both to pay for content and to get paid). He wants Twitter to replace Facebook, Instagram, Google News, YouTube, Twitch and PayPal, etc. Will he be able to pull it off? I expect he will deliver the 20% of those services that are high-value, but pitch it as a complete solution. That might actually be good enough for most people.

4. If he accomplishes #3, then the revenue source is obviously: they will take a cut out of every transaction going on in the network. Maybe ads are a component, but they don't have to be a major component. If engagement is no longer the most important metric, then it's possible to allow every person to have a radically personalized feed. Even something as simple as only showing you tweets from people you follow (what a concept!) would revolutionize the experience and drastically reduce the need for moderation.

5. Since Twitter is private, Musk can front-load #4 even before the Everything App is ready. If he hasn't already burned the current team, he can make the experience better relatively quickly and worry about profit later.

6. Now for my safest prediction: No matter what he does, some people will hate him for it.
In Europe maybe, but not in the US.
He's also CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and is involved in some other projects. Are you sure he doesn't need someone to run the business... somewhere? He needs to have a limit at some point, right?
That and it's probably very difficult to monetize 6 second videos.
You're wrong.

This is exactly how he runs things at Tesla and SpaceX. Class A players are well compensated and love working on challenges that are extreme and/or world relevant. They live and breath what they do.

If you're that type of player, Musk will respect you and your opinion.
I don't understand people who use just one monitor, how do you cross reference effectively?
Talk about synchronicity, earlier today I was thinking that someone like this ought to exist, and here it is!

Thanks for sharing.
It's a black box but the CEO has communicated dev performance is dependent on amount of code shipped. I suspect they're using sloc or pr counts behind the scenes.

I've done everything you're recommending. CEO doesn't care about any of that. Only metric they care about is money made and code shipped.

They do say they care about communication and apparently track it but I havnt seen it reflected in comp reviews so my conclusion is code shipped is the only metric.

We have sloc and pr tracker stat pages so Im making a guess they are using sloc.
Truly a hassle.
I mean, I'm no expert, but I think this position is more than a bit rigid. We know that evolutionary development probabilistically yields maximized efficiency, but we also know there is plenty of room for drift and it can be a bit random.

E.g. anti-fragile behaviors likely yield the best outcomes, even if they are less efficient, because the ultimate evolutionary failure is extinction (not death). Highly regular, efficient behavior are great for the individuals survival, but terrible for the species survival.
Astrophysicists make observations consistent with the predictions of [MOND]
The article indicates that observations are consistent with MOND, but only mentions inconsistencies with Newtonian gravitation, omitting any mention of GR.

Any astrophysicists care to chime in?
Does he really need to make it repay anyone, so long as the investors are on board with this?
There's a pretty long history of dropping radio transmitters for people to use in violently authoritarian environments. Not without specialized uses but declaring it 'the solution' seems like overpromising things a bit.
Dependency resolution for the web would fix this.

It can be done, and needs to be - and more securely than the half-assed efforts of the likes of NPM and Maven.

All dependencies signed - let's encrypt has made this a viable option.

I don't see how there's anything approximating an unresolvable privacy concern here.
Regardless how fast zig compiler self is, as far as it outsources code generation to llvm and linking to ld it will always be much slower than tinycc. Although recently I've noticed that if you ask llvm to generate and execute something they call bitcode, the code generation seemed faster.
So you're saying "bot identification" would be an opt-in feature? That would go well.
The regulatory target date and the goals of the industry are not unrelated. It is unsurprising the laws are set to change after the dates the major players in the industry claim they can achieve the new regulatory standards.

And i don't think it has no impact, my trust that any car manufacturer would even consider this, leave alone see it to the end, without such regulation, is very limited.
Very cool! Would love to swap ideas if you're up for a chat :)
Don't go too far with that.

Fiber beats starlink by orders of magnitude.

With coax it depends on how it's set up. Plenty of existing lines have worse upload speed than starlink because of frequency allocations that are expensive to change.

Phone wires are very bad at carrying data and are usually much slower than starlink.
"Frankly, I hate doing mgmt stuff. I kinda don't think anyone should be the boss of anyone. But I love helping solve technical product design problems."

Elon Musk texts Parag Agrawal (now fired)

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1585804674170355712/ph...
That's a great site. Full of articles like this one.

If you are interested in material like this, you might like https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/
I totally just forgot to add one. Added MIT just now. Appreciate it!
> Comparing Russia to Canada is in bad faith. Canada is a democracy, not run by a dictator.

Isn't that an even bigger reason to not let the dictator get his way? In Putin's latest speech he reiterated that Ukraine isn't a real state and that Ukrainians and Russians should live together in one country, Russia. Giving in to any of his demands will not deter him or bring peace, it will embolden him and prove that he was right to invade, and he will do it again.
That’s true about McDonalds; one can say the brand has value but it’s just an attempt to influence belief.

You’re not actually making any kind of new point. Just expressing your deference to old ones. Point taken.
The real question is what will happen to this account: https://twitter.com/ElonJet
Actually, you're wrong. Read the paper. And I quote:

"Reasons listed for banning these individuals in Hanania’s own data sheet include “violent threats,” “harassment,” “inciting violence,” “targeted abuse,” “doxxing,” “pro-Nazi tweets,” and “racist slurs.” Additionally, about a quarter of the accounts listed are still active and no longer suspended."

Twitters Covid misinformation policy didn't come into effect untill the end of Dec, 21. So 2020 is incorrect.

Why don't you read the actual policy instead of making stuff up?

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/medical-misin...
Babylon Bee was not first to “target” Levine. Washington Post, for example, has run an article on Levine before Bee, also for the sole purpose of Levine being trans:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/10/19/levine-tran...

If WaPo can bring out “random bureaucrats” to public attention for sole reason of being trans, why can’t Bee do the same?
I'm not sure if that really is the reason. I do agree though that Twitter's ads are hilariously irrelevant.

I would absolutely not want a social network to be ran by any government, no thanks.
"Keep the advertisers happy, but try to reduce the reliance on advertisers."

I actually think the opposite is going to happen. He's already said he wants Twitter to be the most prolific site for advertisers saying that he thinks advertising can "delight, entertain, and inform you."

If he introduces a subscription model TikTok will pull ahead and take over the entire social media space.
"Class A" players answer call to rid the world of fossil fuel and explore deep space. There's nothing meaningful or productive about Twitter.
I am not saying I will take hypothetical action. I will take real action. But I need evidence that systemic racism exists, you need to point to something and say “that right there is a racist law/policy”. I have thus far seen no such laws or policies. And please, don’t start with a conclusion (there are only X number of PoC CEO’s or something) and then go on a witch hunt to prove your conclusion. That is not how reason and science works. Until evidence is brought forth I cannot accept the systematic racism theory (and that is all it is without evidence). And since I suspect no such evidence actually exists, and since I am not inclined to go in witch hunts, why is the burden of proof on me? No, you show me the proof, I have enough things to worry about. Not to mention, laws and policies are public information, if there were racist ones it shouldn’t be hard to find and would have likely already come to light, yet no one can point me to one.

This is no different than when someone claims God is real, the burden of proof is on the person making the claim, not the person denying the existence of God.

What you’re doing is essentially demanding I prove God doesn’t exist.
If you're referring to HN policy then for an established account it's not really shadowbanning, because dang will tell you that you're banned and why. Being treated as a useless noob until proven otherwise is being treated as an adult.

Twitter is different (although perhaps more different than it needs to be). Seeing as you ask, here is how to handle content deletion on Twitter without infantilizing users.

Don't ask a user to "delete" a tweet – something which has no effect on that tweet's visibility anyway. Just hide it and tell him why. If the user chooses to appeal, that appeal can go forward without restricting the use of the account. Give time-outs sparingly. They should be more of a final warning than a routine measure. If it's necessary to give a time-out, start the clock immediately, not when the user takes some action.
I use display-switch which is a rust wrapper around ddcutil plus some usb-port sniffing to switch my 3 monitors between my work laptop and personal desktop.

The issue is that not every monitor has full ddc support, especially consumer-targeted monitors. anything for pros will usually have pretty good support but those usually don't have great refresh rates at reasonable prices. (I noticed LG is especially bad about supporting ddc)
I got a 48 hour ban recently for sharing a quote from an article we were discussing. The quote was nothing special, just a statement from a spokesperson for a company. The "problem" was that I included the name+title of the person I quoted, and that somehow got flagged as me "doxxing" that person and their place of work. Whose job it was was to be a public spokesperson for this company..

It wasn't any political or contentious topic, so no idea what set it off. Basically along the lines of "as X working at Y said in the article, they want to do Z soon".
hm - Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS) and MongoDB as intro material.. are these the right choices here?
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> If you were to build a bot to tweet about the weather in Sheffield, you might as well use the API.

I don't think twitter is that place and it hasn't been for a while if it ever was.

I just watched this video again...

https://youtu.be/ddO9idmax0o

To me, the draw of twitter was you could text messages (SMS) to 40404 or get texts from 40404 from people I choose to follow. I had unlimited minutes and unlimited texts but I didn't have an app phone back in 2008 when I signed up for Twitter. The world has changed since then...

I'd say if you were to build a bot to tweet about the weather in Sheffield, you are probably better off setting up your own server to write blog posts or something like that? Maybe look into microdata or RSS or something too?
From what I remember...

There were essentially two problems for the attacker. First, infantry charging into fixed machine gun nests were suicide. Second, if they are able to clear out the enemy and take over a trench line, they would need re-supply. Meaning, eventually, another trench would have to be dug to connect the newly won trench with your own lines. Meanwhile, the enemy is counter-attacking.

The creeping barrage (Allied) and blitzkrieg (German) solves the first problem of how infantry can attack machine gun nests. The Allies would closely synchronize artillery a few hundred feet in advance of their attacking infantry. The creeping barrage of artillery fire suppresses the enemy so the infantry can charge. The Germans developed the first steps towards blitzkrieg tactics. Basically small squads armed with grenades were empowered to make tactical decisions. They would advance when resistance was soft. They would move laterally when resistance was stiff. The metaphor was like the ocean wave crashing against a rocky beach. The wave would advance but would bypass stiff defensive points. Eventually those defensive points would fall when they run out of ammo. Either side did not effectively solve the re-supply problem. At that time trains would bring forward supplies, trucks would then transport to communication trenches, and soldiers would have to hoof the last mile. All of which was difficult when someone was shooting at you.
> What’s wrong with hardcore pornography?

What's wrong with what Twitter progressives deem questionable opinions?
Who said for free? Twitter pays Tesla which renders that service. That's as clean as it can be.
This is the fun stuff I come to HN for!
I've met lots of MIT and Stanford students (can't say the same for Miami).

I've also met lots of Big Ten students, and UT Austin / Duke / Utah / U. Washington /SUNY students. We can compare one to the other in terms of analyzing & fixing software and I'll take that bet anytime.
> In the law of attention [1], I argue that social networks will be dominated by people behaving as if they are rational agents trying to maximize attention, because users who don’t behave this way will effectively stop participating.

I think your argument is valid. Social media platforms incentivize seeking virality which is another way of saying the platforms incentivize participants to seek as much attention and approval as is possible within the platform's interaction sandbox. Usually this is called "engagement" but the principle is the same, engagement is equivalent to attention (both positive and negative) and is one the main reasons that politics is becoming polarized. Extreme opinions tend to be more engaging on these platforms and so such opinions get more attention. More generally, all existing social media platforms seem to incentivize the creation of polarizing content. Recent outbursts by Kanye West are good examples of polarizing content that gets a lot of engagement on social media.

I'm not familiar enough with game theory to comment on the other parts but I personally don't think there is a way to incentivize people in online forums to express truthful and honest opinions as long as the interaction sandbox itself is paid for and subsidized by commercial entities.

1: https://deliberati.io/the-law-of-attention/
> Tame audience (or they just weren't recorded?)

If you can find a boot of Led Zeppelin's '69 recordings for the BBC you'll have the same impression: after each song the audience claps politely, as if they'd just heard some chamber music. I had an image of them all in short hair, dressed up, and sitting politely in wooden chairs or folding chairs.

Perhaps they new the recording was for BBC broadcast (was it broadcast?) or perhaps that's just how things were in those days. OTOH, I visited London as a small child in 67 or 68 and my memories, even now, are of a pretty swinging place.
You're obviously ignoring 'de facto standard', which makes Twitter pretty much a utility in my opinion, hence my comment.

Anyway, it is simply shocking that so many think it is the 'correct way' to disallow what they don't agree with and that they are, like you, so aggressive about it to the point of shutting down any dissenting opinions, as is happening here.

It's a big regression from the heights of the enlightenment, or just the recent past, IMHO.

Some would go as far as claiming that this is "little red guard" behaviour and they wouldn't be completely wrong.

Good day.
Right, and the solution for doing that within China, Iran, etc is to restrict what people in those areas can see, while leaving the content visible to those connecting from more liberal countries.
> Do explain how a kinda sucky car, Model Y, became best selling car in Europe in September and is tracking to be best selling car world wide in 2023.

Because gas is obscenely expensive in Europe, so EVs are in high demand and there are very few "real" EVs available. Especially in the form factor of the Y, which is especially popular these days.

The model 3/Y are over priced, have poor build quality, and are a nightmare to have serviced. But there are no real competitors (yet).
I mean, Québec has a ton of EVs and it’s ridiculously cold there! Probably paying 5 cent à kWh helps though.
AI is a very broad term for a specific branch of CS. Let me relate my own experience and so I think I am better equipped to answer that question. My background is that I am an Electrical engineer with no formal programming background. I learnt Python from Zed Shaws LPTHW book. So as a first step I would suggest you do that. Then play around with the language and the tooling itself a bit. I Explored web programming with Django and even basic CV with OpenCV. Once I understood the basics of the language mechanics as applied to Machine Learning basics I then recently started down with Fast.ai course. It’s very bottom-up as in you start building advanced AI stuff right from the get go. It’s free and the instructor and the whole community is top notch: they even have an entire book that is catering to the class. They also have a second iteration which is about stable diffusion which seems to be all the rage these days and the first course sets you up nicely for that: after that the world is the oyster. In my own case I have a specific project in mind. An app that people can point their smartphone camera at and decide if their meat is well done or not( 1M people get good poison every year ). Good luck with your learning journey. It’s an exciting journey. I am on a mobile so please excuse my typos.
That’s not the bot issue everyone is talking about. It’s bunch of fake/empty accounts posting/replying something what pushes some fakenews, propoganda, etc.

It has been especially noticeable this year, since February 24th
> “In fact, there’s some evidence to suggest the opposite,” he added, noting risks from an improperly fitted mask or touching the face while taking it off or putting it on.

it's hard to remember what our state of mind was back then. Hillary Clinton wrote a book in 2015 as she was preparing to run for president. She dedicated a chapter to PPE and was very interested in funding research into helping doctors get PPE on and off more safely. Those were the learnings taken from the Ebola outbreak where taking off your PPE improperly could get you infected.

We know know that Covid isn't really transmitted by touching your face so much as from the arousals that we breath. But, back then, people were still in the Ebola mindset of "don't touch your face."
And all of my talented Stanford/MIT/FAANG/whatever pedigree friends quit Musk companies or would never touch one of his companies. I wonder why.
Any quantifiable data/research that concludes/outlines specific biases baked into Twitters algorithm. Peer reviewed?
Astronauts and physicists are separate categories of human. Obviously those who thrive on danger and those who thrive on puzzles are different. Though, it could be risky to present such an upfront contradiction to someone with an established worldview.
> They need to re-free up the API.

it's not easy to regain that trust once you lose it. how long would Twitter's API need to remain open until you decide they're not going to reverse course and that it's worth building on? 2 years, minimum? and even then there'd be a bitter taste when i do: it would always be in the back of my mind that "what i'm building is only temporary, they're going to take this away again at _some_ point".
I'm mostly curious what will happen to this account: https://twitter.com/ElonJet
Some more

* Chris Wellons - C and all sorts of stuff - https://nullprogram.com/

* Raymond Chen - low-level Windows-centric, really good - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/

* Robert Elder - Linux systems - https://blog.robertelder.org/

* Andrew Hutchings - old computer restoration - https://linuxjedi.co.uk/
It’s interesting that they mangle the file. I can see how pantone might be able to control licensing the interpreting and display of the colors, but surely they can’t legally prevent the storage of a simple numeric code.
> The vast majority of lawyers work for whoever pays them the most.

Unlike the rest of us?

Seems like the real issue you have is capitalism not lawyers. Capitalism allows rich people to hire skilled workers to do their bidding. I don't see what lawyers as a class of people, have to do with that. Some work for ethically questionable rich people, some dont. How does that set them apart from say accountants, corporate strategists, etc?
This website is targeted at the US/Canadian audience, where HD Radio is used rather than DRM. HD Radio does exist for AM stations, but has failed to catch on even more than it has failed for FM (which is a pretty sad story). In my market, for example, there is only a single AM station with HD that's receivable... and that's probably better than the average. It's a Spanish-language sports station, so it sort of falls into two of the popular AM brackets.

In 2020 the FCC went ahead with adoption of "all-digital" AM stations with no analog audio. There are enough advantages to the all-digital arrangement, which is of course much more similar to DAB, that some people think it might breathe a little life back into HD radio - I'm skeptical, but only time will tell.

In general AM radio has little popularity in the US outside of news and sportscasting. Foreign language stations are also a bit of an AM holdout since they benefit from the larger catchment area.

Now I'm not sure that I agree with the authors criticism of IBOC HD Radio as unproven, it works quite well these days, but it is clear that remarkably few radio receivers on the market have HD radio support... even in expensive hi-fi and home theater receivers. Where HD radio has been fairly successful is in cars, with HD radio being a fairly common but far from universal feature in car head units.
Jack Dorsey's Bluesky Social app: What we know so far
You clearly don't know what an A player is. An A player does not have any work life balance.

And no, when you make hundreds of thousands of $ per year, you're not "exploited".

And yes, quite a few people would love to work for Musk just because he's Musk. Exciting things happen around him.
Its sugary cancer water, why not have... water?

How much is insulin in your geo?