skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But, some amount of free speech without being a pure hellscape is close to what Twitter is right now. That's not a plan for the future, that's an observation of how things are at present

I think the issue is that a lot of people disagree with your assessment and think the censorship has gone too far for far too long. You might not think so, but a significant portion of the population does.
Science reporting could be skewed on some issues in the old days (floridation, marijuana) but it was rarely as hasty and sloppy as it gets now, frequently. The business model and technology then didn't support the same volume of publication, but it supported reporters well enough to allow them more time to investigate and write.

Headline writing was another matter back then, though. It was bad; just some dude trying to fit the space under time pressure because the ads were carefully planned, then the articles were quickly chopped to fit around them. Truncated headlines often reversed the meaning of the story or just went off the rails.
It’s amazing to me that the HN hive mind has decided that somehow one of the most successful people on the planet, who’s built a successful electric car company, a private rocketry company and was part of the people who laid foundation for a “payment system for the internet” is somehow doomed to fail in his new venture.

The excitement for this new move seems not just low here but overwhelmingly negative.

“It can’t be done” is the overall sentiment. Really? Or are we just the people saying an electric car company can’t be done, a private rocketry company can’t be done, etc etc.

This one of the most successful people who has ever lived on this planet. And yet HN doesn’t seem to see any advantage to him leading twitter in a new direction, a company that overwhelmingly could be agreed before had no real direction and wasn’t making any progress anywhere.

But somehow a pretty smart billionaire taking it over doesn’t trigger any outpouring of sympathy and excitement but of disdain and condescension. Really? What happened ? When did we become so calcified against change?

Also; For anyone who says “twitter/facebook gave us trump” well, no. The unleashing of mass cognitive warfare as a consequence of the availability of micro targeting in these platforms gave you Trump/Bolsonaro/Meloni. For all the details on that, read “Mindfuck” by Christopher Wylie and “Targeted” by Brittany Kaiser.
> What could possibly go wrong.

Simply stating a council will have diverse views is enough for people to ring the fire alarm these days.
Or it could be that he was tired of Ideologues controlling the narrative and deciding what is right/wrong/misinformation/fake news etc for the rest of us.
Twitter is a pool of highly capable people, a large user base, and, currently, opportunity. A messaging platform added to their microblogging service is not outside the realm. It already has DM and Vine-like video.
In UI, there's a lot of overlap. A lot of Apple people went to Tesla to build their touchscreen. Those people are qualified to work on the Twitter app itself.
It makes it a social network of your social network. I don't see what's antisocial about that.

How can someone quote tweet dunk you if your tweets are private?
It had to be a hell of a problem he faced should the suit move forward:

Twitter is worth perhaps half the price Elon paid
Tesla is worth half what is was when Elon started accumulating shares

IOW Elon used money that cost him 2X what is did last year to buy something worth 0.5X what he just now paid (assuming the check clears).

Even for the Richest Man Ever that will sting.

Innovation may take a back seat to cost cutting, like a basic LBO. Elon has creditors who lent him about $13B that got used to buy a thing worth half what was paid. What are the covenants on that? Twitter has about $4B in existing long term debt. Twitter free cash flow is negative, and 3X more negative than a year earlier. Where will debt service come from?

These are the mundane, apolitical reasons Twitter faces more headwinds now than before. Elon is much about doing more with less. He will need a lot of that to happen.

Twitter was badly run by several metrics.
I remember reading [1] and enjoying the hard science (e.g. Jupiter taking its time to light up). Then the dawn...
Original title: 'UCalgary research collaboration reveals new urbanization and landscape modifications at ancient Maya city // Lidar technology unearthed tropical megapolis beneath forest canopy of the Calakmul Biosphere'

Video presentation, 1hr, in Spanish (by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico), at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m58Wjq9jRWY

Information about the use of LiDAR for archaeology can be found at https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/lidar-and-...

> Many of the buildings and artifacts of Mesoamerica's civilizations have been hidden by lush rainforest vegetation. Now the technology of LiDAR has helped archeologists to unearth these hidden gems
And yet... "As a PoC"

I think it's fair to say that ideas/viewpoints are very important, but to ignore the reality of groups of people frequently targeted is silly.
Anecdotally I just upgraded my Server with hand-me-downs from my Desktop including a main board with integrated Intel NIC.

I couldn't get the NIC to work on Ubuntu or Windows Server 2019.

I will see if I can dig up the part number but iircc Intel just stopped supporting quite a few product lines including a line of NICs for integration into main boards. So perhaps that's where all the reports are coming from?

I was surprised because I assumed the NIC would just work because it was Intel.

* It's an Intel I219-V chip
> Supports i2c, UART, USB, and hopefully manual pin control too.

From the set of pins provided I wouldn't get any hopes up for manual pin control. All pins are single-function, USB pins are almost never switchable (because they're high-speed analog-ish PHY functions), and UART & I2C are not GPIO-capable functions on most x86 platforms.
No, the "Crimea clearly belongs to Russia" part, among other things. And submitting to Russia does not equal "saving humanity" in my book. Far from it in fact.

Also the "cost" of keeping Starlink alive in Ukraine, while it clearly has or will have a return on investment. (Ukrainians are already buying and paying subscriptions for that).

Edit: What was also disgusting was to ask what Kasparov did except tweet. And after it became very clear that he was protesting the Putin regime for many years already, Elon had the guts to up the ante and state that he's an "idiot". Sorry, but such things reveal what kind of person you are.
You can't be serious. Ideas are not attached to skin color. That's a regressive, racist belief.
>I'm not denying anything. In four short words I explicitly accepted my interlocutor's claim. Please don't misrepresent.

>Empty insults aren't helpful either, or allowed by guidelines. When they're obviously contrary to reality, they're actually laughable. I mean, really? This is the level of counterargument you have to offer?

I was being sarcastic.

Antivaxxers say "I'm sure the virus is real" or "I'm sure the booster will protect us this time".

I should have been more clear. I assumed it was obvious with capitalizing "The Science".

>Strawman. This isn't at all about who talks about or likes the content. It's about attempts to mislead people, even if no actual untruth is uttered.

So what is the solution. We can't know the motives of people when they say truthful stuff. Should we suppress truthful things when it becomes too popular because somebody may abuse the truth?

The reason why people are so heavily pushing myocarditis is because we were told the vaccines were completely safe and anybody who disagrees is an antivaxxer conspiracy theorist. This is just incorrect.

>Even the law, which is usually pretty strict about requiring proof of wrongdoing, recognizes that omission and misrepresentation can be equivalent to actual untruth.

I haven't seen any misrepresentation or omission on this subject (not that I have looked much). Every post I have seen have talked about young men having the issue not everybody.

>My "good guy with a gun" example makes the same point elsewhere in this thread. When a person or group of people goes around Twitter citing the same weak study about myocarditis and vaccines a hundred times, they're trying to inflate its actual significance relative to dozens of stronger papers on all sides of that same issue. They're using it to instill fear, not to inform. When done for an ideological purpose, as it often clearly is, that's disinformation.

That is just not the definition of disinformation. Disinformation must be false information.

You are also just making massive assumptions about people's motives. How would you like if I did the same to you? The only reason why you are saying this topic is disinformation is because you want young boys to die from myocarditis. See how dumb that is?
Because businesses, along with society in general (especially US society), is very bad at making evidence-based decisions. That extends to changing policies and procedures according to evidence of what works well and what doesn't. In fact, in some places (the US again comes to mind, which is where I live) it goes in the opposite direction of effective and evidence-based. I think it's because of psychopaths - which I define as someone living in a fantasy world who wants to control and hurt others.
In a rebuilding event, we'd have the advantage of knowing it was possible and desirable. This book, for instance, would be worth kingdoms in such a situation - https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Afterm...
It was closer to “let’s not escalate to nuclear war by surrendering.”
> For router use-case, the alternatives suggested

Would you consider USB Ethernet adapters for the second port? Those cost about $15 (1 gigabit)
Absolute free speech is difficult to pull off when we live in a society.

If Musk tries it, he can expect to see his shiny new toy delinked from the internet.
See, this right here is where you lost me.

> fewer algorithmic recommendations and push less "controversial" or popular content onto users' feeds.

There is not ANY 'algorithmic' content on my Twitter feed. Zero! What are you referring to?!
Advertisers are going to be pretty concerned when their paid content is showing up in screenshots mixed in with "questionable" content.

Advertising and freedom-for-jackasses doesn't mix well.
I can’t imagine a screenshot of a tweet would be anything but fair use, or stoppable. Worse case, the BBC takes a screenshot of another screenshot?
Twitter isn't a government entity. If anything, simply removing algorithms and stop suggesting content and let people set rules on how much or what type of content by other users is seen is sufficient.
one of the more interesting books I've ever read. And I've even gone back to reread parts of it, which almost never happens.
This doesn't in any way solve the problem of getting traffic in/out of the country, where all local ISPs are legally obligated to singlehome themselves to the government ASN.

Unless we're talking about something like smuggled two way satellite terminals.
You can have the latter and have a echo chamber of a single narrative, which is exactly twitter was. Then pat your self on the back "OH we are so inclusive look at the the different skin tones!" Yeah but everyone has the same boring ideas so what the fuck does that matter?
Didn’t an entertainer in the US recently get sued for millions of dollars over Defamation simply for repeating a popular internet conspiracy theory on his show-that some public figures were supposedly “crisis actors”? (Peoples who’s names he never even mentioned, at that..)

If calling public figures actors is all it takes for them to successfully sue for millions, the bar seems incredibly low.
As far as I can make out facilitation payments are a legal exception in US law, but they are illegal in Indian law. This is definitely in the ask a lawyer before you go making this kind of payment territory.
What happens if the message processing fails, e.g. your message bus broker is down -- is there a way of signalling to Postgres "hey, try me again later"?
It's a little more complex than that. You probably don't want to send the geopolitical message that you can have whatever you want if you threaten to use nuclear weapons. If that's the case, then North Korea gets South Korea, China gets Taiwan, etc.

You can't just immediately concede to bullies, or all that will be left are bullies. That doesn't save humanity.
You could use the second standard to flag a user as "spicy" and hide them for users who prefer to be exposed to more "normal" opinions.
Fundamentally twitter didn't twirl their moustache and aim to shutdown conservatives. There was no conspiracy as it were but they didn't consider the consequences of decisions, ultimately culminating in shutting down conservatives.

If Elon ran roughshot in making decisions without considering consequences, he ends up in the same fundamental root cause problem twitter is already in. He understands this and hence why he's not making changes on read-only friday.
ever heard of antisatellite missiles?
One needs to only google "iran satellite dish confiscation" to see the low tech methods used. They occasionally go on binges of confiscating and destroying receive-only tv satellite dishes.
For the same reason many complex desktop applications use sqlite or some other database.
So

1) MPs declined to support any Brexit proposal at all, because the house was majority Remainers who thought if they refused to act for long enough Brexit might never actually happen? Even the softest of soft Brexit was too much for them to stomach.

plus somewhat in parallel

2) the Labour party managed to select Corbyn to lead them

Q: is anyone actually surprised how the 2019 election turned out?

Seems the UK political elite had several chances, and one after another, blew them all.

So the voters sighed, swore, and the UK got Boris's Brexit.
The criteria for joining don’t apply to members.

Bit like Turkey is now scrutinizing whether Finland is really living up to the democracy criteria of NATO. That Turkey isn’t even close is irrelevant.
You assume 200M+ human daily active users. A large portion of Twitter's DAU & MAU are bots.
I'm not terribly deep in this space. What is the conceptual difference of hash vs GPG sig?
XP, yes. 95, not so much.
If you moderated the 18-25, huge respect, I’m just adding background info: it’s a huge piece of French culture among geeks, like the 4chan, except most of the interesting website exists within the lapse between posting and being censored. It’s everything-ist and very bad taste. The rest is uninteresting, if it stays on, then it means it doesn’t say anything of any relevance. Moderators are kept to believe they’re administering a gaming forum with occasional slip-ups, whereas “being 410ed” became a colloquial word among teens (410 means your post returns HTTP-410, i.e. it was deleted). It’s like Snapchat, nothing lives for eternity (18-25 stands for the age, it’s not a 13-52 ratio, that would be banned). The 18-25 is a piece of ephemeral art.
Key-value store would be OK, we (developers) can handle that. And in fact, we do it already. But IndexedDB is broken by design. But I agree, handle relational data is what we want. And you can easily emulate non-relation data with it, if you need.
Works just fine on my Dell Precision 7540. Tried briefly to get GPU passthrough to work but failed. I lack the time to seriously try. Otherwise, it works great.
.. and Facebook is only a couple years older. And their numbers are not monotonically increasing.

Can you find some companies you think are comparable?
A whole swathe of agreement will be difficult if your diverse viewpoints include racists and bigots.
Hi! I'm the main maintainer of sql.js. Is there somewhere I can get in touch with you? Would you be interested in publishing this as a new major version of sql.js itself ?
...the author owns the land he is trying to build on, which is very different than trying to build something in the middle of a public park.
I tweet using the iPhone app Tweetbot. Would my tweets be marked as a bot?
Few cosmologists doubt that dark matter exists. It’s quite well established that it does (multiple independent sources of evidence), we just don’t know what exactly it consists of. What this gamma-ray burst possibly hints at is that it might be axions.
Redbean (part of the often discussed comopolitan c library) does something like that.
By the time you get to the point where you can build robots you're already like 90% of the way through the game from what I recall.
Having worked with colors and system conversions a lot, deeply appreciate the technical detail here. Cheers!
Digg tried to pivot too.
If it is possible for Twitter to layoff employees, retain previous customers, and add more... I dunno, what was the previous management doing? I mean it is of course possible that Musk is just much more competent than them.
This is why banks always take it in the shorts really badly during downturns. They’re always chasing yields and behind the curve while being in the stereotypical ‘conservative’ financial position of low information about how anything actually works.

I’m amazed we haven’t had several high profile ‘jumped out of window’ events related to this already. Seriously, who thought it was a good idea to sign off in this from the financier side?

I’m amazed
If you meant my comment, I have nothing but respect for all engineers and developers. What I meant by not hitting the ground running is that Tesla engineers and developers would not have any of the tribal knowledge from within Twitter and if they were already let go it may be incredibly difficult for any person to reverse engineer things.
I deactiveated my hardly used account at twitter and am considering joining the autonomy as automaton!
Yeah it’s almost like moderation is a really hard problem that requires serious people to think deeply about it, not something that can be solved with vague platitudes about freedom.
You can edit it back.
Potentially of intellectual interest: Some people here might be wondering about speech that is "harmful," with the famous quote about "you can't yell fire in a crowded theater." That quote from the Supreme Court is commonly used to justify why there need to be restraints on free speech.

This is actually a popular misconception. The decision where "you can't yell fire in a crowded theater" was from was actually overturned in almost entirety in Brandenburg v. Ohio in 1969. And even then, it was only an analogy, and never actually was the law. You actually, theoretically, CAN yell fire in a crowded theater. Websites on both sides of the isle have admitted it is a terrible analogy for defending censoring certain content for being potentially harmful. It is, quite literally, a legal myth. A legal myth that still affects our Congress today while they examine how to prevent the spread of misinformation [1].

https://abovethelaw.com/2021/10/why-falsely-claiming-its-ill...

https://reason.com/2022/10/27/yes-you-can-yell-fire-in-a-cro...

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/shouting-f...

https://www.whalenlawoffice.com/legal-mythbusting-series-yel...

https://www.thefire.org/you-can-shout-fire-in-a-burning-thea...

[1] For an example (out of many) of why regulating misinformation is legally almost impossible, see United States vs Alvarez, which ruled that the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 (which criminalized faking having a military honor) is legally protected speech and the act was a violation of the constitution. Since then it has been extended with a new 2013 act which requires intent to gain something by fraud, which hasn't been struck down (yet).
It is fashionable to dislike Elon, and many people who call themselves journalists have been coasting for the past 6 years by simply saying whatever is in fashion with little or no investigation. Twitter was the primary seat of that power, so change of twitter is perceived as a threat to their cultural relevance.

There are also a lot of good reasons to dislike Elon. But the media groupthink you're identifying lies mostly in this, IMO.
You typically don't become a billionaire unless you choose "whatever makes the most money" as the default choice.
How do you decide which diverse view points are worthy of including and which aren't? Do we need a neo-nazi, an ISIS supporter, a 9/11 truther, a creationist, and a flat earther on the committee for the sake or intellectual diversity? I guess people will want conservatives on the committee, but are you happy with a normie Reagan republican or do we have to add a QAnoner and JFK Jr guy for the sake of representation?
I think he has handed people enough rope to hang themselves.
It is now very clear if those figures were dodgy the deal was off so everyone involved knew the stakes were incredibly high.
He now has access to all the data, all the communications and all the time he wants to prove his case.
If it turns out twitter has been misleading everyone then it just takes 1 or 2 people threatened with criminal charges to make deals and everyone turns on everyone and it all collapses with enough evidence for many lawsuits to claw back money.
If the evidence isn't there because they didn't mislead anyone then that's also fine, he agreed a fair deal at the time based on accurate information.
I'm browsing via Tor, and the site linked to in the OP claims Facebook is down when presented with an exit node in... Austria at approximately 420 Appalachia time.

Also, I deleted my Facebook in 2016.

(Smoke 'em if you got 'em, it's gonna be a fun weekend.)

Edit: Apparently the rolling eyes emoji got stripped out -- I'm not trying to SQL inject your website, but I respect the caution ha HA
> He said exactly why he bought Twitter.

He's said any number of things that are either not true or at least misleading over the years. Taking tweets at complete face value with Musk is... unwise.
Whats yoir architecture how fast you scale up and down, can you handle 10million requests per minute without warm up on scaled down infrastructure ?

How long will it take to scale out?

How easy it is to write event driven architecture, can ppl pick up the code in two days and become efficient?

Java has issues that other languages requiring a bit more grunt work dont have.
I have what is probably an unpopular opinion. I would like to see two things happen:

1. more people use and support by generating content platforms like Mastodon where there is some expectation of privacy and openness. I like Mastodon.

2. I also like Twitter, and I would like to see it a more self regulated platform, with some form of effective real ID, probably charging $1 to $2 dollars a month for its use. This might reduce the number of bots, or not. I am also in favor of allowing people I very much disagree with to be on the platform, with some form of no hate speech moderation. EDIT: and no doxing, etc.
If their status quo is reflective of their product, then it is a heaping pile of shit
How do you even acquire an online social network unless you use Twitter "incorrectly" according to the OP?

> How can someone quote tweet dunk you if your tweets are private?

They can't. Taking your account private was supposed to be the reductio ad absurdum conclusion of using Twitter "correctly". I mean that if your account is still public, but you restrict replies, people can still QT.
Show HN: Plato AI conversational AI REPL, value-aligned to truthfulness, safety
Given 3 years, you can create a lockbox that takes ~2 years to open by repeatedly hashing a value on the fastest available single threaded processor.
That happened to me on a Discord server I was a mod of. Too much fighting and genuine hatred led us to just shut the place down. While it was small it was fine, but after it grew it began being intolerable and all of us mods decided to just shelve it. Nobody can post, but now its just a place to store Discord emojis and stickers
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