skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a distinction that matters, morally. A regular bribe is paying an official to do something the law says the official shouldn't do. Whereas grease money is essentially paying the official to follow the law and do their job properly. The latter rewards the official for their show of tactical incompetence, but at least it isn't paying them to break the law on your behalf. More like it's paying them to stop breaking the law.
Could this be the largest purchase ever made by a singular individual?
It is not about being new or being novel ( edit1: or breaking new ground, or waking up squares, being hip or any of those labels ). It is about something a lot simpler than that and this goes to the crux of the matter.

Would you feel comfortable if your opinion that you just expressed above was being targeted for no other reason that it exists and someone somewhere finds it abhorrent. Do you not agree it is a rather bad standard just because, well, it is very general and can be applied to anything down the line?

Edit2:

Yes, I am invoking the "what if that was done to you".

edit3:

<<I'd suggest the paradox of tolerance.

There is no paradox. What you have is a conflict of values. From my perspective, things are either in balance or they are not. I personally would postulate that "escape from freedom" is a much more applicable here, where the pendulum swings from one extreme to the other.

Personally, I do find it mildly amusing that the groups that were persecuted not that long ago are embarking on their own witch hunts shortly thereafter. It is a fascinating insight into the human condition.
I don't have either of these, but they claim the R5S can handle 2.1Gbps, and that the R6S can do 2.35Gbps. So, not quite 2.5, but close.

NanoPi R5S: https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product...

NanoPi R6S: https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product...
Right wing provocateurs are already having their supporters posting the n-word, racist and anti LGBTQ content since Elon took over.

It is going to be fun watching it implode.
Even if your tamper with one repo, you have to basically kill all clones of the repo to get rid of all the evidence
I've created a small macOS app to track YouTube channels without being distracted by the web UI: https://github.com/agentcooper/telik. Maybe some of you will find it useful.
They could implement quadratic voting which may solve the challenge of getting people to more-correctly express their intensity of concern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_voting
> That entirely reads as a threat against Jewish people.

When I saw that, my assumption was that it was a malapropism.
Brexit was an incredibly stupid decision that was made real in an even more stupid way.

That said, the UK is globally important country and has Europe’s only truly global city in London. Not one other European city can wield the level of financial and soft power that London did and still does.

the UK can indeed go it alone on the global stage and they well may. Their historical connections to the USA and the commonwealth realms are something no other European country has. They will likely struggle for a while but i would not be surprised if they managed to succeed in the longer term. the magnitude of their success would have been better inside the EU but alas…
The distinction between "having a lien" and "owning the company" is a false dichotomy. "Owning the company" and "controlling the company" are different, though.
>> What makes people think that it's obvious for California to have more EVs than other states?

There are reports that EVs experience degraded performance in low temperatures.

If this is true it seems reasonable to expect that in geographies with considerably lower seasonal temperatures than California, at least some folks would be motivated away from EVs due to this alone.
Mods qua mods are not possible, because that term generally encompasses non-blessed people providing code and assets. Nintendo will not allow that.

You can get "DLC". Theoretically, mods could become DLC, but the road is still pretty long and I'm not aware of anything that has made that leap yet. (Possibly the things in the store for Bedrock Minecraft? I'm not sure how "blessed" the things in the Minecraft store are, nor how deep they can go; do those get to run full code or are they running in some sort of Minecraft-specific VM, which is another layer removed from the CPU code?) Anyone who can name one, I welcome the info.

Your best bet for "Switch + Factorio + Mods" is probably Factorio backporting the controller controls on to the mainline release, then taking that release and running it on a Steam Deck. Which isn't a terrible idea anyhow, as the Deck is substantially more powerful than a Switch (the Deck can mostly emulate a Switch, and emulation generally takes a substantial power delta) so rather than squeezing it on, you should be looking at something that is actually running fairly comfortably.
> You have quoted me out of context in order to give the impression that I have

My heart is full of bad intentions, that must be it, it can't be that I simply found your logic to be wanting.

I would like you to tell me how I can quote you out of context when your replies are just above, that would be interesting. This thread is the context, I doubt you even need to scroll from my quote to see yours in full.
He already tweeted something groveling to the importance of advertisers asking them to not leave yet.
I found a picture of myself on that site. I don't remember taking it and I don't remember sending it to this site, but apparently I did both of those things at one point in my life. How bizarre.

https://sidetalking.com/page-1.html - In the red shirt with the game.com.
Twitter I think will be his crown jewel!

A kitchen sink app in which..

- Use Twitter to pay for parking (tired of downloading tons of apps in different cities to do this)

- Musk should find other verticals where ppl have to download multiple apps to do the same thing.. just do it in Twitter

- Make Twitter a public Internet identity system. You want to troll online use your fake account... you want to be serious, comment online using your verified Internet ID that Twitter has verified you in many ways

- Free speech .. cesspool continues and worse via anonymous/fake Twitter accounts. Slightly less when one uses their verified account

I think he could triple his investment with a kitchen sink app!
Similarly, a woman who exits a bitter and acrimonious divorce may change her name back to her maiden name, and hates it when people refer to her as "Mrs. Ex-Name".

Or a daughter who dislikes her father so much that, upon reaching adulthood, changes her surname because she wants to be completely disassociated from him. (In the case I'm thinking of, she said something along the lines "he wasn't my father, he was the sperm donor" - he left when she was a few years old.)

Personally, I understood the idea first through Malcolm X, who rejected "the white slavemaster name of 'Little'" he was given at birth. And the respect Howard Cosell had to refer to Muhammad Ali by Ali's chosen name, while most others used and even taunted him with his old one.
So if I go off about how awful the Jews and the gays are, is that a "diverse viewpoint"?
Why would I waste a perfectly good PSU just because Nvidia can't make adapters that don't melt?
> Other commenters are claiming that NVIDIA KNEW the adapter h

Those refer to a PCI Express Forum issue that was opened about the connector drawing too much power, not the adapter.
> Freedom of speech does not mean “freedom from consequences”

Not even freedom from the consequence of going to prison for your speech?
> Reduced reliability? Slower feature velocity? Less innovation?

Slower feature velocity usually means higher reliability as changes to systems are usually what causes big systems to fail or enter degraded performance modes.

If Musk ramps up development and forces out more features faster, that'd lead to lower reliability most commonly.
> can you enumerate which EU directives exactly are 'completely ridiculous'?

GP is angry his iPhone will have USB-C.
My beef is with taking a particular set of social norms and calling it "settled science", then going a step further and banning alternate views.

I'm not even saying I have a problem with those norms, I like everyone, I just think it's an overreach.
The tweet also mentions account reinstatements, so it goes both ways.
Memory Inspector
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428775/twitter-fake-em...
Everyone is starting from square one with EV, Tesla has mineral rights locked up and are ahead by a few years at least.
You know this is a real programmer if he has TaoCP on his shorthand.
I've had my eye on these 1 liter PCs to replace my aging Haswell Xeon based server (Dell PowerEdge T20). My system still works great and is completely silent but it's very old and a second one I had died recently. I use external hard drives so I really don't need a traditionally sized system.

I'd need to squeeze 64GB of ram in though, as the 32 I have currently is occasionally limiting depending on the VMs I'm running.
> I'm curious as to why no vendor has yet tried to push a 24V or 48V PSU rail standard to reduce the amperage pushed over these crappy pins.

people on another HN thread yesterday literally were bitching about the cost (not safety - cost) of a $1 adapter being "forced" on them by NVIDIA and now you want to tell them they're gonna have to buy a whole new PSU? that's gonna be quite the comment thread.

but yeah you're right in general, gotta move to 48V to move forward, pushing infinite amps at low voltages is completely bass-ackwards. The pcie-add-in-card form-factor needs a rethink in general, the GPU is now the largest and most power-hungry part of the system by far, and power isn't the only problem imposed by that ancient AT standard. imo we should move to some standardized "module sizes" for GPUs so that we solve GPU sag and cooling at the same time.

the "pcie card" of the future should be a 12x6x4" prismatic module that slides on rails into a socket that provides a PCIe edge connector as well as a XT90 jag (or similar) for power, at a defined physical location, with 48V. Airflow should happen in a defined direction and manner, whether that's axial flow or blower-style.

also please for the love of god, hot air rises, the AT standard means axial coolers are pushing against convection. But we couldn't even get BTX to take off, which is a trivial modification of ATX to reverse the orientation and fix this problem, the DIY market is deeply deeply rooted in the 1980s and will not abandon ATX without some nudging. Enterprise and OEM are fine, their volumes are big enough to do their own thing, but consumers are spinning their wheels fighting IBM's 1980 mistakes.

It's gonna take government intervention, the EU is gonna have to step in and do it like with USB-C cables. The mess of arbitrary card dimensions slowly growing larger over time is the exact same problem that we had pre-standardization with USB too.
That's a good point, as public servants, elected officials should have fewer privileges, not more.
He should not bring in anyone from existing social media if he wants to change the direction of twitter like he claimed when he bought it.

Bringing in a "Traditional" Social media Exec will just result in repeating the same policies all social media companies have, including the clear political bias all of these companies have
Would you trust them to get DVDs by mail? At least my model of them was that they would do anything to scam me out of late fees.
You can already put whatever text you want on the internet pretty easily. Twitter is not necessary here.
I'm sure you can find plenty of answers if you do some research.
The 'brand safety' super omnia argument isn't nearly as straightforward as it's made out to be. Twitter already has an enormous amount of content that is perfectly within the terms of service, yet that you wouldn't think most companies would want their ads next to. Hardcore pornography, for example. It more or less works out, because Twitter ads aren't associated with particular tweets in the same way that YouTube ads are associated with particular videos.

The argument only goes through when you look at the platform reputation as a whole. That's why platforms like Parler have trouble attracting ads. There are a lot – a lot – of people trying to hit Twitter's platform reputation right now, but their problem is that the best place to degrade companies' (and people's) reputations is Twitter.
https://huggingface.co
So PBS?

Or government funded/controlled socials.
I continue to not understand why anyone would buy Twitter, or care about "free speech!" as a business directive.

There are plenty of "free speech!" Twitter like products. They attract a niche, and likely unprofitable demographic. That audience actively turns away more valuable, and broader demographics.

This whole thing baffles me.
That's basically the point. Tesla can't sell to those people, because they have no product for them currently.
The gravitational pull of the largest market nearby probably has too high an escape velocity for a struggling economy like UK's to overcome.
Sure, but vibration affects solder joints in a way that a server at max load doesn't.
Diverse in this context means the different people on the council will have very different viewpoints from each other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_cultural_herita...
Thanks. I've added an EDIT to clarify that I am not speculating about whether the OP read the article, and that the only point of my comment is to set the record straight for those who often just come to HN for the comments (like myself).
IIRC even after shipping went pretty much whole hog on fossil fuel transport there were some odd duck ships called windjammers, made with modern components like steel hulls and masts but still powered by sail. For awhile they filled a niche of transporting some types of non-time sensitive goods for a very low cost.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428775/twitter-fake-em...

@DanG please change ink, the real story is about mainstream media being hoaxed.
Seen this a lot in Philadelphia lately. Part of one outer wall remains standing, everything else is totally destroyed and built new around it. Creates some interesting looking collage-buildings.
It depends on incentives. Right now histrionics and outrage get boosted and sober, nuanced analysis goes nowhere. Invert that boosting algorithm and maybe Twitter can become useful. I'm not sure what would mean for revenue though.
But that's the point. Tesla's market cap is over $700bn.

That's more than twice that of all of Porsche, VW (which owns Audi), Mercedes, BMW, Ferrari and Volvo put together.

Without selling down into the mass-market and out-competing Chevy in that segment, that price premium cannot be justified.
That line from Fight Club really needs a whole lotta asterisks and qualifications. There are plenty of forced-recall scenarios where the manufacturer would prefer to use the ABC<=X approach but are not allowed or simply over-ruled by government. Safety of life being the primary over-riding concern, for good reason.

I'm pretty surprised this issue has gotten as long in the tooth time wise as it has. I remember seeing a story about this ticking-timebomb power connector like 1.5 months ago and then heard nothing. I'm guessing there is scurrying behind the scenes between then and now, but you never know.
Yeah actually I think this is a very important point. A lot of people are either super worried or super excited about what Musk will do with Twitter, but both of those positions share the assumption that he'll be successful in whatever he's trying to do but I'm not so sure that's warranted. As you point out, he fails sometimes, and honestly the way he talks about Twitter doesn't really impress upon me the intuition that he'll be successful (this whole X thing sounds ill-conceived to me at this point.)
It does come with an insane fine. You just need to report it to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Would Boris have won that election if the UK Parliament had not spent quite so long dragging its feet in refusing to support any form of Brexit?

"Brexit: No majority for any options after MPs' votes"[0]

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-47728333
If you think trans people shouldn't be allowed to be berated online then why not ban berating of Trump or whites? Why should their experience on Twitter be a "shitty experience"?

Regardless, you didn't answer my question: "If Babylon Bee makes a joke about trans people how is that removing trans voices from the platform?"

People voluntarily leaving is not removing voices.
> > In since-deleted tweets, the account specifically accused Chasten Buttigieg and The Trevor Project organization of grooming.[40][32][94]

Leftists accuse conservatives of far worse things than that without ever getting censored. Leftists can event threaten other peoples' lives without getting censored: https://www.dailywire.com/news/7-twitter-accounts-that-have-...

Is it worse to be called a groomer or a Nazi? I guess, if you're twitter, it's worse to call a leftist a groomer than it is to call a conservative a Nazi. @NYCAntifa clearly gets away with the latter!

> The account has been criticized for spreading hoaxes, including the litter boxes in schools hoax about bathrooms accommodations for students that identified as cats, and a false claim that students in a second-grade class in Austin, Texas were being taught about furries.[12][95][94]

Libs of tik tok spread the misinformation, but they didn't create it. They cited someone else. If you don't think it's ok to cite someone else, later find out they lied, and then retract your statement, well, you probably have two standards, one for yourself and one for people you disagree with.

> Outright lies are destructive to "public square"-style communication, and Twitter definitely can't be seen, legally, facilitating libel.

It's amazing how many lies come from the left and never see any twitter censorship: https://www.dailywire.com/news/numerous-leftists-on-twitter-...
Musk immediately created a huge power vacuum within Twitter. There's absolutely going to be senior staff trying to climb into executive roles with golden parachutes.
> He still communicates regularly with Jack Dorsey, so I doubt there's much knowledge and experience being lost.

I would not be surprised if Musk convinces Dorsey to come back to Twitter in some kind of formal (but part-time) role. Board member, adviser, consultant, etc
For breaking the rules regarding inciting violence, not his ideology.
My pet theory is that they only implement features which are lightweight enough to not cause significant load on their backend and if it does then the feature dies right there, no matter how useful. Extreme cost-focused tunnel vision.
Problem with doocracy is it also doesn't care what the doer does.

"Why did you punch me in the face?"

"Shut up, it was free. I do all this work for free and you ungrateful parasite users just complain."
That skill can also be delegated away, you just need to trust the person or team doing the hiring. Delegation is one of the most scalable processes precisely because it is recursive.
In fiction: the solar flare of Inconstant Moon [1] and, very appropriately, the gamma ray burst of Diaspora [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconstant_Moon

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)
Surprisingly enough, the need for such things has been perceived and addressed before. A recent method that's widely used for organizing such things is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%27s_Rules_of_Order
> Elon’s first official acknowledgement on Twitter of his new toy post-deal close was a tweet reading simply “the bird is freed.” This was quickly rejoined by European Commission Internet Market Commissioner Thierry Breton, who responded with a reminder that freedom isn’t free.

> Notably, Breton has previously met with Musk in person and even recorded a video in which he says that he explained to Musk the EU’s Digital Services Act, and in which Musk basically says he’s aligned to everything it contains.

Wikipedia summarizes the DSA as so:

> The Digital Services Act (DSA) is an EU regulation to modernise the e-Commerce Directive regarding illegal content, transparent advertising, and disinformation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Services_Act

And later,

> The DSA proposal maintains the current rule according to which companies that host other's data are not liable for the content unless they actually know it is illegal, and upon obtaining such knowledge do not act to remove it.[15] This so-called "conditional liability exemption" is fundamentally different[16][17] from the broad immunities given to intermediaries under the equivalent rule ("Section 230 CDA") in the United States.

> In addition to the liability exemptions, the DSA would introduce a wide-ranging set of new obligations on platforms, including some that aim to disclose to regulators how their algorithms work, while other obligations would create transparency on how decisions to remove content are taken and on the way advertisers target users.

That Musk agrees (or at least did agree) to essentially everything in here suggests that a good chunk of the work going forward will be around policing "illegal" content.

In this light, the last point in the TechCrunch article sounds a little ominous:

> One of Musk’s first big leadership decisions appears to be to install a content moderation council that will help decide matters like who gets banned on the platform and for what — similar to Facebook’s Oversight Board.

> Twitter does already have a trust and safety council that acts in an advisory capacity, but that’s a large group that seems to act more behind the scenes to inform product decisions, whereas this would be a ‘Supreme Court’ of sorts for decisions on who gets to tweet and what in cases of controversy.
>They want to make sure you hadn't intentionally produced two different signatures. I think, in theory, you could later dispute the charge and the merchant would have nothing on you, if the signature didn't match the one on the card.

It certainly seems to be pretty useless though, and most stores just ignore the signature.

I recall being at a liquor store with my mother (15 years ago or so) and she was buying a bunch of wine. We got to the checkout and she decided she was going back to the car and handed me her credit card in full view of the cashier.

After the cashier ran the credit card, I had to sign the receipt. Since she'd seen my mother hand me the card, I asked the cashier (a teenage or early 20s American) "what dead president's name should I sign the receipt with?" (note that this is in the US)

Depressingly, she replied "Benjamin Franklin." (N.B., for non USAians, while Franklin was a very important member of our founding generation, he was never president).

As such, at least in my experience, it's been a very long time since anyone really cared about signatures on credit card receipts.

These days (in the US, and for much longer elsewhere), chip and PIN are king.
> “Rent seeking” is a term of art that means a specific thing

Right, and specifically in this context, it refers to the act of charging money from software in small continuing installments as opposed to charging money in one up-front installment (which might be called "buying").

In your earlier message you equated "rent-seeking" with "charging money for software". My point is that not all ways of charging money for software are rent-seeking.
It's not actually clear to me that free speech (in the constitutional sense) is Elon's driving factor here.

His calculus seems to be: 1. People will find a way to say what they think online. 2. If everyone splinters into their own little self reinforcing bubbles and we can't hear each other, that is quite dangerous in the long term.

That is to say, he arrives at a similar position, but it seems to be driven more by pragmatism than idealism.