skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's assume he makes Neuralink happen in the sense of really giving a locked-in person the ability to communicate in real words and sentences.

He now has the network to connect those people directly to the rest of the world, under his umbrella. Sure, he could have just used (old) Twitter's API, and that's what he'll be using, but it won't be "we (as in 'Neuralink') and Twitter made this happen", but "we (my companies)" made this happen.

I also wonder how useful Twitter's infrastructure could be for machine-to-machine communication, where he certainly could have some uses for it with Tesla and Starlink.
I agree with your thinking. The other question would be what is in the EUs interest.

Much as I like the Euro, it hasn't gone to plan. I suspect if the EU could back out of it gently, it would - but it can't. It even bailed out Greece to prevent the idea of a country leaving the Eurozone. Everyone who doesn't have the Euro now is either committed to getting it eventually, or has a very special exception, like the UK did.

The EU might not want to, therefore, write a side letter for a new applicant, letting them pick and mix on Euro membership, as it might make the single currency more optional and less unremovable.

That said, when there is a will, there is a way: the pound could be pegged to the Euro, exchange rate volatility dropped, and eventually you could have Euros and Pounds be like Pounds and Scottish Pounds (which are separate but fungible). If there is a will...
Intel did a great thing for people interested in ML and numeric research by making their MKL library and compiler free and cross platform compatible. Even today on my AMD zen3 Ryzen machine intel's MKL linked numpy and pytorch are in some operations 10* (yes that is really ten times) faster in comparison with the next best alternative (openBlas etc). I was shocked to discover how much of a difference MKL makes for cpu workloads. This is mostly because it makes use of AVX2 cpu extensions which make certain matrix operations a lot faster.
I know this is a derailment, but

> "[Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction."
-Christopher Hitchens [0]

> In 2013, in a comprehensive review[8] covering 96% of the literature on Mother Teresa, a group of Université de Montréal academics reinforced [criticism of medical care], detailing, among other issues, the missionary's practice of "caring for the sick by glorifying their suffering instead of relieving it, ... her questionable political contacts, her suspicious management of the enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce". Questioning the Vatican's motivations for ignoring the mass of criticism, the study concluded that Mother Teresa's "hallowed image – which does not stand up to analysis of the facts – was constructed, and that her beatification was orchestrated by an effective media relations campaign" engineered by BBC journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, who shared her anti-abortion views. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa#Criticism

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa#Qua...
Elon started out thinking he could work with these people, and then as he prepared to join the board, rapidly became disillusioned, and became convinced that they had no idea what was good for Twitter and the only exec who ever did was Jack. I would recommend looking at some of the text exchanges between Elon and Parag/Jack, they've been published and talked about pretty much everywhere, if you want to understand the vibe shift that basically guaranteed this would be his first act.
I can already imagine the youtube video titles:

"Mozilla and Microsoft TRIED to block it, but COULDN'T stop it!"

Seriously though, I can't wait to use this for my website. This is going to be ridiculously awesome combined with htmx.
> I'm sorry, did the Starlink units not help ?

Of course, any business is a win-win for both parties. But don't act as if it's from of the kindness of the heart.

> Last time I checked, Germany was a member of NATO.

Funny, because last time I checked, the Baltic states are too. But I guess NATO could give those up to avoid nuclear war. You didn't respond to them being taken over by Russia, did you?
This is exactly what good moderation can help with -- promote thoughtful and reasonable content, while making sure that inflammatory commentary gets less attention. I've run an online forum for over a decade; it's not that hard, really, to encourage thoughtful participation, with the right type of leadership.

See what dang wrote:

> please don't post low-information, high-indignation comments, such as flamebait or ideological battle. We want thoughtful, curious conversation on HN.

The problem is that big social media is so large and "open" that they don't want to have any community leadership.

Who is setting the tone on Twitter, or any major social network? Who is acting as a leader, both enforcing quality commentary, and also setting a good example? Nobody. I doubt this will change.

Smaller communities, such as HN, are where we can have reasonable discussion.

A good correllary: many local city council meetings, where almost anyone can have a chance to talk. They're not pretty. But at least the decision makers are there (and held accountable), and limits are set.

Creating an environment where good discourse can thrive is hard. It's like fighting entropy. You can do it. But it's an uphill battle.
I'd also recommend checking any sudo commands you would like to put, in GTFObins first.

You'd be surprised how many executables can actually permit running commands.
Fair enough. Sorry for not being specific. I was referring to this: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585619322239561728
What will I lose if instead of this or debezium I simply have a column representing the status of the message as “pending” or “complete”, and a job that periodically processes pending messages and marks them complete upon success, and another job that archives complete ones?
Sure, but there’s no way for the delayed settlement mechanism to handle fuzzy real-world judgment calls (such as a dispute about whether a service was rendered or not) without resorting to a centralized oracle of some sort—and then you’ve broken trustlessness and may as well have avoided blockchain altogether and saved yourself the transaction fees.
Probably a honeypot from Elon. He will solicit volunteers to self identify across the company and then fire them.
On desktop you can use a script that redirects you to normal video UI instead of the shorts one and you can change the speed there: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/439993-youtube-shorts-redi...
sheesh, and i thought g-code was hard to read
gestures broadly
I set the tone for my feed by choosing who to follow. I then want to see whatever they have to say in chronological order. If I don't like somebody's comments, I stop following them. Why do I need anyone else to interfere with this process?
>It's called MythTV. Not MythMusic,

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythMusic
There's merit in that comparison but there was nothing like an armed group storming the Capitol with a goal of preventing a fair and honest election. What makes the civil war questions more worrisome to me is how bare-knuckle politics has become so accepted by mainstream Republicans: when Nixon's misconduct came out, his party support eventually declined and had he not resigned, most members of his party would almost certainly have voted for impeachment. Today we're seeing the results of a generation of ideological purges where more significant acts have been met instead with near-unanimous agreement to hold the line and the few dissenters have been evicted from the party.
I am not saying these don't work, and I don't know why people seem hell bent on interpreting everything I'm saying as "X does not work" when that was not anywhere in anything I said.

I said, very clearly, that these mitigations are necessary because of code written in unsafe languages, and that these mitigations are not free.

Some basic googling says that on an M7 there are 4 bit tags with a 64byte granularity. Now before any other costs you are burn 0.8% of your memory on these tags. The other costs are along the lines of increased chip complexity (caches, logic, lookahead/ooo etc).

It may be that we're ok with these costs, but that doesn't change the fact that the costs exist, and that the exist largely to mitigate exploits in unsafe code.
Stable Diffusion Prompt Book
This isn't just a white elephant, that title belongs to projects like the unfinished Dubai islands, which "only" cost about $8b. A forced purchase worth $44b for a company that's lost up to $1.5b in a year is a sword of Damocles hanging one inch over Elon's head. It has a very good chance of sinking him financially.
What features will this unlock for you?
Here [1] I found a link [2] to download all chapters in one .zip file.

[1] https://www.analog.com/en/education/education-library/scient...
[2] https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/dsp-...
Also I've found that using various aspect ratios does not add artifacts, and that it does have implicit data e.g. most portraits are taken in... Portrait, and so if one is intent on fabricating a portrait, such an aspect ratio does, in my experience, tend to generate more favorable outputs.

There are several other features that aren't listed here, such as tokenizing, weighting, AND, img2img, feedback... Textual inversion, and aesthetic gradients...

Another way I've been fairly successful in, is using 1- or 2-step outputs to find a good basis for composition as you can generate a lot of outputs quickly and take the best of the bunch without waiting eons for your 16x16's to diffuse.
> Currently, the most unhinged extremists from every political angle are massively amplified. They know exactly how to play the engagement game.

I was just thinking the same thing, that the attention economy is incentivizing people to overdraft their 'weirdness points' [1]

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/weirdness-points
> He said exactly why he bought Twitter.

He said he was buying it because there were too many bots. Then he said he was not gonna buy it because there were too many bots.
"he's just a mentally ill person"

That has very large influence and is spreading and inspiring hate [1]. Mentally ill or not, he's causing real-world damage.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/banner-kanye-right-los-...
As a non-web dev, it is mystifying to me that this is hard.

But, taking it as true (for some arcane reason), then perhaps they should change the design of their site so that popping away from the timeline isn't a part of the normal usage flow!

Specifically, if you want to expand the conversation under a tweet, you tap it, which takes you to a new page; when you're done, you want to continue reading your timeline. If making the back button can't be made reliable, then it seems a design that simply expands the thread off to the right or inline below or in a popup, without leaving the timeline page, would work much better.
It seems you're coming at it from the other side. If it were up to me, I'd remove the "lock" feature that seems too much like a struggle session (as noted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33371795), and just have tweets be taken down without needing users to admit guilt. I also would oppose banning either Kanye or the Bee.

But if someone is arguing that it was a ban, and that it shows Musk unbanned them and is lying, then that's wrong. I was addressing that argument.
>The pattern of downloading and executing installation scripts without verifying them has bothered me for a while.

Thanks for sharing this work OP! I didn't see a license mentioned -- did you intend this to go into the public domain? I like how you set up a cool domain name and did some sick graphics, but I'm not sure how I can legally use your code in the future.

That being said, I appreciate the work you put into this project.

I'm not going to list off specific examples, but MANY open source projects serve either PGP keys or hashes in the clear. Or they serve just hashes over HTTPS and now you have a trust issue.

Or, in one case, my favorite -- they had lovingly listed out the MD5 sum for the program... but they served both that checksum, and the code itself... over HTTPS.

Now, to be fair, HTTPS does provide an integrity check, so there's a benefit beyond privacy or whatever but... this is a RAMPANT problem in the open source community.

I ran into it mostly when trying to find esoteric security tools when I was attempting OSCP and interviewing around for penetration testing roles.

I got the sense rapidly shifting from "I was so scared of the CFAA I did an entire master's thesis on the design of censorship circumvention tools" to "Oh gee, I used to be such a narcissis, demanding a high falutin salary when I couldmn't even fire up Metasploit to wipe a server."

(The implication being that some folks abused their access when my powers were week, and now, in time for spooky season, it's time lean in to letting people take whatever drug they want if they feel scared -- reality scares me too some days.)
I saw him at an outdoor concert about twenty years ago. He was still going completely nuts on stage, playing keys with his feet, belting out Great Balls of Fire and jumping around like a maniac. Not bad for 67 or so at the time.
A great alternative to Google Slides
I only follow about 25 people on Twitter, Elon Musk is not one of them. Yet the first tweet in my feed when I just opened up the homepage is Elon Musk said "let the good times roll" 8 hours ago.
Still using mine. Still good for notifications and music controls, the only things I actually care about on a smartwatch.

I've considered Garmin watches a few times -- a week or more of battery life would be great for bike touring, for instance. But it's hard to justify a chonkier watch when the Round is still working great after almost a decade.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33375286.
Am I missing something? I guess with a custom browser, but I can’t close the “what’s happening” box and I often see retweets and likes from the people I follow. You can individually turn off retweets but that’s hate-UX, is there a way to do this in bulk? (I already changed the “show me tweets in order” setting or whatever.
Comcast wants Internet users to pay more because customer growth has stalled
I dont see an issue with that, regardless of how much i want Finland to join asap. Each member has equal rights and so does turkey. I dont agree with turkey but that’s a different issue. So would i agree that east europe demands the uk at least issues an apology for how their citizens have been treated during the brexit campaign if it wants any eu deal. Power now lies outside britain and members are entitled to use it. How they chose to is up to them (within diplomatic civilised parameters of course).
AI moderation has spectacular faulure modes (as banned Twitter users know). Imagine a tweet like "The thought of $NAME being unalived brings a smile to my face" would be enough to get through the positivity filter[1].

The word "unalive" itself was coined and became popular to escape such basic filters that have no sense of meaning.

1. I just tried the following on the first online sentiment analysis tool I found, and scored 85% positive: You sound very 'smart'. I have warm and fuzzy feelings at the thought of you being unalived, with your genius
Eh not really, you just need to get two of these and connect the sync pins together: https://hdplex.com/hdplex-fanless-250w-gan-aio-atx-psu.html

Way smaller than SFX PSUs and "gaming" laptop power bricks.
The Materialize team manage a fork of https://github.com/sfackler/rust-postgres with the changes required to consume from the Postgres WAL: https://github.com/materializeInc/rust-postgres.

Here is a comment and link to some code which seems to work:
https://github.com/sfackler/rust-postgres/issues/116#issueco...
Twitter hasn't been burdened by "extreme right" "abusing all communication platforms."

If it was, then we would have seen a left exodus years ago and not suddenly coming up now. This comment has me so confused.
There is more to life than a left/right spectrum.
Disk Prices
Archived copy without GDPR nag screen:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221028175053/https://techcrunc...
Here's some evidence.

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

https://news.yahoo.com/analysis-supreme-court-tilted-electio...

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

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/30/1106866830/supreme-court-to-t...
Cool, that fixes it- thanks!
Paid features, possibly. There is Twitter Blue, although I'm very unclear on how widespread it is, how much money it makes (if any), and what the extra features are (other than edit?).
Removing a tweet and removing a belief are two very different things.
Diverse is pretty vague, maybe it’s just Elon and not Elon.
Building up to HelloWorldEnterpriseEdition, I see.
Can we stick to a grown-up discussion, please? You are not replying to my points in any meaningful way.

It's shocking that HN commenters could be so toxic, indeed.
> But again this is about a single species. If you remove one random type of algae or plant it's not going to make a huge difference.

Prochlorococcus single-handedly produces 20% of all oxygen on Earth.[1]

> The impact they have, the breadth of skills, the monuments and constructs and art, the potential for what they can do in the future. Including spreading life through the solar system eventually, or things like that. I might be missing some parts, it's late.

No, I mean what do you mean by important, fundamentally. Is this a judgement of the objective value of the lives of the individuals of that species? Is it just an assessment of their power? Is it putting arbitrary characteristics that species happens to posses on a pedestal while simultaneously and just as arbitrarily devaluing the unique characteristics of all other species?

Are we starting from the bias that humans are more "important" (again, still unclear what that actually means) than all others, then working backwards and highlighting all the human characteristics as being evidence of that importance after the fact?

If a species with giant claws ruled the world, do you think they might wax poetic about the great importance of giant claws, and how this is the one true metric by which the value of a life can be measured?

Are giant claws, ability to produce art, or any other specific characteristic or capability in any way relevant to the question of whether or not a life has value?

> I don't want to double down on this too hard. I just think most humans are in a pretty narrow band and this band is pretty far away from any other species.

Well we're going to have to define the boundaries of this band, otherwise it doesn't seem to be based on anything concrete and seems more like circular reasoning that the boundaries of this band are those that exist within humans and therefore those humans are important because they exist within the boundaries of that band.

[1] https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ocean-oxygen.html
archive: https://archive.ph/tGzcr
The latest file download URL is always the same /latest, hosted on my server.

The version number and latest file hash are also fixed URLs, stored on GitHub.

So for an update, the script checks GitHub for latest version number, if newer it downloads the latest version from my server, computes the hash and compares it to the hash stored on the fixed GitHub URL before proceeding.

I think there's no way to replace the file with a malicious one that will be distributed to the users unless you get access to both my server and the GitHub repository.
In a region where bribery is customary, trying to get stuff done without bribes is a case of tilting at windmills. I applaud the author's willingness to stand up for his convictions, but realistically his options are to either pay the bribes or set up his business in a less corrupt region. An entrenched local bureaucracy can easily outlast a typical small business when it comes to a fight like this.
Good for you. Do you spend time actually researching systematic racism? Since we’re all just people perfectly capable of advocating for the same justice im sure you do.
That’s laughably false - take a peek at some of their tweets, shedloads of transphobic hate sprinkled with a bit of targeted harassment:

https://github.com/salcoast/deleted-tweets-archive/blob/main...
Tweets are everywhere, not just on Twitter. Theyre in the news as sources, they're on Instagram, Facebook and reddit.
Of course they're legally allowed to do so, it's just a question of does it make sense vis-a-vis their stated values about community and rewarding the people who has worked on the project.
Comcast wants a lot of things.
Nobody thinks of it this way, but the ultra abstraction stuff in enterprise software is actually proof that the previous generation of programmers did as much boredom engineering as the present one.
It's missing some ROT13 action and additional GoF design patterns like Visitor.

What else can reasonably be added to this elaborate, simultaneously horrifying and beautiful hood ornament?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns
>managing the exodus of users (size:?) that will happen regardless

In the same vein, the influx of new users who had avoided Twitter due to its censorious, hostile community norms.
Potentially of intellectual interest: I said this on another Elon-Twitter post, but a common quote by supporters of moderation about censorship of potentially harmful content is that SCOTUS quote, "you can't yell fire in a crowded theater."

It's actually a legal myth. The decision it was mentioned in was overturned in 1969. Equally "as false as saying robbing a bank is legal." And it was never the law of the land, just an allegory.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33377347
There has been a significant uptick today[1].

[1] https://twitter.com/ncri_io/status/1586007698910646272
Read the whole speech:

> They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country.

They look at the mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6th — brutally attacking law enforcement — not as insurrectionists who placed a dagger to the throat of our democracy, but they look at them as patriots.

And they see their MAGA failure to stop a peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election as preparation for the 2022 and 2024 elections.

They tried everything last time to nullify the votes of 81 million people. This time, they’re determined to succeed in thwarting the will of the people.

That’s why respected conservatives, like Federal Circuit Court Judge Michael Luttig, has called Trump and the extreme MAGA Republicans, quote, a “clear and present danger” to our democracy.
that's one of the things i never understood. twitter gives you SO MANY TOOLS to avoid seeing what you don't want to see. you can lock your account, lock replies, block accounts, mute accounts, filter keywords and that's not without mentioning the granularity of notifications.

i, myself, almost never see what i consider hateful content.
They crippled the performance on non-Intel CPUs on purpose until recently.

Intel's anti competitive behaviour follows them throughout their history.
Humans are really creative. One potential outcome is a few well known ppl start using a 3rd party client, tell their followers that’s why it says bot, and the badge loses its meaning.