skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What worries me is this — Outrage creates “engagement”.

A site like Twitter could easily capitalize on this and allow/promote outrage content in the near term, boosting their profits and causing long term side effects to societies as a whole.
I dunno, what was the previous management doing?

I think you can read through the exact same thing Musk was questioning in those leaked convos between him and Twitter's CEO. That'll be his game for sure, cut down on cruft. The hell does twitter need 7500 people for even at current state of affairs if not moderation or sheer incompetence?
It's both. It's human nature amplified. The amplified part is technical, very much possible to tweak.
Guess his fans celebrating their newly acquired “free speech” by spamming the n-word were wrong
My theory is that devs often trade pretense-now for research-later. This habit allows them to gain ~0.002 status points here and there. But now combine that with unknown-unknowns. The thing they're hearing—if they actually understood it—ought to cause them to abandon or completely rethink a change they're currently working on. But because their takeaway isn't new knowledge, but a placeholder for potential new knowledge, they end up losing 15 status points when it blows up, in a way that was utterly unforeseeable.
Good catch. Let me add a license
sqlite3.wasm should be included in Chrome, Firefox, Safary, Brave, etc. And updated automatically.

Sqlite updates are solid and as far as I know, do not break your code.
The only real solution long-term is completely peer-to-peer ad-hoc networking that doesn't depend on BGP.

A few projects are in similar territory but none I've seen are working at the layer of bypassing BGP. Many are just acting as an overlay; which works to an extent. https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go

It's probably begging for a different model of the "internet" and where data lives.

My requirements:

1. Offline-first applications that sync via a pub/sub DHT of trusted peers. More details here but basically allows bypassing BGP.

2. Trusted peers are routable via a determinstic pathing algoritm without exposing the recipient. (content addressable everything).

3. Automatically distribute storage and compute on all local devices a user has and or needs (it's so dumb and wasteful that I only use one computer at a time when I have hundreds at my home at different levels of compute from thermostat to fridge to laptop to desktop).

I've thought about this for a long time and planned many requirements out. I was very committed to working on it but then I lost motivation because I don't get along with most humans today and where the world seems to be going. It also sucks to have people think your ideas are crazy.

Oh well.
I have zero information on how X (i.e. Musk's holding company for Twitter) is structured but it's possible to issue stock in a private company. The difference is that you cannot sell that stock on the public markets and need to find a buyer through a secondary market. Your requirements for selling are also typically more restricted.
Twitter can largely be ruled by financial incentives.

1. Add a cost for tweeting, like a gas fee. This fee is paid to Twitter.
2. Add a cost to subscribing to a channel. This fee is paid to the channel owner.

We need financial incentives around tweeting. Letting people tweet freely gives them no incentive for quality. Twitter should be exploring ad-less business models like the one above. If it cost a few DOGE to tweet, people would think twice before posting inflammatory content.
The author here. Thanks for trying out dvi-decode.

I've not used PDF.js before - does it guarantee typesetting accuracy? That is what I wanted to achieve with dvi-decode. The dvi format uses the same units of measurement as used internally by TeX/LaTeX, and the decoding algorithms are very careful to avoid accumulated rounding errors when converting to pixels, so display at high resolution should be very accurate.

I will look at improving the demo experience. Note that the demo is running dvi-decode in browser - better perfomance could be achieved by running on a node.js server.
Can you tell me what me being an arab and a muslim has anything to with my reaction to musk's purchase? Try answering without resorting to racial essentialism
SQLite was one of the first large C code bases to be ported to the web. Alon Zakai (@kripken, the creator of emscripten), made the first commit to sql.js at the start of 2012 [0]. I got involved two years later, and have been maintaining sql.js since. A lot was added since 2012, but the initial core api with 3 functions 'open', 'exec', and 'close' still works today.

https://github.com/kripken/sql.js/commit/cebd80648dbd369b348...
If you don't ban anyone, pretty soon the people who advertisers like leave the platform and you're left with free speech purists, hatemongers, and not too much else. Those people don't bring $$.

So in this case, free speech and the free market are at odds.
At the end of the interview he clarifies what he meant, he’s frustrated with apparent nepotism within an industry. I would be shocked if he claimed that he had a problem with a randomly chosen person who happened to be Jewish, it doesn’t make sense.
Depends on the platform. Erlang was specifically designed around telecom systems that needed maximal uptime, and the language and runtime collaborate to support hot patching with a distinctly non-YOLO approach.
I'm not sure most people here have seen the corner of Twitter known as "black Twitter." This is the part of Twitter where people (most of them from racial minorities) discuss things like "the Jews are keeping minorities poor," and "abortion is racist eugenics."

I don't know how they don't all get banned, but they somehow have a very vibrant community.

The level of antisemitism that Kanye (no, I will not call him "Ye") posted is not beyond the pale for people in black Twitter. I'm not sure he ever expected it to go this viral or get this much backlash.
Class A players don't work for controlling managers who overload them with near impossible targets. Class A players have plenty of options in tech, and have no need to tolerate having their skills called into question or disrespected by pointy-haired middle managers.

When Bill Coughran was asked how he was able to successfully manage so many famously high performers (engineers like Jeff Dean), Bill explained how that caliber of engineer tends to have strong opinions and you basically have to build a whole team around them and give them the freedom to do their thing.
Because only democracy gives us the chance to recover from our mistakes. This seems clearer to me in this last year than in any other year of my >40 on this earth.
There are some attempts at making light field displays. Those seem like they would address this, but it's a lot of engineering to get from where they are now to a useful head-mounted display.
no, its his legal name.
Yea... i'm a huge fan of Rust and it is my primary language these days, but despite my many complaints with Go.. it's not bad. In fact it's pretty solid. I can't imagine the primary slowness in ipfs-go will be solved by ipfs-rust, at least on language alone. Some, sure, but not primary.. i would think.

Do i think Rust could have a better, more generic library with code that is far more concise than Go? Yes.. but that's not likely the cause for ipfs-go's issues.

I can definitely see a chance for a rewrite producing better code though. As much as i'd love to give Rust that victory, i just can't imagine Rust is _that_ big of contributor in this specific case.
I don't understand your point. I agree the law is more restrictive in Europe, but not restrictive in ways that limit my freedom in ways that matter to me.

I was questioning why you see it as authoritarian. Are you saying that any law is authoritarian?
I am hypo intelligent, but my coworkers definitely appear unconscious. Incomplete, ill-posed statement fragments over chat or better yet, in needless "sync" meetings.

Insects display unbelievable forms intelligence to anyone that pays attention.
I've had enough of the "prove god doesn't exist" discussions with fanatics over the years to know where this is going, but since I'm bored on a flight I'll indulge you. A random galaxy formed billions of years ago, how was that political?
You ain't kidding. Jobs gave people the choice of good, better, or best. That was it. 3 options and you probably already knew which one you were walking out with.
IMO the key is portability. If given enough incentives (users pressure) how can existing networks port or connect to this federated space? Otherwise it’ll still be Bluesky only.
> They didn’t even make a joke. They just called trans woman a man. It was hate speech, pure and simple.

It’s not a crime nor hate speech to acknowledge someone’s biological sex. That’s what we do in sports and when we select partners for example. Most, if not all heterosexual men would not consider a “trans woman” to be an actual woman. Our way of selecting partners is proof of that. To punish a natural, and biologically based viewpoint that most of humanity hold and follow is tyrannical and unsustainable.
To your point number 2: perhaps part of the reason why Twitter is the town square is because it is not super profitable. If it was as chock full of ads as Facebook I think it would cease to be usable.

In reality if we want a public square, we ideally want it to be a public utility not a for profit corporation.
I actually don't think this is the case. Almost all of these in the US are largely bipartisan, not nonpartisan. In some cases they also tend to self select for people that favor certain viewpoints. NIMBYism is prevalent in local government, for example.

They're optimized to serve the interests of the two prevailing parties in the US, which aren't the only two legitimate viewpoints.
If you think Twitter can be easily cloned then you know everything about tech and nothing about business.
Sadly, this. "Tort reform" is the name of the game, and it's depressing how well it's worked. Much like the more recent efforts to rebrand estate taxes as a "death tax" to bolster public support for the wealthy giving up less of their inherited fortunes.
Cover your ass.
The piece satirized the confusion between sex and gender. It has only been very, very recently that we have gone from "gender is a social construct" to "sex is a social construct." It's still a highly debated topic and well within the public sphere of debate. Also, this person was a public official and was in the news from general news outlets (named Woman of the Year) which puts them well within the public realm of ridicule, even if you or I don't agree with it. If the piece had advocated physical harm that would be much much different.
> I totally agree with you! But thanks for accusing me of bias anyway.

Well your first line was "By Musk's own admission, it can never be competitive against the cellular providers" and then the rebuttal was based around a strong example of it beating cellular providers inside their coverage range.

You can understand the confusion.
An economy EV typically has quite high specifications though. For example Mini electric has similar specifications and performance to the Mini Cooper S models.

The other element is total cost of ownership. Fuel and servicing an EV is white a bit less expensive.
Hmmm. Would you consider that to be similar to the Reddit model of cloistering themes so that unlike-minded people aren’t artificially pushed together?
So trivial that nobody has ever solved it at scale.

If there's a flow that a human can go through to oauth with an application, then there's a way to bypass that same flow through a bot.
Are you serious? Why would I ever use that app? I already don't use twitter and there are market leaders that would have much better service (given they aren't trying to do every single thing in the world) compared to X and also, most of those services pretty much stink, so I would never think that X, while trying to do everything in the world, would also be better.
That is awesome! I’m going to have to play with that.

I previously experimented with combining Yjs (CRDT toolkit) with Pouch/CouchDB to create an eventually consistent db, but decided that CouchDB was the wrong backend.

It looks like you have built exactly what I wanted to do if I had had time.
The moderation on HN helps retain civil community members as well. I've been thinking about moderation as a chicken-or-egg situation but maybe it's more of an equilibrium issue. I should go over my old slashdot comments and see if I remember what pushed me out.
I may not agree with your assessment of my intelligence, but I defend your right to say it.
No, he just tried to use the courts to leverage a better deal. Imo, he always intended to buy Twitter, it was just part of the dance.
I can use that to scare my kids:)
This is fairly clear to me, I don't need to hear his later equivocations:

> And what I'm doing, I'm calling out the Jewish community as a whole ...

Imagine calling out an entire ethnicity for your woes, and being surprised that people find that offensive.
It's actually not a _terrible_ example it was partially overturned in brandenurg v ohio. It's still applicable if it actually inspires lawless action.
> 3. Brain drain. I expect the exact opposite. This is the part where Musk thrives and also where he's at his cruelest. He will remove slackers and non-performers without mercy and surround himself with class A players only. Next he'll overload them with near impossible targets and you can't bullshit yourself out of it. You deliver or you're out. I would expect him to run this for a year or so and accomplish more than Twitter's dysfunctional product team did in their entire history.

Is Musk planning on paying Twitter employees substantially more than other tech companies? Why would any class A player want the privilege of being "overloaded" with work when they can make similar or better money elsewhere and also have better work-life balance? Why do all the Elon worshippers seem to assume that everyone is as enamored him as they are and will happily volunteer to be exploited by him so the world's richest man can get even richer?
Per Musk's original introduction of the snail, it's 14x faster than existing boring machines. So TBC did extremely poorly.
We moderate HN threads by the HN guidelines, not by what's going on on the rest of the internet. By HN standards it is certainly a flamewar. Hard-nosed ideological battle and name-calling are not what we want here. The flamewar detector got it right.
>Town square. The one thing that keeps Twitter standing is its cultural relevance.

Social networks rise and fall. Twitter is no more the town square than MySpace, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Mastadon, Snap, LinkedIn, etc. are, and the attempts to redefine them as such are only a means to political end.

Musk cares more about making money than anything else - he didn't become a billionaire by being altruistic and he's not going to start now after this investment.
Increased sedentary behavior alters metabolism and body composition (2018)
How far are you willing to take the notion of Freedom of Speech?

Should I be allowed to hold a rally and say "Someone needs to start lynching some $RACIAL_SLURs"?

If you say yes, then...well there's no further discussion to have, and you scare me.

If no, then it's clear you and I both agree that there SHOULD be SOME limits on speech, we just disagree where the line is.
The irony being that the public square at large is a disease of the people and not the consequence of a specific platform.
https://www.arcade-history.com/?n=darius&page=detail&id=585

I went fishing to find out why it was named Darius. (Nothing. It's the name of a planet targeted by a galactic empire in the game. lol) It piqued my interest since Japan also has a company named Mazda (both being ancient Persia themes). (Mazda's website says the name pick was a deliberate reference.)
Yes, in Feedly
This reads like a bullet list of things you should have picked up in the five-to-ten English/writing classes you took in high-school and college.
You could probably say the same thing about computer programmers. They write algorithms with questionable outcomes. There is a culture that generally scoffs at ethical questions (at least in some segments).

But i dont think you will see that here, because we are programmers and lawyers are the other.
It’s always been bad to us living today, but it hasn’t always been bad to people in the past. I’m not a moral realist because I don’t see what sort of objective facts are moral. The universe doesn’t care. It’s humans who are moral, and what’s considered good or bad varies quite a lot. No, I wouldn’t want to be enslaved, and the golden rule seems like a good principle to live by, but nothing in nature makes it true. It’s a value judgement we moderns make.
Ostensibly Twitter has to make money, and most companies do not want their ads to be seen next to blatant antisemitic messages.

In the crazy clown world in which we live, Twitter could theoretically kick off all the advertisers and become Elon Musk's self-promotion platform (which it already is), but I doubt the other investors would go along with this.
"deleting tweets for wrong-think"

When did this happen? Are you referring to tweets that promote anti-semetism like Ye's? Or to tweets advocating for political violence, like Trump's?
I think you need to be more specific than that. Before twitter was private, it was run by a group of people who were generally pro free speech but who had experience to know the real conseuences of inaction, and therefore had put in a framework to ensure that they could stay advertiser friendly. Musk has declared he also wants to be advertiser friendly, but also has big business interests in national defence, and in China. Surely, if anything he's more prone to being influenced than the previous team.
Amusing that you don't see this as tautological
Elon only mentioned the bot 'problem' to get out of the deal.

He shut up about the bots as soon as it was evident the excuse wasn't working. Bots are of no concern otherwise.
WebGL/GLSL is a low level API the equivalent of the OPFS api. Standardising WebSQL would be like browsers standardising on Three.JS rather than WebGL/GLSL.

WebGL/GLSL give the developer a low level api to the graphics hardware.

Video decoding apis talk to the hardware video decoding hardware.

OPFS gives developers a low level API to the persistent file system / HDD / SSD.
Thanks, it wasn't meant in a gotcha way.
Restricted in like you cannot do it unless the company oks it.
The workstation world sort of broadly standardises card length, allowing for support on 3 sides (PCI Bulkhead, PCI-E Slot, and a card extension with a blade to fit in a rail guide towards the front of the chassis). Even old cheese grater Apple Mac Pro's had this setup.
UK sent RAF pilots to teach Chinese counterparts
This reminds me of a job I had while starting my first business after college. I was a bar-tender for a catering company. We did a lot of fancy parties so a big part of my job was pouring Champaign and putting it on a tray for the servers to pass around. After a few months, I could pop a bottle and pour six flutes that were all exactly the same height without leaving a drop in the bottle.
That’s a good point. I suppose then, to a hyper intelligent alien species we would be the Koala’s, unintelligent but conscious.
This is the random and anonymous person, right? One of USA Today's 2022 Women of the Year? https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/opinion/2022/03/13/rachel-...
There is some kind of legal issue with the recording. I didn't look too deep. There were sixteen tracks recorded. Thirteen were on the real album, and one that had a recording fault was released later.

Here's the songs on the original release:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXRKTcRs-Xs7RqWKl8hqt...
The electoral college is still democratic. You're confusing direct democracy with democracy in general. The US is a Republic, which is democratic with general safeguards to prevent mob rule. I can't stand Trump but this is and always will be such a weak argument. If you can control the Senate you can win the electoral college and both parties have done so in the past 20 years back and forth very consistently. Trump would have lost to basically any other candidate, the Democrats have only themselves to blame.
I thought A goes toward B at C is undistinguishible from B going toward A at C. So if A sees A:60min and B:15min, therefore B should see B:60min and A:15min. Anything other than that means something was absolute.

Damn its frustrating. Month I ask questions about that. Every time I get: velocity is absolute. Maybe it is, maybe thats the answer to my question, velocity is absolute, meaning the ship is going toward earth in "absolute". But then one could be at rest in the universe and then there is an absolute frame in the universe thats motionless. Therefore we could elect a center.
I expect #3 to be true to an extent. Elon is very good at attracting very high performing, industry leading engineers to join him but they never last long. He burns out the high performers just as much as the low performers.
Back in the day, 1984, when I was an electrical engineer trainee, I was seconded to the electronics repair shop for the summer at the steelworks where I worked. I got to choose a kit to build and I chose this one from local magazine based on the Motorola kit. I think I intended to integrate it with a car radio. I don't think I got it to work all that reliably. Only a few of the music AM stations seemed to pick it up here in Australia. Very quickly FM won out. http://messui.polygonal-moogle.com/sch/kits/AMstereoEA.pdf
I hadn't thought about AM Stereo in a long time. I had an old car with a 2nd hand "Voxson" AM Stereo unit in it, the stereo light would light up on 2CA (in the ACT in the late eighties). Unfortunately for AM stereo, Australia didn't really have widespread FM stations outside of the major cities until a similar period and the hype was all about FM.

Australia is huge and AM radio stations were able to broadcast much further than the first FM stations, so if you were looking for an FM station on a long trip you'd be fiddling with the radio trying to find another station, even with new-fangled digital tuners and seek functions.

I suppose it didn't help that AM stereo, in practice, was somewhat underwhelming compared to FM when you could find it, especially in a noisy car with a pair of sun damaged 6" speakers and the windows down because you didn't have A/C.