skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The label of "hate" very often does get slapped on real conservative voices. Supporting sex-segregated sports is considered hate speech by many, for instance. If your label of "hate" encompasses typical conservative view, then it's just a shallow attempt to deflect from the fact that conservative views are indeed being suppressed.
"In Europe, the bird will fly by our rules."
526 people is not what I’d consider a “council”. That’s the size of a large high school graduating class.
TV dishes transmit very clearly in the visible light spectrum :)

As for TX detection, you'd be surprised. Directional signals like starlink uplink are fairly hard to detect.
yes, let us ask twitter for their opinion on whether they are doing improper things.

its like if a policeman is accused of wrongdoing, he gets to investigate if he did that himself.
Excited about this news, this the kind of change the modern web needs.
Advertisers don't want placement next to "bad" content, whether or not the in-group likes that content.

(That's probably a big reason why he wants subscription fees to take over advertiser revenue dominance.)
Yeah this is the thing I don't get. If you don't like the terms, then don't agree to them. If you agree to them, then you lose all right to complain when they hold you to your word in my opinion
I suspect Microsoft isn't investing resources neither in evolving Bing nor in keeping it up to date. Probably it doesn't bring them much money and they are letting it wither and die.
Times Being a Freelancer Sucks
Britain no longer meets the economic stability requirements for entry to the EU. Too much inflation and too large a budget deficit. Britain would need too much economic assistance.
I think this (at least the first part) is fairly bang-on.

There is a difference between diversity of "the place where you are forming an opinion", and diversity of what that opinion is.

By saying that a council needs to equally represent diversity of opinions completely ignores how widespread those opinions actually are. Decisions about action to take about going "defcon 3 on the jews" should not need to be decided by a council where you're focusing on equity of diverse opinions; ie, 50% of people think anti-semitism is bad, and 50% think anti-semitism is good. It's a bastardization of the word "diversity" in order to support whatever fringe belief is up for discussion.
Didn't that use to be somewhat common, at least in some parts of the US both to marry your cousin and the age?

Edgar Allen Poe married his 13-year old cousin when he was in his mid-20s, and no one seemed to bat an eye. Of course, that was in 1836 and not 1957.

Lewis' first marriage was when he was 16.

I guess he came from an old-fashioned background?
Supreme Court justices, despite their huge partisan differences and passionate disagreements on many individual cases, often talk about how they personally enjoy working with each other. My impression is that this is true of many Congressional committees as well, although it's less legible there because most congressmembers find it politically advantageous to talk about how mad they are at the other party.
TLD glue sticks around too long (2016)
I made my PC basically silent by swapping out the included Corsair case fans with Noctuas. I can only hear it if the CPU or GPU crank up to full load.
The investors can't really do anything -- the board has been dissolved.
The entire point of buying twitter was to give Musk an excuse to sell some of his tesla stock. He did just that, and now combined with twitter leveraged buyout loan and the other investors he's brought in he only needs a few billion in loans against tesla shares to close the deal.
Kayne saying "death", but he has since claimed he reversed "def" and "death", that tweet is understandably considered violence. I don't believe hate is violence. I believe this is a common misconception of people who haven't experienced actual violence or true personal danger. I in no way claim this should be some right of passage. Speach isn't deformative or physically damaging. The idea speach is a "frontier" or is the "catalyst" is misleading. Many organizations have direct calls to action for violence and are still posting today.
Sure, I agree, he has to say that right now. But I think he has to follow through and keep the advertisers happy.

This isn't Bezos buying the Post outright and running it as a vanity project, Musk has stakeholders.

What you predict (financial ruin) will probably happen if he doesn't do that.
Corrupt, inefficient, dominated by germany and strategically irrelevant, the eu is the only way european democracies can survive the coming century. Best to rejoin and reform the holly bureaucracy from the inside. The economic and social incentives are massive.
yes, but Intel now has mainstream GPUs that are reasonably (~ RTX 3060) performant, which is what I assume this is for
That ain't happening. EU would not take UK back in, much less with all the exceptions/concessions they had got from EU over the years. They had all the advantages of being in the EU while not being bound by some key obligations.

From the UK point of view the prospect of rejoining is even worse. How would anyone explain the UK public that they would be applying again for EU membership? "Hey guys, so we got out of the EU, got all this shit, lost the advantages we had and now we propose to rejoin in worse conditions and with a worse economy because of the economic damage caused by getting out of the EU (who could have expected that?)". That is not a winning argument to convince UK citizens to votes 'yes' on a EU membership application referendum...

Failing to rejoin UK could try to stay in the European Economic Area (EEA), à la Norway, or even in the EU Customs Union. This would in principle make a lot of economical sense and, in fact, the UK has all along only been interested in the single market and nothing else. But this solution is politically even worse, because it would come with the obligation to follow all the rules of the EU single market without having a saying on them, since they would not be participating in the EU democratic institutions (no seats at the Parliament or in the Council). Norway (and Iceland) doesn't lose a lot by being in the European Economic Area by doing this, since they are a small country and the power they give up is very small. But this is not the case at all for the UK. They are a big country and a big economy. It's not conceivable they would be giving up a significant chunk of sovereignty ir order to joint EU institutions while completely giving up their very significant voting rights.

UK is not rejoining the EU at the very least in the next 10 years. And even later than that, the only situation they could rejoin is if the differential of growth between the UK and the big EU economies (France, Germany) make the UK economy to significantly be left behind, which is exactly what happened in the 60s/70s and what forced the UK to joint the EU in the first place. It was obvious at the time that continuing being outside would cause the economy of the UK to continuing underperforming the economies of the EU and that is what is bound to happen now.

It's sad that UK left, but it is what it is and now they must find their own way.
Agreed, not sure what other words to use instead.

I think it would have been better for these cards to not have an adapter at all.
I've added an EDIT to try to word this differently.
I’m not saying the view is correct or not, I’m just saying that I believe it to be the case in general.

It’s a source of part of the national identity.

And, even if right now I’m not correct and most people don’t care, if this became the condition for joining then anyone who opposes the EU would make this a division issue, highlighting that it’s part of the national identity, oldest currency still in use, how can we sacrifice that etc etc.

Then suddenly people would care.
Right, so the game becomes making your viewpoint as extreme as possible to shift the window of the council in your favour. What could possibly go wrong.

Not all viewpoints are equally valid. Just finding the middle of the viewpoints that exist isn't moderate because you can't just pretend that all sides have equal numbers of extremists and that somehow their views automatically "cancel out".
I think you nailed it.

The hook is "failure is how you succeed" but they show dead end products with perfunctory blurbs and facile presentations.

I'd've expected these, yes, but also more substantive "failed 'til I didn't" exhibits such as representations of the hundred+ prototypes that James Dyson purported to have made before finally figuring out the bagless vacuum.

Or... photos of Abraham Lincoln and a long, long, long list of his failed attempts to progress before finding himself in the presidency.
Nice. Thanks.

Not quite tbh. What if we are taking a fast spaceship instead of a photon. Spaceship starts from sun toward me. When it reaches me, I see my watch has ticked for an hour and I see the spaceship watch has ticked for 15 min. But from the spaceship point of view, earth was going toward it. From spaceship point of view, its watch must have ticked for an hour and it sees mine has ticked for 15min.

If things are relative why isnt it the case?
> Not one other European city can wield the level of financial and soft power that London did and still does.

Post-WW2 near bankrupt London got where it is today by being the global dirty money laundering capital of the world[1]. Not something to be proud of, although the economic opportunities in London are second to none vs the continental EU, including the tech sector.

Brexit heavily benefited the financial industry there as now they'll have more room to launder away form EU regulators. The ones who got screwed were the small and medium businesses who made honest money by selling their products in the EU and the youth cheated away from free study and travel opportunities. They're now shafted.

At this pace, the UK economy will turn into a Hunger Games dystopia with the financial elites in the London making insane money along with the service industry catering to the Wolf-of-Wallstreet sharks who work there and to the Saudi royals, Russian and CCP oligarchs who vacation and park their wealth there, while every other business in the rest of the country will be struggling, further eroding whatever is left of the middle class and the already underfunded social services.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDtLZ-l_ItE
Show HN: Got tired of filling out PDFs so I built a tool to turn them into forms
The title says it all! Curious to hear any feedback or if any folks on here would find it useful!

Here's a demo video: https://www.loom.com/share/02f7b5cec8104110a95dad8640aae3b4

I learned a ton about building with PDFs in the process, so if anyone wants to chat about PDF + workflow tools give me a shout as well -- would love to connect!
I know it's an idiom; that's why I said "not in any normal sense of that phrase".

Losing your shirt would ordinarily refer to taking huge losses. You can't do that unless you've got stuff to lose.
CDNs are not entire effective internet.

Also I'm not well-educated in that area, but I would expect that CDNs would allocate dedicated IP ranged for big customers like Microsoft or Apple. So state can ban more selectively, white-listing those ranges.
For a while "learn to code" could get you kicked off twitter. It was OK when journalists do it to other people.
If you didn't only read conservative news maybe you'd know about canceled leftists. Actually you wouldn't know about canceled leftists since there is no left wing popular media. We have corporate media and equally powerful far right media. That's it.
Based on everything I read so far the plan seems to be to make Twitter a much smaller company by headcount so they could sustain themselves primarily through their users rather than advertisers.

My guess is Elon is restructuring the company so it's not beholden to advertisers. He knows that Twitter is going to always be inherently controversial and he wants to structure their revenue so they aren't always having to react to every new controversy. All the social media giants seem to be very reactionary to any controversy, and I think that's because any time a new controversy comes up they are scrambling to make sure they don't loose their advertisers. If your revenue is coming from the users who know what they are signing up for, you can weather those controversies much better without having to take any reactionary measures.
Creating the institution and framework to even put the people together in a room is the hard part.
Of course. A wise advertiser would select a subset of the K-Means Clusters to advertise to. Like, probably the "not insane" ones.
Why not use the -c option? Especially if you're using Bash or Zsh which has "here-strings":

checksum() {
hash="$1"
file="$2"
sha256sum -c <<< "${hash} ${file}"
}

Or if you need to use a POSIX-ish shell:

checksum() {
hash="$1"
file="$2"
printf '%s %s' "$hash" "$file" | sha256sum -c
}

Of course you can add a `--binary` option (uses '%s *%s' instead of '%s %s'), options to use different hash functions, etc.

I also think it's weird to use `alias` inside a function, instead of just using a parameter to store the name of the program to execute.
I'd be interested to learn how you think kmeans helps either diversity or hate speech detection.

I don't think it helps with any of either, as people's behavior, the context, the language used and sensibilities change across cultures and over time. What you call hate speech now may not be in the future and may not have been in the past.

The best you could hope for is creating a fuzzy representation of the most visible problematic behavior and try to outrun model-world dealignment by constantly updating it.
> The word "Diverse" has been successfully appropriated and destroyed by the right.

If anything, it has been successfully appropriated and destroyed by intersectionalists on the left, where diverse means anything but diversity of opinions and where people's diversity is just evaluated by racial, religious, sexual and sexual orientation characteristics.

The fact that the "head of diversity" of Apple, a black woman was fired for pointing that out is a proof of the existence of that monopoly by the left.

https://nypost.com/2017/11/17/apples-diversity-chief-lasts-j...
A paint shop does not perform the testing required to confirm a paint meets the classes of specifications the GP of your comment describes.

Achieving that level of known properties requires equipment, personnel, and materials beyond what would make commercial sense outside of the market segment in which the cost of Pantone systems make sense.

To put it another way, cost of entry is Pantone’s moat and why it has been filling the same market segment for many decades…where $21/month is pretty much no different than free.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/oct/27/sunak-may-deprio...

The government seems to want to change those laws anyway, to the frustration of many businesses.
I'm curious what diverse viewpoints even means. Is it "diverse" for twitter?

Is that even diverse?

In the US there's a very defined almost meme level concept of right or left and folks absolutely want to toss people into those buckets and make all the usual assumptions. Online it's almost impossible for me not to be told what group I fit into ... I'm often told one way one day, the other the next.

Is that all there will be? What happens if say 6 people perceived as on the left and 3 on the right and 4 other people are on there? Will it be credible, or does this al have to match some twitter-ish concept of "diverse"?

A rando executive making decisions and some twitter-ish idea of "diverse" doesn't seem any more likely to be "fair".
Can you provide some references (to production products)? I couldn't find any STH brand.
We never got to know if there was really a leopard in that room.
As I indicated in my post https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/should-elon-lay-off-all-...:

Twitter spends more on R&D as a percentage of sales than 5 other large tech companies, even Facebook, and moreover, the percentage is increasing. Where is this "innovation"?

It's not a new platform. Its market is, arguably, saturated; I don't see a "next billion users" (as they say at Google) coming from anywhere.

So the answer to "If there is a major exodus, will it even matter?" is pretty clear: No, as long as it's not the operations people.
Ya it's messed up they have to test higher than other groups to get into the same colleges
I forgot to add the /s
I would've thought a lot of people know her from Joe Rogan's podcast and especially the sections where Tim Pool challenged her.
There's a regulatory framework and process for this sort of thing, you can probably find more details in the articles about Apple's recent CSAM kerfuffle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Missing_%2...
No one would make the uk join the euro. Sure it has to promise it will, but it cant and wont be forced.
Many of the “unbanned” accounts weren’t banned before and that didn’t change.

They were in Twitter jail (or whatever the term is). The account is there but they couldn’t publish new tweets.

That’s the change to watch for.

He could unban Trump, say he kept his promise, but keep the account locked so that Trump couldn’t actually tweet.

As a hypothetical example.
> It's less likely to happen for well-run, profitable companies that are just being acquired for talent or synergy reasons.

Even then, it happens. My current company (mid sized, ~6000 employees) was recently acquired. Taken from public to private in the process. There's no broad plan to change what we do or how we do it, we are in an established market with pretty solid revenue numbers. They still axed the top three executives immediately.
I think psychological damage can be blamed on all degrees of the spectrum, both sides.
Source: Elon Musk

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586073042534297601
Volunteer. You can probably find a place that can use volunteer teachers or tutors for a few hours a week.

Sports? I used to see a lot of 20-somethings in kickball league tee shirts. I mention kickball because it ought to be manageable at almost any level of conditioning and coordination. But if you find kickball too tame, there are teams for all sorts of team sports, and groups for things like running, hiking, and bicyling.
If twitter held itself to the same standard as the government regarding free speech everyone would leave within a year. Unmoderated platforms have never been successful.
> Elon will probably run Twitter the way a "reasonable executive" would.

Take your originally intended actions and obscure responsibility for them until risks of accountability are sufficiently mitigated?
I've had this same thought many times, and I'm sure others here have as well.

Has anyone come across a serious study/proposal along these lines?
I would very much prefer that he focuses on SpaceX and Tesla, in this order, seeing as he's more or less custom-built for those jobs, and there aren't that many people like that around.

Running Twitter OTOH? There's an endless supply of "captains of industry" in the Silicon Valley, who would be willing and able to do it.
Hour Maths Game Show
I'm partway through it on Audible. He doesn't pull any punches with the science, but he's such a good writer. A lot of it has been a history of biochemistry in the 20th century - I didn't realize that Krebs and others were so recent.

If you were comfortable with the difficulty of The Vital Question, you can handle Transformer.
There are plenty of hills much more than 100m high. People will favor using the best places for it.

Efficiency of pumped hydro is always better than 70%, round-trip, and commonly better than 85%.

There is no reason to put all your storage in one place, and great reasons not to. A site moving 0.0001 km³ is useful for utility-scale storage. Of course, pumped hydro will be only one storage method among many.

Birds mostly use the top of the water. Probably, the lower pond is easiest to tailor for multiple use, but "floatovoltaics" are probably better in the upper one.
Most people are focused on censorship/content issues, but I really think the X.com "mega app" vision is the most significant part of this. It'll be hard to gain a foothold in those markets, and there'll be antitrust challenges, but it really fits perfectly with the rest of Musk's vision:

X.com Maps could tie in with Teslas, X.com Carhailing could tie-in with (future) full self-driving; Twitter could be expanded to be more like Telegram + Instagram, with channels, better DMs, "Moments", and more.

There's no attempt to create a single, wide-ranging social media platform, with payments, video, shorts, DMs, and more. China's proven that it can be done. It would create a far bigger moat and network effects, and likely be as successful as Microsoft Teams & 365, a highly integrated solution, are for work.
TBH NVIDIA should just have not included any adapter at all.
Or Elon fixes San Francisco’s “use your platform” “inclusion by exclusion” culture as thousands of those kind of people disassociate and are replaced with a reversion to the mean of people that just want a paycheck
The rules are you have to but when you want, are allowed, or the time is right. Like sweden no one is made to commit to a date.
He bought it on the last possible day a court would allow, so I don't know how much he likes it really. He did try every possible move to get out of it.
I mean, if you're a huge fan of him you'd probably stay.

If you're not, you'd probably stay for the severance package, and do absolutely no work in the meantime. No company or recruiter will be holding the fact you were fired against you if/when you're swept away in the layoffs.

If you genuinely like your job there and don't feel strongly about Musk either way, that's probably the toughest situation, and you should come to terms with the fact that even if you keep your job at Twitter it will likely feel like an entirely different workplace in a couple months.
Can you elaborate what you mean by "unnatural opportunity"? The way Musk has treated employees so far seems to indicate that he doesn't really care about them.
Well, I can't say too much, but it's not as bad as you might think. It's extremely annoying, but doable.

It's really not that different from doing a DB table update.
Not very surprising. We, as a whole, do not recognize intelligence in other creatures because it makes it so much easier to do anything with or to them. Damn shame for a number of reasons
The problem isn't the bots, the problem is the lack of differentiation between bots and real accounts. I say open up the API and let people make whatever bots they wish, but if you tweet through the API then you get a big "BOT" tag next to your username on the feed.
I'm interested to see what happens to the drive to repeal Section 230 now. IIUC, a lot of the impetus for that came from the right (e.g. the Texas AG), but it provides a liability shield to the owner of the platform, which presumably Musk would like to retain.
He never said that. He said 80% of the political spectrum in the middle would be allowed.
> heat up instead

Given ~20% efficiency I’d guess they heat up by ~20%
Yes they make money through ads (but also through Premium btw)

The point is though, that if Search Ads stop making money, why would YT ads also stop making money?

You're speaking as if society is going to stop having Ads altogether.

The same argument applied to e.g. Apple would be like "Apple makes all it's money through HARDWARE, since iPhone and Mac and wearables are all HARDWARE, they only have 1 revenue stream". Which is unsophisticated and kinda dumb
Isn't this just shadow-banning, which is already a thing people believe is the same as censorship and enumerate numerous conspiracies about?