skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When a junction melts, it is often the case that the connection itself will become much more resistive, which will make it heat up more and more. For an application where the PSU might be able to supply hundreds of Watts, it's much easier for things to get very hot and ignite.

This is despite the use of a good conductor.

And the issue is that when the power source is that much more powerful you're more likely to make whatever is nearby catch fire.
They don't have an equity stake in the company
Oh, I could see them mandating not the fastest connector (USB-C for instance if something faster comes along). Speed hardly matters, though. They just won't mandate Lightning cause it's a proprietary connector, so it's out of the question.
As for free speech vs censorship, a lot of people think in absolutes. It should be absolutely possible or impossible to say this thing. And this particular individual should be banned or not.

What I think is far more important is the level of amplification. Currently, the most unhinged extremists from every political angle are massively amplified. They know exactly how to play the engagement game.

Twitter rewards the wrong thing. Those stoking controversy get the engagement, after which that account is injected as "recommended" into all kinds of places, snowballing those accounts into power.

That situation should be flipped. Reasonable people should be amplified, not crazy ones.
There only are three demands:

> A non-profit organisation owned by the Gitea community is created.

> The Gitea trademark and domains are transferred to the non-profit.

> The name of the company is changed to avoid any confusion with the non-profit.

A week ago the Gitea project was an informal community trusting elected individuals with essential assets such as the domains and the trademark. They had a clear moral bound (see https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#...) to pass on the ownership of the project to their successor.

But they thought it was ok to create a company and take the domains and trademark as if they were their property. Maybe the absence of a legal bound made them forget their promise, their moral obligation towards the Gitea community.

Creating a non-profit will avoid that kind of problem in the future and give back the domains and the trademark to the Gitea community. If the president of a non-profit was to transfer the domain name to a for-profit company they exclusively control, the members of the non profit will be in a position to sue the president for embezzlement.

If the for profit company refuses to give back the domains and trademark, that would be very damaging to the project. The post from Harald Welte on that topic in the Gitea forum is enlightening in that regard, see https://discourse.gitea.io/t/open-source-sustainment-and-the...

The other points you cite from the Open Letter are merely suggestions for future improvements (as stated in the letter), not demands.
It's more complicated than that though, because Teslas are extremely popular in Norway, which is known for the coldness of its climate.
Might theoretically work as long as you have no Trumpers/MAGA types on the council.

If you put them on the council they'll try to ban their political opponents and allow every kooky antivax and racist far right tweet.
Decelerating at sub-light speeds will also require massive high energy exhaust plumes if we’re using any traditional drives for that, which if a ‘warp’ drive is possible, we’d likely still need.

So death from both ends, basically.

Probably best to wait for us to land to say hi, or nuke us from far enough away the mess doesn’t get in their hair.
Free speech does not mean everyone deserves a soap box. Nobody has the inherit right for their views to be publicized by a private company.

Try forcing your way in front of a camera at your nearest news station and see how that works out for you.
Sounds pretty clear and clean to me. Shame we couldn't have gotten as nice a recording of the Beatles at the Star Club just bit earlier :)

FWIW, it's a nice live album, but doesn't strike me as one of the great live albums of all times. Unless there's some other bootleg with more. The only one I've found is... 8 songs. Tame audience (or they just weren't recorded?)
What claims do you want data for? That conservatives had opinions COVID that often ran contrary to mainstream narratives? Or that conservatives have views favouring traditional gender roles and their identification with biological sex? Or that both of these sets of conservative views run afoul of Twitter's policies?
At the end of the day you are only playing a game that someone else has made. It can be corrupt, terrible, whatever, but the fact is you can do nothing to stop it, so if you want to get anything done you need to play the game. Your little petty protest does not stop the game from being played, the people who made the game as it is just don't care about your opinions at all.
I don’t think so. As a PoC, their comment is by definition a reflection of the reality of a targeted group.
Khan Academy MCAT overview of Metabolism. Don't be discouraged by the fact that it's for MCAT prep - it's pretty clear.

https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat/biomolecules#over...
Interesting. I imagine that means you're a real champion of improving opportunities for minorities, and spend a substantial amount of your time taking action to try and solve that problem, since adversity is adversity.
PyTorch 1.13
Are you aware that you’re casting Musk in a baby voice?
I'm not referring to the "X liked this tweet" feature, which is from my circle.

Twitter added a Topics feature, where it promotes popular tweets. I'll often see random tweets with >100k likes inserted into my feed, though none of the people I follow liked it, and it's not in my interests.

You'll also see such "popular tweets" when you click on any tweet and scroll past the replies. Doesn't always show (especially when there's tons of replies), but it gives you random tweets from outside your circle.

One interesting feature is the "What's happening" (formerly Trends/Hashtags) section on the right, which shows random news stories. They're not determined by popularity, but by fiat; the list is now manually populated by Twitter employees. (They removed plain hashtags and switched to an editorialized list because Trump supporters managed to get "too many" hashtags going during the 2016 campaign. It still shows hashtags occasionally, but they have to get pre-approved before they appear IIRC.) Many of these new Trends don't show all tweets that match a keword; they just show you tweets from a few people selected by Twitter. These[0] is a good example from today. It's a great feature. Musk could create a Twitter News service (like Google News) and expand on that; it would cut off the "cross-silo" communication further, and would reduce polarization and controversy.

[0]: https://twitter.com/i/events/1585823974868414464 and https://twitter.com/i/events/1586015934141153284
> highlights Jerry Lee Lewis's controversial, but unique talent

His morals were controversial, but his talent was anything but.
> Is Canada on the verge of civil war?

So, the difference between the two countries is that this viewpoint in Canada is a fringe one, while in the United States, it enjoys popular support among mainstream politicians and media. Oh, they don't directly endorse violence, but they are very happy to call for someone to 'remove this turbulent priest'.

That's the difference between fringe lunacy (present in every country, shit happens, you deal with it and move on), and the peaceful political process unraveling.

Just a reminder - one of the presidential candidates in the past two elections has yet to concede that he lost the popular vote in 2016, as well as the popular vote and the electoral college in 2020[1]. This sort of insanity is so far beyond the political pale in Canada, I can't even envision it.

[1] My state's gubernatorial candidate has also yet to concede that he lost 43-56 in 2020. Why even have elections if the losers don't accept the results?
> sites worked entirely fine without the heavy content moderation

Everyone keeps referencing the internet of yesteryear. I would love to go back to the internet of yesteryear with the limited audience it had but Youtube's revenue is 2022 is seven times what it was in 2015! Twitter grew four x since 2011. The Content Moderation story has completely changed.

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/youtube-statistics/
I'm not sure that "try to conquer the country, fail, and still get to keep 20% of it" is the precedent that we want to set. But that's where "some concessions on both sides" is going to get you. (Concessions less than that - I presume - won't be regarded as "some concessions" by Russia.)
I think it's extremely hard to say, but I'd say it's hard to argue for sentience when the neural system is so small.

This is a serious problem in philosophy. The concepts of "philosophical zombies" is a hard problem. The fact is that we could have perfectly "sentient behavior" from creatures/beings without any sensible consciousness involved. The sentience of humans is debatable, even though it is readily apparent that we experience qualia.

Unless you're willing to accept that a rock, or a series of silicon chips, or even a massive mechanical computing machine can have consciousness, the blurry edge of where neural systems go from being electric discharges to a vehicle for qualia is an extremely difficult question.
> Do you know that Ukrainians are buying and paying subscriptions for that. I'm sure the return on investment is very well calculated.

I'm sorry, did the Starlink units not help ?

> Is East-Germany worth the risk of nuclear war in your opinion, or not?

Last time I checked, Germany was a member of NATO.
> I really dont understand why his Ukraine tweets were controversial

Because peace at this point means the aggressor keeps territories.

If Canada moved troops into a bunch of US states - NY, NH, Maine, Pennsylvania etc. would you be willing to just cede that territory over so that everybody can have "peace"? Ok, let's have peace, I guess Canada gets New England now.
This sounds like an interesting movie. Couldn't find it with searches though. Could you provide a link?
> Don’t even mention them in your analysis.

Neither do you. Are you referring to the bots saga? He initially said he wanted to buy Twitter because he wanted to rid it of bots. Then he said he didn't want to buy Twitter because there were too many bots. That doesn't make a lot of sense.

If not, what exactly are you referring to?
I'd imagine Twitter withholding data would make any potential buyer have doubts.

He also could have been trying for a better price, which any buyer is foolish not to at least try.

Or he wanted to box them into a deal with a take-away, forcing twitter to publicly state intentions to complete the deal.

All of this, (yours & mine), are still purely speculative.
And most people who “believe in their company’s mission” aren’t working for one. Mostly it’s naive employees with statistically worthless “equity” in a startup who believed the founders Ted Talk hype.

Even if the founder sincerely believes that, once he takes VC money it doesn’t matter what he believes.
the same could said about the far left in America. well i guess it could be said about the far right too. its up to the folks in the middle, the progreservatives (or consegressives depending on how you look at it), to end the madness but most of us are too busy living our own lives to care about how crazy the fringes of society are beyond the entertainment value of it all.
I am not against diversity of skin color, but I also don't think that should be the goal. You assemble a group of people that have a diversity of ideas, if the group you end up with happens to be diverse in skin color and sexual orientation, then fine who cares? But those aren't the defining characteristics or the ultimate goal, a broad spectrum of ideas is.
2022 Cyberdeck Contest
Giving Russia Crimea would just return to the de-facto borders of 2021 and formalizing them. Of course that's a concession to Russia, but to deescalate you have to give both sides something to claim as victory.
Guess which country has the most arable land in the world?
Vijaya Gadde I assume.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/golden-parachutes-3-fired...
Agreed. Got it as a gift a couple years back. Ended up being a pretty fast read as I was engrossed the whole time :)
If gas is at $7 or $10, what is the payback time?
I would take any instability that is coming in exchange for forcing the issue of opening up algo-curated feeds to the public. Same with the what the FB whistleblower was arguing for. sounds like Musk might do it.

Second, if Lightning is integrated, that would be a fascinating experiment and step forward in tech payments.

Back to the open box:

There is so much very needed tech policy that is impossible to start because the curation is a black box and policymakers have no idea where to start and the public has no idea how to parse the information they get.

Now, it's very likely the box is opened, nobody looks or still doesn't understand, and that's that.

But I don't see anyway to get past "the internet is a series of tubes" or "Senator, we sell ads" or spam filters getting accused of causing bias or.... without at least getting the information out in the open vs. trusting tech companies' explanations which lost all credibility as good-faith operators years ago.
You're welcome to do your own summary of the past month if you wish.

EDIT: Alternatively, you can point out where my summary is wrong. I did put some effort into it after all.
It's freedom meaning liberty vs. freedom meaning anarchy. A platform with aggressive moderation with the purpose of enabling people to express themselves is going to fare better (this site is an example of that).

If your goal is to create a Socratic circle you will have a hard time getting anywhere until you remove the edgelords who are just there to start flamewars and yell slurs at people.

Twitter right now is remarkably freedom as anarchy by this measure and it shows. As long as you're not posting death threats, inciting riots, or hate speech you can say pretty much whatever bad faith bullshit you want. Twitter, at least for me, has reached "don't read the replies" level of toxic.
I think it is rather important. Because once you recognize that this is the legal understanding rather than the text itself a really critical thing emerges. Interpretation has not been the same throughout history. When was the time when our interpretation of the constitution produced optimal social media moderation policy? If it is now, what happens when in the future interpretation of speech rights changes? Or even right now? "Bong hits for Jesus"-kid was punished and that was upheld as consistent with the 1st amendment.

> but I'd sooner that idiocy be exposed and ridiculed than cede control over acceptable speech to ideologically motivated moderators in the inevitable instances where the ethical lines are blurrier.

Great. Will you also be willing to be the person who experiences a torrent of hate speech directed at them? This is not an abstract thing where somebody else can "expose and ridicule" proponents of hate. You need to be willing to have the Nazis literally protest at your home and your job every single day and not leave.

> the odd troll or bigot making racist remarks with 25 followers.

If you think this is an honest portrayal of the state of hate on social media when moderation is reduced to "everything that isn't illegal" then you are grossly mistaken.
How much were the shares "undiluted" by buybacks? I suspect more is spent on buybacks than on RSUs.
How often are you planning to re-run this model? Can I convince you to rerun it before this weekend? I'm in a situation to get you a lot of new followers/users if I had a new model for Sat/Sun.
This would be great, but it's also how they get "engagement" and "eyeballs" and all those fanschy schamnsy things advertisers love.
Yes, I am saying we need to neurally castrate every intelligent person to be no smarter than the dumbest person. We need to cut the tendons of every person who is more athletically capable than the most disabled person. We need to burn down everyone's houses so that we can all share cardboard boxes alongside the homeless.

Yes. Yes. This is what the position is. Don't let anyone ever try to tell you otherwise.

There is no equality of opportunity for groups of people that have had generation after generation of systemic oppression, exclusion and poverty.

You don't do that to an entire subculture of people for hundreds of years, and then think you can snap your fingers and say "Okay cool, segregation is over so now we all have equal opportunity!"

There is so much that goes into being a successful person that is subtle, environmental, learned through exposure, enabled by connections and passed down through generations. Same goes for the flipside which is called the cycle of poverty.

There's a lot of damage that needs to be undone, which will take active investment on behalf of society at large to accomplish.

I'm too tired to write out an essay on the history of racism in the US and why that history is still a massive burden on the descendants of those people today. This information is widely available if you genuinely want to understand.
It's the same with dating services. Whatever grabs attention wins. Deeply toxic stuff.
As a bonus? Maybe for Twitter, but as a user, I would not care for this at all.
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> Elon's talking about taking an axe to the things that keep the lights on at Twitter: effective content moderation and talent.

I don't think it's clear this is the case. It's just the network effect that keeps it in such a dominant position. Plenty of Twitter clones have been created, yet neither conservatives have migrated to Truth/Parler/Gab/whatever, nor have or will liberals/the anti-Musk contingent to Mastodon, or whatever the left-leaning equivalent Twitter clone coming in the next few weeks is.

Honestly, Twitter's biggest draw to most users is probably the lack of content moderation on something that gets buried beneath the politics and culture discussions: porno, porno, porno. Twitter is one of the few social media sites where porn is still allowed, for the most part. It's always funny to see a "viral" politics/culture war tweet that has "blown up" with 50k, 100k likes; any given lewd picture of Ganyu from Genshin Impact by a popular artist is going to run double those numbers.
Firing 1,000 non-contributing engineers is easier said than done. There will be enough false positives in that number that a lot of essential knowledge about the systems may walk out of the door too.

On your second point, how does eliminating content moderation boost revenue? Twitter’s revenue comes from advertisers, and they generally don’t want their ads to be shown next to offensive user-generated content. Nobody in corporate America is clamoring to buy banner space on 4chan — sites with the least moderation are also the least attractive to advertisers.
The R6S has a hardware AV1 decoder that can do 4k@60 over HDMI 2.1; might be a good media machine with Kodi...

Would the R5S be a good candidate to install a pfSense or OPNSense firewall?
Honestly, 90% of problems with scripts are people forgetting to put double quotes around stuff. The other stuff doesn't come up that much, and once you write a few decent scripts, the other stuff is as easy as noticing someone wrote `open = True` in Python, not realizing they've redefined a builtin function, and the fix is just do `is_open = True`.

So just put double quotes around all your variable expansions unless you know you shouldn't -- 90% of scripts would be "fixed" with just that. And don't bother putting curly braces into the variable expansion unless you know you need to. People tend to think `echo ${s}` is somehow better than `echo $s` when it's exactly the same -- the curly braces are just a way to allow you to, e.g., write `"${s}_"` as distinct from `"${s_}"`. AFAIK in fish `${s}` is identical to `"$s"`, but that's a different kettle of sh.
I'm pretty sure it's just a bug, I don't think adblock caused it for me. Wouldn't put it past them to intentionally break things for adblock users though.
Er, no? That's not at all what the article says.

> The new research by the San Francisco-based analytics firm reported that conversations about election fraud dropped from 2.5 million mentions to 688,000 mentions across several social media sites in the week after Trump was banned from Twitter.

> Zignal found that the use of hashtags affiliated with the Capitol riot also dipped considerably
Am I the only one who fails to see this “Web5” as anything but a marketing plot to make a product that is doing exactly what every other startup in Web3 is trying to do somehow stand out?
1. Ali specifically is moot since he won an Olympic Gold Medal (and his first professional world championship) under his birth name.

2. If calling black Muslims by their birth names were currently used as a way of signalling racism, then I suspect WP would adopt a policy for that as well.
The 7500 employees were working on new ways to censor people.
>the scale of Twitter completely dwarfs that of Wikipedia

In what terms? Can you share some numbers maybe?
Allow me to coin a hyperstitious and eponymous law.

Frog's Law of Social Media: free speech or advertising revenue - choose one.
Outsized success story is high minded gibberish.

He’s riding on the coattails of his family’s mining business with a suspect ethical history.

I love these “don’t punch down the people who started at the top.” Why do you hate yourself so much you would deflate your own worth by idly idolizing the idea Musk is “with billions.”

It’s word of mouth mathematical inference. We’ve been influenced and conditioned to believe their success is real: https://singularityhub.com/2022/10/25/could-consciousness-be...

We live in a carefully managed memory that deifies the figurative identity of a minority and aims our agency at protecting it.

It isn’t just Twitter; what of real human value has IBM offered to the masses except hype? Oracle?

The entire tech industry is an agency capturing religion, spouting the equivalent of catechisms. It’s not lost on me their leaders were raised in a far more religious era. They probably are true believes in the “greater good” gibberish despite being normal humans by all scientific measures.

These normal human engineers will freely go work for another “outsized” winner in order to maintain their grift.
If the offending element is one's personality or one's beliefs, then yes, one can come back by removing that, but it's the same thing as not coming back.
It seems the "private company can do what they want" argument is becoming quite unpopular all of a sudden :^)
Sure it's not 100% but more like 50.4%.
I'm more of a Web7 guy, personally. Web3 is the usual boring and useless stuff. Web5 is too bloated.
I think the tweet format is directly opposed to having thoughtful, or even civil, discourse. It's hard to express anything complicated in 280 character, and if you want to have a discussion you need that time to express yourself. Without the short tweet format, what is twitter?
> I wrote a driver

you lost me there
Twitter already has implementations for the Nazi stuff; e.g. images with Nazi flags are allowed in general but if you try to view them from an account with location set to Germany, it will give you a "this content is blocked in your country" error message.

I'd definitely be worried about driving advertisers away though. They forced YouTube's hand at least to some degree with the whole adpocalypse thing.
What bureaucracy of comparable size and scope would you consider less dysfunctional? US federal government? China? Russia? India? UN? Microsoft?

Efficiency doesn't scale, I think EU is pretty good compared to other bureaucracies.