skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The "OK" sign as a symbol of "white power" is a great example - nobody's reputation was tarnished directly by the reporting... but the entire story was made up and never true. Yet, there's folks today that insist it truly is a symbol of "white power".

This is strange - the OK symbol was definitely co-opted by white nationalists; it started as a "media troll", then people started to do it non-ironically. It served it's purpose and to say it was "never true" is at the very least controversial. I had personally seen it spread on /pol/ months before it got any mainstream coverage.

While I believe the story may have been overblown, I think it stands it would be very difficult to sue a journalist that this was libel or even untrue. At the very least the memes had to have started from somewhere and that posing with the ok symbol wasn't a particularly popular thing to do until after the memes were created.
Yeah the result is pretty much "Never stop moving, always do sports." as if nobody knew that that is something we should probably all do.
I realize that having text files for various things like this is increasingly popular, but I just don’t get the value vs using something long standing like an abuse contact on your whois.

We have this existing thing that no one uses, so instead of using it we create this new completely different thing that only a small subset of sites will even support and which will only work if you offer an HTTPS service.
The Immutable Laws of Security
Absolutely. Too many people (especially managers) have Monthly Active Users drilled into their heads and can't comprehend that there is a bottom line ($$$) that is the real KPI.
Facebook could allow for special profiles that are only comprised of statuses. That would be a Twitter clone in a nutshell that would already have high adoption.

That would require Facebook to make a shrewd business decision though so never mind.
> I mean, not much you can do about it, can you?

Work to shed our biology faster.

We'll get to that sometime in the next hundred years or so.
That's correct. SQLite has an impressive test suite that makes it very stable. That's why it's used in millions of Android devices or will be used in Cloudflare's edge with D1, for example.
I don’t know much about Intel’s toolchain: people say good stuff about TBB and things like that.

Historically doing inference on Intel gear was mostly about whether or not to target AVX2 or AVX512 when building Eigen or whatever. A few years ago the net win was AVX2 because the de-clock and re-clock just killed you.

What’s the game these days? Long term I doubt inference will be done on x86, but I think a lot of people still do it.
Never ceases to produce a sense of amazement in me when I see something that reminds me of the ever on-going dynamic of size-inflation/price-deflation in storage.

I am dating myself but I can still remember what an amazing thing it was when my school got a 10MB Winchester hard drive (external -- about as big as a laser printer).

Of course, at that time the only long-term storage I had any experience with was 5.25" floppies with somewhere between 256K and 512K storage, I cannot recall for sure.
Like most comtrarian articles, it is only meaningful if you haven't read the original, which it isn't actually contradicting.

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/8008...
> In my opinion, the content of a tweet (is it spam ? is it abusing the platform ?) matters way more than wether it’s a bot or a human doing the spamming/abuse.

What about replies and retweets? EX: If you have high quality (or good faith) content that's supported/attacked by bots vs real people.
I “still” haven’t wrapped my head around it because not once have I been presented with non-tautological replacement definitions for “man” and “woman”.

I will immediately change my mind and recant my views — here and now! — if someone provides:

- A specific definition of what “gender” is, if not a synonym for “sex”

- Non-tautological definitions of “man” and “woman” that are consistent with your definition of “gender”
HN doesn't scale because at the end of the day we can fall back to tech and moderate everything else out of existence.

Politics poof gone.

Celebrities poof gone.

Sports poof gone.

Religion poof gone.

HN simply doesn't have to deal with the above in a general manner which removes a massive number of issues.
The assertion is laughable at best. Political propaganda at worst. Not entirely sure the author thought this one through. She was almost certainly singlehandedly responsible for the thought crime filter.
All categories are arbitrary distinctions that someone made up at some point, including the categories of biological sex, race, and your birth name. At the very least it would be bullying behavior for me to single you out and call you a different name or different racial group to what you actually are (as defined by the constructs that society has agreed upon).
She's involved in politics at a fairly high level; that's not "a private citizen" or "just a bureaucrat". Furthermore, making a few jokes is neither "harassment" nor "a campaign"; by that standard Twitter should ban a hell of a lot of folk. That people can't be jokes about folks merely because other people are also excessively mean-spirited about them is one of the more baffling ideas of the modern American left.

The real problem, however, is that you don't need to dig very far to see people engage in all sorts of behaviour that's not exactly in accordance with the Twitter rules, ranging from stuff like "just fucking deport the Christians already!!" to "would be a real shame if their face got smashed in with a brick wink wink" and that ... doesn't get moderated. I've reported a bunch of posts like that: always "no action needed, doesn't violate our community terms".

I think a lot of people would have significantly less trouble with Babylon Bee's ban if Twitter didn't let the platform be such a quagmire of nastiness, and then occasionally cherry-pick an example.
I like HN and the moderators, but this isn't how HN mods imo. People aren't just politely reprimanded and falling into line...

People get accounts banned every day here. Moderation on HN is imo heavier than it is on twitter. Topics and discussion are heavily controlled and removed if they become at all sensitive or aggressive. You can't call people names or make crass offtopic jokes (like people on twitter do constantly).

Moderation is quick and personal, but that doesn't scale to a site with the volume of twitter.
Well , yes, that’s how development and improvement work. You have to start somewhere and Improve from there.

Remember, the first SpaceX launch attempts didn’t make orbit. Did that make them quit because they ‘failed’?

Improvement is the name of musks game
Sounds better than the other boards, they could have written this stuff as selling point.
It isn't that yet, presumably.
I suspect that H3/H3+ numbers are on the DC side with an eMMC module, a single DDR4 SO-DIMM of the lowest capacity, with the most aggressive power management settings, and nothing else attached. 1.9w idle is plausible but not what people are going to see with a realistic running configuration measured from the AC end.
I think the answer is probably commercial, Trump generated a lot of 'buzz' about twitter before he was banned.
One of his challenges will be to pay $1.2B in interest payments every year while also making good on the principal. That's quite a bit of debt for a struggling financial situation. Cutting HC will help in the short term; it is unclear if those cuts will be well executed. HN opinion that twitter could run with 200 engineers is woefully naive for a massive company that is under FTC consent order - they probably have >200 privacy engineers (and associated legal staff) just to comply with regulations.
I've only been working with the person about 6 weeks. I didn't think too much about it at first, though it did seem odd and unhelpful. It's only in the past couple of weeks that I've started to find it irritating, and yes, offensive. I will probably bring it up to the lead at some point.

By the way, I double-checked my assertion that he doesn't use words, in case there were some documents I forgot or had missed. Nope. At best, his diagrams or screenshots will have captions. Those captions remind me of the sort of useless comments we've all become conditioned to ignore.

x = y + z; // set x to the sum of y and z
I'm not sure people are claiming that the choice of programming language is the deciding factor? All the website and the comments are saying is "the current client (which happens to be written in go) is slow, maybe this rewrite will be faster". I'm not sure it's fair to read it as an attack on go, or an endorsement of rust.
That's very common. There are a number of mass shooters in the US that targeted minorities who explicitly say in their manifesto or interrogation tape, that they were radicalized in online forums, and not offline.
If you knew Hypercard, then you still might be blown away by viewing the tour [1]; written in C, OSS under the MIT license. This one's a keeper!

[1] https://beyondloom.com/decker/tour.html
> [a] How has his writing changed how you eat, and [b] have you noticed any differences in health metrics?

[a]

Well, I now avoid vegetable oils quite intensely. The higher-order effect of being more aware and intentional of what I eat & cook has lead me to much healthier eating habits over all; I now mainly consume un-processed foods.

In fact, it's nigh impossible to remove seed oil from ones diet without cutting out processed foods, as you quickly realize it's in (nearly) everything.

[b]

I track a bunch of health metrics via an Oura ring and Apple Watch, but it's hard to parse what improvements have come from the reduction in seed oils vs. the myriad of other positive changes I've made over roughly the same time period (daily weight lifting, running, improved sleep hygiene etc.).

I can say that my resting heart rate has decreased, my sleep quality has improved & my VO₂ max is better than it's been since I began recording it (about a year) etc. etc.

I recently had my bloods, testosterone, cholesterol & liver functions tested and everything came back healthy.

—

Overall, I've gone from being frequently fatigued, rundown and mentally overwhelmed (frequent anxious & depressive thoughts) earlier in the year to the other end of the spectrum as of writing. I can't recommend making the jump to cut-out seed oils enough.

On a side note, as a 20-something year old, this experience has been a real eye opener. I've always held a healthy skepticism of conventional healthcare/medical wisdom as my father was a doctor and his insider views on things were very revealing. Now that I've gone through a dietary/health metamorphosis of sorts, I feel enlightened to the fact that you simply cannot rely on populist knowledge & guidelines to ensure you're being healthy, or for much else for that matter.

Whether it be a consequence of the monolithic & slow moving nature of health science, or something more nefarious [lobbying, misaligned financial invectives, greed over health & welfare], the fact that seed oils were (and still are) praised & pushed as being a healthy alternative to olive oil, butter etc. is nigh insanity.

A few months ago I finally stumbled down the PFAS chemicals rabbit hole, and my dull sense of terror & disappointment increased further still. It's a strange world we live in. The phrase 'boring dystopia' springs to mind.
Also a reminder - a left-wing nut shot Scalise during a baseball game. Rand Paul was attacked at his home and had his ribs broken. There was an assassination plot against a conservative-leaning Supreme Court justice.

The right does not own the monopoly on violent nutjobs among their ranks. Sadly, they exist everywhere, left, right, and center.
What's the political angle then?
They tried that at one point, I think it was called WebSQL? But it was decided that they didn’t want to make the quirks of sqlite3 a web standard since it’d be hard to do a clean room implementation.
> Twitter already has implementations for the Nazi stuff

Those implementations will be defeated by motivated adversaries and they will not have the expertise remaining to rebuild it. There will be many lessons learned again at great cost.
Hmm, that seems way too high? They're a branch of the military[1], which is the biggest standing army in the Middle East, but even the whole army comes to about a million for a country of 86M.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Revolutionary_Guard_Co...
The way he got bored running Tesla and SpaceX for ~20 years?

I really don't get where this meme of "impulsive, erratic, hotheaded Musk" comes from given he demonstrated ability to stick with a business in the toughest of times.

Tesla was literally days away from bankruptcy at one time and Musk made it work.

After first 3 failed launches he was about to run out of money and yet he financed another launch, which worked.

He hasn't had a business failure yet.

Is that a guy who gets bored and moves on to something else?
Politician social media accounts are mostly run be teams of staffers who are literally paid to manipulate the public discourse. They are no different from bots.
It seems to me that in modern drives, there is no longer that much variance in average longevity. At least close enough that when I have tried to compare drives, the cheaper drive almost always ends up being the cheaper drive even when adjusted for longevity.
Hey, no worries! Enjoy. I'll get around to having some shipped to NZ someway-somehow sooner or later, I can't wait to try the stuff myself.
> doubles down on money power, to a point where only money is power

What has he said or done that indicates he is pushing for such a system? Are you suggesting the mere fact of his purchasing a company and being a billionaire means he is pushing for such a system or was there something else he said or did?

I'm asking genuinely because I may very well have missed some important news item or other piece of information. What's your basis for this assertion?
Are you the davidw from reddit? Do you ever go on /r/portland? It's moderated to the max yet its still neither civil or engaging. Moderation matters but I think HN does a lot better due to the features that promote well thought out posts and don't really allow trolls to get much traction.
No, fats that come from the food (triglycerides) are directly consumable by the cells.
Don't need any lakes.
I don't know; what's the threat model here?

If the script is deliberately malicious as originally published, then the publisher will provide a valid checksum; so it doesn't help.

If the script source is subverted by an attacker, then it only helps if the attacker doesn't also have the means to change the published checksum too.

If an attacker can modify the site which publishes the URL for the script and the checksum, they can modify both at the same time.
Due to mental illness, I've spent 22-23 hours of my day for the last 4.5 years in bed on my smartphone. I only leave for food & bathroom. My BMI has been 17-19 for the entire period, but I worry whether I'm causing permanent damage. My body constantly aches and I tire easily. I feel like an old man, yet I'm 27. I began to have what I assume is Restless Leg Syndrome after a few months, with a constant desire to tense or move my legs. I hope that this horrible lifestyle will not burden me with lasting unforeseen health problems even when I begin to exercise and live again.
Definitely better than WEB6 also known as WEB2015
chrome is presumably eventually going to remove websql.

I guess they are trying to do it slowly so they don't break stuff, but they're already doing things like removing FTS support.
The Windows servers that have been fueling DDoSes for months
Won't happen. Therapy only works if it's voluntary. And no true ass-hole (nor Scotsman) would voluntarily go into therapy.
I guess the NY Post doesn't believe in free speech after all...

This looks like the work of a false flagger trying to make NYPost look bad or to spread fake news to gullible left/center voters, or just a vandalizing troll, rather than someone trying to use NYPost's reach to spread a message the author believes in.
Well, good luck having a readable twitter then
Electric vehicles catch fire during Ian aftermath
And US only.
It's not that we decided that Elon will fail. It's that there is no agreement on what success looks like. More freedom of speech for some means more abuse and bigotry for others. Both 4chan (no moderation) and HN (moderation) have succeeded by some metric and have a loyal audience. Twitter tried to satisfy too many parties for too long and now is facing a backlash from everyone. If Elon decides to prioritize one of the parties - the other groups will protest. And vice versa.
W3C tried this but it failed due to lack of independent implementations[1]:

> This document was on the W3C Recommendation track but specification work has stopped. The specification reached an impasse: all interested implementors have used the same SQL backend (Sqlite), but we need multiple independent implementations to proceed along a standardisation path.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/
The EU Law That Could Reshape Online Speech in the US
> I believe the proper response is to make the sports and music contracts transparent and re-do them so they don't screw over black talent

Why would you assume there's anything wrong with the contracts? He has the burden of proof and he hasn't shown it. Kanye believes he is being victimized by everyone. It's typical narcissist behavior. When someone says that everyone is an asshole, then they're probably the asshole.
>Well let’s see… last time the former President was using his voice on Twitter, he was inciting and directing an insurrection against the government. So if Musk wants to reverse that ban, and Trump decides to continue his rhetoric which already caused violence (which he will because he hasn’t stopped since 1/6), then yeah, that’s a nightmare.

I'm not american and just an outside observer. I believe the republicans/trump would not agree with your assessment. There is certainly a huge irreconcilable divide on how January 6th is viewed on either side.

Here's a left-wing viewpoint on the 'second american civil war': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_American_Civil_War

Which certainly agrees with you. Lets not forget Hillary Clinton has always held Trump stole the election and she even reiterated a few days ago the republicans are planning to do it again: https://twitter.com/IndivisibleTeam/status/15834963547345387...

Lets not forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_efforts_to_restrict...

425 bills in 49 states the republicans pretty much universally didn't believe a free election occurred; so they want to restrict the vote and prevent people from voting for the democrats.

More importantly the election in mere days will indicate to politicians exactly what the populous believes. When the democrats win midterms easily, it will be the people telling the republicans they aren't popular and democrats genuinely represent the will of the people.

Do we even need to consider what the people are saying in the unlikely event republicans win midterms?
Most likely prove its utility as an attack surface and source of compatibility issues
Yeah, Japanese creatives have always (well, for decades) loved naming things random western words they don't really understand. Be glad when you get "Darius" instead of "Bravely Default."
Only if there will be a definite collision within (say) twenty years.

Otherwise perturbation of asteroid orbits is just as likely to produce a collision with Earth than to prevent a collision with Earth.

The only way to completely prevent a collision between the Earth and an asteroid is to completely remove the asteroid. And good luck with succeeding in that.
> 30-pin compatible speaker docks and other accessories were very widely available, but there are far fewer devices made for Lightning

Apple used Firewire in the original iPod, then used the 30-pin connector for ~10 years, following it with Lightning as the "connector for the next decade." Seems to have been fairly accurate.
The vending machine at intel drops a can of coke. A CPU architect walking by picks it up then inserts his money. The machine is out of order.
Tell me you’ve never been stuck with hughesnet without telling me.

It is atrocious, and millions of people will jump ship the second they can
I thought one of his big free speech flag poles is that he was going to run it as it should be run, monetization be damned?
> his goal is the Everything App (which he calls X). The Everything App has news, social media, games, videos, and a payment infrastructure

so, WeChat?
Oh! I know what the difference is. You are using the Twitter "Home" view and I am using the "Latest Tweets" view. I highly recommend switching, at least if you want to not see things from outside your followed accounts.
The question wasn't who do you agree with that also writes good and can do other things good too, it was are there any politicians who write with the thoughtfulness approaching Jefferson (who would have agreed on the gold standard btw). Ron's ideas on freedom are excellent, they just aren't tempered with a strong understanding of market power and how it in itself can cause all the abuses the freedom from government he proposes is supposed to stop because there is little attempt to apply said freedoms to private companies who clearly have market power.
You mean a crappier version of Discord?

Whatever Twitter "reinvents" itself into, it needs to be in a social-networking niche that's not already served. Otherwise, their competitors will just have an edge-up on them.

Video games? Twitch will beat them.

Longer form videos? Youtube.

Short form videos? Tiktok.

Etc. etc. Twitter needs to figure out how to make money without simply becoming a clone of something else. Otherwise, the community just moves over to the already existing, better integrated platform.
It's a fair assumption. The free speech absolutist crowd very much tends to trend conservative.

I think most reasonable people would reject the assertion that twitter is the de facto standard. It isn't even in the top 10 for social media platforms by active monthly users, and usage and value of a platform varies way too much depending on age and gender. While twitter is possibly the de facto standard for gen-x + millennials and certain career groups such as politicians and journalists, it certainly won't be for 18-25 year olds. Facebook still has nearly 10x the monthly active users of twitter, in fact Twitter barely beats out Quora.

Ignoring the argument about it being the de facto standard, Twitter is a business. I expect that Elon would like to make money off of his $44B investment. In the battle between the free market and free speech, the free market will almost always win. If twitter goes the extreme free speech route, users who are often targeted by loud jerks, trolls and harassers will leave the platform. It will create bad press both in the form of people complaining about harassment as well as other businesses pulling ads where their customers or potential customers were harassed.
> Even something as simple as only showing you tweets from people you follow (what a concept!) would revolutionize the experience and drastically reduce the need for moderation.

You can do that right now by turning off retweets for the people you follow. You have to do that individually for every user you follow but it allows for a highly curated timeline. I turn of retweets for about 80% of the people I follow because I am interested in their original content but not in their random retweets. The other 20% introduce me to new content through their retweets.