skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To people downvoting this message - I do sincerely hope we get to live in two separate lifetimes: me in the one where SpaceX succeeds and you in the one where it fails.
In case someone is confused by this comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar:_The_Last_Airbender

(The character Iroh is the uncle of the character Zuko.)
> He clearly has done in support of Ukraine with providing Starlink etc.

Do you know that Ukrainians are buying and paying subscriptions for that. I'm sure the return on investment is very well calculated.

Ok, so we give up a part of Ukraine to avoid nuclear war. Works very good for Russia. In a few years Russia takes the rest of Ukraine. Are you going to risk nuclear war then? No? Great!

Then Russia invades the Baltic states. Want to risk nuclear war now? Of course not. Then they take the rest of central Europe that was under their control.

Is East-Germany worth the risk of nuclear war in your opinion, or not?
> SpaceX. I had the impression that he was very genuine and really wanted to "save humanity".

One think I which people would realize more is that you can't "safe humanity" by populating mars or anything like that.

Even if earth becomes extremely hostile due to climate change, or lets say a catastrophic event like it killed the Dinos it would still be docents if not even hundred of times easier to live on earth then on mars.

Just to double down on it. It is even true if every single tree on earth burned down, the equator regions are frequently over 100C, the oceans are completely dead and no mice can survive on the surface. Even then it would not only be simpler to survive on earth then on mars it also would still be much much more easy to make earth livable again the it would be to do so with Mars...

Or in other words geo-forming/(long term, self sustainable, growable populating) Mars is technologically so far away that implementing faster then light traveling might turn out easier. It's _that_ hard. And SpaceX at most contributes to getting there and nothing more. And sure you have to start at some point. But SpaceX never was about saving humanity it always was about making money. And what provides reliably more money then getting state investment for rockets for a mars mission?
If that's the case, it won't be so different from when Twitter was run as a public co.
What happened? The "pretty smart billionaire" started calling anyone who slighted him a pedophile. The "pretty smart billionaire" continues to commit fraud with false promises over at Tesla. The "pretty smart billionaire" seems to have a disdain for his lowly peasant employees.
Firing 1000 engineers who contribute very little value at a total comp of $300-400k will make a meaningful dent in opex.

Eliminating the draconian content moderation policies and reinstating high-engagement accounts ought to boost revenue.

I think you're largely correct that this is a bad deal for Musk, but I doubt it will be quite as bad as it seems, when restructuring is completed.
Thanks for the reference. Also at https://archive.ph/zZYNR.
In many cases a severance package is attached to an NDA and non-disparagement agreement, or whatever else an employer may want to protect against ex-employees doing. In exchange for signing, the employee gets X weeks/months pay, or a bonus of $X, etc.
I assume they sent the water over the Canadian side simply due to the treaty. That said, they have excess capacity to handle blocking 1/2 the flow over Niagara Falls every night, but even doing nothing was still a non issue.

If you assume they blocked 1/2 the flow (1,400 m3/s) and didn’t use it for anything. That would still take 21 days to raise water level of Lake Erie by 1cm.
The inside of consumer-assembled PCs is a terrible place for government intervention.
My life was going fine until my tweet got too close to Agent K's centroid.
Now it's time for GIMP to shine and come to the rescue.
Toxic algal blooms like crimson tide can tend to choke off and kill all other life in a body of water that experiences eutrophication. It's actually such a regular thing in the Salton Sea from nearby fertilizer runoff that you could drive by and see rotting fish carcasses littering the shoreline. Probably means something analogous to that.
In Arizona, bands of visibly-armed thugs are parking themselves around mail-in voting points taking videos and pictures...and even following people in their cars to see where they go. There's a 75 foot distance law, but that doesn't mean much.

What happens if the also-armed liberals get sick of this crap, and the confrontations escalate?

It's not civil war, but it can lead to ugly conflicts.
You have any data sources to back your claims? Or are these your opninions?
People make that comparison, but the secret sauce of TikTok is letting users score their content with high quality copyrighted music.
There is still animus between musk and certain groups of thought. Certain people always see the negative and worst case scenario. Others see opportunities with various levels of risk aversion.

Clearly Musk is in the latter camp.

I said earlier that twitter has been hemorrhaging money to tune of nearly 2 billion over the last 2.5 years.

While possible, its likely that Musk can't possibly do worse than the former leadership.

Obviously it is a gamble, but what isn't a gamble? And what do such men gain without nothing ventured?
He only has $24 billion at risk. I mean, he has a lot of his reputation invested, but only $24 billion in actual dollars. The rest is from other investors and debt that the Twitter company itself (and not Musk) actually has.
Some years ago, I played a but with yazy websearch (yazy.net). Yazy cannot index Tor / onion sites, so maybe that.
If you want to ask the Plato persona a question, post it here and I'll include your question in the next video when I try asking it more questions.
If I were to build a bot I wouldn’t even touch the API. Why not simulate everything through a headless browser and stay under the radar. Then build a farm of those simulations and you can publish/promote everything you desire pretty much undetectable.
Right. So you see the ship taking an hour to travel from the
Sun to the Earth, and the ship’s clock only counts fifteen minutes. But you turned this round and ask how much time the ship would see our clock tick during its journey? Now if everything is symmetrical then it would see our clock tick 3.75 minutes.

So, the thing the observers disagree in their different reference frames is what “now” means.
My use case is an offline-capable app. There was already WebSQL, but it got deprectaed.
I'm coming from the POV that a financial decision boiling down to one individual on behalf of some company is different than a purchase made by an individual
An odd was to do that.

TSLA is down by half from last year. If you believe the TSLA bulls he sold at the bottom to buy something that instantly loses him half what he paid.
The weird thing is, I didn't think Tim Pool was completely wrong. I, too, prefer having removed speech available but contextualized. There have been times where I wanted to answer a "prove it!" but couldn't find the video/tweet/whatever because it was completely removed with no explanation.

I also understood Vijaya Gadde and pre-Musk Twitter's position better even if I still think their systems end up hitting marginalized people more than the people who want to marginalize them. The task is harder than Musk realizes, and he fired the person who's been working hardest on it for most of the last decade and understands the problem space best.
i've said it before, there's much easier money to be made than better against Musk. When presenting a big idea he's pretty much been laughed out of every room he's ever walked into. Then, much to everyone's dismay, he does it. I'm withholding judgment for a few years...
That's a party palace ideal. When yer buddies come over, y'all head to the room that has the plastic furniture and the drain in the floor. In the morning, hit it all with the garden hose.
> Even free speech people don’t like speech that is critical of their beliefs

This is like saying people that like apple pie don't like apple pie. Yes, there are liars and hypocrites out there but those aren't the true believers.

That said, despite the challenges out there, that doesn't mean you just give up the fight for free speech. There will always be bias but the goal here is to even the playing field so we can return to a time where the rules are applied evenly to all players.
Tomb robbers are given to smashing anything that gets in their way.
Both DRM and iBiquity HD-Radio are mentioned on the page.
> And it might be deterrent against people trying to build popular alternative client that might compete with main twitter app.

That's horrible for users.

Twitter's iOS app is a third-party app they bought because it was so much better than their own at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweetie
These points are generally true to anyone who ever has to write an email or text message as part of a job. This could be generalized to "How to communicate effectively as a knowledge worker".
They are also demonstrating that they're likely to use specialized services for specific tasks - Twitter is a very specialized tool. This is the exact opposite from someone who draws any profit from an "everything app".

If not even Facebook with its userbase of people already using a single mediocre tool for different purposes manages to crack the "everything app for the west" nut, Twitter is bound to fail.

Maybe everyone is bound to fail simply because the concept does not fly in the west.
Looking forward to the diverse and valuable ideas on whether or not the Earth is round, climate change is real, and jewish people should or should not have people going death con on them.
This was also Marx's argument, of the "don't blame the player, blame the game," ilk.
Yes. I experimented with the go IPFS client but stopped using it after noticing that even a fairly small share was burning up 75% of a CPU core all of the time.
Weird idea, but what would happen if you’d employ convicted pedos to review such content?

I guess you wouldn’t be able to fix them this way…
Keep in mind, the behavior we’re seeing doesn’t require AI. All it requires is a bunch of poorly trained employees (contractors?) whacking at buttons after reading a policy which is worded in broad terms.
I think this is the webpage of one of my favorite YouTubers VWestlife:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1ydE9gDHTdvbNVIgEKIKzw
He makes all sorts of cool retro videos on computers, hi-fi systems, records, tapes, etc. And he's been doing it for a really long time too! Like, recording early stuff on camcorders and digitizing and uploading.
The old shareholders cannot do anything. His new investors are like a dozen on billionaires who own pretty big pieces.
"But for many women, Twitter is a platform where violence and abuse against them flourishes, often with little accountability. As a company, Twitter is failing in its responsibility to respect women’s rights online by inadequately investigating and responding to reports of violence and abuse in a transparent manner.

The violence and abuse many women experience on Twitter has a detrimental effect on their right to express themselves equally, freely and without fear. Instead of strengthening women’s voices, the violence and abuse many women experience on the platform leads women to self-censor what they post, limit their interactions, and even drives women off Twitter completely."

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2018/03/online-vi...
Whi else did he call a pedophile? I know of only one person.

Do you have any proof of fraud? If so, you should turn it into the SEC.

Musk is not known to give hugs. So what?
Making them responsible for what they say online by removing the repercussions that would happen to anyone else saying the same thing online? really?
I think that's more a failure of our justice system than the privately-owned public-square app.

Why can't the DoJ go after those have killed with their lies?
> Likely a malicious employee.

...or an employee who felt unshackled from the previous management and knew they would have air-support by the time anyone else realized what had happened.
Mars missions aren't happening for the foreseeable future.
This does not really answer anything. As far as we can tell (modulo the precision of our instruments), it's likely there are many, many stars like our sun and planets like Earth, even if they are not in the majority. It also seems like life sprang up almost immediately after the Earth cooled enough for it to be feasible.
If the same boring ideas of that diverse group of men, women, LBGTQ people and PoC are that we need to strive for equality between all of these groups... that is exactly the point.
Isn't that kind of the story of Twitter thus far already? Certainly on the financial front they never seemed to have much of a plan, and on the product side things always seemed like a bit of a mess to me as well.

Some fresh leadership might not be a bad thing for Twitter. Whether Musk is the right person for that...
There doesn't need to be one algorithm. Bring your own algorithm would be pretty cool.
I've mentioned before how loud an argument we got into with a guy who aspired to being a hacker, and yet didn't understand that the magnetic domains on a HDD were essentially analog. Even after we asked him why, if hard drives were truly binary, that secure disk erase tools were so complex and slow he still insisted that everything was binary, soup to nuts.

Even the simplest things are a fiction. Or maybe I should say especially the simplest things are a fiction.
I'm not going to lie, "bot wars" sounds a lot more fun than current Twitter. I want to play.
I've been called a sissy on many an occasion. That is in fact, being misgendered, and I cared a lot when I was young. I no longer care about being mocked and I reject gender norms in general, but I'm just old enough to just realize a bully being an asshole is a tale as old as time.

I realize though that it isn't always on option for people. This can be much more challenging if it's in the workplace, or when people are younger and social acceptance is more important.

I think the trans movement would be helped massively if we just focused on that being anti-trans is just being bullying. The focus on edge-cases and ontology and essentialism of gender makes the debate much more muddy.
If you can come back by removing the offending element, you aren't really banned.

"No offensive t-shirts" is not the same thing as being banned lol
Every day, I commit a new and more complicated version of some simple code
Firstly, I don't think it's a hive mind. All of the threads I've read through have been absolutely split between people who broadly think he's over-estimating himelf/underestimating the problem and people who think everyone else is over-estimating the problem and under-estimating him.

I think the crux of it for me, is that whilst Musk comes at this fresh, he's not proposing fresh solutions. He has repeatedly suggested things that people have already tried, and then pivoted away from - realising the mistakes. It's very difficult to see this news today and not say "Oh, ok, so you're going to replicate Facebook's oversight board?"

I agree with you, he's acheived a lot. At the end of the day though 2+2=4 no matter who you are, and if we're shooting for 5, I might hope Elon can produce 5, but if I hope he's going to produce 5, and his big idea is 2+2, then I'm going to be skeptical. it's not that I think he's an idiot, it's that he's proposing things that are well trodden paths.
Sentiment analysis can solve the first. If the algo notices that someone only engages negatively with another cluster, cut it off; they're not entitled to pollute that.

And the second point was a mostly abstract intellectual debate in the early 2010s, but people have proven that they absolutely prefer to stick with their own, and have close-to-zero tolerance for dissent or disagreement (see, "the hivemind"). Twitter is far more prone to this than Facebook, since it's founded on communities (i.e. clusters) rather than just friends. Twitter just needs to stop putting junk into people's feeds; and silo them better to reduce harassment.

That would also reduce polarization, since a yuge cause for polarization (far-right, antifa) is a knee-jerk reaction to the very worst content from the other side. Stop promoting that, and you'll stop the "Brainwashing Of My Dad" effect (the film), where a conservative from Texas gets upset because of bathroom laws in California, or where a liberal gets upset because of a few 4chan trolls.

It's the psychological phenomenon of "enmeshment": remove the boundaries between people, and you make their relationship very toxic and conflictual. Enforce better boundaries, and their relationship will be far healthier. Twitter promoted the former; Musk can avoid most of the upcoming "hell" being predicted by doing the latter.
> Clearly Musk is in the latter camp.

Is he actually thought? If so, why did he try to maneuver out of the deal right up until it was clear he would not be able to?
I think Eastern is the only one I’m familiar with and sounds like I’d prefer it over Western
Profits Slump at CNN as Ratings Plummet [1]

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/02/business/media/cnn-profit...
Absolutely. I think the "business guy" was mostly familiar with non-usurous interest rates. They hadn't heard the term "technical debt" enough to understand that interest rates increase the more you borrow. Every bit of cruft you add to the code adds to the interest rate as well as the principal.
"Very permissive" seems an odd way to put it. It's a human right. The way this is stated is just as if giving women the right to do everything men can do was "very permissive."
Accessing tweets does not seem to require agreeing to any Twitter TOS. They have the option to not serve data to your client (browser), but once they've chosen to, there doesn't seem to be any agreement that would restrict your right to screenshot. Republishing those screenshots could run afoul of copyright restrictions, but no more so than embedding currently does.
The Ministry of Truth?
I’m currently at a company like this and have been in the past. What should companies do to avoid this type of situation?
Yes. I feel that "liking" is a consumerist approach to conversation. Buy/no buy, swipe left/right. It's more nuanced in real world. We don't always agree or disagree with people, sometimes we just listen and exchange words. So yeah, there would be less "likes", but they would be more substantial.
suppression of the hunter biden story was the clearest one. (let me know if you need details or citations on the NY Post article & account being banned by twitter before the election).

Also Alex Berenson's lawsuit with Twitter revealed that public officials leaned on twitter to suppress his voice. I think these emails are revealing on the 'coziness' between the current administration and twitter policy team.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-white-house-privatel...

Can you imagine if the Trump administration put pressure on twitter to suppress reporters they thought was 'epicenter of disinfo'?
We don’t know what. But it’s obvious he didn’t want the trial to go on and wanted it to end immediately when the judge wanted him to testify
yes, but it probably won't be free
I'm the only one who can run that business for him and he knows it.
> No company can avoid complying with the law; but they can't be forced to take down a tweet worldwide either.

Sure they can. "You take down tweets we don't like, or Tesla loses China as a market, we arrest all the employees currently in China, and take your factories and other assets there".

Can he say "fine"? Sure, technically.
Misunderstands black swan events.

Having your bike stolen is not a black swan event: it's foreseeable.

Having your bike spontaneously explode: a black swan. Bikes don't do that, according to our understanding of the world.
You quite obviously can. For what idea can you not find a person with Black skin who supports it?

You've got Black centre-rightists like me, Far Rightists like Clarence Thomas, Barack Obama in the middle, and quite a range of voices on the Left - I'll pick Ta-Nehisi Coates as a very talented example over there.
Why does it kind of suck? Let people believe what they want to believe. It's not like it makes any difference to your life or theirs.
One missing part of the definition is that the increased nutrients cause algae to overgrow and reduce oxygen supply in the water, killing the fish

The process is similar to what's happened to reddit: new users come in like agricultural runoff, which leads to overgrowth of more suffocating aspects of the site culture
"If we use" doing a lot of work here
>Go to Twitter logged out, what do you see? How about Facebook?

With respect to the dev; most people have a pretty good idea what Facebook and Twitter are about and some idea of the huge numbers of people using each site. It's also highly likely that we all know countless people with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. accounts. So, even if there's a locked door with a "Create an Account to See What's Inside!" sign at the entrance, we've a pretty good idea what's going on inside, can be pretty sure that we'll find someone in there to interact with, and so make an informed decision as to whether to venture in.

Vers? How many people have even heard of it --never mind know anyone with an account there? So, what's the incentive for me [or anyone] to go to the hassle of setting up yet another website account, just to see what's inside? The huge incumbent social media websites don't need to try and draw people in. New upstarts do. And I think it takes a bit more enticement than "We're not going to tell you what's in here. But buy a ticket anyway. It'll be great!"
Apply the coupon and it's 190: https://www.amazon.com/Processor-Beelink-Computer-Support-Di...
I do not find my right to speak, or speak truth to power to be restricted unncessarily

Again, this is not an axis with good on one end and bad on the other. It's an axis between fewer limits and more limits.
A hash is the same when the values of the content are the same. But when you get a new (maliciously hacked) install script chances are that you won't have an old hash lying around to check whether the script changed. Any attacker who could swap the sceipt could also swap the hash, unless it is a different channel.

With GPG the developer has a key pair (one private, one public). They can then sign all their scripts with their private key and publish the public one wherever. You can then take that public key and verify that the script has been indeed signed by the developers private key.
This is not exclusive to Twitter, but here's a recent research papaer on the comparative advantage of "the right" in dissimination of information on social media.

The advantage of the right in social media news sharing:
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/1/3/pgac137/66516...

Upenn article summary:
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/Penn-research-Twitter-gives...
500W is going to be one hell of a wall wart.
Why not diversity of skin color?

Diversity is both of these things. It is true that you can have more diversity in a room of people of one race than a room of people of all different races, but it's more common that you will find diversity across lines like race, gender, age, etc.
This is the most ignorant thing I have read in awhile. Adversity is adversity, white males face it, women face it, PoC face it.

What you don't think there are white kids with single moms? Or white kids that had dads that beat them? Or white kids that were molested? Or white kids that got harassed by police? Or white kids that were told to give up, or that they wouldn't amount to anything?

Your view of white people is completely detached from reality. Anyone who has been through adversity (most people), can empathize with anyone else who has gone through adversity even if the circumstances of that adversity weren't exactly the same.