skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had separately come to the conclusion some years ago that what I privately termed a "lag-license" (eventually goes to open source) is probably the right solution. I thought maybe four years.

To my mind, the essential problem is that code "copyrights" (copyright is really for artistic value) ought to have been for maybe four years, not more than a century, to begin with. The government hasn't done this (AOC, are you listening?) so business is fumbling toward the optimal solution, slowly.

But I had been thinking of a delayed release with a very permissive license such as MIT (duplicating the change in law I'd like to see.) But in that case, I wondered, should one have a clause that insists that derived works also go into the public domain after a lag? I.E. be lagged licensed as well. Only that creates the same situation as a law providing four years of copyright protection.

Releasing to Apace 2.0, as you do, addresses that, but might scare off some businesses.

Re release to MIT, I can see allowing code to be put in Escrow (Trust in other legal systems) rather than exposed immediately.

I do also wonder however if there's a case to allow companies to hold onto code that reveals, or reveals information about, trade secrets. Which likely doesn't apply in your case. But likely such information could be finagled into a data file rather than code.
Looks like all Meta properties are down for me in LATAM
I can confirm this. Our 2017 Volt's battery-only range drops from ~60 miles in the summer to only ~45 miles in winters.

Location: New England.
EVGA breaking away from working with NVIDIA was a warning sign of things to come.
If you want to use sqlite in the browser today (chrome only) take a look at websql.
> … support persistent client-side storage using available JS APIs. As of this writing, that includes the Origin-Private FileSystem (OPFS) [0]

This is really good news, and exactly what the OPFS was designed for.

You may have seen “Absurd SQL” [1] which was a proof of concept for building a SQLite Virtual FS backend using IndexedDB. It provided full ACID compliment transactions. Incredible work but a hack at best.

The OPFS supersedes all that and makes it possible to have proper consistent and resilient transactions.

WASM SQLite with the OPFS is the future of offline first web app development. The concept of a single codebase web/mobile/desktop app with proper offline storage is here.

What I really want to see next is an eventually constant sync system between browser and server (or truly distributed with WebRTC). The SQLite Session Extension [2] potentially has the building blocks needed for such a system.

0: https://webkit.org/blog/12257/the-file-system-access-api-wit...

1: https://github.com/jlongster/absurd-sql

2: https://www.sqlite.org/sessionintro.html
>It's easy to say that when you define conservative opinions as breaking the rules or harassment.

That's literally what they did. "misgendering someone" is hatespeech/harassment. When from a sane perspective outside the woke cult: Humans aren't clownfish and cannot change their gender.

The emperor's new dress doesn't make him a woman.
Slurs are made by context, tone, and perception by the target. I have never been called "cis" except by people with antagonistic tones trying to get a rise out of me. Furthermore the overwhelming majority of the roughly two billion English speakers around the world who aren't trans do not self-describe as "cis".

It's a slur.
Alpha max plus beta min algorithm
But claims that right wing voices are being censored would come from... right wing sources, no? Are those valid but not the left wing sources? If so, why?
Lots of people get happy when their "enemies" are unhappy and whinging about it. This implies nothing about whether the changes will be good for them too.
American society was far closer to breaking down in 1968 than it is today. Riots in multiple cities, political assassinations, the polarization over the war in Vietnam, violence in the south over segregation and civil rights, crime waves in most large cities, and urban decay that was so bad people don't believe it when they see the photos today...
The debt payments and IR -- was this the trick to have the money upfront, then sell the debt, so banks, do they own any amount of Twitter or did they get a payout immediately after "the ink dried", and now this $1.3bb scenario is going to be offloaded onto someone else? Financial engineering that leads to Musk's ownership and banks payout. And now is the when the price of that debt is highest, so the highest possible payout (?). Because you've pointed out the paradoxical financials, IR payments seem whimsical, or a way to eventually sell more TSLA stock...

Any good resources on the deal structure?
Please follow the HN guidelines:

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
Wearing one right now. I am very sensitive to weight on my wrist and it doesn't cause me any problems.
instagram.com as well. LATAM
You have to remember that those 200M+ users are located in many, many countries, with different laws and customs
Something like Twitter perhaps, but Twitter itself? I wouldn't be surprised if those engineers created enough servers that need to be maintained and require the manpower. Cutting engineers without cutting servers/code would be a nightmare.
Don't tempt me man!
They just had a major earnings miss. This will spook advertisers about Facebook's ability to deliver ads.
Like this? https://github.com/gavinuhma/checksum.sh/pull/2
Currently up for me in Atlantic Canada.
> The EU may let them back in, but not with all the special deals they had before

That's only the bureaucratic angle that is related to the Eu rules. A country joining must be confirmed with referendums in other countries for it to happen. And the UK will never get in because of that.

For it to get in, the UK must totally change, leave the delirious cultural and political adherence to its long-gone empire behind, and prove that it is a modern, civilized neighbor to everyone. And that would take up to 50 years and more, if it ever happens.
You know, there are best practices for moderating discussions.

https://coralproject.net/blog/five-myths-of-community-design...
definitely a statement that is false
> Tesla is the king of battery manufacturing

Did you mean Panasonic?
Bottom right should be "points lost" imo. For me, the most points lost, as there is nothing more annoying than someone assuming context I don't have.

It seems that this chart assumes:

1. Everyone is a baby that gets their feelings hurt when you imply they might not know something they do in fact know (top right).

2. Everyone loves being alpha nerd and making people feel dumb for not knowing things they know (bottom right)

While both of those are real phenomena, they are pretty dysfunctional. Many people (most people?) enjoy genuine cooperation within a context of mutual trust, learning things from others, and teaching others who want to learn. In that context, checking for knowledge is not a slight, and assuming things "are obvious" and failing to explain them is not a flex.
The Weird and Wonderful Daniel Radcliffe
The Gitea Open Letter has links to the two documents that have the facts you ask for, at the bottom of the page. And with links within the text. They are:

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#...
https://blog.gitea.io/2022/10/open-source-sustainment-and-th...
I was a big Elon Musk fanboy for what he was able to accomplish on both Tesla and SpaceX. I had the impression that he was very genuine and really wanted to "save humanity".

I ignored the crazy things he said on twitter. I think his accomplishments overshadowed his less favorable behavior.

But after his tweets about Ukraine, it really started to dawn on me that his "save humanity" was not really save humanity, but just a really good sales pitch. He fooled me, I confess.

Right now, I see him as a very successful businessman. But if he can choose between making money or "doing the right thing", I think it's clear by now that he would go for the money (like jump into bed with Russia or China in a heartbeat, as long as it delivers the extra buck).

Buying Twitter seems like a really bad idea, for both society and his pocket. I think we're seeing "Haughtiness comes before the fall" (I didn't use 'pride' because in Dutch this expression seems better)
Twitter lost nearly 2 billion dollars in the last 2 years. I suspect the number is much higher than that.

So the question is, can Mr. Musk and his new staffers do any worse than Twitter's former leadership and staff?

I doubt it.
When normal people get drunk and have bad ideas they phone an ex-girlfriend or sign up to a marathon. When you are the richest man in the you blow half your fortune on a social media platform.
It was right there in the contract... no brown rosary beads!
Libel/slander are famously hard to prove in the US. Sure you're not thinking of the UK?

Are peer nations substantially more liberal on copyright infringement than the US? I haven't really heard of that. Really, it seemed like other countries like Japan and Germany were stricter.
.. and yet, the percent is going up, not down.

secondly, you are incorrect about it being "young."

It was founded March 21, 2006, making it 16 years old. For a web company, that's an eternity.
4chan happens.
> Haven't you ever worked at a company where the only thing that keeps the product going is ongoing heroic intervention by people with deep subject matter expertise; even in the absence of any actual feature-driven change?

Often coupled with a mindless executive team that has no idea that's the case, and eventually lays off the SMEs because they're "too expensive."
You don’t need to blog to practice your writing
I think that's the wrong framing. Any one small site tracking me doesn't do anything. It's the shadow profiles that are built by correlating this data accross the web that actually is the issue.

The fact that an information market exists is a legal issue at heart to me.
It’s not like twitter is rocket science. And Europe is alright at rocket science anyway.

It twitter abandons the European market, people will use something else.
Neonazis on social media is an ACTUAL PROBLEM that is relevant in a lot of contexts today, for example one of Putin's absurd false justifications for his invasion is to 'clean nazis out'. Don't just see the word 'nazi' and flip out. Nazis are back and making real strides in many countries and spaces.
When Jerry Lewis died 5 years ago I read an HN comment saying somebody thought it was Jerry Lee Lewis.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15061018

I didn't remember that I made a bad joke replying to that. My second born child was a handful of days old at the time, must have been in that sleep deprived dad joke state.
I don't recall the full details. But I think it was roughly 50% effectively fixed (in April 2022) and 50% effectively adjustable.

Thus: the estimate for ~10% for the overall debt deal. The fixed-portion of the debt is already hilarious to look at, IIRC Morgan Stanley expected 11% yields for the CCC tranche, but are now looking at 16%+. Morgan Stanley's losses are already in the hundreds-of-millions.
What if he just loses a big pile of money while Twitter twists in the wind because there isn't much of a plan? That seems likely enough really.
With facebook dying, twitter getting bought out, reddit's eutrophication, and tiktok on the rise, it seems like things have unsettled quite a bit

The next couple years are going to be very interesting. Facebook will probably get bought out or something. For twitter, I can't really say. Reddit is probably going to become even more repulsive (and hopefully gets replaced). Hopefully tiktok goes away also :/

Also interesting to see the phrase "diversity of viewpoint" catching on so quickly
Any author that writes "it's a matter of simply deciding on a manageable subset of HTML and CSS and then calling it a standard" with a straight face may not understand the meaning of many of those words.

Actual standardization (of the open web variety) is inherently hard.

Nobody (and I do mean not one person) agrees with anyone else on which subsets of HTML and CSS are necessary.

CommonMark exists: https://commonmark.org/
I would love any personal background you’re willing to share just because your writeups are lapidary. Do you do this professionally? how do you decide what to cover? Seems like a broad array of tech stocks but maybe you cover other companies that you just don’t mention here at hacker news?

Again, absolutely none of my business. I’m just fascinated with how great minds operate.
In Los Angeles, it's down. But also, Metaverse is also down for me: no Horizon Workrooms or Horizon Worlds, or Meta App Store.
musk has consistently attracted top tier engineering talent.

the one thing I'm almost certain of is twitter will have better margins under musk.

It may not be worth the $44b though, he's starting at a $20b defecit.
That's the case if they aren't a group. Propaganda bots, state sponosored propoganda (look at the Chinese officals on covid.. you'll need to see the archives for that.. they'll directly claim that covid is the fault of the US Navy), professional troll army, state sponsored stalking groups, and extremist groups have been running rampant and in the open on twitter. (They have also been on Hacker News, Reddit, and Facebook)
HN is civil because of moderation, not because of the community.
>If your belief system allows you to support genocide, does that make you better than someone who is doing something bad now that doesn't support genocide?

Many people who use the term "groomers" as loosely as LibsOfTikTok already think of this "grooming" as equivalent to a genocide. That is my point. "Groomers" implies that the bad is already happening while "Nazi" implies the bad is a belief with undefined actions. It is the difference between being call a murderer and a psychopath. One says you already did something bad. The other says you might be capable of something bad.
I said that Musk would never own Twitter, and that it seemed like a drunken bar bet to me. His later actions seemed to signal that he was trying to weasel out of the deal.

I concede that I was wrong. However, it still seems like and act of hubris gone wrong to me. The terms of the financing of the acquisition look nasty.
As long as you don't say "Men can't get pregnant!!"
> Like someone using a custom twitter client as a single user shouldn't get that label, no?

Why not? If it's a niche client not many people use such false positive would be rare. Also such people probably don't have huge audirnce and they and their audiences won't care.

And it might be deterrent against people trying to build popular alternative client that might compete with main twitter app.

I don't think aiming for 100% accurate label is on the table.
Well, it didn't go that well [last time around](http://www.x86-secret.com/pics/divers/v56k/finalv5-6000.jpg).
I just read about this, its crazy. "diverse" viewpoints indeed
typed while reclining on the best living conditions in the history of the planet
For nostalgia's sake, I hope the code responsible for rendering the fail-whale[0] wasn't deleted in the past few years[1]. Seeing it again will be like seeing an old friend.

0. http://www.yiyinglu.com/?portfolio=lifting-a-dreamer-aka-twi...

1. If it was, may an outgoing Twitter engineer please add it back as a last commit. I'll buy you a beer.
I entirely missed the era where SQLite was a candidate for W3C inclusion. It was always a mental bookmark in case I found a need to have an app with any substantial offline mode, but by the time I found a perfect candidate (cataloging plants in situ), it was already deprecated, and a key-value store is no replacement for SQLite.
I'm not logged in so I can't see anything. But Downdetector shows 6000+ reports of Facebook being down in the last few minutes.
If they don't have advertisers how are they going to make money?
Taking your comment in good faith: A lot more engineering goes into "make people click on ads" than you seem to be realizing. And like or not but monetization is at the core of Twitter's business.
A civil lawsuit is always about money.

To win money in a lawsuit you need to show damages.

As a shareholder, the damages would be drop in stock price.

Good luck convincing all 12 jurors that Tesla's stock price dropped because a few Tesla engineers did a code review of Twitter code.

Especially given that Tesla stock tends to go up, not down (recent beatings due to macro nonwithstanding).
I think one can acknowledge Musk's entrepreneurship, ability to hire top talent, and risk-taking while at the same time pointing out his immaturity and petulance.
Some Instagram services also down
Alex Jones. Gavin McInnis. James O'Keefe. Breitbart, which is banned 2/3rds of the time.

Fox News is for your 65+ year old uncle. It's harmless, controlled opposition. Look at the Jan 6th coverage. It exists for the left to point at and say, "see, there it is! Right wing bias!" - for one example.
But does it support Wayland?

/me goes into hiding ...
EU Opinion: Streaming Services Are Not Liable for VPN ‘Pirates’
Anyone in the world can reply to your tweets. You see replies. Harassment is a huge problem on Twitter.
Great post, you are wise in the ways of the shell. Minutiae like this is exactly why I stop writing shell scripts the moment I start, and reach for python or some other sane language. But, I can't help but respect when I see masters of sh work their magic.
Maybe that's part of the plan. They can livestream the council meetings on Twitter's new streaming service. That's their first show. Every season starts in the boardroom but ends on Twitter Island. It's a real life hybrid of The Hunger Games and Squid Game.

The future of entertainment is a modern twist on old school gladiators. Elon Musk is our Augustus.
Sounds like you are defining a hood job solely on financial parameters which i don’t think should be the goal markers. That said I realize you are responding to the financial aspect of the question.

Also he likely has a plan to get more revenue otherwise he likely (caveat he is quite impulsive) wouldn't have jumped in. Theres clearly an idea to a path for a better company - well see if that can execute.
For more caveats like this one I recommend reading: https://www.etalabs.net/sh_tricks.html
He mentioned "the everything app" I think once? But -- IMHO -- people who tweet don't fit the profile of people who would need such an app. They're trying to sell stuff, not buy stuff.
> Ultimately the EU is stronger with the UK as a member

No, really, it wasn't. The UK always acted as the trojan horse of the US inside Europe and sabotaged practically every initiative that could make the Eu a more synchronized, powerful entity. It sabotaged all central initiatives. It even acted as de facto pusher of US trade deals like TTIP, which would turn the Eu into a colonial corporate backyard for the US.

Which is one reason there wasn't much reaction from the European countries' establishments to the UK leaving the Eu, and it even looked like they wanted to facilitate it as fast as possible.
Tesla's solar business was started by purchasing one of the most aggressive and shady outfits in the business. SolarCity was a mess.
Christopher Poole.
Actually all down
https://www.newsweek.com/pro-trump-rally-warns-lindsey-graha...
Can't a privately owned company just ban whoever for whatever (or no) reason at all?
It's really interesting. There should be a massive ledger of checksums for software
> It twitter abandons the European market, people will use something else.

Yes, and then be disconnected from the rest of the world.
I don't know if this was a reference to the Gravity Model of trade[1], but I think you will be right in the long run.

I expect the long run to be at least three decades, though. Maybe seven. I'll be dead.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_model_of_trade

Quote: The model has been an empirical success in that it accurately predicts trade flows between countries for many goods and services, but for a long time some scholars believed that there was no theoretical justification for the gravity equation.

Lol, it works in practice but not in theory, so many economists choose to believe theory.
>The word "Diverse" has been successfully appropriated and destroyed by the right.

>It USED to mean "include representation of those not from the mainstream - those that don't typically have major representation, but whose opinions are valuable to be included"

The majority of Twitter moderation staff appear to be more left wing than the mainstream. Allowing more center and right wing people on the decision making would be allowing a marginalized group within Twitter to have a voice.
Elon has already started groveling to advertisers:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585619322239561728
It doesn't for the same reason there isn't already a "WeChat" of the west.

Additionally Twitter has as far as I can tell (speculative) a much much less stable foundation in the EU then it seems if you just look at daily users count.
Unsuspended and Kanye's happened before he got there precisely for this framing if I had to guess. Likely a malicious employee.
> Do journalists find him threatening in some way? Do the leftwing-dominated media resent him for supporting Republicans? Do they think we’re not smart enough to critically appraise Musk ourselves?

maybe, yes, most definitely yes.
Reddit is privately owned by Advance Publications which is privately owned by the Newhouse family. Nobody can just buy it if they're not willing to sell it.
my current gen garmin watch lasts a month - color screen lots of complications/updates/notices.

Granted if i turned the GPS on it could go down to as low as 24 hours depending on how often it updates.
Oh come on, that’s like saying someone isn’t being tortured, just temporarily having their pleasure removed until they confess.
In which case, silencing them makes them martyrs and makes them feel important, which generally never works. People love being members of a secret "in-group" - just look at cults. Plus, it's not like it won't stop them - after all, the original Nazis did not need social media, or the internet, to obtain power.

I say bring it out in daylight, and let them loose every debate they have so they look like idiots instead of martyrs.
Which is probably why they deleted the tweet. They were probably getting ratio'ed to hell. So they decided to delete their shame rather than take their lumps.
> reveal things that would put me in legal jeopardy.

Like what?
Britain's Productivity Problem
>pro-abortion
>anti-war
>think the DoD should be defunded
>don't hold any religious / spiritual views
>dating a trans woman
>hate Reagan, Bush, and Trump

It is cognitive dissonance to classify these positions and views as right-wing, plain and simple. You're projecting a binary worldview onto a nuanced world.
VS Code Pet
Codachi is a virtual pet inside VS Code.

I've recently made the project open source.

Check it out and show the project some love
Your first policy is reasonable, but your second is definitely not.
Missed the other `echo $s` piped into shasum. But I echo the sentiment of the another commenter that I'd rather rely on `shasum --check` to give the OK or not.
These are actually fine in most places.

You only see videos of the out of control ones because they're the weird ones.

If you only view the world through the snippets that are noteworthy enough to make headlines or get a lot of votes on Reddit, you end up with a very skewed view of what the world is like.
No, giving idiots equal voice reduces their shame & public shaming is likely the highest mitigating pressure against idiocy.

It obviously isn't anywhere near as effective as we would like, but I can't think of any legal tactic that actually works better.