skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is one possible outcome: Elon splits up Twitter into two parts:

1. An infrastructure element that creates an open API/protocol for sharing/pushing messages, contacts and media between content/social media platforms. The basic idea is to have a generic interface similar to email.

2. A content company that provides aggregation, search, moderation (possibly based on user preference) and possibly editorial features, as well as a front-end for users. Basically what gmail is to email.

As soon as Republicans gain control of congress (and possibly the presidency), he starts lobbying to make it mandatory for all social media platforms to allow their users to connect through the API/protocol under (1) with a generalized account, similar (or identical, at least in form) to email addresses.

This would kill the monopolies of Facebook, Insta, Tik-Tok, etc, by allowing a user to use only one of them to connect with user on all of them, similar to how they can use an email client of choice.

Twitter could then charge some small fee for communicating over this protocol, or could simply sell the protocol company to the government, who could make the protocol publicly owned, like email/smtp.

Would this make him a huge profit? Not likely. At best he would get his investment back, perhaps. But it could help break down some echo chambers and counteract some of the crazy polarization that's currently going on in the US.

And if I'm reading Musk correctly, profit is no longer his primary motivation, if it ever was. Rather, it seems that he has some Messiah complex where he wants to be seen as the guy that saves the world.

Whether you see that as a sign of genuine altruism, a severe case of Narcissism or just a sign that he's really an insecure nerd that seeks social validation, is up to you.
>More generally, we never purposely made the recommendation algo worse to increase boosts or because people would only stay if they didn’t meet someone during my era, even if everyone thought that’s we did.

Would anyone admit this publicly? That's a surefire way to destroy your career or getting sued.

Also begs the question for which performance indicators did you optimize if not engagement and retainment?
> Lisp is pretty much "undead".

Nice, I like it. Lisp as like the Dracula of languages: immortal and extraordinarily majestic and powerful, but doomed to forever prowl the night, feeding on the innocent--and occasionally turning them.
Properly taxed wealthy people and corporations.
A lot of people reading this aren't going to understand what you mean by "checkout Postman". I'm guessing you mean "read Neil Postman's books"? If so, I agree - especially Amusing Ourselves to Death.
Mine in Atlanta are up. Already had the 'Network Helper' enabled.
I deleted that because it colored what I said enough for you to miss my message. I have no agenda, but I think your comment proves my point that there's something off about how we're communicating right now.
Flagged this. There is a reasonable discussion to be had here, and it was being had. But you're calling me a bot, you're misrepresenting what I've said and launching into an unrelated rant about censorship.

This is flamebait, plain and simple.
This is exactly the problem with the current Firefox direction: It's tries to mimic Chrome with a few differences here and there. Chrome should not be the baseline. Slightly better than chrome does not mean good.
Which is irrelevant. The $8 per 'verified' user will never be enough to cover expenses or offset the lost advertising revenue.
Reddit planned to double to 1400 in 2021 alone [1], it wouldn't surprise me if they were at 1500-2000 by now.

1. https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/9/22274077/reddit-funding-ro...
> But I would also like to see posts about actual projects written in Lisp.

I agree. Lisp is one of the languages that people love to talk about rather than show off their projects
I started making websites in 1995 when I realize how easy it is to edit HTML code. I then saw a job board posting in high school for a local company that wanted a web designer. Fast forward to college I opted to take Business School because the computer science department was so ancient. I didn't want to spend time learning archaic languages for the sake of 'theory'. Fast forward to today and I've been programming successfully, without any formal training for over 25 years.
I would be fine with that, if it's a reasonable price of course. Now their software is really cheap considering the alternative options.
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How data powers ticketing at FC Barcelona’s iconic stadium.
This piece demonstrates excellent writing skills - bits of humor interspere information-dense sections on legalese, allowing the reader to easily absorb the information.

As far as the byzantine arbitration process described here, signed off on by the US Supreme Court and adopted across most of the corporate world, with the obvious intent of making it hard for ordinary citizens to sue corporations for damages, see this quote:

"Control the coinage and the courts -- let the rabble have the rest." Thus the Padishah Emperor advises you. And he tells you: "If you want profits, you must rule." There is truth in these words, but I ask myself: "Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?"

-Dune, by Frank Herbert
This is literally linked in a reply to you: https://r13y.com/

Nix is 99.77% reproducible, so come on. It’s not marketing, nix just properly solves the problem for the first time ever.

Guix is another example, it is more into “bootstrappability” though, so packages can be built from source all the way down to a few kilobyte C-subset compiler written in assembly. Very cool!
My company stopped hiring for about a month when there was a lot of uncertainty but we seem to be doing well financially and are now hiring more headcount so the mood around hiring seems to have gotten better.
And the second question, would be:
What is the cost for it and would we be willing to pay it?
It will be interesting to see how Elon defines success. Twitter in it's current form is a dead end, and there's no way "more free speech" is going increase either revenue or users. So if you think Elon is going to succeed at making Twitter a better Twitter as we know it, then I'm confident this take is wrong.

Which is why he's focused on the everything X app or whatever. Now, I wouldn't want to underestimate Elon, he is good at min-maxing, but I don't know that Twitter has a great competitive advantage to build on. It's one of the smallest social networks and Twitter as Twitter, i.e. the one big open forum with politicians, journalists scientists etc _is_ it's competitive advantage. So I don't know how you get from Twitter to X when almost every other social media does the things X would do better than Twitter. The biggest thing Elon would have to do is build trust with users and partner companies and that certainly does not seem like the direction he's heading. On the one hand I wouldn't bet against Elon, on the other hand the deck seems stacked against him. He'll have to prove he can run a SASS Twitter with minimal staff, which may be possible. But I don't know he does that and goes into al these other areas (payments, advertising, trust and safety) that seem very hands on to build relationships with partner companies, PCI Compliance, handle customer concerns, fraud etc.

Managing people requires people. He wants to make the moderation process more transparent? He'll either have to invent perfect text analysis AI, or he'll need people to process and respond to abuse complaints and petitions.

This TC article sums up the X challenges pretty well: https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/08/elon-musk-x-everything-wec...
Possibly tangential, but I'm currently reading a very interesting and insightful comic book by the (IMHO) great Liv Strömqvist. She describes that romantic love is muchly devaluated because it's not perceived as a magical/mystical thing any more. These days, love and dating are driven by data and measurements, just like everything else. She argues that this makes it essentially much more rationally accessible and consequently a lot weaker.

The book is apparently not available in English yet, but will be released by Fantagraphics [1]. I found the insights very eye-opening and frankly somewhat depressing.

[1] https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/liv-stromquist/pro...
> One of the first steps in learning TS is to change the way you write code to make it easier to type.

I think this is a correct answer. TS is just a different language happened to interop js easier than the others.
...while introducing ten other issues.
And the third question, would be: What is the cost for using outdated technology and are we really willing to pay it?
The U.S. congress passed a law a while back making arbitration terms in contracts legally enforceable.
Might be. Since when do we allow such posts with bold claims only?
> they'll be carved and stored deep underground.

But of course you need some marker then on the ground so people know where to look for it later if they want to read the data. Maybe some artwork? A giant monolith perhaps?
> You don't need conspiratorial thinking about forcing an update to a minor version of an OS for goodness' sake.

you dont need to read conspiratorial thinking about a simple question.

It just seems odd that it needs 16.2.. not 16.1... I'm very curious as to what this specific release has that the app needs?

Normally apps are more closely tied to MAJOR releases, not point updates.
Even if we could prove it, and I believe with a high credence that it was the Wuhan lab, nothing would happen. Because it's China.

The argument about "manslaughter" is laughable because that's a legal classification in US laws. It doesn't apply... because it's China.

Gain of function research has been considered too dangerous in most developed countries, and funding it could be considered a crime. We have the evidence that Fauci directed funds to the Wuhan lab for this purpose. But nothing will be done, because he's a darling of Democrats for standing up to Trump.

There's a reason Xi Jinping's government replaced the head administrator of the Wuhan virology lab back in March of 2020 with a military officer. It was not so the research would stop, it's so that it would be more tightly controlled. This was actually announced, though the rest of the world was too busy freaking out at the time.
There was a voting machine posted here a while back that was literally transparent, as in you would literally be able to see the computer marking off the paper ballot through a transparent box. Is this the same thing, or is this something different? I don't think "computer experts say it's okay" is going to help build trust when people are distrusting of authority in the first place, so I hope it's the transparent one.
Rails are the original road!

They are often railworthy but they may not be up to Amtrak's standards. However, if you find a museum with a locomotive and cars; you can often hire them to run you someplace. But you may be pulled by a freight loco.
Yes.

One does not even need to reach for Rust. Literally any other language (in common use) other than very badly used C++ would not have had this problem.

C delenda est.
> Morgan probably bundled it all up, made a nice fee, and passed it on to Musk.

It has not. The debt was conditional on the acquisition of Twitter by Musk, so Morgan Stanley could not sell it before the acquisition was completed. But the debt was necessary for the acquisition, so the acquisition could not be completed without the debt money. Therefore, they had to happen at the same time, with M&S fronting the money.

Of course the terms of the debt, and the price of the acquisition, had to be both defined for everything to move forward, so they were finalized months ago.

When Musk signed a contract with Morgan Stanley, money was cheap, so the debt has very low interest. When the debt has actually been issued, a few days ago, money had become more expensive; Morgan Stanley won't find anyone to buy it as-is. To sell it they will have to discount it quite deeply, losing a bunch of money; otherwise they'll be stuck with it.
Glad that you identified not fostering a community of outside condtributors as one of Mozilla's failings.
> the strongest criticism for me [for Arbitration,] is its lack of transparency.

... and the incentive for an arbitrator to favour the corporation for repeat business.
> Reddit. Reddit is by far the worst and has the most impact.

I think this may be viewing things through a bubble - my baby boomer parents don't know what reddit is, neither do any of their friends, but you better believe they and all their Facebook friends are all aware of all the latest crazy conspiracy theories. I think Reddit, while popular for certain demographics, is far less wide spread than some of the other social media.
> I don’t think his proposal was pro-Russia as much as it was anti-more-dead-people.

It was anti Ukrainian lives on occupied territories and pro Russian soldiers lives. It was also pro next invasion once Russia recovers at which point Russia will argue that Ukraine is failed stated due to having destroyed infrastructure.

>The objective now is (or should be) minimizing casualties and human suffering,

The causalities are not minimized by rewarding Russia for invasion and letting it continue with genocide.

> not lines on maps from 2015

The issue is not so much lines on the map as actual consequences of those maps. The torture, genocide, suppression of Ukrainian identity and so on. And obviously favorable position for next invasion again and again, until whole of Ukraine is taken.
James West would approve.
Is that really Twitter's fault? Please go through this thread right here and see how many of the comments would fit in a tweet. Many of them also match (or exceed) the Twitter standard for lack of basic humanity. The appetite was there. If Twitter hadn't provided the outlet, some essentially identical alternative would have. It's quite likely that some other will do the same after Musk finishes driving Twitter into the ground.

The platform isn't the problem. The people using whatever platform they can find to spread an anti-democratic anti-intellectual anti-humanitarian message are. I'm sorry you don't want to see that.
Looking at the US labor statistics, you'd think this was a golden age. But that 20% raise you got is only about 9% when you factor in the likely inflation taking place in your area.

The thing is that recessions start somewhere. They never hit the entire economy at once. This one started in the most highly-leveraged areas of the economy because the crisis that's brewing is all about money. More specifically, it's all about access to collateral that allows money to flow. That pipe is constricting by the day.

Sooner or later, the recession hits everyone.
The argument is not that these other structures are perfect or free of problems, only that they are better for society on average than equity financed for-profit companies.

Wikipedia and Mozilla are two examples. And yeah, they both have the challenges of large organizations - there's plenty to criticize in both. But to say that they wouldn't have these problems if they were for-profits is to simply ignore the universe of for-profit companies.

Want a company ignoring their user base and going off on crazy side projects? I give you Meta. Want a company that steadfastly ignores its users and regularly does things directly harmful to them (including paying customers) with complete lack of accountability? I give you Google.

And I would still argue that if you take the totality of impact of Mozilla and Wikipedia it is orders of magnitude more positive than any of the private companies I just listed off. Wikipedia is one of the best things on the internet. What ever governance struggles they are happening right now the public good they have done and are continuing to do is immeasurable. And it's pure public good. You cannot say the same thing about any private companies that could be considered their impact peer.
ops/devops will have jobs - everyone else should be scared....
The drag ropes were causal, but in a complicated way. They did not - and could not - function as intended, which was as a means of flying in a direction significantly different from that in which the wind was taking them, allowing them to navigate towards a specific destination.

Without this assumption, it seems unlikely that they would have attempted to do what the flight actually was: a drift in a free balloon over the arctic. After several days, the balloon came down onto the ice (it did not "plummet") as a result of losing gas gradually, with ice accumulation probably being a factor.

I have seen a report of the press conference they gave before starting, and it seems painfully clear that they would have all abandoned the attempt if any one of them would have said, out loud, that it was a bad idea.
Erring on the side of things often changing less then we may anticipate, my guess is that Twitter becomes a sort of Tumblr for people of a certain persuasion, that being the people who like the ideas Musk is putting forward. It still exists, it puts out new features from time to time, there's a large group of people who simultaneously love and hate it and spend enormous time and energy there, but it's role as the primary town hall forum is passed on to some other community or set of communities. Maybe ones we know today, maybe ones we don't.

But my confidence that I can forecast this is low, I'm mostly taking a stab for a bit of fun and to look at this comment in a few years.

One thing I have a high degree of confidence is that Musk will declare victory in almost any outcome, and if it's really so egregious that he can't declare victory with a straight face, he'll find some way to blame everyone else in the world.
Unless it's religious speech, which IMO, should cover all political speech because of anti-discrimination laws.
>You can of course publish on your blog with zero traffic, but you are effectively shut out of the relevant distribution channels, you are effectively distributing leaflets in your corner of the street.

Exactly. And no one. Zero people. No person or entity is required to provide you with a platform, megaphone or audience.

That doesn't stop you from saying what you want. Freedom to express yourself does not entitle you to an audience. Full stop.

Edit: To clarify, your free speech rights do not trump my free speech (which includes not hosting your speech on my private property). Yes, today's social media has inordinate influence due to network effects. But those are for-profit corporations who owe you nothing.

Get that through your head. They owe you nothing.

Personally, I despise those corporations. And I voted with my feet and wallet and left nearly a decade ago. But my distaste for them and their business models doesn't trump their free speech and property rights. Nor should it.

Your rights do not supersede those of others, except on your private property. Facebook's (or Twitter or YouTube, etc., etc., etc,.) servers are their private property.

Want a public square? Then set up a public square. Those corporate, for-profit entities are not that.
“A recession is when you hear about your neighbor losing their job, a depression is when you lose your job.”
Thanks!

The first person to provide an actual answer.
Oops! I did a rough calc in my head but forgot to add in the two zeros. But it's still fairly "cheap." 0.14 Ubers (14%), or 0.002 Pentagon Monetary Black Holes (0.2% of the F-35 program)
If the goal is to save money, why not move those jobs to even cheaper countries?
It's that whole thing of reacting with great sadness to hearing of one person's death and being numb to hearing of a plane crash (I'm mangling the saying). If we stopped to think about all the individual tragedies that go on every day around us, nothing would ever get done, we'd stop eating and we'd never get out of bed. People have to cope, and we shouldn't have to feel guilty about it.
Which country is that? Those benefits are insanely generous - the type that would make me never want to start a company there.
They never will. Your company will dump you at any time to hit numbers. You should be willing to do the same. Whether you are at-will or not through law, you’re at-will unfortunately.
> France continues decline towards anti-immigrant, right-wing and xenophobic leadership.

Last presidential election (few months ago) show the opposite [1]

Far Right did worse than the previous election (5 years ago)

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2022/apr/24...
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My most recent professional experience was as a founding engineer (contractor) for a NYC-based no-code startup where I worked with Typescript, Node.js, Next.js (React), GraphQL (TypeORM, TypeGraphQL, Apollo), Postgres, and Redis. There I built a framework that enabled querying across various APIs (eg. joining Google Ads data with Shopify sales). I also worked on building out the spreadsheet-based web builder.

Recently I've built a couple personal projects using the same tech stack: https://zsync.xyz a web3 Reddit/HN that uses crypto to reward high quality content, and https://nomadz.app a mapping app that crowdsources useful free places to work and allows people to rate them based on wifi, power outlets, and atmosphere. Servers are hosted on a combination of Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, and Cloudflare.

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It's a passenger car, it weights basically nothing compared to a coal car so they probably just assume "some default" weight.
Think the wire utility shelving like you'd get in a garage or workshop but smaller (found it on Amazon), and I installed some drawer rails on the sides. The handle on the top is just some old wooden chair legs with some chain attached to the four corners of the shelving. Currently I just lift it out which is fine for me, but my partner struggles lifting and taking the stuff out simultaneously. I'm going to install a locking mechanism soon so it stays up at the top.
>His citizenship was Spanish

Subtle implication that nobody in Catalonia wants a Catalan passport instead of a Spanish one.
I would rather be lonely for the rest of my life than get fake companionship from a bot. The fact that already exists is dystopian as all hell.