skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno, Wikipedia is 100% based on regular contributors and it's turned out exceptionally well
I personally wouldn’t underestimate his courage and hard work as an engineering leader; he did reach places that were very hard to reach with this approach. The problem is that social media is not (solely) an engineering problem.
Bro wtf is with that end?

> but may I ask you: what's wrong with you? How do you think, does your attitude have something to do with xenophobia?

Completely outa the blue based on what came before.
That’s clearly not the case because if it were so simple we’d have an AGI now.
Why do people care so much about twitter?
I think we can't really have a guesstimate without knowing the rest of the story because the rest of the story is about what you get by paying $8.

The blue tick as an ornament definitely doesn't bring 8USD of value but it can bring value as something else and IMHO that value would be much higher if they keep identity verification intact and much less if anyone can buy it.

If it was "account maintenance fee" I suspect brands and politicians would have paid much more than the $8.

If it is going to be anyone who pays gets in, then for example a politician with a few millions of backing can have hundreds of thousands paid accounts to run their campaign. There is already reporting about countries like Russia and Turkey running large scale social media operation which probably cost much more than $8 per account and Turkey's Erdogan already expressed interest in Twitter's new paid blue tick[0] and said it would talk with Musk for localised pricing.

But in this case, the Twitter becomes much less interesting for the regular people and they might reduce or even stop using the service if all they see is paid propaganda.

I would have paid monthly subscription fee just to use the site if the content was spam and bot free but that's not happening. It looks like the best Musk can do is to optimize monetisation up to a point that the site doesn't die, he needs to strike a point where the content is good enough to gather an audience when charging the content creators that want to do something to the audience(sell them something, convince them in something) because the model he seems to be creating is essentially native advertising for monthly fee.

[0] https://onedio.com/haber/erdogan-mavi-tik-ucreti-icin-elon-m...
Okay? are you alright?
The main difference isn't really who but how much money. One uses a lot of goods and services in ordinary life. Generally speaking one hopes that the provider of these goods and services uses their resources efficiently to provide them for a reasonable price including reasonable profit.

When a leveraged buyout happens (this is true for most leveraged buyouts) a large cost is put into the business that wasn't there before. And this cost does nothing to help make the good or service better. It merely exists so that person B may own the business instead of person A.

So what is the difference between Musk and the previous shareholders? The main difference is that Musk put an enormous cost on the business which will be borne by twitters users and advertisers, and that cost brings twitter nothing more than having musk as an owner.

By himself musk may be no better or worse than the previous shareholders. But just for him to rule over twitter is going to cost twitter a lot of money that will probably reduce the quality of the service.

This is true of most leveraged buyouts and whenever a leveraged buyout happens to a company you use, it is always a good idea to look for alternatives. The official response of the leveraged buyout industry is that the new management is just so much better that it is worth to saddle the company with all this debt and all these costs to just change the management. And the customer will benefit from the better management.

It is yet to be seen whether Musk is such a great manager that he can run a social media company so much better than everybody else to make it worth taking the enormous debt, and do that without having any experience running a social media company and while running two (oh wait - three ) other companies simultaneously.

But generally speaking this is not the case. It might have been the case during the beginning of the LBO industry when there was some truly entrenched bad management in some US companies but not anymore. It is possible to change management of a publicly traded company without doing an LBO, and nowadays stockholders tend to be good about holding their managers to high standards.
ASML and Intel are two completely different companies. ASML makes lithography machines which is one of the many steps in producing a chip. ASML machines are used by all chip manufacturers. The challenge for chip manufacturers like Intel, but also tsmc, Samsung among others, is to optimize the entire production process. And that has been / is not easy with a lithography step (EUV) which is so drastically different then what the industry has been using before.
One of the challenging choices for chip manufacturers was to drastically change the process and implement EUV or to go self-aligned quadratic patterning. The latter, if you take a simplistic view, can be seen as an evolution on existing processes.
We know see that those companies who went aggressively into EUV are having an edge on their competitors.
So you figured I was talking about the large number of bars and restaurants I visit in China?

:-D

Sadly I’ve never had an occasion to travel there, and so my assumptions and observations about utensil usage are valid for parts of Western Europe, Africa and South East Asia.

I figured since the thread was about Estonia, it would be safe to assume we were not discussing how the Chinese might benefit from switching away from chopsticks to large pincers.
This particular technology initiative does appear to be an effort to build a system that harnesses unpaid volunteers as fact-checkers.

However, according to today's front-page Washington Post[1] article, they are also still paying people in the "Trust & Safety" department, to do jobs including fact-checking (and presumably acting on fact-checking done by other humans, and possibly trained-model automated fact-checkers as well).

From what I can understand, the company was recently purchased by an oligarch, who then implemented massive staff cuts of around 50% generally across the board, but the "Trust & Safety" department had a lower level of layoffs, at around 15%. So human staff is apparently still involved in fact-checking, aside from the system described here.

It seems likely that fact-checking on a global "social media" network would necessarily involve various approaches and multiple layers to be effective, so the core idea of this system seems worth trying.

However, it is a difficult problem, with powerful financial and political incentives for various parties to game such a system, it will be interesting to see if this ever yields results, and if so, what those results are.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/05/twitter...
All hidden services encrypt the connection (its part of the tor protocol), so yes.
Isn't it a bit early to judge when we haven't seen the new strategy for how to address this issue?
If anything, your rebuttal is in bad faith. Programming languages are not that dependent on the number of users as human languages are - which are more akin to protocols that both speaker and receiver has to know.

What reason is there to prevent someone who learnt this language to utilize it to “communicate with their computer” and share it with the rest of us? And I say that as someone who do like Clojure for example very much.

My opinion/answer is that while lisps have plenty of properties that make them great and that one gets used to all the parentheses, we as humans in the end are simply find it more alien then other languages, too uniform of a syntax hinders human parseability. (That’s why I think that clojure made a very great and pragmatic choice by introducing some other primitive data structures).
Accessibility is supposed to change and improve. It's fair to expect that to halt when the entire staff has been fired.
But Mastodon works. If Trump's people can't make it work, it's possible that it's not Mastodon that's the problem.

(For the record, I'm not on Mastodon, but I follow a lot of people who are.)
I work and worked for huge companies in the direct CIO team. Many times I thought "that is wasteful, we should do X".

I self-host a lot at home and am a standard nerd and what I learned over 30 years is that my knowledge does not scale at all.

In such companies even if the DC is idle, knowing what happens when you switch it off does not exist. Even worse, when cutting/moving a service, three blocks down something crumbles and their custodian has no idea why (and worse: they would not even know that something was switched off if there is no strict change management).

It is easier if you are a modern company that uses some modern best practices, there is at least hope that the configuration gives you a clue.
The team member who has a hard time with English might just think that when everybody speaks English they feel awkward and left out. Why do you think you're special?
I wonder how Steve Jobs avoided this. Perhaps by being less political I guess
Believe it! I can’t explain how you use so little, but 3 TB/month is typical in the UK. https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2020/12/openreach-see-...
There is an interesting article about the reasons why Wolfram decided against open source and why their products would not have been possible otherwise:
https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-op...

As much as I don’t like it either, I can understand their perspective and actually believe that it might have been very hard to create and sustain such a comprehensive, thoughtfully and consistently designed language with an open source model. But it may be interesting to see if there are projects of similar scale with similar requirements that thrive (long-term) on a free and open source model.
That’s a nice excuse. It’s just a prank, bro!
Wait what? :D

Written comments are very different from verbal communication which is different from charisma. So no, they definitely aren't all charismatic, far from it probably.

Also, "trope of programmers being low IQ"?
As a product manager and CEO for a tiny startup, I keep thinking about improving the product development process. The Amazon method of working backwards caught my eye recently, and I learned a lot from it. Now, I want to share my thoughts on how to take the method further, and speed up our product development cycle.

As a startup, we need to identify our biggest competitive edge, and squeeze all the juice out of it: Unlike the big companies, we can iterate much faster. This is because: 1. We have a much shorter decision-making process 2. We don't need to be afraid of destroying our brand. Most startups iterate by building MVPs(most viable products). But it still requires development efforts, and we can't afford too much of that. So how do we lower the cost on MVPs?

The answer is, MVPR(most viable press release). Before building the MVP, we can introduce the press release phase from the Amazon method. In other words, whenever you have a new product idea needs verification, you should start by composing a press release with beta sign-ups. As soon as the press release is ready, you should publicize it and let the potential users tell you what they think, i.e., "democratizing product development". If there's no traction at all, you can just abandon your idea and save your precious engineering efforts. If there's indeed traction, you can move forward to the MVP phase.

Thoughts?
Over the last week I've favourited every single person claiming to leave Twitter. In a few weeks I intend to do some analysis and see how many stop posting. So far the answer is none out of 200, but it's early days.
what makes you think that list operations make the CPU jump randomly in memory and that implementors of, say, Lisp systems haven't optimized memory management for linked lists? A modern GC provides features generations, areas, copying and compacting.

One a Lisp Machine from the 80s/90s the system saves a type sorted and locality optimized memory image, from which it later boots the Lisp system. Additionally to the typical GC optimizations (incl. integration with the paging system) it also provided CDR coding, which allocates lists as continuous memory. The GC also creates those CRD coded lists. CDR coding fell out of fashion in modern Lisp implementations, because the space and time savings aren't that great to justify the more complex implementation.
While I agree with most of the comments that it can be easily abused, if the bots can be kicked out, this (trying to get rid of echo chambers and highlighting posts from people with different viewpoints recognized by the algorithm) would be a better way for all social media to work than what we have now.

In the current situation (showing most liked posts) the only common ground is good looking people (TikTok/Instagram/Youtube shorts) and most outraging posts with lies to get more likes (Twitter/Youtube)
> Even in the case where a junior wouldn't be able to contribute to the discussion meaningfully ... they can learn from it.

Do you mean to say junior devs should be a part every single meeting held by senior engineers? This is utter nonsense, sorry.
Just go through the list of most popular Twitter users and ask yourself where else are they going to go?

I personally wouldn't gamble the farm on corporation ad spending's adherence to social justice if those eyeballs are all in one place... at least long term.

At least FB has to compete with messaging apps and Instagram/TikTok. Twitter doesn't have a good #2.

It's probably a mistake to take the emotional outrage news cycles over the next month (or 3) as much more than the exact thing people will keep going back to Twitter for... ironically this outrage at Musk is the exactly what drives people to use Twitter.
If you ignore corporate and social propaganda it tones the difficulty down a bit by having the right mindset.

I've only been an employee at the start of my adult life for 3 years at a small software outsourcing agency. Been gaining a steady 20x the median salary for my city for the past 12 years since I've abandoned "employment". Can't say I'm particulary smart. I'm closer to Dumb and Dumber than Rainman. I just ignore opinions of other people or entities and go my own way.
Is he?

Many of his ideas seems to come from sort if Sci-Fi that doesn't work in the real world.
I heard (of course) of anarchism a long time ago, but I always wrote it off as impractical: since without government, there's nobody to stop somebody from starting one. However, this may be incorrect, but it does require a population that is always willing to fight against the formation of a government. I think now that anarchism is practical, at least for a population of committed anarchists, and in the absence of hostile external forces. There's no way that anarchism could be imposed on people who don't want it (a contradiction), and it's going to be a stretch to expect people who grew up with capitalism or authoritarianism (or both) to accept it.

It was in Le Guin's novel "The Dispossessed" that I first read a convincing account of such a society, and I only later read some of Kropotkin and Bakunin's work.

Edit: Other forms of society are based on a carrot and stick system; people believe that without threats or rewards, people won't bother to work; they don't believe in mutual aid as sufficient in itself.
Man I wished we can go back to IRC, compared to the shitshow that is discord !
Slow client, stupid login circle-jerks, desktop-clients-vs-webclient and and and.

Yea yea I'm old, but dammit in "my day", it was easier to communicate and the "tech" didn't get in your way.

IRC was basically a "done product" and new features were usually spearheaded via "scripts" from users with a need.

It seems the "new features" in discord are product-managers trying to justify their job and keep adding feature-upon-feature and making it more of a xmass-tree-met-a-coder-on-crack situation !

I wished there was a product manager (I'm looking at you Spotify, netflix etc) that said, ok these next few quarters we are going to reward ourselves for 'REMOVING Features'.

We need the area of "Bring your own client" to really take off.

Ok i'm done venting (one should not comment before coffee on HN) :P
The project shows serious dedication, it's impressive.

When they become more widely available would be interesting to consider upgrading to something like the 64mp Arducam:

https://www.arducam.com/64mp-ultra-high-res-camera-raspberry...
For important context, this isn't new (it started a couple of years ago I believe), and has not been introduced by the new owner. It is not related to outsourcing work to unpaid volunteers that was previously done by paid employees who have been made redundant during the layoffs over the last few days.
After Youtube stopped displaying the number of downvotes for a video, algos is the only thing left that you can rely upon to understand if the video is good. But I'd prefer being able to rely on downvotes number.
Remember that social media is built by definition to show you other people at their most interesting, most entertaining, most articulate, most impressive. Otherwise it would be boring.
Elected leaders in Italy, Hungry, the USA, and many more don’t seem to be headed towards progress on bigotry…and the “news” has changed in the last two decades. It’s all about getting clicks now for ad dollars. The independent reporting that once was has changed. You think the race riots in Chicago in the 60s weren’t in the news? I’d actually say I don’t read very often about bigotry in the news except for Kanye west getting cancelled for talking about Jews. Where else do you see mainstream articles that dive deep into this issue? Bring it to the forefront again today and you might see a lot of angry people come out of the woodwork to take the chance to standup for themselves.
I'll get downvoted but whatever.

You're in a huge company in a corporate environment, therefore there is no tactful way that is guaranteed to not backfire, there is only the corporate way:

1. Document all instances where it happens. Don't name names.

2. Go talk to your manager about it (even without the list of events, that's ok).

3. If nothing is being done, raise an HR complaint with your list of evidence, insisting on the fact that YOU feel discriminated against and that you are in a hostile work environment.

If your coworkers already aren't speaking in English when you're around, they won't start just because you ask, at least not long term.

Note the goal here is not to blame others, it's to get what you want.
Sometimes less is more

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox
Interesting take. I guess the upcoming Walter Isaacson biography on Musk will reveal.
What @eukgoekoko mentioned isn't a bad strategy. Ask them to introduce an English only policy.

If the common language is English and there was no requirements to speak Mandarin, then get the managers to change that. Otherwise quit and don't work at a Chinese sweatshop.

No point working there if you can't understand anyone. I reckon, if that keeps going on, some tasks and requirements you were needed to do would be lost in translation. Then you're on the hook for that.

People WILL always use the language their most comfortable in.
It's quite troubling, and with little recourse it seems?
Love your thinking. Rather than comingle the plastics with waste, let's keep them separate at the landfill for use when future humans figure out what to do with it.

By mixing it all together we just make it much more difficult for ourselves later.
That sounds very good as an approach for building a product, but for managing a communication platform, I’m not sure. The problem is that there is a kind of overgeneralized understanding (built out of prejudice, imho) that moderators are a bunch of left-wing power-thirsty bigots. However, moderating is a hard problem, one that has not (and never will have) any well-defined final solution. There will always be variance and noise in moderation, and people will always complain; it’s a trade-off.
Linked list are indeed great for secondary traversal orders (or for subsets).

But I don't understand your comments re in-order CPUs: vectors will be faster there too as they avoid the load-load dependency. Most modern inorder CPUs are still superscalar and fully pipelined.
Twitter was also owned by average people. As are the vast majority of publicly traded companies.
So does Twitter without the possibility to host your own instance or move your data to another one.

Isn't that one of the reasons for decentralization? Less power and data for a single instance.
My previous job was in a worldwide company: English was the language in the meeting, but sometimes people talk between them in their own just to clarify some details or because they feel more confident discussing some concepts in their mother tongue.

My suggestion is not being upset and said:"Hey, I don't understand Mandarin, so please, if there is something that I should know or that is important to me, please switch to English".
Im still confused about the rationale of having the start of Standard Time in late October instead of September.

In Europe, this was a purely British thing, that got later harmonized into the EU convention in 1996. But unable to make out how the Brits came up with that late October date instead of keeping it around the equinox dates and having about equal lengths for the DST and standard time intervals.

https://www.polyomino.org.uk/british-time/

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/1995.html

vs

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/1996.html
The only thing worse than that is discovering you need chrome after you've given your email away.
Notebook Support for Wolfram Language in VS Code
Thanks!

My friend has mentioned in the post that the tool can be used as a library. The CLI and the Online Playground are just clients built on top of the library

Have a look at our docs: https://docs.stepci.com/guides/using-library.html
If the new buyer has a complete different vision, wouldn't it make more sense to hire the right people to build out that vision and have them innovate towards that instead of retaining the old people innovating for the old vision? It's not like the previous team has innovated on much in the last decade of Twitter either.
When I lived in the UK for a few years, I had a compost bin and used it for a few years with the green "compostable" bin bags they're talking about. eg these ones:

https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/waitrose-compostable-...

After 2 years, those bags hadn't degraded at all. Completely unfit for purpose, false advertising, etc.
Once we find a way to generate energy from the work people do moving goal posts, we'll be all set.
Yeah, I like living in a democracy, so I appreciated when twitter silenced certain people that tried to use it to violently overthrow my democratically elected government. Donald Trump tweeted all the time, many of his tweets were of a very different political opinion than mine (when they were coherent), yet he was not silenced. Not until he tried to violently overthrow the US government.
Totally agree. I would also like to add that, as a non-native, pretty fluent Mandarin speaker, it is pretty hard to chitchat with Chinese colleagues, especially when it is a big group and they come from different parts of China.
Wikipedia is not for profit, twitter is.
The community is 95% less competent than the researchers so I think this rule is fine.