skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Twitter doesn’t choose what shows up, the people do
>
> Twitter doesn’t write, rate or moderate notes (unless they break the Twitter rules.) We believe giving people a voice to make these choices together is a fair and effective way to add information that helps people stay better informed.

Well, this isn’t true anymore. There was a birdwatch note on one of Elons tweets that got removed. And it wasn’t removed by the people, because in the Birdwatch UI it still said “this note was voted helpful and is showing on the tweet”.

Here’s a picture of the note before it was removed: https://twitter.com/goldman/status/1588576046743687170?s=46&...

I couldn’t find the picture of the Birdwatch UI showing it’s still helpful and showing on the tweet when it wasn’t :( If anyone really wants it, reply and I’ll look more, I probably have it in my likes
I would not say that clojure/haskell/elixir can be picked up in 1-3 months in most environments. I do agree that you should highlight broader engineering experience and keep langs/techs as merely a proof of some competence in those.

If the job mentions the technology and most clojure/haskell/elixir dev jobs do then well unless they state "looking for experienced person willing to learn" in description I would not bother them. (at least with my complete lack of experience in tech). Similarly as I would not apply to "weird-tech-i-merely-heard consultant". Also think there should be consistency on the job titles/descriptions on the side of job posters.
The first transistors were made of germanium, and before germanium diodes were made from selenium and from an oxide of copper. Crystal radios commonly used Schottky diodes made of galena. Gallium arsenide is big business.
Is calling a production release "shipping" a thing now?
If people aren't allowed to copy that code into their own commercial programs, neither can AIs..
I wouldn't be surprised if a good chunk of them aren't Twitter employees, but subcontractors somewhere. At least that's what plenty other social media sites do.
It is, however, Saturday afternoon in California.

"Yes, Elon, the full self verifying feature was finished before your deadline."
it's easier for me to fake then you to check
the most important issues are those where there is no agreement.

i've already seen some birdwatch "fact checks" that were much more misleading than the thing they were "fact checking"
I thought it was an old video but apparently he’s back!
When I saw "Canadian-born artist and..." I thought about the guy who made a "bear proof" suit many years ago.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=troy+hurt...
So the same team does actually use JSONAssert in some places, but it can still provide unhelpful comparisons.

I'd actually rather people just assert on the fields they need, but it's a larger team than I can push that on.
Should is a weird word here, they will. It's a market question not a morality question.
Separate from knowing the syntax and semantics of a programming language
(which you have to know),
Programming in the real world is about code herding and coding support tools .
Each environment has its mix of Code storage location eg folders on a filesystem to GitHub repositories. Support tools include Editor / IDEs , compilers/ interpreters, linters, and Continuous Integration systems.

Your hobby programming has selection from all of those areas and it will be different from the program ecosystem at a job. Elevating your selection will give better understanding of the process but not the experience of working in complex environment with others. The selection of ecosystem in a CS school may not be as complex as real world version but "should" be more elaborate than your home brew environment.

All of this to say "it depends". If your homebrew ecosystem is working with a Open source project contributing code through Git(hub/Lab) using the GCC tools chain and VSCode you could be better prepared than the CS students for the real world.
The comment I'm replying to says "I wonder how a bag of charcoal would do". I assume you'd add that to my list of components.
Which is funny because the blue check mark was to help curb the fake/scams/impersonation/... issue, it was in twitter interest not in the blue-ed users'.

Not only making the user paying for that is weird, but then removing the whole pretense of verification on top of it is pretty much recreating an issue Twitter had fought against and almost got under some sort of control (not the bot in general, but the mass scale impersonation). The cherry on the cake being that he wants those paying users to have "less" ads instead of none.

They wanted to create a "premium users" group but somehow confusingly mixed it with their verified users group, while removing the verified part. Might make more money, but it will definitely decrease quality of twitter.
If people can learn from your face, so can cameras.

It's not so simple.
I presented a small bit of technical detail at that meeting as part of the convening environmentalist organization; zero interest in computers there, basically. re: decisions, the authority of a single vote YES/NO is at a maximum in that crowd; even getting the physical meeting was a year+ of prep IIR.
Different item. While Gender benders could optionally be built with a null modem inside, as a single item their purpose was to link incompatible male and female ports.

Having both a null modem and a gender bender end-to-end was common.
This doesn't seem to filter out the ones not accepting members, it doesn't help with OP's problem.

The official list does: https://joinmastodon.org/servers (but few are open)
Since it appears that regular people ruin every social network, I don't see this as a bad thing :-)
There have been a lot of claims of larger numbers, but they all rely on some combination of (a) "classical preprocessing", where you find the answer on a normal computer first and use it as an input to the quantum algorithm, and/or (b) selecting numbers with extremely specific mathematical properties.
With this tool I only found 15 accounts on Mastodon.

With this one I found 98: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
Thanks for expanding.

I hadn't considered that Google are a competitor to Twitter at this point (at least, not since Google+ went away). And I guess they are happy to host some of their infrastructure on GCP as well...
There are quite a few websites with little or no moderation working just fine, like 4chan.

But I honestly don't understand this whole argument. Twitter is a social network, you just need to only receive messages from your network or "friends of a friend".

You can't have both a global network and get offended given the multitude of opinions and laws in the world.

The problem seems to be less that people are offended by something, but that some people don't want other people to even be exposed to some thoughts. Some paternalistic higher-than-though attitude.
Awesome, thank you for the reply. Will try out Portmaster again!
Have you run into any quirks while developing? I did, this one was especially annoying: https://github.com/serverless/serverless/issues/3785

Some other quirks:
- 29 second timeout on API Gateway despite lambdas being able to run for 15 min
- Middleware not being straight forward like in (name your framework, I'll mention Express), even with packages like Middy
- Having to dig through the different log groups since a new one is created each time there's a new container that gets started
Haven’t killed anybody YET.
Seems like whenever I write a bunch of code, it's always bigger before I've completed the test/debug phase. I put this down to revisiting all the algorithms while finalizing the code, and making adjustments/optimizations where it makes sense.
I am from Yemen, and we are suffering from the same religious ideology. The least I can do is upvote this and hope for his safe return and freedom for Iran and Iranian people.
3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33437419
> Because pitting certain tribes of constituents against each other is a big problem in US politics

Doing things for some groups is not the same as pitting groups against each other.

> works against efforts to redistribute wealth for all

You can only steal and reallocate money, not wealth. This will destroy wealth for all.

> the lack of taxpayer funded R&D into medicine that would be in the public domain, hence not subject to the high prices of patented medicine.

Plenty of R&D is at least partially taxpayer funded, but you're underestimating the total amount of R&D (including the cost of completely failed ideas) that goes into drug discovery. Deciding taxpayers should fund the sum total of pharma R&D, and presumably also the production costs, as those would've been funded by the patent-protected profits, seems strange on the face of it.

> how much more my country prioritizes the elderly over children

The elderly aren't always prioritised. But with health, they, along with newborns and pregnant mums, are some of the naturally most at-risk people in your population.

> literally

Sigh.
Ok but I’m not raging, I just don’t know why I should care about any of this in spite of it being shoved into my face 24/7 for weeks at a time???
Same number of users, it’s not like it’s hard to use Tor Browser. 8chan is still up on Tor too.
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> Give it a few years and it'll be the same as or worse than twitter, given Mastodon's lack of moderation.

Why is lack of moderation a problem on Mastodon?

Twitter pushes content from random users you don't follow, that creates a responsibility to moderate (plus they need to keep the advertisers happy).

The Mastodon timeline is direct follows. If I see some stuff I don't like, I can talk with that person or simply unfollow them.
> but a RJ11 all bets are off and you need to find the manufacturer's cable.

Here’s looking at you, Cisco, for using an RJ45 serial connector on devices covered in RJ45 Ethernet jacks.
> The team failed to ship by that original one week deadline (and a good part of them got fired, as promised).

Assuming that's true, good luck retaining a single developer who's talented enough to get a less crazy job at any number of companies.
Echo chambers are where insecure people intentionally congregate to cast heckler’s vetos. Often the content is less important than the act of deference to a group. I would prefer to not associate with intellectually lazy (stupid) people.
Seems like an adaptation of the word piracy, probably to make the word more compact. "Seeräuber" - another german word for pirate - translates to "sea-robber", and I've never heard of pirates sneaking onto boats to make copies of things without leaving a trace.
define "real"

yes, we perform "somewhat real tests" - tests start the app, fake db, and call HTTP APIs

it's really decent
Why does this feel so forced and astroturfed on this site and yet has essentially no traction
AFAIK, under the affordable care act, you can get health insurance at a much more reasonable price, though I haven’t used it myself and cannot comment if it’s equal to quality of care and cost vs. other developed countries.

Everything else you said is spot on.

Not every company will necessarily enforce and fire people at a moments notice. While yes that can happen, I think any reasonable business cares about perception and employee morale.

Aside from that, I think everything you said is spot on.
The article mentions verification extensively, so I imagine that there's going to be some level of verification involved. Whether the verification system would have issues like stripe.ian.sh[1], I have no idea.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190606021548/https://stripe.ia...
Exactly. Not even a bit. It’s just if you don’t kowtow to globohomo you have to use the darknet now. Which is good, drives more people off the clearweb and hurts our censors and nannies.
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Excuse me, what? This is extreme even for sarcasm
IMO compression was a lot more important when we had modems and disk sizes measured in megabytes or single digit gigabytes. Once you have "good enough" compression then you solve most issues and in many areas where there used to be compression they've been increasingly removing it. Compression causes latency after all and some of the biggest impediments to processing speed now is latency.

So unlike before, compression has stopped being a primary driving factor in the engineering of many types of devices and types of software.
Looks like a nice project! What library are you using for a front end here?
House Intelligence Committee questioned about surveillance of WikiLeaks founder
I do a lot of that. Also, when I review the code documentation. I will sometimes, completely rewrite methods.
At the company I'm currently working, they accept that seniors crunch out less code than juniors. Because of all the "side jobs" you listed.
Yesterday I was configuring a usb to serial converter to communicate with a CNC controller (over RS232). However I was unable to transmit any data and so I brought the oscilloscope to see what was happening. I disconnected my converter and connected the oscilloscope and all the data was there and my oscilloscope had no problems decoding it with the same parameters i had used with my usb converter. Confused, I disconnected my scope and connected my converter back up again, but sill nothing. After a few times back an fourth I ended up connecting my scope up while the converter was still connected and crucially I also had a cat /dev/ttyUSB0 running and as expected the data was right there at the scope, but to my big surprise it was also there in my terminal! I then tried to disconnect my scope resulting in no more data being sent to my laptop.

The only explanation I could think of was a faulty ground connection. The scope was grounded through the wall socket same as the CNC and thus had the same ground potential. My laptop on the other hand was running on battery and only shared ground with the CNC through RS232 pin 5 (signal ground). However it seems this pin was not correctly connected on the CNC side and thus I was unable to transmit any data. Experimenting a bit I tried to connect ground to the connector shield instead and everything worked perfectly.
It’s Twitter Blue Beta!

It’ll be ready in 3 months maybe, 6 months definitely. For now, only some people with a certain safety score can testdrive it.
Microsoft prioritized Samsung's Gaming Hub over its own cloud gaming console
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Nice informational video (after such a long time) and I don't mean to be pedantic, but RS-232 is not a protocol, it is an electrical/physical standard. RS-232 says nothing about the bits on the wire, other than how they might be synchronized as long as both ends of the point-to-point link agree on settings.
Like no regular people use e-mail nor phones/SMS.
the astroturfing of whatever this site is has been pretty cringe
Anarcho-capitalism is nothing like the communist anarchism that Kropotkin was writing about. There's no pretence at equality, you've basically just replaced government repression with private repression by the wealthy.

It's a choice of economic system, not morality. There's nothing immoral about making all work voluntary and eliminating private property, it's just a different system with different expectations.

The rule about property in communist anarchism would be something like: it's yours for as long as you are using it, but once you no longer need it, somebody else can take it to use (or repurpose the materials).
I would be pretty happy if you could only post if you paid the $8/mo, the Jaron Lanier vision of a fair and sustainable social media app that charges its users for the service instead of creating the illusion of free through subtle long term ad-based opinion shifting.

Fewer bots, less brigading, ideally no ads, less spam, etc. if done right and thoughtfully.

Sounds like a much more enjoyable Twitter. I would be perfectly happy with paying that, even just to support the business model.
You can rewrite it in Rust, because we all know Rust has almost no original software.
I'm not having trouble finding Facebook data. Did you get that idea from me asking you to back up your own claims?

Yes paywalls are easy to bypass. It's also a reasonable choice to respect them.
According to [0] Elon's debt that he's brought to the table alone is costing approximately $1 billion/year, which is $2.7 million/day... So I guess that's most of it.

https://qz.com/here-s-how-many-blue-checks-elon-musk-would-n...
And “available” is putting it strongly
I’d disagree — I think most folks are too busy and stressed to learn to code.

Access to quality, free information isn’t enough, sadly. The average person the world over isn’t in a position to make the jump due to economic factors over intellectual limits.
If everything is highlighted, nothing is highlighted. Musk is failing at basic scarcity economics thinking this is what will make Twitter leap into the black.
The article may have waded into the deeper end of the pool on who is doing the filtering and why, but even if you look past that, the 'Blindingly Obvious' solution for us to do the filtering sounds good to me. If we are old enough to know what's best for us (age of 18+), then we should not have to be treated like children that need to be protected.

Of course this is all assuming that these mega media corporations that control the biggest online communication networks in the world and that hold all the data for our digital 'town squares' don't have any personal agendas that would incentivize them to want to control information that you get to read/see and communicate about.

The sad truth is however that they most likely do have personal agendas and have been abusing their power for quite some time. That much power can be worth a lot and when the 'general sentiment' of people can be swayed by technology, I would bet it is being done. Don't believe it? Okay, but how would you even begin to know the truth if you're not being allowed to learn about things you don't even know about?

There's a saying "What they don't know won't hurt them" however I believe that depends on how benevolent the people we're talking about are. There's also the saying "Absolute power corrupts absolutely" and that "The love of money is the root of all evil". We're talking about a lot of power and a lot of money involved. Think it through a little. Often we don't know what we don't know. How aware are you of what you don't know?

I'd err on the side of giving people all the information. Open up the system so we can know who is posting what (anonomized IPs/MACs/Routing as IDs for comparison info etc.). There are a lot of people out there smarter than I who would take up the challenge to find out how much information is coming from bots, and what content is being passed around and from where.

Have you ever wondered what the Google Search Algorithm looks like? Wouldn't it be in your best interest to know how your search results are generated? Unfortunately this as well as the twitter/facebook situation being opened up or give you filter controls will never happen from those with the power to make it happen. These control systems are in place specifically to benefit from and push activities that would otherwise not be possible under the public eye.

The continuous stream of information and data is a big commodity today because of what it can be used to influence on a large scale. If information is being manipulated by the wrong people what can that do in a society? From what I've seen, most people have given up on critical thinking enough not to care or believe that there's something to look into.
I have that strap for my Quest 2. It's very good. Better than the 1st party battery-pack strap.

This configuration is called a "halo" strap.

I also have the Quest Pro now. It comes with a halo strap. Nothing touches your cheeks. Resolution is also very high, and the new pancake lenses are very clear.

That's another problem with older headsets. The Fresnel lenses in previous systems cause "god rays" around any bright objects on dark backgrounds. Like, say, light text on a dark background for a dark-mode UI.

Pancake lenses don't have that problem. They also have a much larger sweet spot, so you don't have to get the headset perfectly adjusted every time, and you can look around with just your eyes, not moving your head, more.

I think the Vive Flow was the first commercially available headset to use the pancake lenses, but the Flow is otherwise not a great experience. The Quest Pro is really impressive.
They were running a 500 million dollar a year loss before Elon bought so 1.5 million a day roughly. Then 2 mil for debt and half a mil in advertising loss I would guess
Rumor was part of the firing criteria was LoC written... So, yeah, twitter is in a real bad state.
Esther's banner image is hilarious:

>Be Bold. Get back up. Believe in yourself.

All your buddies got laid off and you're working impossible deadlines? Looks like somebody's got a case of the Mondays! Really giving Mike Judge a run for his money right there.
See the debt commitment letter (search for "The interest rates under the Bank Facilities"):

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22128214/exhibit-2-to...

Rough math for $13B at a SOFR of 3% plus 4.5% and you get a nice billion a year of interest, some $2.7M a day.
> But Twitter employee Esther Crawford tweeted Saturday that the “new Blue isn’t live yet — the sprint to our launch continues but some folks may see us making updates because we are testing and pushing changes in real-time.”

Looks like it hasn't launched yet.
Yes. Good points.

Well, the first thing we might do is just a "Only an Administrator can make changes." setting where you only admin accounts are allowed to change settings. This one makes sense. Everything beyond that gets complicated and easy to circumvent fast.

(I also think the original question was more about blocking features and the likes.)

Protecting against other software is related, but also different. We have some decent protection here, albeit not against simply shutting Portmaster down.
How about get to know your team and it becomes very obvious who is more productive.

If you need a metric for, say, large teams, how about: # PRs x level of effort, + bonus points for being useful outside of code.

Great engineers are like a 5'10" [attractiveness redacted] [hair color redacted] [gender redacted]; it's very obvious, isnt it??
That part is also something that most societies do right now. What do you see as the flaw there?
There is an infusion of resources. One option that seems common is that users aren't required to contribute towards hosting fees, but donations are easily accepted -- that is how the sustainable ones work from what I have seen. It seems to work pretty well?

It's very transparent, which I like -- "we got a bunch of new users, the server bill is going up $2k a month overall so if you can pitch in please do" is extremely clear and seems to work effectively. An individual server seems like it should be able to charge for hosting your account like with email if it needed to be operated like a business.

So far it doesn't really seem like it needs to operate like a business, it just takes longer for collectives of humans to respond to changes in needs than a giant enormously wealthy company that knew what would happen in advance. I'm sure it will equilibrate, it has the last two times this happened.
From what I heard regarding a similar incident this type of thing does rattle them. Especially when their own children take the side of the protestors. It can be isolating.

It might very well inhibit them from picking up that phone and lobbying to water down climate legislation.
True, I forgot especially about Babbage and Lovelace's contributions...

Still, my point still stands if we limit it to electronic computers, I think.
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