skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simple reason for that: gas storage facilities are nearly full all over Europe, and because of the warm weather and general frugality they aren't emptied. If you can burn gas right now, and you can use enough of it to to be able to buy on the spot market, you could have a field day. Could, because even if all the above applies, there might be long-term hedging contracts in place that have been signed already limiting your flexibility.
From what I understand, it's just meant for parody accounts.
That subreddit strayed pretty far from parody very early in its lifetime.
I bought an Intel engineering sample CPU to play with it. It's basically a beta chip they send to motherboard makers. When I enable the E cores it chirps and whistles like a bird, not like the annoying coil whine from a GPU. I think this must be caused by a different phenomenon, but I'm not sure.
Shifting all responsibility to producers is about as helpful as shifting it all to consumers. Clearly there is responsibility on both sides. Burning gas for cooking or heating is bad for emissions, so it is reasonable for people to avoid doing so for longer than necessary. Same goes for producers burning fossil fuels for electricity, etc.
It looks like Musk is re-inventing the wheel of community moderation with a bias in his favour.

So gone is the "anything legal goes, free speech absolutism", now jokes need to be labeled as jokes because comedy is legal on Twitter but only within the guidelines of Elon Musk.

These people getting banned for making their name Elon Musk were not defrauding anybody, a well known comedian wasn't pretending to be Musk and making people send crypto or buy stocks.

They were making comedy or a performance art, they being banned is like going around and locking down people who impersonate other people for laughs or satire as if they were stealing identity to drain out the bank account of Musk.

Its very dystopian. As I said before, most "free speech absolutists" are actually free speech NIMBYs and Elon Musk seems to be no exception.
And hate speech can be harmful. But hate speech is free speech. Is unlabeled parody free speech?
> Yeah, god forbid you actually visit them, invite them over, and talk to them on the phone, or, text them...

Think for a minute. You went on a vacation and want to show your families and relatives your photos. Are you going to send 20 photos to each of them via zip file?
> no mod has bothered to turn it on.

Glad to hear it. Some of this, such as the way user blocks now work, isn't controlled by mods.
What's the problem in using a third party messaging app, vs messaging systems locked to platforms like iMessage on iPhone or Google RCS on Android?
I had them installed just a year ago, and it's the main reason my bill stays under control (it'll be about double, instead of triple or quadruple).
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1499976967105433600
Yes! AI-generated content has to work ok-ish to be useful.

I can imagine a game where depending on your level, mastery or expertise. You could create AI-generated gear system where depending on your stats you could get different styles.
Why? The purpose of code is to be readable to humans.

At the same time I get your point and also the argument about Git diffs (which also should be readable). So maybe the ideal situation would be a separation of code and its formatting, so that we have more options than tabs and also no need for crutches like tabs. Like a better, more flexible code formatter that lets you display and edit code in the editor using one style but then saves the file in a standard format that's consistent across the whole project.
The irony is that apparently Musk fired twitter's accessibility team
Even if you're using a different client (which is already a strike against Twitter as a social network, along with the need to manually block users because it has no effective moderation) the content you're reading will have been written by users targeting the default algorithm.
The Onion actually recently submitted a hilarious satirical amicus brief to the Supreme Court for the case Novak v. City of Parma [1] that made a splash in legal Twitter, for a case where a man who was arrested for making a parody Facebook page of his local police department. The amicus brief is itself a parody, an irreverent joke that has been submitted as a sincere legal document. (Thanks to LegalEagle for making a video on this [2]).

The entire point of the amicus brief is an argument that labeling a parody as a parody destroys the point of the parody. The four arguments:

I. Parody Functions By Tricking People Into Thinking That It Is Real

II. Because Parody Mimics "The Real Thing," It Has The Unique Capacity To Critique The Real Thing

III. A Reasonable Reader Does Not Need A Disclaimer To Know That Parody Is Parody

IV. It Should Be Obvious That Parodists Cannot Be Prosecuted For Telling A Joke With A Straight Face

It seemed a bit relevant to this. It's pending certiori and might go ignored, but the Supreme Court could rule that parody is protected under the first amendment, which would make Twitter an opponent of actual free speech (the legislative definition, not the new internet definition).

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292/2022...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxTWonQvXkw
I am currently in the process of migrating my own servers to FreeBSD. So far it's a slow process to learn these new tools, instead of what I am used to, i.e ip addr/route show, iptables, nft list ruleset and different default directories for many things. Can anyone report how is Wireguard support? Since I am using it heavily, there is no way without it. So far it looks like only thing I am going to miss is qemu and will probably skip VMs at all and try to utilize jails for everything. Apart from that I am really looking forward to utilize ZFS.
Because in the US (except NYC), all public transporation is seen as something for poor people where as in most other countries public transportation is for everyone.
Just making things more interesting, here's a brand new world of docker networking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKFMS5C4CG0

This is crazy. I know, networking in the Virtual Machines would be kind of similar, but check this out.
> his dual goals of clean energy and a multi-planet species

People still believe in that ?
It is. You still get the occasional "We'd like you to work on-site full-time because communication (or whatever other contrived, but never quite justified reason).", though.

It required a pandemic to "convince" people (recruiters, middle management, and many freelancers alike) that working on-site full-time isn't the only option and that it even might not be the most expedient option when working with independent contractors.

Often, freelancers were - and at times still are - seen as another type of employee, just without that annoying social security stuff ...

This is why there are all sorts of ridiculously complex, "so shady it can't actually be legal" schemes to avoid contractors being classified as falsely self-employed, rather than doing the simple, obvious thing and - you know - let them act as if they were actually self-employed.
Visual Thinking with Triangles
If you're making fun of me for reporting tweets where guys are dropping the n-bomb, and vulnerable people are getting abuse, then that says a bit more about you than it does about me.
Is it really self-hosting if it is on someone else's server?

This is an honest question for which I am curious about other's thoughts. I am all for Indie web. If we all took the time to put our own content (self-hosted or not) out there it would be more like the web of yore!

Maybe I'm being too pedantic. For me a better term or statement would be "I maintain a blog/website".

I self-host at home on a RPi and I use a VPS to redirect to it. I don't do much with it. I go in fits and starts where I update and add new stuff to just letting it sit and be.

I use Kamatera for $4/month. They hooked me with there 1 month free trial!
why not tackle both?
"Some of those who are being asked to return were laid off by mistake. Others were let go before management realized that their work and experience may be necessary to build the new features Musk envisions, the report said citing people familiar with the moves."

That second sentence, those employees, should tell Musk and Twitter to go f-themselves. To be thrown away because the child billionaire paid too much and has to cut costs asap and then asked to come back because there's a knowledge or skills gap thwarting the pushing of new features is Twitter's problem not that of the employees fired/laid-off.
> Has the virus mutated to a less deadly strain? (It is my understanding this is a common trait of "pandemical" virial diseases.)

It has not (necessarily), and it is not.
There is no evolutionary pressure on a virus becoming milder over time, it can go both ways.
What you see in action is the vaccines working, they were conceived to reduce the risk of death, and they did so successfully, hence you see lower deaths. Unfortunately, death is neither the only, nor maybe the most serious outcome of COVID.

We do seem to be in a situation where the acute phase of the disease is somewhat less hefty for many people, but even with the last BA.5 waves we have seen quite many hospitalizations, so the risk is definitely not low for everyone.
While this is for the acute phase, the long term effects of the disease, so called LongCovid, can be absolutely devastating and we have not yet seen the real long term effects (e.g. a HIV infection also only becomes serious after ~7 years). But so far we know the disease can seriously affect cardiovascular and pulmonary health, and seems to be inducing autoimmune reactions.

Sudden cardiac deaths, just like ischemic strokes, in young healthy adults are a symptom of how much damage COVID can do.
A more serious source like https://www.medrxiv.org might be a better source of information than social media videos. A good search term for what you're looking for is "post-acute sequelae SARS-Cov-2". Some papers have images which leave nothing to the imagination, even for people not trained in medicine.

Unfortunately this has become an extremely contentious subject and most people have moved far beyond the simple concept of not getting sick with an extremely serious disease.

With your health situation, I'd take the fourth shot, and remain careful when it comes to the risk of getting infected. Not getting sick is the best course of action.
Kind of. The difference is that with Telegram you are mostly required to actively participate in your network, directly sending messages/media to a specific person/group (YMMV obviously), whereas with "traditional" social media you put your contents out there, which, depending on the algorithm, may or may not be seen by your followers or the platform's userbase, with a much more passive engagement model where users can consume content without ever putting some out themselves, thus much more vulnerable to algorithm-driven user engagement exploits.

Discord is also very similar to Telegram conceptually, but very different at the same time because of the role it fulfills. Different tools, with different properties, for different needs. Even phone calls can be considered social media! The key is using them responsibly.
> If you want to buy a Spot robot to pick up garbage

All of the things you say are true. There is one additional thing you don’t mention:

You can drum up people on minimal wage, you give them a roll of bin bags and point at a street and tell them (verbally with words) “pick up the litter on that street, once the bags are full put it in the truck. At the end of the day drive to <address> for disposal” And it will with high probability happen!

Yeah they might goof off and you might need a foreman with a slightly higher wage to keep them busy, but that is basically all the “programing” you need to do.

How would the same work with a robot? Someone needs to program it. It is not unreasonable to think that one day we might have a “general trash collection” AI you can licence, but it is a lot of work to develop that system.

Whoever programs that system will need to solve issues such as:

- cover the whole street, but don’t wander into private estabilishments, peoples gardens or block the street

- pick up cigarete butts from the planters, but not the flowers, but do pick up the dried up fallen leaves/petals

- pick up the half shoe a reveller left on the corner, but don’t pick up the street performer’s hat with his coins in it

- hastle / don’t hastle the homeless based on opaque rules subject to change all the time

- shovel up the dirt from the pavement, but don’t try to dig a hole to china in the spots where grass should be but it dried out and it is basically just a patch of dirt

- empty the street bins, even the one which looks a bit odd (it was a one-off pilot project and we decided to go with a different suplier eventually) or the one which is hard to open (give it a good thunk, it jams since someone drove into it 5 months ago)

- leave the traffic cones be, but bag that one which was run over by a truck, dragged out of place, and got crumpled

And probably 15 other edge cases I can’t even think right now. And when your cleaner robot gets into a bad situation it probably won’t learn to avoid the same situation the next time.

And what happens if something changes? Let’s say you now want to collect aluminium into a separate bag, or there is a street festival with different temporary rules, or something?

To reprogram your robots you need highly trained, specialist crew, costing big bucks.

If your human crew needs “reprograming” you can email a middle manager paid 120% minimal wage who will make them change their way.

And all of this is “just software”. You have all this hassle even after all the battery and hardware issues you mentioned.

We might get street cleaning robots one day, but it is a very though task and i wouldn’t hold my breath.
Actually I've seen that if you're following accounts that get on average a few hundreds-low thousands of RTs/likes (vs 10s of thousands of RTs/likes), the discussions are pretty good. They're also easy to quickly scan and follow and are most likely real opinions of real people.
> I think its totally sensible

It is. And inline with Twitter's long standing position of banning people for violating their ToS.

I wonder if over time Musk will realise that maybe his utopic vision of limitless free speech is actually unworkable and harmful and maybe he should've left Twitter's moderation approach the same as when he bought it.
I've heard (but not looked into it deeply) that Mastodon will allow parody and scam accounts? Does Mastodon have less moderation than Twitter?

Seems like Mastodon is more free speech friendly than Twitter now? Might it therefore suffer from hate in the future, once it's own September begins.
> I don’t think anyone claims to be a “free speech absolutist.” And this instead seems to be a straw man label applied.

I've seen more than a few people claim that verbatim, so no.
Hearing begins to deteriorate in the late 20s / early 30s, so for better of worse audiophilia is a young people's game.
They also mention that they're a robotics engineer, why should anyone care about that? Because most of the world isn't robotics engineers, so it's a useful thing to know for people who are also robotics engineers or are interested in robotics.

Humans connect via points of commonality, especially ones that aren't so widely shared.
Playing panic football is a bad idea, either way. Diversification is a great insurance regardless of circumstances. Climate change predicts not just warmer winter, but also more variation on the mean, so for next winter, it'd still be great if those reactors are still operating (looks like they won't, but I hope 2023 will give rise to another Wende: towards more European energy independence).
The whole command-line tools in JS trend was, I think, in full swing in 2013. I mean even in the 2013 version that another commenter linked, they're relying on the built-in NPM support for installing command-line tools and the existing popular NPM packages for command-line parsing and output.

And if people were trying to fight that trend (which to be fair is a bad trend; I refuse to run software from the NPM ecosystem to this day), this is a weird example to pick because the point of the tool is to use JavaScript's regular expression syntax.
It's offset against the future CO2 emissions of the family and their descendants.

(Gee, this thread got dark. Like carbon-black dark)
It' proportional to the "tesla man good" phenomenon, people would apparently sell their first born son before admitting anything Musk do is wrong
There is no such checkbox
share some links so that we can follow your work!
Mild autumn weather [ and not enough storage capacity to take advantage ] has sent European gas prices plummeting.

90% full in the UK means about a week's worth of gas. In Germany it's about 2.5 months.
The line is obvious and well known:

- don't allow hate speech

- don't allow harassment

- reduce spread of (likely intentionally created) misinformation

The think is a lot of the complains come from people doing one of the points above _intentionally and knowing_ and then complain "but free speech". In their mind it is okay to spread hate speech and harass or push harassment of certain groups of people because they _do not see them as people_. They often also come up with stupid argument why their harassment is supposedly no harassment, with nonsense like "we should be allowed to always remind a traumatized person of their trauma because thats just free speach and purely informative we don't insult them" often taking advantage of 3rd parties potentially not understanding why its harassment far worse then some childish insults.

EDIT: Or complains from people which intentional spread misinformation for other political and often market manipulation reasons and don't like when twitter labeled their tweet as misinformation.
It's quite clear that it means "whatever Elon Musk wants it to mean at any given moment in order to maximize utility for Elon Musk at the expense of his critics".
To be fair, the people who labelled themselves as "Elon Musk" should have labelled themselves as "Elon Musk (parody)" or similar.

That way, they automatically label their tweets as parody, and don't have to include such sentences as "this tweet was a parody" as implied in your post.

In fact I'm pretty sure that's what is meant when the Twitter TOS states "To avoid confusing others about an account’s affiliation, parody, commentary, and fan accounts must distinguish themselves in BOTH their account name and bio."

Exercising their free speech by clumsily painting "pArOdY" in mspaint on their Twitter account banner picture, but not including "(Parody)" in their account name, is in breach of the TOS.
I'm staunchly in favour of freedom of speech and I do not have a problem with Twitter's current position on parody accounts.

I'm in favour of freedom of speech because I believe it is important that ideas must be shared and debated freely and that no one should be beyond criticism. Being allowed to impersonate others simply doesn't seem to be an important part of that.
If you're reboiling water aren't you already doing it wrong.

Ideally you should only be boiling the water you need.
What entrepreneurs can learn from regular people (2016)
I mean. You are assuming that the underdog is always in the right here. Or that it's hypocritical to support the underdog in one conflict, but not the other, which is just blatantly bad reasoning.
Also, at least where I live, the same people are not in power. They can be against Afghanistan, Iraq _and_ Ukraine invasions at the same time.
You would benefit by less traffic on roads because someone else would be using high speed trains.
I'd love to see some data for that. In my own anecdata, around half of my engineering colleagues (6 figure salaries) are on Android. Nobody gives a shit either way - the only reason I know is from borrowing chargers.
Ok, since you started, let me challenge that head on: so far climate change is good. Cold-related deaths decreased something like 1-2 orders of magnitude more than a paltry increase in heat deaths.

You're trying to make me fill guilty for enjoying nice weather? Really? Well, how do you feel about advocating for literally more dead people in the foreseeable future?

And before you try bringing doomsday scenarios into that, no official prediction I've read supports a Venus-like scenario. On the other hand, simply by following current trends in 50 years we'll have massively increased resources and tech: great batteries, probably fusion, AI, efficient carbon capture and the cheap power to do it etc. So by pushing against climate change now, when we're still relatively poor and primitive, you just divert resources from growth and end up killing more people than needed.
I noted something similar with colleague and friends.
I really seem to bring out the worst in people, I'm not sure what it is.

Recently I had a conversation with a friend that it is always really considerate and nuanced in every conversation (and other social network), except, Twitter where it becomes kinda vicious, or it managed always express an opinion in the most polarizing way possible. I didn't seem to realized it until I show some of the tweet it posted.
Use a helmet all the time anyway. Something might happen and you fly over the handlebars, like when my front splash guard broke off, jammed between the wheel and the fork, and sent me flying at 20mph. Glad I wore a helmet.
> Got kicked out for having an opinion.

Like a Nigerian Prince email, certain opinions have been seen often enough to know that no good is going to come of engaging in it.
I think AR & VR can help solve similar things to your list of technologies. Arguably the car, computer, spreadsheet, and the internet all help with the facilitation of communicating information. A case can be made for all of them having a variety of utility but I’d like to focus on the social underpinnings of all these technologies:

-Cars bring people closer to each other faster than ever before
-Computers allow for us to create, present, and process information for each other in standardized ways (spreadsheets are an extension of that)
-The Internet has allowed us to increase the speed of communication previously afforded by telegraphs and phone lines

As Zuckerberg says, he’s trying to further the means of communication between one another by adding the feeling of remote presence. Just like how hearing someone’s voice can be seen as a jump from reading a text from them, seeing someone else’s body in 3D space could bring a new level of connection to 2 individuals.

It also has the potential to change how we perform simulations (something valuable for many different types of work), and can even act as a way for individuals to connect themselves to different physical places on earth in a way that they may have never had the means to see otherwise.
Pre-Musk Twitter board planned layoffs.

> Before Musk took over the site, Twitter had already planned broad layoffs, which would have affected up to a quarter of the staff, according to people familiar with the plans. The Post reported previously the company’s board was planning to cut thousands of jobs as part of an effort to save $700 million in labor costs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/03/elon-mu...

And I don't understand why you think Parag would have allowed impersonations (himself or others). It's just bad for the platform overall.
British comedy even shows up in their serious and influential statistics work.
> The US lacks in-house capacity and relies on outside consultants and contractors

This trope needs to be taken out back and shot. All the big early and mid 20th century projects were done by contractors as was the bulk of the design work. The difference is that the government and by proxy the people didn't just bend over and take it when their money got wasted. And everything was a lot less codified and process-ified so there was more room for competition (and also real graft).