skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Thin-skinned narcissist buys criticism machine."

This is not "free speech absolutism" in the slightest. It's not even business-savvy.

Elon's mask has truly cracked, and he proves he is nothing but a febrile mind who has bought into his own hype.
Sure, I wrote one of my recent articles on this topic: https://briancaffey.github.io/2021/10/31/how-and-why-i-added.... I mostly treated Adsense as a learning experience.

I realize that most people who visit my site will use an ad blocker, so they won't see ads.

At one point I built an ad-block blocker (like you see on news websites), but doing that is sort of a cat-and-mouse exercise. It worked with some ad-blockers, but not others, so I disabled it. It also seemed to really bother people! I got lots of nasty chat messages through my Drift integration.

It is also an incentive for me to write articles that get a big audience.
“Whimsical” an interesting choice to describe an executive whose management approach seems to be limited to layoffs and bans.
Lmao! My comment did not age well.
Understood. That's probably how we got to the current situation, given that large stores don't want to have to deal with the liability of thousands of employees having to make these decisions.

We have these large anonymous cities and companies, at a scale where personal reputation has become less and less relevant. If we can't rely on enough people voluntarily following the rules do we need different rules, or different enforcement? The police are not currently obligated to stop a crime in progress. They can't be everywhere at once. Should we change that? Or maybe try to electronically enforce the rules, tracking people, cameras, etc?

I understand these thefts are upsetting to people, but how far as a society do we go? Hasn't there always been a certain amount of crime? Is there more of this kind of crime today, per-capita, than in the past, or are we just more exposed to it?
Are project managers expected to have technical/engineering merit? Or are they expected to be experts in managing complex projects at a high level?
This is stunning.

What is a violation of this policy?

At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms, such as linking out (i.e. using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter, or providing your handle without a URL:

Prohibited platforms:

- Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Post and Nostr
- 3rd-party social media link aggregators such as linktr.ee, lnk.bio
- Examples:
- “follow me @username on Instagram”
- “username@mastodon.social”
- “check out my profile on Facebook - facebook.com/username”

(https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platfo...)
Coffee's recent interview on the Lex Fridman podcast gives more background to these investigations, and specifically why you're not seeing them in mainstream media. Basically, Coffee is taking a lot of risk, as the scammers apply a lot of pressure, including legal threats and not so legal threats, to suppress knowledge of their wrongdoing. Mainstream media tends to give in to these threats, but Coffee is in a somewhat unique position of being able to take them on.

I've lately become slightly addicted. The production style is appealing, and the stories compelling. The fact that people like Logan Paul are able to pull off these scams with little accountability says a lot about our modern times. I definitely recommend Coffeezilla.
People absolutely should.

And people should also hold Musk to account for being a liar and a hypocrite. These things don't conflict.
The original LEAF was also susceptible to heat degredation as it was purely air cooling the pack. People who lived in places like Arizona had issues.
Generally true, but could be relevant for calculating heat loss rates of cabin or battery. Only when parked I guess, as air velocity due to driving would typically be much greater.
Argentina Wins the World Cup
People can switch domains
Running the engine is a very inefficient way to heat the oil (sometimes requiring a plug-in _electric_ engine block heater if it's so cold the bearings and rings would be insufficiently lubricated to start), and doesn't work at all to warm up a gelled tank of diesel. It's ridiculously inefficient to try to cool the cabin.

EV heating and cooling is far superior to warming up a gas vehicle.
I've never felt so free to speak!
Burn all the books.
What an utterly unenforceable distraction.
Phones and laptops get worse battery performance in cold weather and use similar batteries to EVs.
Expect an email from Google lawyers early this week about the domain name.
There is nothing wrong with fat.

People were cooking with lard for 1000s of years until the US decided fat is bad and people started substituting fat with sugar because when you remove fat, you remove flavour.
huh. ability to mute someone's reposts in your own timeline won't do much for purposes of browsing through that particular person's tweets though. it's not about 'how someone's tweets appear in your timeline', but 'browsing someone's tweets'. to be fair, twitter doesn't let you just filter out reblogs from someone's profile timeline either (though one could just do a search like 'from:username'), but with visible likes, this sort of 'personal curation' separates itself into 'profile tweets' and 'likes', with retweets getting used more sparingly.
Note that Mastodon is third in the list. I consider that a success.

1. They ignore you.
2. They laugh at you.
3. They fight you. <<<--- we are here.
4. You win.
They claim an electricity price of $0.01/kWh even before mass production kicks in. If they achieve that, the economics will work out fine.
Would be hard to ban any mention of or links to YouTube, since it's not "just" a social media platform, but also used for video hosting.

Twitter of course hosts videos too, but it's a lot less advanced.
It seems there might be a market for a social media directory service that can use some kind of signed message authentication to enable folks to link their media identies in a somewhat neutral way. I have not talent or ambition to build such a thing, but I figure it would probably be good thing. Or it already exists?
Collection of products manufactured with the intent of being collectables is another thing I can't wrap my mind around. Intentionally rare baseball/pokemon/magic trading cards, beanie babies, funko pops... I just don't get it.

If you're going to collect something, doesn't it seem more authentic to collect something that was never meant to be collectable but became that way as the passage of time attrited that thing? Things which became collectable organically, rather than being manufactured with the intent of being collectable, stand a much better chance of retaining their value and seem intrinsically more interesting.

I guess in some cases the line is blurred. Like stamp collecting, and the existence of limited-run stamps originally intended to entice stamp collectors.
I'm not a power engineer, but his reasoning about the overall cost per kilowatt hour seems impeccable. He's dealing with the overall costs and their likely trends. Most of the comments are techno-optimism: "fusion has to work; therefore it will work."
Koo's eminence account got suspended by Elon Musk on Friday.
> They called it "rich criticism" coming from WaPo. That says nothing of the author.

To AJ's point, it also says nothing of the article, which is I think the point he's working towards. If your comment speaks neither to the author nor the article, then unless there is a reason to point out a conflict of interests, then it becomes a low-to-middle brow dismissal of the article in question without referencing it.

There are of course cases in which it is important to make conflicts visible. "Bezos Owned Paper Investigates Bezos Owned Book Company, Finds Everything Perfect" is too perhaps too obviously a conflict of interest, but merely pointing out the association everyone already knows is of low value without a reason to point it out, and I see none here.

Yes, there is cause to worry about Bezos putting his finger on the scales of reporting. That said it is virtually impossible for him to be involved with every article published in every section of their paper. So, TLDR, it's probably worth it to save allegations of bias for when they bear on the discussion.
ah, that's fair. I generally have no sense of what constitutes organic vs deliberate or if there's even standards for this stuff.
It varies wildly by geography what sub cultures prefer.
Banning links to Facebook? Really?

This flying by the seat of the pants moderation style reminds me of friends in highschool running their own phpBB instances and IRC channels..

Also, Telegram, Discord, Tumblr aren't listed? Lol.
> It is not clear that the optimal amount of terrible things is 0.

Totally fair, but there's a lot of options between "monoculture" and "total free-for-all"

I also think your discounting that many cultures are unable to exist in free-for-alls. There isn't a clear line from "fewer boundaries" -> "more diversity". There's a sweet spot that allows the maximum amount of freedom for the most people, and that isn't laissez-faire
It's both.

Moving people and things (Waymo Via[1] is their autonomous trucking and delivery subdivision) via roadways is worth (in revenue) hundreds of billions of dollars in the U.S. alone. Even capturing a fraction of that market, and carving out profit (by displacing expensive, accident-prone and sleep-needing humans), is a money hose on its own.

[1] https://waymo.com/waymo-via/
It’s actually kind of cool to see Mastodon being enough of a threat to be talked about these days.
That was some brilliant footie!
I don't see how this could not be qualified as a flagrant abuse of a dominant position, at least in the European Union.
Is there a comparison somewhere of the cooling used by different EVs and PHEVs? I know tesla does it right but there is rarely enough information provided by manufacturers to tell if they can take the pack temp below ambient or not. It is by far my largest concern in selecting my next vehicle. I want to wait for the cyber truck, but I am vonsidering the pacifica PHEV
My Tesla Model X 100D looses 25-40% of range in the winter (and by "winter, I mean 20-50F, as I live in Virginia). This is partially due to resistance heating, and the range is better if you're somehow able to live with keeping the heat off and using just the steering wheel and seat heaters.

However, one thing I've never gotten used to is just how cold my feet get in the winter in this car. Even with the heat at full blast, the footwells are quite cold. This is a very different experience from most ICE cars I've owned, where engine heat blows directly on your feet and keeps them toasty.
Messi just won his first Football World Cup! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34040277
That's exactly what they've done, and that's what Musk cannot stand.
Doesn't answer Why to start with cp/m?

Oh hang on, I know. The locoscript word processor booted in seconds, on 1980s hardware - just like everything else back then, in fact. Who'd have thought load times would go backwards after 40 years of Moore's law?
Messi the GOAT!
Not to take away from anything you said, but in case someone didn't know, USPS offers shipping for "media" (dvd, books, cds, etc) which is often cheaper - https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-is-Media-Mail-Book-Rate
lmao, how much longer can this guy be defended on the basis of making The Libs mad. Must be nice having cult-immunity.
So we learned that TikTok and YouTube are driving a lot of Twitter traffic.
During the world cup final huh? Sneaky
Reading the bureaucratese in the announcement, it seems he has reinvented Twitter's social policy mechanisms, except written in a lead-footed corporate HR manner.
Thanks Twitter Support for including Nostr!
Ah damn, I hoped for a fair experiment to demonstrate absordity of total free speech, but istead we got bog standard hypocracy! Boo!

If you are caught wondering why some people still support Elon - in 'true conservative' society, like Russia or Saudi states, hypocracy is means of demonstrating hierarchy.

So as a leader, you show that you are dominant by demonstrating that rules don't apply to you. That makes you even more of a strongman and grows your support.

So if you are a fan of strongmen, stamping out dissent and competition is exactly the expected behaviour.
If Twitter was trying to find a way to alienate big accounts who otherwise haven't been affected by the drama so far, it would be this.
Jonny Seven One Man Army.

Legal Eagle did a video over dangerous toys recently and had this in it.

https://youtu.be/UtT34FNuBf0

At the 3:15 mark.
This is great context, thanks for the reply.
Wow, this is Bananas!

I mean, like the film "Bananas".

"Power has driven him mad." https://youtu.be/dkYfmRwryQo
Nah, that’s not the way. If you go that route it’ll only work in Vim itself and not other programs with a vi-like interface.

Better to map caps to ctrl and build up the muscle memory to use ctr-[

If you do that you also get easy access to all those other Insert mode ctrl shortcuts.
I just tried it and my link was flagged as 'malware'. The feeling of having my speech curtailed was surprisingly visceral. That free speech debate doesn't feel so academic.
The new policy prohibits "3rd-party social media link aggregators such as linktr.ee, lnk.bio".

I imagine that will impact a lot of small content creators. From what I've seen, many streamers, artists, and indie developers use sites like linktr.ee and carrd.co for advertising for their work across different platforms
Don't worry, the website solved this issue:
> "Probably Won't Fail: Featuring the latest build of an undocumented API."

This will work as long as YouTube doesn't change anything. And since when has YouTube changed anything?
Youtube already auto-generates transcripts that you can see in the ... menu in most videos. This website just seems like an alternative frontend?
I'll believe that when I see it, but that price would be more than good enough to beat renewables.

I find it amusing that Helion's approach also strongly depends on the cost of storage, just in a very different part of storage parameter space.
He fears John Mastodon.
Thank you for the feedback!! We needed something to start of with but your arguments are very fair so we will have to change it.
Would you like to sign up for the Beta and give it a try? Would absolutely love your opinionated feedback :D
Also, how much would you pay? Could you give us some insights there.
They are part of the same issue: dereliction of duty by the people in charge of the city, complacency by the population that keeps those asshats in power, and willful ignorance (denial) by everyone involved about how hostile the city has become compared to anywhere else in the country.
My VW has well over half a million kilometres. Of course I did just have to change the cylinder head gasket, but that's because it's tuned and unknownbenownst to me had sticky turbo vanes for years, causing it to overboost significantly. Unmodified engines of this type (diesel TDI) often reach 700 thousand km with only normal maintenance.

But if it's your only car and you're not mechanically-inclined I get always wanting to have a brand new car for the reliability.
Can't wait to see how the Elon lackeys - Marc, Lex, and Jason etc. going to bend over backwards defending this.
Many of the cons run on “Better Call Saul” rely on this premise.
They did, and it is called mastodon.
Weird , this almost sounds like a parody... Some sort of a "contract" between a spouse caught cheating and a bat-shit partner preventing them from seeing any other person ever.
Eben Upton Interview: Raspberry Pi Availability and More [video]
Circa 30 minutes with "Explaining Computers" YouTube channel host Christopher Barnatt
I mean, what a great way to find out about alternatives. I'd never heard of "Post" and "Nostr".
I’d split the difference between the two opinions here. You have to let juniors make some mistakes. Both so that they can learn, and so you can teach anyone else around (wisdom is learning from the mistakes of others).

We don’t do this with gun safety, because the lesson comes too late and at too high a cost. There may be nobody to teach afterward. So we demand that they act a certain way and come down like a ton of bricks on anyone who fucks around.

But a medical implant isn’t just a personal decision, it’s a transactions with several other commercial enterprises, with financial interests in selling more of them. This will be the next heroin epidemic, or the one after that. It’s predatory. And as someone who has survived predators, it’s people like the three of us who have a moral obligation to watch out for predators while the children play. That’s part of the deal of being a pack/tribal mammal. It’s civilization.
If you want an CLI version of a similar idea, you can use yt-dlp and some simple jq to pull down the captions for a file:

curl `\
yt-dlp -j "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeWyp2vXxqA" | \
jq -r '.automatic_captions.en[] | select(.ext=="json3") | .url'`
This is just pathetic. He’s acting like a jealous high school boyfriend.
It exists, it's a website with a "Contact" page.
We already have a fusion reactor, so I don't see the point of building another small one here on Earth.
Absolutely legendary game.
Yes now we are finally at the point where the “free speech absolutism” stuff is dropped and we can have an honest discussion about why linking to a Facebook profile is somehow more objectionable than posting transphobic content.
It's his business, but that doesn't necessarily rationalize it. Jack Dorsey's Twitter, for as oblivious and misguided as it was, didn't stop people from connecting on other sites. This is a top-down decision to lock everyone in the Hellsite, and I'm pretty sure this will be the tipping point for most average users.
(from another thread) Any attorneys want to weigh in on whether - or when - this becomes an anti-competitive/anti-trust concern, either in the US (FTC) or the EU?

Related reading:

* Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) Article 102, on abusive conduct by companies that have a dominant position in a market: https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust/procedures... . Any EU resident can file a complaint.

* FTC's guidelines for firms with market power: https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/anticompetitive-practices, https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...

* "Antitrust and Social Networking" (2012): https://lawecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1188... (PDF)
Are you aware of Keybase? People use it exactly for that.

Example: https://keybase.io/robpike
Perhaps this is the point of criticizing 5% utilization of the gpu. Why not have 90% gpu utilization of a $400 headset? Which strategy is more likely to succeed in gaining more adoption?
You are surely aware of the campaign "Eat Five Servings of Fruits & Vegetables Per Day". People just don't care.
Not less speech just less that affects us, but more of what makes us money.
I've been pretty wait-and-see on Twitter since Elon took over but this is a very outwardly bone headed move.
What are you talking about? These articles have nothing to do with the topic.
I mean, if you ever wanted to get on the bandwagon of why we have so many college administrators responsible for raising the cost of college and creating work for themselves by stoking culture wars, just read through the list on that page.

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">Instead of: Philippine Islands

>Consider using: Philippines or the Republic of the Philippines

>Context: The term is politically incorrect and denotes colonialism. Some people of Filipino heritage might use the term, though."

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">Instead of: "preferred" pronouns

>Consider using: pronouns

>Context: The word "preferred" suggests that non-binary gender identity is a choice and a preference."

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">Instead of: Karen

>Consider using: demanding or entitled White woman

>Context: This term is used to ridicule or demean a certain group of people based on their behaviors."

(Have we landed in backwards land? So "white" is ok to use here?)

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">Instead of: blackbox

>Consider using: hidden, mystery box, opaque box, flight recorder

>Context: Assigns negative connotations to the color black, racializing the term."

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">Instead of: red team

>Consider using: cyber offense team

>Context: "Red" is often used disparagingly to refer to Indigenous peoples, so its use in this context could be offensive to some groups."

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">Instead of: war room

>Consider using: situation room

>Context: Unneccesary use of violent language."

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I am flabbergasted that an opinion like the post you’re responding to is held by anyone. AI has the potential to eliminate all menial tasks of humanity. If use benevolently, it can free everyone from poverty, and enable an unprecedented era of human experience.

True human experience. Discovery of self and our true place in the universe, without worry of material concern. No worry of disease, hunger, shelter — an age of boundless abundance.

It can be endowed to embody our best traits. All the thousands of years of accumulated wisdom, distilled into an intelligence working with the whole of humanity for good.

Change like this can be scary for people who are already comfortable; I get it. But most people in my generation and younger do not have a future without radical innovation. Most of us don’t have homes, don’t have families, don’t have any prospect but slaving away in servitude until we die.

I prefer freedom.
> Booklice are rarely damaging inside homes and are harmless to people or pets. Booklice usually feed on molds, fungi, grains, insect fragments, and other starchy material, including glue from bookbindings. In homes, psocids typically are found in damp, warm, undisturbed places where mold and fungi are growing.

Certainly having a yuck factor, but seems harmless? Perhaps even good if it eats mold?
Absolutely pathetic. There’s no nuance to this.
What is an advanced video ?
Obviously people are building their own platforms, or else Elon wouldn’t feel the need for this policy.
I think "transcriptsforyoutube" would be passable? I remember something about a case using "for" and being ok but not any details.
What I've wanted it search by transcript of past videos I've watched. With something like this it seems reasonable to imagine having a set up where every video you navigate to gets transcribed and test is indexed for later search
It is, and they can do what they like! I have moved to Mastodon without too much fuss and I'm enjoying it so far.

Does that mean it's a good idea, that it's not rank hypocrisy, or that it's in any way in the spirit of a "marketplace of ideas"? No.

Let's say I was a person rooting for Twitter under Musk to succeed; even viewing it through that lens, this seems really really super dumb, and I can't imagine people sticking around if they can't promote their work elsewhere.
Bread is very cheap. Despite that, in my country (Poland), many people believe that throwing bread away is wrong. When it gets stale or moldy, they will either eat it anyway, feed animals with it, leave it next to a trashcan so someone else can take it (which never happens, no one wants moldy bread) or burn it. I want to stress that it's just about bread, they don't care about wasting the other kinds of food.

This is not unlike how some treat books. They can't accept that the overwhelming majority of old books are worthless (at least monetarily) and easily replaceable.
>owns 12,000 books, mostly fiction, kept in 19th-century wooden cases with glass doors in her New York apartment

Maybe I should write it from "privilege" point of view. Many people do not have their own rooms, sleep in their cars, or stay with abusive partners just for housing. They do not haul around any books, but that does not mean, they are any less educated.

I really do not see why people expect congratulations or sympathy, for their book hoarding. Rich people problems!