skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I know it's wrong

Provided you differentiate feeling sorry for the victims and wanting the perpetrators brought to justice, I don't think there's any real social obligation to feel sorry for victims. Wanting justice can be justified by considering the corrosive effect crimes have on society as a whole, even though the direct victims don't deserve sympathy. For instance, when gangsters massacre other gangsters, I don't feel sorry for the victims (who lived by the sword, then died by it) but this lack of empathy for the victims doesn't temper my desire to see the perpetrators brought to justice.

The trap is when you don't care about the perpetrators facing justice because you think the victims deserved it. That's a bad path to go down.
> well funded Twitter clone

In a way that are the failure modes of Twitter itself. Centralized, funded by VCs, susceptible to the whims of the millionaire owners.

Wasn’t Post the clone where, according to their TOS, you couldn’t "discriminate by net worth"?
The inclusion of "Hispanic => Latinx" is staggering because:

- The vast majority of Hispanic people don't like "Latinx"

- "Latinx" was invented to avoid gendered words like "Latino", and "Hispanic" isn't gendered

- It's listed under "imprecise language", but "Latinx" isn't any more precise.

It's so ironic that "colonialism" has now come to mean anything progressive academics don't like, but telling a minority group what they must call themselves because "we know what's best for you" is considered totally fine.
Now that they’ve made it abundantly clear that the whole “free speech absolutism” approach is obviously not being pursued, I don’t see why Twitter didn’t just take the same approach that was used when Apple, Google, Amazon, etc. deplatformed Parler. Just claim that these platforms are filled with hate speech and violent rhetoric, and cherry-pick a few examples to use as evidence.

As for the banning of ElonJet and some journalists for sharing location information, they should just say the new policy is being implemented to combat “stochastic terrorism.”
> how do you just dump that much money into something without any due diligence.

They believe they are scammers too, not the victims?
> GF is 100% Mexican descent, first gen US citizen, w/ advanced degree and she despises Latinx as a term (can't even pronounce it in Spanish she says).

I mean, the whole """Latinx""" thing is just non Latino whites replacing a Spanish word (Latino) with an English word, then telling the demographic it refers to to use this English word to refer to themselves

I have no idea how this dynamic doesn't manage to piss off more people
https://archive.today/fHBOK
What storage are you talking about? We use batteries for very small scale storage, just long enough to spin up something better. To actually store power for night is several times as expensive as the power in the first place.
That thread is full of people who can apparently react to a new tweet within minutes. Yet most of them proclaim the death of Twitter.

I wonder if these people notice that their attention is the product being sold and that they have just proven that Twitter+Elon still own their attention...
> It's amazing to me how much lack of empathy people have against other people, just because they're rich or famous. Or maybe it's just ignorance about the risks these people face every single day.

I wouldn’t do any of this power hungry behavior while being a reason why society is so unfair. You’re defending a billionaire with empathy arguments while we have homeless people in the country and abroad.

I guarantee you if Elon gives me $1B I will never use security.
I really don't understand why people are surprised. If you don't have access to the file itself, you don't own it. "Buying" a movie on a platform or paying for a subscription service are both just paying for a revokable license to access a movie. You do not own it and access can be revoked at any time according to whatever platform's ToS.

If you want to own an actual copy of a TV show or movie, buy the physical disc. Optionally you can rip it and store/stream it digitally. Nobody can take that away from you no matter what anyone decides. It's yours forever. If you can't download the file, you don't own it.

Also, most of us are comparatively rich, adult, first worlders. If you like something and want to support it, pay for it! If you literally can't get some obscure media, or if the company is no longer selling it, that's different. But piracy of things you like and want more of is not only unethical, it's shortsighted and immature.
Yes, I definitely consider it doxxing. Whether doxxing someone should be allowed is another question and twitter for years has decided that doxxing is against the rules and doxxers typically get shadow banned.
OK, if you refuse to acknowledge the plain and obvious. Politics should not turn into bigotry.
Is it mocking, or just encouraging realistic expectations around your travel needs?
I’ve heard many people say an EV won’t work for them, yet their total daily commute is nowhere close to the capacity. And for many of them, even a 110V outlet at home would get them around 40 miles overnight once they’re home (depending on the make/model specifics), and most folks I know are barely driving more than that as a daily driver.

I totally understand wanting to have long distance range in an EV. But even with the cold, for most commutes, anything with that 150-mile-in-winter is range for the majority of trips.

But totally understood it’s a case by case basis. I have family who drove over 100 miles round trip for their daily commute in North Dakota. Those use cases exist, but I think many people without such extreme daily distances are thinking about their daily distance needs in unrealistic ways. I hope this isn’t what you’d consider mocking :)
> What is not a violation of this policy?

> We recognize that certain social media platforms provide alternative experiences to Twitter, and allow users to post content to Twitter from these platforms. In general, any type of cross-posting to our platform is not in violation of this policy, even from the prohibited sites listed above.

This looks like a cross post from John Carmack's Facebook post, which is not in violation.
Reread the what is not prohibited section.
White pages are a single Google search away.
I will make it a point to use all of the "harmful language" in that article as much as possible from now on.

I will not blindly follow these nonsensical rules. They're so lame. I may start a fatwa against them. I will only bury the hatchet if they agree to scrap these rules and never speak of them again.

Also, I'd like to visit the Philippine Islands someday soon.
Maybe, but I don't feel particularly owned. This feels more like a neighbor had a confederate flag up, and the neighborhood asked him to take it down, so he burned his own house down to spite everyone. I guess you showed us, weird combative neighbor!
If they list Tumblr might as well list MySpace
Cyrptokitties are worth "hundreds and thousands of dollars" because they are being used to launder money. There is no other reason.
Whether it’s Twitter or the US Supreme Court, I’m amused how the group out of power argues earnestly for restraint of power until the millisecond they gain power and immediately adopt their opponent’s previous position for the free exercise of power while their opponents immediately begin arguing earnestly for restraint of power.
Yes, the "he's a genius" posts are equally as cringy. As were the "its a private platform, build your own if you don't like it posts" circa earlier last year were awful too. The answer isn't to do the same thing but switch sides.
FTX is a good example: one of the investigative journalists he interviewed alleged that Bloomberg (I think, could be misremembering) refused to publish his articles critical of FTX because FTX was buying a lot of ads on their platform.

There was also a journalist who uncovered substantial evidence linking the Royal Family and Jeffrey Epstein years ago. She was pressured to drop the story, in part because of potential financial and reputational repercussions to the place she was working.
He did it. He won. The ultimate GOAT! He finally got it before retirement!

I will remember this game for a long time. The dramatic twists and turns are so memorable.
this is great.

homogenising all communication and making strict formal guidelines makes it much easier to make a competing platform that scales.

Stanford is doing the transition from a learning platform based in identity to one based I scalability.

My guess, however, is that it is to their detriment.
Can you explain this a bit more or give an example? I'm curious about this.
"Christian Beliefs" and, "The Actual Practices of Christians" are too very different things. There are have been many atrocities done over hundreds of years in the name of Christ.

This guy just has a pretty (and punchable) face he's using to grift his idiot fans.
Advertisers do too.

Not being able to cross promote is a good reason to put your ad dollars somewhere else. Especially for small businesses which are run through the social stores like Facebook Shops/Marketplace or Instagram Shopping.

I wonder if Meta will make a fuss about how this "harms small business", or do they only do that when browser developers add anti-tracking technology?
> I think gutting 80% of your workforce and showing that Twitter will continue running as a site is a pretty incredible POC.

Twitter may have had some bloat, but it also had excellent SREs and solid reliability engineering. Nobody who knew about that expected it to collapse overnight.

But serious failures will happen, as the graceful degradation turns into not-so-graceful outages, new features break things in unexpected ways, and the remaining infra staff burn out. It’s just a matter of time.
Who is Logan Paul?
> As if they might decide only completely original media is allowed on Twitter.

Pretty sure that is precisely where things are headed. A viable alternative can’t come soon enough.
If you want to understand why Elon Musk does anything that he does, you just have to ask yourself: what does he think will make him the most money at this moment?

Why did he say he wanted a big free speech platform? Because he thought saying that would make him the most money. Why is he now banning mentioning other platforms? Because he thinks that will make Twitter more money.

He doesn't have fundamental beliefs. He just wants more money, and has accidentally painted himself into a $44B corner.
> it's had a tangible effect on my mentality.

What tangible effects did it have on your mentality?
One of the best players in the game was going to win no matter which side won. This looked like a pretty fairly-called contest to me.

But hey, even a 7–1 beatdown of the favorites can make for a memorable and entertaining World Cup.
Messi did it! The ultimate GOAT finally got it before retirement!

I will remember this game for a long time. The dramatic twists and turns are so memorable.
Yes, physical media.
I Created Simple App with ChatGPT
Yeah, watching twitter over the past two weeks has definitely made we wish it were my bank too.
I wrote a post a while ago about getting an inexpensive three-button foot pedal to work under Linux.[1] I have the different buttons mapped to different keys in Xorg (which can then be mapped to any commands in .vimrc), but I'm not sure how to map the keydown and keyup events to different keys so that the "clutch" behavior can be implemented in software only.

1: https://catswhisker.xyz/log/2018/8/27/use_vecinfinity_usb_fo...
There is more to taking a photo, yes, but not to claiming a copyright, at least not in the US.

"Generally, the author and initial copyright owner of a photograph is the person who 'shoots' or 'takes' the photo."

https://www.copyright.gov/engage/photographers/

Let's say a photographer sets up his camera, aims it, composes it, focuses it, etc. But he decides the light isn't quite right yet, so he goes for lunch. While he is away, his assistant clicks the shutter on a whim, capturing more or less the exact image what the photographer intended to capture. The resulting photograph's copyright belongs to the assistant, not the photographer.

This is in theory, of course. In practice, this would be difficult to prove, since the picture is likely to be on a roll of many other pictures for which the photographer does own the copyright. The assistant would need some definitive evidence that they clicked the shutter on that exact frame if they wanted credit for their work.
Not saying that he isn't a petulant and vindictive bully, just that maybe he never cared much about keeping Twitter profitable to begin with.
The kicker for me is if we want to anglicize Spanish because we know better than them... we could just say Latin! It's already a word! But it doesn't come with ingroup signaling and so here we are..
When will people finally realize what a fool Musk is?
They are definitely not perfect but Microsoft has been - and still is in many ways - outright evil and that's a different level for me. So Gitlab it is. Sytse is one of the very few billionaires that I know and/or know about that isn't an asshole so he's got that going for him.
Carmack was clearly cross-posting, not promoting Facebook. Twitter doesn't generally allow long form posts like that, so it clearly falls under the cross-posting part of the policy.

I don't like this policy either, but let's not make up reasons for it to be bad. There are plenty of real reasons.
I can't do much with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated_normal_distribution but maybe you can?
The question of thresholds is interesting: if it required a large number of votes it wouldn’t be very effective. If it doesn’t, it’s too easy to game — and even a million accounts doesn’t seem like a high bar since it could easily be rented for many votes. A large ad agency or PR firm could do that - promising all of their clients the ability to bury bad news (thinking of how much Johnny Depp alone paid) – and it’d be really easy to imagine, say, the Catholic or Mormon churches, Scientology, etc. recruiting members or even funding their Twitter Blue memberships.
"Do you have a term you'd like added to the list? Please fill out our suggestion form."

I wonder how many people Stanford has working on this.
Much of this is disconnection from reality. Something an educational institution should not be pushing. As an alum, I'm embarrassed.
Ok, but please don't fulminate on HN. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. (This is not a comment on cracked narcissists, febrile hype minds, or anything related to the OP.)

A comment like this should never be the top comment on the top HN story (as it was just now). It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We want curious conversation here. For that, we need commenters to track whether they're functioning in a state of curiosity or not.

It's true that the greater damage is done by upvoters than by the original comment in cases like this, but the only solution to that is to not break the site guidelines in the first place.
You used the expression correctly, but it often implies, "... and therefore the criticism is invalid."

E.g., NYT shouldn't level this criticism because it could also be subject to the criticism.

Hard to tell with a written forum post.
Block heaters don't heat the cab, so it's still uncomfortable
Almost exactly 18 months ago, my then 87 year old father, after feeling unwell and having some fluid problems with his lungs was diagnosed with stage-4 lung cancer. He turned down treatment and died at home a couple days before Christmas last year.

I've come away from the experience very unhappy with the medical system. There's a long list, things that in any other industry would be prosecuted. The medical and hospice systems are as near to worthless as any amount of money can buy -- at most times an absolute farce.

These were people who went out of their way to make things a little less worse, but they all worked on the periphery of the system: drivers, suppliers, and so on.

Fuck cancer, but also fuck the American medical system, and anybody who's gotten in the way of making it more sane and compassionate.

I miss my Dad.
As software engineers, we could guess how it could pretty easily be automated to be effectively exhaustive.

Questions are whether there's a will to do that, how decimated their engineering resources are, and what state their culture is in.
If you're a "classical liberal", whatever that means, surely you're not in favour of randomly destroying things that work and that people are happily using, by state action, in favour of an unpopular alternative?
This is absolute insanity - I do not mean surprising/wild, I mean the people/organizations who have curated this page of random innocuous words and contexts have completely lost touch with reality and should be relieved of any serious positions in higher learning.

You can't use the word brave anymore? What in the hell is going on with academics?
Thank you. Likewise!
This is always how it goes. Free speech absolutists that run web communities basically always stop short the moment they feel like they are under threat (regardless of any actual threat).

Even the most infamous of free speech platforms will just ban users who hurt the admins feelings. Back when Gab switched over to using a hostile fork of Mastodon for a backend[0], Torba banned the users of FreeSpeechExtremist (a Pleroma instance with well... the exact kinda ruleset the name would imply) from being able to interact with users on the Gab test instance (they hadn't figured out how to disable federation at the time). The crime of FSE in this particular case? Ridiculing Gab users for paying money to access basic features that any other Mastodon/Pleroma instance could give them for free.

I can list off quite a few other examples of notable "free speech zones" doing this sorta thing, but really it's not worth shining a light on most of them. It's always "free speech for me, not for thee" with these people. And the dumbest part is that if they were just open about it instead of bloviating about how supposedly important they think free speech absolutism is, I don't think most people would pay them any mind. You don't get this anger when the rules include in a clearly written way: "if I don't like what you're doing, for any reason, you're out" (also known as the escape hatch clause).

It's when you write the rules in abstract ways that are supposed to be "fair" that you get this problem, and especially if you're bloviating about how the only rule you supposedly believe in is the right to free speech and "US law" (the only concession usually put in writing by these absolutists). Because then people will start beholding you to that level of enforcement and they will ridicule you for being a hypocrite on that ideal.

[0]: Curious aside - Gab is not on the banned social media list. Wonder if Musk seeks that audience.
> We recognize that certain social media platforms provide alternative experiences to Twitter, and allow users to post content to Twitter from these platforms. In general, any type of cross-posting to our platform is not in violation of this policy, even from the prohibited sites listed above.

I think it would be classified as cross posting a newsworthy event.
Ctrl-[ is so ingrained in my muscle memory that even when I finally mapped capslock to esc I still never use it.
As an additional note/warning, if you try to use archive.is instead, it will return a highly NSFW page for some reason.
Funny how they started enforcing this weeks before it was even in their TOS.

What kind of social media platform bans links to the rest of the internet?
I agree that Carceral responses along are not a sufficient solution, at least not without resorting to extremes that would be untenable in the US.

The real problem is loss of social trust and individuals unable or unwilling obey social norms. Once social trust is lost, it is very difficult to restore it.
Oh shut the fuck up. We don’t screech about “Mongolian colonisers” in China, do we?

Just listen to yourself for a second, and imagine having to hear that horseshit all day.
The one with the most audience, I guess. By far.
New Yorker here too. Finally got to see the fabled valley last year and spent 2 days walking SF.

Parts of it are just like NYC before the cleanup to turn it into a tourist destination. Chinatown and area around it absolutely reminded of late 80s/early 90s in NY. Has that vibe.

Parts of it -- here is looking at you Pacific Heights -- are just completely off the scale amazing. I would move in a heartbeat to PH if I could afford it, crime be damned. (Looked pretty damn safe too, btw.)

tldr; it ain't a "shithole" if you are rich (like everywhere else). far from it.
Peace was never an option. -UGG
All either party needs to do is become the reasonably sane party.

-Jettison wokeness and DEI

-Stop being antivax

-Be pro abortion

-Fix healthcare (for real)

-Solve the problem of homelessness and drug addiction (bring back insane asylums, put drug addicts in rehab or jail, take back our streets, stop the cartels and chinese manufacturers at the source)

-Stop crime (longer sentences, laws are enforced and enforced equally)

-Stop immigration of low human-capital immigrants

-Put a stop to our incredibly litigious culture (put caps on # of lawyers)

-Ensure reasonable monetary policy

-Ensure reasonable housing policy (if crime is controlled we can live in cities again and support mixed zoning that allows for decreased cost of living in major cities and more livable cities)

Huge amounts of low hanging fruit that would vastly improve the standard of living for the average person. We need to tell the craziest 10% of the population on either side to go to hell, and if they don't like it, put them in jail, because the normies deserve a society that functions. Aren't people tired of being held hostage by all of these fools?
I had to listen to the praise orgy for years, I'm sure it'll be a long hate orgy as well. It's just easier to notice when the orgy isn't too your fetish.
Implying it wasn't already a dry well?

Remember, he called one of the divers who rescued the Thai schoolboys "pedo guy" because the diver made a statement he didn't like. When the diver took him to court (I forget if it was libel or slander or defamation), Musk got away with it because "pedo guy" was clearly a nickname, not insinuating that this person commits atrocious crimes and we should all attack him.
Another reason to not go into academia. Really surprised at how far reaching these things are, they really tried to think of as many things as possible despite almost nobody complaining. Like "tarball". Really? Double plus ungood, stanford.
This is a small selection of the games I’ve recently played on the Steam Deck and been surprised by how flawlessly they performed and played:

- God of War

- Elden Ring

- Final Fantasy VII Remake

- Forza Horizon 5

- Jedi: Fallen Order

- Spider-Man Remastered
It’s everywhere in the USA (coasts, anyway) and Canada. Flags on cars, matches on TV, etc. Both countries being in the tournament helps.
Adding more realistic lighting also completely changed workflows from adding random pseudo light sources to having to describe how light should work on various things (this is before considering ray tracing). Those changes were better for realism which was better for users and that trumps artists having to learn new things.
I say we should form a commission to investigate this further.
We treat speech differently based on context. Yelling fire in the middle of the ocean with no one around is legally distinct from yelling fire in a crowded theater.

I would argue that without the intent or ability to act in a dangerous manner that this speech is legally distinct from the same statement with those qualifiers.

The realities of limited resources in our judicial system and common sense require us to make these distinctions.

The difference here, in my mind, is that Hillary Clinton was not able or intending to spur a grassroots coup that was dangerous to our Democracy based on her statements.