skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incredibly shortsighted and disappointing, and I say that as someone who respects Elon and had hope for what he’d do with Twitter. Any and all credibility to his “free speech” mission has evaporated.

The only way I could possibly steel man this decision is if they had data showing this kind of promotion was an imminent existential threat to Twitter, which would jeopardize the broader mission, but I think this is obviously the wrong solution and just digging his grave deeper.
Or just do what other developed countries with far lower fire death rates do and build single access apartments out of less combustible materials. They provide far more pleasant layouts.

https://slate.com/business/2021/12/staircases-floor-plan-twi...
I cross-post from Reddit fairly often. Reddit isn't yet on the bad list, but one has to wonder how long that will last and will this built-in Reddit functionality now be a bannable offense on Twitter?

I don't want to deal with the stress of trying to figure it out. I'm not sure I want to stay on Twitter at this point.
The problem is someone will get clever and use pastbin, then pastebin links are banned, then someone uses a Google Docs link and then those are banned. But at what price? Every overly broad ban just chills speech further and stymies engagement.
I think this is absolutely correct on both counts. It is obvious that people don't feel safe or David Sacks (you may recall him from what's currently happening on Twitter) wouldn't have been able to successfully fund the Boudin recall.

But we're engineers. It behooves us to step back and be rational about what the data tells us instead of deciding that data that contradicts our emotions is false.
Upgrading a 1976 Altair 680 from FLEX 1.0 to FLEX 3.0
> It took a tremendous amount of mental effort to weed that word out of my vocabulary, but it's had a tangible effect on my mentality. It has completely reaffirmed my belief in the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis--our language influences how we think.

this requires elaboration because without further context it is impossible to understand what demonstrable benefits you have achieved by altering your language use thusly, aside from getting along with your team better, due to your compliance with their language-use mandate.
> this is a dumb business decision

Yeah sure, an empty statement calling something dumb with no other information is “reasonable and rational”.
I feel for you having to moderate all of this, no joke, dang in there.
> if you don't like it build your own twitter

What's the problem with critique? I mean we know Musk does not like it in any way, shape, or form, he has made that oh so very clear. But complaining about Twitter is not officially against Twitter rules (yet).

Also, we are not even on Twitter here, are we?
It's incredibly annoying to keep hearing this word, "soccer" is an insult, the game/sport is called "football".
As with all things ‘it depends’ - most EV’s have battery thermal management that will heat up/cool down the pack so it’s within its optimal range.

If the EV is left plugged in overnight, it’s probably going to be in better shape than an ICE car with a block and battery heater.
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLzDI17AIU0
I completely agree with you.
For work I'm writing a performance critical application, and using gprof/valgrind for profiling has been very useful. Not only for determining how time is spent, but also where it is _not_ spent. Some pieces of code can be implemented in a fast and stupid way, without impacting overall performance.

That said, inlining is precisely an area where I find profiling to be difficult. It's difficult to see where in a function time is spent if a lot of function-calls in that function are inlined. However, I'm not certain that the every part of my code is equally slower/faster depending on what optimizations I turn on/off in the compiler. Thus, reducing optimizations might give me the wrong impression about which functions take up the most runtime.
Yeah more so in such a low scoring sport I imagine where rando outcomes are possible?

It's a constant discussion I have where folks talk about a playoff is there to determine the best team but ... that's not really how it works. Having said that, I'd rather not see an endless "regular season" where we just tally up stats and everyone just goes home after playing a ho hum game and happy that they're statistical champs ...

I like playoffs, it produces those extraordinary moments of greatness that we seem to want in sports.
Oh yeah, that would have been SO much better and less controversial than a shootout. What a great way to end 120 minutes of people pouring their heart out. A coin flip
Not as fast as they are breaking links to previoulsy-proven solutions on their own forums.

And following up by silently escalating recently-solved problems beyond the reach of posted workarounds.

Just in case the doubling down does not proceed as expected.
BeagleBone has always been an option. The cool kids just choose to ignore it.
Adrenalin experience have that effect. I had same time slow up in sports where I was in very little real danger, but in stress and subjective fear (white water kayaking and falling while climbing). And yes, also car crash.

I think it is typical effect of adrenaline.
Pascal gives me flashbacks to the 90s in Germany every Prof was into it.
Not sure about YouTube but WordPress does not allow the use of the name. WP in your (e.g.) domain name is ok. WordPress is not.

I'd imagine it's very similar for others. Often a company will pursue a violation if only to be consistent in showing the courts they actively defend their copy right.
For my home computer both of these are instantaneous. But I admit I have tweaked performance on this machine because it's mainly used to music production.
A lot of people called this descent into self-parody well in advance. I understand how reality distortion fields work, so I don't fault people who bought into Elon Musk's myth. I just hope people who did will develop an allergy to others so they aren't duped again. And I especially hope people who mocked and demeaned people who said all this was going to happen will be less reactive and more thoughtful in the future.
I'd try more like, the important thing is what we leave behind, what comes in our wake.
It seems like it's not allowed, otherwise the policy is way too easy to circumvent.
Fair point. Common usage of those terms is definitely muddled.
The "file" OP refers to is the encryption key. And, I will reiterate, if you don't have "the file" you don't have shit.
Thankfully there are still torrent sites archiving movies, series and shows. Pirates save the day!
Post at https://briancaffey.github.io/2021/10/02/how-i-write-and-sha... is gold
Honestly I think he was defending the idea of 'read the whole thing' & not Elon.

I do share your prediction that given the ambiguous wording of the cross posting section this will likely involve the feelings of the supreme leader of twitter.
That doesn't sound like data to me.

What are the actual rates of confirmed stores closing? What were they in previous decades? What are other factors -- a pandemic hurting downtown traffic, for example -- that might affect those closures? Can we compare the rates of restaurants closing to the rates of retail stores closing across the years to see if retail stores are closing at a higher rate than restaurants?

And to be clear, I don't see either side of the debate doing that research. I'm not pointing fingers. I'm just saying we should follow the data.
No, the US could not do that and there is multiple reasons for it. The root zone is rather special in that operating system semi-hard code the root servers. The operating system also have full control here and the number of name servers at the root zone changes very slowly. Operating systems developed by people not bound by US courts could just ignore it.

The other reason is political. If they were to cut out eu or asia from the list then the risk of a split would increase massively. It would be suicide. If they did that people might even split internet further by splitting iana (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), in which case a computer in EU would be unable to communicate with an computer in US, and then the concept of a global internet would no longer exist. A split is a exceedingly dangerous concept.
Don't forget debirdify. I found that the most useful myself

https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/
instead, if it's a draw after 90 minutes, just played until someone scores a goal.
> Your article here is not really related, it's about choices in UI that are confusing

But remove any of the shutdown options, and someone who uses it will complain saying that it's the perfect one for them.

> know that the common response to most Windows changes is not that it's good or bad, but that you just learn to deal with it after awhile.

So what's the alternative, not changing nothing ever? We would still have the Windows 3.1 interface (no taskbar) according to this logic, I'm sure the transition from the 3.1 model to the Windows 95 model was extremely disrupting to Windows 3.1 users who had muscle memory for it. Yet in retrospect it was the correct choice. Should Windows 95 kept as an alternative the Windows 3.1 interface? Forever? Should it still be present in Windows 11 just because there are 10 users who loved it?

I got your point about hidden features and removing them, I sometimes discover wonderful features in software I've been using for years, but at the same time, I accept that progress also means losing things sometimes. You get 10 new features or improvements, you lose 2. Other say "no, I can't lose nothing, I will chose the existing 2 features versus the 10 new ones". That's ok too, they can keep using Windows 10.
> The Venn diagram would seem to have some overlap, but people are worth much more than what they happen to accomplish financially.

Beyond that, the money lost by those who were conned is being gained by a con artist who will presumably use it to create more and better cons.

Eventually one of them might be good enough to rope in someone you care about or big enough to cause widespread damage.
Heh, this basically makes a storyboard
Is linking to your own content "free promotion" of the platform? No. An individual user isn't stealing "free promotion" for the business that owns the competitor platform. They're sharing additional information in a link.

You know, in a free-speechy kinda way?
They are already obsolete for most usages in Norway.
I don't know if it's "the" or "one of the" bank used for the LBO, but my understanding is that Financial has already partially left the building by stopping all their advertising on twitter after musk first week there...
It's not the fault of North American soccer fans that the international word for their game was already taken by another sport. What else are they supposed to do?

American football (gridiron) has the same roots as association football and rugby. They didn't randomly or illogically decide to call it "football"[1] when American universities first started playing it in the 19th century. Over time they changed rules to put more emphasis on throwing and catching, and less on kicking.

And Italy doesn't call it "football" either - they call it "calcio". What's your position on that?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_American_football#F...
The issue as I understand it with Stripe is that Stripe takes on the chargeback and fraud risk on behalf of the merchant, but as a result will seize funds preemptively to any flag that might potentially be raised by their partner banks. In other words they are incentivized to look for fraud where there is none.

Then they send an automated email saying they suspect fraud, without details.

The recourse they should provide is a way for the merchant to clear their name of a specific accusation, by both providing details of the transaction(s) in doubt and allowing the merchant to show whatever documentation is necessary. But they don't want to go through that because again, there is no actual fraud call in some of these cases from a bank, they're just automatically flagged as a potential risk for Stripe. So they just put the merchant on endless hold and steal their money.
I mean the british invented the word soccer to describe the sport. They also created the sport itself (in its modern iteration and rules).
And the corollary is that Musk is not a genius, but just a fool.

I mean, if his goal was to make more money with Twitter, is it possible to have done a worse job?
I'd rather not go into personal detail but I share a similar experience. The thing that really drove it home for me was when I got back home and was telling my own doctor about my experience dealing with family in the medical system and she said I was mistaken or there was a misunderstanding because that kind of thing doesn't happen. I asked why she was siding with a doctor she'd never met before instead of listening to her patient, which got her pretty flustered. I don't see her anymore.
So, is it "free promotion," or are the platforms "prohibited"?

This is kettle logic.
I don't think creditors will sell. Isn't a big chunk of the debt leveraged against his Tesla stock? Would be much easier to reclaim 90-100% of the debt against that

You sell your debt at a discount if your chance of collecting goes down, but when the debtor is one of the richest people in the world, your odds of collecting I think are decent.
I agree there's a lot of easy stuff that would improve life for the average person, but I hope you're messing around when you say "put them in jail" lol
It is quite expensive (US$ 50-ish). In 2023 we should have plenty of $2-5 chips capable of running a normal distro of Linux.
> In a memo issued in April, National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo asked the NLRB "to find mandatory meetings in which employees are forced to listen to employer speech concerning the exercise of their statutory labor rights, including captive audience meetings, a violation of the National Labor Relations Act.

You can read the memo here--I find its case very compelling: https://apps.nlrb.gov/link/document.aspx/09031d458372316b

Normally I'd say "call your congressperson," but this is in the executive branch, so I'm not sure how to best support it.
At this point it's really hard to not start believing the conspiracy theories about him destroying the site on purpose - it's just so farcical
Escaping into Work
Here's a story from when I first started trading.

Back in those days brokers would fill up slow days with what they call good old cockney banter, shouted down the squawk box. Lots of BS and old fashioned attitudes, but they'd also spice it up with horse tips. This horse looks good for that race according to the stable boy, that kind of thing.

Every damn time the rumour would be wrong and everyone would lose a bunch of money.

So one day my boss decides to rebel. "Not losing another hundred quid to this BS, all you assholes can lose yours!".

Fate being what it is, the horse comes in. 30x. People are going nuts, one after another showing up at our desk to look at the idiot who didn't bet.

And this is how everyone who has sense still ends up doing things that aren't sensible.
https://www.apple.com/icloud/find-my/
>Thailand & the UK have laws banning speech offensive to their royal families.

The UK may technically have some old law on the books stating this but it's never enforced. I mean, the Sex Pistols ("God save the queen... A fascist regime...") demonstrated this quite convincingly.

I did hear about someone getting arrested for yelling at Prince Andrew in a funeral procession, but that was for breach of the peace during a funeral and (importantly) was thrown out in court.

Growing up, I saw plenty of posters with words like "The great Royal debate: should we hang them, or should we shoot them?" and no one cared in the slightest.
The word "soccer" started in England as a slang of "association," which became "assocc" and then "soccer." Americans learned the word from the English.

It may also surprise you to learn that water closets are called restrooms in other countries that speak English.
Yes - that’s what I interpreted it as. From the policy, Cross-posting covers when you “…post content to Twitter from these platforms…” (emphasis mine).

Of course, I suspect the reality is that even people at Twitter don’t know if this falls under the policy or not.

I’m not sure why people here keep talking about the post being ‘newsworthy’ - that is not mentioned in the policy at all.
But what could an attacked actually do in
vbezhenar’s proposed protocol? An attacker could… get a new certificate for a private key they don’t have? How is that bad?
My understanding of what happened and what you're talking about is that the antidote to this problem was yet another continuity mechanism, like pinning and HSTS; it doesn't protect first connections, and is a contraption.

To a first approximation, DANE is essentially a browser protocol. Obviously, things besides browsers speak TLS, but browsers are the overwhelming primary audience. If the browsers don't want to do DANE, that's a very strong signal.

Sorry, I have more to say about this.

I feel like there's a general attitude among some IETF people and DANE bystanders (especially people from the European DNS community) that feel like browsers are arbitrary, capricious gatekeepers of how TLS works; that we could have working DANE everywhere but for lazy browser people who don't want to work through the deployment drama, maybe?

But that overlooks the fact that the Web PKI is a partnership between the browsers (the root programs in particular) and the PKI providers. Neither side is working entirely on its own, both sides are sort of intensely engaged with each other. We have the Web PKI we have now, with free automated issuance, transparency, and toothy CA revocation, because of a real (if fraught) partnership.

Nothing like that appears to exist in the DNS community? Tell me I'm wrong. Why should I believe any of this would work?
According to this the SOTA program requires the income to make rental payments beyond the one year: https://www.nyc.gov/site/hra/help/sota.page

“SOTA is only provided to households whom DSS has determined will likely have the future ability to pay the rent once they no longer have the SOTA grant to cover their rent.”

That sounds like a very high bar for people in the situation of needing rent coverage and especially if they have mental illness and/or drug addiction. Note that busing people to another city appears to be a separate program.
...or, just follow decent creators.

No snark intended, but i just gave up with the dross. And even some of them, of late, are getting a bit crafty.
But, creators get one chance from me now - give me decent content, or even with the fancy chapters, you're not getting my eyeballs past two minutes.
What I have found is that leaving the decent stuff on, what auto-plays after is 'generally' of similar quality. A quick set of back-buttoning and bookmarking has fairly often got me some interesting results.
They tried that, look up Golden Goal. Most people agreed it was a bad idea.
Or the converse! Think of the way GOG sells DRM-free installers -- GOG sells you a license, sure, just like everyone else, but they give you a DRM-free installer, which is bit-perfect to the version of that installer shared on the Pirate Bay's eternal decentralized tracker.

Can I pirate that installer? When I'm caught, which file is the pirated version, and which is the legitimate one I got from GOG's servers? If I wave around my emailed receipt, is that (moral) license enough?
There are many areas of DFW that are not safe. Perhaps if you don't leave Preston Hollow, Highland Park or Mckinney.. But, there are many parts of the city that I wouldn't want to be on a Friday night (and definitely not my wife and kids). I lived in a decent area and there were frquent break-ins on North East Dallas. Had a double homicide down the street about a month before we relocated to Europe. But, you can keep telling everyone how friendly it is. I know better.
I'm sort of mentally bracing myself for the next couple of years. In my family I'm give or take a week the oldest in my generation and pretty soon everybody above me will be gone. It will be a strange phase in my life, one where there is no more living tie to the past.
Felt a bit of schadenfreude seeing Mbappe sulk and being a sore loser, especially after what he said about South American teams.

Mbappe and Giroud act too cocky, always have a face on like they're the stars of a show and the camera's on them, and a lot of the time don't feel like they're playing for the team or as a team.

Argentina on the other hand acts as the sum of a machine's parts. And though Messi is a star, he doesn't act like it on the field, appears grateful for his team, and plays as a member of a team.

Super happy Argentina won, happy to have seen the SK vs Portugal match, and happy to have seen Morocco's games. But also happy to see Mbappe sit and pout even after pulling off a hat-trick in the final game of the world cup lol
Ageist...
Per his previous behavior, isn't it likely that he'll modify or cancel this policy if it proves too unpopular? Perhaps he'll put it to a vote in the coming weeks.
You shouldn't need to be an engineer to be familiar with Murphy's Law, but when you are it can make you a more effective designer.

One of the most memorable corollaries to Murphy is:

"Mother Nature always sides with the hidden flaw. Mother Nature is a bitch."
But teams are on par - so either crown them both or choose randomly.

Penalties is just a more elaborate form of a coin flip, still largely random.
What everyone has to understand, is that Elon's companies work by decree. Tesla engineers see a tweet that went out to 100m people about what they're going to deliver in two weeks and go "ohhh shit."

All of these changes are coming directly from Elon, impulsively.

Another core tenet is to remove components and try things until something breaks, and then add those components back once they've been proven to be necessary.

This is fine for a startup, but it's quite disruptive for a mature platform with 450m users.
Like I said, if the company isn't selling the movie/show anymore, well, what choice do you have?
You misunderstand. The person he was ascribing motivations to was me. My intent is not to defend Musk here.
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Ask HN: Should the downvote button exist in comments here?
I am noticing a lot of emotionally-driven downvoting in the past 3-4 years. Do we really need another reddit?
If scoring a goal is “out of steam”, what is full of steam for you? Hah
Amazing if this is only a 12B model. If this already increases coding productivity by up to 50% (depending on kind of work), imagine what a 1T model will be capable of! I do wonder if some programmers at FAANG are already having access to a way more powerful coding assistants, and whether they code much at all at this point, or only make high level code specifications and then fix up the automatically generated code.
Emacs pinky isn't really a problem if you don't use Emacs keybindings ;)
In terms of local timeline inclusion that kind-of already muddies things, but WebFinger does provide for aliases and supports forwarding, so maybe the ability to have accounts on multiple instances but have them all forward to the same "follows"/"following" lists might work (likely not without changes, and there are many potential pitfalls there, though).
How do you decide that?
I wouldn't be surprised if there was a bunch of backlash to this and he did the "Vox Populi, Vox Dei" thing again and backtracked like with the recent journalist banning

Why are we giving this guy so much mental real estate? I'd rather just shun him and his products, let him dig his own grave
I've defended Apple on a lot of occasions, but this is indefensible.

The only thing worse than a bad union is no union.
Embrace, extend, extinguish. The EEE playbook