skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It does make sense for a paid-speech platform, though.

What is a "paid-speech platform" exactly? Twitter is just going to be for press releases and advertisers now?

It would also be absurd for a node that claims to implement free-speech absolutism to defederate from any particular node. It would also be absurd to stay federated with nodes that you claim are prohibited while telling people on your node to still cross-post content from these nodes.
Since we're talking about languages, a better question would be "is a language in which no new works are written but which has a large catalog of past works that are still studied by thousands of people 'mostly dead'?"

Most would say yes.
I think we all know exactly how this policy is enforced: a regex for banned URLs. If whatever regex they come up with matches the link Carmack posted, it's banned.

If not, it's banned if it personally catches the negative attention of Musk. Arguing over what the policy nominally bans is meaningless.
Self censoring?
Or cease and desist?
> re-enabling known hate-speech accounts

“Hate speech” is left-wing code for “someone with an opposing point of view”.

Having those accounts unbanned, if nothing else, is a healthy sign.

What this thread is about though (banning outbound links to other platforms), not so much. That plain reeks of desperation.
None of mine are. Though IG does keep trying to sell me Viagra.
Mbappe scored 3 goals + a penalty in a world cup final.

He is an amazing player with no equal at this moment.
> That may be the written policy, but there were widespread reports of mastodon ('s largest sites) being considered too harmful a link to be put in a twitter bio. https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23512113/twitter-blockin...

I saw that and assumed (maybe wrongly) that it was an automated ban from some internal automod-like system running amuck and due to the layoffs/quits/staff issues no body at Twitter knowing how to disable it.

Guess the jury is still out, but does anybody know if that same error is showing up for facebook links for example? If so it's a smoking gun.
> That’s one reason I love studying history. To learn what we’ve lost and find it again.

Same here. There's a lot of amazing things which we have yet to learn from the 'also ran' systems of history.
Politics includes history which none of this discussion has. It's more than a little scary how many nuke plants in California were built in seismically active spots no sane engineer would have chosen if the risks were properly understood at design and construction time, and California likely doesn't have the plants most at risk. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna42103936
The acid test for any two competing socioeconomic systems is which side needs to build a wall to keep people from escaping? That’s the bad one!

June 25 2022

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1533616384747442176
I'm sure some fanboy will say that but that's not what I say. He is still just learning how the product works and tries things. Will he succeed? More likely than not, I think.
While the ridiculously low contrast of downvoted comments is a problem, let's say for a second that "you're meant to ignore it anyway, and we use low contrast to indicate it" is a reasonable idea. Then why is the main submission text lower contrast than the comments?!
Several hundred terawatt hours of electricity consumption.
> 50ms glass to glass latency.

You are potentially overlooking application level latency, just because the packets arrive in 50ms time does not mean the video latency is upper bounded to that. I think 100-200ms is more realistic.

If your one way network latency is 50ms, it takes 150ms minimum to send a packet on 1.5x round trips which is necessary to confirm round trip connectivity and notify the other party. If you can assume clocks are synchronized you can send packets one way in 50ms to confirm connectivity and latency.

> Usually that will involve either slamming the brakes on hard or gently, depending if there is an obstacle ahead or someone following behind.

you’re specifically in a situation in which the car has failed, so im not sure how you can assume the car will make these kinds of decisions correctly.

> I personally think they should just update the stack so they can do realtime control.

Lets assume video latency of 100-200ms can be achieved, its still potentially dangerous. There are however some companies i am aware of in certain countries that are doing it anyway!

Even if glass to glass latency was 1ms, perhaps its not a technological issue but a PR issue. Maybe they don’t want news headlines about people driving cars with mario kart steering wheels or it’s easier to get regulatory approval by reassuring the public they will do the safest thing possibly.
I'll take the hit here.

I thought electric vehicles were a really dumb idea. Too many problems to be solved for. Range. Charging. Depreciation. Getting people to switch. All of the other infrastructure. Now it's what everyone does, and Tesla is (last I checked) one of the very few EV makers that is able to make a profit on EVs, while upstarts in the space (including Ford) are losing money on every EV sale.

I thought self-landing rockets was a dumb idea.

I thought Starlink was a dumb idea.

I think a lot of what Elon is doing now is a very dumb idea, but as a Twitter user with friends across the political spectrum, I have seen what has appeared to be a suppression of speech that largely affected my right leaning friends, while my left leaning friends gloated about it. I've watched journalists like Taylor Lorenz break the rules with impunity while journalists on the right were deplatformed for doing less.

This is clearly a departure, and I would argue that many right leaning friends were hoping that Elon would stop the pendulum swing, I don't think any were expecting the pendulum to swing back the other way so hard. Elon's actions have seemed arbitrary, but a) Every change looks bad when you don't know their motivations, and b) I've been wrong about Elon's entire life to this point.

It's possible that he's done surveys or polls or gotten data indicating that fear of doxxing is a thing that is meaningfully suppressing Twitter engagement. It is possible that he knows what he's doing, but it isn't what he's said he's doing and it definitely isn't what we expected him to be doing.

I don't know the answer to those questions, and so I don't know if he's ruining Twitter or just transforming it into something that it hasn't been, and I'm mindful of the fact that practically every single change that Twitter has ever made has been received as "the end of Twitter," from verified accounts, to changing their API ToS, to blocking apps, to suing users with any vague reference to 'tweet' in their apps, to bookmarks, analytics, 280 characters, etc., etc.
> were likely reviewed/edited by a third person

You don't have to guess, he lists the names of every person who reviews his posts at the bottom of the posts.
I'm not famous, but it was the last straw for me too.
He waited for evidence. I think PG made a good call.
Based on the weight of Elon's past achievements PG gave him the benefit of the doubt. Then when Elon overstepped he reacted appropriately.
This part is baffling. The story has always been that Logan has a young, impressionable audience. These are grown men with a bunch of disposable income, and they’re listening to the Logan Paul podcast and buying his crypto nonsense? Does not compute.
SpaceX worked because they hired experienced people from ULA and other launch services companies who weren't held back by the fear of risk taking that is endemic in the MIC. They wouldn't have succeed if they just tried to play rocket engineer like Carmack did.
> You know how Musk promises one thing and delivers something else? I'm not the biggest Musk fan but I believe he has a very effective process and he is a product person - that is understands what is a good product.

No, in the case of Twitter he clearly doesn't. Twitter's business model is advertising, yet he's been driving them away since he's started.

Even in the user-facing side he made a weird mess with the blue checkmarks that was completely unnecessary, didn't make anything better and only created confusion.
Thank you for this, I'm currently struggling through the first puzzle, think I'll eventually get it.
> Majority of people here on HN were also convinced he will try to make Twitter better.

Speaking only for myself, but I'd honestly contest that.
DataKinds Are Not What You Think
Smart man. Paul has carried water for Elon in the past when few would have done so publicly and for him to call this is a big milestone.
So, iiuc, the motivation for this "second processor" card for the PC was originally to have improved performance for BASIC programs? And in order to achieve this, not only a faster CPU has been used, but also an in-RAM "just-ahead-of-time" compiler (similar in spirit to Turbo Pascal)? But why a Z8000? 68k was available and popular then (a little faster than a Z8000 and with orthogonal instruction set, 32 bit wide registers and 32bit flat address space easier to program)?

Byte's Sieve of Eratosthenes benchmark caught my eye: the Trump card (with its TBASIC compiler) completes one iteration in 2.4s (the original IBM PC takes 190s using BASICA interpreter). To put those numbers into perspective, 100 iterations of that test complete in 2.44s on a 1GHz Allwinner ARM32 of the original Banana Pi using the brandy BBC BASIC interpreter.

EDIT: in the Byte article [1] the author mentioned that he was contracted for TBASIC and the RAM disk, while other software like the C compiler were provided by Zilog. So it's a Z8000 show-case / eval board?

[1] http://www.dtweed.com/circuitcellar/trumpcrd.pdf
It's usually pretty fast for me, but I am also experiencing quite a bit of lag at the moment.
This. I'm on the fosstodon.org server and it seems to be holding up pretty well. That's one reason I chose it: the people running it know what they're doing.
> But he did not play in Europe where the competition was more fierce

Looks like he didn't have to since he still won 3 world cups.
That was always the dumbest criticism of Obama - that he took frequent pauses when speaking (the uuuuhs) and chose his words carefully - his critics used it against him where anyone with half of brain understood why. That being said, Trump essentially DDoS the art of the inartful / wrong / dumb, so maybe that was a better way to go. Who knows....
As someone who works in football statistics, it will be sad when we have to move on to a more rigorous form of model evaluation than “is Messi at the top?”
From a quick search would it be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31378415 ?
Nice to see. The last week of dingdongery was my final straw too.
With the capital costs of every form of ~continuous-output fusion reactor, the only fusion technology that would be good for peaking would be H-bombs.

That has been looked into, in the context of propelling very large spacecraft. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls... )
It's a valid criticism. There's many browser extensions that "fix" this.
Ethically I agree and yet it'll certainly be interesting if this strategy works. It may bring in new discoveries on how people organize themselves on social media and how a new social media can be created or destroyed.
Sure is lucky that the title of the post explicitly says "mostly dead" and includes a big disclaimer about how not all of them are dead, then!
This was the straw that broke the camel's back. that doesn't mean he adores the other changes.
Finding out his daughter is trans put his public transphobia in a particularly cruel light for me.
Some doctors have a more healthy relationship with death than others.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doctors-death_b_1500871

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/feb/08/how-doctors-...
Wait so, according to the rules stated at https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platfo...

We wouldn't be able to post something like "follow Jamie Oliver to learn more about cooking https://linktr.ee/jamieoliver" ??

Doesn't that have quite an excessive totalitarian feeling?
If you think white space is useless, try reading a document without any.
Twitter - the global town square, but you dare not mention the address of that little park down the road, because Elon’s feelings might get hurt.
No, it's not code in this case. Many of the accounts he re-enabled were full-on white supremacists. That's not an "opposing point of view" it's beyond the pale of civilized society and we literally fought wars to defeat it last century.

And the list of accounts he banned were from a list left-wing/anarchist accounts given to him by known self-proclaimed fascists.

If you think that's healthy, you have problems.
Mbappe is.
There's a few browser extensions that help with that. I just started using this one, it's pretty slick: https://github.com/Lartsch/FediAct

The underlying problem is that browsers are not designed with this sort of federated application use case in mind, so Mastodon and friends have to do some awkward tricks to get it to work at all.
Nostr is awesome from a technical POV. And they have something that very few projects today get - which is reduced scope.

Their critique of both centralized and dweb alternatives are mostly spot on. The elephant in the room though is whether people-oriented broadcast social media (those with a strong emphasis on one-directional “followers” and personalities) can ever be good. If Nostr was content oriented like Reddit or HN, I would have already started using it. The good news is that it can probably be retrofitted, or at least replicated easily, while adhering to the same technical architecture.
And the demolition of Elon's image as a tech/business genius. If I'd set out to wreck his reputation, I could not have done half the job Musk has done since he bid for Twitter.
Steam plants are ripe for a thermal battery that can take in excess electrical production and store it to fire up turbines on demand. It's an entirely different class of battery on the range of energy storage separate from direct electrical grid batteries. One example, the reversible rust batteries:

https://clearpath.org/our-take/a-reversible-rust-battery-tha...
This is precisely how large, relatively well engineered services die if you leave them unattended for too long. The machine needs a little bit of oil every now and then and there are always new modes of failure found. Those then start to accrue to the point where they become user visible.
There's an exception: TikTok

Fortuitously preserving LibsOfTikTok and Elon's good relationship with the CCP
Unless there is a massive domino effect, there won't be even a blip on Twitter's MAU dashboard. With all respect to Paul, he only has 1.5M followers, which is not _that_ much. Let's be honest, how many people know Paul Graham outside of the tech industry? Justin Bieber has 113.6M followers. Rihanna has 107M followers. Heck, even Snoop Dogg has 20.8M followers. These are 20-100 times bigger accounts that are not going anywhere (yet).
I wish there was as turnkey of an alternative available when it happened, but his ongoing immolation might give the alternatives time to catch up.
Elon could both be smart and making huge mistakes. It happens all the time.
Sure, Ill happily pay for the next version of my password manager as well…as long as I buy a license instead of renting it.

But I truly won’t rent a note taking app.

Overall JetBrains’ model of “subscription with fallback license” seems the best compromise here, you do get to keep a license permanently if you quit your subscription, it just happens to be the one from 12 months ago.
Yeah, continuous online learning by fine-tuning seems like an obvious way of making these models recall information from outside the perceptible context. One could also prompt the model to (recursively) summarize code and prepend this summary to each prompt, and/or enable the model to interactively query function definitions or code summaries before outputting a final answer (trained by RLHF). But any such tricks might also quickly be outcompeted by an even more general model, e.g. one that directly controls the GUI and can communicate with coworkers...
Sort of.

The issue with current early detection methods is that they tend to cause more harm than good at population scale. Between getting dosed with radiation in the process, false positives causing at best psychological trauma if not unnecessary treatment, and it's hard to tell if you just detected a cancer you'll die with instead of dying of - and thus another form of unnecessary treatment.

The blood tests remove some, but not all of that. Yes, for any arbitrary person it might be lifesaving, just like current methods. But at population scale it's not a panacea.
It certainly is true in Montréal. There is a huge french diaspora here, but immigrants in general have been closely following the WC. That has also been making soccer a lot more popular amongst non immigrants, and I see a lot more quebecers following the world cup than even 4 years ago. It's just such a ridiculously catchy event, even for a lot of those who usually don't like soccer in general.
> Besides, everyone knows what Ctrl is the One True Key™ in place of the Caps Lock and that only degenerate infidels map it to anything else.

Haha yeah I've heard about that and I like the joke =) But I was never interested in adopting it. Because I configure my alt keys to act as ctrl keys which imo results in a much more ergonomic setup.

Ctrl is the most pressed control key for people like me who live in the terminal. But the default placement of the ctrl keys in modern layouts is so wrong. I have never understood it. I guess there has to be a historical reason but I've yet to find out. (Help me, greybeards)

I should't have to move my hand and strain my pinky to reach out the most pressed control keys. With alt it's so much easier. I don't have to move my hands nor use my pinkies. My thumbs already rest on the spacebar and I just have to make a little thumb movement.

Swapping ctrl with caps lock is an ok remedy but alt keys are in a much better place.

So ctrl goes where alt is by default.

But do I swap ctrl with alt? No!! Alt is a frequently used key as well so the default ctrl keys aren't a good fit for alt either. Instead I set the keys immediately adjacent to the default alt keys to act as alt. It's the Super key (sometimes referred as the "Windows" key) on the left side and the context menu key on the right.

Lastly, I set the default left ctrl key to act as Super and the right ctrl key to act as context. Because I virtually never use those.

(I think Apple got this mostly right. cmd is the most used control key for the average Apple user, and opt is next. Their placements are perfect. Though it's still problematic for developers as ctrl is again at the worst place possible. Because of that, what I do in Macs is swapping ctrl with cmd while leaving opt where they are.)

If I'm an infidel for doing this so be it. But with this setup, I'm extremely efficient one. I type and code and enter & exit from repls and jump between interfaces like a damn machine, impressing mostly everybody who watch me use my computer.

Ergonomics FTW
But what about mix raced, or just lighter skinned “black” people?
I think the preferred approach if you’re outraged about Twitter management, is speak out about it on Twitter, as opposed to quit in protest. Fight the fight if it’s worth it.
> You're assuming that Elon isn't doing what he intended to do, turn Twitter into his own personal, right wing echo-chamber with political influence.

He simply unbanned accounts which were wrongfully banned. Accounts which simply communicated legal to hold opinions. There is nothing wrong or morally objectionable about this. I’d rather say it commendable.

If Twitter is becoming a right-wing echo-chamber it’s because left-wing accounts are leaving and nothing else.

So why are they? Are they afraid of having an argument where they can’t have the opposing view banned?

Cmon! You can do better than this.
He's smart. He's also the last person on the planet that should be in charge of a social media platform.

Smart + deficient in the ethics department is a recipe for disaster.
Damn this thread is so civil. I can't say that would have been my first guess on how it would turn out while posting the parent comment. I believes it shows that people can talk about extreme things in an intelligent matter, and that we can be better for it.

Obliterating the places where those extreme debates happen would not give us this opportunity.
One more easy trick for making yourself more discoverable on Mastodon: https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own...
I just tested a few mins ago and I wasn't able to tweet a link to a post on hachyderm (not even just my profile) because it was "harmful".
Maybe it is time for Google to fan their Social Network ambitions. They have enough brainpower to get a functional/scalable Mastodon server by Christmas. They may get the traction and later EEE it.
We haven't even been doing controlled nuclear reactions for 100 years yet
Musk is a celebrity. Celebrities start successful companies all the time. Is Rihanna a brilliant business woman for starting a successful beauty line? Is she a business genius, which is what Musk gets labeled so often? Maybe she really is, but I don't see her get that label, I think her value add is very clearly "she is famous, people will buy shit that she puts her name on".

What they have in common is that they have fame and money, and it turns out you can do a lot with that.
It's simple to realize 1. People have finite capabilities to master subjects. 2. Elon is a master in hardware engineering businesses. 3. Twitter is not about hardware engineering.
Leaving a passenger in a stopped car in the middle of an intersection is not safe. And your logic is circular, the car hypothetically fails and calls for remote assistance, and the link gets cut, the car “safe stops” and youre right back at square one and need to send someone out still. I dont think its as easy as youre characterizing
"At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms"
Just because somebody does something different than us doesn’t mean they are stupid, how ridiculous and reductive is that?

They might just be evil.
Conversely, "an opposing point of view" is right-wing code used to mask hate speech, when it occurs.

Does hate speech exist? Yes. Are we in danger of overusing the term? Yes.
I hope this will be made easier in the near future. In the meantime, you can use this browser extension: https://github.com/lartsch/FediAct#installation
Dude the other day he said "Automation is inductive proof that Marx is wrong"! A mistake you wouldn't make if you sniffed Marx's wikipedia page, let alone opened your eyes to read it.

pg deleted it and posted this response: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1600122386346450944

(...after, hilariously, Matt Bruenig replied with a correction from ChatGPT - which is also deleted because he auto-deletes tweets.)

e: Reading the thread now, I love this reply from pg, who I've seen attack marxism, socialism, leftism, what-have-you, endlessly and smugly in the past:

> I freely admit I have only a superficial grasp of Marxist doctrine. I could no more debate the finer points of it with an actual Marxist than I could debate the finer points of church doctrine with a Jesuit. (Nor would I want to be able to do either.)

The finer points!!! Amazing. Something to keep in mind when the billionaires tell the ol' lefties to read econ 101!