skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about that.

I think he just approached Twitter like he approached building electric cars or rockets. The latter are both a series of (admittedly very hard) engineering and technical challenges to solve with few, if any, gnarly social or political issues to navigate other than those which inevitably arise in any growing or large company. The hard problems are all engineering and technical (probably regulatory too, in fairness). There will be a lot of failures along the way but, most of the time (barring things that are physically impossible, or orders of magnitude beyond current cutting edge manufacturing techniques), you can brute force your way through - or find an alternative approach - with enough R&D effort/money and enough smart people.

But Twitter is nothing like this: it's all about the people, the politics, the social aspects, and simply having an end goal in sight and pushing hard towards it isn't going to get you to where you want to go - in fact, where you want to go may not even be possible due to different cultural and legal constraints around the globe. No disrespect to any engineers at Twitter but the code and infrastructure aren't the hard parts of that business at all.

I don't know that I'd describe him as unprincipled, but he is perhaps quite naive along certain axes. I think this is actually relatively common amongst very successful people who haven't experienced that much in the way of substantial failure: they can be really bad at dealing with choppy waters when they arise (I've seen this from quite close quarters, as it happens) because it sort of deconstructs who they think they are. And you really only learn who you are when the going is tough.
I find that one of the biggest riddles since this Twitter thing; why do so many people feel they need to protect (well... they aren't doing much but should online, so better say ; take sides) with one of the richest men in the world who really doesn't need their help at all. He also will not ever reciprocate, in any way, shape or form. So why are so many people trying to defend everything he does?
thanks for the feedback and specific links. I'll chat to Steve (PostgREST maintianer).

Can you share more about the Realtime server? What would you like to see there?
We have Black as a pre-commit hook; works fine, even if it disagrees with your IDE a little bit sometimes.

CI/CD has no business changing your code; it builds stuff using it, exactly as if commit such-and-such.
It looks like a great product in post-COVID time. What do you think ?
Its not swastika for a milionth time
I dislike mobs above anything. Piling up on someone with fallacies, rage, aggressivity. Big big yuck!
Plus all you can lose is money (not privacy / control / data) and the CC companies take the hit
as cost of doing business.
Indeed, but “soccer” is part of American English today. Why should we stop using a word just because people in a different country stopped using it? Is your argument really that we should speak identically to people in England, because the language happens to be called “English” ?
German, I somewhat remember that as well from primary school 30 years ago. Not sure about the exact details, though.
> Moderation should be carried out on a per jurisdiction basis

How do you feel about deleting post that criticise Iranian politics and ban accounts showing support to protests in Iran? Only for the Iranian audience of course. Then how do you feel providing the list of accounts who shared certain images and messages to Iranian courts, knowing that some of them would be executed?

Note: Twitter already does that in countries where operates. I guess they don't do it in Iran only because they can't operate in Iran as a business(sanctions) but they do it in Turkey since the Gezi protests in 2013. Turkey doesn't have capital punishment, instead they throw people in jail for years awaiting trail.
Think about what is is you'd like to develop. "Developer" is so broad a term it's almost meaningless in the modern world. Do you want to work on logistics systems? Finance? Mobile apps? Social Media?

No wrong answers here, but if you're thinking about becoming a developer, it's probably worth narrowing down what it is that interests you, and learning about what sort of skills and prerequisites there may be. Finance for instance involves some regulatory stuff to be aware of (if not outright get licensed for). Payroll type development may involve interfacing with some VERY old systems (ie, consider learning COBOL). Mobile apps are much on the entire opposite end of the spectrum.

Sometimes it's worth perhaps finding more about the surrounding industry before just diving into a development job -- you could consider even taking a job in the field and making a lateral move into the IT side of things in this case, and perhaps avoid taking on a ton of education only to find you're not actually a huge fan of the industry you thought you wanted to work in.

Best of luck in any case!
Is there a theoretical ideal of what line-drawing and anti-alliasing algorithms are aiming for? Is there a perfect line drawing algorithm you can use if you have the time?
>we have to make such defensive statements

You don't have to. Just say what you need to and ignore the quetching.
Well, 150 years waiting list time for a green card (with a deportation looming if any of the long list of administrative conditions is violated) definitely looks like discrimination to me.
> Any team of developers who aren't using the exact same environment are going to run into conflicts.

You've never done any open source development I guess?

Do you think all the kernel developers run the same distribution, the same IDE, the same compiler version? LOL.

Same applies for most open source projects.
The closest thing to a MacBook mini would actually be the 12-inch fanless MacBook that was always highly constrained by thermals on the Intel platform. It would be a lot more interesting on Apple Silicon, perhaps for the school education market that seems to mostly use Chromebooks these days.
We'll see how well it maintains its peg if/when ETH and BTC go down to nothing.

Either way, as far as I understand it, the protocol keeping DAI stable requires participants to be able to tell how much money has been deposited by a particular wallet (so that the agreed upon collateral requirements can be enforced). If that understanding is correct, then DAI requires pseudonimity instead of anonimity, and so can't have any of Monero's strict privacy guarantees.
Users have lots of wants, but the product(s) that they will like is not necessarily the same thing that they want.
"Nexus as pub-sub queue" will be the next fad
Yes, but almost 50% of all the civilian guns are in the US.
I thought of the same word, Quatsch. The Yiddish word probably shares the same roots.
The broader tactic is redefining the meaning of words to claim the moral high ground in a debate. They steal the entire intellectual history of a concept by just redefining it to support their argument.
Okay, but my point still stands. If etymology determined meaning we’d have to conclude that “man” is ungendered, which is clearly wrong.
He and 'his mob' do the same thing though? Not that one thing warrants the other, but still, you dislike it both ways I assume?
The fact is usa gives one more opportunity and after permanent residency they can start something of their own. That is why people from india emigrate to usa so much.
Quite thorough report, some points that stand out from the summary:

>SABIS was TSB’s principal outsourced provider

>SABIS relied extensively on 85 third parties (TSB’s fourth parties) to deliver the
systems required for the migration and the operation of the platform, which
required it to act as a service aggregator.

It amazes me the sheer complexity of a retail bank software system and I suspect most of it is due to legacy systems, legal requirements and lack of regular spring cleaning.
Countries are bound by international agreements. There is no such thing as full unrestricted Westphalian-style sovereignty anymore for more than a century already.
These days it's been superseded by the idea of "going full goblin" or "goblin mode"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin_mode
So now we have one more (useless) build requirement for developers?
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That’s entirely subjective.
I wouldn't let digital ocean know you are 12, they will shut the account like Github did.
Yes, I am aware of Sentinel-2 10m data (RGBN), there are even commercial offerings. Actually the storage requirements are not that big for 10m, like ~4TB for the entire (non-water) world. Napkin math:

- 15000 Sentinel-2 scenes over land
- 10980^2 pixels per scene
- 50% lossless compression per scene
- 4 channels (RGB and infrared)

This results in 15000 * 10980^2 * 4 * 0.5 / 1024*4 ~ 3.3TB. This matches commercial offerings like in https://cloudless.eox.at/#data. Of course we have to add lower-scale imagery that is often used to provide XYZ tiling that would further increase the storage requirements.

Thanks for the link to OpenTopography, it's an interesting project and elevation data is extremely valuable.
I agree with this. It seems like the primary issue with content moderation on social media is structural rather than policy problem.

In the same way you have privacy setting, I think social networks need to enforce geographic settings too. If you want to publish tweets publicly to a global audience then you as a user need to ensure you're posting content that complies with all global speech laws, otherwise you can't complain if the platform is forced to censor or remove your content / account.

I think US citizens should be able post anything that's legal to other US citizens, but the idea that you should then expect Twitter to be forced to publish that content in all geographies because of the US free speech rights seems absurd. While I might personally I think "Ye" should be allowed to post Swastikas to Twitter, in reality that's against the law in many countries.

Then you have the advertisement issue. I'm not even sure how you build a platform that respects internal speech laws which would also be advertiser friendly. Again, it seems like the business model is structurally broken if we value free speech above advertiser friendly speech.
If Microsoft keeps this in mind they will make sure to never make it too easy to install and run a Linux program, but still easy enough so that developers choose Windows for their own development machine.
If mainstream media spent as much time writing about the Twitter Files as they do about Elon, I could maybe take it seriously.

So far they pretty much ignored it, and even if you think it's a nothing-burger - I can guarantee that if the political options were reversed we would be absolutely seeing articles about them.
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> Additionally, apple (Steve Jobs?) cared about graphics and color more than competitors?

Did they really care about color? The original Mac didn't have color (it didn't get color until about System 7?) I think they chose higher-resolution over color. It's the same with the NeXT I believe, higher-resolution is more important than color.
I expanded on my original comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34064524

Perhaps change [1] clinical to chronic or need to may. It come off strongly than I intended.

> Depression ranges in seriousness from mild, temporary episodes of sadness to severe, persistent depression. Clinical depression is the more-severe form of depression, also known as major depression or major depressive disorder.

I certainly didn't mean to imply everyone with depression should default to any depression related medication.

1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depression/ex...
Twitter. I'd bet on that. I imagine that someone else will be running the show, and it will possibly still be owned by Elon Musk, but it 100% will still be Twitter.

There is no real replacement. It's not gonna be some alternative that calls retweets "retruths", nor will it be a decentralised alternative, no matter how much we want it to be, the UX is simply not there (yet?). Even if an alternative pops up, it will take more than 4 years for it to dethrone Twitter.

Put your faith in inertia. It is a powerful (lack of) force.
It's also worth noting that insults don't need to be real language or any language.

Just laughing can be incredibly offensive.

So an aggressor has infinite words to use and is effectively impossible to censor.

I hesitate to mention SouthPark, but they do an episode where Cartman is especially cruel using laughter as his weapon. It's quite effective and obviously offensive. Unlike the list in the article.
The post I was replying to said "look at all these people who did stuff in their 40s". I was simply pointing out that this is NOT who OP is, based on his post. And he should not be thinking that, unless he wants to fake it till he makes it.

Accepting the reality, that he's done nothing for the last 10 years, SHOULD get him to pick something, anything, that he would be proud to build up over the next 10 years.

Pretending he is similar to Steve Carell does him a disservice.
This is pretty absurd and goes against every expectation I'd have of a password generator. The only reason I can think of it being useful is if the site has a separate screen for a confirm password field, but even then the password should be saved in the password manager the first time it is submitted.
Totally ok to use "incel" but not Karen.

Notice how they are fine with using words like "gunman", "conman" but not the positive masculine words like man-made, mankind ...

Also no issues with "motherboard" or "mother nature".
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjHMoNGqQTI

Just linking, not necessarily c agreeing or disagreeing
Summary of the article:
Conjectures, largely.

I don't hold any crypto but it seems all these hit pieces are intended for clicks and for the writers to be proven right at some point.

Nothing solid these articles unlike that of the FTX.

But like someone said, they rode the waive when things were great so perhaps they should bear this too.
Brilliant title for the article.

Even though I'm a paid github customer, I had no idea they had a program called "secret scanning" and that it's actually beneficial.

So I obviously assumed they're letting China scan my private repos.

They really need to work on wording.
That’s the thing. You’re not surrendering to lies. You’re just choosing not to play.
As soon as you have a form of editorial control ( which includes decisions about what to highlight and where to place it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editing ) you seize being a platform and become something else. One could argue that maybe twitter could become a platform by removing any form of recommendation engine (including likes) and simply acting as an aggregator of reverse chronological feeds, but then what would the business case be?

Social media has been eating up advertising by skirting in between the lines, acting as if they don't censor and are mere platforms (and thus aren't liable for falsehoods spread via them) while censoring and curating content heavily to ensure advertising cash keeps rolling in.

I think it is time for (and with recent legislation proposals in the EU, am hopeful for) changes that either severely limit the type of advertising and control these wanna he platforms can accept and exert or simply makes them legally for spreading falsehoods and endangering the public via users they choose to jot exert their editorial control over.
well the OP made a blog post detailing his work so everyone else can follow, clearly not about the individual
What did they say that is wrong? I thought it was a fair and balanced treatment of the subject.
I'm not a gamer but I'm tempted to buy a Steam Deck just to show my support for the project. Although throwing some donations to the WINE or Proton devs might be better.

Wine is a 30 year old project, but Valve's initiative has pushed it over the final mile, and transformed it from 'pretty good' to 'almost perfect'. Not only are most windows games now easily playable on linux, but many perform even better than on windows. This is due to windows games being locked to the API which they first targeted and that does not get updated. Whereas the linux stack can easily incorporate new improvements, and bug fixes. And, good news for non-gamers, this applies to most windows software. If you haven't looked at wine in a long time you should check it out.

https://appdb.winehq.org/

https://www.protondb.com/explore
Why is everyone upset? This is a good thing.

Where are you seeing a privacy or security risk?
That doesn't surprise me at all. Just the entry level p3.xlarge is $2k USD a month. You'll be able to build your own in short order if you're actually using it all the time.
Stock prices fluctuate. It's dumb to measure a company's success by a temporary change in stock price.

You should be measuring actual things. For Tesla, this means car sales and operational costs. For Twitter, it's still too early to see if Elon can make it profitable.

Now, for sure, some moves were really dumb mistakes, like suspending people for advertising their Mastodon profiles.

But remember, Musk said early that in the coming months Twitter will do a lot of stupid things. He knew ahead of time that he's screw up on some decisions. This should be familiar to anyone who remotely has any interest in the startup/entrepreneurship world. Try many things, correct the mistakes, double down on the good things.

If you see any highly skilled programmer doing live programming, they will do some obvious mistakes on stream. If you conclude from this that they are stupid, it's only because you have no idea how programming is done.
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I think countries should then be at least straight-forward about it.

If they don't want immigrants to settle, they shouldn't allow migrant workers to stay for more than a year or so and make that clear, instead of leaving them in legal limbo for cheap labor, which is close to what Qatar was criticized for.
All these categories have something in common - their use can be seen as rude in a particular setting, the rest is bullshit. You can be rude using the most refined vocabulary.

You won't exterminate rudeness by banning a set of words, nor should you be trying to.

By giving people an option to be rude you can see people that choose not to. And then I'll rather choose a rude vulgar teacher who knows his stuff than a milquetoast who doesn't.
Wait till you learn of Operation Paperclip:

Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959. Many of these personnel were former members and some were former leaders of the Nazi Party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
What are you talking about? Is he obsessed with person X all day and writing lies and inviting others to add pressure on that person?
No. He focuses on his projects.
This is what being a supervillain feels like from the inside.
I had a Commodore branded Escom PC running OS/2 in early 1996 but I’m guessing they made PCs before that in some parts of the world? In Europe it was all Amiga in the 90s
There is another contingent of "many," who feel personally protective of Musk and like he needs to be vigorously defended no matter what. It's usually people who have no personal connection to him or his companies but idealize him as representative of something more than any single person is or can possibly be. Musk has flaws too which isn't a groundbreaking or wild thing to say but it makes a lot of people's heads explode. Why is that?
> By banning words like "retard" you just create a void that will be filled with another word very quickly (the word itself used to be a medical term).

You can see this happening in the Stanford list itself - some of the terms listed, particularly in the "Ableist" section, are clearly second or third iteration through the euphemism treadmill.

In fact, some could be about to complete another one - for example, my self-preservation instinct on the Internet tells me I shouldn't use "disabled" as an adjective, despite it being listed as a proper alternative to "crippled". I fully expect "disabled" to land in the left column of this or similar list in a couple of years.
> Having a tool that dictates formatting is a lot less oppressive to new developers than 100 comments nitpicking style choices.

Yes, it would work very well if said tool didn't change its mind every 6 months, generating huge commits at every bump

> Most people contributing to open source would be familiar with at least some of these methods and if they are not it’s a good opportunity for learning.

You seem unfamiliar with the fact that other people aren't necessarily clones of yourself and might not behave like you.

> CI prevents poorly formatted code from entering main.

If you run black on CI… which of course I don't since every time they make a new version I'd have the CI start failing.

And no pinning is not a "solution"… it's at best a workaround for badly written software.

> The actual changes between black versions of late have been minor at best. You’re making a mountain out of a molehill.

If you have 10 lines of code, I guess your diff can't be more than 10 lines. If you have more than 10 lines…
The trouble with the learning-by-crashing strategy is that it worked great for rockets, OK for self-driving cars on closed tracks, and terribly for Twitter because Twitter has people "aboard".

Every time he tweaks the rules and "crashes" twitter, a bunch of people leave, build a new network elsewhere, and never come back. Or are permanently banned and can't appeal through the back channel like pg.

(edit: the @garius "trust thermocline" concept is a good elaboration https://twitter.com/garius/status/1588115310124539904 )
And despite all this, they still didn't manufacture their own display panels.
At the cost of less elderly who'll miss out on being reproductive die to all the spots already being taken. Achieving immortality would be robbing from your descendants what your ancestors bestowed.
I live in a smaller city in the UK so my experience is likely much different from those living in larger cities.

I never wear a helmet when riding a bike and used to commute daily. I've never had an accident involving traffic and have come off my bike less than a handful of times commuting. It seems like the odds of me coming off my bike and hitting my head is very low.

I'm not averse to helmets I just don't think wearing one makes sense for my commute. I'd rather wear a woolen hat. I do wear a helmet when I go rock climbing and would probably wear one if I was commuting in London.
The words woman/women refer explicitly to a group where every single member is a woman (female).

The words man/men, at least historically, can refer either to a group of unknown composition OR to a group where every member is a man (male). Basically it is a homonym with two separate meanings, just like mouse (animal or input device) or chair (object or leader of a committee).

Point being, policeman being ambiguous doesn't mean that we would expect policewoman to be considered ambiguous as well, since woman is not a homonym.
Just yesterday I was talking with the parents of friends, who have held onto the floppy discs that their children stored the music and art they created on an Amiga. I'm not sure if these are 5.25 or 3.5 inch discs. If I can dd these discs, is there any way to recover the data in the files, and to convert to modern file formats? Might the audio already be in wav?
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