the-algorithm VS hn-search

> Wasn’t the tweet recommendation system “open sourced” as well? Does this guy know the difference between open source and “open source”?

What do you mean? There exists only one binding definition of open source

> https://opensource.org/osd

and either some product does satisfy it, or it doesn't. As far as I am aware

> https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

does satisfy the open source definition, so your sarcasm looks demagogical to me, but I am very willing to learn something new.

I'm not a Twitter user so if this is a dumb question I apologize.

This sounds like a pretty serious allegation. How do you know this is true? Is it in the source code?[1]

[1]: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

There is already a bug report for this: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues/1876

There is a way for Meta to fuck this up. The Algorithm is licensed under GPL, which is a copyleft license. That means any derivative works based on it must also be licensed and open sourced under GPL. If Meta doesn't do that, they may be on the hook.

And I believe the source for that was effectively opened up to the world: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

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Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.

I understand the reason for repeating these sentiments—it's the same reason why they get upvoted to the top of threads*—but repetition of this kind is what we're most trying to avoid here.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

* I've marked this one off topic now.

I was looking for it in the guidelines. There are a couple of conventions for postings. Consider a bit of prior examples: [https://hn.algolia.com/?q=show+hn]

yeah there are only three stories coming up from the site search

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=postgres+clustering

only one is semanthically correct, the other pick up the wrong version of clustering (i.e. k-means instead of multi master writes)

but yeah if one doesn't test the hard cases, how does one know it preserves semantics :D

Like dismissing the work of Feyerabend or Wittgenstein without seemingly having read either:

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If it's not [flagged], there's no flagging and hence also no flagging ring. baybal2 has been banned on and off for years now https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

The submitted title was "Gary Killdall, creator of CP/M, wrote Pixar's original 3D renderer".

Submitters: If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

(From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.")

Vision therapy for myopia helps some people, but not everyone, likely due to genetic and neuroplasticity differences, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... Nevertheless, many of the principles are useful for children whose eyes and brains are still developing.