skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should clarify, this isn't the _only_ motivation for Musk, but building what is basically SkyNet is one of his main considerations and ties in with his AI threat commentary.
In a stressful world, this was an awesome reminder to remember and celebrate successes.
> All that has happened is that the gaming Indian parents do doesnt work as well as it once did because others wised up to it. I see nothing wrong with promoting someone who has "unforced" talent, and in some cases race may be a poor way in some cases to base that upon, but in general it is not so bad.

So what you’re saying is that it’s “not so bad” for colleges to pick the upper middle class Hispanic kid over the upper middle class Indian kid, because you think Indian parents are “gaming” the system.

I’m going to say no, that’s racism, and it should be illegal. If you want to give kids a leg up because they’re from a poor family, fine. But it shouldn’t matter what race they are.
The Non-Capitalist Solution to the Housing Crisis
Now if only this could be done for public school buses that never show up at the same time. Younger kids are required to be dropped off/picked up in the presence of an adult, but one is often left out in the cold/snow/heat/whatever for far too long wondering if the bus will ever arrive, or if they were already passed by.
> So my cereal company is getting involved in politics now?

Then using your logic, Musk (and by extension Tesla, SpaceX) are also getting involved in politics? Why are you upset on the one hand (cereal) and not the other (Musk)?
Seems like a relevant time to bring up this old chestnut:

https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
Musk paid huge money to get that thing. He paid multiple times the estimated price. The company is now in deep deep debt that was not nearly as large before - because company now owns the money Musk did not had.

He is not hand of the market. He is someone who made pretty bad business and has very little chance to fix.

And yes, there is likely someone doing UI decisions. Usually it is good idea to have special people good with visuals to make these artistic decisions.
Clojure marries the elegance of Lisp and functional programming with an extreme practicality. The practicality of it is precisely _why_ it is hosted on the JVM ecosystem.

There is this very common reaction to Clojure (also reflected throughout the original post): a balking at its pragmatic decisions. But Clojure's pragmatism is precisely what makes so significant and wonderful.
I think the difference is SpaceX doing cool cutting-edge things with rockets. People want to be a part of that and are willing to take less pay and poorer working conditions to do so.

Twitter is boring. Its explosive growth days are behind it, working there now is basically about maintaining a legacy platform that has a bunch of problems that mostly aren't technology problems. It's about as interesting as working for a big insurance company; if the paycheck and working conditions aren't there, you're not going to be able to attract talent.
Dentists would disagree
That's not a bad plan from a cost perspective, though scanning a 200+ page textbook is reasonably complex, and very time consuming.
That's your claim, but it's simply and obviously false. SpaceX is not about "making humanity interplanetary", it is about selling cheap rockets for commercial exploitation of space (and/or it is a DoD weapons "defense" program). Tesla is a car company, aimed at making and selling cars.

Stopping global warming requires more mass transit, and Musk is actively opposed to that. "Making humanity interplanetary" is simply impossible with current or forseeable technology, so there is no sense in attempting yet (especially since we can develop this technology on Earth, by creating self-sustaining habitats in the Arctic desert, if we really want to).
Elon Musk Says Twitter Has Had Massive Revenue Drop
I'm not an Elon hater myself, but:

He didn't create Tesla. He bought it. He may have grown it, which is impressive, but he certainly wasn't the creator, or funder of the original creators. Ironically, he's more of a Thomas Edison than a Nikola Tesla, in that regard.

Starting an AI/transhumanism company as a CEO who's known for software-locking and remote-controlling his sold cars, isn't very reassuring. I'm quite certain we're going to see "pay $80 a month to unlock your now-societally-vital brain-to-brain communications!" Or a tiered model to his probably inevitable digital eyeballs replacements. "$20 a month for 720p vision, $40 a month for 1080p, $60 for 4K..."

As for SpaceX... so far that's been pretty badass. Government/NASA hasn't been doing crap for exploration or transportation innovation. Nor satellite internet advancements. He's doing all of it himself. To that, I applaud his efforts (and his impressive engineers, to that extent).
> then why was Tesla the only successful electric car manufacturer for literally years

Because every other car manufacturer had no incentives to invest in that space when their ICE technology was working well for them. Musk made the bet that he could go big and make lots of money with that missed opportunity, and he arguably did.

Other electric car companies weren't competing because it takes absurd amounts of money or people willing to give you that money, which Musk has.

> Do you disagree that the roadster made electric cars cool, and changed public perception on electric vehicles

I don't live in the US and honestly, while I saw some tesla cars rolling around here, their popularity correlated very strong with the rise of other brands. It's almost like consumers aren't opposed to the idea of electric vehicles, it's just that until that point all options where shit and tesla finally put some pressure on that market, so the other companies reacted.

> Musk created the first commercially successful private launch company. Do you agree or disagree?

He did, and I argue that it's just like the first point, it was inevitable and Musk made the right call to invest his money in commercial launch operations because there where tons of money to be made.

This wasn't about if he started those companies, it's about the why. And the why is: There's tons of money to be made.
> those who went against the group think, fun police, and thought-gestapo.

Yeah, "fun police" - it's not fun if your "jokes" are made on the back of minorities.
Are you working on this project alone or do you have a partner or assistant?
A will to act on _what_ exactly? I'm not even clear on what people are hoping comes out of this
> Classic free market fallacy. It's only a free market if there are other options available. Those in power control the options available and low regulation free markets enable them align at the lowest common denominator.

People don't pay good developers lots of money because they want to pay lots of money, they pay because good developers are in short supply.
I've tried a few password managers over the years, but I have stuck with 1Password because it has been the easiest for my non-technical family to use as well, and I would rather have a solution that works for them more easily. We've completely stopped sharing passwords over text and email and sticky notes on the fridge over the years in favor of 1P and links, particularly now that they can deep link in. I want to revisit BitWarden, but it would have to be pretty great (and pretty cost similar) to move my family plan.
Doesn’t matter. For me I’m looking for someone that does good to others. If people are doing that because they’ve been tricked into it then so be it.
> they're dynamically shaped and hit near peak

While this is true for most common GEMM looking ops, if you tread off the beaten path things get slow (odd channel sizes, batch sizes, etc...). Right now in PyTorch, GroupNorm is 2x slower than BatchNorm. There's no fundamental reason, just that the kernels loop over axes in a less than ideal order. Dynamic recompilation allows you to change the loop order too, not just deal with boundary conditions.
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In our last post, we showed that there is an easy way to generate automated tests for Rest APIs from your specification.

Since the last release, we have added some new features:

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We built this because we wanted a simple, developer-friendly way to automate API testing without relying on cloud solutions. You can integrate it with Docker, GitHub Actions and Node. Your tests can have multiple steps, with shared context between them. Lastly, you can use it as a library and in combination with other testing tools like Jest, Ava, Mocha (and soon Insomnia).

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I remember hearing about a study on very simple electronic voting machines. These machines had a bunch of buttons representing the candidates. And in the study, they were able to make a decent guess of who voted what by looking at the rf emissions from the machine from a distance.

I could imagine a whole computer being there could make the rf emissions less predictable. I can definitely think of some ways of making a simple machine like that more resistant against an attack like that. Idk if the study looked into that, I can't find the study anywhere.
I think the general take is that the higher you are up the money/power hierarchy the more strictly you should be judged for your choices, because acting in a self-enriching way becomes less and less necessary. An almost incomprehensibly rich person like Musk should be given less leeway for acting in a grasping manner.

In a sense it's the inverse of the "it's moral to steal bread to feed your family" argument.
The magic-constant is not optimal there exist better alternatives. It is not necessary to implement this function and should be copyrightable. It is also not a trivial part.

On the other hand, Microsoft may only need to show "Hey, we got this code from FooBar under this license and this license and ..."
Interview with Dimensional CEO
Saeid Fard talks about self teaching himself how to code and transitioning his career from financial consulting.
No one said you could. That doesn’t mean it’s not still financially beneficial.
It depends. People are jumping to conclusions on this point before full information is available.

There are many carve-outs that will dismiss WARN liability: if severance packages are offered and accepted (with appropriate conditions), the WARN act is irrelevant.
What is the trick? They provide an easy way to disable telemetry and multiple ways to do it. It's up to your team to follow your organizations processes. If you don't want telemetry enabled, tell them to disable it and have checks in place to make sure it's disabled.
I don’t think the point is that the layoffs themselves are “not nice”—I think most people are in agreement that Twitter was not particularly well-run. But there’s a difference between e.g. the layoffs we saw at Stripe yesterday and what’s happening at Twitter today.

The Stripe layoffs came with a clear message from the top brass, solid severance and benefits continuation options, etc., while Twitter staff have received no communication from new management (until the unsigned and rather robotic letter last night), arbitrarily implemented deadlines that require extreme hours, and what appear to me at least to be attempts by Twitter to construct cause in order to weasel out of severance and notification requirements.

Nobody is owed a job, layoffs are sometimes necessary, and Musk bought the company and can do whatever he wants within the bounds of the law, sure. But I think we’re all better off when we treat each other with respect, and that doesn’t seem to be happening here.
Actual studies suggest otherwise.
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/rml-polit...

It's true that twitter's user base itself leans a bit left, but it's a few percent - Not like 80/20, like 54/46 or something.

So calling it a "far left cesspit" is not backed up by actual data.
>5 Years: Twitter is dead. There was a political assassination that was formed, planned, and tweeted/broadcast from Twitter live.

The internet has existed for decades with laxer moderation and nothing like this has happened - seems like you're making some hidden assumptions about how the political climate will evolve that are pretty questionable.
> How does Neuralink counteract the risk of AI? If it ever works, it seems like it would exacerbate that risk.

AI is a threat because of human information processing limits. Neuralink's ultimate goal is ostensibly to remove eyes and hands as inherent limits to I/O, and augment human information processing in the ways in which we are weak (formal computation).

> How does SpaceX counteract the risk of asteroids? NASA has developed a successful asteroid-killing rocket, and SpaceX's work has nothing to do with that field.

Cheap launch to orbit is critical in any efforts to counteract asteroid threats. Musk has also been very vocal about colonizing Mars in case something happens to the Earth.
Kinda like when Steve Jobs refused to give early Apple employees stock, famously giving them zero shares. Yeah, cared deeply about employees.
> But a system that uses electronics to tabulate votes that can be verified via paper ballots that are stored long-term, securely? Why not?

If the paper ballots as backup are manually created by the voter then while it’s still possible it’s much harder to fake the votes en masse but there’s more scope for human error (what if they vote in two different ways). If the paper backup is automatically generated then can they check it? If not then there’s little improvement over purely digital voting. If yes, do they actually check it? Many won’t bother and maybe there’s an exploit there. Then there’s the fact that this system would require regular auditing, and lawsuits and close contests will force a certain number of audits every election. No one can reliably predict which districts will require audits so presumably they’ll need to hire sufficient people to do a manual recount anyway which eliminates the labor cost advantage.

If by using electronic voting we are opening up new potential exploits, even with paper backups, and not really gaining much of an advantage why would we go to the expense and bother of implementing electronic voting?
I think by default you have to assume most billionaires don't care that deeply about their employees.
You still need to compare the length against a maximum, wherever it's stored.
Did we have less problems in the pre internet era?

We had WW1 and 2, Vietnam. Civil wars, internment camps, genocide.

Lots of these were approved and even celebrated by the majority of the population when all they had was broadcast media telling them what to think about.

I think it's wild how much people romanticize "traditional media." Broadcast and print media is and always has been awful.
This is true. My new Samsung fridge is like this. I can't tell when it's compressor is running because it seems to always be running at a low rate.
I run email servers and one of the pulses I've been keeping an eye on over the last 2 and a half years is recruiter mail, both real and spam. I did notice early to mid 2020 the volume of this type of mail was reduced to almost nothing. But it seemed to recover to normal by the end of the year and has stayed just about that way ever since.

This is subjective - I'm basing this off of how much mail I remember seeing. I haven't ran numbers or anything like that.
As a casual, I don't really see what Purescript gives that would compel me to try it over Typescript. The starting example has parts of it that feel unnecessarily verbose, such as the ":: String -> String" and the "<> name <>"

Perhaps someone who has been using it can provide some insight.
>It provides a strangely open look into the user's machine.

"navigator" is just the tip of the iceberg: https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/
I mean face-to-face interactions. The goal is to find someone that cares about others and can think selflessly on a regular basis.
You're balancing the cost of energy leaking vs. the difference in capex vs. other inefficiencies of the gravity based system (e.g. heat loss due to friction)
I didn’t go to business school, so I missed the part where egging on your big corporate business partners was the best way to build trust. Maybe he really is trying to make twitter the official Parler/truth social/Gab?

If he ends up running this as a loss leader for the influence, where does the money come from with $1 billion a year in interest payments.

My theory? Musk “won capitalism” and now he’s just bored and seeing how far he can get by fucking with it.
Resistance heater plus thermal mass as a time-shifting mechanism for heat has existed for decades in the UK - they are referred to as "storage heaters" and have generally been avoided wherever possible because of the high cost of electricity relative to gas.

Operating at large scale like this probably helps, but really the main benefit comes from the district heating part.
Code to address a need, stick with it until you have a minimally crapful product that saves you time or increases your quality of what you do that is not coding.

Use it, enhance it, review it, share it, maybe throw that one away (with the other 8 or 10 versions you probably threw away to get to that one, if it is anything of significance) and do it again, but maybe choosing a better suited language or framework, now you know what you know.

Then, do the above again, but this time use lisp, or forth....
> First very simple point, to become insolvent you have to actually take a loss somewhere.

This has absolutely NOTHING to do with being insolvent.

"Insolvency

In accounting, insolvency is the state of being unable to pay the debts, by a person or company, at maturity; those in a state of insolvency are said to be insolvent. There are two forms: cash-flow insolvency and balance-sheet insolvency. "

Insolvency deals with the inability to repay your debts (insufficient cash flow is the most common).
Even if we assume the changes are for good and will "fix" the company, asking people to work nights and week-ends while conducting mass layoffs in less than a week is a "treat employees nicely" issue.

Actually, I think we're more on the level of "threat employees with basic decency".
Relax buddy, it's a meme [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
That's cool, am I right in assuming that you want to automate the production of efficient GPU (or other accelerator) code based on these low level primitives? But you would still need a piece of sorcery that can produce high performance OpenCL code, right? And that code could be different for every device, so you would need some trial and error, benchmark-based compilation at the very least. Or would OpenCL code be generated by hand for each device?
A Linux version! Okay, probably not that.
Arc for Windows will be built using Swift
I've been trying the neovim plugin (vim plugin available as well) for the sqls language server lately as an alternative to Dadbod, I like it so far: https://github.com/lighttiger2505/sqls#editor-plugins
But they have zero proof about being real. Using the API was proof. I can make any tweet from any user, take screenshot and you can’t prove it was not real.
The JVM ecosystem pioneered a lot of what I see as awful anti-patterns in language development:

- Language-exclusive build chain: Not that Make is the be-all and end-all of build tools but it worked with everything without prejudice. To understand the basics of a build system, you only needed to know one tool. All attempts at fixing Make's flaws fail to understand this fundamental recipe for success. Now when you switch languages, you need to relearn that layer on top of the language itself. And the tools all do the same thing but with their own syntax, commands, and eccentricities.

- Language-exclusive packages and repositories. Once upon a time, you learned your OS's package manager and you were done. Now you need to learn a new package system for every language out there. Again with their own syntax, commands, versioning, and eccentricities.

- Needing language-aware parsers to determine dependencies. You can't depend on spatial locality or compiler-output dependency trees to know whether to rebuild, reinstall, etc. You had to parse out the org.whatever's and resolve that back to a jar or class, which was clumsy and mostly wrong.

- The OS doesn't know how to run your program. What's so hard about building your executable so it can be natively run by the OS? Everyone has to write the same `#!/bin/sh exec java -jar ...` wrapper script. Java programs worked best by assuming it was going to be a pariah hanging out in /opt and never actually integrate with anything.

- Runtime versioning and installation was painful. I disliked having to suddenly manage environment variables just to run something. It continues today with python2 vs python3, GOPATH, etc. On top of that, JRE's weren't a simple "curl|bash" and no one was allowed to repackage the JRE to make it more user friendly.
Orange juice, milk, water... I just don't know which one!
Multifactor auth fatigue is real – and it's why you may be in the headlines next
I would say, a lot of it has to do with style?
Even if something is necessary - and I have now idea if it is - but even if, there are better, more friendly and respectful ways of dealing with all of this right?
I don't think so, when I look at my 1Password vault, I have way more than just passwords. API keys, secure notes, security questions and anything else I want to keep "secure". I would imagine 1Password would integrate passkeys into it's app just like they did with 2FA.
How does it compare to heatpumps, though? If a large-scale heatpump was used to power a district, it would only need 1/3 or even less of the electricty. From that perspective, does it make sense to store thermal energy or does a chemical battery become attractive again?
This joke is widely adapted and reused, though. You could basically call it a meme format at this point.
I will send a request to archive a copy of a tweet in the Wayback Machine just in case, especially if the tweet is critical of Twitter from now on.
Rest is indeed resistance. For me and others, so is being child-free
> thought-gestapo

As a German, I actually take offense to this kind of expression. You apparently have NO IDEA what Gestapo really was if you think banning gaslighting assholes for hate speech is in any way comparable or even remotely in the same neighborhood as the Gestapo.

These kind of phrases ridicule and downplay the horrific crimes and offenses against human rights committed by that organization and even the most unreasonable and idiotic ban on Twitter cannot ever be compared.

Words matter - and that's why we deal with "free speech" differently than Americans. Btw it's also pretty clear what holds on court and what doesn't - independent of how strict or unreasonable private social networks moderate their content.
I don't understand why you replied to my post with this, it seems to have nothing to do with my reply.
It's funny because you would've been one of the first people fired at Twitter given that you seem to work in sales. I also imagine you do not in fact work 14 hour days 7 days a week like Musk demands which would seem to make you an entitled softy.
Also, if you're in an environment with tall ceilings, you could conceivable put wall shelves over top, or hang things above it (like from a cellar ceiling) to reclaim some of that space. Leaving enough room to access the fridge of course.
It's not a chemical battery, which releases energy as electricity, but electricity can certainly be generated using heat stored in heated/molten sand.

Ultimately its about energy transfer, efficiency, and storage.
"Appeal to hypocrisy" was recognized as a logical fallacy long before it was called "whataboutism".