skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a fair question. Almost anything can be a weapon if you try hard enough. “Prevent” is perhaps too strong a verb. I’d settle for discourage or maybe even just contextualize. I get the impression that by explicitly declaring each nesting context with “@nest”, the effort required to type those extra characters might center the meaning more around code organization, maybe? If nothing else, it helps the eye track better in deeper trees.

In my experience, when I’ve committed this sin or watched others do so, it’s often because some styles that have already been written need to be updated. Writing CSS is really easy. Nesting makes it even easier. The thing I and I think most people struggle with is organizing it. I think nested styles encourage people to go out in search of a defined scope to ammend moreso than it does to encourage them to write a new one (or selector). It’s easy to see a class you’d need, skip a couple levels down the tree and then get excited when you add just that one element or class you think you need and style accordingly… Only to find out later that you created a difficult to debug style bug that pervades the whole site. My hope is that it would encourage people to think twice before going beyond that second or third level and maybe encourage them to create a new style block instead. I’m also not terribly concerned length or effort these days because of tab completion.
People taking in this news and then automatically blame Elon really have no critical skills. I’d wait till some more detail comes out before judging and follow the mob
> Oh, just like when pre-Musk Twitter banned NY Post/journalists over a true story about Hunter Biden's laptop. I don't see how an anti-doxxing rule banning people tracking Elon Musk's whereabouts is worse.

Calling it "Hunter Biden's laptop" ignores the fact that it was hacked information provided by a foreign adversary to sow division and influence an election. That is not comparable to sharing publicly available information about aircraft movements.

That being said, I also think the extent to which they went to bury and remove the real photos and videos of Hunter Biden smoking crack was a huge overreach. They tried to paint it as a conspiracy theory that had no factual basis — that's biased censorship.
Hell of an analogy esp if Starship turns out to be a Space Spruce Goose.
Focus on something you expect AI not to exceed professional humans at in the next couple of decades. If you're convinced there's no such thing, then I wouldn't worry so much about career choice.

For a concrete answer in tech, have a look at AI development itself. Keep abreast of what OpenAI and their competitors identify as open problems and orient your academic career towards working in them. The object level questions will change while you're in school; the goal is an "intercept trajectory" where what you study just before you graduate is the state of the art.

Alternatively, highly regulated professions (medicine, law, civil engineering to name a few) are likely to continue to employ bright humans long after AI can do the job just because no-one will be allowed to use AI there.
So in reality what does this look like?

15 min - standup

15 min - standup runover

15 min - open ide and find the bug I was working on

15 min - thinking about bug

15 min - looking at unit tests

15 min - refactoring code..

lol
Well you can go to jail for selling corporate private data to foreign governments too. There were some cases of nationals from China doing this.
I feel like the media determined they were going to report it as a failure regardless of what the facts are. Remember all the stories about how Twitter was definitely going to fall apart during the world cup?
Has LAPD commented on these accusations? Has a complaint been filed? Usually I’m a believer in people that claim to be victims of violence but in the case of Elon, I’m gonna wait until I hear from the appropriate authorities before I believe this story.
flaming out and setting billions on fire does not accomplish this
> Twitter as an application is laughably easy to build.

I think parts of Twitter may be easy to build in isolation, but the entire platform as a whole is certainly not easy by any means and would be very expensive to construct.
The references support facts that are not in dispute. The only fact in dispute is whether the Twitter purchase was instrumental to this contract, not that Starlink is a military contractor with industry connections.

But I agree that we should be concerned about the military applications of Starlink, and that we should be discussing it more. And I appreciate you highlighting it because I wasn't aware.
In the article update, it says that Elon commented on suspensions and it looks like the suspensions are for doxxing. If that's the case, it makes perfect sense to me. The doxxing has been rampant of Twitter, including by many of the journalists.
I'm a software developer/engineer with 25 years experience. The coding aspect of software development is actually a very small part of the overall job. I don't expect AI to significantly change my job in the least.
I saw Richard Kyanka do this once before.
That's kind of the hallmark of conspiracy theory.
He’s banning journalists who criticize him or expose the countless lies he tells.
I don't care for web3 but I like the soft bounce effect on scrolling
Did you stop reading Hughes' biography halfway or something because Elon is basically following it scene for scene at this point losing the plot.
Hughes as a company did a lot of cool stuff way after the ww2 era, in fact Boeing's satellite business for large and serious commercial and military geostationary satellites is what used to be Hughes in El Segundo CA, acquired about 20 years ago.
> These options are bad, and CSS does not need this.

1. You don't have to use it if it doesn't seem useful to you.

2. Many developers (me included) use Sass and other preprocessors so they can use nesting; it's probably the single most popular feature of Sass.

3. CSS doesn't need nesting but a lot of developers want it, as it improves the developer experience for writing complex selectors.
Probably a kind of I/O virtualization.
As someone who has always had a huge gap between what I can imagine and what I can manifest, outside of text anyway, I find the whole thing amazing and massively enabling. And I think it is possible to come up with original images, even though the styles are usually derivative.

At the same time I recognise that this is a massive threat to artists, both low-visibility folks who throw out concepts and logos for companies, and people who may sell their art to the public. Because I can spend a couple of dollars and half an hour to come up with an image I’d be happy to put on my wall.

I’m not sure what the answer is here, but I don’t think a sort of “human origin art” Puritanism is going to hold back the flood, though it may secure a niche like handmade craft goods and organic food…
“He’s in a downward spiral that’s rapidly gaining speed.”

Yeah, he owns the worlds largest auto company, largest rocket company, and just threw down $40 billion to buy the worlds biggest social media company.

Dude is in dire straights indeed.
The issue isn't with disclosure, as it's up to the registrant to read the contracts they agree to, and it's clearly disclosed in every agreement. You also don't waive the right to disclosure, you waive the right to uniform renewal pricing, but the point is that it's supposed to be optional for the registrant.

Registrants aren't given the option, Registrars force them to agree to a contract that waives this right.
Exactly, sometimes coming here seeing people just jump to conclusions pisses me off. How about wait for more detail comes out before calling Elon a douche bag for banning these people because he felt like it
Here is another approach from AWS https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/goodbye-microsoft-sql-serve...
exactly. this is something both left and right should fully agree on
he’s already said he banned them and mocked them by calling them “journalists”

there is no mob here and the person without critical thinking skills is you.
This wasn't a slide, this is who he has always been.
pg thread on the topic: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1603572959758663680?s=61&t=...

You can practically see the switch flip. I’m not sure he’s openly said Musk has made bad decisions until this moment.
Top journalists and Mastodon banned from Twitter without explanation
The point is that even if Twitter execs personally wanted to say no, they would’ve been sued for not taking such a lucrative deal.
Perhaps he's trying to set straight what Twitter had become, a crazy progressive activist dark haven.
Those quotes around the word journalists are carrying a lot of weight.
You don't find it telling that you have to rope in child exploitation to add weight to the scales in favor of Elon Musk?
facebook knew this and bought instagram. twitter shit down vine which left the door open for tiktok
The system before peer review wasn't particularly good either.

Peer review is worst system possible, except for all the others that have been tried.

I'm aware that many subfields have good solutions.

But, from the outside as a non-researcher, nobody has conceived of a truly effective "whole of science" narrative so far.
Unfortunately, many people who call themselves "journalists," and especially those who brag about it, deserve the ridicule. Journalism was more honest when it was a lower-status job.

(Ridiculousness does not justify censorship, of course! Elon's actions and hypocrisy are indefensible)
The font they've used on this website should be a little lighter. You can still almost see it.
Pre-Musk Twitter didn't specifically try to present itself as a bastion of free speech.

On top of that, in case of this particular account, Musk specifically said that it would be allowed on the platform per his understanding of free speech.
>That’s the power of personal branding.

It's not because of branding, it's because he could do it himself. It's just unnecessarily complex. It's annoying to be accused of falling for branding if you do anything but automatically assume the absolute worst at all times. That kind of rhetoric makes any discussions about musk thoroughly annoying
I’ve used Rust extensively the last couple years. I understand that. A lot of what people do with reflection in Go could be done more efficiently with code generation - but more easily with reflection. I’m sure the same is true in Rust, to a lesser extent. There are times when runtime reflection would be really nice to have.
That you, Elon?
AI will excel in areas with clear cut rules and game theoretical modes of operation. Computers lack a Theory of the World which would allow them to: 1) create said rules, or 2) put disparate pieces into place in novel ways to further said rules. Humans will always be needed as a result.

But I could be wrong, who knows?
To people who have seen similar deals in the past like this it was also my conclusion.

It’s like Elon is the modern government agency cut out, but instead of having a handler or agency association - he’s just generally a free agent cut out for anyone who will fund him.

But it’s also the plot of the much maligned movie ‘Aloha’. To the keen eye it is a disturbingly insightful film.
I’ve never seen so many smart people trying to one up each other on hating on Elon.

I feel like I’m back in middle school.
ChatGPT expects to have $1B in revenue in 2024. This revenue is going to come from people building businesses around it (<-- possibly you? this would require programming knowledge obv.). Honestly, I think a person could make a living as a prompt-engineer right now. You can't fight it, you have to lean into it.
Yeah, I'd recommend that everyone check their privacy policy very carefully. This seems like yet another service where you are the product being delivered.
"Free Speech Absolutist"
Or they are quiet, as they are getting the results that they've wanted and that the time of propping up ridiculous Free Speech Absolutism arguments has passed.
Citation needed. My counter evidence is from 2022:
https://drunkard.com/08-04-
southpole/
It will make it to Orbit. Despite all of Elons ways, there are good dedicated people working to make it happen. Making it to the Moon, I am doubtful. Making it to Mars... well lets get to he moon first.
> I’d wait till some more detail comes out before judging and follow the mob

The detail already came out. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603573725978275841
This is super fascinating. I have a BS in linguistics and I never heard of this puzzle (though, admittedly, my interests were ancient afroasiatic languages rather than indo-aryan).
Where is the gpt summary feature? I don’t see it on iOS app
What has Twitter done about child exploitation in the last two months other than disband the groups responsible for stopping it?

I can find any reputable news sources saying positive things about Twitter and child exploration.
I can see a symbiotic relationship between large rightsholders and AI-related industries developing, perhaps where they license their corpus to be trained on, and maybe even share rights/profits/etc with AI companies when it comes to commercial use of the AI's output.

In such a world, human creators would be paid a pittance by large rightsholders to create, and then those rightsholders would license those creations to be trained on, and then the human would be cut out of the loop for subsequent creations. In this world, creators wouldn't be much different than the data labelers that currently tag ML datasets. They'd probably be paid the same, as well.
Secured as debt against his Tesla shares as collateral, which with the slide, means he has to put up more Tesla shares, causing a very nasty snowball effect
Fusion Industry Suddenly White-Hot After U.S. Lab Breakthrough
Especially when abundant stupidness has already been demonstrated with the blue checkmark botch. Ain't no 4 dimensional chess going on.
This is a really good example of Torvalds toxic attitude and absolutely horrific attitude towards security. This is an occurring pattern unfortunately.

Git not being prepared for this is going to cost a lot of time and money for a very large amount of people, and it could have been trivially mitigated if security were taken seriously in the first place, and if Torvalds was mature enough to understand the he is not an expert on cryptography topics.
And every year, at a minimum of 300,000 Americans use guns to protect themselves from robbery, assault, rape, and murder. I feel for the parents that have lost children, but even the most conservative estimates show that guns are used in self-defense far more than suicide or violence that results in homicide (accidental or intentional).
Republicans are strongest when they have plenty of liberals to criticize. No liberals on his platform means no ammo for Republicans which means they cannot get votes.

It makes no sense.
Well, it is one thing when we hear about someone who is a douchebag but we have no proof. Another entirely different thing is to witness this kind of behavior up close. This is what EM is providing everyone since the last few months.
Is it really that much of a spike though? There's always been a bias against "liberal media elite" from conservatives for at least a decade now. It's increased, sure, but I don't think by that much.
If you go out just a little bit not everyone hates him. Personally I think he hasn’t don’t anything overt yet. So he banned a few journalists, do you know why? No right? So why judge so early?
And so the truth is made abundantly clear now. Elon & his right wing sycophants have never actually cared about free speech & fight against "cancel culture."

What they want is simply being the ones who get to cancel under vague tropes of "safety."
Elon has made the rule-clear: real-time doxxing is banned on Twitter.

I'm surprised people think creepy stalking is free-speech.
Someone posted yesterday that the beginning of Musk's Twitter buy happened shortly after elonjet refused his $5000 offer to buy the account. The rational part of me says he surely couldn't have spent $45 billion dollars to shut the account down, but it's kinda feeling more and more true as the story continues.

It's like this is the 21st century version of the San Francisco story where Yung refused to sell their house to the robber baron Cocker, leading Cocker to build an expensive three story tall fence around the house forcing Yung to move.
> Not really, that's a pure invention of yours. The Nordic model does protect prostitutes from pimps and johns.

Funny, because we had a whole debate about it here in Canada, and guess what? All of the actual sex workers came out against it and said it would endanger them. But I'm sure your propaganda is more reliable or unbiased than the testimony of the people this would most affect.
If that turns out to be true, I am very happy that he cannot run for President.
Waiting for him to release the "Twitter files" that show why he made this decision.
About a week after the slashdot sale/redesign nobody seemed to be there anymore.
He hasn't banned fox yet.
It's like a microcosm of China.
One thing that bugs me about the commentary here is that absolutely everything comes down to whether someone is mean or nice. It doesn't matter what they're saying, it's the TONE. Like we could all die fighting over the last gallon of gas in some burnt out hell world and it would be fine as long as everyone was nice to each other. It's like there is no past, there is no future, there is only the every present now and everybody's feelings and that's the only thing that exists.
It seems more likely the story about his kid is just another lie to try win the moment. The LAPD statement is careful not to state that no crime has been reported or under investigation, but to leave that interpretation open. They are “aware of the tweet.”
I was never good with chemistry, the battery sounded icky to make. I'd bet on the Iron Edison battery or the iron rust battery instead.
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good - this will start out in a limited detection of course, but can easily be improved with other hashes and scanning over time.
Apparently the bans were because journalists were posting about Mastodon being banned on Twitter. They shared a tweet containing a screenshot of a tweet from Mastodon linking to a Mastodon profile ran by the ElonJet guy.

The tweets didn't include any "doxxing" materials even under Elon's new definition.

So you are completely right about him making stuff up as he goes along lol.
It's because they linked to the ElonJet site. He said as much;
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603573725978275841
>Same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else
Stuck by him through the Pelosi attack but Fauci was the limit, huh?
Which is bad, because the supposed policy has a specific media exemption.

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/personal-info...
Windows software had the advantage of popularity, there were always "unlocked" professional tools floating around if you had a modem and knew what number to dial. Unix tools tended to be not only rare and proprietary, but suffered from a lack of l33t hacking scene to remove their pervasive licence files requirements.
They are tanking because he is selling.

Twitter is going to be Musks' undoing at this rate.
> it was hacked information provided by a foreign adversary to sow division and influence an election.

Every single one of these claims is false. Hunter Biden gave his laptop to a repair shop, the repair shop shared its contents with the New York Post and the FBI. At no point was any foreign agent involved, at no point was anything "hacked"
I find it mildly interesting that there is no elite tier of hardware available, like the equivalent of a super fancy watch or some fabulously expensive Japanese woodworking tools that you pass on to your children. You'd think that with so much money sloshing around the Valley in the last 20 years, someone would be making super high-end, artisanal hardware.
The statements about Vernon Unsworth should have been enough for anybody.
TwitterGate? The Twitter Papers? TwitterLeaks? In all seriousness though the real Twitter Files will be about Musk running the company into the ground not this slow drip of right wing garbage.
I like how he’s all of a sudden someone who pretends to spend any time with his countless children from countless wives.

A family man isn’t a brand he’s been going for up until now.
Source? That doesn't sound very journalistic to me.
Honestly if you keep to https://12factor.net/ the only time an SRE will page you is when there’s a cryptic custom error with no runbook.

If only I had a dollar for every time some program dereferences a null.
He seemed to say the opposite about that jet account…

Now anyone who reports on it is banned too?
>Then came the pedo guy comments. I cut him slack, he must be tired/strung out, he'll apologise. He never did.

Same. It's one thing to use a slur like that in some personal dispute; but this was against a hero who had saved children, and on a public forum. I've lied to myself that this was a minor dispute. And it would be that if he'd apologized. But the lack of apology is a very serious red flag of character. Impulsive unkind and unfair behavior is something we all are guilty of some time. But to not acknowledge it and make amends? That's wrong. Because the easy thing was the apology, sincere or not. Musk must have pushed back against his people to not apologize. Musk wanted to hurt that man, and he still wants to hurt him, would hurt him again if given the chance, worse if it was legal. And for what? Publicly criticizing Musk's (frankly hair-brained) idea to save those kids. (Honestly, I don't remember the details.) He reacted very badly to a fair criticism, with personal malice and rage, and he believes these reactions to be appropriate and, if anything, displaying admirable restraint.

I can't help but see echos of that lack of empathy, that meanness, as he takes his various actions now with Twitter - firing large swaths of staff, sending demanding emails to the remaining staff on very short term. We are all capitalists and so give a proven leader like Musk enormous leeway in this position. But his behavior has been absolutely rotten. Even layoffs can be delivered with more grace! His words and actions, apart from layoffs, feel like angry, vengeful behavior rather than "effective leader" behavior - all echoes of the "pedo guy" incident.
He was more shaken by real journalists digging into whether he made it up.
I think there's also a challenging line to draw about where a defining a search space stops and where encoding knowledge begins. When you define attention modules for an LLM, encode a search heuristic into A*, or define a feature space for a random forest, you are encoding domain knowledge, i.e. adding bias in exchange for faster learning relative to an even more general model. At any given time, the best performing computation heavy techniques have embedded more structural knowledge than zero, while much less than some experts believed necessary.
The censorship’s not happening, you are just imagining it. This is a spurious conspiracy theory.

But even if it was, just build your own Twitter.

Karma
Load testing isn't quite the expensive proposition it seems!

Think about it - clients or requests are really just ephemeral ports...

There are something like 30 thousand of them available by default with Linux

If you use sockets you can have as many connections as your system allows for open file descriptors. The upward limit is...

$ sysctl fs.file-max
fs.file-max = 9223372036854775807

Spawn a ton of concurrent requests to hit the service/API!

apachebench is a decent example of the idea; imagine some proprietary sauce with it

It gets cheaper (and in some ways, more effective) if you actually remove the network -- latency goes down

You can also rate limit it in software, but it's really not analogous in some ways (eg: net.core.somaxconn limitations/realities)

Development time is totally understandable though. It's important I leave my green field of comfort