skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird that I have never heard about wellness checks being harrasment since I have lived and worked in the general area for a long time. I think you are just regurgitating conspiracy theory talking points you have heard elsewhere on the internet.
100%. I've been going through this exact concept in building https://sqwok.im. I got a ton of positive feedback but also "it's not fully baked yet", "not quite there", "missing X feature". It's a challenge but you have to believe in it and keep pushing, try new things, and constantly collect feedback.
Im ok with it, then & now. Both are marks of character.

I personally think Twitter used to work very very hard to tolerate a lot of activity it didnt really want & that was a bad look & source of ill strife. It took a lot to get banned & was for clearly bad behavior. There doesnt seem to be anything really controversial or interesting about these folks being banned; it's just small & petty & weak pushing folk around.

Both bannings were within the right of the operator, and both reflect in the operator. Personally I think it's an interesting contrast, in cause/offense & process, and reveals a real contrast. Wasnt it amazing how nice & permitting twitter used to be, how it used to try to stay open to people across many tries? That grace seems a rapidpy receeding memory, but I also doubt you'll hear the same sad fiddling for ourselves & stomping indignation we were hearing about the bloody Babylon Bee or Alex Jones.
Some of the comments in that thread actually mirror yours closely.
So this is how Twitter goes out: not with a bang but with a seemingly endless stream of stories about the little ways Elon is ruining the service each day.

Just staggers me that Elon could have just… not done any of this. And yet here we are. He’s had to sell billions in Tesla stock to finance this ongoing mayhem, this is surely going to be up there as one of the greatest examples of hubris in modern business.
> "it's ok to take 3 doses of a vaccine but the benefits of a fourth might not justify it"

That's not what the Australian health authorities are saying. They aren't just saying that "the benefits of a fourth might not justify it", they are saying "(for healthy young people) the health risks of the fourth dose likely outweigh the health benefits"–your rephrasing ignores that safety risk aspect.

In my mind, there are three different positions here:

(1) "Vaccines are perfectly safe, and anyone who even mentions death or serious injury caused by vaccination is just being an alarmist"

(2) "Everyone who took the deadly COVID vax is about to drop dead! Just watch!"

(3) "Vaccines have real safety risks, some people have died from vaccination, and it is certain that more people will die from them in the future. However, sometimes, the risk of death or disability from the disease the vaccine is intended to prevent, is going to be significantly higher than the risk of death or disability from the vaccine. Whether or not that is true in any particular case is going to vary depending on the particular disease, its current prevalence, availability of treatments for it, etc; whether the disease or the vaccine poses the greater health risk will vary across time, place, disease and vaccine; our estimates of those respective risks are always going to be imperfect, evolving, and open to informed disagreement; generally we should trust the public health authorities to make that judgement for us, but they are not infallible, and it can be legitimate to doubt or question their judgement in any particular case"

I see myself as defending (3), whereas what some other people in this conversation are saying seems to me to be closer to (1), and also encouraging the fallacious conflation of (3) with (2).
Would LUFs limiting work across all types of speakers?
I hear this a lot (in relation to various jobs) and I still don't get it. Yes, it is a tool. Yes, if it can, it will replace humans. That's the whole point.

For some reason people tend to think that these tools/AI/ML systems will never be good enough to do their job (or a specific job). This argument can take different forms, sometimes stating that it will just do the boring part of the work (e.g. with programming) or that it will still need human creativity (maybe, but not necessarily and that's not the point) or that it will just replace low level, unskilled or mediocre professionals. And somehow everyone thinks they are not mediocre (i.e. average). But even these assumptions are unfounded. Why would anyone think that these systems will top out below their skill levels? Why would anyone think that they can't become superhuman?

They did in chess, go, I think poker too. Not to mention protein folding. And without much of a hitch between mediocre/good enough and superhuman. Because that difference is just interesting for us, but doesn't necessarily mean that there is huge step, that the system needs to undergo serious development and that it would take a long time. (Like decades or so.) People thought that was the case when AlphaGo beat Fan Hui saying that Lee Sedol was a completely different level. Which, of course, he is. Still, it just took DeepMind half a year to improve alphago to that level.

So yeah, you can be pretty sure that if this track (no pun intended), if this solution is good enough then it will quickly evolve into something that will replace some music creators.
Is Musk revealing his true self or in the midst of some life crisis? He’s in a downward spiral that’s rapidly gaining speed.
Trump publicly called them Nazis; I doubt they're on good terms.
The concern is that the reasons people _want_ to make art are not the same as the reasons people choose to make art their profession. Specifically, they want to make art for the sort of reasons you mention. And most of those people have to choose to make commercial art if they want to have a decent living while also having the time to make some sort of art.

It is glossing over so much of the important detail to say "[AI] actually frees more people..." We live in a capitalist system. It frees the holders of capital. Anyone reasonably likely to profit from AI is likely to already be immensely privileged, given the costs of training and attendant centralization and barriers to entry. If they wanted to make horseshoes they would already FIRE and forget it.
Those are the more expensive packs with LCDs. The cheaper, simpler packs are only $9000 and just as good.
Thats awesome! Love Signal (since december 2019) and i'm willing to love Bluesky.
The Verge seems to have connected the dots: https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23512004/elon-musk-start...
Have you considered that he and his extremely wealthy and conservative co-investors[1] simply wanted to destroy twitter? Judging by the antipathy some on this forum pour on the site, it seems to have struck a nerve with certain people.

[1]: https://slate.com/technology/2022/05/elon-musks-twitter-inve...
I know Paul has been speedrunning awful out-of-touch takes these last few years, but this is literally just that meme of weird nerds diving in front of Elon to deflect criticism.
It remains very funny that he paid forty-five billion dollars for the privilege of humiliating himself daily with these petulant temper-tantrums. Amazing bit.
The wave of bans from the muskjet thing has been quite dramatic.

It'll be interesting to see if the people who've been lauding musk for his supposedly pro free speech attitudes will reckon with what's been happening in actuality, or if they'll just accept this as "freedom for me but not for thee".
On the plus side at this rate we’ll find out what Musk’s end game for Twitter is sooner rather than later
> While we don’t know what’s going on here yet, it’s possible that the suspensions are the result of automated content moderation gone awry. Some of the suspended accounts shared Mastodon and ElonJet’s Twitter handles as well as images of the tweet that appears to have gotten the former account suspended.

Automation gone crazy. I'm likely to believe this explanation rather than Musk personally hitting the "suspend" button on stuff he doesn't like.
Looks really nice and polished. One feature I think you should really try hard to add is some kind of “liquid reflow mode” for PDFs. Even if it doesn’t work for all PDFs, something that can parse the text from fully digital pdfs (ie, not scanned) and present it as regular reflowable text would be a super useful. It’s very hard to read a pdf designed for 8.5”x11” on a smartphone screen even in landscape orientation. I know it’s technically challenging but I think there’s a lot you can do there.
Why not weakness or incompetence? The guy is clearly out of his depth here.
@JoinMastodon has also been suspended which is amusing.
Database engine might be the last product one can test and trust open source support wise. For individual it is fine. For company and your whole business is there … at least some paid support is important. It can’t be day to day stuff as you will know. It is some unusual combination which when encounter, you have to pass along your program, setting … can’t do it in open forum I suspect.
Are you saying there aren’t any legitimate uses for runtime reflection? Because I think Java and .Net, even Go have proved that wrong over the years.

This seems like a valuable library. It’s impressive that it can be so powerful in a compiled language. C and C++ are much older but don’t have anything quite like this.
Is this related to the account that was sharing Elon Musk plane location?
Phony Stark has lost it.
Even if he felt he could do all this as far as bans and etc goes.

Why do it by saddling the company with so much debt that it seems financially so difficult to survive?

Just from a business standpoint it doesn’t make sense.
This description and some benchmarks on standard TPC-H or TPC-DS setups should help promote ots advantages. See for example: https://www.databricks.com/blog/2021/11/02/databricks-sets-o...
Multiple statements you made are just wrong.

There is no law of nature that says a vaccine cannot be made in a year, in the same way that there is no law of nature forbidding any of our technological artifacts that we use every day.

Influenza is not a coronavirus.

Influenza does not kill anywhere near as much as the original SARS-CoV-2 strain.

And mortality was not the only concern regarding the pandemic.
Elon on Twitter Journalist Bans: “Same doxxing rules apply to 'journalists'”
Ask HN: Does your manager go to your stand-up?
If so, do they ever interject and tell you not to work on something? I see stand-ups as a way to communicate information out to the rest of my team horizontally, but my manager seems to see stand-up as a time to micromanage.
Probably the same rules the NY Post broke when they got banned, "don't post things on Twitter that make the people in charge upset".
Yeah. Which somehow has something to do with a car being stalked.
I think there is a specific time and place for using low-code solutions or building something yourself.

Using a low-code solution, I find I can build much faster a lot of the time and move onto the next problem. I also feel better knowing that whoever has to maintain that low-code "workflow" will have an easier time figuring it out than reading "normal" code.

On the other hand, depending on the low-code solution, you are beholden to whatever functionality is available to create your solution, which can be really limiting at times.
Look at the responses. They are all cheering it.
Pathetic
'New Elon / New Kanye' I think is disillusioning for a lot of people.

It's one thing to see a random celebrity or business person lose their marbles, but there was (and continues to be) high hopes for Elon at least with Tesla and Space X.

I absolutely understand someone trying to shake things up for PR, but I can't see how he's winning here.
> in the midst of some life crisis?

A significant fraction of our ascendant elite are overworked, overmedicated and alone. Musk is likely the most critical of the afflicted by Kayne syndrome.
Is that why Musk supports LibsofTikTok, who are responsible for terrorist attacks?
> Twitter has not immediately responded to The Verge’s request for comment on the suspensions, though it currently does not have a press department.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23512004/elon-musk-start...

Seems so.
Yeah maybe. It's a leaky abstraction where the real magic happens in the RPCs in the "resolvers"
> revealing his true self

He seems to try very hard to show who he is, some people just won’t take him at is word / actions.
> These startups offer commercial solutions to decarbonize society or remove carbon from the atmosphere. By doing this at speed and scale, we have a fair chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change. The financial opportunity of doing so is massive: an estimated $3-10 trillion in EBITDA will be up for grabs. As one example, Tesla has pushed the car industry to go electric while making $75B in annual revenue at a 60% annual growth rate.

I didn't go further than that. They prove in one paragraph that they haven't understood the climate problem at all.
One thing you can take away is the resilience of a network effect. Twitter as an application is laughably easy to build. But it's very hard to kill thanks to the massive audience and the individual connections.

The only way Twitter will die is if the network effect is killed, or somehow used against Twitter to create a competing platform.
It hasn't crashed yet, and honestly its taking longer than expected.
That that is his goal seems more and more likely by the day.
Not at all a fan of his actions on this, and I don't think publishing public information in the way elonjet did should be banned from any platform. BUT, it's a very bad faith argument to not correlate a mobile conveyance, like a private jet or personal car, to the individual who actively uses it the vast major of the time. It wouldn't be called "ElonJet" if it wasn't meant to track Elon, and it's highly unlikely ElonJet would continue to track that specific tail number if Elon traded it for another jet or sold it.
That is not what free speech means, particularly not on a privately-owned service :) but him and us all know that.
I missed “settled matter” in the scientific method handbook. The reality is that this experiment is still unfolding and will continue for the rest of my life. It will take decades of research and observations to have real answers.

Settled matter? No.
"An insecure narcissist buys a criticism factory" remains the best one-line summary of the situation.
That's why we (supposedly) have regulator agencies. Unfortunately, like every other part of government, they have been wholly captured by industry and work against citizens and consumers, rather that for them.
Kurt Vonnegut and Player Piano has a message for you.
> People who were infected with COVID-19 before receiving any doses of the COVID-19 vaccines were 11 times more at risk for developing myocarditis during days 1-28 after a COVID-19 positive test.

https://newsroom.heart.org/news/myocarditis-risk-significant...
I'm interested in this space and other mining-adjacent industries in the DRC-Zambia copper belt region due to the potential of this region to be a key player in central Africa's development and the world's move into electric vehicles.

The main challenge is getting capital.

Let's get in touch!
There's probably a portion of the TSLA slide that can be chalked up to this, too. So more than $45b, though how much more is anyone's guess.
Sadly predictable...
Maybe milking elderly people with robocalls about the "liberal conspiracy" is really that lucrative, and lighting $44B on fire was just an investment to get into that club?
And what about games like minecraft, where the requirement for an internet connection was added later, after the game was sold?
Wouldn't be too sure about that:

> Same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603573725978275841
And it's assuming that you have enough cheap energy to produce enough hydrogen in the long term. Which probably won't happen.
Tiktoken: OpenAI’s Tokenizer
Can someone ELI5 why MBTA has to trust the balance stored on the card in the first place? It seems like this whole issue would go away if they just kept the balance on the server and flagged cards that did not corroborate.
My absolute favourite is the "Beauty in the Beast" album.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_in_the_Beast
Even if you do not know anything about music theory you will still feel the power of those strange and alien alternate tunings.
Titular track: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2j1gy2
They’re for your Peloton.
AWS keys are ascii (hex encoded iirc), but they have so much entropy you could never guess it to reverse the hash.
I normally wouldn't post psyc articles about someone but in this case fuck it.

https://www.choosingtherapy.com/narcissistic-collapse/

Read through. The paragraph about how it manafests in the workplace is quite telling.
Watching VC elites ever so slowly realize Elon is a piece of shit conman is hilarious.
What's out of context?
It seems to be the case that all social networks decline eventually. This one is rather remarkable for the speed and intensity of its fall.
So this is the kind of "free speech" that you get when conservative ideals meet reality, huh? How utterly unsurprising.
I use fastmail so probably it will be next :)
Why would anyone want to build a replacement and inherit all that content moderation mess? It's an unsolvable problem, and companies are now steering clear of social media for easier to monetize products.
>... the minimal model...
That's impossible if "the grand explanation" is to be mathematical, due to the same issue that felled pure math, Godel.

There's assumptive folds throughout, like the correspondence principles, or complementary where arguing that we're even close to a complete explanation is madness. THOSE are all clearly labeled.

All this to argue that yes, this is a novel demonstration, and (if I understand correctly) , shows that matter at some known scales are subject to dynamics elucidated by GR, up to exotic event spaces.
Yeah ... but nah.

Yeah, there should be some kind of shakedown test.

But Nah, not every issue can be tested for within the manpower/$ budget. Issues of load being one of them.

A valid strategy is: send it!, work with the beast a bit, if too unruly roll it back. In this case, they tamed the new beast. Not like Lichess is going to lose billions...
There are a number of red flags here.

The author puts a lot of breathless energy into airing grievances and lodging accusations. I find I don't much care: I want to know whether they have identified an experimental, quantitative, or pedagogical problem to be solved. The crypto-gnosticism of allegedly-suppressed history has everything to do with a perception of injustice and nothing to do with physics.

Another red flag is the parenthetical structure of the diatribe. Rather than picking one point at a time and making it well, the author runs into the metaphorical theory-space blasting wildly in all directions. What does thermodynamics have to do with any of this? It seems to be mentioned at the beginning and the end mostly to imply that Clausius and Helmholtz have been involved in some kind of conspiracy to suppress history: an argument which this margin is, apparently, too small to contain.

A third red flag is the absence of quantitative, minimal test cases: worked-out homework problems with testable predictions. Einstein's gedanken-experiments have become an irreplaceable part of the pedagogy of special relativity precisely because they are such an effective tool in focusing the learner's attention on one mystery at a time. A teacher who tells you "this is simple, really, anyone can understand it!" may be overly enthusiastic or even wrong. But a teacher who tells you "this is complicated, nobody can understand it! See, here's a Gordian knot of inseparable ideas! Don't let anyone tell you they can understand this!" bears the burden of proof that the indicated concepts cannot be developed individually.

If we set aside the emotional power of an appeal to our sense of injustice, the remaining content of this piece doesn't stand on its own. Yeah, sure, lots of things happened in the 19th century that I don't know about. Lots of wrongs have never been righted. Other than a half-hearted implication that gravity and electromagnetism can be unified (remarkably without any mention of Kaluza or Klein), or that something is rotten in the state of thermodynamics, this piece adds nothing substantial to my understanding of the universe.
Hundreds of millions of people use it. That something happens to be under some control of private interests, doesn't make it necessarily a private thing.

To the extent that something is in the commons, well it's public. At least newsworthy and much more.

The Federal Reserve is privately owned but we don't treat it like some rando llc.
Alleged stalking. He filed no police report, and the photo of the car was taken far from any airport. The report is as suspicious as what was claimed.
Striking Findings from 2022 Pew Research Opinion Polling
As best I’ve been able to discern it, Musk said he was going to buy Twitter for a way overvalued sum ($44bn) as a troll? But ended up getting in so deep that he found himself with a legal obligation to buy the thing for an absurd price.

It’s the explanation that makes the most sense to me: obscenely rich man is very used to doing whatever the hell he wants with no repercussions, particularly when shitposting on Twitter (see: SEC) and there was no-one around to tell him to stop.
This seems like a fun scene. Is there like an "awesome" list of BBSs somewhere?

Edit: Ooh, https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/bbs
http://archive.today/WUpON
So to be clear, you're working on a project and have already published the source code, possibly even on GH, but you're not willing to...tell GH about the project? So that you can...prosper?

Yeah. You lost me. And apparently everybody else.
Twitter Suspends Accounts of Half a Dozen Journalists
You mean like wealthy retirement communities?
succinctly: A service config is the authoritative source of truth for what a service is in a format that can be (is) consumed by tooling.

A lot of software development is about generating abstractions.

"Service" is a possible abstraction someone might want to generate and develop.

I think a service abstraction can be defined by:

A blob of code
A set of machines to run it on
A way to stop and start it
A method to load balance to it

So it would make sense to create a yaml config file committed to a repo containing something like:

services:
[
{
name: "CoolAppServerName.prod",
build_script: "./bin/buildCoolAppServerName.py",
start_script: "./bin/startCoolAppServerName.py",
stop_script: "./bin/stopCoolAppServerName.py",
hosts:[
"host_1",
"host_2",
],
slb_name: "CoolAppServerName.prod",
},
{...},
]

Once you have a definition, it can be extended to meet growing needs. You might choose to do something like:

{
name: "CoolAppServerName.prod",
key_metrics: [
"CoolAppServerName.prod.5xx",
"CoolAppServerName.prod.latency_percentiles",
],
owner: "CoolTeam",
...,
}

And then you could generate a webpage with a dropdown where "CoolAppServerName.prod" is an option and the dashboard including graphs for the time series metrics "CoolAppServerName.prod.5xx" and "CoolAppServerName.prod.latency_percentiles" automatically show up. Maybe instead of having service names in the dropdown you have owner names in the dropdown.

You could potentially write some code that attempts to validate no significant changes in those metrics and use it to automatically verify that newly pushed code didn't take down the website.

Service config means creating an authoritative service identifier (authoritative because it's the only identifier used in tooling) and then attaching a configuration to it.

Facebook and google have (or at least at some point had) tupperware and borg respectively, that are basically custom verisons of the above extended for their infrastructures.