skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, thanks!

Yeah we saw faiss + es leaders for serving embeddings / vector search, and pinecone / weaviate / I think milvus as next tier, so was curious if we could improve the analysis :)
Not sure what indications we have that Twitter is "going out". User numbers are higher than ever.

He unbanned a lot of people that were also banned previously for no reason. I think a lot of the outrage comes from the "unfairness" now being dished out to those people with whom the outraged agree with...
The model being incomplete is not the same thing as saying empiricism is the primary requirement.

The use of assumptions, similarly, does not sit before evidence fit. When we find results that contradict a theory with evidence, we often throw away the assumptions because we realise them as tools no longer fit for the job.
- No sudden bans for actions occurred in the timeframe of a TOS that was explicitly interpreted as allowing them.

Elon changed the TOS to obfuscate from it being a personal and vengeful decision.
For me it was calling rescuers in the Thailand cave pedos.

Seriously, I recommend anyone interested in a heartwarming story to read the Wikipedia page on the Thailand cave rescue. Countries all over the world sent teams of experts to save those boys. Hundreds of people helped out.

It just shows how most people in the world are good, but at the same time how the media focuses its coverage on a small, sad little man tweeting from his private jet. Or at least that was my impression.
How Do Keurig Coffee Makers Work?
> Every single one of these claims is false

You're right, Rudy Giuliani is clearly a credible figure and his account of how he happened to come across Hunter Biden's laptop is sensible and not-suspicous in the least.

Hey, quick question completely unrelated to this, was Trump pro or anti Putin? Did Julian Assange leak information in good faith or did he co-ordinate with Republicans to release only information that made Democrats look bad, in the 2016 election? Who provided Assange that information?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-assange-idUSKBN20...
I think maybe it depends how you define shit posting. If you mean trolling or posting extremely negative and low-effort content, then I suppose I agree with you about it being toxic.

But if shitposting is just off-color jokes or talking about topics you might want to keep private, I don't see that as a problem. I think a lot of great internet content wouldn't exist without some form of anonymity. I certainly wouldn't share genuine insights into my job without anonymity. People wouldn't share sexual content or secrets. Many people wouldn't share anything at all no matter how tame or appropriate. My wife over thinks when she writes and is always afraid she isn't wording things well. She posts absolutely nothing outside of Reddit.
If Musk does end up taking out Twitter, it’ll be up there with electric cars and rebooting the private space travel industry as a service to humanity. Twitter is an awful platform that relies on cognitive hacks to elevate the worst people (across the spectrum) to prominence. Do you remember the last few years? We got to the point where respectable news outlets were reporting on cable news the insane takes that were flitting through Twitter. Nuking Twitter from orbit is a goddamn public service.
Ah, sorry about that. Indeed, we do have that splash screen page, but for speed of development we just quickly threw it into our main webapp.

Will change that for next time, thanks!
Admiration and money don't really change people. It more exposes them.
He went full Citizen Kane, never go full rich guy citizen kane
The journos were doxxing his location. See pretty unethical on their part, if proven true.
This is more history, to understand what motivated Musk in the past. At this point who can say..
Never used a VPN before, is there a good one to use?
Looking to get a VPN. Mainly to keep my true IP anonymous in the future for sites I visit or anything else.

Not for anything bad, just sort of tired of all the data mining going and lack of online privacy in the world today.

Is there a trustworthy and good one to use?
Definitely a solid possibility. Also a possibility he's just drinking his own koolaid, fully "believing" whatever is convenient. But honestly, the dude has probably been getting death threats for years already, in which case he already had reasons to be a little afraid. It's easy for me to imagine that fear cropping up here as being just one of the more prominent ways he's coming unglued under stress.
All links to certain prominent Mastodon instances are being automatically blocked by Twitter right now. If I try to link to anything on my Mastodon I get this:

"We can't complete this request because this link has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful. Visit our Help Center to learn more."
Lot of people (not including you) walking around sounding like this lately: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/just-go-on-the-internet-and-t...
The message from the image:

Twitter just banned Mastodon's official Twitter account @joinmastodon with 174,000 followers, probably because it tweeted a link to @ElonJet's Mastodon account. Twitter is now censoring posting the link, but the user is @elonjet@maston.social
He's more Hughes than Hughes at this point
> not with a bang but with a seemingly endless stream of stories about the little ways Elon is ruining the service each day

Is Musk making mistakes in his management of Twitter? I'm sure he is.

On the other hand, it is also true that a lot of people now have it in for him, and will amplify any story about such a mistake, regardless of how real it is, simply because it is what they want to hear, it feeds the current narrative, it makes great clickbait.

In terms of how Twitter actually turns out, I think we are really going to have to give it time, including waiting until the media gets bored with it and moves on to some other topic. It is probably going to do worse than Musk hopes, but also not as badly as many of his detractors predict.

Of course, Musk isn't helping things by feeding that media outrage cycle himself. But I can only imagine that behind the scenes, cooler heads – such as Gwynne Shotwell and Robyn Denholm – are urging him to step away from the controversy for a bit, stop feeding it and let it die down. Hurry up and find a new CEO for Twitter, then go spend a few weeks chilling on a tropical island.

> 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.

He's always been willing to stake it all on the left field idea. Sometimes that has worked really well for him (Tesla, SpaceX), other times it has gone rather poorly (Twitter). But, you can't really have one without the other – either you take big risks, sometimes strike it lucky and make it big, other times get badly burnt; or else you don't, and you avoid the burns, but you'll never make it as big either. The kind of person who always takes the right big risks and never the wrong ones, is either too lucky or too wise to actually exist.

He made a huge amount of money really fast, and now he's gone back a lot on that. But he's likely got another 20-40 years of life ahead of him, he could easily make it all back and then some.
> Calling it "Hunter Biden's laptop" ignores the fact that it was hacked information provided by a foreign adversary

It was neither of those things.
https://abovethelaw.com/2022/12/hello-youve-been-referred-he...
Yup I don't like Elon but I assumed twitter would mostly stay the same with a bit more trumpism. I was fine with that but after the sheer stupidity of the last few weeks I'm going to have to leave.
The article has Musk’s tweet where he says the same rules apply to ‘journalists’. What exactly are you waiting for?
https://xkcd.com/1357/

I wonder if the people who thought this xkcd was the ultimate rebuttal against those who think that these platforms should be more neutral are rethinking their stance on having a few very wealthy, very powerful people control major speech dissemination platforms.
Sqwok – A Twitter alternative with real-time chat.
Who is the “outgroup?”
Wouldn't be the first time, either.

https://in.mashable.com/culture/42675/internet-slams-elon-mu...

> Musk tweeted, "My firstborn child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat. I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame."

> Soon, Elon's ex-wife Justine Musk revealed the real story and stated that it wasn't the techie but she was holding the child. She wrote, "A SIDS-related incident that put him on life support. He was declared brain-dead. And not that it matters to anyone except me, because it is one of the most sacred and defining moments of my life, but I was the one who was holding him."

If Musk wants to turn over a new leaf and decide free speech is secondary to protecting children, he should consider banning the accounts that have whipped up bomb threats against childrens' hospitals of late.
I’ll use the models trained in China then
I read it years ago and it's such a jaw-dropper that it has always stuck with me: https://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a5380/millionaire-start...

Think about a wedding. Think about a bride and groom happily dancing, looking forward to their life together. And what does Elon say at this moment? "As we danced at our wedding reception, Elon told me, 'I am the alpha in this relationship.'"
> Update: Musk just weighed in on the suspensions, characterizing them as intentional. “Same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else,” he tweeted in a reply.

> It’s worth noting that the policy these accounts violated, a prohibition against sharing “live location information,” is only 24 hours old.

It seems like a good rule, but in this case the application of the rule seems less impersonal than it could be

Let’s try to make a comment that creates less outrage than most…

This is why it would be interesting to post public information about politicians collected from the online spyware that tracks all of us. It would rapidly motivate new laws that at least somewhat improve privacy.

This always happens when rule makers are personally affected by a problem: the problem starts getting attention
Because it is a classic voter suppression tactic for dirty tricksters along with misschedulings and "vote by the circular file" deceptions.

Given that said campaign tactics are outright illegal in many places "inappropriate" isn't quite the best fit but not exactly wrong. Like describing an assassination attempt as inappropriate or rude and inconsiderate.
You trolling? I don't care for Olbermann all that much but it's hypocritical for Twitter under Musk to ban him. If there are new "doxxing" rules perhaps a warning is reasonable instead of an immediate ban
His advertising has plummeted, the service is now in extreme debt and he’s not even paying the bills lol. There’s plenty of evidence if you bother to look.
Twitter is where the world goes today to talk about things that matter (and obviously a lot of things that don’t). There may be something else that takes its place in the future but today it matters what happens to it.
It seems impossible for programmers to keep their jobs in next five to ten years.
Right, corporate journalists are are the enemy! That's why I get all my news from Karen on Facebook and John Q Anon on Twatter, they've done their own research didn't you know?
Where are the "Twitter files" that explain this decision?
That's an interesting idea. I wonder if this would work with inpainting - erase the 16th cell and let the AI fill it in. Then upscale each frame. Has anyone experimented with this?
They will because of Gwynne Shotwell and probably in spite of Musk
alternate source : https://archive.vn/nE960
Of course not. I’m referring to brute force. The idea that you can’t reverse a hash seemed so obvious to me that I didn’t feel it necessary to disclaim. You can increment characters in php like numbers[0]. It has some funny quirks. It doesn’t loop back around right away. If you write a for loop for that and pass it into the builtin for md5, you can just go until your hashes match. Of course this would take a long time for big hashes and there are other tools that can do this better if you’re motivated anyway. But hey, you can make a fun hash cracker in a few lines if you’re feeling it. My whole point was just that MD5 is fairly weak. Lots of people don’t or at least didn’t use to consider this because it was also (too) convenient.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3567245
If you are anything like me, you were fooled for a long time because of SpaceX.

It's become clearer and clearer however that SpaceX succeeded in spite of Elon, not because of him. There are all sorts of reports around now that SpaceX management is very effective at building a firewall around Elon to stop him doing a lot of damage.

But his politics, narcissism, deception, misrepresentation and incompetence actually aren't new. Lying about his education, his role in Paypal, founding tesla and so on. It goes back decades.

Personally I'm not surprised at Elon's temper tantrum and banning people who are mean to him on Twitter. What saddens me however is how many stans and apologists ("dick riders" if you will) Elon still has. Elon does not care about you. You will never be Elon. For the record, this is a general "you", not who I'm replying to specifically.
> he owns the worlds largest auto company

No, he doesn't. That would be Volkswagen.
Yeah, no. They've also blocked anyone from posting links to major Mastodon instances like mastodon.social or mas.to, and if you try to click any existing links to those sites on Twitter, you'll get a scary warning that it's a malicious site.
That’s just cherry-picking criticisms.
Film is “dead”. And by “dead” I mean niche market and replaced by digital cell phone cameras.

Film equipment plants have shut down. E.g. https://petapixel.com/2021/07/01/fujifilm-to-close-four-u-s-...

So yeah if you want cheaper prices, more demand is required and more economies of scale.
Yeah, we do. He said that they were banned for linking to other social media of ElonJet.
34000+ minted, lowest asking price is 0.075 eth (~$95), 10% Creator Fee. [1]

[1] https://opensea.io/collection/trump-digital-trading-cards?se...
Agree 100%

Although it's sane that developers keep contact with the reality of maitaining the live applications they wrote, it just doesn't scale to ask them to fully support them.

There is an infinite amount of maintenance for any live system. No service of any magnitude just "works" in production indefinitely, at the very least because this service interacts with others that will fail.

If developers are responsible for every live system they publish, they will get locked on after a finite amount of service they published, and leave because of maintenance boredom.

There needs to be a reasonable amount of documentation written, explanations given, level 2 support taken, but that's it, the maintenance is for ops.
Keith Olbermann covered sports for a lot of his career. Not familiar at all with the publication mentioned here, but some news is just entertainment.
It's mostly likely a false positive, but you're welcome to build from source with apperlm. The polygot binary format including the compressed ZIP archive probably sets off the scanners. The official APPerl binaries are compiled and uploaded by Github Actions: https://github.com/G4Vi/Perl-Dist-APPerl/blob/master/.github...

apperlm does not download perl module dependencies right now, but download_package.pl can be used to download dependencies. apperlm mostly just acts as a glorified front-end to Info-ZIP when doing a build of a "nobuild" config (building off of existing apperl)

download_package.pl example https://github.com/G4Vi/MHFS/blob/6db6ad24886ca0ea335a050228...

Edit: You can see what files were packed into it by renaming with .zip extension and opening with Windows Explorer.

Edit 2: "perl_repo_files" just specifies where to copy files to inside of the perl source tree. It is only used if you are building APPerl from source (it is unused if you are building a "nobuild" config). IPC-Open2 should already be bundled in the full perl.com as it's included in the perl5 repo: https://github.com/G4Vi/perl5/tree/cosmo-apperl/ext/IPC-Open...
- don't buy a new car ever again, just fix your old one.
> What is even the problem? People use preprocessors, poly-fills, hot-reloading, etc anyway. It isn't 1990s.

All of this tooling is used because of missing CSS features for the most part.

The web browser's ethos is to be a viewing and authoring environment; from Netscape Navigator on, browsers have enabled its users to write HTML and later, CSS.

For that to continue, browsers we can't have web authoring that's dependent on preprocessors, etc.

Another way to think about it: in an alternate universe where CSS had all of its current features like custom properties (a.k.a. CSS variables), nesting and most of the other modern features, there would be no Sass because we wouldn't have needed it.

In our current reality, CSS is maturing to the point where the work-arounds we implemented aren't going to needed for much longer. We can do that without breaking how the web has always worked.
"Never pick a fight with somebody who publishes bits by the barrel"
What happened to the PR team?
I legitimately recently had to argue with a PM and his developers, that a base64 encoded user ID isn’t considered security best practices for API authentication. Even when I showed them how I can produce the “secret” myself, they kept arguing that I was wrong.
I don't think there's anything wrong with an evocative title. In my mind, clickbait is when you never actually get what's promised, or it's vastly oversold. This title tells me, "we had a deploy that caused problems for a surprising reason," and I feel like needing to retune the JVM delivers on that. It's a weird, surprising issue. I'm sure there are old-hands who have deployed JVM apps at scale might be unsurprised and unimpressed, but I was surprised.

I think showmanship is okay if it's tasteful. The problem with clickbait is that it's manipulative and tacky and dishonest. After you read the article you feel like you've been had.
The underlying issue: Musk's incentives don't give him much reason to care if Twitter goes under. Musk likely feels he might as well push for any changes he likes, and gain whether Twitter survives or not.

What was Musk's biggest bugbear about 'old' Twitter? The moderation system. If Twitter goes under, the only practical alternative at the moment is Mastodon, and Mastodon can't replicate Twitter's moderation due to its architecture. So Musk gets what he wants anyway. He doesn't have much to lose in this scenario: Financially, he'd remain a very rich person. One can argue he'd be better off without Twitter anyway.
Wasn't this also possible open-source from AWS's "Babelfish" plugin?
Given the fact that nobody really does that, I think it was a creative and low risk hack.

1. If you are worried about the people who have access to your codebase abusing a secret, you have a serious people problem that needs to be solved immediately and unambiguously. A motivated internal attacker can do almost anything. Organizations live or die on trust. One doesn’t need to scour for keys break in when they have a badge (or their mate’s) and they built the lock.

2. If you are concerned the secret will be discovered by a generic threat, it won’t, not with this string concatenation. It’s so rare. Should this become a common practice this would be over, retroactively even. We all saw this unfold with with m y e m a I l at y dot com obscurity, until the fine folks who worked on ScrapeBox turned up the right regex to start scraping those too.

3. Nothing else. You are right and responded right. Don’t put keys in code kids. Nobody likes having to erase history in their codebase, especially because of a careless mistake or a deliberate workaround.

I’m just saying… of all the dumb shortcuts that can break stuff, this one is one the mostly harmless end of the spectrum.
We use this at our company. Wildly successful at finding tokens for most of the usual suspects. If they are including secret blocking - it will prevent someone from doing the dumb as well.

One question/behavior - if the secret scanner found something and folks resolved it -> secret blocking is enabled -> and a developer does the dumb again, should it block the PR with the new secret? Wondering if we might have something misconfigured as I have seen new secrets get added after we enabled blocking.
No, they weren't. They linked to Facebook and Mastodon pages that aggregated publicly available data about where his PLANE went.
I've seen enough behind closed doors to believe wealthy+successful+powerful people are given every opportunity to go down dark paths of personal "development" and that statistically some are likely to turn out "bad" while protected by many layers of power and appearance and prestige.

I recall having conversations with some people, who seemed to follow the "scene" more than I, telling me that his image was relatively well curated and managed by PR people in and around his companies, and that his "quirkiness" was allowed out in managed quantities so as to maximise interest and attractiveness without being off-putting.

I never looked into it because I didn't care much. The rockets stuff is cool but also profitable so good for him and capitalism. But I found it highly believable and never really understood the cultism around him. I wouldn't have predicted this twitter or doucheness, but I certainly don't find it surprising.
On the contrary, knowing what everyone's incentives are is a big help.

Although in my experience most devs would rather see their code all the way to production; the problem is their line manager wants them to tick off the ticket and move on to the next one as early as possible.
That’s obviously not the motivation of ElonJet. Again, disingenuous.

If there was anything substantive about ElonJet, it would have been the statistics on jet fuel consumption, because that makes a statement about hypocrisy. They could have posted that without revealing locations, which crosses the line to singling out an individual for the purpose of harassment.
His auto company is far from the largest. Its stock market value may be the highest (and overvalued). But there is a world of difference.
If you got that good at predictions, doesn't that show that for most games, it's usually not a lottery at all?

Aside from rare cases like Flappy Bird, and aside from the usual vagaries of commercial, technological and artistic projects. And aside from special challenges like the minimum playerbase size required for an online game like Among Us.

During development, developers could set up a Steam page, release one or two trailers as soon as possible (with mocked-up gameplay if necessary), and try to predict the audience's interest by the increase of followers/wishlists (compared to other games). In case of a lukewarm reception, they could decide to drop this game and start developing another one.

Did you write about the leading metrics and your insights somewhere, aside from this article, which seems to be from the beginning of your "Steam Prophet" project?

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/what-i-learned-playin...
> Beyond that, Twitter was absolutely struggling to monetize eyeballs.

It was struggling in the "big tech megaprofit" way, not in the "pay for the servers" way.
> If CSS can’t match or improve on the obvious syntax used by sass then they should not implement it.

And this is the problem. For so long there was a technical limitation because parsing complexity, then there suddenly wasn’t a limitation anymore and the existing syntax wasn’t good enough anymore so we’re shooting the moon.

I agree, all of the options are confusing. The only seemingly viable option is close to Sass, but it should just be strict and stop introducing more ambiguity to the grammar which is already absurdly complex.