skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And journalists started doxxing Elon, which of course all who retweeted got the swift ban hammer.

A journalist's job is to gather, compile, and publish information regardless of how flattering or unflattering the publication portrays its subject. Much of this information is obtained from public records, leaks, and anonymous insiders. What you call doxxing is investigative reporting.

Whether he comprehends it or not, Musk is repeating his predecessors' tactics during Hunter Biden and Wuhan Lab Theory fiascos. Rather ironic.
> By 2026 it'll be next to impossible to make any serious impact in EV market

a) People buy more than one car in their life so winners and losers will change over time.

b) We are close to to 2023 and EVs represent just 10% of total car sales.
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It's not just that Twitter has banned the @joinmastodon account on Twitter, or banned links to the ElonJet account at https://mastodon.social/@elonjet, or banned links to https://mastodon.social in general.

It's banning many Mastodon servers. For example, I am unable to link to my own profile at https://hachyderm.io/@cldellow. My profile doesn't link to or follow the ElonJet account. Why is my profile banned?

And like, cool, his sandbox, his rules. But yeah, it seems a little... non free-speechy.
Found one of the conspiracy theorists.
You can use direct metal laser sintering on most powered steels, no need to use Inconel. The reason it's often used with Inconel are the parts you want to make from Inconel are difficult shapes to cast and milling Inconel sucks, eats tools for breakfast.
You're right, I did miss it. But it looks he followed up with this (after the apology) so the point stands:

He blasted: "He's an old, single white guy from England who's been travelling to or living in Thailand for 30 to 40 years, mostly Pattaya Beach, until moving to Chiang Rai for a child bride who was about 12 years old at the time.

"There's only one reason people go to Pattaya Beach. It isn't where you go for caves, but it is where you'd go for something else.

"Chiang Rai is renowned for child sex-trafficking."
It's just like Twitter, too. Random unexplained banning.
Like broadcasting his mother's funeral on live television? Ban the BBC!

Obviously there are times when the rich and famous know that their location is public. At those times they generally have good security.
LibsofTikTok are doing it but not getting banned. My problem with Elon's decision is he's only banning people providing his information. He doesn't care about anyone else just himself.
I want compatability in a whole different direction. Let's get really crazy and rip the db out from under vendor solutions. Let their app with its compiled in Oracle driver communicate with a Pg server. We'll completely void any support contract we have, but at least we'll be Oracle free!

Can you imagine just swapping in Postgres under a Peoplesoft deployment? As long as you don't make me actually attempt it, it makes me chuckle.
Whoa. I didn’t downvote, but that’s a surprising take from you.

One obvious problem with it is that if Twitter dies, some other site will take its place. The idea of tweeting isn’t going anywhere. It’d be a bit like trying to uninvent a bicycle.

More generally, a bunch of thoughtful people use Twitter, and Twitter DMs changed my life. It’s the AOL messenger of the 2020s. A low friction “DMs open” platform is very hard to come by — the closest before the messenger era was email, which usually isn’t a conversation. So there would be a real loss in terms of social value. E.g. TikTok requires both people follow each other before DMing, so there’s not even an option.

You’re not entirely mistaken, but the caveats seem worth calling out. On the whole it seems like more harm than good would come from the implosion.
perhaps the ultimate irony will be that people will ditch Twitter for something like Mastoden.

Elon jet is alive and well over there.

https://mastodon.social/@elonjet
I hope it doesn't correlate to the size of one's salary, because that seems to have little to do with the quality of the content being generated in the corporate media world.
Seems they new macs were a type of PC in the early days
There are open source ones. Wordpress is an underrated example. Also Nodered.
remix allows you to deliver zero JS :)
> I would even be ok with 50%-100% tax rate above 100 million dollars net worth.

What is the rationale behind you think the bureaucrats with no skin-in-the-game would apply the money better than an entrepreneur and with more balance for society?
Yes, I agree he (vern) did "initiate it being derisive". It was a poor choice made by a person who was currently working in an active emergency that was being seen by the whole world. And I do know that he lost his case- a real shame in my mind.

He was a diver- just not a rescue diver in this case.
reminds me of the rumor that Trump only ran for president after he was humiliated by Obama at the dinner
Cant find it for the life of me. Here is the code.

javascript:(function()%7Bopen('https://readwise.io/save?title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href))%7D)()
They are both very much aligned on preferring Trump to Biden.

Or in having a Twitter that has more lax rules around what they can say.
For better or for worse, the IRS is probably the worst ambassador for COBOL.
Sure, and he has that privilege.

He's making rules he promised not to, and we don't have to pay for the privilege to criticize that hypocrisy.
Unsworth had a bunch of lives to save and his response to Musk was - given the circumstances - a lot more courteous than I would have been in the same situation.
Right now, the AI is trained on mostly human generated art. It will be interesting to see what happens when the training set itself is mostly AI generated. The role of the "artist" in the future will not be to create art directly, but to influence art by manipulating the training set. For instance an artist who can flood the Internet with a trillion captioned images will be able to spawn an art movement, even if it short lived.
> it's not infringement to train your AI on copyrighted material.

If that's the case, it should probably should be codified in law. Copyright has a lot of exceptions, and if the existence of AI models trained with copyrighted data are in public interest then it could be an exception too, but this should not be up to the courts.
Many instances, even small ones

> Lol how is the Android Dev server even remotely "potentially harmful"? What a joke.

https://androiddev.social/users/MishaalRahman/statuses/10952...
Well he got his friends to help pay too.. so it’s all of their privilege.
How does one distinguish between a journalist and a state-sponsored or corporate-sponsored propagandist, then? I think I'm going to go ask ChatGPT about this.
Small bug, I signed up on my home machine to send it to my work email. The form does not let you grab the zip file again, if your email is already registered.

I know it is in the email itself, but the website should also allow it.

Looking forward to being a paying customer when it is out of beta.
Luckily this forum doesn't have any of those - and if any claim to be, it encourages curious discussion, so I'm willing to chalk it up to playing devil's advocate.
No, cults cut you off from the outside world first, not because you "criticized the current #thing". They create an atmosphere of fear where most people won't want to speak up, knowing their lives are now controlled by these people.
These companies have less power than a small amount of media companies had in the past, if anything. Where were you going to go for TV news in 1950 outside of the major networks? And unless Chrome/Safari/etc build content-based blocking "allowed to see" is an ENORMOUS stretch. "A small number of publishers have large reach and exercise certain controls over their media" is more accurate.

As for whether or not their should be legal restrictions on what publishers can publish... take your best shot at suggesting some legal rules. I think there would be holes that you could drive a truck through that would upset you regardless of your own views.

Not everyone needs a global megaphone. And nobody intrinisicly deserves one.
It is definitely possible, just with a more complicated (and slow) parser than what browsers use now – there's been some discussion in this thread.

As for whether it's necessary – eh, it's neat and might be useful sometimes but it's not a big deal I think. Personally, I remember a couple instances when I needed to override a few properties depending on context and it would be helpful, but `&:hover` is so much more useful.
Hmm..
- not the world's largest auto company by a long shot. not even in the top 10.
- had to borrow billions (at least 13B) from banks to buy twitter (banks that now want out)
- twitter not remotely the biggest social media company in the world. again.. likely not even in the top 10.

username is surely parody.
>Rajpopat said, "Computer scientists working on natural language processing gave up on rule-based approaches over 50 years ago... So teaching computers how to combine the speaker's intention with Pāṇini's rule-based grammar to produce human speech would be a major milestone in the history of human interaction with machines, as well as in India's intellectual history."

So... a 2500 year algorithm would be running on a modern machine. Very cool indeed. What I am not sure they meant by teaching it to produce human speech. Is it like an automata diagram that defines the rules for Sanskrit language?
The easy example of this is playing a slightly out of tune guitar, or a mandolin where the strings in the course aren't matched in pitch perfectly. You can hear it, and it's just a few cents off.
Reportedly, the LAPD said so when asked and reporters were kicked off Twitter for reporting that.
I don't know, I have been using SASS/LESS for a while and I almost never use the & because 95% of the time, I am talking about a descendant when I use nesting. I think it would be very easy to accidentally typo or miss in a review the difference between "& .sub-class" and "&.sub-class."
He doesn't suffer cognitive dissonance.
Why not extended to every vehicle on the planet including classified army ones.

I guess they are called private jets for a reason.
> "the lack of apology is a very serious red flag"

Sounds like something a bot would write.

Musk's Twitter apology to the 'pedo guy' at the time made headlines. A simple google will sort out your confusion. He also apologized in court, and repeatedly stated how it was the stupidest thing he's done.

> "We are all capitalists..."

Again, sounds like something a chat bot would write.
That still doesn't excuse Elon though. If you respond to this comment by mocking me for being clueless does that give me the right to call you a pedo? It shouldn't.
These are not lies though?
Elon said he wants free speech to the extent the law allows, yet now goes on banning spree
I don't think those are achievements you attain through luck, but any field involves many studying it. Jules Henri Poincaré and Hendrik Lorentz were so involved with the effort that some have accused Einstein of plagiarizing their work. While that is certainly of dubious claim, it illustrates that he was far from alone in his field.

https://www.straightdope.com/21343699/was-einstein-a-plagiar...

As far as building a rocket company goes, yes, SpaceX has certainly achieved much, not least with reusable rockets. But again, Musk is hardly the only one in that space. Richard Branson has been at it since 2004, for instance, and at this point it's very trendy. Even Steve Wozniak started one.
Respond to "stealing is bad" with "then why don't you become a thief if it's so easy?!?" is very strange.
One is a public setting, the other is inside a private airplane.
Great pictures, but I’ve never seen someone call a doorknob a “rotating handle” before. I guess that is what it is, but there also is a word for it, “doorknob”.
Hate speech is far more tolerated on Twitter than on Mastadon. It’s not a free for all.
"To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and remain absolutely sober". -Logan Pearsall Smith
Staying in the car business during a time of transition is an expensive game. Tesla may well need to raise money again and the way their stockprice has been going as of late isn't going to help them with that.
I was on the fence until this ElonJet & banned reporting on Elon thing. What an absolute hypocrite.
Happens all the time. The Royal jets have ADS-B just like everything else.

"Members of the British Royal Family en route to Balmoral castle to see Queen Elizabeth after news of her failing health, very sad." - https://www.reddit.com/r/ADSB/comments/x91yli/members_of_the...

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=407d90
Any chance of spoken voice-work being possible? It would be interesting to see if a model could "speak" like James Earl Jones or Steve Blum.
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What does that have to do with anything? AFAIK Schneier's public actions are consistently pro-privacy, pro-encryption. Implying otherwise should be accompanied by evidence don't you think?
> he is running Twitter without any noticeable impact to the operation of the services with 70% less staff.

There is more to the service than just the technical. His decimation of the moderation teams is immensely noticeable.

> The fact of the matter is, companies will go where the users are. Once the noise dies down, why wouldn’t you continue spending money on Twitter if your competition is?

When the CEO is spreading outright hate speech, sane people go elsewhere. Brands won't want their image tarnished by looking like they are supporting hate speech.

Right now there isn't a great alternative to Twitter. Mastodon is definitely not it. But once there is, e.g. something like t2.social, my guess is that Twitter will be toast faster than people imagine. I'm sure the hardcore alt-right will hang on, but it will be a shadow of its former self.
If you want to get into tech, get into the ML space. Teach yourself StableDiffusion. like, really dig into it and learn how it all works from start to finish. The model was released so it's open source(ish) but most importantly learning about that will let you look behind the curtain, and realize the pieces that go into, say ChatGPT. it may seem like a magic but OpenAI's published papers on the underlying technologies. I'm not trying to say it's not impressive, because it is, I'm trying to say that decomposing AI into understanding that it's really a series ML models that you can interact with and tweak and tune - that's a skill that's not going away and so will be useful while the machines take over. obviously this isn't for everyone but if I were in your shoes, that's the direction I would go to future proof my career.
On Chindogu
I think that's a pretty specious argument though. Other statistics are available (especially excess deaths) that can pretty clearly help show what was going on along with the COVID death numbers (i.e. a significant increase in the number of people dying through the pandemic who most likely wouldn't have died during that time otherwise, in proportions generally tracking more or less to the reported COVID deaths). It's not like the reported numbers of COVID deaths exist in a vacuum to be able to be so sceptical of them!
Many lessons to be learned from Climate Corporation. They used satellite data and drones to make robust crop insurance and ended up being bought by Monsanto and changing their direction.
The Facebook page is where Sweeney said you could find the tracker...
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Once again - private ownership means some small number of people (such as 1 dude) can capriciously control a platform. Supposedly he was a “free speech absolutist.”
You may say there’s “nothing wrong” with privately owning huge platforms (like Elon and Zuck), huge swaths of land (like Bill Gates) or otherwise have ludicrousoy outsize power in society accrue to one dude. But I say that trusting our public forums to privately owned platforms isn’t the best thing we can do. Our democracy is now greatly affected by that stuff. And even conservatives who love private property now understand that there may be diminishing returns from private ownership on that scale.
Jeff Bezos built a great company that helps a lot of customers. (It also exploits a lot of wage slaves.) But does that automatically mean Jeff is also the best man to allocate all those billions? Jeff complained it’s “very hard” for him to allocate his billions philanthropically, but his ex-wife seems to be doing a far more prolific job of it. After a certain point (say, 10 billion) those dollars become just a silly number game for him — something he could never conceivably spend even on penis-shaped rockets - while others could use those billions to end food insecurity, or get preventative checkups.
We don’t need government to come in and use force to solve this. As a society, we do have a libertarian alternative.
It’s called autonomous, decentralized open source networks — which are now available (I build two of them). Instead of putting your crypto in FTX or Celcius to be managed by the whims of Sam Bankman-Fried or Alex Mashinsky, why not use the blockchain and private keys and smart contracts?
Because it’s too difficult to understand and build solutions
Well, that’s why we spent years buulding the solutions to help you and your brand and your organizations to break free of Big Tech and billionaires. And what can be more libertarian than that?
Want to see more info?
> Sweeney said he hasn't received any notification of legal action, and the last time his bot tweeted anything was Dec. 12, "which is not last night, so I don’t get how that’s connected.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/twitter-suspe...

Last I checked, the police claimed they hadn't received any reports about the incident, either.
Looks like they don't really care about heating, as many buildings don't have a vestibule. Where I came from (cold winters) most buildings have a very small room at the entrance, kinda like airlock.
Trump has numerous examples of TOS violations and was even suspended at first for them. He was treated very differently from everyone else. THATS WHAT THEY SEEKED TO CHANGE.

You conveniently misinterpreted or even left our crucial pieces of the so called “twitter files” including that the policies of shadow banning and such were already mentioned and known.

Some of the employees were literally asking for reasons to KEEP certain right wing accounts on twitter.

They listened to violations of revenge porn AND TOS violations of Hunter Biden’s dick. The right wing really seems obsessed with seeing it because the links that were all mentioned in the docs were all of his dick LOL

LibsofTikTok causing harassment to children’s hospitals and they still weren’t even banned. No they weren’t promoted in the algorithm but there’s no right to be amplified.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/02/lgbtq-t...
That thread is really hard to follow.

Is the claim that Twitter changed their ToS in order to justify banning Trump? If so, can you share the before and after texts? I assume the Internet Archive would have snapshots.

Or is the point, literally, that people at Twitter discussed whether a change of policy was a good idea in the context of the Jan 6 insurrection? In which case, like...wouldn't you sort of expect them to have conversations about the fitness of the ToS to an unprecedented situation? That sounds like doing their jobs competently, no?
Flying in public airspace, using public ATC, and broadcasting its location, speed, and altitude publicly via radio.

Even Air Force One shows up on ADSBexchange when it's in the air. https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfdf8
What exactly is this "legitimate" interest?
Jobs does not deserve any mention among those other people. Jobs was a leader (tyrant by many accounts) and didn’t advance or discover anything?
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pg's been like this for a long time though. He's basically a poorer version of elon.
I'm wondering what's going to happen to the massive public record of tweets if Twitter as a company does indeed implode. Thousands of tweets are referenced in news articles and blog posts via links to Twitter. Are all of them going to evaporate from the web at once? It would probably turn out to be the biggest case of link rot in history.

It would also be pretty interesting 10 years from now if we characterized this time to people growing up as "there was once this huge social networking platform called Twitter at one point, but you can't post anything there anymore, only browse through this public-service archive."
Sure. I don’t think anyone would debate his capacity to do what he wants to his own toy.

But it is certainly worthwhile pointing out the hypocrisy of his statements. When people’s words don’t line up with their actions you should be wary.
Journalists are not going to stand for being randomly kicked off a service they depend on for their work for 7 days every time Musk has a bad hairday.
And we all have the privilege of leaving a network that is turning fascist and joining Mastodon.

Now that he forbid people from posting links to that too:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkEg9iyUUAAUFI6?format=jpg&name=...
Oof, that's a bit rough of you.
I'm just citing it for the context of the argument both for and against appeal to authority being fallacious and irrational, not that Wikipedia is the final arbiter of what's rational or not. It's more to say that my position is not novel than anything else. Indeed, to be consistent I would need to say that I don't care how many authors do or don't see it as a fallacy :)
Oxygen? That will be $8.
Another reason why Mastodon will never be popular. It's already a bastion of misinformation. No thanks.
That's an agreement with no teeth, they can just shut it down without warning, and then what do you do.
Paris could be considered planned, at least a large part of it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_...
I believe https://post.news/ is the attempt to do this (though mostly not with past Twitter employees). Basically the same as Twitter but with a little more emphasis on publishers. Seems fine, though occasionally it gets a little sluggish, and the content skews towards general popular interest without a big tech community yet.
> they're an experienced rescue diver

Pretty sure he's just a dry caver, but he had the local knowledge of the cave system (when it was non-flooded).
The test of the truth of a live location is trivial. The test of truth of COVID information is not. In the case are spreading something that is provably untrue eg. 1 + 1 = 3, even in that case, you should just rebut and explain why it is untrue.

Nice strawman!

It's a question of safety of provably true information in this case.
This isn't serious is it?!

I find it hard to believe banks are running critical code they didn't at least back up somewhere.

I also don't understand why it would be hard to back up the code.
The data is easy to find.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-excess-deaths-...

I wonder what happened in 2020 and beyond that so many more died? It must just be the weather