skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be interested in seeing some citations to back up that claim. The famous Jonestown incident was a case of people having left everything they knew, relocated to an isolated place in a different country, etc. And even then, some members of the cult were forced to drink the poisoned kool-aid and some drank it not knowing it was poisoned.

Residents of the commune later committed suicide by drinking a flavored beverage laced with potassium cyanide; some were forced to drink it, some (such as small children) drank it unknowingly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid

I have a longstanding interest in social psychology and the way a cult generally arranges to control people is to cut them off financially, socially, etc. This is the same way that abusive husbands typically treat their abused wives. One study sought to identify character traits that made abused women more likely to kill their abusive husband and could not do so. Instead, they found that the women who murdered their abusive husbands were the most isolated, the most abused, the most painted into a corner. In short, they were women who found themselves with no other way out.

I suppose if you work for the man or are enthralled by his billions or some such, that's going to hold sway for some people. But I have trouble comparing his Twitter debacle to what cults do.

Anyway, just rambling on. Not actually interested in discussing this Twitter mess that I am mostly trying to avoid discussing in spite of the entire world seeming to discuss nothing else.

But if you have some citations to back up your social psychology related statement, I would be interested in seeing those as it's an area of interest of mine.
I have been playing with their completions API. I just keep track of previous conversational lines, and when I approach a configurable token threshold ( input+output must fit within the given number of tokens, and it returns it each time ), I just instruct chatgpt to summarize the conversation thus far with additional specific instructions to help it keep useful bits of context. I then make that summary part of the context I send in along with kept and future conversational lines.

Their API calls on the site have references to previous message ids, which makes me expect they're doing something similar.
Highly recommend the post and video mentioned above! The SaaS application shown in the video is non-trivial and appears to be very well done using htmx. Worth a close study https://htmx.org/essays/a-real-world-react-to-htmx-port/
The journalist were linking to an aggregator* of public FAA data of a jet that Elon may or may not be on… not “his location”

*granted he had to do a tiny bit of work to counter the insufficient obfuscation the FAA allows for privacy.
Twitter is blocking links to Mastodon
Thanks, I hate it.

I'd never even considered that. Another thing to consider is having a political bias embedded into them...
Why not? I can definitely see it changing people, e.g. a simple example making them more paranoid.
If you want me to be on call you'd better be paying top dollar for it. If I wanted to be responsible for a whole business I'd be working for myself rather than an employer.
Was down for me earlier today

Seems to happen pretty regularly

Eh
> We not sell user data to anyone at all. The business is _entirely_ funded through customer subscriptions.

The privacy policy says that you "share" data with advertisers and publishers. In a privacy policy, the word "share" most often means "sell", or perhaps your service really is different and the data you're "sharing" with advertisers and publishers is being done for free? Out of kindness?

Third parties that your privacy policy explicitly mentions will collect data are Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Mixpanel. These companies are notorious for being highly risky when it comes to privacy concerns. Your page on the play store says "No data shared with third parties" which clearly doesn't tell the whole story.

Look, lots of people are perfectly happy with surveillance capitalism. I'm just saying people should take time to read your policies to see if there's anything in there that might make them uncomfortable.
Do we have evidence of bias here or is this actually as elon claims, rules being applied consistently? Hypocrisy or not, I don't think it's unreasonable to ban realtime doxxers if the rule is applied consistently. His mistake was saying he wouldn't ban the realtime doxxer, not banning the realtime doxxer - imho
I see, thanks for the detailed answer.

That furiously remind me of solutions ala kubernetes.

Where you define entry point, healthcheck, etc

A tad more abstract, and larger ( afaik, k8s don’t care how your code is build for instance )

Never heard of Tupperware. Loosely aware of Borg.

Again, I appreciate the time.
He's confidently stating now that there was a "coordinated campaign" to continue posting the jet tracker link (e.g. https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a835af). From the chrysalis emerges the caterpillar.
The company can invest. The charity owner itself certainly can't take equity using the charity's money.
The primary issue in this domain is not compute - it's I/O, especially when you need to perform complex computations with intermediate data that doesn't fit into memory.
How is that a bridge too far for a “free speech absolutist”?
Twitter had reasonably healthy finances and steadily growing revenue. It turned profit in 2018 and 2019 and could have fully recovered from the 2020 slump within a few more quarters.

A change in leadership (never been a fan of Dorsey) and a refocus on core competencies could have given it a big boost - if it was planned and executed competently. But what we got with Musk is the exact opposite of that. The amount of fuckup is truly amazing to watch.
"My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the
account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal
safety risk," he tweeted on Nov. 6.
Could it be internal employee / hack ? True white knight
> My right to choose my own treatment outweighs any right you have to feel safer.

No problem. Please sign this document stating that you will not seek treatment for Covid and that hospitals can legally refuse to treat you if you contract Covid.

But, see, that didn't happen. Instead what we wind up with are anti-vaxxers begging for the vaccine after they have been put on ECMO. Yeah, unfortunately it's too late at that point.

And even worse you are now soaking up a hospital bed for 4+ months that should have gone to someone who wasn't stupid.

And even worse that that is the dying person's family giving grief to the hospital staff because someone anti-vax dying of Covid doesn't fit their reality narrative. I could at least have some sympathy for the uneducated following foolish leaders. I have NEGATIVE sympathy for those who then abuse people trying to help them when the consequences come home to roost.

When I can see tears of relief in the eyes of a nurse simply by saying "Don't worry. I'm pro-vax." we have let the idiots have too much leeway.
We should thank musk for showing us what a billionaire and their leaches really are.
This is a lot of money, but consider the sheer power in having the nearest thing to a real-time global communication network by the throat. Facebook is also global, but it's never been associated with breaking news the way Twitter is.

Getting mainstream journalists onto the 21st century equivalent of a news ticker in your pocket was the brilliant strategic move early on; one day it was a website for nerds and weirdos to talk about nothing, but before every TV and print news outlet had a twitter presence and was inviting users to 'join the conversation' and connect with breaking news. It is the equivalent of owning global radio infrastructure a century ago.
I don't like seeing anyone banned by any social media company. This is a fail by Elon considering his previous absolutist stance. I'd rather shine the light on both stupid and brilliant and let people decide on their own what they'd like to consume in terms of information and entertainment.

The VC Elite should raise a fund, hire former Twitter employees, and mount a competitive alternative. They could "Build a better Twitter". Call it "Bitter" if you will... <smirk>
I've stopped using preprocessor for years now. Almost everything I need is now in the spec or solved ‘good enough’ through a naming scheme. IMO, a preprocessor is a lot of complexity for little gain currently.
I never mentioned Rudy Guiliani? The story you linked is about a completely separate and unrelated story. WikiLeaks and Assange were not involved with Hunter Biden's laptop. As for the provenance of the laptop: Hunter Biden never denied giving the laptop to the repair shop. And the repair shop, voluntarily and on its own initiative, gave the laptop and all its contents to the FBI, who would presumably have found any foreign involvment, if it existed, in their investigation of the matter.
This is awesome! It would be interesting to generate individual stems for each instrument, or even MIDI notes to be rendered by a DAW and VST plugins. It's unfortunate that most musicians don't release the source files for their songs so it's hard to get enough training data. There's a lot of MIDI files out there but they don't usually have information about effects, EQ, mastering, etc.
Everyone wants that but there is no feasible way to do this economically - there are too many people and too many bad actors ready to go if they even were to try to do this. Twitter is worse off - it wasn't perfect before, faltered and everyone who clamored for what you are asking for just never considered the true costs of the alternative.
I haven't seen the list, but I'm going to make a wild guess and say that none of them are right leaning.
Never liked either of them. 2/2!
I think they've known but didn't want to go down with him.
Since Twitter became public it's generally been growing its revenue faster than its expenses. 2018 and 2019 it had a net profit.
I visited the museum where they have that thing, in McMinnville Oregon. It's pretty cool to see.
I'd wondered if they could do that because of the nature of their industry, or it remaining on the R&D side rather than a publicly marketing project until it was proven.
OK, which of the journalists real time doxxed Elon?
I'm willing to give it the old college try. For, uh, science.
I was raised a lit and music nerd, then staggered into CS in college because it was a creative discipline that could pay bills.

Twenty years down the pike I've gotten pretty solid at programming, certainly not genius-level but competent.

I agree strongly that making art anyone cares anout is massively harder than being a competent programmer. In both you need strong technical abilities to be effective, but intuition and a deep grasp of human psychology are really crucial in art - almost table stakes.

Because software dev is usually practical, a craft, you can get paid decently with far less brilliance and fire than will suffice to make an artist profitable.

...though perhaps the DNN code assist tools will change that soon.
He’s not done anything except fire the team responsible for monitoring it working collaboratively with other groups on tools. Oh, and and talking loudly. Are you always this easily fooled?
Are there any "headless community / forum" platforms out there that are easy to build on top of (e.g. Supabase level of "easy")? Some of the ActivityPub ones seem very complicated to build on.
There's high hope for Tesla and SpaceX if he gets out of the way.
When you admit to making your decision based purely on "seething hatred," can you really blame people for seeing that decision as irrational?
We should call this “language machine” the Pāṇini Press.
> At this point you should view CSS like assembly, convenience functions go at a higher level.

CSS isn't assembly; it's higher level than that. I get why some want to treat it like a low-level language but it's not that, which is pretty obvious if developers take the time to understand CSS at a deeper level than just something a preprocessor spits out.

Also, CSS has to work in environments where using a preprocessor isn't an option—it's not just for glossy VC-backed websites. A preprocessor and all of the other tooling front-end developers use aren't an option for the vast majority of content management systems and wikis for example.

CSS still has to work in these environments.
The Twitter ToS have been updated multiple times in the last day to try to target this particular thing that Musk didn't like. ADS-B is literally a broadcast designed to make planes trackable. Publishing it is not doxxing.
That was my question. Is it compatible with PL/SQL? And how is the performance?
They also banned the Mastodon Twitter account @joinmastodon.
Is the analysis public? I'm curious how you determined the popularity of a product like Pinecone, since we don't have a public metric like GitHub stars.
He probably fired them as well. Sometimes people start believing in their own BS.
Also an illegal take.
It's a pretty obvious midlife crisis. Dude's baby mama left him for a trans woman. His own gender-reaffirming hair implants turned out all wrong. Tough time to be Elon.
grugbrain.dev is wonderful. Also, it is an example of the simplicity it advocates: One file, simple HTML with a bit of simple CSS inline at the start of the file. That's all! Simple and effective.
The last time I did real work with Oracle and MSSQL, I must have created something like 50 megabytes of "SQL" via stored procedures and such for them. The idea of migrating away from those databases to something with compatible syntax and such would have actually been feasible, but otherwise 100% dead on arrival.

If you could "just switch" then you probably shouldn't be using RDBMS at all.
This confuses AI training with inference. Training a machine learning model is expensive, complex, and requires data. Once trained, inference is cheap in terms of compute. A trained model is trivial to leak so hopefully nobody is putting much stock in their models staying secret.

Not to mention there are techniques by which training can be avoided entirely like transfer learning and others.
Check out the follow up, he immediately pivots to accusing the journalists of a “coordinated campaign”.
$13B of debt.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/30/technology/elon-musk-twit...
Thus the perfect time for any large competitor to come out with an alternative. Even Google has a shot lol
Quite the contrary. People like you need to start hating Elon too. He doesn’t get half the hate he deserves.
> 1. You don't have to use it if it doesn't seem useful to you.

Other people will use it and chances are you will have to deal with it sooner or later at $dayjob or whatnot.
He has lost 40% of his net worth (over $110 billion) so far this year largely because of this one deal. Truly one of the most disastrous business decisions of all time.
Twitter was profitable for, what, a single quarter in 2019? That's not sustainable. But yeah we're talking years before a major cash crunch not weeks. Elno accelerated that timeline pretty dramatically.
Trump, and most right wingers were all banned from TOS violations and harassment and doxxing. Look up LibsofTikTok and what they did too. Suddenly you change your tube on “free speech absolutely” back to something even more obscured. Good job.
Might try replying with “STOP”.
What's the technical limit? The width of the attention layer?
Sooo, not free??
You mean the FAA was doxxing him?
Maybe this is a good thing. I could see a small startup completely disrupt Google search by leveraging a GPT-based search tool. I think the last important ingredient is some sort of data validation engine.
What's the workflow where people accidentally commit secrets to their git repos? I'm not sure I've ever done it; do we count the "base_secret" type of things web frameworks put in their default app templates? Certainly the more common mistake I make is forgetting to add new files, so it's mildly amusing that other people apparently have the opposite problem.
For the secret scanning partner program we're happy to work with partners of any size - there are details of the program, including how to get in touch, at the link below.[1]

However, with secret scanning alerts we look for credentials from service providers we _don't_ have a partnership with, too. Our partnerships team are pretty good, so the delta isn't that big, but Asana, Notion, Intercom and Artifactory are a few of the service providers whose tokens we scan for where we don't (yet!) have a relationship to send detections. We also scan for tokens where a partnership isn't possible or would be much harder (like HashiCorp Vault service tokens).

On standardized formats, if one existed we would scan for it! However, as we've worked with dozens of service providers to update their formats we've found many have specific constraints and everyone has different preferences - as a result, for now, we're pursuing a broad church approach, rather than pushing a standard. If you haven't already read Thomas Ptacek's survey (for fly.io) I recommend it.[2]

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/developers/overview/secret-scanni...

[2] https://fly.io/blog/api-tokens-a-tedious-survey/
The trouble is that all the cool stuff was also the stuff that Hughes Jr never really cared for. Lasers, Radar, electronics escaped his interest. Hughes wanted you to build world class airframes and sadly this is the one thing Hughes Aircraft never really did well.
I think the distinction between tracking a private jet and tracking a private car is fairly clear cut. The point isn't to actually show where Musk is at any one point (who cares?), but I think the intent of the account is to show the intense disconnect between him and normal (non-private-jet-owning folks).

Unless I'm misremembering, the ElonJet account listed the cost and the amount of fuel consumed for every flight right? His willingness to burn 10 tonnes of jet fuel on a whim definitely doesn't mesh well with his brand as "The EV-guy".
It was days after and nowhere near the airport. And again, no police report filed. You were dooped.
strongly agree as well. Option 3 with required "&"
It's not a good rule. It was implemented for the sole reason of preventing people from saying where Elon Musk's private jet is, even though that is publicly available information by law.
Well in many cases doxing is considered illegal: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/119

There are many shades of gray, of course.
Any prediction about AI seems like a naive one. 50 years ago we seemed to have everything backwards, who is to say that we're any better now?
Ended well for him too, didn't it?
Underrated take IMO. Something many haven't learned ... these things are ephemeral. In the same way they are made new they are made old.

If you care about your online presence and the branding "value" it has, then work to separate the brand from the platform as much as possible.

If you care about your social connections, find some way to separate them from the platform too: follow them on another platform, learn their general identity so you can find them elsewhere, and maybe we can all try to value having our own personal homes on the web separate from any real platform again.
1. Why is this on phys.org

2. Why is the writing so dramatic
Banks, insurance companies, big old companies that have to do transaction processing, have old applications that have been running since the 1960s/70s, and are dependent on those applications just working until the sun goes out.
For some reason people who say things like this are completely unable to understand the data which supports that conservatives are amplified on social networks far more than liberals are. Conspiracy theorists aren't swayed by little things like data.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/feb/01/facebook-youtu...

> “There is no evidence to support the claim that the major social media companies are suppressing, censoring or otherwise discriminating against conservatives on their platforms,” Barrett said. “In fact, it is often conservatives who gain the most in terms of engagement and online attention, thanks to the platforms’ systems of algorithmic promotion of content.”
The location of his plane is very relevant to anyone looking to see if he might pay attention to Tesla, again, someday.
Oh God what a disappointment!
In France I've some friends who got COBOL jobs almost right out of school, around 2014-2015
> If we'd presented vaccination as informed choice, had recommendations but not coercion, I think there would have been a lot less resistance.

Honestly, I seriously doubt it. I think the resistance would have been about the same; even the most gentle "recommendation" would have been cast as coercive by those who oppose the vaccine now. All a more "gentle" approach would have done is to dissuade those on the fence.
Right now, I feel like a kid in a candy store. These comment threads are a gold mine. I will be approaching many of you to learn and get to know you. I hope that that is fine. To let you know beforehand that I'm not spamming, I would like to tell you that I will be sending emails from either brajeshwar@oinam.com or brajeshwar@valinor.earth

Since 2018, I have been learning and experimenting with Climate-related activities along with Climate Scientists. The notable ones include building an aeroponics farm inside Bangalore city and delivering rare herbs to a few known cookhouses (YC interviewed and rejected us on this). The other, where I missed most of the involvement but a few, was a prototypical installation of a Vanadium Redox Battery.

In 2022, I went all in, and our team figured that most folks (individuals and companies) outside of the ones involved in Climate just want to get things done and don't know what to do about it. We also realize that to be commercially viable while fighting climate change; we need to get involved end-to-end. We started with data and the sexy tech, but we don't even mention that now when talking to potential customers.

Some well-known and "successful" climate-tech companies have already started on that path -- building an end-to-end channel -- then sell, up-sell, and side-sell their services, tools, and solutions. Think of how Microsoft owns the channel and introducing a new product is just showing up.

We are still very early and have a lot to learn, and act/do. My best wishes and luck to all those doing one or the other thing toward fighting Climate Change.
Oh cool. Another Elon thread. How exciting

He says that journalists were doxxing him? Where's the proof? Where are the Elon fans with a counter argument? Or are we all in agreement at this point that Elon "free speech absolutist" Musk is a fucking idiot who has no business running a social network?

Weird how Kanye, Trump, and Elon are all simultaneously going even deeper off the deep end. I feel like I'm watching the Gadarene swine story play out in real time
This, Chat-GPT and the AI image generation. We're now at a very interesting time where average joes get to start using incredible tools.
This doesn’t feel like an “us vs them” moment.
I suppose this is what it means to be a bastion of free speech, right?
"Owner or not" is a false dichotomy. I get it that the author and many SREs are probably jaded from developers not taking ownership at all.

The right attitude is to figure out processes that let people draw a line when to go to DevOps, and when to escalate to developers. Developers need to understand the costs they impose on devops and organizations need to make sure developers are empowered to fix their own issues, rather than to be constantly chased around to business requirements.

Developers ultimately answer to business priorities, and they don't necessarily own the business processes that demand their support. If developers are given ample resources to keep bugs out of systems, document operational expectstions and respond to incidents, then the developers can "own" the processes better. If not, it's a management problem that is just of the same nature as the usual SRE complaint that developers don't want to own anything at all.