skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that this is a good defense, but I think "genuinely scared for his or his child's safety" is a real possibility. Especially if he (rightly or wrongly, no comment there) thinks someone threatened his child... well, protecting your children is one of the more powerful instincts humans have, one of the handful powerful enough to outweigh an ego like Elon's. Plus he has to be at least a little frazzled by Twitter having no credible plan for being financially solvent after scaring off all the advertisers, so I'm guessing he's not doing cold, rational threat assessments of anything. Maybe that interaction of fear and irrationality does start overlapping with petulance too, I don't know.

I think people should take into account that something deep inside Elon knows he's in deep shit, and is probably contributing to him taking rash actions and generally lashing out. He was never a wise man, but I still suspect we're seeing him at a low ebb of rationality. Again, no sort of defense: this is a problem entirely of his own making.
This seems very conspiracy-theory-ish. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Because he's not a business genius, he's just a guy who has made a few big bets and they've happened to work out (specifically PayPal and Tesla, and maybe SpaceX eventually). After that, he thought he had a magic touch and started putting money into companies that caught his fancy because it worked for him in the past. Before twitter it was the Boring Company.
Elon is certainly awful for all that he’s doing, but couldn’t Twitter have simply told him to buzz off when he proposed buying the company instead of taking legal action to ensure he did it?

People up top were eager to cash out at the expense of all the employees under them. That’s equally disgusting to me.
Apparently this is because they broke the "doxxing" rule.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603573725978275841

I'm confused on why he thinks posting public information falls under doxxing. Doxxing someone usually requires you to share private information about someone that they themselves aren't willing to share.

How can he say this is doxxing, but he's completely for people posting about Hunter Biden's laptop which actually contained private information not meant to be shared publicly.

Seems like he just changing the rules that effect him and ignoring the rest.

Essentially making Twitter the same as it was before he bought it lol.
Then I’d be interested if you can explain the problem.
Elon's slide into max doucheness is a real shame.
I used to tell my kids he was one of the most admirable people around for jump starting the EV industry (yes, I know he didn't do it all).

Then came the pedo guy comments. I cut him slack, he must be tired/strung out, he'll apologise. He never did.

Now he's become like a meme of himself, or perhaps just himself as he always was but now right out there, and it's not good to see.
A US banknote weighs approximately one gram, so if you could fit 3 kg tightly bundled on one shovel load that would be $3000 per shovel load.

Let's say you work 24 hours a day and can shovel 8000 loads into the fire a day.

That's maybe 24 million a day

So the answer is likely that they are destroying the $44bn more rapidly than you could shovel it
The fact that the ADS-b exchange account got banned too points towards at least some personal suspend button pushing happening on things that don’t suit Musk
Literally the entire argument musk made for re-allowing a bunch of people who had been banned for calling for LGBT people to be allowed or assaulted, or for more generally being nazi-supporting shitheads, was that twitter is a public square, and that he is a free speech absolutist.

So the problem people are having is that he still gets to come out in public talking about free speech, when that is objectively bullshit, or that any of the changes being made have anything to do with "free speech".
These are at-will employment. So long as you're not fired for belonging to a federally protected class of people
FYI, the framerate on your homepage is _really_ bad in 4K on my W11 box. I couldn't understand why it wasn't being mentioned in the comments, but then I dragged it over to my 1440p, and it was way better. Not sure what's going on, looks very pretty, but until I saw all the positive stuff here, it had totally turned me off from my trying it.

Will try it though :) Just dropping the informal ticket
You may want to bring some marshmallows to roast over the embers.
I think Twitter was long dead. It just had no prospect of making money, but slowly degrade into more “heavy VF” propaganda machine it had been for years, and recent series of events is its heart attack at Leviathan timescale.
The best green startup investment: select very productive engineers, and pay them to stop producing. Maybe they can learn an instrument, or take care of their garden. The less they produce, the better for the planet.

Of course that's not what a VC wants. But a VC doesn't really want ecology either, they want money. Pretending to be green just happens to be a profitable strategy.
Been on mastodon since space Karen ruined it. Haven’t looked back.
Collectively, I wonder how many tens or hundreds of millions of hours are burned, scrutinizing Musk, Twitter, Tesla, and every move Musk makes. Don’t like Twitter? Don’t use it. It’s like a Twitter/Musk addiction. I don’t care for for social media or Musk. Don’t understand why he lives in everyone’s mind, rent free.
Musk has a long history of attacking journalists who write stories critical about him or his company, and he famously called a guy who helped save a bunch of kids a pedophile for criticizing his ill-advised efforts to help out. When he was a kid, he was pushed down a flight of stairs for making fun of a fellow student's father's suicide, and Musk's father was not on his son's side.

This is not new behavior.
Elon Musk changes name to Barbara Streisand
No, they were killed by people using a gun. The evil is being perpetrated by human beings, not inanimate objects; it is the human beings who must be held responsible.
He was paying a premium. Shareholders wanted their payout.
I’m beginning to question whether starship will ever make it to orbit
> analytics against large DB tables. It can create pivot tables in seconds.

There are dozens, if not hundreds of products in this space. A popular example is Power BI, where even the desktop edition can produce extremely fast pivot table reports over about 10 GB of data.

The server edition can produce sub-second reports on terabytes of data, not a mere couple of gigabytes like in your demos.

You'd have to demonstrate a significant improvement over the existing state of the art for anyone to be interested.
I understand the likelyhood of a vulnerability and I agree with your assessment that it's unlikely a casual observer could generate a list of these URLs (a la parler leak) but disagree that this isn't broadly categorized as a vulnerability (it is, however academic or unlikely).

My question was why you felt that a security researcher publishing something they found must be because of some hatred for Elon Musk? What are the conditions where someone can identify something and share it without an ulterior motive being assumed? I understand you can't criticize right-wing darlings but is there anything else?
The military wanting to spend money on a starlink like low earth orbit system is nothing new or surprising.

They have been spending vast amounts of money on various types of geostationary based two-way satellite communications technology for 40 years. And they currently do so on some very low term projects and contracts.

Remember that the US DoD is what saved Iridium too.

They are always on the lookout for new or better tech.

Musk entirely aside for the moment, fact is that the starlink Redmond team has been first to market with something that is WAY ahead of kuiper, oneweb, telesat or any other leo satellite network in real world results.
Such a weird, self-defeating move. For what is Twitter without the journalists?

Here's yet another savvy take by Eve Fairbanks:

We’re in Denial About the True Cost of a Twitter Implosion [2022-12-02]

https://www.wired.com/story/musk-denial-true-cost-twitter-im...

"But if we judge Twitter’s influence by its active users, we underestimate it massively. It has no peer as a forge of public opinion. In political analysis, publishing, public health, foreign policy, economics, history, the study of race, even in business and finance, Twitter has come to drive who gets quoted in the press. Who opines on TV. Who gets a podcast. In foreign affairs and political analysis, especially, it often determines whom we consider an authority. Almost every academic and journalist I know has come to read Twitter, even if they don’t have accounts."
Aren't TikTok and Instagram and social networks?
One tweet already quipped that the Streisand effect will be renamed after this.
If you're claiming to be a free speech absolutist you absolutely must eat your own cooking.
Musk has put $20-$30B of his own money into Twitter, which he got by selling TSLA shares, which in turn cratered the company's share price and the value of the rest of his holdings in it. Overall he has lost 40% of his net worth (like $110 billion) this year, largely due to this single deal. No one wants to destroy anything that badly.

And the funny thing is that he was easily one of the most popular personalities on Twitter even before any of this. He simply had to do...nothing.
Maybe he just wants his own personal analog of Truth Social. Unlike the 45th president he could afford to bootstrap it by buying Twitter.
This reads like an elaborate Skynet troll. Is this for real?
This seems to be giving him more credit than he deserves. If he's trying to get republicans on board, all he needs to do is keep crowing about free speech and cancel culture. Actually making any changes to twitter isn't required. IMO he banned journalists that criticized him... because they criticized him. occams razor
This is what will kill twitter. Out of the 10% who do the most tweeting, journalists are a big part. Elon is killing his biggest asset and replacing it with Nazi's. Insane!
Ask HN: How do I thrive in an AI dominated future?
I'm currently in highschool and up until recently my plan was to become a software engineer and eventually start a startup. Over the last several years I've spent a lot of time programming for fun in my spare time and in my opinion I've gotten pretty good. I've built some pretty fun and cool things like chess engines, video games, 3d renderers from scratch and competed in my national computing contest with a solid placement. However as I've watched more and more generative ML models pop up seemingly every month for the past year or two my future feels more uncertain. It seems like a large portion of jobs will be wiped out sooner than many people expected, much like how alpha go achieved super human performance in the game of go nearly a decade before most people expected. I'm not even 100% set on tech as my career but I can see these models outperforming humans in nearly any career. ChatGPT already writes better essays than I do and stable diffusion generates better drawings than I do. What's next? Creating better lesson plans in school? Coming up with more convincing arguments in court? AI programming is not quite as good as I am yet but it's definitely on the horizon. Right now it feels like the only two viable options are to leverage these new technologies for business or to become one of the researchers creating these large models.

Tldr: what would you do if you were an ambitious teenager interested in tech entering a world soon to be dominated by large language models and other generative machine learning algorithms?
>100 companies are responsible for 71% of global GHG emissions.

I've always found that stat to be misleading, as it uses the word "responsible" in a very unconventional way: essentially, GHG emissions come from fossil fuels extracted by these companies, even though the companies themselves aren't the ones using the fossil fuels nor producing the GHGs.

This upstream analysis just doesn't seem very useful to me. You mention

>If only a fraction of these companies changed a fraction of their processes[...]

but I fail to see how China Coal (top 1), Saudi Aramco (2nd), or Gazprom (3rd) could do anything about their process to significantly reduce the amount of emmisions from their products.

It's true that the world does need to structurally change to reduce fossil fuel consumption, but going after the producers would at best be a confusing way to apply a carbon tax.

Other solutions from climate tech like better electricity production and storage needs to happen simultaneously, not after by "getting our priorities straight".
It's a public company and the company executives act in the best interest of the shareholders not on their own personal political preferences
In my experience folks in that line of work couldn’t care less what’s said about them in public, so long as the budget is increased.
I'm highly skeptical that Elon decided to light billions of dollars on fire so he could get some DoD money for Starlink.
The shareholders voted for it. The board effectively had to comply.
Posted after tonetheman's link here, in case anyone thinks the follow-up was deliberately elided.
> couldn’t Twitter have simply told him to buzz off when he proposed buying the company

There are very few accounts here on HN that will sympathize with such an extremely uncapitalist, anarchist take.
does this mean there will be less "news" about whatever some reporter saw in his twitter feed?
If performance is your biggest selling point, consider running some of the industry standard TPC benchmarks on your database. They have a bunch of variations and database people are used to looking at those benchmarks.
>> "smart"? I'm not so sure. That assumes doing good deeds later (forever later really) is more valuable than doing them now/soon.

I can see both sides of the argument here. I think we can at least appreciate many instances of endowments. A great example might be universities...some of which have been around for hundreds of years c/o endowments.

It also allows individual programs and facilities to be funded forever so they do not need to fight yearly for budgets.

https://www.harvard.edu/about/endowment/
I think this can be a downside/cost that should be considered.

I wouldn't say "because type inference can be harder to read in some places, it should always be avoided".
Could the same have been said of Facebook in 2014?
Yeah, I remember an episode of The Simpsons circa 2016 (so they probably wrote it in 2015) where they call it out as a "liberal" thing.
Explain like I'm a 5 year old Canadian please.
This discussion hinges solely on whether it’s a false or a true analogy, therefore necessitating a copyright cleared training dataset or not.
I feel this comment. I wasn't always a 'fan' per-se of Elon, but I was definitely able to appreciate what his associated companies had put forth. Anymore, I can't stomach the continuous news stream of awful behavior, treatment of others displayed, etc. I cannot support a person like him or what he stands for/represents at this time (or in the foreseeable future).
I have to say this initially rings to me like a conspiracy theory, but there's lots of info you shared that I wasn't aware of and is quite interesting.

I personally would not be against an interest group pushing over their lifetime for a common interest such as space exploration. Although turning this into a "Twitter is a way to curry favours" conclusion is a stretch.
This is great.

Not the whole Elon-inventing-rules-and-banning-people-who-are-mean-to-him thing. Nor the destruction of Twitter. Banning legit jounralists because of "doxxing" is ludicrous.

But Elon has done more in a few short months to shatter the myth of the meritocracy than anyone could have dreamed.
https://openargs.com/oa645-we-badly-underestimated-just-how-...

This is very good podcast about this exact topic.
What you say and that he presumably has some pride, which must now be bruising, are the only reasons I doubt that it's all intentional. Truly, it's incredible that he could self-own himself to this degree. As you say, he was on top of the world, and now...
It's a particularly spectacle-heavy fall, but it's actually not that uncommon for social networks to decline quickly. Digg famously had their userbase fall apart near-instantly after their v4 launch.
Maybe three or four years ago I thought that musk was basically something like the second incarnation of Howard Hughes. Some sort of eccentric high tech aerospace industry misunderstand genius.

Now I can clearly see he's just some guy who is both smart and also a raging narcissistic asshole who came from daddy's apartheid era emerald mine money.

Turns out that shitposting your way through life like an edgelord 14 year old boy on the internet is not an admirable lifestyle unless you are a hardcore musk stan.
I claim that an improved option 4 would be:

parent {
...parent rules...
} @nest {
...nested rules...
}

by analogy with `try { ... } catch { ... }` syntax. Looks a lot better than the line noise `} {` thing.

An improved option 3 would be to unconditionally require the &.

Another alternative would be to stick with Sass syntax but require nested selectors to use :where:

parent {
...parent rules...
:where(child:pseudo) {
...nested rules...
}
}

and maybe allow :nest(...) as an alias of :where(...), except disallow it at the top level.

parent {
...parent rules...
:nest(child:pseudo) {
...nested rules...
}
}

Or play a similar weird trick to the original option 3 and only require :where(...)/:nest(...) for selectors that begin with a letter. But that starts to look a lot like option 3. Especially if you always require &, because then & can be used to disambiguate the child:pseudo parsing problem.

I'm not familiar with the past discussion of any of this, though.
Ask HN: Why can’t I get off of this group text?
Someone included me on a group text message, and this thing has been going for months. I have zero interest in it, but I can’t get off of it. Some basic googling says it’s because I’m on iPhone and others are on android. How is this possible? Are there any tricks to getting myself removed?
I think he was legit shaken by the incident with the kook stalker and his son. Which is certainly understandable. People need to dial the hate way down. Way, way down.

And the rule change was quite clear that linking to the jet tracking was prohibited.

That all said, he's gone too far here. And it's an unwinnable fight anyway.
Tech bro isn't good at corporate governance. News at 11.
> I'm likely to believe this explanation rather than Musk personally hitting the "suspend" button on stuff he doesn't like.

It’s amazing to me that despite despite several data points showing Musk would be capable of doing this, people are still giving him the benefit of the doubt.

That’s the power of personal branding.
> Copilot itself is a commercial product that is built a body of training data, even though it is completely different from that data. It’s clearly “transformative.”

I don't buy this, given that NNs can and do encode data from their training sets in the network itself, similar to compression, and they can regurgitate that code when given the right incantations. They can also encode "the heart of the work" when it comes to algorithms from copyrighted work being recycled in the NNs output.

And I don't buy that it's transformative, either, given that it's taking someone's code as input and just outputting more code. The purpose is literally the same, building software for profit. It's not like the code is being used in an art project, it's being used for the same purposes that the copyrighted works were created. This is not like making a collage out of magazine cut outs, it's like taking "People" magazine's content and rearranging it and selling it as "Persons" magazine for profit.

When it comes to fair use, transformative derivative work is not the only factor considered. Another factor is the purpose and character of use, especially whether or not the derivative work is used for commercial purposes. Code regurgitated by these models are used for the same thing as the code they were trained on: building software commercially.

Another factor is "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work". It's beyond obvious that laundering copyrighted code for commercial use affects the potential market for and value of the copyrighted work.
My wife points out that you can't hide it on top of the doorframe either, since the Yeti is taller than you...
If the algorithm is suspending accounts that shared screenshots Elon doesn't like (matching via checksum) then it's banning regardless if the account belongs to a journalist or not.
Why not edit/fork the theme?
I think this is overly harsh. Software developers do sometimes enjoy watching software project videos as a kind of entertainment/edutainment. It takes some skill to make those videos draw someone in, though.

For getting a quick overview of the advantages across it's probably easier to craft something compelling in writing.
> I think it could be implemented in a distributed way, with no central server,

Fixed by Bison Relay released yesterday.
I never believed the Free Speech Absolutists in the least. As you notice, the rancor that generally accompanied such posts is curiously absent.
There are enough similar cases for all aspects that are touched here, so that an assessment is quite clear. But of course, every court case has a certain element of surprise.
He’s just signaling, the same smug snark “everything that entertains me is good” mentality, and people who probably ought to have a sufficiently functioning brain to detect that he isn’t on anyone’s side have decided instead that he is on theirs, and it’s “their turn now”, and basically the middle school cafeteria drama show becomes the story.

It’s truly embarrassing what we’ve become. Or, if you like, what we’ve remained, even though we damned well ought to know better by now.
It seems more syndicalist leaning to me, but yes. HN seems an odd place to bemoan a company taking the offer of a huge premium on its stock price.
This is another good point, particularly because (IMHO) people tend to overuse the descendant combinator in places where they should really use the child combinator instead.
This doesn’t make any sense at all. If buying twitter was just a complication, why is he being so active in it? If I found myself accidentally buying a company outside my wheelhouse, I would find some suitable management and not touch it an all. Or make small changes, Berkshire Hathaway style. Not take the helm and for everyone.
AI will often lie confidently. It will need expert humans to correct these “hallucinations”. You’ll be safe, kiddo.
It's a good bet that real journalists understand the ethics of personal information better than Elon. What this is really about is the dubiousness of the "stalker" incident.
The big question is how it all ends. This is full on self-destruct at this point and with an ego that fragile there are all kinds of terrible outcomes possible. Musk should lay off Twitter, spend some time AFK and then focus on Tesla and SpaceX and consider Twitter a giant mistake, hand it off to others to run. Obviously he's never going to follow that advice but I genuinely believe that to be his best course of action at this point.
Read here about Elon and then the Space Development Agency
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career
Oh I'm not saying I agree with the banning, I'm just saying he would have someone write an algorithm to do it to save time.
The sinking of the ship Cospatrick. (1875)
Twitter did tell him to buzz off at first. That was the point of the poison pill. Then he offered stupid amounts of money at astonishingly good terms. All along the way he took shots at Twitter that reduced its value.

Twitter’s shareholders voted to accept the deal at his offered price. When Musk wanted out the shareholders weren’t interested enough to even vote a second time.