skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the high-res link. Surprisingly our computers still do these things, after forty some years. Yet their ancestors did the same job while holding "2,400 double spaced pages or 30,000 names and addresses."
SBF donated over $40M in the 2022 election cycle. Where did it go?
I wonder if the same people who are angry about this were angry when the NY Post got their account banned.
I'm curious if this will ultimately extend to people being banned for linking to Mastodon in any context, and not just ElonJet:

>The situation followed the company’s decision to suspend the Twitter account of Mastodon, an open source social media alternative that’s built momentum since Elon Musk took over at the company. Twitter took action against Mastodon after the account linked to the Mastodon page of @ElonJet, a student-made bot that tracks the whereabouts of Musk’s private jet.
That sounds like a media wiki problem. CSS provides all the tools you need to produce the results.
For which there is nil evidence.
Fall in what? I'm sure they took a big hit in revenue even though some major brands are already back. They took a hit in public perception.

Do you actually need a good reputation to be successful in a platform that caters to mostly brain dead on the toilet chatter?
Why, its based on the karma points you've earned, didn't you know?
This sort of thing was thought about 20 years ago in the story “manna” by Marshall Brain - https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

I have no idea how well it holds up to modern reading, but I found it interesting at the time.

He posits two outcomes - in the fictionalised US the ownership class owns more and more of everything, because automation and intelligence remove the need for workers and even most technicians over time. Everyone else is basically a prisoner given the minimum needed to maintain life.

Or we can become “socialist” in a sort of techno-utopian way, realising that the economy and our laws should work for us and that a post-labor society should be one in which humans are free from dependence on work rather than defined by it.

Does this latter one imply a total lack of freedom? It certainly implies dependence on the state, but for most people (more or less by definition) an equal share would be a better share than they can get now, and they would be free to pursue art or learning or just leisure.
Elon did everything in his power to ruin the life of a whistle-blower. After they were able to identify the source of the leak, Martin Tripp, someone who had a personal vendetta against Tripp called in a false police report that he was planning a mass shooting. I cannot say who that someone was, but both Tesla and Musk himself were spreading rhetoric that Tripp was a dangerous individual.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon...
At this point the Kool-Aid can't be far off.
Isn't your citing Wikipedia, in itself, an appeal to authority? Why should we accept Wikipedia as an authority on which arguments are fallacious and which are rational?

(Also, that wiki page mentions that many authors don't see it as a fallacy.)
Hughes (now Boeing via McDonnell Douglas) helicopters are quite something. The 500 is generally regarded as quite the hot rod (especially compared to the 206/407). You can even get one in single rotor configuration (NOTAR). Hughes left quite a legacy beyond the Spruce Goose and hopefully El Muskrat will too. It'd be a damn shame if he succeeds in completely destroying Tesla and Space-X.

Oakland PD has a couple of 500s which is neat, but what always brings a chuckle is the tale of how New Zealand farmers went all in on the 500 because nothing else could touch the performance for… hunting deer.
Progressive haven?

A law was needed that made sure to personally hold twitter management liable just to make sure that twitter would actually suspend open Nazis (the kind that actually posts swastikas).

[See: Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz]

How is that a progressive haven, wtf?
Yeah, well, if you believe in free speech, this is one of many (many, many) obstacles you will have to confront in holding up that ideal!
Legality and wrongdoing shouldn’t be conflated
It appears that journalists were suspended for posting a link similar to this:

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a835af&lat=32.124&lon=-...

Musk really doesn't want people to know where his jet is.
Either you don't actually use the platform and are just repeating things you've heard, or you are being melodramatic. Lots of news gets published first on Twitter. I feel no need to insinuate such assertions.
PG has been a Musk fanboy defending his every crazy action on Twitter. Even now his first instinct was to assume that there was some foul play. Anyway he saying it’s bad is a change for sure.
lol you picked the two things no one has said about Elon in 5 years. Basicallyeverything else he has said he would do he has failed at.
The story https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Crocker%27s_Spite_Fe...
Also, twitter does not allow posting links to mastodon instances anymore. Or at least to mastodon.social.
They geolocated the video and it wasn't even near an airport.
> So this is how Twitter goes out: not with a bang but with a seemingly endless stream of stories about the little ways Elon is ruining the service each day.

He also brought back a ton of banned people … who were similarly banned without explanation.

In this case, he needs to set rules and judges for his kingdom if he wants a certain group to keep using it.

As an aside, one of the people banned was known to take clips out of context. Add commentary on top, and actively mislead people. Imo these aren’t journalists, they’re activists
So did Amazon/AWS I think.
Hopefully Tesla will be finally decoupled from electric cars in people's minds.

There's a bunch of people normally on the environmental left that have become reactionary morons on electric cars, fear mongering driverless efforts and conflating all electric cars with the Tesla brand while misrepresenting the extremely rare fire problem as if it's more common than gasoline car fires (it's not by orders of magnitude)

I'm sick of ostensibly progressives demonizing decarbonization efforts because they're too technically ignorant to separate Elon musk and his terrible management, which includes extremely hostile racism, from an underlying technology that every car company is engaged in now.

It's classic FUD tactics that in practice just defends the existing order of the carbon economy, which is the most important problem humanity has ever dealt with and somehow the tech won't save us, verso books, this machine kills, etc crowd is now strongly aligned with what Rush Limbaugh's position used to be.

So musk can't fall fast enough. good riddance
Without spending much time you could determine why by reading the paper. Most likely it is because they could only find 25 out of millions.
Pāṇini was probably the only man I would say was comparable to Einstein in intelligence.
The group in 3 can use SASS. At this point you should view CSS like assembly, convenience functions go at a higher level.
it is however perfectly in line with "private companies can do whatever they want"
ah yeah, we’re at “rasengan k-lines channel operators for saying the word “libera”” stage. Great, the fork is almost over!
I mean this is an intriguing rationalization, but I don’t buy it.

Buying votes simply doesn’t cost this much, by orders of magnitude. Burning your empire to ashes as a loyalty test doesn’t hold water either: It’s politicians that partake in loyalty tests, not donors.
> So what would banning a jet tracking account have to do with a stalker

From what I can gather and infer, a couple of days ago Musk's son got off the jet and into a car, then that car was attacked by a stalker looking for Musk himself. Musk believes that the stalker got the information from the ElonJet Twitter account.
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I can make a stab at that looking from that list. We're not looking at free speech here, we're looking at protected speech for nazis.

Our latest batch of nazis seem to think that people objecting to things like inciting violence, encouraging hate of minorities, white supremacism and all the anti-science nonsense they use to recruit new cult members should be protected speech in safe spaces. A very different idea to free speech.

Let Elon set fire to Twitter, it is a hard rule of the internet that any forum invaded by nazis is doomed to failure.
I really want to encourage people to recognize, as I did just as strongly when Musk didn't own Twitter, that it isn't by itself "the public square". The site is designed to make you feel like you have to be on Twitter, that no other site could replace them in your daily life, that you'd better go check your feed right this second or you might miss out on some major world event. But none of that is true! It's an illusion they've constructed in order to keep your engagement metric high.

If there's a Twitter exodus, the public square will survive it, just as well as we survived the Myspace and Digg and Tumblr and Friendster and Livejournal exodii. Hopefully most communities will relocate to sites with healthier engagement models.
Doxxing adds nothing to the conversation. It’s not an opinion, an argument, or an artful expression — forms that free speech laws are designed to protect. Rather, doxxing is merely harassment and adds nothing substantive. Same argument can be made for racial slurs and the like. Anyone pretending otherwise is being disingenuous.
That’s not true. Most of the debt was leveraged against Twitter, it’s a classic LBO.

The investment banks have been attempting to change that to a margin loan against TSLA shares, because of course they are. They are holding effectively unsellable debt now.
Yes, I had hoped that was evident in my post. If he had not done that I would not have had anything good to say about his work at Twitter so far.
Twitter was already struggling with right wing nutjobs and banana republics before El Muskrat got into the mix. Beyond that, Twitter was absolutely struggling to monetize eyeballs. While it wasn't about to implode in the short-term I don't think anyone expected Twitter to stick around long-term without significant changes. El Muskrat just doused the whole thing in acetone and dropped a big fat blunt on it.
Or the bonesaw Saudi crown prince asks Musks to come to Dubai for a weekend.
I defended Elon many times on HN but this is straight up incompetence. Even if they violated some silly location sharing rule they invented yesterday, there's no good excuse.

The saddest thing is this only adds fuel to the pro-censorship crowd.
Most (all?) of the journalists that got banned were sharing this statement when they got clipped

https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/1603558240377151488
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This is simply not true. We not sell user data to anyone at all. The business is _entirely_ funded through customer subscriptions.
The Boring Company is absolutely a success and imo it's the best example of Elon's tried and true strategy: convince government officials of some idea only the government could buy. Boring Company is a money making machine just like SolarCity, Tesla, and SpaceX even though not a single one of those companies could be profitable without the heavy subsidization they receive.

Good Jobs First track how much subsidies are given out to specific companies. Tesla's racked up $2.5 billion from states and the federal government and another half billion in loans/bailouts[^0] (for comparison, Tesla' net income in 2022 was $11.19B). SpaceX is all government contracts where NASA basically pays a private company to do the things they could and want to do but can't because of political impediments. We're still the ones funding it, we're just paying more and letting a private company take credit. Starlink's subsidized by the FCC, SolarCity's subsidized by a number of states as well as the federal gov'ts subsidization through tax credits for 30% of the cost of solar panels, etc.

And people aren't dumb. He's been sued in a number of countries for subsidy fraud already. Remember when Tesla pretended to have rapid battery exchange ready to go and announced it was live? That was purely to take advantage of a poorly written subsidy package in CA that didn't actually stipulate they had to give people access to it. Tesla won that lawsuit too iirc.

Elon Musk became the richest man on earth without ever running a profitable company. In fact, I'd say it's precisely by NOT running profitable companies that he got to where he is today

[^0]: https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/tesla-inc

edit: grammar & typos
I've been down with the USAP a couple times, most recently about a decade ago, and in that span the psych eval was required for winterover deployments but not summers. It was very questionable.

I like to think that a spoof "How to Pass the Psych Eval" video we made one winter might've somehow contributed to that particular system being torn down a few years later, though I don't have firsthand experience with the system that replaced it. My understanding is that the new one involves more "team building" type stuff before deployment, which sounds like a step in the right direction.

One issue is that by the time a person has gotten to that late stage in the hiring process, they are often deeply invested in deploying - having packed things in to storage, quit "real world" job, etc. and their nominal manager understands that. Another issue is that people behave differently in different environments, and Antarctica is quite unlike Denver.
starship has nothing to do with Elon. I know some SpaceX employees. They let Elon run around like the child he his pretending to be an engineer while they do the real work (and take his money)
He actually did provide an explanation in this thread:

https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1603570995490455552

They were linking to the jet tracker.

To be clear, a crazy person jumped on the hood of a car carrying elons kid. Can’t really blame him for reacting by banning someone tracking his movements in real-time.
I wonder if cyberpunk settings having a trope of an unaccountable space bank was an indirect influence.
It is a basic tragedy of the commons problem. Solving this is basically the reason why we have government.
Not the largest car company, just the one with the highest price tag. VW prob makes more cars in a month than Tesla makes in a year.
Looks amazing! I played with Reader for the last hour or so and it looks so much better than Pocket. The import from Pocket - delightful!

I had originally started using Readwise to sync my Pocket and Memex highlights with Roam and it looks like you guys have removed the need for both by building Reader.

My pocket (pun unintended) thanks you, provided price isn't going up. But I think there is a lesson here. Pocket has done no innovation for years - a classic 'cash cow'. But then you guys show up and make a product that (for me) is 10x better. It is also clever that you haven't taken any VC funding because I don't think this a product that will ever be venture scale. Now, you guys can build cool stuff and make a good living in peace without chasing that elusive venture exit.
Elon seems to fail to recognize that he's well-down the slope Yoel et al were down.
They told me Musk was buying Twitter because he was a supporter of free speech...

People are capable of change. Not always for good.
IFAIK the loans are secured by Twitter equity. Trouble is the loans add up to more than what Twitter is worth. The banks will have to write down the value of those loans. But the equity investors, including Elon, will get what scraps, if any, are left after creditors get paid.
Except they said the opposite yesterday, in the policy they hastily put together to explain the @elonjets ban.

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/personal-info...

"For media, the following are not in violation of our policy..."
As one of those people: yeah, this is pretty terrible. I don't think being allowed to share the exact location of individual private jets is nearly as important for the public discourse as some of the other stories Twitter has censored in the past (pre-Elon), but this still represents a significant departure from what Musk was promising before the buyout (that basically anything legal to say would be allowed). I'd much rather he have erred on that side of things.

Hopefully this makes more people aware of just how much power social media companies have, and have always had, over the public discourse and that results in the institution of legal and/or technical measures that limit that power across the board. I'm not optimistic though, given how much of the public attention right now seems to be focused on admonishing Elon personally rather than on the overall system that makes this kind of censorship possible.
Journalists: Are you ready to try ActivityPub yet? You can like, do this today if you wanted to and it could be a part of your content management system. Please look at it.
It was a public corporation, so their options were limited. They did try a poison pill. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/15/twitter-board-adopts-poison-...
Can these dampers stop somewhere short of full open/close? Typically one wants full open for one season and mostly closed but not fully closed for the other.
>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 do it to the outgroup. Then it's fine! Laudable even!

Same as shutting down journalists and other accounts. It was nothing to fret about when the opposite side used to do it, "they were misinforming or borderline bad anyway, and they could always start their own blog or something, so it wasn't censorship" and so on.
> came from daddy's apartheid era emerald mine money

This doesn’t appear to be true

https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/11/17/elon-musk-emerald-min...
Also, their docs leave me wondering about the level of Oracle compatibility they're claiming. Their page on the subject, https://www.ivorysql.org/docs/compatibillity_features/hierar... , lists a bunch of immediate sore points -- date types and functions, the CONNECT BY query syntax, etc. But there are other things Oracle supports that are not listed, and still potentially serious stumbling blocks -- "fast" (incremental) automatic refresh of materialized views, IGNORE NULLS in window functions, and so forth.

Oddly, I'd take their compatibility claims more seriously if they were more clearly up-front about the limits.
That's one of the issue but it's not just the middle of running a game. On the Switch you never have two screens running at once. So Nintendo knows to automatically Switch off screen 1 and start displaying everything on screen 2 when you Switch to Dock mode.

On the Deck some people want to plug in the display and use it as a second screen, while some may want to plug it in and use it like a Nintendo Switch for couch gaming. Then there's separate settings for Desktop mode and game mode.

If I'm using a gaming PC with a mouse and keyboard at a desk it's not a big deal to change the display settings after I plug the PC in. In contrast if I'm plugging the Deck into a 77 inch OLED and I don't get the default display I want I'm often left hunched over a 7 inch screen next to the OLED, which is annoying.
Some engineers are saying AI will replace engineers in particular, mostly because they are the only ones playing with GPT and thinking about automation, and they may not realize how easy other jobs are to automate.

I can’t imagine a world where they fire the devs but still need a HR person to email everyone about enrolling in health plan or whatever.
Tinfoil hat on: the dude is a foreign asset and now has to pay dividends.

Tinfoil hat off: all the admiration and money he received turned him into whatever it is that we are seeing today.
The World Cup isn't over. The final is France v Argentina on Sunday morning US time.
It might also be how Tesla goes out. A lot of people have lost a lot of money on Telsa lately: https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/tesla-stock...

It's hard to overstate what a crucial time this is for Tesla. They had early-adopter success when they had the field to themselves. But now every major car company plus a bunch of other people (possibly including Apple) are coming for them. Pivoting to the mainstream market and fending off all the competition is going to take both dedication and gobs of capital. Capital that is going going to be harder to raise with a distracted CEO and a bunch of investors who've had their fingers burned.
One of the big issues with secret scanning now is that it’s opt-in from platforms, and from the list of supported platforms it seems like small ones may not be able to be included.

The holy grail here would be to introduce a standardized token format that encodes a disclosure endpoint. Then platforms can issue tokens to this standard and receive notifications without needing to explicitly opt in.
> Code that is not running correctly in production is worthless. If you write code and haven’t thought about all of the implications that it takes to make it run correctly you haven’t produce business value.

I wish this were true, but the number of billion dollar companies running code that doesn't run correctly shows it isn't.
EVs and crypto mining seen as emerging risks for U.S. power reliability
Except that that whole thing is bollocks. The two have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
> Do we need a cyberspace public square? I think we do.

Why is the web not that public square? Your website is your own personal space. No one can tell you what to do there. No one can stop you from speaking.
I agree completely, and having followed this since it was a pipe dream, I’m actually sad that the machine parsing and unambiguous human readability convergence lasted so long to hold this up only to fall apart as it becomes a real possibility.
This is such sage advice! Pick the hard UI/UX bits and prototype to de-risk and see how it feels once it’s working. Bravo Quekid5!

As for htmx, my team and I have been very happy with a Go + Fiber backend with Go templates and some htmx and Alpinejs for the more heavily interactive parts of a moderately complex application. Not having to deal with NodeJS, React, thousands of JS packages and overly complex configurations has been a blessing. Our system is insanely fast, plays nice with browser history, and is super cache friendly.

We make “component”-like parts such as toolbars, footers, menus, data tables, etc. with Go templates (partials called by a main template) with appropriate htmx. (Edit: we use/love Bulma for CSS.) High degree of reuse, great performance, and low complexity.
I think this is not worth engaging in any further. I don’t respect your perspectives. I’ll leave it at that.
Did you really make an account just to defend Elon?
You have to transmit your license plate information visually as you drive, so I don't really see the difference. The fact that some data is public doesn't mean shining a spotlight on specific elements easily is an appropriate thing to do.
Hopefully it’s an oversight.
You are wrong. People are 90% ignorant. They don't follow anyone, anywhere, maybe a small minority, until their plaything is at hand.
I agreed with most of what he's done up to the point where he banned ElonJet, and now these journalists. It's so dumb to ban an account that was simply sharing already public ADS-B data, it's completely legal, my guess is that he had a bunch of other rich friends that were calling for him to remove these accounts. As for journalists, I guess we'll need to wait, early guess is that Twitter has probably found some dirt involving them with old-Twitter board.
Plane tracking is a significant form of OSINT for some investors.
It's privatized, but it still performs the same function in society, which makes the whole situation untenable.
Twitter was always his weakness and now he's ODing on it. Like a crack addict in charge of a cartel superlab