skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps now we can see how Freedom Ain't Free. You can't claim to be a free speech absolutist, or a supporter of the second amendment, but then go ban stuff you don't like as soon as it concerns YOU.

Doxxing isn't illegal. I thought Elon claimed that ONLY violation of national laws could be the basis for deplatforming. As if his understaffed team can make legal decisions on the spot, and output true/false about millions of tweets that fall into gray areas. They don't even KNOW the whole body of law, and they aren't the judge or jury either.

I had two discussions with Noam Chomsky about how capitalism has co-opted Freedom of Speech, just like it has done with Women's Lib and many other things

In 2020:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HovxY1qBfek

A year later:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv5mI6ClPGc
Turns out his guess is wrong: "The account bans were labeled 'direction of Ella' in Twitter’s internal systems, according to two former employees in contact with Twitter’s staff. Ella Irwin, the company’s head of trust and safety, has carried out many of Musk’s orders since he purchased the company in late October and began upending it rules in the name of what he called 'free speech.'"
You are right, I'm taking him at his word.

I'm not sure how they can prove much here. All I've seen is an activist in the space supporting him. Specifically https://twitter.com/elizableu

I could be wrong.
I'm not the OP. I think the tweet the OP is referring to is not Elon's video of a man in a car. Instead, it is the tweet by Donie O'Sullivan where he published a statement from LAPD saying that no crime report had been filed in regards to the interaction Elon described.

The implication is that perhaps Elon is lying.

I'm not saying that he's lying. But Donie's account hadn't, unlike other journalists who got suspended, tweeted screenshots that showed how to find ElonJet on other platforms.

So it's not clear to me what he did to get suspended. His most recent tweets were to an interview he did with the ElonJet guy [1] and the tweet from the LAPD saying there was no criminal report.

Maybe the interview was "bad" enough to trigger the doxxing policy due to giving notoriety to the account? But if so, yikes.

[1]: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/14/tech/elonjet-twitter-suspende...
Sometimes it's less, sure.

Sometimes it's more! You have nine projects you want to do. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H. You have 2 developers. You hire 3 more. One of the new hires has more familiarity with what projects E and G needs than anyone on the existing team had. One of them is slower than the average of the existing devs. One of them is MUCH faster. The five of them complete those nine projects in three months (15 total people months, with boosts from one of the new dev's skills and the other's increased speed) when it may have taken 9 otherwise (18 total people months).

But I've seen a lot of companies not be quite that smart in their hiring...

(The faster scenario I've outlined above also potentially bites you in the butt if you don't have enough more valuable projects lined up behind that first set...)
Same problem but in an approximately opposite ideological direction.
The flight tracker account led to a dangerous situation for his toddler son. Any father would do the same thing.
> neither Trump nor Republicans are credible

~~Donald J. Trump was not directly involved in the breaking of the laptop story.~~ (edit: my bad) "Republicans" is a group containing tens of millions of people (though I am not aware of the repair shop owner's party affiliation, if any?)
You should consider configuring your editor to display types inline, it's awesome. It'll provide annotations next to the code with relevant types, so you don't have to click or anything to display the type. I found it also sped up my learning process by increasing the bandwidth of the feedback loop between me and the language, so I developed an intuition for type inference rules & the return types of stdlib functions faster.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66174400/how-to-get-type...
From: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376?lang...

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
"I simply mean that which matches the law.

I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law.

If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect.

Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people."
One I can see now is 40 characters of... not sure - I see uppercase, lowercase, digits and special characters. Maybe it's printable ASCII?
That's as good of an explanation as I've seen so far. The only problem is that nothing that he has done so far would reduce that exposure, in fact plenty of his actions increased it.
The vaccine has stayed just as effective for serious disease as it always was said. I am undeniably safer with the vaccine than without as I have actual family members who like you bought into the “vaccine bad” propaganda and died an early death from…COVID.

There really should be real life DARWIN awards.

The great thing, it’s mostly right wing voters dying. :)
oh. didn't know the jet tracker also published the specific location of his car as well.
The general premise about why flight data is public is because the planes are using a public good.

The airspace of a place is a commons, what happens in the commons is everyone’s to know.
Tesla HQ is in Austin Texas, Twitter HQ is in San Francisco California. Tesla shareholders have been criticizing Musk for spending far more time at Twitter than he said he would while Tesla's stock has dropped. Therefore, there's a public interest in whether he is in San Francisco or Austin.
I do not think any of that is in doubt anymore.
He's making a clear statement that Twitter isn't a place for journalists or journalism.

They'll find somewhere else to go
He's going to ask him to travel all the way around the world to a country that's not one he's in control of?
I am very opinionated about what SRE and DevOps own vs what devs own; and, I didn't really have anything negative to say about my (admitted) skim of the article.

As an SWE, I want to and need to know how to provide metrics on my system to be able to understand its health, and I should have good safeguards in place, or at least have communicated with the SREs what I need to provide to them to help them have good safeguards in place, to make sure the application keeps running. If the application goes down, it's my responsibility to make sure it's not my fault (bug in application code) that caused the system to fail.

What I, an SWE, want out of an SRE, though, is infrastructure management. I want to be able to ask them for some queues, and for a redis instance with high availability. I want them to set up the Kafka cluster, the database. I want us to have a conversation about where the secrets are to be stored. I want to be able to ask them what I need to do in code to get a secret and use it. I want them to be able to give me a good template for k8s deployments - or maybe to pair with them, given the docker containers and sidecars I need for a deployment and the projected scaling I'll need and come out with a best-practices set of k8s deployments.

I would be grateful if they monitor the database for some horrible queries; and, use their knowledge of which deployments made that bad query, to file a ticket to the right team so they fix their code or add an index or whatever is necessary.

Infrastructure, be it k8s or nomad, configuring redis, making rabbitmq highly available, configuring and organizing (especially organizing) k8s deployments into something sane and logical, and so many other things related to infrastructure are as specialized of skills as writing high-performance or unusually architected, large systems. I've seen the systems that come up when SWE-on-assignment create infrastructure; and, I've seen the literal years of work SREs have in their backlog to fix it with best practices.

It's similar to front-end developers: it's an entirely different skill set; and, while each person in each tear can stumble around in the other tiers, it's way better if we are all there, working together toward a common goal, and especially focusing in the areas we have each specialized our craft.

addendum: of course there are exceptions; but I think those exceptions are 1 in 100 or 1 in 1000.
There isn't always ID theft involved though, it's often just a small scale "bust out" where a person needs $300 and is willing to ruin their credit to get it.
People keep saying that yet no one has been able to define to me what “legitimate interest” the public has for tracking a private plane. I don’t believe one exists.

If you are sure of yourself, do a little experiment. If you truly believe it’s legitimate, why not just buy an AirTag and hide it on a person’s car…perhaps a local well known business owner. Create a website that publishes the live location of the vehicle. Let us know here how that goes for you.
If you were attacked by someone and got a clear picture of their license plate, would you:

a) report it to the police, who have direct access to vehicle registrations and can easily find the perpetrator

or

b) post on Twitter asking random people if they recognize a person's face or license plate?

https://nitter.it/@ZacksJerryRig/status/1603286484785586178

https://nitter.it/pic/orig/enc/bWVkaWEvRmtBR0FsUGFjQUE4MjQzL...
They questioned your character cause of your flawed arguments, not your arguments cause of your flawed character. So it's not ad hominem.
Omg I posted public info on the internet and I’m being called on it!!

(Besides the fact that Elon literally doxxed his former employee trying to insinuate he is a pedo)
Yeah, misinformation and agitprop have very real consequences, but Twitter still shouldn't ban, e.g., Anthony Fauci (if he had an account) or CNN, no matter how much misinformation or agitprop they spread. That stuff should be addressed with replies, community notes, and other commentary.
Hi I don't have power to downvote, so please accept my comment in place: irrelevant.
Did these "attack" include realtime doxxing? Especially after TOS modified to prohibit it?

Or can you give other examples of disparity between free speech rule applications for themselves and people they don't like?
Bellingcat geolocates Elon Musk's stalking video that prompted elonjet ban
The consolidation of media, ongoing for decades, has created concentrations of power that leave the entire media system vulnerable to people like Elon Musk. Twitter and Facebook are two particularly dense concentrations of power, but the general problem goes back a century at least and it's a problem with media generally, not specific to technology. Sinclair Broadcast Group (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE) and William Randolph Hearst come to mind particularly.
The JVM is a runtime virtual machine. Go produces static binaries (I think?) that run on the CPU, big difference.
It's not anyone else's blame if you don't share their life passions.

Thibault isn't posting low-effort spam for profit, he's pouring years of his life energy into a beloved project that is a gift to the world.
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Color me surprised. Meanwhile: https://twitter.com/eliothiggins/status/1603454821700452365
Why must I be afraid? It's not even started...
...for breaking Twitter's ToS
Did you really make an account just to spam low-effort comments in Elon's favor in the comments of this article?

Has his recent behavior been that defensible?
Metaverse characters famously don't have legs.

I think a big reason is because they haven't been able to figure out inverse kinematics. There's a surprising number of poses that completely break your character's arms because their IK system is so bad.

It makes no sense because limb kinematics is largely a solved problem. There's no excuse for it to be so bad. Not with the amount of money they've put into it, and not with everyone else doing it better.
I mean the location of his jet is public information (all flight plans are public records).

Plus he's a public personality, so not really concerned by most of that "anti-doxxing" rule
Is That Co-Worker ‘Off to a New Adventure’?
> A small number of large tech companies have collectively managed to gain a huge amount of control over what information millions of people are allowed to see.

Hmm, yes, that's why nobody can go to InfoWars anymore, right? They're banned from Facebook and YouTube, so I guess it's impossible to hear anything they have to say.

What's this? infowars.com still loads? It has videos on it? Impossible, the leftist lizard demons banned it

Wake me up when port 443 requires written consent from Zucc to operate.
Go back even further and you’d have real media power — the newspapers of the 1890s. The time of Hearst vs Pulitzer was quite a time for newspapers and showed the power of publishers.
I'm pretty sure it's anything that indicates a person is at a place.

Eg. "I'm at McDonald's getting a burger with my friend" is ban worthy because it says where your friend is
Well for one, with an entrenched bureaucracy you don’t have to worry about how one man’s emotional state might affect your country’s space programs or satellite internet network.
Seems like the Segway is much more useful. It never caught on but if you have one it can take you places. It helps mall cops cover their territory. I have seen them used to give group tours of city centers.

Crypto facilitates the ransomware industry, which is objectively less useful than the mall cop industry.

Crypto maybe theoretically could be used to send money to someone in Venezuela but I’m not sure that happens at a meaningful scale. (And how easy is it to translate your Bitcoin to bolivars or dollars once you send it to Venezuela?)

99% of the use cases I have seen over the past 10 or 12 years of waiting for the crypto industry to turn into something have been disappointments.

I think the comparison is apt but ultimately the Segway comes out way ahead.
Yes. He pretends to work on tickets in a sprint to justify attending. I think he's in a power struggle with the PM as we don't really need a PM with the work load we have, he could do his job.

And the PM loves to jump in to dev conversations that he doesn't understand on Teams too.
>The test of the truth of a live location is trivial. The test of truth of COVID information is not.

The assertion that posting a 'live location' create dangerous real world consequences is completely absurd. We know plenty about the dead humans COVID misinformation left in its wake.

You are okay with censorship here because you agree with it. Full stop.

>It's a question of safety of provably true information in this case.

Okay, prove the lack of safety.
Well it would add some credibility to a man who has burnt up his benefit of the doubt quota.
How many journalists who didn't dox Musk's plane have been censored and suspended?
I’m personally waiting for the “twitter files” from the last couple weeks. Surely, with his commitment to transparency he will release them.
> I don't think there's anything inconsistent about this.

It amounts to saying that anything that benefits me is good and anything to my detriment is bad. Sure, there's a consistency to that. However, if that's the foundation of one's positions, it leads to all manner of other logical inconsistencies and hypocrisies.
This is demonstrably false; Elon didn't even file a police report.

> 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...

Did you really create a new account just to spread misinformation?
I used to be updated with the latest tech, but as I grow older, my capacity to learn and adapt quickly has dropped. I never thought that I would be the one saying this but I do admit that I find the pace of change difficult to keep up with. I now believe it is a natural process of ageing and even though I don't want to give up, I think I eventually may just throw my hands up.
He's fighting a wave of Striesand Effect and he knows it (by tweeting https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603576251125362688)

This approach won't solve the problem. Especially for a celebrity. Twitter's censorship was dumb before, but this is equally or even dumber by being so prominent and kicking the bees nest.
Like this Boeing C-17A Globemaster that flew around the bay area today at 03:21Z? https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae1461&lat=38.237&lon=-...

Military planes fly with transponders on when they're sharing airspace with civilian aviation.
> Anecdotally, I did see the @ElonJet account, and have still never seen the source of the data.

It's here: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a835af

The source code for the bot: https://github.com/Jxck-S/plane-notify

ADSBexchange (and FlightRadar and several other orgs) are just tracking the public broadcasts each plane makes every second with its location, altitude, airspeed, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillan...
:/ this is just spam. How are more of your comments not flagged?
Sorry. Anger issues at all the benefit of the doubt horrible people get these days.
Grow a thick skin. Instead of shielding people from real world things expose them to it. In a few generations they get used to it/learn to use it.

Like Google deliberately fucking up their image search and not releasing a proper face search... because rainbow ponies would fall from the sky.
I use osmand and have no issues with it. Haven't needed Google maps in some years so some of it might be people just don't know about the alternatives.
The original talk's mention of Enterprises with horrible database schemas made sense for Smalltalk/Ruby, but not so much for Rust. An enterprise with 'horrible database schemas' would be much better off using a typical GC language - Rust competes much better as a systems language.

I guess the true parallel there would be Enterprise embedded devices? Maybe also games? i.e. stuff that is often done with C++? There are some good Rust efforts there though, so I guess the Rust community dodged this one.
It is disingenuous to argue that "free speech" includes all speech.

People making bomb or mass shooting threats get arrested all the time. You shouldn't have people fear for their lives.
Jesus Christ, are you seriously calling Musk a liar based on who held the child the exact moment the child died?

Like he has to provide forensic level testimony with a timeline of who's holding a child while it's dying?

That's some psychopathic level lack of empathy for someone who's child died.
Thank you for the correction. I was relying on memory there, which is obviously a dangerous thing to do. After verifying what you said (so as not to make the same mistake twice), I replaced that claim with your correction.

I've given my comment another looking over & I believe it is free of errors; if anyone spots any, please do call them out.
>Did these "attack" include realtime doxxing? Especially after TOS modified to prohibit it?

Posting public information publicly isn't doxxing and until you give up that falsehood, there isn't really anywhere the conversation can go.

Of course a free speech "absolutist" like Musk is a complete hypocrite for not allowing doxxing in the first place.
That's interesting, is it possible to subscribe to servers secretly so other servers don't know you've done so? Otherwise, I imagine my own hypothetical instance would get swiftly blocked.
I read the linked article and I could not make any sense of it.
The reason why this cannot be done is documented in the csswg's informal FAQ: https://wiki.csswg.org/faq#versioning-css-fixing-design-mist...
Very, very rarely. Both for planes and cars.
Since military planes use this same public good, is their flight data also published?
You can tell what bubble we are in when comparing the comments here to those when HN discussed the full twitter blackout on other topics.
What do you have if the devs didn't bother to implement half these things before deploying to production?
Posting public info isn't doxxing, sorry.
It is disingenuous to call sharing publicly available information about an airplane's travel "realtime doxing".
This is only true for badly written or architected systems. Usually it is a team. If you move around different teams you are probably only maintaining $currentteams apps, not everything you touched.

As such any team should ensure integrity of it’s code regardless of people coming in and out. Hiring, levels, code reviews etc. help this. Bunch of grads with no source control and write code directly in production without review would be the opposite.

SRE is a hat not a title or a team at small companies so this is how it has to be done. Also AWS probably works this way from what I have read. The team like a mini business.
>> but I’m not sure that happens at a meaningful scale

It does. Crypto has been a godsend.
Were they going to wipe out the SQL/PSM standard that has been approved by ISO?

"SQL/PSM is derived, seemingly directly, from Oracle's PL/SQL. Oracle developed PL/SQL and released it in 1991, basing the language on the US Department of Defense's Ada programming language."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL/PSM

They can always wipe out the Ada programming language while they're at it.
Agreed, but posting passenger manifest that isn’t available wasn’t a good idea.
Apologies if I got confused.

If your argument is correct then I tend to agree with you.
It seems your target audience is US and Europe; the pricing clearly reflects that. In India, Pocket costs ₹500 per year (regional pricing) vs Readwise's ~₹670 per month (converted).
Doesn't that depend on the instance (with some not being as strict)? Regardless, such people could always decamp to their own servers - an option that was not available with Twitter. Also, volunteer instance admins will never have the resources Twitter has had to combat abuse.
> It is disingenuous to argue that "free speech" includes all speech.

Elon Musk himself argued this exact specific thing is included.

Nov 6, 2022, https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456: "My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk"
It's raining vengeance.
Weirdly I'm almost on the other side of the whole doxxing issue.

We've established now that Elon really doesn't like it when people dox him, and all his right-leaning supporters are defending that.

Well, that's a precedent now for when minorities and vulnerable people who aren't billionaires are doxxed by right wing hate groups (e.g. Kiwifarms).

And radical free speech just got abruptly limited when it got personal.

The important point should be that the principle should be applied equally, particularly since groups like Kiwifarms are much worse than ElonJet.
> Personally I think he hasn’t don’t anything overt yet

Like calling people risking their lives to save a bunch of kids pedophiles? Or using fascist dogwhistles?
The comment didn’t say “free speech laws” it simply said free speech which is broader.
This was an excellent write-up, thank you for taking the time to explain, can't wait to see where it goes!
Body Composition Assessments – Less Useful Than You Think
Is scanning only based on regex? Or can it, say, parse a JWT and infer who it came from through those properties?
It is doxxing when a lone journalist is posting a live location of a child. Thereby all who retweeted too got banned.

Kidnapping opportunity, anyone?

This is a protective and proactive parental prerogative there.
Rich people go crazy all the time
Ok, let's see.

Your graph does clearly have a peak at the 2020/2021 boundary, that falls down after the vaccines got widespread, by the middle of 2021 (with most countries going into negative excess deaths). There is another, smaller peak at the end of 2021, that's when omicron got widespread.

What exactly were you expecting to see?