skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on the success of GitHub Co-Pilot and OpenGPT... I would steer clear of specializing in low-code applications. A model that can chat a non-tech person through the creation of low-code type applications is only a training data-set away.
The EV industry is a distraction to prevent us from doing what is needed to save the environment: ie. minimise the use of cars. It (much like the hyperloop scam it necessitated) is simply an attack on car-free living and public transport.
At some point, people are going to ask if he's (national security) safe to be running SpaceX
power corrupts
I agree with this! My point was that Twitter was not destined to fail: it had (has!) hundreds of millions of high-value users who treated (treat!) it as a news and culture feed. They made lots of money off of those users; the fact that they weren't more regularly profitable is an indictment of management rather than the fundamental business model.

This entire thing is an extended farce in two acts: (1) Twitter's leadership's inability to turn a highly addictive social media network into a regular money fountain, and (2) the sale of a potential regular money fountain to the single least qualified person possible.
He put journalists in quotes in order to disparage them, no it was not because they linked the Elonjet site.
The silver lining here is that we are quickly learning beyond all shadow of doubt that you would not want to live on Mars in a dome owned by Elon Musk, at the same time the odds of that ever happening are dropping faster than his net worth.
This is probably a good thing ... journalists are the people keeping Twitter afloat since they do their own form of toxic amplification by constantly injecting Twitter into other media forms and using it as a medium to post updates. It is better that they understand the deal they are making early and that it is with the devil.
Reckless accusations of pedophilia are fair game in your opinion? Really?
Hello! I am an engineer on the Secret Scanning team, thanks for the kind words!

- "push protection" (as we call it) isn't available for free, and isn't part of this rollout.

- For folks who do pay, the flow may be: a developer tries to push, they bypass the secret, are now able to push. From there, an alert is created which they can resolve (maybe it is "used in tests").

- If the _same_ secret is pushed again, we won't block that push. We also won't create a new alert; however, a new location may be recorded within the resolved alert (if you click into it).

If you're seeing push _not_ get blocked, what's most likely is that we just don't support that specific token as part of push protection (we have some much-needed improvements to do to the docs to make this more clear). Since push protection sits in front of the developer, we try not to annoy them with high-false positive tokens. There are a few other possibilities though, so hard to say.
Not really. That's a reporter. Journalism is more. Again:

https://kottke.org/20/01/jim-lehrers-rules-of-journalism-1

The problem is reporters have lowered the bar and the less aware bought in. Mediocrity has been normalized. That's ironic. But it's not journalism.
Physics wasn't even Newton's main work, he did it on the side while his true passion was in alchemy. He just so happened discover color and light theory along the way, while also writing philosophical letters to Locke and Leibniz.
GPS Signals Are Being Disrupted in Russian Cities
If we're just going to quote stuff at each other...

> Post COVID-19 infection was not associated with either myocarditis (aHR 1.08; 95% CI 0.45 to 2.56) or pericarditis (aHR 0.53; 95% CI 0.25 to 1.13). We did not observe an increased incidence of neither pericarditis nor myocarditis in adult patients recovering from COVID-19 infection.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35456309/

But also your source is kind of bad. It doesn't have an unvaccinated control group, so from that research there's no way to know if what they found was virus or vaccine related. But they did find an age and sex based correlation which lines up with other sources saying the vaccines are bad for young men:

> The risk of COVID-19 vaccine-associated myocarditis was higher in men younger than age 40 after a first dose of an mRNA vaccine or after a second dose of any of the 3 vaccines.
Maybe they were live-location-tracking
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> I've stopped using preprocessor for years now.

I decided to not use Sass on my latest project; feels like CSS is at the point where I didn't need it any more. CSS has come a long way.
The scale is the point. There is popular and there is competing with youtube popular
What would you think about sharing Prince Harry's live location?
> ... some people show true behaviour openly only once they have nothing to lose

Look at Kanye. He has probably lost more than a billion dollars by openly becoming a (literal) Nazi. That's a significant portion of his wealth. He will probably never recover from that. He's gone from being beloved for his music to being a pariah.

I saw this to illustrate having nothing to lose I don't think is an accurate assessment. As long as you have something, you still have something to lose.

I contend that Elon hasn't really changed over the last few years (just like Kanye). So what's changed?

That's easy: the Overton window has simply moved further and further right where extreme right wing (ie alt-right) views have become mainstream. As such, those who whold those views have simply become more comfortable saying the quiet parts out loud.

You had the former president spouting QAnon conspiracies [1]. Tucker Carlson, the #1 show on America's #1 "news" network, openly pushed the idea of the Great Rplacement Theory [2]. It's truly frightening how normalized and mainstream these extreme right views have become.

> However, this does indicate a very deep flaw in our existing society i.e. giving certain individuals too much power; either via their job position or capital.

Every billionaire is a policy failure.

[1]: https://apnews.com/article/technology-donald-trump-conspirac...

[2]: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/tucker-carlson-s-great...
I take it from your response that you don't lock your door at night, because a motivated external attacker could just bring a ladder and break a window?
There is no counter argument. This person was assigned their opinions by their chosen Internet tribe and has nothing to offer but feigned incredulity that anyone could possibly think differently than they do. 100% bluster, 0% substance.
At least a couple of the "banned six" last tweets were: about an LAPD statement that they were in contact with representatives and Musk's security and no criminal chargers were filed yet.
Coincidence? – Geminids Meteor Shower Is Approaching – Peaks Dec. 13th - 14th : https://blogs.nasa.gov/Watch_the_Skies/2022/12/02/the-2022-g...
Am I one of the only developers who actually likes the CONNECT BY queries? Often I think they are a very succinct alternative to recursive CTEs.
Didn't the Redmond team get liquidated?
ElonJet should be increased to constant surveillance of where Elon and his family are at all times. Including all friends and family and workers and their families and private associates. Any attempts to ban those accounts as doxxing should be met with public humiliation and judgement of Elon and Twitter, and evidence of their delusive and degraded states of mind.
> Additional brackets to group nested selectors.

Isn't this what Sass does? Option 3 seems to me to be exactly Sass nesting except the "&" is required in more places than it is in Sass. I personally love the "&" and already write my Sass that way anytime I nest
How far are we from the "Shoes by Kleenex" stage, I wonder.

Ah, apparently he mistaken the Streisand Effect for a "coordinated campaign". We are closer than I thought.
That's applicable in a pretty small amount of cases.
This was written by Cambridge and published on their website. It was republished by phys.org which aggregates science, research, and tech news.

It might be better if the link was changed to the original article on Cambridge’s website: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/solving-grammars-greatest-puzz...
At the start of this saga, I pointed to Napoleon as an example of what happens when hyper-ambitious and capable people meet an unyielding challenge,

> It seems that when you are touched with greatness, you end up believing that you can do anything. And far more often than not, you can.
>
> Right up until the moment you can't.

But never in my wildest dreams I could have imagined this turn of events. Forget Napoleon's retreat from a burning Moscow, this decision is as if Napoleon had decided to light the city on fire himself.

It is unfathomable. What happened?

All he had to do was nothing. One strategy could have been to wait for a few months, kept teams in place, offers assurances of continuity, do an audit of systems, and then swoop in to make changes. Even at $4M/day it would have cost far, far less than this.

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In my mind, the most valuable thing about these circumstances is that they offer an opportunity for us to learn.

Right now, the burning question I have in my mind is one I asked a few weeks ago, what's the MTBF for such a platform?

From a thread 23 days ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33701999 ,

There's a pattern of diverging expectations here, one is the non-technical/naïve one,

- Twitter is going to go down tomorrow and it's all over. RIP.

The second is,

- Twitter is going to experience a failure cascade over time.

The third is,

- It's all going to be fine.

I suspect that the real question is, how many individual wires can break before the cable holding the suspended platform snaps?

I am not that good of a developer, but watching Twitter I can't help but be reminded of Arecibo, except at a larger, more abstract scale. There was no single massive event that caused the failure, rather a series of factors and events, tiny cables breaking that eventually leads to a failure cascade that then causes the suspended platform to crash.

From what I can tell, in the past week or so, [note: this was written 3 weeks ago]

- Twitter's copyright system failed

- Two Factor Authentication broke down (it seems to be back up?)

- (anecdata) Tweets have been loading sporadically for me and other people, sometimes we try to open a tweet and it says that it doesn't exist. Happens more frequently with new/recent tweets.

- (unconfirmed) Twitter's managed account backend is behaving "strangely." For e.g., "One of my campaign managers logged in last week and found all our paused creatives from the past 6 years had been reactivated." from https://www.teamblind.com/post/i-told-my-team-to-pause-our-750kmonth-twitter-ads-budget-last-week-4dnbo1Ft ———— Friends have told me other similar stories

Are these failures symptomatic of a larger problem, or are they well-isolated parts misbehaving? Can Twitter even experience a failure cascade like Arecibo? Can that be paused/stopped?

I am asking this question because I don't know. And I'd like to develop a better mental model to understand what happens next.
You can run your own VPN server easily enough.
The “shit posting” referring to my dark, sarcastic humor. It gets upvotes on Reddit but I try to keep it off Hacker News. :)

I worry more about my parents reading about how I see my childhood or a future employer knowing I’m bipolar.

And there are consequences to my behavior online.

Kayodé Lycaon is my identity in the furry fandom. People know me in real life under this name. I’m published under this name.

In a lot of ways, my legal identity is the pseudonym. I think of myself as Kayodé more than [legal name].
"so far, i’ve been able to confirm about half the accounts suspended posted links to the jet tracker thing in violation of the new doxx’ing policy. unclear just yet about the rest, but i think it’s safe to say the rule is for real."

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

Musk replied:

"Same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603573725978275841
If by "people up top" you mean Twitter's board, they would have been sued seven ways to Sunday if they did not enforce the contract Elon signed.
Right... or those are both ludicrous rationalisations for someone who was always a gaping asshole. Many of us managed to never have been fooled by him.

If anything turned him into who he is, it would be his childhood. When he writes the xmas card to his half sister / niece, it must be difficult deciding how to fill out the card.
They need to recount it again... or better yet, start over
No, the CIA and NSA are not hostile towards westerners but the CCP is. But Chinese people and many other people outside the west should be concerned about that, if there is a good reason to believe YT can be lawfully or reasonably compelled to do CIAs bidding.
But that one is for MS SQL Server, not Oracle
>It seems like a good rule,

I don't know - it doesn't seem consistently applied Donie O’Sullivan published a tweet containing a statement from the LAPD and was banned; and personally I don't see it being upheld once Elon's fixation on this story wanes.

Furthermore, it just seems that Elon is doing what he accused Twitter of doing for so long; enacting arbitrary rules to silence political opponents. It's his site and he's free to ban who he wants but does he see the cognitive dissonance of how he's running the site?
This is being done to distract from his large stock sales, right?
Each curve is one of the countries from the OECD dataset with partial opacity; the darker regions are overlaps.
It’s fine as long as you simply obey an ever-growing list of rules that he changes on a whim, you see.
I mean I don't see any difference between kanye 10 years ago and kanye now really. Ego and narcissism are a hell of a thing., and they don't get better when your wife kicks you to the curb .. probably for being the man that we all see today, but quieter in private.
What kinds of fines would he have been facing for pulling the ejection lever? How much has he lost on this deal by taking it?
> We're both being paid to solve different facets of the same problem. Coming at me with "this is your problem" isn't going to foster a collaborative environment with me.

SRE here.

My takeaway from this is: If you want SRE support running this service, then you need to provide SREs with knowledge of how the system works. As long as only the devs have this knowledge, it's a bit unfair to put the SREs on the hook for supporting it.

Maybe I'm reading between the lines too much--the wording in the article is sloppy at best, and at worst, it doesn't actually say what I'm saying.

It's nice that your code has been through peer review and other people on your team know how it works too. That's less helpful for the SREs running it. SREs bear the burden of the pager--sometimes getting woken up at odd hours of the night to fix problems that were, in a sense, created by developers.

The SOP for getting SRE support for new services should include things like runbooks and design reviews. SREs should be in the loop when you figure out what metrics to expose from your service, because SREs will be the ones using those metrics to figure out the alerting systems. Very few companies have decent "SOP" for SRE support--there are a few companies which are really good at it, like Google, and then a long tail of companies which dump services on SREs without including SREs in the process.

IMO--the right thing to do is to give SRE teams the power to say "no" and refuse to take the pager for any particular service, barring exceptional circumstances. There's a deeper discussion to be had about why this should be the case--basically, devs and SREs have different incentives, and neither team should be put in a subordinate position to the other, because both teams have goals that support the business.
Lol if you don’t know these things, your company has Ops, not DevOps
How does it contradict it? These vaccines reduce symptoms without stopping infection/transmission -> you're helping yourself without helping the community -> it's the selfish action.
"Tone" is a part of what one says. It's not meaningless. It carries a message as well.
Why is this myth so pervasive. Pre-musk, Twitter was making upwards of $1m per employee. If only we could all “fail” this way… It not being profitable was due to short term capital expenditures.
Echoing David Sacks, he's now tweeting that the journalists in question were tweeting 'assassination coordinates.'

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603587970832793600

Starting to think there might be some national security issues with one guy being the nominal linchpin of the US space program, satellite internet, and global public messaging infrastructure.
Listen to yourself... the guy literally risked his life saving children who were trapped in a cave, and you think the mere fact that he criticized Musk means that he deserved to be slandered as a pedophile
> He's still giving Ukraine Starlink for free

Paid for (at least partially) by the U.S. government [1]. You can't easily say "no" to your own government even if you are a foreign asset.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/spacex-ukraine-elon-musk-...
Oh well if he only did it to one person I guess it’s okay then!
Good. "Journalists" should not be immune from any rule enforcement.
A lot closer in the last 30 minutes :-/
No, that's dumb. These are largely orthogonal problems.

Not having EV's wouldn't have made everyone suddenly switch to public transit and bikes, as cool as that might be. They'd just keep driving gas and diesel vehicles.

And realistically, you can't get rid of cars and trucks entirely. Even super dense areas with strong public transit still use plenty of cars and trucks, because they're useful. You think Singapore and Tokyo and Seoul could run on no cars or trucks whatsoever?
It's bound to end just like Scarface, he'll go to war tooting and tweeting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuygJnnyiYI
It seems to be largely made up. It's almost as if he's burning through right-wing political fear mongering tactics with a quickness.
Love to attention to detail with the web app (especially the Obsidian export!). Killer feature, definitely a pocket replacement for me.
It might have lost short-term gamblers a lot of money, yes. But if you lose money through gambling, the only person you should blame is yourself.

If you’re an investor who’s in it for the long run, I don’t see what today’s stock price has to do with anything though. You can’t use the current stock price as an answer to what the stock is worth.
that's great, but sometimes when I start vanilla side projects I like to take a CSS Zen Garden approach to things. That's harder to do the more tightly you couple your HTML and your CSS
Maybe, but probably not because it wouldn't help with paginated data sets displayed in tables. You don't want to sort only the items you currently see, but across the whole data set most of which is likely not loaded.
> What I can tell you is that I'm amazed at the mistakes I see this new generation of junior programmers making, the kind of stuff indicating they have little understanding of how computers actually actually work.

> As an example, I continue to run into young devs that don't have any idea of what numeric over/underflow is

That doesn't happen in web application development either. You don't write that low level code that you could cause an overflow or underflow. There are a zillion layers in between your code and what could cause an overflow.

> they have little understanding of how computers actually actually work.

'The computer' has been abstracted away at the level of the Internet. Not even the experts who attend datacenters would ever pass near anything that is related to a numeric overflow. That stuff is hidden deep inside hardware or deep inside the software stack near the OS level in any given system. If there is anything that causes an overflow in such a machine, what they do would be to replace that machine instead of going into debugging. Its the hardware manufacturers' and OS developers' responsibility to do that. No company that does cloud or develops apps on the Internet would need to know about interrupts, numeric overflows and whatnot.

> I find it stranger that they are even a bit productive in their careers, although I suspect it's because the problem domains they work in are much more tolerant to these kinds of errors

Interrupt errors dont happen in web development. You have no idea at the level of abstraction that was built between the layers where it could happen and the modern Internet apps. We are even abstracting away servers, databases at this point.

You are applying a hardware perspective to the Internet. That's not applicable.
No, he's claiming the journalists "coordinated" a campaign to share external links to the jet tracker. Some of them admit that they did (not "coordinated" -- alternate sites of this public data has been very widely shared), but others are at a loss and claim they did no such thing. One had reported on an LAPD statement -- that despite the imminent harm Elon claimed, they hadn't gotten a crime report and actually had to reach out to Elon's people -- and shortly after got suspended.

Elon is constantly leveraging the "for the children" cover for his petulance.
Twitter suspends accounts of several journalists
Yeah.

It is not obvious to me that, across the total number of human minds produced so far, an outlier like Newton has any reasonable probability of existing.
I think you have to give sympathy in similar situations to expect sympathy in return in that same situation. As mentioned, the Pelosi incident comes to mind.
Concrete insulates quite well by itself. I don't understand the GP's complaint. It can be improved, and there are several improved alternatives on the market since basically forever, but it's not bad by itself, and it's certainly better than wood.

(I really thought it would be about concrete CO2 emissions at first.)
These journalists were banned because they doxxed a live location of Elon Musk’s child.
Yes, he's previously complained that marxism turned his child transgender

> In a new interview with Financial Times, the Tesla CEO, 51, said he believes his daughter — who legally changed her last name in June from Musk to Wilson — no longer wants to be associated with him because of the supposed takeover of elite schools and universities by neo-Marxists.

> "It's full-on communism . . . and a general sentiment that if you're rich, you're evil," said Musk, who is a dad of 10. "It [the relationship] may change, but I have very good relationships with all the others [children]. Can't win them all."

> Musk's comments come six months after Vivian filed a petition to legally change her name and gender.
> rather than on the overall system that makes this kind of censorship possible

What do you think this system is?
Find an industry or line of work you are interested in and learn about problems in that area. Then build products to solve those problems. Use ChatGPT, stable diffusion, and others as force multipliers.

The funny thing with problems is that they never end. Even if AI is effective against the current slate of problems, new ones tend to show up quickly.
You can't argue asymptomatic spread isn't a thing, and then claim the vaccines are bad because they cause asymptomatic spread.