skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It never had before, because a commercial mRNA vaccine had never been the right trade off of immunity vs development time.

Until COVID-19 there had not been a pandemic we needed to address with a vaccine since mRNA vaccination tech became widespread several decades ago. If we had enough time to develop a vaccine, why sell a new one that doesn’t work as well as the old kind?
True free speech. Well done.
What will happen is exactly the same thing that happened when email made mass mailings possible: a torrent of very low quality art will begin to drown out the better stuff because there is no skill required to produce a flood of trash whereas to produce original work takes talent and time.

As the price of a bit dropped the quality of the comms dropped. It is inevitable that the price of the creation of (crappy) art will do the same thing if only because it will drag down the average.
If you want to use this, you will port your code, run your tests, fix an issue here or there as needed, and develop for Postgres for now on.

None of those steps is particularly risky. If any of the steps that may fail brings an insurmountable obstacle, you ditch the project and go back to where you started.

> People pay for commercial DB's for a lot of reasons - including having someone to call at 3am when things go bad.

Oh, the old support excuse for proprietary software. The Oracle support is excellent, but good hope getting anybody to help you at 3am. Good luck getting anybody to actually help you in less than 24 hours anyway. None of the big proprietary software distributors offer anything like this. Oracle is way ahead of the competition on that they will even actually help... kind like you get when you hire a local company to support Postgres for you.
> It’s no different than having a bunch of chain smokers, alcoholics, or morbidly obese people clogging the medical system.

These aren't comparable. Obesity or alcoholism aren't communicable and don't lead to outbreaks. If they did, we'd be having similar discussions as to Covid.
I’m personally not on team Trump or “Libs of TikTok” or whatever. If they were doxxing, then fuck them, too.
He is more of a: "Free Speech" Absolutist
To be clear: He called one person "pedo guy". That person had been insulting his / SpaceX's attempt to help.

There's plenty to criticize Musk about, but this is clearly a case of "can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen". Don't get into a flame war and cry to the legal system when the other guy is better at it than you. The dude deserves no sympathy.
Apple. LOL.
From that article, it certainly appears true that his dad once held shares in an emerald mine. ("This is going to sound slightly crazy, but my father also had a share in an Emerald mine in Zambia.")

Whether that made him millions is less clear.
Why would he need an algorithm?

Do wealthy people not have assistants?

"Smithers, ban those guys making fun of me!"
It doesn't need to be as conspiratorial as Musk being a foreign asset.

If Twitter took loans from interests either connected to or sympathetic to foreign governments e.g. Saudi Arabia, Russia then simply trying to keep them onboard could be enough to influence his decisions.
Mullvad seems pretty decent IMHO https://mullvad.net/en/ , and they have several anonymous payment options
Fuck Elon musk. Judge early? How much info do you need? Is it too early to judge trump too? Get your head out of the dirt
He's still giving Ukraine Starlink for free. He'd be an utterly horrible Russian asset
Why twitter though, it's quite small and not very influent except maybe in some countries like the US, could have bought Weibo and reached a huge market for potential clients and way more ways to make money.

America is probably saturated, it's not even like it wants to buy Musk products, and Musk feels so much more like a Chinese boss than the head of an american social platform having to navigate impossible compromises :D

The strategy to act like a republican douche courting Trump to try to maybe make them like barely finished EVs might pay off, but it's such a risky bet. I d pay good money to witness one day american conservatives "owning the libs" through buying his electric cars.

Twitter itself will never yield him 44bn, so there s no economic rationality for the buyout: it can only be now a derivative gain.
This comment is superb. I wish I understood more about the physics to critique it, but the grievance in the tone just makes me wonder if there's any point in trying.

In the end, I have enough faith in physicists and science historians to incorporate such ideas, or reject them, based on the science or the history revealed in the article. The conspiracy nonsense adds nothing to that. So I'm happy with my 'self-imposed shackles' until I have reason to be otherwise.
Who was the opposite side who were shutting down journalists?
It's all just post-hoc justifications to buy cover for Elon's ego.
Well, no, primal fear alone doesn't make you a good father, quite possibly the opposite if that's all you have.
So… journalists responded to a policy against doxxing by doxxing the owner of the company and then cried when they got banned?

…and I’m supposed to care?
I argued for something like that previously on HN, like adding a domain prefix 'myservice.com_secretkeyhere'. This would allow automatic discovery of the reporting/revocation endpoint from the key. Then someone pointed out that you could just use an actual URL as your secret key and have that be the URL you visit to revoke it, and I think that is genius.

Next service I make that has API keys, I will make them look like `https://secret.myservice.org/ZTNiMGM0NDI5OGZjMWM`. POSTing to that URL revokes the key, a GET shows a form explaining what it is and a button to revoke the key.

One issue is that some email services mangle URLs specifically, and that would be bad for keys.

(edit: sudhirj is the genius: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28299624)
I wonder what Jack Dorsey has to say about all of this.
Interestingly it also explicitly says that you won't get permanently suspended unless your account is dedicated to live updates, or you do it again after being locked out and deleting the content.

Damn, couldn't even follow his own policy for 24 hours since the accounts seemed to have been banned with no warning.

> Sharing private or live location information:

> The first time you violate this policy by sharing private information (such as home address, identity documents etc.), we will require you to remove this content. We will also temporarily lock you out of your account before you can Tweet again. If you violate this policy by posting private information again after your first warning, your account will be permanently suspended.

> If your account is dedicated to sharing someone’s live location, your account will be automatically suspended.
> This was before Omicron and before Delta.

> The numbers may not be current, but they are not inflated. They are an accurate representation of the excess deaths at that time.

That is exactly my point for mentioning Omicron: When you introduced them above you were using them for current risk.
Whats the upside of keeping your IP hidden?
The phone company, irs, local utility, etc. any large business that was in operation 60+ years ago?
> one of the people banned was known to take clips out of context

Certainly a good reason to ban everyone who had the same vowel in their name... or something.
Okay, but that's a different argument from your original. First you said "only bad artists will lose their jobs," now it's "good artists will lose their jobs but I don't care."
> If anyone was sympathetic to the struggle, it was Dworkin. She just acknowledged that it was also harmful and contributing to oppression.

Lemmy read the quote again:

> "In prostitution, no woman stays whole. It is impossible to use a human body in the way women's bodies are used in prostitution and to have a whole human being at the end of it, or in the middle of it, or close to the beginning of it. It's impossible. And no woman gets whole again later, after"

That's a strident statement that leaves no room for interpretation. It's clear that it's the stated opinion of the author that no woman who was fully informed of the nature of the work beforehand but prostitutes herself, could ever do it by choice, ever enjoy it, or ever have it be a meaningful, beneficial part of her life.

That right there is my problem with Dworkin's statements and other statements like them. At best, they entirely ignore (and at worst, they seek to silence so as to make the discussion "focused and un-muddled") people who enjoy fucking, and also enjoy fucking for money.
Yes, we do use common third party apps for analytics/ads. We do not share personal reading data with them. Amazon is just used for their Oauth login API for example (for an easy sign in flow for users), and mixpanel is a very common analytics library that we use to understand product usage, but it does not get reading data either.

You also omitted the term "non-identifying and aggregate information" in your quote from the policy.

I especially take umbrage to your claim that "you are the product", when again, 100% of our revenue comes from customer subscriptions.

What you're saying is simply not true -- we're a small team of bootstrapped hackers that have worked on improving reading for five years and the lies about us aren't appreciated.
*Spaceships out of stainless steel. Good on him though.
cocks gun I said Get. In.
I can't imagine by what path you make that assessment, but...

Any discussion of outliers in intelligence that mentions Einstein but not Newton is simply missing a difference of several standard deviations.
You don't have right to privacy when you fly your jet in public airspace. Elon has a choice, he can take commercial. Just like you don't the right privacy when people take pictures of your house as proven with the famous Streisand case. Do you think Streisand case should have went the other way?
I'm not a fan of the IDE myself, but I knew a few people who are less technical and prefer the IDE over managing a local python environment.
i don't understand how this is relevant to the brain distinguishing memory and perception.
And it also made a short flight.
…information that had previously gotten an account banned for doxxing.

They thumbed their nose at a rule, got banned, and then cried about it.

What am I supposed to care about, exactly?
The link was there:

https://kottke.org/20/01/jim-lehrers-rules-of-journalism-1
I’ll amend my previous statement and instead say that some people are being disingenuous and others are simply obtuse.
December 2022 Software Release
Damn. What is your success rate? A lot of times it seems to mee that luck and your ability to withstand stress are one of the main factors. Is it something you can teach yourself?
> Sorry for the bleak comment but this my fear and I feel the genie is already out of the box.

The bleakness you feel might be due to a poverty of imagination.

> Life will be like a computer game with cheat-codes, whenever we struggle with something, instead of fighting on and improving we will turn to our universal cheat-engine: AI.

One such example of the above.
The Twitter of yore shutting down conservatives and other such "controversial" opinions. I don't care much for bipartisan politics, but the partisan bias in all this is palpable, as is a "the tables have turned and we don't like it so we revert to general principles we pissed on before" vibe ...

It's also comic: pundits pissing on free speech (tons of cheering when people were cancelled before, and lots of articles on how it's justified and free speech is not the be all end-all) making a u-turn to call for free speech and condemn Musk's account shutdowns now, while Musk and co that was defending free-speech before is now censoring accounts, while the "free speech" proponents in the previous round are now cheering him for it...
Those journalists weren't reporting specific locations of his jet...they were reporting on a legit news story about it. Musk didn't like it so the journalists are now banned.

The dude is truly off his rocker now. The "rules" are whatever he makes up on the spot. He's self-destructing before our eyes...no longer the richest man in the world. Telsa stock tanking all because he can't STFU and acts like a spoiled 12 year old.
The replacement for twitter is the fediverse. It has already been growing by leaps and bounds since Elon's takeover.

https://the-federation.info/

People will say "mastodon" a lot and they're not wrong, but the relationship is that mastodon has proven itself the breakout killer app of the fediverse. Click around a bit and you'll find other types of instances like Pleroma, PeerTube, etc.

Basically it's a set of open standards (in particular ActivityPub) developed to do a decentralized version of what twitter and similar social apps do. And no lock-in to a commercial platform or app or protocol.
It's been known for years that Apple has been working on a car project.

The latest is that they have given up trying to make it autonomous-only and will be looking to launch in the next few years.

Not entirely implausible given that their close partner Foxconn is already making EVs:

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/18/business/foxconn-electric...
I said 99%.
> Six months before Rajpopat made his discovery, his supervisor at Cambridge, Vincenzo Vergiani, Professor of Sanskrit, gave him some prescient advice: "If the solution is complicated, you are probably wrong."

> Rajpopat said, "I had a eureka moment in Cambridge. After 9 months trying to crack this problem, I was almost ready to quit, I was getting nowhere. So I closed the books for a month and just enjoyed the summer, swimming, cycling, cooking, praying and meditating. Then, begrudgingly I went back to work, and within minutes, as I turned the pages, these patterns starting emerging, and it all started to make sense. There was a lot more work to do but I'd found the biggest part of the puzzle."

> "Over the next few weeks I was so excited, I couldn't sleep and would spend hours in the library, including in the middle of the night to check what I'd found and solve related problems. That work took another two and half years."

I (and probably every programmer (or mathematician, physicist, carpenter, or problem solver) on the planet) have felt this effect first-hand. Incredible how well the brain can collate and sift through information if you just give it the space to do so.

A related effect, when I was a time where all I did was look at a screen all day, looking up new information, I couldn't solve problems nearly as fast. Looks like I wasn't allowing the incubation period in my mind to start and continue unabated.
> The story you linked is about a completely separate and unrelated story. WikiLeaks and Assange were not involved here.

I am aware. My point is that there is a precedent for this behaviour and neither Trump nor Republicans are credible.

> As for the provenance of the laptop: Hunter Biden never denied giving the laptop to the repair shop. And the repair shop gave the laptop and all its contents to the FBI, who would presumably have found any foreign involvment, if it existed, in their investigation of the matter.

Let me be clear: I have no doubt in the veracity of any of the information or materials leaked. I distinctly recall seeing posts on /pol/ containing videos of Hunter smoking crack and banging hookers (that have since been scrubbed from the Internet), and people allegedly attempting to hack his iCloud account.

However, the I do not find the story and chain-of-custody of his laptop credible. I have been looking further since your prior comment and I cannot find anything that unambiguously confirms its provenance.

On the flip side, I also do not find a lack of official condemnation or attribution to Russia to be sufficient in disproving it. Joe Biden and the Democrats were clearly trying to kill the story and scrub any mention of it, so acknowledging it only gives it legitimacy.

Happy to ammend my comment if you can point me to something that proves otherwise, though. Jeffrey Epstein was discovered in part because a woman stumbled across his black book on the sidewalk — sometimes unlikely coincidences happen.
Could you give an example of the crazy progressive activism on twitter that needed correction?
There are even espionage laws.

You need such laws to be a good place of business.
Eh. I kinda hate writing separate selectors just for a `:hover`

I agree CSS has come a long way. Nested CSS is the one thing I'm waiting for before I completely abandon preprocessors.

Think about the amount of characters wasted on having to write a whole separate rule to add a hover effect or something similar. Sure, better practices could usually make this unnecessary, but there's definitely valid situations for it. If you add up all the extra kb across millions of sites, and all the extra savings minifiers would be able to achieve with this syntax, I'd bet it starts to add up at a certain point

I was sad to see it left out of 2022-interop, but it's definitely the biggest feature I'm waiting for
I read it that way at first too, but I think he’s saying that’s why he originally suspected the bans were due to an algorithm gone awry. And that’s a reasonable worry — it was possible that a particular url was causing the accounts to be banned, e.g. if Musk added ElonJet to some kind of internal ban list, that’d do it.

pg’s still on the side of journalism.
To give this more context, Vern Unsworth was mocking Elon Musks attempts to help on request of the lead diver, after providing many batteries and engineers time to work on a solution. Vern himself was not an actual diver in the rescue.
I don’t know what you think is magically different about an infra person who can apparently maintain arbitrary numbers of services and is somehow immune to the same boredom you fall under.

And look, infra people are harder to come by and more expensive than devs so no company wants to waste our time bumping dependencies and fixing non-infra related bugs. If you’re big enough to have a team or teams of maintainers then they would go there. If not then it’s ship it maintain it.
Nearly all of the value of his companies comes form government grants and loans. He also has large security state contracts with SpaceX and Starlink. He's a US govt asset, which is worse, imo.
I don't think there's legal consensus that posting the locations where an aircraft travels constitutes doxing in the usual sense of the word.
Heyo! Yeah, our parser doesn't work great with HN threads (yet! i'd love to get it working...)

But in the mean time the Reader browser extension also acts as a web highlighter. So after activating it, you can highlight any text directly on the web page, and then add tags/notes to those as well. Those highlights will sync back into Reader.
All the videos are still available. I would be very interested to know which one you think did not show what I thought it showed.

> Claims are all very well, you need to show your working and get it right.

What does this mean? I have un-doctored videos that show various features in action. How do you suggest that I otherwise 'show your working and get it right'?
Oh my god. That’s it. This is the greatest joke ever being told before our eyes.

“…the Aristocrats!”
They can gather this data through other means...
Private platforms aren’t obligated to host your privacy invading photos of people’s houses, if they feel those would be doxxing.

As Twitter’s policy has been, when they banned people for posting videos with visible house numbers because they doxxed the people in them.
> When you admit to making your decision based purely on "seething hatred,"

I didn't "admit" any such thing. My post is there for everybody to read.

> can you really blame people for seeing that decision as irrational?

I don't care what people think of my choices, but I never blamed people or complained about what they think of me. On the contrary I was quite explicit that a large segment of the population sees subservience to authority and following the herd as positive things and can simply never comprehend an objection to authoritarianism or see anything wrong with medical coercion "for the greater good, according to our betters". Clearly they will think my decision is irrational.
Lots of ways this happens either accidentally or intentionally. I think most common accident is due to forgetting to add a file to .gitignore and then using git add . . Intentionally, folks just embed secrets into code out of convenience while developing, and either never even think twice, or forget to remove them before commit & push (which becomes kinda an accident)
The user numbers are self-reported, and unlike when Twitter was a public company, the owner has no legal reason not to lie.
Im not a Musk stan, but which of those are 'prominent journalists'? Is there any of those left in the US or Anglosphere? Those who lied for 8+ years about nonexistent WMDs to facilitate the Iraq war are still at Twitter, Facebook etc - complete with their official blue check marks. Apparently, that is not 'misinformation'. And those people are still 'journalists'.
> The LAPD statement is careful not to state that no crime has been reported

"LAPD's Threat Management Unit (TMU) is aware of the situation and tweet by Elon Musk and is in contact with his representatives and security team. No crime reports have been filed yet." (emphasis mine)

https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/1603558240377151488
> I think we are really going to have to give it time

Yes and no. The acquisition is now complete, so we can judge what led up to that. And it was terribly done. The dude made an offer on a lark, thought he could wiggle out, and discovered that, however much he normally can get away with shenanigans, a Delaware chancery judge was not among the people who would let him slide. So he was forced to buy a business he had spent months trashing publicly. He easily lost $20 billion the moment the deal closed. It's one of the most spectacular own-goals in business history.

We can also start judging the actual takeover. There is absolutely no reasonable business goal that justifies the level of chaos and mismanagement during the takeover. Even if one believes that cutting 75-80% of the staff was necessary, it was very poorly done. If someone had wanted to maximize the level of media attention, they could have hardly done better than all the dramatics.

So is it possible that he'll pull Twitter out of a dive and turn it into a functioning business again? Yes. Network-effects businesses are notoriously hard to kill, which is why Twitter survived all these years despite its problems. But it it likely he'll ever turn a profit on it? I doubt it.

But I think the real long-term cost here to Elon is in brand damage. He was a media darling for quite a while, with a lot of people buying his Tony Stark/Edison 2.0 routine. But those days are over. Tech reporters can be pretty credulous, as they are paid to get eyeballs. But business reporters are much less forgiving, as they're paid to be useful to people trying to make money. And now that Musk has made himself look so erratic, there will always be questions about his competence. His media honeymoon is over, and given how much he used his brand to hawk products and get cheap capital, that's going to be a big problem for him going forward.
I don't really get how tbh. Isn't Option 3 the exact same thing as Sass except the "&" is required in a few more places than it is in Sass? It's also optional in Sass so I already write that way (always using the "&") personally
Scala certainly doesn't remove the needs for tests. But it reduces it a lot. I would say that it reduces the required number of tests to something between 1% to 10%, depending on the domain. The more "calculations"/"math" the domain contains, the more tests are necessary. But for the "plumbing" which usually makes up for the biggest amount of code, it does wonders.

Scala 3 is also quite different compared to the early times. Unfortunately the reputation is still a bit outdated.