skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like the right place for me to speculate idly: I've often wondered about sufficient margins for social engagement on these sorts of things.

For example: how would you or I behave if, no matter what we did, over 50,000 people immediately reaffirmed us online? Would it take 50,000, or would 10,000 be enough? 5,000, 1,000?

This isn't mean to exculpate Musk: he's encouraged this behavior for years, and his own behavior long predates mega-engagement by his fans on social media. And still I can't help but wonder how many of us would be able to similarly contort ourselves, if so much affirmation was on the line.
Altruistic? Elon Musk?
Divergence and curl: The language of Maxwell's equations, fluid flow and more
How often does it happen?
Well he already commented on the bans, so he's aware of them. I think it's pretty safe to say it was his decision.
You can no longer post a link to Mastodon on Twitter
Which makes me even more impressed that Weird Al and Steve Martin are still nice guys.

...Too bad about Dave Chappelle, though. He's on his way to pulling a Gallagher.
"there was never any valid reason to halt society in the first place"

Look whatever you think about anything full hospitals everywhere and people in Spain being left for dead in old folks homes were definitely real things - I am not sure about your definition of "halt society" here but policy choices that reduced social contact in indoor spaces was absolutely required. You just can't rewrite history if that is what you are trying to imply.
The readers should be asking “why?” instead of harping.

There was an incident involving Elon’s son X shortly after the airport pickup, and it involved a very threatening stalker wearing mask and black sock-puppets, on one hand is an outline of a gun underneath the hand-sock. He jumped on the hood of the car (a felony in California). The escort driver (bodygaurd?) started filming the stalker, captured and posted his DMV-mandated un-obscured but dealer-issued auto license plate for all to see.

One journalist started doxxing a live location of Elon’s child, which of course all who retweeted got the swift ban hammer.

And @elonjet tracker got suspended for posting live manifest instead of its usual flight path/plan.

And more who retweeted its FAA manifest (but flight plan is ok) got banned as well.

So, there’s more to the story than media are letting on and it is all plainly seen on Twitter.
So this is the thing I've been thinking about the most in this AI wave ... people like you in your position.

Depending on how fast AI transforms the economy (which I'm in no position to begin to predict), but presuming some degree of speed that is unexpected by at least a good proportion of people, one of the things that will surely be disrupted the most is the idea of career planning for teenagers and high-schoolers.

Because surely, in line with the idea of the "singularity", one of the corollaries of AI disruption will be that the rate and predictability of disruption events increases. At some point, either there's no point on planning out a career, or the only plans that seem to make sense are either vague, snake-oil, or to focus on really basic fundamental things that entail a major shift in lifestyle and even philosophy like farming.

If anything like that pans out, with sufficient speed, I'd predict some hefty social disruption, like groups of people going hard on Ludditism. But also, I'd predict some general polarisation not unlike what appears to have transpired in the west politically, which I think can be attributable to a growing sense of uncertainty and misunderstanding of an increasingly complex and incomprehensible world.

I know I'm not answering your question. That's partly because, though I'm older than you, I've not settled well on a career in my life and am in a not too dissimilar, perhaps worse, scenario from you. But also, as someone who didn't see this year's wave of AI coming, my response is that I don't have an answer, and I think that that is, and that you're asking this question, the actual problem.

...

All that being said, AI pessimism can go too far, and the tone of my post above is certainly guilty of this. Recent AI developments are still very problematic and there's plenty of scope in tech jobs that aren't going to be touched by AI.

Nonetheless, in the spirit of this more optimistic position (for tech at least), I would predict that the blindspot many on here (and in tech in general) will be the experience of juniors with AI being involved more and more.

On one hand, I can see leveraging AI tools to be more productive and learn faster to become more common, especially amongst more adaptable younger people.

On the other hand, I can see AIs making the work of juniors harder, because the AI most easily supplants a junior's non-expert error prone work and so might raise the floor of the bare minimal expertise in the industry without providing accessible means of acquiring that expertise for newcomers. It may quickly become the case, for instance, that writing code in a language and having some vague and basic awareness of tools and concepts is no longer sufficient for a junior, but instead, you need to know the things that an AI doesn't but which are hard to learn without experience, like the pitfalls of combining two tools together, or what certain errors are likely to be caused by etc.
Yeah I tried fastlane but unfortunately it did not work, I'm still keeping a macbook in a box for releasing in the mean time.
For additional clarity; The rescue diver, Vernon Unsworth, when asked directly in an interview, minced no words in saying that Musk's plan was bad and that they believed it was a publicity stunt. [1] Their professional opinion about the merits of the plan should be taken as read; they were there, they participated in the rescue, they understood the cave system, and their criticism makes total sense. A monsoon was expected which would flood the cave; there was no time for ad-hoc, experimental technology - they had to act immediately, using tried and true techniques. And I think we all know, in our heart of hearts, that publicity was part of what Musk wanted from the situation (though I do believe Musk cares deeply about children and probably was concerned for these kids).

Musk went on to hire a PI to try and find dirt on this person. [2] That sure feels to me like he couldn't stand the heat and wanted to use his money to slander this man.

I think it's courageous to stand up against one of the most powerful men in the world when he randomly decides to abuse you because you spoke the truth. I don't think the fact that he used the court system to do so detracts.

A man named Saman Kunan, 37 years old, gave his life in that rescue effort; he lost consciousness underwater and could not be resuscitated. Another man, Beirut Pakbara, developed an illness during the operation; he spent the next 18 months in and out of the hospital, before succumbing to the illness. I can't find an age, but photos make it apparent he was a young man. All twelve children were saved, along with their soccer coach. [This is mostly a summary of the Wikipedia article.]

With that context, Musk's actions are just so incredibly, unthinkably petty.

[1] https://youtube.com/shorts/VM31A4UsiU0?feature=share

[2] https://www.businessinsider.in/an-aide-to-elon-musk-hired-a-...
>Trump, and most right wingers were all banned from TOS violations and harassment and doxxing.

This is directly contrary to the reporting in Twitter Files by Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and Michael Shellenberger whose journalistic integrity and credentials exceed yours and mine combined by orders of magnitude:

"On Jan 7, senior Twitter execs:

- create justifications to ban Trump

- seek a change of policy for Trump alone, distinct from other political leaders

- express no concern for the free speech or democracy implications of a ban"

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/16017204550055116...

And the only doxxing related to LibsOfTikTok was Taylor Lorenz doxxing LibsOfTikTok, to the point that Lorenz showed up at LibsOfTikTok's house in person herself. She didn't just doxx her, she went to her house in person. There are pictures.

edit: Rate limited for telling a truth that HN dislikes again...

Here's my reply to the below:

>If they then publish your home address? Sure.

She did publish her home address, after showing up there. Some tweets containing it are apparently still up, as she complained about it to Musk in a thread about the journalists being suspended (for 7 days it turns out).

She claimed the identity of the account was of public interest on CNN here: https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/15182845369660456...

But then showed up at relatives' houses of LibsOfTikTok too: https://thepostmillennial.com/libs-of-tik-tok-exposes-taylor...

Do you mean to tell me that the relatives of that account were of public interest after exposing the account as an American woman?

It was a deliberate doxxing, by Taylor Lorenz aimed at LibsOfTikTok on purpose.
I've noticed it at older large companies. banks, oil companies that sort of thing.
If you are in the CircleCI CI/CD space then adding it to a config to power some workflow step.
"Journalists" (sic).
it is not entirely private enterprise - government emissions credits are lucrative
He’s kinda like Edison and Feynman.
I can also highly recommend the 2021 documentary The Rescue and confirm that Elon is not mentioned once in the entire movie.
I was raised in a fairly religious household and taught to respect everyone including everyone in the lgbtq community
This was in the south as well. I grew up in the 90s if that means anything.
> If IvorySQL can take all their custom plsql packages and ETL batch jobs and run them without changes that's a big win.

It's a big win even if it just substantially reduces the transition cost, though being completely drop-in would be even better.
So what you're saying is that he's been treating his lawyers the same way he's now treating Twitter.

I doubt very much anyone let him walk into a trap that bad. He had to have been kicking and screaming the entire way.
There IS an explanation, if you bother to open the link: those who participate in "doxxing" (spread links to Elon Jet trackers), are getting banned.
Can we please stop putting the douchebag on a pedestal. Thanks.
TBF anyone who has their net worth almost entirely tied up in the US stock market has seen their wealth decrease by nearly 40% in the last year.
Calling someone a pedophile without proof is genuine criticism?
Information and Links on Elon Musk's “Falcon Landing LLC” Jets
Or if he's visiting Russia.

The degree to which Musk is upset by this makes me wonder if there isn't something more to it than just 'personal safety' concerns fed by paranoia. It may well be that the location of his plane tells a story that he does not want exposed. Because frankly the amount of goodwill that he's burning over this makes no sense at all.
"Own" in this context means be responsible for. Peer review does not transfer ownership to peers but it does reduce risk of your code breaking. Other people should not understand your own code (and intent) more than you, so long as that is correct, while everyone in dev/ops shares responsibility of delivering service, you own and are responsible for the part of that service delivery that you authored simply because you are the person most qualified to resolve any issue that arise from that code breaking. If an SRE is keeping your code running then they own the code's uptime in as much as you have been able to communicate the parameters and configuration of the app, but at the end of the day, when there is a bug in the code you are the best person to fix it, so you own it.
Exactly! I couldn't help but think of Hughes recently with his crazy choices. He hasn't got the injury from a plane accident to attribute his awfulness to though.
How do you know no police report was filed? Are they public record in LA?
You didn’t stratify vaccination risk by age which immediately calls into question your comparative data. Indeed the myocarditis risk appears to be inversely correlated with age (exactly the opposite of the positive correlation of risk COVID itself has with age).
My, if you had kept up this well before then we may well still have had something to talk about. Alas.
If you willfully ignore the last month of events maybe that could float.
Latest rumor is that they pushed it from 2025 to 2026.

By 2026 it'll be next to impossible to make any serious impact in EV market, certainly not serious enough to affect Tesla.

In 2026 Tesla will be at run rate of 5+ millions cars.

There's no magic in this business.

Even if Apple has a car with that kind of demand, it takes 1 year to build a factory and 3 years to ramp it to 1 million cars a year. This is what Giga Shanghai did and that's faster than anyone ever done it.

So we're talking 2030 for 1 million cars, if somehow Apple can build it's first factory at the same scale and speed as Tesla it's second factory, after lots of painful learning scaling Fremont production.

Plus, without robotaxi what's the point? Luxury brands like BMW / Audi / Mercedes top out at ~2.5 million a year. That's a business, but it's not a Tesla destroying business.
They say money affects people like drugs. They get high on it. But this kind of erratic behavior makes me wonder, maybe he's on drugs.
> I want browsers to have first class Sass support.

We don't want that.

For example, CSS Custom Properties (CSS variables) are far more powerful than Sass variables. Plus you'd have two different implementations for how variables work—CSS variables work with the cascade but Sass variables don't. You can't have two fundamentally different methods for variables. That's a non-starter.

Pretty much all of the good stuff from preprocessors is going to be implemented in CSS (including conditional statements) relatively soon; we're just not there yet. But CSS Nesting is an important first step.
Remember Elon joking about pronouns earlier? It's hard for me to read that as anything other than spiting his transgender daughter. Between that and his "can't win em all " statement, I don't think Elon cares all that much for his kids.

But I certainly agree that he's going through a crapton of stress right now, and that can't be helping. I hope he finds a feeling of safety, but I also hope that his daughter also finds the peace she needs...
Tesla got carried over the chasm by hundreds of millions of dollars in DOE-backed loans, their product is subsidized by state and federal price supports, and all of their profits are due to air pollution swaps, another government subsidy. Good for Tesla for being aligned with the government, I guess.

This is to say nothing of Elon's small-potatoes stealing from local governments via Boring.
Or a world where the gouvernement runs hospitals & schools and pay for it, no matter the cost. Effectively pulling those out of the market.

It’s not a fantasy idea. I grow up there and it’s still working.

It’s not out of beautiful idea either. But sheer pragmatism.

A country will always need those things and those are important things.
We might as well invest in them for the long run.

Clearly those are not hip idea anymore. Oh well.
I'm having trouble following this. Do you believe the Model 3 was Tesla's first model?

Having $10 billion in cash sounds like a lot. But that's against the $500 billion car companies will be investing this decade: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/exclus...

It's also not much compared to the $130 billion Tesla's top 10 investors have lost on Telsa since the Twitter takeover started: https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/tesla-stock...

And Tesla is coming under pressure to spend their cash not on investments, but on stock buybacks: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/tesla-stock-...

As to the future, we'll see, but it's perfectly possible that Tesla will end up in the bucket with Groupon: promising early start, but in retrospect only of historical interest.
A disastrous failure worth $6b! That's my point. Neurolink and SolarCity are also disastrous failures. But Boring Company has gotten contract in Las Vegas, Chicago, LA, and more. And despite all these failures Miami, amongst a few other FL and CA cities, is still in talks about a contract.

That's the business. Continue selling a dream. Talk to any actual engineer with relevant knowledge and they'd likely tell you it was a terribly thought out idea from the start. But those engineers aren't the ones signing gov't contracts
Interesting way to look at it , a DDoS on healthcare.
Makes me think of a Cold War sci-fi story called “Wasp”.
Musk is still on the hook for the loans whether Twitter goes under or not. The danger they face is if Musk loses enough to not be able to cover the loans personally.
hopefully that's the case. I have seen some that are too afraid to change it in case something breaks. They then wrap the core cobol system in many layers of java to provide a more friendly interface to external modules.
Frontend continues to spiral out of complexity, I strongly doubt it. A lot of said complexity is moving to the server with SSR etc - I'd still say this sort of work is considered "frontend development", even if you are writing code that runs on the server - ultimately frontend is about building a user interface, which are becoming increasingly complex.
Most of the time, yeah, but there's a corner case (example C from the article):

a:hover {
color: hotpink;
:is(aside) & {
color: red;
}
}

Here, you can't just use `aside &` as this starts with a letter and will confuse the parser. Hence, wrapping with `:is()` is requires.
>Twitter is a chaos box at the moment, It's hard to tell whether Musk is directly involved. These actions (or any actions really) might be policy, edicts from the top, officious middle employees or just plain screw ups.

This is an issue that allegedly involves Musk's family. He's tweeted about it directly multiple times stretching back to his initial offer of cash for @elonjet to go away, and has directly discussed this policy change in his own tweets over the past 24 hours, including tweeting about this round of bans.

Are you actually saying "it's hard to tell whether Musk is directly involved" in this specific issue, or...?
Honestly having 5-10 people reaffirming everything you say or do can be catastrophic, if it's the wrong 5 or 10.
I like to host my own Wireguard instance to access my home network from remote locations...

Note: You can use Tor to hide your IP (some services block Tor, unfortunately)
There are some tests, but definitely not a lot for a project of this size

https://github.com/lichess-org/lila/search?q=Specification
Heyo!

1. Yes, absolutely. Ex-Pocket users are some of the most common folks using Reader right now.

2. We don't really have a bookmark import yet... we strangely haven't really had enough requests (yet) to build it, but not against it!

3. You can always export all of your saved links+metadata to a CSV file, and all your highlights/notes to markdown (as well as various note-taking app integrations we have). We also have a nascent api which right now only lets you export your highlights/notes, but will be adding support for all of your links and such as well!
It’s pretty widely reported how much Elon makes in subsidies.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-list-government-su...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/07/tech/elon-musk-wsj-government...

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-201...

https://www.mic.com/impact/elon-musk-build-back-better-tesla...
I find this a weird decision too. Why would you choose a product made by your director competitor to be a core part of your product? I suppose it’s semi-common with big companies (Apple using Samsung produced iPhone parts comes to mind) but it’s still a bit strange. I feel like JetBrains or Sublime or someone need to get a real competitor going because I don’t like the way VSCode is coming to dominate the web editor space without any real competition. Give it 5 years though and I think we’ll have a rust based editor that will dominate everything else due to high performance.
When Kubernetes was released, it was thought it would be a successor to borg if not the key components of borg itself, IIRC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes:

The design and development of Kubernetes was influenced by
Google's Borg cluster manager. Many of its top contributors
had previously worked on Borg;[15][16] they codenamed Kubernetes
"Project 7" after the Star Trek ex-Borg character Seven of Nine[17]
and gave its logo a seven-spoked wheel.

There was a lot of early skepticism about it because it was not borg. I guess my understanding is that borg is so integrated into google tooling that it would have been impossible to generalize.

I haven't used it myself yet because a few of the senior engineers (from google/fb) I respect said "absolutely not in our infra."
Optional and being able to require it with e.g. a linter on a per-project basis seems better idea for me, since I'd strongly prefer not using & and for the vast majority of cases (as we learned from SASS) it's not needed.
He truly is falling apart in slow motion on twitter like Kanye did.
There's one source that usually comes up in such discussions, When Prophecy Fails (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails). It's difficult to respect it completely as a controlled act of science, like much social psych from that era (and an ongoing battle for the discipline, to be sure), but it's definitely far from an unworthy read.
Zen can be uncomfortable
A lot of (early?) Tesla revenue was other auto makers forced to buy credits from them
Fun fact: The spruce goose was made of Birch.
Based on the evidence (safety claim by Elon, death of Diana) it appears that promoting and publicising it makes it accessible to a wider audience that does have an effect on real world consequences. I presume this is also why marketing works on a platform that enhances the reach and distribution of a particular piece of information.

Anecdotally, I did see the @ElonJet account, and have still never seen the source of the data.
But aren't the coordinates of his plane public anyways? And wouldn't shutting down ElonJet account be enough, why all these journalists' accounts as well?
Yes, I wasn't a "fan" but in general I found Tesla and SpaceX to be really cool companies doing things I didn't think I'd see in my life time. When he was a goofball or a little unprofessional it didn't bug me too much, sometimes it was even a little funny, but it got more and more troll-ish and pandering to a mean spirited crowd. Now he's just obnoxious and I wish he'd go away.
>Those journalists weren't reporting specific locations of his jet...they were reporting on a legit news story about it.

Come on now. They were linking directly to the tracker that Sweeney was banned for, not just reporting on the story about it.

It was a childish petulant doxxing on purpose and they got treated the same as Sweeney.
Yes you are absolutely right. You have to learn to leverage AI as a tool and use it the most to your benefit. This is the new way.
Minus the brilliance
Surely it is comical if Russians believe that GPS spoofing will prevent targeted drone attacks.
BugSnag - I use this on 3 sites, the highest paid plans available. The insights it provides has saved me and my team days and weeks. It's stacktracing coupled with the tons of other natural and custom data you can feed it is insanely helpful.
You have to literally rape yourself mentally and break down your mental barriers. Your brain works against you with all kinds of weapons like fear.

One that works is to line up a lot of things that must be done, so you can choose the less painful :D.

Also stop reading news, it makes your mind wander/think about irrelevant things. Read news only before going to bed. News is 98% noise.

If your brain is really rioting, then use a pomodoro timer.
How would you like it if people on Hacker News started calling you a "pedo"?
Alpha, huh?

Well he's certainly not mature and stable enough for a Beta release!