skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I sort of expected the same... I think our HN crowd (myself included) is biased to assume the importance of technology more than the importance of the social dimension. But also, I think Musk put a heavy hand on the tiller far faster than I expected he would (the wise thing to do would have been to assume there was much to learn; he seems to have stomped into his new company with a belief he knows what's best, and that's not meshing well with what was already there).

But we should remember our own tech-first biases. Twitter ran in frequent-fail-whale mode for months with users accepting that because it fed their social needs. The moment it stopped serving those needs, people started leaving no matter how good the tech is.
Is it necessary to believe anyone is "stupid" as a personality?

I just disagree with people's opinions on certain things. And if I frequently disagree with someone enough, then I just quietly stop paying any attention to what they say.
To save a click, it's Elon a few months back tweeting "The acid test for any two competing socioeconomic systems is which side needs to build a wall to keep people from escaping? That’s the bad one!"
> Apple has systematically underinvested in Webkit, so that major bugs remain unaddressed for years and years. Some of these bugs are functional – Webkit just doesn't act the way its documentation says it does – but others represent serious security vulnerabilities.

Citation needed.
What about using "brainy" or referring to functioning brains at all? It perpetuates the myth that anencephaly is abnormal or negative.
On Writing a Meeting Agenda
Why would you think that science has anything to do with this?
Having a symbol DENOTE the empty list and having a symbol be THE SAME OBJECT as the empty list are two very different things. The former is perfectly reasonable. The latter causes no end of difficulties.
The emperor has no clothes, people are realizing it, he banned clothing-related discussions, and he's now banning any site where clothing-related discussions can happen.
I already fund it by paying for iCloud. App makers need to stop reinventing the wheel and then using that to justify subscription pricing.

Edit: 1Password is a perfect example. It worked fine for years with any kind of third party sync I wanted - from Dropbox to Syncthings - but now I need to pay for a subscription because 1Password wants me to use their infrastructure.
> Twitter's business model is advertising

That's true but as I've learned here on HN, that wasn't working very well already and Twitter was just an afterthought for the large advertisers. Twitter wasn't huge money maker.

That's something that he can change, this is not something fundamental about the product.
Argentina were the best team by far 80 min.

It just so happened that things went out of the script in the following 3 minutes, and then after we proceeded to watch quite possibly the best extra time played of all time, certainly in a final game.

Best final? Possibly. But only because of the unexpected 2-2 which looked impossible in the preceding 80mins. In fact, there was only 1 team that showed up for most of the first 90mins.

Had the game not gone into extra time, this would just be another lopsided game with a deserved winner. This was not a trade of blows, Rocky style.

That was left for extra time :)
I think the hardcoded IPs are typically only used as hints to initially resolve the root-servers.net domains.
I am convinced everyone is watching a different game in every country at this point.
Lots of incomplete answers - you can maybe probably follow anyone you want from any decent server. But servers block each other for a number of reasons, so for good or bad you probably want to just pick one, see if it works, and if there are people you can't reach you'll need to find another. It's possible to migrate to a different server in a relatively seamless way. From what I can tell choosibg a server is based a lot on word of mouth. Which I assume is difficult if the site you're using explicitly forbids discussion of Mastodon.
So? Why so much discussion about this? Are we going to discuss this again when he's back on Twitter?
The thing is that Twitter 1.0 had the exact same ideas. Every one of them that Musk has thought of to date.

They simply were too slow in implementing them. Some of them eg. payments are due to all of the regulatory challenges that Twitter faces as a top tier social network. Others are just incompetence eg. not doing more with Vine.

They needed a better executor. Problem is Musk immediately fired everyone. And has constantly underestimated the complexity of the system. So bit hard to see how they were ever going to do better as Twitter 2.0.
Very different times honestly. And being a GOAT, in this context, isn't specific to the world cup. Winning a world cup basically seals the deal, but it's about a lot more than just that.
No later than Friday, I was discussing with an acquaintance working for Tesla who compared Musk's leadership here to Trump at the white house: there is an entire team responsible for doing internal damage control after Musk announcements on Twitter. It's a lot of work, and sometimes the entire company just need to cope with the boss's whims (“ok next year there's going to be the Cybertruck thing [which he basically compared to the “not a flamethrower”] but fortunately for 2024 we're working on real cars”).
I doubt Parler would have sold to him at the time, Owens and Farmer are probably still stoking Ye to make some ludicrous bid on it again.

Musk, on the other hand, needs the audience.
I got PLEX Lifetime just last year, cause I realized that I've basically paid for it multiple times across the years I've been a subscriber. So Lifetime's been worth it for me, especially when it's on discount.
The evidence was in plain sight before Musk took over. He's not the kind of person that should run something like Twitter, it was going to be a disaster.
A lot of “rich” people are broke.

Plenty of people out there with way more debt than assets. But if you can put your liabilities out far enough you can live like that forever.

You start with something modest, like $100,000 loan at 10-15%. You keep 75%. That’s your starting salary and covers you for a whole year. You use 25% to work on a scam that will generate $1,000-$1,500 a month to pay back your loan. You are scamming such small amounts from the most desperate people so you’ll never get caught or punished.

You get better at it and keep repeating. You work your way up to borrowing $1,000,000. You keep $800k, and spend $200k on scams that can generate $10-$20k a month. Really not that much if you never plan on actually paying back the loan.

Before you know it you’re at $10 million. You’re a multimillionaire now. You’ve “manifested” the life of your dreams. You’ve bought a house and cars and all sorts of stuff and your scam empire is now generating $100-200k a month. Your reach has grown and you are now attracting real ad revenue on top of scam money.

These kinds people are always working on “projects” and “products”. Whenever a project starts to look like it won’t generate what’s needed they literally just bail and refuse to pay anyone. And if anyone ever did go after them they wouldn’t get anything, because these people are broke.

You can live your entire life like this. You can live a great life with all the luxuries. What you can’t do is stop. It’s why these people never go away. People always say, “Why don’t these people just retire?” The answer is because they can’t. They may have a Bugatti, but the show must go on or it all goes away. Paying out $500k a month is not a big deal when you’ve got $20 million of runway but you know the end of the runway exists.

I remember an old video of Logan Paul, from way back in the Vine days where he says (paraphrasing), “I spend every moment of every day thinking about how to become more famous.” His life is a 24/7 hustle. Even the videos where he appears to be “chillin” are carefully staged and curated.

Ask yourself this: If you actually had a true NET worth of $50 million would you really be wasting your time on nonsense podcasts and NFTs?
In a large number of cases because they've been banned.
I use a CSS code which makes downvoted comments to be displayed the same as any other comments, and adding vertical lines to the left of indented items.
so KubeSail, Cloudron
No, they're suffering from needing to provide hockey-stick growth to their VC overlords. Gitlab will eventually go the fate of all promising startups and do things once thought unthinkable in their early years.
Intelligence is neither a binary nor a one-dimentional concept. Within certain contexts Musk is certainly a smart entrepreneur but I would not call him that without a lot of such qualifiers.
In the bigger picture, Elon in SF twittering around while Gwynne runs Boca Chica may be a good thing.
VSCode extension? SaaS
Gym app? SaaS
I'm fully willing to pile on, but I don't know that it's an example of a policy violation. It's linking to things people are doing on TikTok, not promoting a specific account or TikTok itself.
M-S-x, actually, C-M-x is eval-defun in Elisp mode (and similar functions for Slime and Geiser).
There's this shading in free speech absolutists from "I have a right to say what I want" to "I have the right to the audience I want".
> But.. disability is abnormal and negative?

Even if we were to accept that disabilities were not negative, a blind review is a good thing - it’s a review that’s more fair than a non-blind review. So if there’s nothing wrong with being blind, why would you want to stop people from using the term “blind” to describe a blind review? How does calling it a blind review imply that being blind is negative?
That’s great it sounds like Twitter and social media in general isn’t a big value add for you.

I think for Paul Graham it’s a different story since he talks to other influencers and occasionally goes viral. That sort of feedback loop well that’s quite addictive. There’s a reason why there’s no obvious Twitter competitor.
And the bible, and some masses.

In fact, there is a particularly popular political ideology that lead to an attack on the white house recently in the USA if I recall.
What's wrong with Mastodon? I thought that because it isn't serving you ads, it has much less incentive for keeping you constantly engaged and outraged.
I don’t really buy that there _is_ a master plan. I suspect everyone has just been telling him he’s a magical super-genius for so long that he’s started to believe it, so obviously Twitter would be easy.
I used to see Musk through rose colored glasses. The environmental savior of the planet bringing electric cars to the people and all that.

Now I see him more like a modern lumber or oil baron.
Definitely Gretzky!
He owns Hacker News
I'm curious if this is legal - at least in the EU it seems like banning discussion of competitors by a media company is something that would already be legislated against.
C did compile to more efficient code than Pascal, but The Delphi compiler processed code 10x faster than the C compiler, and hit an amazing sweet spot for the 300Mhz workstations of the day, where you could iterate through edit/compile/run in Delphi just as fast as Visual Basic, and when you were done the program ran an order of magnitude faster than VB (and maybe 90% as fast as C). Also, because the language was easier to parse, the tooling was able to interact with your code way better than Borland's same product for C++ or any of Microsoft's products, so you were getting more accurate code completion and context-sensitive help and all that.

I believe that Delphi was a vastly superior product to any of its contemporaries, and was killed purely by corporate forces.
"Deathcon 3 on jews" is more valuable speech than links to facebook profiles, gotcha.
Yep. Along with Musk and Kanye. Those are cases where the poison has fully penetrated. How many of our elites are less noticeably but still significantly impaired though? It's a frightening thought.
Elon's behavior, opinions, and points of view suggest otherwise. His only notable quality is his wealth.
Colds are virus infections from multiple species of virus. It's just called "a cold" due to historical misinformed ideas of what it is.
I think they are laying the groundwork to allow creators to monetize their tweets and additional content. As it stands a lot of creators are monetizing their content off platform (patreon, substack, youtube, onlyfans, etc.) and the goal is to lock them and their content into twitter.

I think it's a good idea as content is king, but they should have rolled this out after they had established an ability to monetize. Once people leave the platform it will be tough to get them back unless they offer a very lucrative comission split with creators.
Is her beauty line worth more than (top three classic beauty supply companies)?
>retard (n) person with a cognitive disability, person with autism, neurodivergent person

Well it's great that Stanford thinks "Person with Autism" is synonymous with "Retard".

Given the specific target audience of this IT department, the nomenclature "Person with Autism" is especially controversial and likely to cause offence and the phrasing "Autistic Person" would be preferable (See [1] for more details). So the language they're suggesting in a reference is a poor choice.

The person who authored this really hasn't meaningfully consulted with the relevant groups in question enough. They would be well served reading the better style guides which already exist such as [1] which by comparison give actually useful guidance which evidently Stanford failed to find during its research [2]. Notice how this guide, which only covers one section of what Stanford was trying to cover, is longer than Stanford's entire guide. Notice also how this is presented as a GUIDE, as suggestions, rather than simply decrying certain terms as harmful.

I will note that this appears to be an internal IT department effort, so I would try to keep into context this is likely the work of some busybody who likely had no reason to anticipate international social media scrutiny. I do have to admit though, this effort simply isn't well executed enough to be advisable, and the tone is way too hardline.

[1] https://ncdj.org/style-guide/#Autism
[2] https://itcommunity.stanford.edu/ehli#footnote-3
Elon is undoubtedly smart. It also seems like maybe he's on a mental health episode or just got so rich he decided he's done with building companies and just wants to be an asshole out of spite. Who knows? But he's accomplished plenty of things that suggest he's not an idiot.
Your solution is to try and convince Elon?
I think the way Twitter is faring is actually proof to the contrary, you can't lay off half your staff and expect the machine to just keep chugging along. You either design it from day #1 to be run with a very tight crew or it becomes a much larger machine with a different kind of profile.

Compare Instagram with Twitter.
The site had its problems and employees made mistakes. The "twitter files" revealed something mundane and human behind the scenes: multiple people working on difficult moderation problems and trying to solve them as best they could. There was at least an attempt to do the right thing. That's gone out the window.
>I agree that the "sprinkle a little money towards the sites you used in the month" remains pointless.

This was kind of the idea between Brave Browser's "earn BAT, auto-contribute to sites you use automatically" concept, and I actually admired the effort. I think people just saw it as being able to earn free crypto, though. It barely gets used for stuff like tipping, auto-tipping, etc.
I had that happen with a sleep tracker for Apple Watch. It was a few dollars for the app, but to actually view the data it tracked while you were asleep, you had to upgrade to the premium subscription. Fortunately it was easy enough to get a refund[1].

1. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204084
Elon is definitely not a smart human. Maybe 25 years ago he did a thing. Ok.
The problem is that the dialog says to quit the application so snap can update, but snap doesn't do that. It checks a few times a day and bails if the application is running. It doesn't wait for the application to exit and then update, like the dialog indicates it would.

Thus you quit the Firefox, wait a few minutes, assume it has been updated because why shouldn't it, and after two weeks it gets killed mid-session.

Completely inexcusable UX...
Please explain what "smarter than eight billion people" mean? What is the smartness of eight billion people, is it some new aggregate? Do you sum it or get the mean? Are eight billion people by default always right? I am curious how it can make sense.
he was invisible for 90% of the game, aside from the second goal, he hasn't done much, both penalties were terrible mistakes by Argentina defense.
This guy is full of himself an d you guys know this. Stop adoring him.
I love it. Some months ago I had a Bluetooth pedal with several footswitches. It could be used as a keyboard. I thought about mapping it to a step debugger :D
Is there a killer feature that's unique to Plex? Or is it just pleasantly integrated?
Isn't that what Tailscale is?
They do, by buying the next version. On the other side of that coin is making the next version better enough that people will upgrade.

For security/bug fixes, yes, there’s a better incentive for fixes in SaaS, but then again, if you’re known to actually fix bugs, the likelihood of people buying the upgrades are higher, so there is incentives for non SaaS too.
Predicted by Supercomputer 52 days ago..zero comments...shame on you HN :-))

"Supercomputer Predicts Argentina Wins 2022 World Cup" -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33356979
Can you just make your point?
Yeah, this thread is nuts to me how many people in this thread are mad. Sure, some of the words are a bit of a stretch but while going through the most I was nodding along being like, “yeah, makes sense.”

Like nobody is gonna string
you up not following the guidelines but in my own writing I follow these pretty much naturally because, yeah, it’s kinda weird that we describe things with limited or reduced functionality as crippled.
That’s not true at all. Twitter has a lot of influence in the UK, France, and Germany. EU officials have already commented on this whole situation
You can try another server! https://toot.community/@paulg@mas.to

That's advantage of federation!
Twitter is dead as dead as MySpace now. Time to move on.
if you are referring to the TV....they actually booed infantino, the president of fifa.

No one booed the qataris. In fact the boos ended once the king was announced.

They love their king and deservedly so
The second penalty was a hand ball blocking Mbappes excellent looking strike so I’d only take half a point off of that
Just open it in a private/incognito window.
Mastodon is the last thing people need to be moving toward. It's an even more isolated bubble than people already experience
The counter argument is lidar isn’t strictly necessary (case in point humans use vision, and roads are designed for visual drivers). Furthermore, there is potential added complexity in fusing lidar and video data. When lidar says the path is blocked and video says it is not, you essentially have to either trust lidar and stop unnecessarily or just ignore lidar and go anyway (and then what was the point of the lidar?). Having to make a decision like this is a form of complexity and addressing that complexity potentially takes resources away from iterating on the vision part of the stack.
> Your best bet is some of the bigger second-tier servers.

Until they get overloaded, and face the same issues as the "first tier" ones...

I know that what I am about to say is out of personal interest, but I really wish people took the analogy to email servers more seriously and started looking at commercial providers. I'm offering Mastodon services for about $0.50/user/month [0], and I have the infra to host 20-30k users efficiently.

For this type of case, there is nothing more sustainable, fair and efficient than letting the market figure things out. But if we keep thinking that accounts should be offered for free, there will be always market distortions.

[0] https://communick.com/packages
I would say this is Wall Street's fault. Wall Street values recurring revenue much more than one time revenue. It's causing companies to shift to recurring revenue when they have no reason to, like how BMW is charging a subscription to have seat heaters.
I pray for you and your family and that the diagnosis is not true. Praying your work continues and that there will be breakthroughs from your work. Pray your passage brings you into the arms of long lost loved ones to comfort you.
You will completely forget that you ever predicted such a thing.

After there is enough renewable generating capacity to charge it from, storage will be built out, and NG turbines will be used decreasingly often. Many will be converted to burn ammonia instead, which will be fixed at solar farms in the tropics and shipped wherever it is wanted.

If there is dystopia it will be via failure to build out fast enough.
> Amazing that just a month ago he tweeted[1]: "It's remarkable how many people who've never run any kind of company think they know how to run a tech company better than someone who's run Tesla and SpaceX.".

That is still a valid point tho. The thing is, we're not going to know who is right or wrong until it all plays out. And considering there are billions on the lines and Musk plays fast and loose with the rules, he's probably going to come out of the otherside better for it.

> It's been fascinating watching so many VC types ignore so many red flags just because some of Elon's early actions validated their priors (e.g. tech companies are bloated and need to layoff staff).

Again it's still a valid point. Tech companies are bloated and need to layoff staff, that's why they're ALL doing it.

People can be right and still do dumb jackass moves.
Browser extension that lets you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances
And then immediately blocks anyone criticizing his asinine take: https://twitter.com/fennecsound/status/1592855964474298368

Called this a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33659020

"The emperors have no clothes"
Rent-seeking is the end stage of late neoliberal capitalism.
Technical books need to be preserved. Most inventions are based on old ideas or discovering hidden structures that can be used in another domain. If we have not preserved Darwin's books, we may not have advanced in genetics now. The pity is there is a misconception that "you can find every thing in internet"- it is not true. Most African countries lack technical books. So, please don't through those books rather find a philanthropist who can build a library of technical books.Most teachers will find that not one text book is not enough to teach a subject and can find examples from other books. Is there a national institution to preserve technical books.
I have used https://github.com/iann0036/iamlive with great success in the past. On high level, the approach you are describing is iamlive on steroids and UX improved.

Kudos on launch, will check your beta
I have a domain on no-ip.org

I remember when this happened and I was trying to debug why I couldn't reach my home server.