skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was once a really great place to follow developers and artists. My feed was once a gold mine of tips and tricks and interesting projects that other people were working on.

It wasn't just for unhealthy political discussions, as a lot of HN posters like to make out. I managed to block all of that out, for a time.
Thanks for the links!

Do you know if it is possible to subscribe (?) to two Mastodon servers at once? Say I am at a San Francisco server but also want to see what people post on an LA server, is there a straight forward way to do that or do I need to maintain two separate accounts on both servers?
Can this property not be harnessed for benefit?

The problem is... does he think he is doing so with every action that he takes?
NumPy 1.24
Who has he blocked? Context?
They should be careful, look at Canada that basically has a pretend industry of "playing startup" based on government and quasi government (bdc, cdpq) money. Direct government investment doesn't work, much better to try and create a climate where VCs want to invest money and have the actual market decide which startups make sense
After someone buys App2022 there's no reasonable way to sell them App2023 on most platforms, while both the platform and the customer expect updates.
This sounds awesome, but not practical for smaller companies. The cloud costs must be significant? "Faster Git, Build, and IDE experience by utilizing beefy cloud resources–up to 48 cores and 96 GB of RAM per environment"
Impossible in the abstract sense? No.

Impossible in its current state with its current leadership? All signs point to yes.
This makes Twitter Blue a hard sell.

He can "Twitter punish" his detractors all he wants, but that won't help him keep Twitter alive financially.
Not to mention "long" and "short". Also, yes, PL/I had a POINTER type, but just one. Algol 68 did what languages do now, i.e. specifies the type of thing the pointer points at (or the type of the thing the REF type references; speaking of Algol 68 vocabulary, "dereference" made it into common CS jargon).
I disagree that the situation sucks. You gain value while paying. If it goes away in the future, that doesn’t take away from the current value. Just make sure your data is portable which it should be by EU laws and you are ok.
Specifically fyad
These things are not necessarily in conflict: "I don't know what I'm doing so I'll throw a high-voltage poll out there" is a somewhat predictable action for a panicking narcissist to take.
Such a sad story Musk has become, even posting crazy conspiracy theories
> No. The virtual address space starts at the 64KB boundary. You can confirm this by calling GetSystemInfo and checking the lpMinimum­Application­Address. It will be 0x00000000`00010000.

Aw, man. I recently found out there is also a similar restriction on Linux. Bummer, because I have a good use for putting code into the lower 64KB of memory (not 4KB, still want to use that for catching NPEs). My use case is a fast interpreter for bytecode. Since every bytecode handler needs an entry in the dispatch table, and I have 7--yes 7!--dispatch tables, I'd like to make their entries 2 bytes. So instead of taking 1KB each, they would take only 512B each. But alas.

Another great use case is Wasm. Since the memory is a sandboxed 4GB range and only indexed into by 32-bit offsets, placing it at virtual address 0 would save an add instruction (or use of segment register) on every access.
Is there a way to only see headlines with Algolia, not story excerpts as well? The UX for the above link is really disorienting.
I was hoping for bigger drama after some EU institution gets banned for advertising social.network.europa.eu, but I'll take what I get…
What's Sam Bankman-Fried up to these days?
Not really a big catch for those without many savings.

[Edit]: Also, it's a bit of a stage rule as most of Musk's wealth is still in SpaceX and Tesla.
I wouldn't be surprised if GP gets flagged by > 0 people.
I don't know anything about it, besides knowing that my dad and brother used to use that app but switched away from it for some reason.
...Are you surprised? Did anyone really think building a program on the basis of neural function imitation would lead to an actor incapable of deception?

Telling the truth is not a natural state of affairs. Children must be taught not to lie. Adults fall off the horse on the regular.

At best, any NN is probably only going to approach a toddler until such time as we figure out how to make the things suffer. As it is primarily through suffering that children and adults alike are conditioned to in general avoid patterns of behavior that even remotely minimize perpetuation of suffering.

Even in doing that, we should find pause, however. As in doing so, we are forging something that is closer to playing God in a real tamgible sense than anything we've done as a society before other than just reproducing amongst ourselves.

All these thought leaders wishing to not be burdened with the airy philosophical aspects of what they are doing are fools, for it is in those details that the very soul of the resulting is to be found.

...and to be honest, I don't think we as a society are ready yet.
And Lex is going to bite that bullet even.

No way Elon follows through, surely?
Okay, I re-watched. Everything about that foul was stupid - including, I think, the decision to call it - but it was a foul.
There were no lyrics all this time? Either it's really hard to get people to pay attention to alternatives like Deezer and Tidal or there is little demand for lyrics.
A subscription model is closer to how most consumers assume a software 'purchase' should work.

If you're ok with never wanting an update, bugfix, or security fix, then a one-time purchase would sort of be alright. Most consumers, however, expect that the software they buy will get some kind of support over time.

I used to work at Microsoft. I can't tell you how many times my relatives/friends complained to me about Microsoft dropping support for XP. They expected that the software would be supported forever, even though they bought it once more than a decade ago.

A subscription cost matches the expectations of the consumer better than a one-time purchase, and better aligns the incentives of the company with the consumer.
I think the reason so few are getting into the thing is that Twitter never showed the concept to be a particularly profitable business in the first place, and it couldn't seem to grow beyond a certain small size (in comparison to other networks).

So why would Amazon or any other company want to invest in their own version of that?
I have no problem with it as long as I can cancel it without talking to a human at any time. E.g. Google play subscriptions.
It's instructive to contrast what other billionaires did with media properties they owned:

- Jeff Bezos personally bought Washington Post but he left it alone and let the editors run it. What Jeff did do was invest some money into the IT department to modernize the workflow tools (metrics dashboards, etc) for journalists. He stayed out of the decisions of what stories get run on the front page.

- Rupert Murdoch owns Wall Street Journal but when Elizabeth Holmes asked him to squash negative stories about Theranos, he refused and stayed out of it. He let his editors run the stories even though it embarrassed him because he was a big investor.

Both those guys are more detached from those media outlets and don't meddle in it day to day.

What tech people like Paul Graham and others were hoping was for Elon to apply his scientific first principles type of thinking that he demonstrated previously at SpaceX+Tesla to Twitter. E.g. Tesla A.I. competency to clean up the bots and make the platform better.

Instead, Elon let the Twitter monster abuse his ego and his reputation as a savior is ruined.

Best thing Elon should have done was to focus only on the technical aspects of Twitter and let some more level-headed less-emotional people manage the editorial aspects.

Hopefully, Elon notices that we don't have endless HN and reddit front page articles about Rupert Murdoch's jet.
Virtually all markets outside of the top wealthy western countries are Android dominated.

I’ve lived in UK where iOS is very common but also in Portugal where the average salary is 800 euros and virtually everyone uses android.

Most of the world can’t afford iPhones
I think TV channels deliberately schedule optional shit after these kinds of games, the thinking being that the pundits can fill time to the next nearest half-hour slot begins then the schedule can resume
That's not true.

Twitter was already losing money, whilst ads, their primary income source, is taking a hit due to economic problems. At the same time, the way they did ads is (the same as FB) running against secular trends against data sharing and privacy.

Jack and previous management had utterly failed on the product front. Excluding Spaces and Blue (for news junkies, which already got shot), what product changes had Twitter done in the last decade? 280 and what else?

Was all this survivable? Probably, but poor execution by Jack and crew meant that if it wasn't Elon, some hedge fund was going to take over Twitter. And the changes that make Twitter profitable likely, at minimum, badly damage it.
Not a good advertising strategy? Really?
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097
Both are true and quite important, yes.
This is the globalist that both George Bush one and two yearned for.
I think the Star Trek utopia is not only likely, but inevitable. We just have a difference of opinion and perspective. We live in a dark time, but that course can change in an instant.

We should be focused on leaving Earth and designating this entire planet a national park, to be preserved and protected.

When I say “menial tasks are eliminated”, I am speaking towards essentials that no one would want to do without money. We can shift to a voluntary society.

What you are saying is not fair to people who have no choices. No choice but to starve. No choice but addiction. No choice but to endlessly work deadend jobs. No choice but to be battered and beaten by dictators. No choice but to live subject to the whims of narcissists.

When you have the privilege of livable wages, respect in industry, wealthy social connections, none of what I’m saying would make much sense. But the vast majority of people have none of that, and are dreaming of a day when they are liberated from the rigors of tasks they never wanted to do.

People can still do art, can still woodwork, can still perform amazing feats of will, can still invent, can still discover, can still do all manner of things. They just will not longer be forced to against their will to survive; and, at minimum, they won’t be forced to by the whims of other humans who have, by circumstance and tradition, appointed themselves ruler.
If he stepped down, I would forever wonder what would have happened, had he stayed on!

It's been incredibly interesting so far.
> the very idea that something should update itself is so incredibly insanely broken and I cannot for the life of me understand why it's the norm.

Yes. For user orientated interactive systems it is mad.

But it has its uses, IMO, for IoT devices.

It was the reason I do not use Ubuntu on my personal computer. If I were in the business of building connected devices I would be interested.
Both Bill Gates (IT robber baron) and Mike Tyson (wife beater, ear biter and convicted rapist) seem to enjoy pretty good reputations these days.

Musk's reputational problem is chiefly due to looking quite incompetent at the moment, not his moral failings.
In the article, he makes no breakdown like you describe. He appears to have created a straw man which he alludes to whenever once of his associates receive criticism.

In light of Musk fulfilling the predictions of his worst “haters,” maybe this merits clarifying the essay.
Honestly, just going to bed would be the best option.
Looks like an Algol special character was added to Unicode in 2009 so... maybe?
Seems like Fortran and COBOL pop here as dead languages still in use but I haven't seen anyone mention Algol (or B, BCPL or anything similar either).
A trifecta: Trump, Kanye, and ... hmm, Kim Jong-un?
He wants to interview Putin to resolve the war by asking "hard" questions. He also wants to interview Trump for some reason. In over his head.
If this is originating from Qatar, I would speculate this poll is the result of a bet. The Emir, or another royal family member offers to make Elon whole on his $40B investment if he is willing to put his future in the hands of his users/subjects. If Elon wins, the Emir pays out, maybe for a small equity stake, and if Elon loses, the Emir gets to pick the new CEO of Twitter, and probably buys a significant equity stake.

Entirely speculative, but in terms of what could make this poll a rational choice right now, that's the only rational one I could think up in the moment. Maybe I'm absurdly wrong, but it's more interesting to treat people as rational and intelligent than as cartoon villans.
@dang it would be nice if instead of moving comments and taking off submissions off of the front page if you could instead merge them (in some cases)... i.e.: all those merged submissions would show all posted URLs and comments.
https://flosell.github.io/iam-policy-json-to-terraform/

you can do this for free
Wow so you real are one of the ones who believes Musk is playing 4d chess, huh?
I find the level of engagement on Twitter to be very low. While I enjoyed using it for a long time (probably my favourite social network), I don't think it would take much for me to replace it. Having hundreds of followers doesn't amount to much once you account for spam, bots, inactives and passive users. If only a handful engage with you day to day, you only need a handful in a replacement network to feel like you're accomplishing much.

I feel like someone could crack this with an attempted replacement. Go out of the way to create incentive for people to interact with each other.
It’s possible that in Elon’s mind having a poll dictate that he step down could be a face saving measure.
Why would it need to be per user? An environment of that size could easily support many users. Developers spend most of their time just staring and only intermittently need to build. There is no particular reason why everyone would be building at once. Most of the time you'll get all those cores to yourself even though there could be dozens of devs sharing the box.
nocturnal ennui?
Can it calculate words per minute too? That would be helpful.
Another outcome is to install a puppet and blame them a la Bob Iger.
Yeah and unions are where the whole “paying your dues”, “I’ve paid my dues”, “check is in the mail” memes come from.
I’d much rather deal with management alone than union leadership.
I hate to be the HN commenter that trivializes tech, but is that performance that impressive for a poll? Especially when there is no requirement for real time reads of the results.
Also his followees
> When was Twitter profitable

Technically, 2021 - they made a loss of $220M but that was down to an $800M legal settlement which means they were -technically- at a profit of $580M.

> was it profitable enough to pay for his leveraged buyout?

Just over halfway to servicing the debt.
I'm not talking about LCOE with a fossil fuel backup. I'm talking technologies that actually decarbonize the grid.

If land is not an issue then I challenge you to sequester 156,000 square miles (~1.7% of the total land in the US). This is a relatively optimistic estimate with no overhead given for overproduction or growth. This goes without speaking of the carbon footprint of the carbonized industry necessary to grow solar production by 50x.

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy13osti/56290.pdf

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/
Thanks for digging that out. That's a good expansion of what I meant by 'dominant platform' really, it's just to me, in what I see, that's not the way 'gatekeeper' is used (in the popular modern way, nor does it make sense at all in a metaphorical to historical/literal way). People seem to disagree :shrug:.
Why would you say that? He honored previous polls, including the one to restore the banned journalists.
It was actually the best place to follow developers and artists, and a lot of niche communities had a home there. A lot of accounts just posting artwork or ephemeral things. Unfortunately the "lol woke mind virus" crowd won and Elon came riding in on his white horse to wreck it all.

I'm enjoying Mastodon but it isn't the same.
Google has a pretty solid acquisition record, and definitely a solid record of investing in the products that do work and really upgrading them. It’s a shame they have cancelled a lot of products, but let’s be honest do they cancel stuff that’s making money or could be making money at scale? Generally not much I think.
Now that you mention it, Twitter is suspiciously effective at torturing Elon and his clone army, and it keeps him too busy to save the world from unfriendly AI. Maybe it is the Basilisk...
Reddit already does have a policy like this. Try writing a comment containing "rdrama.net" in it.
That's true, regenerative braking is mostly disabled until things have warmed up.
But we don't have endless front page articles about those other people because those are other people.

Musk knows in his heart of hearts that he is the most interesting and newsworthy person on the planet, so it makes sense the front page articles are about him.
...but I didn't mention WHEN :)
It wasn't a neutral statement but I don't think I'd call it a personal attack. It's a claim about reputation.

There's also a significant difference between attacking a fellow user in a flamewar style comment vs. talking about a powerful public figure; we don't allow the worst kinds of personal attack in the latter case either*, but the bar is necessarily higher.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> the Moon would be much easier

Really? The moon's gravity is 1/2 or 1/3 that of Mars, but its angular velocity is about 1/27th.
But you don't have to upgrade your old purchased software. If your purchased Office worked for you, keep using it. How would it get worse for you?
I feel you’re wrong on two directions. Sure, most people who die weren’t obviously on end of life. But those people tend not to be the ones with high end of life costs. The high cost is due to their circumstances, not the label. Second, the folks we are identifying as end of life tend to have a pretty good true positive : false positive rate. So if you’re in that bucket, you probably ought to be there.
The difference is your ZX was running flat out as fast as the hardware would allow. Your PS4 is a supercomputer hobbled by bad programming practices.
Are they blocking ssh commands? There are SSH chat servers where people could link to anything and most if not all web crawlers would not be able to follow unless there is someone manually flagging posts. Would ssh raise the bar too high?
That’s what I figured, yeah. I wish the Arch team used their news feed more often for things like this.
We’re coming around full circle to the old days of thin client terminals to a beefy mainframe under the corporation’s control. Only it’s hosted in the cloud and all your data is at risk.
I think it can be turned around.

Scrap all the moderation changes musk has made, apologise to all the advertisers, keep headcount at a sustainable level (more than they have now but less than they had when musk bought it), and look to launch some new products (reviving Vine is the obvious one).
Bezos is one thing, but I'm not sure if Murdoch is a great example: he perhaps refused to spike specific articles, but his entire media empire is built around promulgating his (increasingly revanchist) politics. His success is attributable not to "staying out of it," but to having a receptive audience that he (to waxing and waning degrees) has successfully influenced for the last 30 years.

Besides, I don't think Twitter is what did Elon's reputation as a "savior" in. The current affair is more reaffirming than opinion shifting, for everyone I've talked to.
Unity. Especially the first version
I believe the ship might have sailed on the "I don't think he'd dare" argument.

I can't help but think he's in quite an unhealthy mental state at the moment.
While I understand why someone may think that (just because Marx is important on both topics), they are not much related at all. The Capital is something on it's own, and Marx has the best explanation about capitalism so far.
> the 120 programming languages in use in 1960

Geez, I think I'd struggle to name 120 programming languages in total right now.
No. I was talking about https://www.golocalprov.com/news/hedge-fund-manager-sues-irs...
If Waymo works this will all sound like gibberish in 5 years. They will have successfully revolutionised the entire world’s transportation, or started the revolution.

We also forget DeepMind which is run as an independent company but I believe is Google owned.
No. The first treatment was electron since the tumors were in my throat and close to the surface. But my oncologist didn’t like the progress. So my second treatment was just standard photon. Both done with conformal.
Interestingly, PG had 1.5Million followers before account got suspended. Now it shows as 1 Million.
The thing is this didn't have to be his bomb to hold in the first place. He made what appeared to be an impulsive decision to offer an overpriced acquisition deal and waived due diligence leading him trapped in a position he couldn't back out of without consequences.
Its hard to pirate SaaS for rather obvious reasons. The cracks don't work for very long and usually don't work for 20% of the system.

However, I agree...pirating is a must-do these days. It's almost impossible to figure out how well a software package is going to react to your needs without actually using it on said needs.

I do, however, think it's very important to remind everyone that you eventually must buy the product if it's filling your needs well enough.

Pirating is a crappy solution to a crappy problem.
Er, I think I have been misunderstood. I basically agree with you. There isn't a framework.
I think if a race of aliens saw us calling our phones dead when they break they would be a little confused since they were never alive; so in that sense yes.

The reason language has to constantly evolve for certain topics is that every time people come up with new words that don't carry stigma people invariably start using them in everyday language; so $word that was coined specifically to be neutral becomes $word (pejorative). So for example if people would just stop using whatever word is used to describe people with intellectual disabilities as an insult the vocabulary wouldn't have to keep changing.

* "What are you blind (pejorative)?"

* "What are you deaf (pejorative)?"

* "They're delusional (pejorative)!"

* "They're deranged (pejorative)!"

* "She's hysterical (pejorative)."

* "He's demented (pejorative)."

* "They're absolutely mental (pejorative)."

* "She kind of a skitso (pejorative)."

* "They're special (pejorative)."

* "What, do you need a handicap (pejorative)?"

I don't think it's a good idea to use those words even after they fall out of fashion. It just seems cruel for no reason and it's easy enough to just say something different.
Or just the Mozilla PPA.
You mean the same google that owns DeepMind, one the premiere AI companies on the planet?