skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i posted on twitter for the first time a little while ago and it was a terrible experience. i got into an argument with someone, a youtuber i subscribe to who has more than a million subscribers. it was weird talking to someone ive watched. i resorted to nastiness and veiled insults. it felt disgusting and wrong. other people came in and insulted me. it was disgusting. their insults hurt my feelings and distracted me from other things for a little while. i think that insults get their hooks in you no matter what, even if you "dont care."

if you see an insult, you read that comment. you look into their history. the nice comments you skip past and dont even care. even if an insult is totally wrong, or their point is wrong, as long as that thing is triggered where you feel like youre being attacked, now that insult is a splinter in your well-being and you will engage with that insult, instinctively scratching at the splinter. the fundamental truth is that the insult or attack has altered your mental state and theres nothing you can do about it. the only way to beat it is to wait or never have it happen in the first place. joe rogan said "dont read the comments" and thats the reason. it doesnt matter if the attacks are right or wrong they will hurt you. theres no point to it. i think its similar to road rage because in both cases the primitive parts of the mind that interpret attack and mobilize stress are stimulated in an unnatural way that was never intended by nature. its simply undefined behaviour.

imagine someone came along and pinched you. ouch. hurts for a while. imagine that you were in a situation where you got pinched hundreds of times a day. really hard, randomly. that might cause you to go insane. most people would say that such a person should try to escape that situation or fight against the pinchers or call the police on them. but when the sensation of pain in the brain is caused by an insult, then the advice changes to "toughen up" "maybe if you werent doing X people wouldnt insult you" etc. we treat words like they cant have an effect. but they have a visceral effect. maybe some headway would be made on the problem if we simply accepted the idea without changing any of the rules.

when elon suspended journalists, i thought he was right to do that because they all were linking to and promoting activity that they all would themselves classify as doxxing, especially in light of the foiled stalker attack.

when elon created the policy that promotion of other social media platforms was not allowed it didnt really bother me. paul g said he had had the last straw, i wonder what that was. it didnt line up with anything.

as of right now, twitter has much more free speech than before. before, you could be banned for misgendering people. you could be banned or suspended for saying almost anything contradicting liberal ideas or federal government propaganda. so roughly half of people in the US were not able to use twitter. now only people who doxx or promote other social media platforms are being kicked off which is much less than half no matter how you slice it.
> never have more than 100 or so people per server

Is the performance that bad?
Here is a much simpler explanation - there is no "4D chess" involved. Musk overpaid for a social network and is wildly incompetent at running it.
The fact that he can’t lead without doing these idiotic polls shows that he’s not fit to lead twitter.

The whole point of being an exec is that you make the big difficult decisions, not defer them to a mass of people who couldn’t possibly understand the nuance of any one decision.
I agree with the micromanagement, but I don't see how subscription costs are less flexible than a buy once model. You can choose to have a single price, or multiple price points, in either payment model.
WaPo is also ending their weekend Magazine section and laying off quite a few of those who wrote for it.
I'm watching @paulg account gets hundred of followers each minute. Initially, I saw it at 22 followers and after about 10 mins it jumped to 1784 and, within just 3 mins, it crossed 2K, what a chart!
As I said, 95% of criticism might by illegitimate while the 5% isn't. Paul could have been linking for the X% of Musk hate that's ill founded based on his personal knowledge of the guy.
> Elon kicks him off, because Dear Leader will not be criticized

We have no proof Elon personally kicked off PG. We can hold him accountable for creating this shitshow. But Hanlon’s razor wields well, here.
I mean, what's he going to do, set Roko's Basilisk on you?
It has been several years since WannaCry, but absolutely nothing guarantees that another such vulnerability does not surface.
I mean, you only have to open the main Spotify page. I also get podcast content pushed to me (half the main page/search results are always podcasts) and I've never even listened to one.
> the Twitter buyout has revealed biased regulation in the extreme, perhaps by illegal proxy from the FBI.

I haven't seen this; what does it refer to?
New Year's Reading Challenges
If I'm being really skeptical, I see two outs here:

(1) Musk could lie about the results. (I don't know much about Twitter polls, but when I looked at that one, I didn't see a running tally.)

(2) He owns the company. So he could still get his way without being CEO (AFAIK).
> Same way Windows offers to "Update and Shutdown" (you don't need the PC anymore why don't I under after you walk away) and not "Update on next Start up" (I'll wait until you need me to get in your way).

This presumes that shutting down is never a time-sensitive action. If I had a nickel for every time Windows decided it wants to spend a half hour installing updates when I'm trying to shut down a laptop so that I can put it in my bag and go somewhere with it, I'd be able to actually buy a Windows license instead of resorting to vlmcsd.
This so much reminds me of that note I passed to my first crush Sherry Lehman in 4th grade, "Do you like me? []Yes []No".
It's much more likely he wants out of the hot seat and is using the poll, which has an obvious outcome, as an excuse to step down as head while keeping his pride intact.
Lastpass didn't deliver a single improvement, but they did double the yearly price
TBH, the warm weather temperatures for the Teslas listed are very atypical and borderline contradictory. I'm doubtful as to the overall accuracy of the data in this report.
Secondary indicators like the number of times Twitter is mentioned on HN, or in the news in general?
I'm sure any of the goons who helped plan this debacle after he was forced to buy^H^H^H make good on his agreement to buy it would be delighted to run it.
I can guarantee you there are plenty of people who do, you really don't need an ex-social media CEO or whatever to do it. Would be absolutely hilarious if he somehow managed to get moot to be the CEO.
I'm betting you're clicking the follow button on the profile at hachyderm.io/@user@mastodon.social and not mastodon.social/@user
So one day, the "search" default moves to the most popular and everything breaks? based on the amount of traffic generated for the other "search"?

Do you have more detailed write ups of that or the alternate schemes, at first take that sounds horribly flawed.
> Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.

I'm not sure a vote is the best option but it doesn't solve the problem either. There needs to be due process. You can't bring out a new policy and 5 mins later start banning accounts that have tweets older than the policy that also violate the policy.

Elon is big on move fast and break things but I think he is going to hard and will destroy Twitter if he continues at this pace.
Let's not forget that it's 3 in the morning Qatar time after an insane World Cup that Elon was live tweeting from the stands.

Definitely adds some flavor to this!
This is unacceptable monopolistic behavior. Riot Games should come to terms with the fact that they can't be the only ones running Riot Games' reputation to the ground
>It's always surprising to me when people think he's amazing when really, he has a lot of money

He started out after college with negative net worth and from that became the world's richest man through transforming electric cars and rocketry. I find it amazing people can look at that and say he's just a rich idiot.
Anybody who uses twitter is a loser
> So the patterns of the consciousness of any individual are actually distributed, holographically, through a community of brains.

Beautifully said. Exactly matches my own perception. The width of this distribution is helped by conversations shared with people, books read together, movies watched, games played. "Common" memories. I think the momentum to write, to make art generally is driven by this instinctive intuition, desire to extend the life of one's consciousness in the community. We really don't die until we're completely forgotten.

Was going to ask for any reading recommendation, but noticed the Hofstadter right there. Thank you!
Is Musk the most publicly pathetic loser? I'm trying to think of someone who can compete.
Whatever you think about removing Elon as head of Twitter, whether you believe that to be smart or not, this is just not how you go about making decisions as a leader.

Think of it this way, will Elon be conducting a new poll on whether or not to fire his replacement in a year's time? (Because that's what this type of decision making process leads to.)

This is not sustainable because it does not bring any sort of stability.
I thought @chadloder was a really insightful account with tons of resources for Osint and infosec.

I don't get why it's banned, is it because he found some jan6 protestors who weren't caught by the police yet with his tools?

And, I mean, crimethinc, really? You cannot do mellower on the anarchist side. I don't think they even defend the second amendment. It's clearly political.
> shuffle the songs according to highest streaming royalty for Spotify

FTFY
He posts polls as a way to externalize agency. It makes it someone else’s choice or fault.

Obviously that’s untrue but it’s a form of thumb sucking.
I’m agnostic on the construction materials used but dual staircase regulations subject us to far worse apartment design than other countries. Having lived in both I really hope I never have to live in one of these dual staircase apartments again. It felt like a deep dark cave.
I honestly want him to stay because I enjoy the absolute shit show, I'm gonna be honest. It is interesting to see how the world would react if Twitter went in flames over a couple weeks.

The news and corporate PR world are scared out of their mind, and I want to see the whole thing implode, even if for a little while. Same with the Musk cult of personality.
What useful idiom is afforded by nil being a symbol?
No, Fedora package manager (dnf) does the sane thing and not replaces app files from under the running apps by default - google "dnf offline upgrades".

And for Windows there is standard update mechanism - Microsoft Store - which also does the same sane thing.

So it's Ubuntu implementation problem, and not a Firefox one.
The only thing I'm annoyed about this model is for WordPress plugins. There are a lot of sites using WordPress and pretty much every plugin has moved to a crippled free version + full paid version that requires a yearly subscription to receive updates. I'd rather just pay more upfront one time fees for lifetime updates.
I think he could’ve done that. I would’ve welcomed that. But his revelations mixed with his red pilling colors it badly. I voted yes and I’m a Tesla owner. He can’t run twitter because he’s too susceptible to the ego trip involved. He’s making rules from his personal POV, not from the perspective of the health of the platform or an actual fairness doctrine.

He also has no plan… his successor needs a holistic strategic mindset and a business development methodology. Perhaps he had support from leadership lieutenants at Tesla and Space X and is trying to solo this one. Something’s different enough with his floundering at Twitter.
This year, during a routine physical, my general practitioner felt some “lumps” in my throat. He wasn’t worried but wanted me to get a second opinion on them. two rounds of chemo and two five week five day a week rounds of radiation later, I no longer have the tumors in my throat.

I was lucky. They got detected early and hadn’t metastasized.

But holy hell was radiation treatment terrible. When I had my first round of chemo to ready me for my first round of radiation, it was easy to “ignore” the chemo. I can’t find the comment now, but they basically state “You get up, you go in, you get sick, you go home, rinse and repeat”. It sucked, but I could muscle through it. The radiation treatments? Damn. By the time the burning sensation in my neck and face got to a point I could ignore it, it was time to go in for another session. By the 3rd session of the 3rd week, my oncologist prescribed me sleeping and high dosage pain pills. My pharmacist didn’t want to refill my pain meds the 3rd time. Thought I had a pill doc that was letting me abuse them.

But all through the pain and the uncertainty, the thing that affected me the most was - I really learned who, in my social circle, I could count on. Made me realize that most of my social circle is acquaintances not friends. Not loved ones.

So cancer really opened my eyes to human connection. Now I just gotta figure out how to do it :)
This last month of the internet has been quite the fever dream.

As well as a good news-month on HN in general, imo.
Not just sell stock, but sell it at the meme-o-rific $54.20 price he paid. Just unbelievable.
As someone who already despised Twitter there is only good outcomes for me if it either declines into oblivion or they somehow rescue it from this pit into something more like ~2010-2012 Twitter moderation wise.

Best case we get a more decentralized option or a centralized option that isn’t so politicized by the owners… or at least an owner who isn’t a contentious celebrity that is a black/white villain/hero to a big portion of the population.

Unfortunately all of my experiences with Mastadon have been negative (particularly the UI and how it encourages bubbles harder than Reddit hypermodding), but Mastadon seems to be all people talk about.
In the scheme of things that Twitter does, these polls aren't really too bad. As someone mentions, it's in the thousands per second, and I don't _think_ they show activity in real-time to anyone looking at them.
Unfortunately, this breaks horribly if you're on a shitty network (for example I work a lot on the train) and/or slow hardware. The update check delays browser startup for more than a minute when connected to wifi with no internet (this happens a lot when going through rural areas) and the update after closing function has also burned me a few times when I closed the last window, then remembered I needed to check one last thing, but had to wait several minutes for the update to do its thing (a combination of old laptop, slow internet and many other things using resources).
I would argue they still are; Windows is dead in the water if it doesn't run the vast majority of Win32 software out there today.
I haven't heard of physical growth hormones per se, but it's definitely true of the psychological equivalent that is Adderall and related methamphetamine prescriptions for ADHD or "ADHD." It does wonders for getting kids to sit down and study, but at who-knows-what cost.
Spotify have sound disapearing for licensing reason. I guess that improvement ?
I strongly encourage you, without a hint of sarcasm or glib, to file a FOIA request to find out.

https://muckrock.com is my weapon of choice for data liberation, but a letter or email works equally well.
Hearing how you got out of that would be interesting.
No, you just did that to him.
I wasn't able to verify how FF actually behaved under snap, but snap's confusing notifications was enough to make it annoying. After failed tweaks, I'm glad that I no longer have to deal with this since I already purged FF that comes with Ubuntu and just used the binary from Mozilla's site instead.
I mean, I'm pretty sure most of those companies would view APL as a liability, just like companies that still use COBOL. The question really is about whether new, significant projects are being started in these language.

People choose weird, novel, old, and esoteric languages for Advent of Code because it's fun and a way to stand out from the pack, or practice languages that might not ever get used otherwise. It's not evidence of a healthy community.

And yeah, I mean Elm and Purescript might not be "dead", but the fact that they are niche, largely non-general-purpose languages doesn't really mean that they are "healthy" either. I'd be willing to take a bet that both of these languages are effectively dead in 10 years.
I think the term gatekeeper makes more sense if applied to companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft & Co, with their search engines, maps, app stores, operating systems, browsers ... all these are gateways to "the digital market". Twitter might be to small and comparatively niche to be classified as a gatekeeper. There does not seem to be an exact definition that I could find. But social networks as a category and companies like Meta/Facebook are listed as gatekeepers.
He was still giving Elon platitudes in his HN comment in the previous thread. For a person with so much wealth and influence, Elon is way too thin-skinned.
Becoming poor and powerless I'd bet...
Any of us plebs behaving so erratically and cruel wouldn't get support from the like of PG. But the rich sympathies with the rich. So for now Elon is eccentric and smart, not mad and dangerous
You don’t think that’s because companies pour more resources into the subscription model software that is making them more money?
Try Neeva. Similar idea of a subscription search engine but I find their results just as good as Google, esp for technical queries.
> Twitter is just going to be for press releases and advertisers now?

It wasn't already?
I imagine this poll more than any will be targeted by bots. Whether they are leftist or right wing bots will depend on your bias :)

Personally don't believe in LW vs RW. The real battle is moderates vs egomaniacs.

I don't think Musk deserves an easy exit. We all need to see this play out for what it is.
>I think that's a pretty bad idea - the objective is for a team to win

And a series of static 1v1s is more accurate than a series of 10v10s, 9v9s and so on?

People have criticized chess for pretty much the same thing wrt tie breakers for world championship, classic chess being decided by player's proficiency in a very different format and decision making.

I'm not saying I support the diminishing player count, but perhaps penalties should be deferred until another (3rd total) added extra time in the final match only. Maybe give the teams 2 extra subs if it is still tied after 2nd AET.
By the time they get it in front of a judge, Twitter probably won't exist anymore.
Wow... If Twitter survives Musk I would be surprised.... but whenever I try to make a prediction, the opposite happens.
My impression were that Twitter’s problems included:

1. Not having that much revenue

2. Being expensive to run

Firing a bunch of people probably helped with #2. But there are definitely engineering problems in there too. For #1, there was the whole verified checks thing but I think that’s not going to bring in anywhere near as much money as ads did. Seems one good thing to do there is not upset advertisers. Currently advertisers seem upset. An alternative would be allowing more advertisers, eg gambling ads are quite lucrative.

The whole censorship/hellsite stuff doesn’t strike me as such an immediate problem – I think Twitter could have done ok for a while with the previous moderation policy changing at the previous rate. Though figuring out better things to do there would probably be necessary in the long term and something a private company might better be able to do, eg figuring out how to focus on the long-term interests of users rather than numbers that shareholders think are important.

But maybe I’m totally wrong and if Elon wasn’t seen to be doing things about censorship the whole thing would fall apart?
Good to know, I haven't thought of that.
Yes. Please. Build starships. Build Teslas.

We just had a quarter of a trillion dollars of federal spending earmarked for the EV supply chain; why are you calling retiring politicians’ spouses pedos and giving Kanye West life advice when you could be corralling all of that.

Elon, please come home.
That's a salient point. Biased, uneven, nontransparent moderation was always happening with weak justification, it was just done by unaccountable people and propagandized as righteous.

Remember people getting banned for saying "learn to code", disallowing certain news links even in DMs, shadowbanning undesirables with no transparency.
It is a bit humorous to see people project their own insecurities onto Elon with the flimsiest of evidence. "pissed that he overpaid on twitter" "must be angry" "must be mad that TSLA is going down", etc.
Now you're paying attention.
[Hi from Argentina] When it was 2-0, I expected the team to go full defense as usual in other Word Cups. I't boring because you have 10 players defending and only 1 in the other half of the field trying to use an error to make a 3rd goal. It's at the same time very boring and very nerving.

I was surprise they continue attacking, and were very close to the 3rd goal.
To be fair, they probably have hours of meetings telling them about the importance of compliance and the dozens of onerous security related administrative burdens that go with it.

It can be hard to do the real important security stuff when burdened by the administrative security and audit requirements requisite with government work.

A lot of smart people leave in frustration.
Hoovies Garage tested the Lightning, and its towing capacity and cold weather performance were both terrible. I don't think EV trucks are ready for the big time yet.

https://youtu.be/j8gH52gKejE
And I hate just about anyone you probably consider an experts “vision” on social media, especially since what it ended up becoming was a “”private”” end run around the 1st and 4th amendments.

It really is perfect, a not-government entity making wink-wink decisions at the behest of unelected executive branch employees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky7DMCHQJZY
There's no evidence "just start running it well please" is possible.
That's expected and has been the behaviour with other bans in the past. Give it a couple of hours to be back.
The Key to Widespread Adoption of EVs: Less Range
This always happens when an account gets unsuspended on twitter, it shows up as 0 followers and goes back up to the original count over a few hours
Enough people have paid attention that I am able to use Emacs and be insulated from any practical impact from SaaS, since it can handle everything I need as a developer. In fact, I have my passwords and my notes on it, to mention some things from OP.
Looks like they ended the suspension.
Your page is 404, and I find linking to indiegogo from a Show HN suspicious:

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

> On topic: things people can run on their computers or hold in their hands. For hardware, you can post a video or detailed article. For books, a sample chapter is ok.

> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.
Or it's a flunkey, trying to anticipate what will displease Kaiser Musk today. Pity that flunkey: guessing wrong will cost them the job.