skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can browse all the companies that the FTC has consent decrees with. You don’t have to be large. The existence of a consent decree says nothing about their market position.
Okay. That's weird. I commented on this thread and now I can't log into twitter. It doesn't say I'm suspended, it just tells me @retrocryptid doesn't exist when I try to log in. Then intarwebs are weird, yo.
Notice that TikTok isn't on the list. Seems like Musk crafted the rules in a way to ensure that one of his favorite Twitter accounts is safe from this rule about posting links to other social media.
I haven't seen any improvement in Spotify in years.

Still can't organise songs in any meaningful way, can't rate songs, playlists suck, shuffle is broken, and they keep pushing podcast content when I never listen to podcasts.

1Password also used to sync to Dropbox for free and even had an HTML version that could serve from Dropbox.
Let me get this straight. Troll buys Twitter, says Twitter will promote "free speech". Re-instates scumbag accounts because people have the right to be scumbags. BUT you can't talk about 1) his jet, 2) other websites that are you know kind of similar to Twitter, 3) coke fiend laptops.
If you're driving around in subzero weather without a coat, gloves, and preferably a few blankets in the car, you're asking for more trouble than I am.
I am in shock.

I don't really care that much about anything on Twitter, but this implies either 1) we're not going to get to Mars from SpaceX or 2) the level of capriciousness is in excess of my tolerance for life support/other critical operations.

I hope someone else steps up, because I'd like to get to Mars.
We know that was Vijaya and Roth. Bringing up Dorsey is transparent sleight of hand.
Entirely anecdotal but I did notice a marked shift towards even more erratic behaviour and dissonant, often contradictory utterances after his second disclosed Covid bout back in March this year and since then.
You finding his opinions “mild” doesn’t make them so, and half of your friends are probably not billionaires with a lot of power and influence in the tech industry.

If you want to defend Paul then do so, but most of this comment is just hyperbolically complaining about how he is criticized.
Taibbi said both campaigns sent in reports of content on Twitter that they claimed violated TOS. The tweets reported by the Biden campaign were clearly in violation of the TOS (they included leaked nude pictures). I don't know what the FBI has to do with any of this, but if Twitter has a lot of ex-FBI people on staff that would seem to be evidence _against_ the "leftist cabal" theory.
> I was not really conscious throughout most of it.

I disagree. hear me out. I think you were just using a non-linguistic mode of consciousness.

We are far too accustomed to thinking and being (and imagining that we are) made out of words, or things that can be put into words. But I have chosen to believe that this is merely one amongst various others ways to think.

Language is a tool. A human being is not made out of words (from a language). Nonetheless, a lot of what we imagine ourselves to be is made out of words (from a language).

Let's not keep on making the mistake that what we are is something that can be *completely* put into words.
> My own personal sense tells me no employee/subordinate would carry out such abrupt and drastic actions without explicit approval from above, no matter how much they want to please their boss. I could be wrong though.

outside of a very small bubble no one knows who PG is and I promise you his twitter status account doesn't matter if it was breaking the rules.

Go ask your mother if she knows who elon musk, bill gates, steve jobs, and paul graham are/were. No one outside of computer science/business people looking for VC know who he is.
Obviously an automated mistake people, he’ll be back in a few hours
No mod of any other major social network issues site wide bans based on the mere mention of another social network.
Wow. This is insanity. I really fail to understand Musk's end game here. You'd almost think running Twitter into the ground is the goal.
I'm going to die from eating popcorn. What an epic battle of parasocial allegiance, for some here, this must be.
How do we know his account is suspended and not deleted/disabled by himself?
Society already slows down a lot when the sun is down. Is that dystopian too?
How exactly do you make the addresses meaningful to humans if they're public keys?
Seems to me it must have been a salt water tank if it had clownfish, and they are tropical so it's not just exposing the acrylic to constant warm water, but a more realistic marine environment.

In the lab I've chemically tested acrylics that were bullet-resistant at low-cm window thickness. No bullets were used in my phase of the operation, but I was clipping off chips from the exact coupons which had been physically measured beyond the fracture point.

You can tell there's a difference in ductility and brittleness with temperature. Pretty tough stuff regardless.

In the aquarium these are supposed to be very thick-walled acrylic curved panels bonded together.

If the water was maintained warm enough for the reef fish while the ambient air dropped below freezing I don't like that idea. The entire temperature differential being borne by the thickness of the acrylic could mean there are different plastic properties diverging among the inner and outer surfaces of the "glass" panel. This could give rise to stress being concentrated deep within the panel if the transition is not too smooth.

Conditions like this could be recreated if so.

Might have been OK if they had penguins and cold-water fish this time of year.
The message over the past week has been pretty clear -- the rules change without notice and will be changed based on what pisses elon off. That make Twitter now a niche message board. All of the elaborate justifications and explanations for buying Twitter and what was going on wrong over there while it was public have been thrown out the window, no matter what your point of view was.

The fact that this most recent one targeted nearly the entire user base across nearly every interest group is probably Twitter's equivalent event of what happened to Digg and Myspace. There may be nothing he can do now to reverse a network collapse.

This should be a good thing, if the user base is able to migrant to open platforms. If they head back to Facebook and Instagram, then its a loss.

Elon might be getting margin called on Tesla right now, which could wipe him out financially. That would go a long way to explaining the poor decision making.
> The FBI passed along reports they received of possible violations of Twitter TOS (something we already knew they did),

I.e. censorship. Why the heck does the FBI get involved in the TOS enforcement of some website on the Internet? (if not for controlling the discourse, that is).
The suspensions will continue until morale improves.
Elon and garbagetime pretty much go together hand in hand
Please read again. I'm not arguing its truth, I'm arguing its credibility. Those are not the same thing.

How would it work? I'm not even remotely an expert on it, but one of the things I heard they did with Trump, was to present several options, some obviously good, others obviously, bad, and then let him choose. (On that particular issue, Trump apparently picked the bad option that nobody expected him to pick. So there's a level where this trick stops working.)

Edit: A link to the story that someone else also posted here: https://www.tumblr.com/numberonecatwinner/701567544684855296...
I appreciate your response. Can you elaborate on the juxtaposition of being mentally ill. and considering yourself normal? This is not clear to me in your response.

I suffer from mental illness as well (a disability), and I certainly don’t consider myself normal. I’ve overcome my issues, and I’m perfectly happy talking about my experience at/in appropriate times/places. I just acknowledge that the average person within the realm of normal can’t relate to my experience.

Coincidentally, I get the most relatable feedback doing inspirational speaking at homeless shelters; there’s nothing about my life today that would indicate they consider me normal in their sphere. I’m all for learning to use the right language when talking to folks with disabilities, and your comment here seems insightful. I’m just not making the connection you’re trying to build.
Does Walmart depend on people bringing toilet roll in to share with others?

It's a different business model, the metaphor doesn't work.
This is the last straw. I give up. You can find a link to Joshua Stein's (founder (better than PG)) Lobsters comments https://lobste.rs/threads/jcs

This is just a dumb thought experiment I had. What if there was a HN competitor, and a massive number of accounts and influencer went on HN to say join this!

How would PG handle this situation? What is the best way to handle this if it happens on HN? Can this be generalized to all social media ie Twitter?
Hack, I bought SpaceX t-shirts with my own money. Now I can't wear them without people raising their eyebrows at me. I think this entire billionaire circle is on drugs like EMSAM, methamphetamine, microdosing and what not. This strange erratic behavior is not otherwise explainable.
Ah man, you guys are gonna freak when they point you in the direction of the next bad man
> They banned because they shared his jet location.

This is false in some cases.
What really puzzles me is why after all this there are still people carrying water for this prick.
> he has admitted that he is under stress and not completely stable.

He owes allegiance to the Chinese for Gigafactory Shanghai, the Saudis for Twitter, the US DoD for SpaceX, the Russians for industrial inputs. And they all want very different things.

Then he gets goaded into buying Twitter in a botched attempt to manipulate its stock price, can't back out, and ultimately ties up a large percentage of his wealth in it.

Now he's having to play private equity turnaround while all of the metrics are going down and to the right.

I feel kind of sorry for him, but he brought it on himself.
Sure, you can have a personal website with links to other social media. You just can’t advertise that fact on Twitter.

“We will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms.”

I don’t see how “I have an account on Mastodon and here’s how you can find it” doesn’t violate that. The policy doesn’t require the promotion to be direct. If there was any doubt, the policy explicitly includes linktr.ee.

It’s a ludicrous policy for sure!
I sure hope not. I'm an adult. I don't watch TikTok until it lands on Instagram or Twitter.
Setting Up GPIB Communication with a Racal-Dana 1992 Universal Counter
This take on the Hyperloop thing is totally trumped-up.

There is no evidence it was meant to kill off new railway projects, nor any evidence that it did.

Elon was just paraphrased in a book about how he thought the particular California HSR project was a boondoggle (a view shared by many) and he published an idea for how to do it better.
They are specifically trying to block whatever is annoying Elon at this particular second. Clearly PG's tweet annoyed Elon and that is the only thing that matters.
He also tried to anonymously get news agencies to publish that the cave diver was a pedophile too [1].

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/elon-musk-thai-...
Elon has been posting about soccer for hours I doubt he was involved with this
My only gripe is that Paul Graham chose mas.to, there are famous people running instances that know a thing or two.

For instance, Alex Stamos is running https://cybervillains.com/ it's relatively small, and these famous people know how to connect with each other.

Scaling something run by an anonymous Trumpet (mas.to) is a bit harder.

Edit: Like on cue, the whole mas.to is now unaccessible from where I am.
They are just out of touch in different ways. Gates' banana comment became the quintessential example of how out of touch rich people are even though it was ultimately inconsequential.
I think I know the problem, they probably don't have one of those 25 minute annual data governance trainings to teach/remind them how to handle PII.
Solar panels are a very real technology and solar roads are working.

It is just that they are too expensive to make much sense. With many potential new solar tech that is in the pipeline, that might change.
This is the post that he was banned for: https://mas.to/@google/109537142875594917
My agreement is with the IRS, not Accenture.

The IRS is 100% responsible.
What do you mean "RIP Unity"? Ubuntu Unity got accepted as an official flavour just recently.
this isn‘t totally true. Today I also noticed that we login wall takes more screen space - but you can click it away and it didn‘t return for me anymore on iOS
That'd be extremely unfair. It was extremely dangerous to Mr. Musk's estate that Paul Graham used his clout to entice people to switch to Mastodon. This was nothing but a display of unswerving loyalty and adherence to Mr. Musk's vision.
I really don't want to be defending Elon, but I think saying "Elon must be stupid because of how he handled Twitter" is as silly as "Elon had success with Tesla and SpaceX therefore he knows how to run companies". Those two seem like two extremes.

The answer seems more along the lines of, Twitter and its problems are very very different from Tesla/SpaceX, and while Elon may have been good at the latter, he has zero experience with the former.

That being said, not realizing the above I guess makes him partly not-smart, and I assume the shortsightedness was due to the inflated ego caused by his previous two successes.
Look at what hackers and makers have been able to do by owning the software. You can also resell software you own.

Subscriptions empower the big businesses and owning it empowers the everyday average little guy.
Their argument isn't that you can't have that website, but that you can't promote your other socials, on twitter, via it. Ridiculous, of course.
Finance/quant people sometimes use J which is some kind of APL:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language)

Edit: also K something something: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kx_Systems
> try and salvage their shitty, shitty ideas into workable projects that will end with us publishing.

Maybe the university publish or perish system is the real problem, with the egojerks being symptoms?
My dad's oldest living friend worked at Koch industries for years. I forget his official title, but they way he describes his role was "I ran interference to keep the brothers from killing each other."
> Actually heating the cabin is nothing but wasteful.

Americans value comfort and they get it. Europeans want it too but they can't afford it (taxation and energy scarcity)
I've written a fully functioning web server using a managed language, with SSL, multi-threading, Keep-Alive and chunked content encoding.

I suggest to start with understanding the HTTP protocol by reading the RFC. The most important part is how to start and end the HTTP message (by closing connection, by Content-Length, or by chunked encoding).

Then next important bit is how to receive the HTTP message. Network APIs will ask for number of bytes to receive, so you'll need to know exactly how the message ends.

Stick with the RFC, programming language doesn't matter because socket APIs are very much the same.
Windows 10 LTSB will be supported for about 10 years from now. (with 0 feature changes)
The garage door opener feature is behind a subscription for Chamberlain on Tesla. Lol. A monthly fee to be able to open a garage door. Nah thanks I'll clip the opener to the sun visor. I hope they throw enough money away on this to learn a lesson and give up forever.

https://support.chamberlaingroup.com/s/article/myQ-Tesla-Fre...
Not only that. There are a lot of things you can't say on the App Store. Pretty much anything critical of App Store policies or mentioning alternative platforms as text in your app (rather than user generated content) is likely to get you the boot.
It's very likely an antitrust issue. This is a significant policy shift meant to stifle a competitor through market dominance rather than competition. I'd be surprised if the consumer protection bureau doesn't start an investigation
Good. Amazon doesn't allow AliExpress links in their reviews.
Given that pg's Twitter profile's just been banned for indirectly referencing his Mastodon profile link on his own website, your assertions lack any credibility or plausibility whatsoever.

<https://archive.vn/ucUdh>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34041985>
The more detail you provide, the clearer it is PG didn't take the prohibited action.
sommodiversity. "sommodivergence" implies abnormality.
> Well he did very publicly call the cave diver who saved 12 children a pedophile because he was jealous of him.

this is false. he called him that after the cave diver told Musk to “stick his submarine where it hurts”.

it only takes 1 minute to search google.
Wow. Wrote this in jest but seems like it won’t be long before it’s practically, if not actually, true https://unicorn.computer/twitter-suspends-all-users-who-have...
I like that a "link" is now just information that another webpage exists.
What they really need are more agents. I think 87,000 should do the trick.
> Twitter's equivalent event of what happened to Digg and Myspace.

A closer equivalent might be what happened to Freenode.
It's not like he said he'll just write on his site from now on, and got banned because his site also has links to his other social media.

He expressly said you can find his mastodon, a prohibited social media site as outlined by Twitter, on his website.

So he was promoting his mastodon with non-technical means and circumvented the new policy. While linking to the new policy... showing moderators he was well aware of it.
> Despite the multi-century head start that banks had, the percentage of people in the world with a smartphone has already exceeded the percentage of people with a bank account, and is rising at a faster rate. There’s no reason why everyone with a smart phone shouldn’t be able to access basic financial services including good money.

oh there is a reason.
I remember a thought of surprise at basically flinging furniture out of the way. Very much a passenger in my body at that point.

This is a known phenomenon called an amygdala hijack.

This emotional brain activity processes information milliseconds earlier than the rational brain, so in case of a match, the amygdala acts before any possible direction from the neocortex can be received.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdala_hijack
I pay monthly for adobe. Well I see the invoices that are paid for my subscription. Around €90 per month including VAT.
"it is perfectly fine to defer to the original meaning to avoid confusion"

Well, I kind of tried that method for some time, but for some reasons I was not able to avoid confusion. Maybe because people care more about what a word means to them today and not what it meant 2000 years ago?
That’s not really my job. If you want him to resolve the discrepancy between what he Tweeted and what’s on the policy page, you should ask him.

I do agree that there’s a discrepancy there, to be clear, and I think the policy is ridiculous no matter how you read it. I also think it’s bad that Musk is shooting from the hip in confusing ways.

Given that PG got suspended, the weight of evidence seems to be that my interpretation is correct. If Elon clarifies, I’ll certainly edit!
YouTube-dl had the ability to rip just subtitles. I once used this to grep for some information I wanted after downloading all of the transcripts.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33991851

Why is it so plainly obvious to many of us and so god damn impossible for others to see it. Elon is not a genius. You got duped. Just accept it and realize he's a petty tyrant whose ego is exploding. It explains every single thing that has happened, and yet people are so desperate not to accept it.
So first they blocked links to Libera Chat and OFTC, and now accounts that merely talk about them?

Oh wait, wrong take-over. Feels so similar though!
I don't believe this is correct, which is why competing leagues pop up every few years.

You might be thinking of Major League Baseball?
This is like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
Free Speech is back, baby!
I told it I was designing a database. I told it that my database could tolerate failure levels where more than a quorum of nodes failed at a given time. I then asked it about different algorithms for consensus; RAFT, Paxos, swarm based, etc. It described algorithms for me. I told it that in my database I could guarantee certain things, like that every operation commutes, and I asked how that would let me optimize things - it explained that I could paralellize certain parts of those algorithms.

At one point I told it to name the algorithm we had been discussing something like "OptSwim" and we just kept iterating on the idea.
We saw this writ large with the evangelical support for Donald Trump. It's crystal clear that DT is a huge "family values" hypocrite, yet he's seen to be a global change agent (of God, no less), so that justifies their uncritical support.

It's no different with Musk. His work with SpaceX and Tesla are seen as worthy goals at the whole-of-humanity scale, so that justifies (in some people's eyes) glossing over any character defects.

It was similar with Steve Jobs, a reputed workplace bully and tyrant.
What are alternatives to subscription models?
> the subjective experience of waking the sleeper and asking them if they were just dreaming and getting an affirmative response,

they can even ask that without waking them
Try https://techhub.social and then follow from there
Decision's been made for him: <https://archive.vn/ucUdh>
.... Read it again dude. That's a non exhaustive list he clearly violated it. Kind of a bullshit policy but he clearly violated it.
Post.news and t2.social are two startups under way
I don't see how this one could be, there was no link. Unless they auto ban anyone who tweets the word Mastodon.
Spotify still hasn't reached feature parity with Spotify when it first came out. Only recently did something as basic as lyrics return. It's still not extensible like it once was.
There used to be an oauth flow for interacting with your home instance. I dont know when they got rid of it, maybe 4.0?
The biggest problem is that Firefox updates the next time you open the app, without warning.

That's not a sane decision. Sane would be to update on closing.

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 seems unlikely based on what's been happening over the last week or so with elonjet - every time somebody tried to give elon the benefit of the doubt and that actions were being taken without his direct approval, he would publicly back those same decisions.

whoever is taking these actions, it's pretty clear that it's not being done against elon's will or without his knowledge.
Of course it doesn't work on ios. The issue you linked explains that a syncthing ios implementation would be useless because the background process can't run and the way filesystem access is managed makes the whole thing more or less pointless. It's available on all better operating systems though: Windows, macos, gnu/linux, android/linux, I think even chromebooks can run it?

> this seems really complex...

Like I said, it's probably not a solution for many. A second database with shared secret is very straightforward and transparent way that anyone can grasp I think. It would definitely pass the family test for me.
Why should anyone feel sorry for him? He’s 40 yrs old and lost, he had the time and resources.

I don’t feel sorry for someone who throws away that many chances.
Twitter is now the mother of all BBS and Elmo is its paranoid psychopath only sysop.
Just wanted to say great job on the analysis and explanation!