skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's because it seems to work in the long term as long as there's any kind of success waiting for them down the line. eg. If Trump wins the next election, everything up to that point is totally justified and worth it and part of the plan, etc (no matter how true or false it is, nor how lucky they may have been to have achieved the saving-their-ass success).

The cult of personality makes it so. Humanity's short memory makes it so. The media's short memory makes it so. The media's short memory is driven by the same doubling-down, new outrage distracts from previous outrage upon which it turned out our reporting was highly questionable. Layer upon layer.

The other side of the same coinj is that those who double-down and don't reach any further justifiable success rightly fade from the public consciousness (selection bias?) for the very fact they haven't done anything media-worthy since.

It feels like the double-down-at-all-costs types are increasing and spreading, but is that just because they're the ones stupidly lucky (or rich) enough to maintain a media presence?

Lastly, and related, there's always the "no news is bad news" theory. We're still discussing Elon and Trump, so they're still making the news cycle, so they're still relevant, and irrelevance makes future success (on an Elon and Trump scale) more difficult.
Decline of Men in the Workforce
Elon is not a savior because no one is purely a savior. He is a genius at hardware who badly needs to shut the fuck up and have people rein him in sometimes. Twitter has always been his weakness, and he needs to have emotional maturity and hire a new CEO, then stay off of it entirely for two weeks
Isn't there a pretty solid argument to be made that hyperloop (and especially what Boring Company is actually building) is so dumb that it shouldn't seriously be treated as a good faith solution and other motivations should be considered?
I haven't watched this video yet but Polaris is not intended to be the production reactor. It's supposed to generate net electricity in 2024, but it's still an experimental device. The production reactor comes later. You can verify this yourself at their FAQ: https://www.helionenergy.com/faq/
/jk :)
> Feels like Amazon could eat Twitter's lunch here

Amazon has spent decades building the complete opposite culture of what it takes to successfully run a social network.
That's not a separate clone, just a different front end, basically just a proxy for everything on twitter.
If you are parked indoors you don't need remote start. Our garage stays about 32F degrees even when it is -10F out. The entire point of remote start is for the case when you are parked outside, such as at work.
Here in a European country the reality is like this:

- property which gets developed for sales gets developed as cheaply as possible, mostly because people are looking to buy the most square meters for their loan capability. We see a lot of barely legal housing and even last year most new builds were with gas heating as it's cheaper to build.

- there is no long term planning, nor is there long term offering .. I guess people are not aware that over the lifetime of their property they pay the price of one-two-three house price as extra heating costs. Just insane.

- some business property developers who will own the property and make money on rentals are definitely optimizing for ongoing costs and things look better.
If you go back to Musk deal, it was immediately after Babylon bee was banned for an anti trans remark about man of the year.

I'm speculating a bit, and I'm not supporting his actions, I'm trying to explain then. I think he already had disagreement with his son that came out as trans later, and I think the major reason he changed his political position is because of his child. The child also cut all ties with him.

He said "The woke mind virus must be destroyed, nothing else matters".

It's not Elon the entrepreneur, or Elon the management genius, or even Elon the troll on social media.

What's really driving him is Elon the father that views leftism and woke as a mind virus that had possessed his child.

When you reach that position as a father, there's no loyalty to old political parties, there's no choosing words carefully or looking at Twitter as a regular business.

This is a person who could not care much about ideology until ideology reached his house and destroyed it - and only at that point he actually started fighting the fight.

He treats Twitter and leftists as the enemies because in his mind they are enemies, enemies that managed to destroy his child. It might seem inconceivable that someone might change his position so radically, and surprise everyone, but that's because they don't understand the real motivation.

Anyway, I'm not supporting his actions, this is meant to empathize with him so I'll understand what's going on and where all this is coming from, and therefore, where is it going.
"No one is purely a savior" is a truism. Elon Musk is not a savior for simpler reasons, like all the lying, cheating, and general mishegas he's responsible for.
He’s interesting because he does things we don’t expect, for good and bad.

The problem is right now he’s driving so much bad publicity. He’s engaged in one of the worst LBOs in modern history. He’s had a shambolic takeover (even in the realm of fire sales where firing everyone is the plan), he’s set his credibility on fire with his customers, he’s shown himself as terminally thin skinned, and he’s made a mockery of his supposed principles.

If he went back to pushing the state of normal on electric cars and space flight that would be covered, but he doesn’t seem capable of it currently.
I'm still very surprised that api access and payment to have bots hasn't been added (back)

The days when Twitter was cool is when you could get your toaster to tweet when your toast is up.

Removing dedicated bots just made for bots that are trying to hide their bot-ness
Mastodon or other implementation isn't scalable like Twitter.
Servers are not that expensive, especially not when people are going to Twitter because they are outraged and seeing all the ads, and others are paying $8 per month.

Whether or not that works out is not something I can predict, but having more user engagement than ever before is not a bad thing for a platform that makes literally every penny from exploiting user engagement in some way.
Why was Ruby on Rails selected for Mastodon

Perhaps the _one person_ who did the initial development back in 2016 preferred it? Not all technical decisions have deep foundations.

how has Mastodon become the most popular fediverse
offering whilst running on 'old' web tech

Imagine how utterly fucked it would be if it had been built using one of 2016's "new" web techs - maybe a Backbone + Mongo setup :P
I'm going to own the typo and leave it.
I am a pretty loyal HBO max customer, despite the troubles with the service. The content is just too good.

I thought this would be about B-tier content. But Westworld? Arguably HBOs biggest hit since game of thrones? What are the MBAs looking at? It was bad enough that Westworld was not in 4K.

Now that the White Lotus is over, maybe i should cancel
I'm with you, if something is just an app (so not a service that requires a serverside component to be maintained), and doesn't have a lifetime unlock option - I won't use it. I have money, but don't have the mental overhead to keep track of subscriptions, my usage of subscription apps, and I hate having it constantly on the back of my mind. I want to purchase something, and then not think about the monetary cost of it ever again while still having the peace of mind that the thing I purchased will be usable with the featureset at the time of my purchase as long as the OS allows it.

I have a lot of apps that I use now and then. Some had major upgrades that I may or may not need (like Reeder). If I like the new version, I'll re-purchase it.

Reading through the comments here, it looks like we're the minority, but I'm glad that there are still people and devs thinking like us, so there are luckily always one-off purchase alternatives to popular apps.
Hoping they can restore brand safety to pull that off.
Just build a working device and I am easily convinced, except why would they care about what I think if they have that.

It’s really the technical details they are providing actually makes them seem more like a scam, if they shared less it might seem more reasonable. But sharing a lot except any relevant numbers while suggesting it’s ready soon screams scam.

For example they need 2 DD reactions to on average produce 1 H3 which means their producing more high energy neutrons than a pure DT design for the same energy. If T is a waste product then they need to do separation etc. At the same time they are also going to have some DT reactions which means they will need basically identical radiation shielding either way.

The idea of extracting energy from magnetic field interactions sounds plausible until you consider all the waste heat that’s being produced. Even if everything worked as described they would still want massive amounts of cooling which is either a problem or another power source. If they had said they are using a mix of both that would be far more believable.
Let’s hope so because Zalgo is probably next on the list
DVD Netflix service (yes this service is still around, albeit the library a fleeting image of what it once was) has the first 3 seasons of Westworld on Bluray [1]. Hopefully they’ll have S4 soon as well.

[1] https://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Westworld/80066897
This isn't a subreddit - I don't care if everyone on the server is into the same "niche" or "hobby". Here are the problems I see:

1. Moderation issues, primarily with regards to federation between instances. As an admin it's much harder to moderate with tons of users in a consistent manner, and as a user it's hard not to get screwed over by overly reactive admins either on your instance or other large instances banning your instance. I've seen tons of "guilt by association" bans on mastodon, hell I've seen people judging and domain blocking people based on the SOFTWARE they use (because they dislike the politics of that developer - not because anything that anyone on the particular instance did).

2. Privacy concerns, especially around how mastodon handles "private messages". When you are on a server that everyone is sharing a niche hobby there is a HIGHER possibility that your admin may snoop on your messages out of curiosity (or whatever justification they can generate).

3. Costs both $ and resources on these larger instances. Eventually someone will need to pay a bill and $$ pressures can lead to bad decisions.

In my opinion people should be:

1. Generally having their own stand alone instance.
2. Sharing an instance with close family / friends
3. Having secondary accounts on company / organizations instances
4. Having a read-only account on one of the larger instances just to assist in searching, discovery, etc.
> 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.

I wish one could take a step back and just see how ridiculous of a statement this is. There is nothing about Musk’s history and management style that is even remotely close to what could be called “scientific first principles type of thinking”. Musk’s management style is a bull in a china closet, he manages via personal vendettas, and he follows the marketing and hype first, delivery second product development cycle. See full self-driving, Cybertruck, Tesla robot, Tesla tunnel, and whatever else he’s promised over the years but never delivered on.

Edit: striking out comment about the Cybertruck’s airflow until I can find the article I read to back it up.
He did admit to being on a new weight loss drug https://www.thequint.com/fit/elon-musk-uses-this-diabetes-dr...
I just want to watch the world burn
This is correct. Right now I see it back to 1,027,886 followers. The Wayback Machine shows him at 1.5 million yesterday.
35% of Japanese people say they’ll ‘never travel’ again
OK, who is pg? Why do we have to click to find out?
Twitter pre-elon had a long runway to slide down.
Musk turned that into an "immediate emergency" through unforced errors.

Before, a better leader than Parag could have steered the company to higher profitability- trim some cost/product/teams, improve the ads a bit, and they'd have been back to profitability.

Now, it's unlikely Twitter will survive this mortal blow.
And that's a bad thing now that Elon is doing it, whereas previously on Hackernews nootropics together with fasting and gut bacteria husbandry were the key to a long fulfilling life.
It's a shame he didn't choose to fix the 160 character limit instead. But that would cost money, I guess.
>Can you describe what information you want to see?

Everything there could be (of course maybe in a separate expander). I needed the request/response headers, but maybe somebody could need something even more up the stack (ex. if the connexion was reused or a new one was created).

Also don't know if this is already implemented, but I think the option to generate a curl command for the request should be possible, since curl supports http2.
I'd prefer "no" wins and that he's stuck with his fuck up a few more weeks/months... if "yes" wins, he gets his cheap way out without losing face...
Wikipedia says it was only commercially available for NT4, I do somewhere have the Dec Alpha Windows 2000 beta discs (It got killed very late in the beta).
That is the magic of modernity...: You create factories that, proudly, slaughter up to a million pig [1] a year, and then sell that (subsidized) meat so cheap, most people will just get accustomed (almost addicted) to eating so much of it.

Now, what happens when you restrict an addict? what did you call that again? "the worst kinds of violence". Yeah, I agree. It is violent. Who's to blame ?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/25/chinas-2...
> And COBOL is still carrying the economy.

Not by choice but rather out of desperation and necessity to continue to run the mission critical code, mostly in banking, finance, and it is also occasionally encountered in government services albeit its presence has greatly diminished in the last decade or so. Young developers have no interest in learning COBOL, and the old developers have alredy died several times, have been dug out of their graves several times and brought back to the frontlines, and there are no more of those to be had. So the mission critical code continues to run on the constantly upgraded mainframe hardware, sometimes having not been changed in a few decades.

Oddly enough, despite a few large scale attempts to come up with automated COBOL -> whatever language migration / translation tools, they seem to have been largely fruitless. I think it was IBM that hired a bunch of hardcore academics in mid-2000's (?) to design and implement a COBOL to Java translator in Standard ML, and they even managed to produce something working. Unfortunately, then history becomes murky and trails off, and the eventual fate of that creation is an enigma of sorts. And, then, earlier versions of Java (before Java 8 anyway) were a horror to behold and would probably require a Java < 8 into Java >= 8 translator, so…
Programming languages are more like machine tools. The old and really fun to watch metal planer is like assembler. It plows though things leaving a stress free flat surface, but it's less efficient to work with.

C is like a lathe, there are older and newer features, but they all work essentially the same.

Pascal is like a Bridgeport, easy to understand, and straightforward in use. Unfortunately the main vendor got greedy and drove up the price too high.

All the newer languages are like CNC machines, that come in all shapes and sizes.
Shit yeah. I've noticed this in Australian politics, and it may not really be there, but it does feel as if the standard the politicians are setting is a standard being followed by the... more easily-led (ie. the majority), in not taking responsibility for, literally any mistake ever in their lives.

When the public-at-large start behaving and speaking like politicians about their past actions, the truth and accountability required to progress society will take longer to establish than we've got until the heat death of the universe.
It's a private company, not a democracy. There's a reason companies are governed by such. That and there's no incentive or binding rules for those "polls" to actually have or hold any weight. Basically what Elon says goes. What he agrees with, is done. What he doesn't agree with, regardless of the "poll" won't be done. Literal theater.
Yes I'm sure you're far more successful than that simpleton Elon.
That's true, but my understanding is that the Tesla will only be able to keep itself warm for a day or two. So you need to charge the thing every day - really only practical with home charging.
It's the same thing as trump in the presidency - many things were uncovered to be norms that people follow, rather than strict law

When run well, social media stays out of the spotlight, with it's issues swept under the rug enough for regulators to not notice. With musk loudly showing those issues, regulatory interest is drawn, and new rules for social media will be crafted for everyone's benefit across all social media
No, I disagree. We've tried it the american way and americans have shown us what they're capable of. With their much vaunted freedom, they have allowed corporations to devise ultra-processed foods, loaded with chemicals and contaminants, predicated on atrocious animal welfare, unsustainable farming practices, with insufficient labelling, and out of this they proceed to make awful meals.

They pair these ingredients with an atrocious average level of education and awareness and zero sense of personal responsibility, leading to huge amounts of obesity and obesity related diseases. And on top of that, the purveyors of some of the worst kinds of american poison - fast food vendors - are seen as defacto welfare providers, particularly in poor areas, which is curious considering they pay a median of $8.65 an hour whilst the 10 largest fast-food chains made more than $15 billion in profits in 2012. McDonalds in particular had employees collecting $1.2 billion in public assistance in four federal-state programs.

The entire point of the ruling class is to make responsible choices that the populace isn't likely to make for themselves, and balance this goal against a need for freedom and liberty. This function is essential particularly when the cards are stacked against the individual, and they are disincentivized from making the right choices on their own. Allowing Americans to eat themselves to extinction in poverty and squalor is not a noble goal.
Like BER rating?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_energy_rating
I only voted with my 12 Twitter accounts. I think it's very fair.
I'm not sure. 2000 is pre-AWS which means a lot of easy things were more complicated than they are now. Though Twitter is famously on-prem as well, so maybe they're equivalent?
> variables limited to numbers and strings

Not true. When I learned Applesoft BASIC in 1978–79 on an Apple ][+, it had arrays.
I don’t have anything to add here, but as a guy who spent ~10 years as an elected union leader and (as of now) 5 years on the management side as a labor consultant (they guy they always call a unionbuster) it’s just really really fascinating how radically different the abstract discussions of unions and union-related stuff is from the close-up nuts-and-bolts of NLRA election campaigns. I’m sure it’s the same for a player or coach reading about the NFL on ESPN, then reflecting on the daily realities, whatever they might be.
The definition of “free speech” is looking awfully checkered these days…
> He is a genius

I realize this is part of his narrative but I struggle to find the genius. As best i can tell he's a generally successful businessman.
As I said in another reply, I think a far simpler explanation is that the "freedom of speech absolutist" thing was total BS from the start. Other than describing himself that way, nothing about Elon suggests he's actually a big fan of free speech as a general principle.
This is gaslighting from Elon. He posts shambolic polls to remove responsibility for his intent if the decision backfires. Remember the “Should I sell TSLA shares” poll? Turns out it was already done.

The plan is damage control to save Tesla’s spiral. Investors are clamoring the board to do something.
"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."

That didn't pan out too well either.

https://i.redd.it/manager-does-a-little-code-cleanup-v0-5cxg...
Do you mean that the system is not the problem, but the pathological people running the system are the problem?

Why does USA bother with the trope of invading countries "to spread democracy" if USA could just install one chosen person who rules as we want?
Watching Twitter has been like watching a country get taken over by a dictator. You insult me? Ban. You track my personal movements (jet)? Ban. Share better alternatives? Ban. New horrible law here, new horrible law there, I don't like this so it's now law. At least it's not a country and just a useless sandbox, but it's surreal to watch the despot simulator live.

If I vote yes, do I get banned later? Is he going to leave and then blame/rewrite history to make it looks like the new leader is at fault? I'm afraid to post anything to the platform for fear of losing my account and premium handle to a ban from an insane leader.
That makes me want to vote "yes" with one account and "no" with the other.
In the mid-90's, I worked at a place that had one used for our intranet server running Win NT with IIS.

Mostly used a DEC Alpha as a "visible" competitor to our major server provider at the time (Compaq) to try and manage the prices they were charging (at least until Compaq bought Digital, and then eventually bought by/merged with HP).

One interesting thing was that we had a faulty RAM chip that we only discovered due to a bug in website publishing to IIS causing a big memory leak which crashed the server. Once the the chip was replaced, we still had the underlying leak - but at least the server didn't crash any more.
The best description I saw of Elon Musk is that he thinks he's Tony Stark, but he's actually Justin Hammer. Which to be fair, is the most Justin Hammer thing ever.
It’s kinda amazing to me that the main discussion this article provoked is the “deadness” of the language, rather than the ideas and influence these languages have.

For example, buried in there were things about CLU and Argus, and got me reading the Argus paper to see if there were anything interesting i can learn about contemporary distributed or federated systems (like Mastadon).
Very expensive way to save face! And a puppet would struggle to do worse, right?

I think he's too opinionated to salvage this, even as a puppetmaster. He would need an exceptionally strong appointee and an ability to keep his hands off and mouth controlled - I don't think he can do that.
> It sucks to see people with near-limitless resources just sit and wallow in (self-inflicted) misery when they could probably do something about it.

I'll never understand how he doesn't buy half of Bora Bora and occasionally go for a zero-g joy ride in a Dragon capsule. Instead he opts to self-flaggelate on Twitter.