skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People dramatically exiting twitter is childish to me. Why do you need validation for using social media? Also people having fake outrage over twitter drama and smear merchant journalists who push terms of service boundaries on purpose is equally childish. Grow up.
I'm not sure what the damage is supposed to be, in apart from to Musk and co-investors. There are enough alternatives, including Mastodon - that people will still be able to share short form content if Twitter disintegrates.
One big negative aspect is that everything tends to cost around $10/month, from a verified Twitter account to an app to teach English to my children.

Now, it may be small change for single people with Silicon Valley salaries, but I have a family to feed on my French experienced engineer salary, and I basically have around $150-$200/month left for entertainment for the whole family.

I cannot buy 10 internet services, whereas I could perfectly afford buying, say,
a dozen or so $50 software a year.
And another difference is that I can preheat my EV while it’s inside the garage. While I’d never warm my gas engine car inside the garage, not even with the garage door open.
Seems ppl forget: Twitter dontating all tweets to Library of Congress (2010)
Seems everyone forgot about this, given the current "Twitter FBI scandal" and the bizarro current events with Musk and, basically, all over the world.

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When I interviewed with twitter in ~2006? - they asked me "What do you think Twitter is"

I replied: "Twitter is a global sentiment barometer"

Thoughts?
(author) Dick DiBartolo once joked recently he was looking forward to Leo's hard hitting review of the Atari 800.
My preferred solution is to map Caps Lock to Control, then map Control-Space to exiting insert mode in Vim. That way, I get improved convenience both in Vim and in other programs, such as the shell and web browsers.
Gretzky is even more insane. Fun facts:

If you don't count his goals, he still has more points than the next guy. Points are goals plus assists.

Something like 15 of the best 20 seasons in history by points are him.

Player of the year every year for a decade.

The only thing that makes it look less spectacular is that ice hockey is not the world's favourite sport.

Messi is the goat of a game that is massively popular on every continent, that you can find people playing in a park in almost every city.
Was thinking while typing. Yes, probably you don't need the unit of time at all, simply buy for $10 1,000 click actions, Clicks as a Service (somehow sounds more menacing); the unit economics needs to be worked out on a service basis.
I never have a problem with this, but I do shutdown my computer everyday. I do actually use arch as well but a lot less than Ubuntu and Debian, my feeling is that Arch is a lot more trouble than Ubuntu and Debian. I am very conservative with my desktop I always want to be able to work, I've had zero problems with that attitude running Ubuntu since it was just an idea. All problems I've had were self inflicted and there are many foot guns for sure.
That's the stab-in-the-back myth of nuclear energy. When Germany banned new nuclear power plants, they hadn't built one for 20 years.
My encounter with PL/I was with some 3270-style Wang terminals for their minicomputers. They were programmable by writing PL/I which got compiled and stored in the terminal's NVRAM. There wasn't much you couldn't do with it, I made macros that could copy blocks of text between two different terminal sessions as well as a bunch of cursor positioning and general clipboard operations. PL/I is quite a nice language.
I've seen only opposite. I live in Europe and no European I've talked to cares about football or soccer (and they tend to say "soccer" when they speak to Americans)

But I've heard a lot of Americans say "no it's called soccer" when they heard the term football
> A reputation is not like a piece of software that you fix and then re-run as though it never broke in the first place

In a way it is, but it differs from software in that fixing it involves more than reverting the action by which you broke it.
It's not the content that's illegal. It's the business practices of whoever hosts the content that are.

There is no government censorship imposed on the content - it's a company that's unwilling to comply with the law.
>Brain Serotonin Release is Reduced in Patients with Depression: A [11C]Cimbi-36 PET Study with a D-Amphetamine Challenge.

https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-32...
If Twitter were owned by any local, state, or the federal government, I'd agree it's a public square.

But it's owned by an corporation. And it can say one thing but do another, or even change it's mind on a whim.
Standalone software keeps working more or less forever regardless of the company. I still use Jasc Paint Shop Pro X from something like 15 years ago as my image editing software. It might not be as good as more modern software, but I know how to use it and I don’t need to retrain on something new, which means I can be very fast with whatever I need to do. Subscription-based software including updates is a downside as far as I’m concerned. Especially when they phone home and realize you’re not on the latest version and refused to work until you update. I don’t generally want to update. Stability and muscle memory is way too underrated in the tech world.
> Keep in mind ICEs lose range in winter as well.

Yes, this talking point has been made enough times. What isn't said is the ICE range loss is trivially simple to overcome: buy fuel more frequently.
"Another thing is also bad!" does not justify the first thing being bad.
SpaceX has talented people working there despite Elon, not because of him.

They supposedly have an entire handbook on "managing Elon" for deflecting his weird requests and framing things in a way that doesn't provoke his ire. They put up with it because they only have so many opportunities to work on space.

Twitter has people dependent on their H-1B and very few true believers that are unfit to serve in their role. Ella Irwin has apparently personally ghost banned ("Hide Reply" but with lying to the user about being hidden) any mention of libsoftiktok - a stochastic terror organization just itching for a lynching of queer people - made anywhere close to TwitterSafety recently.
Nope. Per Wikipedia:

> The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body.
A VHS with some related history.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1VdERcRJ3jI
You're punting the problem. You can't securely and objectively measure users and traffic.
Health insurance -> definitely a racket

Hospital execs -> a racket, but hospitals are being bought up by PE firms rn so I'd say you probably want to include portfolio managers

Doctors -> in general probably not. I've met some physicians that have made me feel sour about them in general, but even with FFS they're not benefiting nearly as much as hospital suppliers and insurance companies. Specialists definitely receive a boost, but this is like saying L7+ at FAANG is representative of SWEs as a whole. Factor in med school, residencies, and fellowships required to enter specialties, and there are also a lot of earning years lost. We should really be encouraging more students to go into medicine in spite of this, which would improve care by reducing the number of pts each physician needs to serve[^1].

[^1]: Additional context. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/why-does-t...
I'm not sure I agree with you. I'm not denying that coffescript might have inspired ES6+ features, but from this to say that it's a very influential, let alone one of the most influential languages, is a big leap. In my opinion, of course.
He's not wrong.

You don't see a lot of people trying to get into Cuba, North Korea, China, the former USSR, etc.

"I want to start a new and better life in COMMUNIST_COUNTRY_HERE" - said nobody.
For the first part of its existence Blue Origin was basically a think tank. For a while its only employee was a science fiction author. Neal Stephenson is great, but he's not a rocket designer. As a think tank it was highly successful -- they successfully identified VTVL reusability as the future of space independently from SpaceX and similarly chose methalox. By 2017 Blue Origin was basically about a decade old as a "real" company. And progress was reasonable. New Shepherd was real and successful and looked like it could launch humans at any time. New Glenn was ambitious and BE-4 looked close.

Expecting them to reach orbit as quickly as SpaceX or Rocket Lab is unfair since SpaceX & Rocket Lab had an orbital rocket as their first product, and Blue Origin didn't.

It's unfair to compare everybody to SpaceX -- their success is exceptional. Pre-2017 Blue Origin wasn't as functional as SpaceX but I wouldn't call them dysfunctional. Post-2017 Blue Origin is dysfunctional.

This is all based on heresay, so take from it what you will.
Crypto collapse: Binance is not so fine, FTX Delaware vs. FTX Bahamas
I mention the spectrum. Just because they're not visibly drooling or don't have any obvious disabilities doesn't mean they're a entirely competent. Childhood neglect for example is an intersection rarely seen in a place like this because it barely intersects with the lives of most professionals who tend to come from more supportive backgrounds. However it still exists and I would argue is considerably more prevalent than you're possibly giving it credit for.

To have absolutely zero empathy for people with considerably less fortunate backgrounds when they need our support the most demonstrates a dearth of compassion IMHO.
OT, but that take on Lucas has to stop. Was he surrounded by many capable people that contributed to his works in great ways? Of course, that's what collaborative art of movie making is all about. Spielberg movies would probably suffer a lot without Kahn editing them, so would Scorsese's without Thelma Schoonmaker, etc.. Look at the other world-building things Lucas did to gain some perspective on him as an artist - from THX 1138 and Graffiti, over Star Wars OT to Indiana Jones, Willow, and ultimately the prequels - yes, the prequels; Compare their cultural presence and impact (even mentioning Jar Jar here) to what Disney Juggernaut with all of the talent and money couldn't bring to presence. Now, combine that with the gravity around him that brought in people that managed to pull technical wonders of digital video editing (AVID) and image manipulation (Photoshop), and many many other things (THX, Pixar, etc.) on top of all of the legendary businesses that spawned up from Lucas Film itself, to Lucas Arts, Skywalker Sound (THX), and ILM. That's not a coincidence, and not on his ex wife (alone) - that's a bunch of smart and hard-working talented people around guy that told them a story, people including Spielberg, and De Palma, and Coppola... Story which they all liked. Give the guy a break, number of successes around him, and not any of the mentioned individuals, is no coincidence. One Howard the Duck does not his legacy make.
PL/M was a nice language indeed; I used it on embedded 8085 based systems; but I don't think it had many overlaps with PL/I; but there were similarities.
I can live with subscriptions, though part of me rebels at it. But I really dislike software that makes me pay ahead of time to even try it. This isn't exactly common, but it is seen at least on the Apple app store. In a world where subscription models are so common, what makes it hard to give me a 7 or 30 day trial before I have to put out money? I've had to ask Apple for money back three or four times, and that is both a drain on my time and attention as well as (possibly) some poor schmuck at Apple.
What about a golden retriever?
To expand on this: intelligence (smarts, IQ, etc) is the ability to come up with what appears to be the objectively best answer to a problem or action to take, often in a situation with only partial information.

Wisdom is the ability to evaluate many solutions to a problem or required action, and choosing the one which has the greatest utilitarian value, for some complex utility function that attempts to incorporate a far wider collection of evidence than intelligence does.

Somebody can be quite intelligent but lack wisdom. Intelligent people are also much better at self-delusion, and erection of reality distortion fields, than wise people. They are also prone to assuming that their intelligence transfers- for example between engineering and social media.

Hopefully, he'll shut down twitter sooner rather than later and then we won't have to listen to this ongoing blather.
"donated to" not "invested in". It's just a plain FOSS project.
Any good examples?

'Reputation is like a crystal vase, you can drop it, and glue it back together again but it will never again be the same vase that it was before you dropped it'.
Don't see any evidence that it's worth 3 billion dollars. All I see is a quote from Rihanna herself saying she thinks her company can raise that much by the time they IPO. Forbes estimates the value of her company at 1 billion on the high end.

And while it's true that VSCO's current market cap is 3 billion, at the time that Rihanna made her comment VSCO's market cap was 5-6 billion. It has dropped significantly in recent months.
https://www.listennotes.com
Is the policy not from a place of bad intentions? It's clearly a ploy to try to trap users on Twitter, preventing them from promoting their presence on alternative platforms.

Is it not vague and poorly worded in a fashion that could give the impression that sharing links to other platforms might be prohibited? Is this ambiguity perhaps a feature and not a bug?

I find faux-free-speech supporters rely on ambiguity to mask their actual intentions. I would much rather people focus on asking more explicit questions and requesting explicit answers.
"a political moderate"?? PG said this a month ago? (Nov. 17th) Wow. That tells us much more about PG's politics than I would ever have wanted to know.

Also, "rich white guy" adds a nice vibe of "all lives matter". It's a truth universally acknowledged that white people are victims. Esp. if they're male. And rich.
I meant "random" is a sense that it doesn't really reflect which team is the best in the world. Penalties is a player-specific skill, but the football is a team sport first and foremost and the world champion status should reflect that.
Well he did very publicly call the cave diver who saved 12 children a pedophile because he was jealous of him. He also called for a leading infectious disease expert to be jailed, further endangering someone who was already under armed protection from previous threats. And there was that one time that he shared an unfounded conspiracy theory about an elderly man who was attacked with a hammer in his own home. There was also the time when he tried to trade a horse for a handjob from one of his employees.

That's all pretty clearly in villain territory.
That’s a good policy. You should discriminate by net assets instead.

Someone with a zero net worth because they have millions in assets and millions in debt is probably actually rich - otherwise how’d they get the loans?

Same for a new dentist who’s negative due to student debt but is about to have more than enough income to handle it.
Property is one of the basis of autonomy so this shift that makes economic sense and scales for large corporations will probably many very undesired societal effects. It's the missing link between the optimism of early web with the dystopias of cyberpunk, if everything is a subscription not a product you have no control over it, and can be easily banned from it. Infrastructure as a subscription is the royal road to tyranny.
Which instance did you choose and why that one?
Isn't review itself problematic though? To re view something implies it needs to be viewed, which can't be done by a blind person.

And anonymous could be seen as being disrespectful to unidentified bodies.

This is the problem, once you go down the route of banning words that could possibly be problematic, then where do you stop, because any word can be problematic.

The list suggests hooked instead of addicted, which to me still has the same connotations, so even the author can't avoid all problematic words.
Thank you for providing context that I wasn't aware of.

That said, they are backed by Bezos, one of the richest people on the planet, so I think it is fair to expect some real achievements from them.
How would I change the US economy, taxation, and work if I had a magic wand?
"To Err is Human, to forgive divine" - Alexander Pope

I'm going to assume that none of Richard Feynman's mistakes affected you personally, so you have no reason to take it personally and judge or be offended. Let's imagine that the women involved forgave him. Where does that leave you? Cancelling him in his future and missing out on his best ideas.
> old versions quickly become useless without active maintenance.

I think this is somewhat exaggerated. Not to mention that if you're using older versions of 3rd party software, you can use older versions of the OS too. In fact, many people don't like to update their OS version. If it ain't broke...

> Meanwhile the subscription services largely keep pace with one another and stay compatible because most users are on the latest version.

How is this different from upfront paid software? The latest versions of that stay compatible too. You may have to pay an upgrade fee, but that generally doesn't happen every year, unlike subscriptions.
> "The agency is reconsidering its relationship with the contractor Accenture on this project, according to a person familiar."

Any time I start to feel that Impostor Syndrome creeping in, I need to remind myself that there's someone who's working at Accenture probably earning 2x or 3x what I am, who gets to fuck up big not once but _twice_ doing the same wrong thing.
I don’t think this is a Firefox specific thing. When you do a Pacman upgrade you’re changing the files on disk. Any time those files need to be loaded in the future ought to trigger a warning from any program that doesn’t want to mysteriously break on you because it’s not loading what the previous version you still have in memory expected.

The only real workaround for this is systems like NixOS where the previous version is left intact when you do updates.
Oh it's useful - it's just that the stated purpose doesn't match the intended purpose.
I use software for most of the things you mentioned and I don't pay for any subscriptions. I have always found tools I enjoy that give me what I want for free.
> I've seen racist/bigoted people become genuinely less bigoted over time

I've never seen this, and I won't be fooled if I do see it as it will be temporary/circumstantial I think.

> How does this make sense if people are immutable?

We aren't entirely immutable but I find it challenging to draw the exact line.

People can and do become more narcissistic in a pathological sense, you get into contact with such traits from your environment, you eventually contract the decease.

That doesn't mean you can change who you are in any meaningful way, it's just that (even unconsciously) adopting narcissistic traits is now in effect a positive adaptation (higher chances of becoming more "successfull" etc).
Would the code to maintain a pointer on the last element look something like this?

(let* ((list (list 1 2 3 4))

(last (last list)))

(rplacd last (list 5 6))

(setf last (last last))

(format t "list: ~a~%last: ~a~%" list last))

=> list: (1 2 3 4 5 6)

last: (6)
I haven't seen the entire video yet, but is there a chance for legal repercussions for Logan Paul? Or will he get away scot free?
>Carmack has proven enough times in the past that he's able to deliver, that he can push technology, knows what's possible and what isn't, and can wrap up a product.

In the finance world, lesson number 1 is past performance is not a predictor of future results.

I don't care how much of a virtuoso you are, if you clash with culture, you're fucked. I'm just coming out of a similar stint where the best I could do was hold off a predilection toward toxic culture norms long enough for processes to materialize. To support the business in spite of it.

So I know exactly the kind of forces he was probably working against. It's rather thankless, draining, and exhausting in a way sleep doesn't help with.

It's often bidirectional as well, so there's a trick to figuring out when it's time to bounce.
Yeah, there's a phenomenon called "Acquired Situational Narcissism", where if somebody spends enough time in an environment that's all about them, they start thinking it's all about them.

There's some evidence Musk was like this all along, but it is a lot harder to learn humility when you're doing well.
By large you tend to be severely limited by size and traffic. Github's also very slow to update changes and can't host private repos either.

I remember using 000webhost back in the day, their free plan had an uptime of "maybe". It was never up when I actually needed it.
Twitter just has to be predictable, that's it. That's all anyone wants, IMO, when you boil the controversies down to its essence. People will always complain, but the brands, the journalists, the users, they all just want something they can understand.

That might come in time. Surely it can't continue to be this chaotic forever, right? At least then we'll know what this site's future is.
This wasn't an achievement for SpaceX. Lots of very talented people wanted to work on space based on passion alone. It just came down to providing funding at a time space privatization was an uncertain venture.

Compare to Neuralink mostly being a failure.
The best thing to come out of all of this is people questioning their continued use of social media. Switching to Mastodon, it being different, not liking it and just dropping it all entirely. It's the BEST outcome. Social media is a fucking cancer on society and it's fantastic to see it being questioned. It's like soda and candy - empty calories that does absolutely nothing for you.
Tesla FSD is just fraud.
While you can't compress the random noise itself, it's often easy to still get decent compression of the whole image, depending on how serious the noise is.

Imagine an image with large blocks of constant colour in 8-bit colour depth has 2 bits of random noise on every pixel. We indeed can't ever compress to less than 2 bits per pixel, but we can still get down to that.
They are unquestionably creating Hype without releasing data because that’s what’s best for the company. It’s fine for a private company to maintain stealth, but the combination of hype and not releasing meaningful metrics is a very bad sign.

High energy Neutrons are nasty, the issue with high atomic number shielding is it doesn’t slow them down very well. Sort of like tossing a ping pong ball at a bowling ball it just doesn’t transfer much energy. Even 1% Tritium would be a problem.
I think all social media have terms and conditions similar to this, it just seemed a bit dramatic the way they laid it out.
I enjoy your tweets and would miss you if you left.
Twitter has the ability to start revolutions and change the course of the war in Ukraine by manipulating support or a lack thereof.

Just imagine the kind of damage that would ensue if for instance all of Twitters DMs became somehow public.
I think you're forgetting the core controversy, which was that their marketing materials proudly claimed they used end-to-end encryption, which was just completely false at the time.