skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So your initial comments have aged poorly…

From your own feed:

“ People are rooting for him to fail because he's a rich white guy and a political moderate. “

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1593206076983635968?s=46&t=...

I really really really dislike this whole trend to feel “victimized” while being some of the most successful people in earth. People are “turning” on Elon after being hugely beloved, purely cause he’s doing idiotic things. Plain an simple.

Furthermore, we should hold someone who’s the richest person on earth to higher standards.
The US has an equivalent to the travel area, Californians can go to New York without a visa
Quite the opposite. I no longer have buyer's remorse - worst that happens is that I lose a monthly fee. (I never pay for an annual or multi month discount until I have used something at least 6 months.)
Yes, but also no.

I'm more tired of all the damned Ads, and the tracking that they stuff into things.

I'd happily pay for a service that lets me keep up with all my family if it wasn't trying to know everything about me. To be clear: i'd prefer an open protocol that i just connect up to the network, and get my own feed, but at least a subscription model could mean an ad-free experience.
Stand up for your principles and reason from them.
If I draw a couple blogs and AI uses that to build a majestic landscape do I retain my copyright?
In my experience, product managers do not spontaneously organize to create successful, billion dollar companies, either.
Apt always prompts me as to which services I want to restart following an upgrade.
That's just embarrassing.
C and Pascal were both fast, but C allowed programmers to dynamically allocate and free memory without having to deal with 255 character limits and other limitations imposed by Pascal. It also allowed us to create some magnificent bugs, too.
I've gotten a ton of mileage out of social media, met lots of interesting people, made friends from all over the world, made start-up investments (some good, some bad), helped people, have been helped by people and in general found that there are interesting stories everywhere. But that was when I was still swimming in time and now the trade-off is different. As I wrote, I'm on the fence, but the value is/was definitely there.
Elon has right-wing reactionary brain worms. In my experience, most people who fall in never get out. I don't have much hope that a billionaire will be an exception to that.
I think the biggest problem for a credible japenese military build up is getting enough young men. Isnt Japan the oldest country with one of the lowest birth rates?

And aside from the demographic problem, I've read that they have a real cultural social stigma attached to military service.
No I don't expect it because it's obviously impossible to be sustainable. Which is why I choose subscription stuff because then I can expect a constant stream of new value for my payment or I cancel the subscription.
I <3 ESP32, working on microcontrollers is fun and there's a decent variety of tools available. You can run Linux on one ( s l o w l y ) but running on bare metal is more fun. There's a good package ecosystem for working in C or micropython.
> Creative Cloud … all subscriptions and getting better all the time.

I may be an atypical user—I'm definitely sub-power user in this domain—but everything Adobe has got worse for me since moving to "Creative Cloud".
For my latest interview cycle I had issues with race conditions when it came to scheduling with recruiters. I summarized my thoughts on it and how I used https://github.com/niccokunzmann/open-web-calendar to self-host my calendar.
Syncing? Just load it onto some cloud storage provider you already have. That’s what 1Password used for years before they decided to go the subscription route. It worked great.
Chen is the poster boy for backwards compat.

They used to work very hard to make sure updates didn't break popular programs that used undocumented hacks.
I'm glad I jump Twitter's sinking ship last week[1]. There's no way for Twitter to have a good outcome as long as Musk in on charge.

[1] https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2022/leaving-twitter/
Any first degree negative feedback loops. But reality has a way of poking its head in, like getting booed in public forums that should have been adoring you.

Fortunately second and third degree feedback loops are notoriously stupid, and wrong, and they’re the problem there, not you.
However, it seemed that Elon's mind was more with manipulating Bitcoin rates, and then buying and changing Twitter the last few years. Tesla and SpaceX must be run by other people, which investors and Elon conveniently keep out of the picture.
For tiny tiny programs that don't need much memory, Java default allocation is obviously larger. For programs that need memory to be allocated less so.
Elections?
My thoughts on this are two-fold. Firstly, people need to earn money for their work. The age of ad-based revenue sharing never really worked and created un-usable experiences in various app-stores of the world.

With the decline in digital advertising, revenues for BigTech will go down therefore, the revenue for companies depending on such services will decline accordingly.

We operate stakepools that have introduced a really smart and effective way to introduce a monetary layer into content and services online. They sit on top of treasuries that pay out every 5 days and this concept is really nice and works well.
I assume it just makes the address easier to read. I imagine most programs don’t deal with address spaces larger than 4GB, so being able to quickly identify the lower bytes of the address when physically looking at a memory address is probably quite handy.
Twitter is not the web. Twitter's website is Musk's personal space. User's have no rights. If you disagree, point to where those rights come from.

A public square is property owned by a government. In the U.S. anyone can place themselves on public property and speak without being inhibited by the government.

That is not true in all countries, and even in the US is not true on private property.
I'll bet a lot of incandescent bulbs would stay on for years and years if they weren't turn off and on all the time. But it costs money to leave them on, even if they're very low wattage; is it better for your bank account (not considering environmental costs) to leave an incandescent bulb on all the time, or to replace bulbs every year or two?
> Most of these languages are neither dead nor dying.

They were sent by Jack Sparrow to settle his debt. Technical debt of course.
I developed a lot of projects with ruby and yet I can't think of a single reason to opt for ruby over python or typescript. Ruby doesn't do anything better both in terms of language or platform than its already very well established competitors.

It's my understanding that ruby rose to prominence mostly because of ruby on rails, now that RoR is in a downward trend I think ruby will follow the same trend until it's reduced to a small community of enthusiasts in the same way that happened to perl.
We operate stakepools that have introduced a really smart and effective way to introduce a monetary layer into content and services online. They sit on top of treasuries that pay out every 5 days and this concept is really nice and works well.
Everyone shrugged off the "pedo guy" episode as a lapse of judgment and not a glimpse into his real personality.
...except they don't do that. This is no different than Reddit's own policies on spam and self-promotion. You're expected to use the site for discussion and building community, not directing people elsewhere. If the latter is your goal then you can pay for advertising. What's changed here is that people who previously were given free reign to promote themselves without paying a dime are now being told they need to pay up. I'm finding it hard to sympathize with them.
That's the one.

https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/109422846935825930

But they might have changed that "no criticising the rich" policy now. Since it's such a bad look.
I suspected as much. It must be heartbreaking to have to put your pet down because you cannot afford the treatment. Otoh, if you cannot afford the treatment should you get a pet in the 1st place? (Yes, i know that things are not created equal and probably I come at this from a privileged position)
So I agree that he did smart things in the past. However he is totally incompetent managing Twitter in a rational business way. For a while there I thought he might be trying to get the debt reduced substantially and was preserving cash in the meantime. The last few weeks and the constant own-goal-via-shitposting that he does are solid evidence that any strategic plot has been well and truly lost.

I get the sense that he wants to “own the libs” to build credibility with US “conservatives” — despite the fact that the libs regularly own themselves more thoroughly than he can — but he’s mostly just scoring goals against his own pocket book right now. The people I feel sorry for are TSLA investors.

Edit: oh and the rank and file Twitter employees who are either having to put up with his BS or haven’t been paid the severance they were promised. He seems to be taking a “sue me” approach to that, which is really really shitty for a typical employee who uses their income to pay rent/mortgages and buy groceries. I hope he loses another billion in back payments and penalties on that shit, because he’s setting awful examples right now.
The problem is that OS upgrades are frequently needed for security and bug fixes and those upgrades are often required by other applications--but a new OS version may break your older application. I suppose you can play around with VMs to keep an old OS and application together--that was one of the original virtualization use cases--but that gets awkward after a while.
Same experience.

Arch has been nearly maintenance free, and it's been the one distribution where when I did break something, I was able to fix it 100% without nuking and starting over.

I still can't bring myself to run it on servers for some reason, and I go back to Debian stable for those, but honestly, I'm not sure why. I'm starting to feel that a rolling release would make for a lower maintenance server because it's always a PITA when the inevitable end-of-life comes into play and the upgrade inevitably fails and I have to reconfigure everything anyways.

Ubuntu in contrast would ALWAYS find new and bizarre ways to break. ESPECIALLY when snap came into play.
Bombay (a city in India) is pursuing at least 2 large scale cluster development projects for housing owing to its very high density. It remains to be seen how it pans out. Previously, such clusters have only been realised for economic zones / business districts.
I think the fact that pg himself is frustrated and pausing his Twitter presence is evidence enough that this is not awesome for everyone except those in the “woke bubble”. Paul Graham is very obviously not a “woke” guy. You are very obviously inside an “anti-woke” bubble yourself if this nonsense is your main takeaway from Musk’s tactics as Twitter CEO.
"For those of you in San Francisco, join the waitlist today."

Aw. Not quite yet. But getting steadily closer. What's pricing?

When the service turns on as a commercial service in San Francisco, autonomous vehicles will really be here. Phoenix is the easy case. SF is moderately hard. NYC will be tough.
I put something like this together to collect transcripts for uni videos. It’s dumps all transcripts into a directory, with URL links, so I can just search the whole directory to find the keyword I need.

Helped a lot with take home exams.
Paul,

Why was it ok for you to be on Twitter when the platform was loaded with child porn?

And it seems a little hypocritical that this is the red line that cannot be crossed when you seem to have had no problem with other news outlets and journalists getting deplatformed.

Maybe get out of that glass house every now and again?
And your work pays for a lot of that? Must be nice.
I have a bunch of ubuntu containers at work, none of them self update by default, I know that because I had to enable unattended upgrades manually in all of them. Maybe it's a lxc template thing?
I’d be willing to build and sell software on a pay once own forever model if there’s two caveats: No free customer support, no free updates.

If people don’t care about either of those, good. I don’t care about providing support unless I’m paid to and I don’t care about forcing myself to continue updating something just because I have subscribers.
I listened to this week in tech for years. Then it got a little too political for my personal preference. I would take a break and come back but sure enough it just went deeper down the political podcast category than I felt like listening too. Calling Tucker Carlson a nazi was an interesting one. I don’t watch his show but this just reeked of a left talking point instead of addressing anything specific he said. I consider myself middle of the isle libertarian leaning… I see a lot of good and bad from both sides. Sometimes I love a good political debate. Just wasn’t interested in it from TWiT. His show though. He had a right to talk about anything he wants. I did try to email them just to discuss as a long term fan. Someone, his wife I think, made it pretty clear my input was not wanted. fair enough but that’s when I stopped listening.
VBA isn't that bad a language. Compiles to native and runs with impressive speed. Lots of built in libraries for numeric programming among other things and fairly easy to call into any dll. The issue is it's accessibility. Like JS and Python people blame the language for what happens when you hand people with no software training and an interest only in solving their immediate problem, a computer language they are productive in.

And how can we call basic dead when VB.net is still in the tiobe top 10?
I like how people always assume there is some genius underlying plan. All I'm seeing is an egomaniac going on a tantrum with something he didn't even want. What you are describing is what Trump wants with 'Truth Social' who himself wants nothing to do with Twitter.
> Not going out of business, but on the iPad there is a drawing app called Procreate which is a one time purchase. It’s decent, but in the two years I’ve had it, nothing has really improved and there is a whole lot missing or to be desired.

This is the trade-off, as far as I'm concerned. By paying one time, I get the product … once. It might be a bad purchase that I regret; that happens. But, if it's great, I want that product; I don't want the developer's new and greatest idea of how they think I want to use their product. Too many products that were once great ‘evolved’ away from being useful for me. For the software that I own (and that runs on a supported platform), I can just keep using it. For subscription software … well, too many developers don't care that they're leaving a dedicated base behind if they open up a new (and fickle) base.
Except for the fact it isn't really collapsing. A couple people throwing a fit and saying they are leaving doesn't change the majority.
I will say since Mastodon blew up, I've found a lot less need for HN in my life. I'm still getting all the interesting tech news and projects, but I'm not doing battle with crazy fanatics. It's more pleasant, and I probably spend less overall time on it because of it.
I didn't ignore this at all. In fact, I raised my (little) voice against the widespread loss of civil liberties (those who live in the USA have no idea, really) that were carried out in the past three years all across the world, following a foolish move by a poor, incompetent PM. And EM had nothing to do with this.

The press, the journalists, and the "civil society" that prided itself to be the only barrier against the "dangers to society" happily complied. And those who weren't conspiracy theorists were considered at the same level as the true loons (which were always there, but a minority).

All of this with widespread support from the society at large, including the social media platforms like Twitter. I'm not talking about the Twitter Files. I'm talking about a "law of unintended consequences" where independently, most people shared the same mindset and acted accordingly (no conspiracy at all, IOW).

Those journalists that lament the loss of freedom with EM, they may have a point. However, where were they back then? I have a hard time believing them due to this. There are however some exceptions, which I happen to know, that were always consistent in their views, luckily.
On the etymology of "soccer":

1889, socca, later socker (1891), soccer (1895), originally university slang (with jocular formation -er (3)), from a shortened form of Assoc., abbreviation of association in Football Association (as opposed to Rugby football); compare rugger. An unusual method of formation, but those who did it perhaps shied away from making a name out of the first three letters of Assoc. Compare 1890s English schoolboy slang leccer, from lecture (n.).

Source: https://www.etymonline.com/word/soccer
He has nothing to do with the quality of the cars or rockets. He’s done none of the “work” there. He gets attention with overpromises and straight up lies.
New Support for the Notion of a Serotonin Deficit in Depression
Sounds like it's a theme with certain people, interestingly enough
Nobody has ever pay nor will ever pay Elon to work on cars or rockets. He is solely responsible for working on people a job which by all accounts he does very poorly.

With twitter his poor performance is merely on display for the whole world in tweets. It is yet another poor decision in an entire life full of poor decisions ranging from paying a cut rate private investigator to investigate a hero spearheading the effort to save children and then publicly and falsely proclaiming that person a pedophile, then lying about pedophile just being used as a generic insult, allegedly trying to bribe an employee to have sex with him for a pony by her account, an entire series of failed relationships, abandoning his wife after their kid died by her account of the matter, spreading conspiracy theories that the psycho that attacked pelosi was a prostitute rather than a deranged conspiracy theorist.

He doesn't do anything but buy the services of people smarter and better than himself and take credit for their success while continually making poor choices and offering an example of terrible leadership.

You act as if his failure with twitter is forgivable because its a different sort of business from his other ventures but its really not. Nobody expects Elon to design a rocket either he's supposed to be an expert in leading people and he's stunningly poor at it.

There is little chance of turning twitter around with Elon at the helm. It was barely been profitable in its whole history and now its becoming a pariah to both the potential employees who could serve in that role and the advertisers who pay all of the bills. It's going to steadily lose money until Elon steps away and makes a firm commitment not to ratfuck it any longer and puts someone in charge that both sides trust. Then MAYBE it can stop hemorrhaging money. It will remain a black eye both personally to him and his business acumen.

Twitter introduced the world to the real Elon and its not a person worth knowing. If you have positive feelings towards him I would suggest its because as a fellow rich person you have more in common with him than with us even if you are a better man. I would suggest not lowering your own stock by defending those so obviously inferior to yourself.
I've seen web pages where people talk about putting a great big GANTT chart (or timeline or whatever) up on a wall. Like, a couple of meters/yards. Hit it with annotations and sticky notes. It's public, it's editable, it's grokkable-at-a-glance, it's available to other teams for examination.
Elon is certainly laser-focused on self-promotion, no doubt. I suspect most of the value he will deliver at those companies is in the past, but that doesn't detract from it.
The foundation is not meant to give away Gates money while he is alive.

It's a way to be able to keep investing his money without paying taxes.

It only spends the legal minimal amount for charity, 5% (way less than taxes that would go to build roads, hospitals and schools). The rest is invested in a portfolio that, by the magic of being in a non profit, can make billions without paying any tax.

Since he directs the charity, he can therefore move the capital where he needs it to, including founding Monsanto and weapon makers, which he had to withdraw from after people noticed that it was quite the opposite of the claimed foundation mission.

That's why most billionaires have some kind of charity: they keep all the power of their money, get good PR (which given that the wealth gap makes people grumpy, is a great shield) and they optimize their finance while people defend them.

The PR operations worked well: most people on the internet now believe that Gates is a good person. A statement that would have made anybody smile in the 90'.
There are a few things I subscribe to, but they’re pretty few and far between now as I deliberately try and keep it to a minimum. For e.g. I use Google Photos and Gmail so I pay to upgrade my storage to 100gb, and I have a Spotify family subscription, but I think that’s it for ones I plan to keep.

I have a LastPass subscription but I’m planning to migrate off of that when the next renewal comes around as I don’t think the cost is justified compared to OSS options and I’m concerned at the recent issues they’ve had.

I used to subscribe to Evernote, but when I left academia I lost the need for that, and I was getting fed up with it getting slower and slower too.
I wouldn't install a browser extension just for this. I think you can use a simple Twitter query[1] that will show you if your users mentioned mastodon links in their profile. Personally, the accounts I'm following are slowly moving out, so keeping track of the links is quite easy.

[1] https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20mastodon%20-...
both Messi and Mbappe play for the same qatari owned team back in france, qatar is the biggest world cup winner here
But is there something, like, serving as a bridge to Twitter and stuff? I'm really uneducated in this stuff, I don't have an account neither on Twitter, nor on Mastodon, and I don't really understand, what people do on Twitter. For me, the only reason I ever wanted to join Twitter (but not strongly enough for me to type in my phone number) is being subscribed to all these celebrities like Musk, Kanye West or whoever is the most popular ATM, just to cut out one link in the chain and seeing that stuff before it appears in the news anyway.
I'm impressed that one of your tweets could generate almost 600 comments in 1 hour. This should be an interesting stress test of HN. Often when something generates this level of interaction performance suffers.
At least it’s explicit policy. FB messenger likes to fail to send signal URLs, mark PushBullet URLs as unsafe. Deprioritize YT links in the FB feed too. It’s not an official policy, just plausible denial secret policy.

I respect Elon for making decisions quickly. I’m sure with good hypotheses behind them. And especially how he is always doing it very much in the open.

Transparent, decisive, opinionated leadership won’t make everyone happy but at least it’s a short feedback loop with someone who cares.

And if you think this is anti competitive, I ask you to reconsider your priorities. How about the digital advertising industry eliminating most other software industries by taking giant losses to provide complete suites of apps for free?
I live in the EU and just filed a complaint https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust/procedures...
There are press articles that say that Musk showed his friends the benefits of MDMA, Mushrooms, psychedelics, marijuana.

I dont know if he does drugs, but sure he seems to behave strange.