skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I open up my copy of the DSM-5, I find on page 659 the diagnostic criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder (301.7, F60.2):

> A. A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occurring since age 15 years, as indicated by three (or more) of the following: ...

> B. The individual is at least age 18 years.

> C. There is evidence of conduct disorder with onset before age 15 years.

> D. The occurrence of antisocial behavior is not exclusively during the course of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.

Now, to be diagnosed with ASPD, a person must meet all of A, B, C and D. You seem to be focusing on criterion A. Even supposing you are right that he meets criterion A – where is the evidence for him meeting criterion C? You can't diagnose someone with ASPD without evidence for the onset of a diagnosis of conduct disorder (CD) as a child/adolescent. It isn't necessary that they be diagnosed with CD contemporaneously, it is acceptable to have retrospective evidence for it based on school records, parent interviews, their own recollections, etc – but, without evidence for onset of a CD diagnosis in childhood/adolescence, you cannot have an ASPD diagnosis in adulthood. Do we have any evidence that Musk met the diagnostic criteria for conduct disorder in childhood/adolescence?

Is there any good evidence that Musk exhibited at least three of the following behaviours (conduct disorder criterion A, pages 469-470) prior to age 15?

Aggression to People and Animals
1. Often bullies, threatens, or intimidates others.
2. Often initiates physical fights.
3. Has used a weapon that can cause serious physical harm to others (e.g., a bat, brick, broken bottle, knife, gun).
4. Has been physically cruel to people.
5. Has been physically cruel to animals.
6. Has stolen while confronting a victim (e.g., mugging, purse snatching, extortion, armed robbery).
7. Has forced someone into sexual activity.
Destruction of Property
8. Has deliberately engaged in fire setting with the intention of causing serious damage.
9. Has deliberately destroyed others’ property (other than by fire setting).
Deceitfulness or Theft
10. Has broken into someone else’s house, building, or car.
11. Often lies to obtain goods or favors or to avoid obligations (i.e., “cons” others).
12. Has stolen items of nontrivial value without confronting a victim (e.g., shoplifting, but without breaking and entering: forgery).
Serious Violations of Rules
13. Often stays out at night despite parental prohibitions, beginning before age 13 years.
14. Has run away from home overnight at least twice while living in the parental or parental surrogate home, or once without returning for a lengthy period.
15. Is often truant from school, beginning before age 13 years
Yes, and the only practical answer is to consider how many of these subscriptions you actually need.

For instance, I see no reason why a password manager should be a SaaS. I don't care how long these companies have been around thusfar; in my opinion, using a password manager as-a-service is asking for trouble and is a waste of money. The closer you approach "perfect" security, the more of your personal security you end up handing off to someone else for their profit. Having a handful of sufficiently complex yet memorable passwords and something like Authenticator or Yubikey might be an appropriate compromise.

Image editor? There's Kirta, GIMP, and Inkscape. No, they're not as good as Adobe software, but maybe that's less important to you than not paying Adobe.

Maybe just using Apple Notes can be good enough for you, if you can get used to it. No subscription necessary. Back it up on occasion. There are of course other note taking apps that aren't SaaS.

Too many streaming services? Consider watching less in general. The less you live vicariously through fictional characters, the less those fictional worlds will matter to you. Spend that extra time learning a skill or spending non-screen time with others. Not watching television only seems abnormal in the context of the last half century.

Tired of "live service" games? There's a million older games that you buy once, probably for way cheaper, and don't have a ton of bugs. Nothing is wrong with older games.

Subscriptions are mostly a problem for those with FOMO. Don't care so much about living in the now. Create some distance between you and the technological machine while still being able to interact with it when you think it's sensible. The only way that companies will back off from everything being a subscription is if enough people who don't appreciate it actually take action in their own lives.
> Plus I don't think he realizes that the techniques that work for cars and rockets don't work in social media.

This argument made sense a month ago. Unfortunately he really hasn't shown any improvement since then that would lead me to agree with you on that point.

It's now a situation where he has to either find enough new people who agree with whatever his approach is or /win people back/ - both of those are quite a bit harder than keeping people who already loved the app.

I also hope he - or someone - is able to recover Twitter. But I'm not betting on it at this point.
Article from 2020: https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/why-deaf-people-oppo...

Article from 2017: https://bioedge.org/enhancement/will-curing-the-deaf-lead-to...
So, justice should be a privilege only to those who can afford lawyers?
This twitter policy change is the greatest thing that could have happened for Mastodon. They couldn't buy better advertisement than this.
Yes, mobile provider and ethics is generally a contradiction in terms. I suppose the issue in your case is with the pricing, not the subscription model: $10 for never expiring 100 GB is objectively better than $10/month for 100 GB/month, even if in some months you would pay a total of $20, some others months you would pay $0. I was thinking more of compute-intensive software services as photo/video manipulation with a server-side (AI models running remote, etc.)

"1 eur per 10mb in the prepaid version vs 13.50 eur per month for 2gb" is simply speechless pricing, mafiosos have a gentler racket.
I think we are not that far away from the "cheap super-battery": https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/10/catl-will-mass-produce...
Does this qualify as "super-battery", you tell me, but it's pretty good and cheap and could easily scale for storage of solar and wind.
> Doesn't that have quite an excessive totalitarian feeling?

It does. Basically we just learned that "radical free speech" is newspeak for "only things Elon likes today"

And we already knew Elon is completely mad, so whatever he does or doesn't ban can change by the minute.
The second half was better than you think it was and will hold up under rewatching, I suspect.

In the first half, Argentina dominated possession and kept France completely on defense and just pummeled them, a boxer just getting blasted in the corner holding gloves up for dear life, super lopsided.

In the second half, from the very start, France was hungry for blood, it's just that the Argentinian defense was very strong as they had not yet really had to play much in the first half. It seemed boring because we were already thinking we saw this going 3-0, Messi sweeping up the Cup easily in the last game against a sick team stuck at their 75%. But if you are paying more attention, you will see France with the lead on possession, numerous back-and-forth pushes, lots of French pushes only to be stuck inside a “cup” of three Argentine defenders who shut it down... Then they start to get tired, leading to that first penalty (“let me just hug you in the box”), followed by the French sharks sensing the fatigue, blood in the water, a French feeding frenzy. It should hold up well I think
Quoting the GP tweet to the one you linked:

> You still occasionally hear people saying that founders don't deserve to be rich, because their employees created all the value. But the falsity of this claim becomes increasingly obvious as automation enables founders to grow companies with fewer and fewer employees.

Do you disagree with this, or just disagree that it’s in contradiction to Marx?
Salaries, degrees, and babies: Fertility by income and education among Japanese
Maintenance doesn't require a subscription. When my car needs repair, I pay for it. I don't "subscribe" to a maintenance plan (though such plans exist, they are on average more expensive).

It used to be commonplace for softare updates, new versions, etc. to be sold as they became available. If you wanted the new features or needed the bug fixes, you bought the update. If you didn't need them, you kept using the old version.
Is it a bad thing for life to be fun and games?
As a European, I'm surprised about the silence from Brussels around this. They're always really good at calling things anti-competitive, but this is just about the most anti-competitive thing I've ever seen and I've not heard anything about this yet. Maybe they're just slow, but it's kinda disappointing.
Apple apply this logic to apps though. You cannot publish an app on the App Store that even mentions Android.

This came to promenance when the Apple Watch launched and Apple started banning apps that mentioned Pebble.
The game of handball is quite popular here in the Netherlands, differing from football in using hands instead of feet.
I know it is simple to do, but care to share the unit file?
The reality is that Musk is a billionaire leading a cult which has a lot of powerful people in it.

You can ignore things but that doesn't make them go away. See 1933.
Ubuntu has an additional system called unattended-upgrades that does security updates in the background without any user interaction. At least in Ubuntu 18.04, pre-snap Firefox is included in it.
Tom Zhu, Tesla’s China president, is likely to be head of Tesla Automotive in the near future.
I recently took on pedal steel guitar. Which has both foot pedals and knee levers. Along with both hands (plucking and barring chords).

It’s really changed the way I think about input methods. Pedals have always been a thing, but primarily for effects, not part of inputting notes. Those lazy knees weren’t doing anything!!
And there's significant evidence on this thread that Canada isn't doing that serious consideration and that's a huge problem, a literal crime against humanity imo.
In a free country there's this thing called the first amendment and freedom of speech; because someone doesn't like a certain opinion doesn't make it hate speech.

However, blocking links to a competitor is pretty clear-cut anticompetitive behavior. Imagine AT&T refusing to serve Verizon's websites.
On menial task, it's way more than 50%. For quick scripting, dirty parsing, PoC and plumping, this is about 300% for me.

However, for anything that requires me to think, it's 5% at best.

Don't take up the 50% figure as anything serious, I think it's just a way to state "if it is a such a meaningful boost in productivity".

Which it is, for a lot of tasks, because the vast majority of programming jobs are boring stuff outside of the HN bubble.

It's amazing how much of the world economy runs on csv uploaded to ftp servers.
The problem with claims of Pascal being dead or almost dead, is there are competing interests and evangelists of rival languages who wish it to be dead, and Pascal/Object Pascal simply won't do them the favor. As partially shown by Object Pascal being consistently ranked around #15 (for many years) on the TIOBE index (sometimes a bit higher and sometimes a bit lower).

To say Pascal/Object Pascal is almost dead, is to ignore how much more used and taught the language is over known and hyped languages in the media such as Go, Rust, Swift, Julia, etc... Nobody says that those languages are "almost dead", yet Pascal/Object Pascal is as or more used than any of them.

One aspect of the confusion over if Pascal is dead or not, has to do with naming and marketing. Delphi is an IDE/compiler of the Object Pascal language. People can of heard the name Delphi, and know its still very alive, but have no idea or don't realize the language is Object Pascal. In the same context, this goes for Oxygene, and to a lesser degree, for Free Pascal/Lazarus, PascalABC, etc... People aren't aware of how they connect as dialects of Pascal/Object Pascal, and get confused by the names and marketing.
My only complaint is with the layout of the site - could you please make the transcripts span across the whole width of the page, not just to the right of the video?

My one gripe with Youtube's own transcript box is that it is too narrow, so it is a shame that a website designed to specifically make the transcripts more readable also displays the transcripts in a narrow box.
For a classic example see former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. By any conventional measure he was very smart, and yet he made a series of catastrophically bad decisions which are still impacting US national security today.

Intelligence is overrated in leaders. Character, humility, principles, and discipline are far more valuable in avoiding huge mistakes.
In what context does a "smart guy" truly not realize that growing industrial manufacturing companies ("cars and rockets") from scratch is a fundamentally different challenge than running a mature web-only social media company?

Is he simply blinded by success?
Rihanna is one of the most successful musical artists of all time. Her net worth is near or at a billion dollars.
Take video > transcribe > ask gpt to summarize > be genius in 2 mins
Hehe, that's 44b crash so I'd assume he's posed to get at least double than that on this bigger plan.
He is a dog whistler but not surprised since he grew up in South Africa during the same time as I.

Roelof Botha shows it is possible to outgrow a toxic upbringing.
You can tell who's actually discussing a person's intelligence and who's status-signaling how smurt they are because only one group gets terribly offended when you disagree.
It's a good and fair question. But if you watch the entirety of the video, which features interviews of the victims, you will see that those people are 1/ certainly not mentally impaired 2/ not "stupid" either (as in, people who couldn't understand a question or articulate a clear answer).

I personally have a strong aversion to gurus of any kind, to a point that it's more a flaw than a strength. I don't expect other people to be the same, and I understand (or at least I think I do) the appeal of role models.

But to fall for a man like Logan Paul, who is not just hollow, but obviously mean and a pathological liar... that's... inexplicable; and the only explication I can find is that these normal, non-stupid people were overcome by greed, and put their critical mind on hold (let alone their sense of morality).
Yes, there is a button to export all your data as csv.

Honestly, i think something better can be done around the Activitypub protocol than mastodon. And i'm not a social media guy, so i will wait until someting better is built.
So childish & tyrannical. Not that it matters in the slightest but I think I'm done interacting with any of Elon Musk's business ventures.
I am incredibly tired of it. I cancelled every subscription except what I need for my job, and I'm working on moving to one time payment and free software there too.

I've discovered the joy of hosting my own services at my own home, and it has been life changing.
All we can really compare Musk to is to Bezos. Bezos basically destroyed Blue Origin in 2017 after they blew up a test stand. This is the sort of thing that happens when you're developing rockets. You just have to accept it and move on. It'll cost you millions and many months, but if you want to develop rockets... After the test stand incident Bezos fired the CEO, brought in an incompetent one and brought in a "no mistakes" type of culture that doesn't get anything done.

In contrast, check out the Tom Mueller interview about Elon Musk and "face shut off". This feature is one of the top reasons why the SpaceX Merlin rocket engine is such a great engine. Mueller thought it would be very hard to get it to work in a large engine and he was right. They blew up hundreds of engines and a bunch of test stands. But Musk was supportive the whole time. That's a big deal, and what you want from a CEO during development.

But "better than Bezos running a rocket company" is a pretty low bar to hurdle.

Tory Bruno at ULA and Peter Beck at Rocket Lab from the outside appear to be outstanding CEO's. But they've been starved for resources for different reasons. What could they have done with the resources that Musk & Bezos brought to their companies?

Rocket Lab in particular is one of the companies that could challenge SpaceX's dominance.
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> His work on cars and rockets speaks for itself.

You mean hiring engineers to work on cars and rockets?
I highly doubt it. He's drastically overpaid for Twitter, to the point that it ever being profitable dubious.

Twitter is also not really that important. He's paid way too much for something that on the user side is unimpressive tech, and that is only valuable because of its inertia, and that's by no means guaranteed.
I still miss the man, in spite of our infrequent contact.
That's not really how the internet works.
How many tried? Lots of people don't actually want to do that. I know lots of very wealthy people who are not at all interested in increasing their wealth or running companies or being famous.
"Eccentric" is not the best way to describe him. He's full of hate, vengeful, reactionary, abusive, and surrounded by yes men/women.

You've slowly been piecing each of them together over the past month, but clearly still don't get it. I don't know why you're still giving so much benefit of the doubt, other than the fact that he's also a billionaire.
You may have been lucky or have some specific config or workflow that made you avoid this issue.

I'm using a regular Arch installation with Firefox and Pacman. The "please restart" page appears regularly; I just had it yesterday. This occurs when running `pacman -Syu` in some background terminal while Firefox is active.
Whatever generation you identify as, I'm positive it had plenty of people subscribing to celebrities and poor role models. This certainly isn't a problem if "people have forgotten how to parent".
> why a password manager should be a SaaS

While I fully agree with you, how do you sync passwords across my 3 laptops and 3 phones without a SaaS offering?

While I don't use this feature, but it is common for ppl to share an account. How can I securely share credentials with family members?
Is it also weird that we describe things that completely cease to function as dead?
> If fossil fuels and nuclear get phased out

Don't you realise the consequences of phasing out fossil fuels? So much of that is used for, well fuels.. and even when it isn't, like fertilisers, it's still something that's produced in bulk in large quantities and stored. We'll have to produce a HUGE amounts of hydrogen, ammonia, etc. .. and in the absolute worst case scenario we can store some of that hydrogen and use in in existing natural gas power plants (yes, running a turbine on 100% hydrogen has been demonstrated already).

We're already seeing the prices swing more due to renewables, and we're already seeing that it's creating a lot of solutions for shifting energy consumption. Right now I can connect my EV directly to my electricity provider and they'll stop or start charging based on prices. There's an entire parking garage in the Netherlands full of EV rental cars that can deliver power back to grid when prices are higher.

People seem to think nuclear will let us avoid solving the energy storage problems. No. You might be able to run some big ships on nuclear, but not much else. If we solve the problems we need to solve to stop climate change (in a sustainable way.. don't get me started on CCS), then we'll be doing energy storage at just around the same scale needed to balance renewables. BEVs is a pretty good illustration of that, where, if you have one you suddenly have enough energy storage to run your house a day or three. If we're making enough batteries for all cars to be EVs, we're making battery at a scale where a doubling could give most households dedicated battery storage. I'm not sure exactly that will be the solution, maybe it'll be more specialised grid-level batteries like Ambri.. point is, we're moving towards a world where we HAVE to become experts at transforming and storing energy. Cause we're not getting "free" storable/transportable energy from the ground for eternity.
> Most if not all renewables require either energy storage, or much better energy transport, which must be factored into their price.

This was the big one for me. Many people underestimate the complexity of energy transport over long distances. At some scales, this is still a materials science research topic, but even when it has been commercialised it's exorbitantly expensive over the international distances that would be required.

As for storage, despite the medium scale battery deployments we've seen in the last ~5 years, and pumped hydro, I'm remaining unconvinced that storage is something we'll rely on for industrial-scale grid usage in a post-fossil fuel world. These solutions need to be able to power a country, with all its industry, for ~days while wind and solar aren't running at necessary levels.
Well its not like Zuckerberg is the epitome of normal "humanness".
Sounds exactly like Seattle. Ever since Police powers have been taken away. Crime has drastically gone up.

I grew up here and when nobody knew about Seattle. It was a awesome place to live. Now, not such a good place. You add yearly 1+ month of forest fire smoke to the mix. It doesn't leave to much left.
> Or does it just mean I'm free to copy/paste the text of my Facebook, etc., post to Twitter?

This is what I've taken it to mean, but I could be wrong. It's certainly not clear.
>I am going back to Arch. My computer is my computer, and I don’t care anymore how much work it takes, I’m going to take charge so nothing like this ever happens again.

From my experience the only real work load with Arch was the set up. Once I installed it and configured everything to my liking there has been nearly 0 work with maintaining the system. I've been running my installation of Arch since 2016 and the system didn't break even once.
pg is definitely not leaving Twitter. It’s impossible for two billionaires to quit each other. It’s a small close knit community and everyone is on first name terms with the other and their family. Not happening!
I think that spells 'human'.
the field of engineering exists so that these types of problems are known by nature of what subfield you are working in so that you can use your expertise at the time of design to avoid such problems. COTS (TM) isnt a scapegoat either. dont buy bad components. electronics and mechanics are hundreds of years old. you should have seniors in your company that know which vendors are reliable. if you are a startup, you still should have attended a university that explained the meta to you. im sure most software engineers who think they can just use some random lib written by some geek and inherit the bugs from it will disagree
on top of this the fact that football has an order of magnitude larger talent pool than volleyball
I don't see how. I said celebrity and wealth are what they have in common and what they have leveraged. Elon was wealthy before he was famous, he became famous in important circles, and eventually he became globally famous.
Paul Graham bans people left and right. He's not nearly notable enough for it to become a phenomenon.

He banned me, and I think I've never had an interaction with him.

I've seen people I follow mentioning these bans, but most just shrug.
I agree. We both think that updates require money.

I never said that maintenance requires a subscription. But that it’s naive to think that you can buy software and then to be entitled to maintenance forever.
https://mastodon.social/@mmasnick/109536569876597972

LOL.