skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was any server that shared links with the server which hosted that. So mathstodon.xyz, for example, which is where a bunch of math Twitter ran to, and not particularly political, was also hit. Even if you endorse banning links to someone sharing public information, it was an extremely broad brush.
Wait, the subscription economy puts planned obsolescence to an end, because keeping the product in working condition is now the service-provider's problem.
Leo, Dick & Steve are some of the most personable and knowledgable hosts I ever had the privilege of listening to. I'll also forever be a fan for calling out Calacanis
Most instances follow the Mastodon Covenant, whose promises include giving users three months warning before a shutdown.

https://joinmastodon.org/covenant
Soccer redirects to “Association football” on Wikipedia. I am American and I find “soccer” to be disingenuous to the sport, since “Football” referring to the ol’ hogskin takes priority but is primarily an American sport.
CoffeeScript might just be one of the most influential languages. Tons of ES6 features were directly inspired by CoffeeScript and ES6+ JavaScript is the most popular language in the world right now.
Yes, I’m aware of that. I still don’t feel it is worth so much discussion.
That's why you see Mastodon customer support here and on Mastodon itself by the techies here just for choosing an instance and even explaining why it is all slower than Twitter. For example: [0]

Normal people do not care enough to go on a safari hunt for finding instances, user names of those claiming to have left Twitter or deleting their accounts or even bothering self-hosting just for a username on their own instance.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34042216
Snap is a pile or garbage and I really wish Ubuntu would just stop trying to be a little different all the time. They learned their lesson with Upstart but I guess it'll be a few releases until the abandon Snap.
As an HN user who is mostly interested in open source projects of various sorts, I don't really care that much about 'billionaire tech class' conflicts. I do appreciate Elon Musk's successful effort with electric vehicles and reusable rockets, though I expect others to eventually catch up, as is normal with tech innovation (VW electric vehicles are looking good).

As far as social media, if it all goes away I wouldn't be that concerned. Net neutrality and access to basic Internet services for all is a much more important issue, IMO. Blocking servers from the Internet (unless they're actually hosting criminal content and taken down by legal prosecution) would be the more serious free speech violation.
I've met PG at a book signing and he was quite pleasant. I asked about when Arc would be released (this was a while back) and he laughed and joked about it. Really nice guy.

Do you really think twitter equates to meeting someone?
Coal is not competitive anymore. It only gets built in places with lackluster gas infrastructure.

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...
An oral equivalent to the 8 mile->18 mile transition is to (artlessly) refer to geographical locations by whatever used to be there, decades ago, and not by whatever name might accidentally be on the sign now.
There was no parenting at all
Sure, but there are other centralized services not implementing such policies, and I don't think Twitter would exist today in current form if not for being centralized & well funded. I guess there are just tradeoffs in either choice.
You could consider https://kagi.com/ for a subscription-based, ad-free search. I've been using it for a few months and haven't had a case where the Google results were superior.
Social media promotes a vicious callout culture where everything you say in the past is permanently used against you in the court of public opinion whenever you change your mind. While I did not share PG's opinion at the time I also don't think it was completely unreasonable to think that someone like Musk would be capable of running Twitter judiciously after the acquisition. I appreciate that instead of digging in his heels PG seems to have evolved his judgement after recent developments.
I hope he got a refund from the ghostwriter for that one.
Having to install a browser extension makes it a hard no for many, the most annoying thing for me is there's no app like Tweetbot for Mastodon that's even like 5% as useful.

I know many people used Twitter.com or their official app, but many people find a simpler native app experience much more useful.
1 goal and 3 penalties.
The era of cheap/free things is over.

Here in India, a market that has NEVER seen delivery fees for any online services, there are now fat delivery fees tacked onto every ecommerce transaction.

And boy do the customers NOT like it
Another well-known notable over-eager divergent opinion blocker is Garry Tan [0].

This is the first time I've seen the finger of accusation point to Paul Graham for excessively blocking. Is it possible the @fennecsound account participated in previous harassment and the target doesn't wish to endure more low-quality interactions?

My expectation is: HN folks, being generally sensitive souls, would have spoken up vocally on this site if it were a common ocurrence. I couldn't find any such prior accusations on algolia or web search.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32639125

Edit: Thanks for the reality check replies! Perhaps story submissions and discussions on this matter get flagged and die at a high rate.
Fame is like a flywheel with a feedback loop. Once famous everything you do makes you more famous, even bad stuff.

Hence celebrities getting married and divorced every three weeks, it keeps them in the news.
I'd note that this is being somewhat obtuse on my part, but one could argue that all solar energy is really a fusion byproduct.
MacKenzie Scott.
It's a common theme - doctors just don't listen to their patients at all.
It’s pretty common for platforms to combat promotion of competitor platforms on their sites.

I’m a member on the Clemson Rivals.com site and they regularly combat promoting competing sites. Have for years.

10 years ago I work for an audio equipment trading site and competitor sites constantly tried to use our own systems to promote their sites to our users.

IMO this behavior is fairly common and expected.
See
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34040165
Counterpoint: Netflix, which did a lot of layoffs in the 2000s and as the story goes, redesigned their entire HR process around 'lean'.
> People expect software to work for some time.. On their new device, after the OS update. Bugs need to be removed, new features built.

The software will be maintained, because the software developer needs to continue to sell the software to new customers. Hence OS compatibility will be maintained, bugs will be fixed. It's not like the developer stops working on the software immediately after you, one customer, purchases it.
There's nothing wrong with subscription based model.

The problem arises when you pay for the software and you have it disabled remotely for "violating terms of service".
Also true! Stopped clocks, etc.
what you have to do is correctly assess yourself, which is impossibly rare among people who made a bunch money
Are you talking about Paul Graham or Elon Musk?
entire conversation shows up fine for me. i have no mastodon account nor am i logged in.
I think we can be honest and admit many large tech companies are bloated and can lay off staff - with the proper planning and care. Taking an axe to an org you just took over is typically not associated with proper planning and care.
If you're writing a traditional recursive descent parser, it doesn't make much difference (IMHO). Any vaguely modern programming language will work fine.

If you want to use parser combinators, then something with basic support for functional programming (particularly closures and and a lightweight lambda syntax).
Elon is speed running on how to make $44B disappear
These services have hyper growth right now but that will die down and become stable. Email is similar, things can get queued up and no way to see what’s going on. But most of the time it just works.
Argh, too young! I'm so sorry to hear about this. Covid has really messed up the system badly.

The medical treatment funnel gets very myopic treating the most present thing first, and often misses other problems going on at the same time. With my Dad we think the doctors were very focused on some other health issues that were complications from a knee replacement he had done about 5 years before.

The "you can only come in for a visit for one problem at a time" broken insurance system would have had him coming in all day, every day for visits, so he just went for what bothered him the most. Turns out his lung cancer wasn't his worst problem until it was.
literally this. user agents are an obsolete feature (i considered it obsolete around 10-15 years ago) and whenever a new protocol includes it you already know its made by backseat networking "engineers". all user agents do is break more shit because people think they're smart or clever for modulating their machine behavior based on them (blocking, working around broken standards, etc)

"there exists a use case that wouldn't be possible to implement without user agents" is not an argument. it's not philosophically valid. its dead obvious that you do not consider the whole picture if you make this argument. why does that 0.1% use case matter? especially given that it's not officially supported. especially given that for the last 10 years, the likes of google have shoved everything _straight_ into the web specs when they started considering it an official supported use case? if you are doing something that's not an official supported use case, why do we need to have hacks to support it? obviously the least ecologically harmful solution is for your use case to not be supported. of course we are talking web here, where scope creep is infinite and the protocols do nothing well instead of one thing well.

this is the very problem with the web, that "it doesnt have a concrete use case maaaaan", "ill just add and take what i want as i go", "the web is just the web maaaan you need to think on my wavelength to get it". these people embedded in web actually unironically just make shit up as they go along. they literally operate on an oscillating wave where today feature set 1 is good, tomorrow feature set 2 is good, and the day after, (what is essentially) feature set 1 is good. arguing to have a user agent string is the same idea. this is in strict contrast to a well designed product that actually solves a specific problem, like Standard ML, or a good SQL implementation (disregarding the specification conundrum) or JSON or VGA or TCP.
I don't have many subscriptions (most of my software is FOSS, and I don't do media streaming), but the few I have I'm quite happy about. None of them are corporate behemoths, they create quality products that I like to use, as far as I can see from the outside they're decent companies that treat their employees well. I quite enjoy the fact that I can make a small contribution to these products/companies continuing to be sustainable.

And I'm at the extreme end of anti-capitalism. I'd prefer to see everything employee/citizen-owned. But in the world we actually live in today, I see no inherent problem with subscriptions.

There can be contingent problems. I won't, for example, subscribe to any music streaming services because they give musicians an unfair deal. But that's little to do with subscriptions per se.
> The problem arises when you pay for the software and you have it disabled remotely for "violating terms of service".

This is a defining characteristic of a subscription based model, ergo there is something wrong with it.
he also had a similar take that I've seen from technologists more than a few times "the man runs a rocket company, how hard can running a social media site be?"

A lot of tech folks seem to have a mindset of a 60s Soviet technocrat. "We shot a dog into space comrades, let's apply our engineering genius to all the social problems the stupid managers can't solve". Spoiler alert, it is pretty hard to govern hundreds of millions of people
Many servers have a link that let's you sign in when you click the follow button. it's a bit janker than ideal.
> Majority of people here on HN were also convinced he will try to make Twitter better.

I mean. I still think he is trying to do that. Is he succeeding? I don’t think so.

If it all hits the ground and twitter is no more a going concern will he claim that was his plan all along? Probably. Doesn’t mean it is true.

Even on the day he offered to buy twitter he was offering more money than the stock was worth. That is only rational if you believe you have a plan to run it better.

According to reports he is spending a lot of his time managing twitter in quite a hands-on way. Do you think he is not trying to make it better in his own mind?
I used to play semi pro volleyball in late puberty. We had a quite nice school team and we were second in regional championship which was taking place in the largest city of the country. One day while we were having a workout a friend of our coach showed up who was playing in the national team so we asked him to participate. Dude was willing to do so and from the way he played it was obvious he wasn’t really trying. So at one point he’s on the offensive and I jump to block him which I did. The one thing I remember even three decades later is just how much my palms hurt. Both my hands had gone numb. There was a lot of cheer and he came alongside to congratulate me, but all I was thinking at the moment was fuck this hurts so much. I can’t even imagine how it would feel had he gone full force while hitting the ball, although I seriously doubt I could have blocked it if he did.

A layman person can’t realize how vast the gap is between him/her and a pro player, let alone elite players. My guess is that you wouldn’t even have the time to react because he’s so agile he can change direction in a fraction of a second. You wouldn’t trip and fall, you’d simply stood still and by the time you’d register what happened he’d be ten feet behind you.
Deliberately. This reminds me of Japan where cults have successfully terrorised mainstream media of even mentioning them.

Don't say anything bad about Musk or link to a negative because you'll be banned from Twitter.
It really depends on what it is and how much value it adds to my life

Photoshop I pay. I tried switching to Affinity Photo but Affinity Photo had a poor workflow for my needs that would have ended up taking 10x longer. I value my time such that paying $120 for a year subscription to photoshop was well worth it rather than spending more time with a much slower solution.

On the other hand, I go on the Apple App store to look for an app that does perspective corrections for photos (more than the built in one). I found them but they want $6-$10 a month. This was something I just wanted to play with, not something I'm going to use a bunch so no, I didn't sign up.

Where it really bugs me is IoT devices that don't need to be IoT devices. I just don't buy them.
Totally agree and deleted all my excitement (Tweets) for Musk buying Twitter.

He's just another Trump/slick then unslick showman who says one thing then and promises one thing then goes back on that promise.

Telsa's self driving tech is lol

Another rich megolmaniac's mouth moron destroys years of public goodwill like Will Smith did in a second with that slap!
>We heared it many times, but we're talking about a govermental agency meddling with election results. Politics and these cases are very different in nature.

Which specific government agency meddling in which specfic election? The Trump Administration meddling in the 2020 election with Hatch Act violations[0]? The FBI releasing a statement (which turned out to be nothing at all) about Hillary Clinton emails found on Anthony Weiner's computer[1]?

Or was it the FBI demanding that Twitter take down the NY Post's tweet about their "Hunter Biden laptop" article[2]?

>Personally I wouldn't be comfortable not taking action when the FBI would ask anything from me, because it's safer to just comply.

Then you don't know or understand your rights. And more's the pity.

[0] https://oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/violations-...

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/what-fbi-found-emails-anthony-weine...

[2] Except the FBI didn't demand (or request, for that matter) any such thing.
Is this true when making an apples to apples comparison. That is to say: are wind and solar cheaper when having enough energy storage for intermittent supply on the daily, weekly, and yearly cycles?

Also, is the true cost of land being factored? The vast majority of "empty" land in the US is actively used for farming.
This is a poorly informed comment.

The same commenter also calls both Messi and Maradona dribbling playmaking forwards.

Some of their other comments when talking about Messi say, "If you come at the King, you best not miss."
I like the conclusion.
Factor 'X' messed up my 'Y', going back to previous solution.
That’s the convention on windows for denoting 64-bit addresses, separating the two 32bit parts with the backtick. Don’t recall why now.
Ehh, I mean Kanye has been on this journey for a long time. Talking about how "George Bush doesnt care about black people" in 2005 and grabbing mics to announce that "Beyonce had the best video of all time" in 2009. I was a fan and apologist of his for sometime after these incidents, but he lost me somewhere around his 2011 album with Jayz.
If you're using a PPA then it shouldn't update on it's own and give you the restart screen. It should only update when you run an update with your package manager. How did you set it up so that it has this problem?
Snap is a disaster, and full of problematic structural decisions that are now really hard to fix (e.g. [1]).

I've decided to delay my upgrade to 22.04 given Canonical's increasingly aggressive push towards Snap, and now I'm considering moving to Arch or some other distribution.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1575053
like sailboat classes
Yes. I won't subscribe to anything (well, hardly anything), certainly not Adobe's bloatware.

TV series: I kinda liked the free sample of Tulsa King, but I'm for sure not subscribing to Paramount+ to see the rest. Not with a 7-day free sample, not with anything.
Worth noting that the range estimates in the navigation has been updated in the last ~6 months to be much more accurate and shockingly close to ABRP[0]. Previously I'd use ABRP to estimate battery usage (and I still do for planning road trips) but I can now trust Tesla's estimates reasonably in the car.

0: https://abetterrouteplanner.com/
Think it was Kevin Kelly who said books will never be less expensive than they are now and he's probably correct. We have a glut of them now but once that glut is cleared out, the cost to acquire particular books likely will go up. This doesn't mean that hoarding or speculative investing in books is a good idea but if there are books that have special appeal to you in their physical form, now is a good time to get them.
Thanks for the correction! That's my mistake. I remembered it as the board firing him from CEO, as happened at PayPal, but according to Wikipedia, at Zip2 the board only refused to make him CEO.
GP is calling pg dumb, not mean - your anecdote is compatible.
Deserts are the dumbest place to put solar farms, but ignorant investors love the idea, so in the desert they go.

Deserts are hot, reducing conversion efficiency and panel lifetime, and dusty, blocking sunlight at the surface unless cleaned frequently.
Genes down-regulated in spaceflight are involved in longevity in C. elegans
> but the word "straight" by itself it not a micro-aggression ("the plane flew in a straight line").

It’s _never_ a “micro aggression” under any context. I think I’d slap one of these Stanford wankers if they spoke to me like this doc dictates.
Hmm, maybe it's failing silently then?

Seems like if it fails to load something upstream that it should say that?
Very sadly many of these businesses are structured as subscriptions, even when unnecessary, because investors currently LOOOOVE MRR. It is a sad situation when people shoehorn unnecessary "features" into a product or intentionally cripple it to get that subscription money. It often is not even going to new development, just there for the investors.
Windchill addresses the user request "Don't make me think". Wind speed requires actual thought.
I don't see snaps being phased out. I don't like them either, but there're plenty of abomination technologies being the future. The whole web might be one of them.
Yes, you can export, and most servers will put up a helpful forward pointer once you move your account so people see where your new profile is. I haven't tried it but others who have seem to keep all their followers / following seamlessly.
Sensitivity and Specificity
There's a lot of wonderful empathy encoded here.
I don't see how you even pretend to rationalize this thinking as anything other than "I'm banning specific things I don't like and cutting some rule that sorta fits that" afterwards
No they didn't. Death rates from now treatable diseases were higher in the past. But if you managed to escape those and not die in a tragic physical accident, you lived basically as long as anyone else.
It's odd because I have firefox snap on ubuntu 2204 on my laptop, an annoying popup crops up occasionally, but the only thing I've ever had kill firefox is oom-killer.
Musk simply does a lot of the basics right and knows how to talk bullshit, had the assets to start at all, is apathetic to social perception (his narcissistic sociopathic tendency) which makes it easier to go against the flow both in a good and bad way, and has the mental ability to work long hours.

His successes just delivered what the market demanded but established powers did not want to pursue for one reason or another. He knows to outsource actual work to experts and offers them attention which is easier due to his interest in tech/science.
Of course, he sees them as tools and he doesn't need to care about labor laws but that's a part of the longer list of his flaws and mistakes.

After Tesla/SpaceX took off, it has been as you described.
How much of the recent tomfoolery in world leadership is due to COVID / Vaccine related brain damage?
It can go both ways.

Upgrades:

Plus: Must be compelling so they must come up with new features

Minus: Sometimes those new features are bad.

Subscriptions:

Plus: Keep it working on new OS versions

Minus: No compelling reason to add anything.
Without any argument, this is just cope
Very odd. I noticed my Model 3's floor gets quite warm in the winter on long road trips (like warm to the touch).
> You know how Musk promises one thing and delivers something else?

He promises one thing and delivers a new promise for something else. Or a flamethrower.
Nope. I pay a subscription for JetBrains CLion and I love it. Recently paid for the next 3 years in advance. Their software is wonderful and I want to see it continue to exist for as long as I am alive. So why would I not want to pay for it.
"Cross-posting" is generally understood to mean posting the same content to different sites, not merely linking to a post.

The policy is...not at all clear. I don't know what they mean by posting content "from" a prohibited site. They don't specifically mention a link.
Where did you find that Elon was fired from Zip2 and PayPal?
He has a certain type of followers though, and he is not the only person making this move.
By going to the following link and creating a handle, you'll come across a lot options of severs. https://joinmastodon.org/

Say you create the following named handle kd at server mas.to. If someone else would want to follow you, you'd just give that @kd@mas.to. Note that when you join a server, you'll have to abide by their rules.
Oops.

This was supposed to write resuscitate.