skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do not stand
By my page, and weep.
I am not there,
I do not tweet—
I am the thousand winds that blow
I am the diamond glints in snow
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle, autumn rain.
As you awake with morning’s hush,
I am the swift, up-flinging rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight,
I am the day transcending night.
Do not stand
By my page, and cry—
I am not there,
I did not die.
I'm not clear how that relates to the post or what exactly the medical people did wrong from your post? I have a had a few elderly relatives go through long bouts of treatment and they got good diagnoses and care all the way across. The worst was my grandmother's chemo was pharmaceutical and the pills were $2000 a dose and not covered by Medicare at the time.
Can you imagine how that conversation would go

Elon: Hey I'm buying twitter, you want in?

PG: Look Elon, I'm just trying to run a start up accelerator, I've already accidentally ended up in charge of one social media site and those nerds are a constant pain in the ass, I don't think you know what you're letting yourself in for

Elon: Not even a billy?

PG: No billies Elon.
It's difficult to emphasize what a complete statistical outlier Bradman is.

As the parent poster points out, the next highest average is in the low 60s (actually 61.87 now[1]). Looking at the stats though, we see averages are roughly a normal curve, centered on 40 with a standard deviation of a little over 9[2]. This puts Bradman over 6 standard deviations above average!

[1] https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/282910.htm...

[2] https://www.significancemagazine.com/sports/24-did-don-bradm...
very emotional response from Musk. Twitter feels more like a discord server with some teenage mods.
The former Twitter head of trust and safety Elon called pedo in his PhD thesis argued grindr should accommodate underage queer youth on their platform.

Arguably, that’s creepy. Also, he did not act upon child porn on Twitter while as the Twitter files show he was perfectly capable of acting upon legal speech.
The tweet before ban:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221218204403/https://twitter.c...
If it isn't obvious this is the new norm for Twitter. Elon is making up the rules as he goes and ruling like a pissed off insecure reddit mod. I don't buy into all the freedom of speech rhetoric he has been spewing. This is about control and fueling his ego.

It is a real shame because I wanted to continue using Twitter like I always have, but I don't think that will be possible.
I had Paul Graham muted on Twitter. I can’t recall what he said, but it was absurd, and he won’t be missed.
Or switch to a sun keyboard where this was the native layout
In the words of Elon Musk:

The acid test for any two competing socioeconomic systems is which side needs to build a wall to keep people from escaping? That’s the bad one!

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1533616384747442176

The importance of decentralized social media has never been more obvious.
No, he merely mentioned his website.
When Firefox is updated by apt on 20.04, it keeps working until I open a new tab. Then it shows a page asking me to restart the browser and won't do anything else until I comply. This is a choice of Mozilla.

When Ubuntu prompts me to restart the system after an update I can dismiss the dialog even for weeks, but at a certain point the cumulative updates start making the system behave erratically and I have to restart. Probably kernel, drivers, libc, other vital stuff get too much disaligned.
If I had as many bad tweets as Paul I would take this for the blessing that it is.
Well, the natives aren’t reproducing really, so the next century is collapse before they have to assimilate.

The only constant in nature is change.
To be fair, that's most likely just a temporary ban.
I can only say that you have misread the article if you think it said either of those things.
We’ll see how well Figma holds up under Adobe, but at this point, I am not optimistic.
This is untrue. The link he posted in the tweet was this: https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/160453126179152281...
Apparently people are trying to save so many tweets right now that the Internet Archive is having a delay: https://paquita.masto.host/@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange...

When all this started I thought that Twitter wouldn't make it to Christmas. Sometimes I think that was too much, that it'd take longer to collapse. This past week makes me think I might be right.
Dude, he BANNED YOU. He's running this site like a banana republic.

How many stupid things in a row does Elon Musk have to do before you realize this guy isn't wired quite right?
2017 update:

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2017/12/update-on-the-twitter-arch...

Today, we announce a change in collections practice for Twitter. Effective Jan. 1, 2018, the Library will acquire tweets on a selective basis—similar to our collections of web sites.

The Library will continue to preserve and secure its collection of tweet text.

The Twitter collection will remain embargoed until access issues can be resolved in a cost-effective and sustainable manner.

The Library will work with Twitter to acquire tweets on a selective basis.
It really is criminal how much preferential treatment lott is getting both now and under the previous administration. This alone should be grounds for an investigation into the site
Twitter now says paulg account suspended
This has been years in the making. Not surprising after they built 2 carriers with F-35s on them and called them "Destroyers"
This is amazing. He basically said, he'd return if elon comes around, and wishes him the best. And just said "my mastodon is on my website". No violation of those new "TOS" of any kind.

https://mas.to/@paulg seems to have been hugged to death already :)
> (e.g. [1])

Canonical employees in that thread have repeatedly said they basically don't care about the opinion of the people affected. The latest reasoning provided being that they don't have the resources...

But either they have so little resources they shouldn't be pushing snap in its current form at all or they're lying (and the former reason still applies).

Either case it's disappointing and will slowly destroy all the goodwill they had.
Someone tweeted that it’s not possible to screenshot the new terms on mobile.

This makes me wonder if preventing tweet exports and DRM are next on the list. Can widevine be applied here even if in a somewhat hacky way?
A week ago ago it seemed like a reasonable person could thing there was a chance (however small) that Musk would turn things around for twitter. Banning paulg though… surely he has no idea wtf he is doing
Or use Mastodon ...
Paul Graham said he wasn't leaving Twitter (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34042993), but apparently Twitter has left him.

Graham excused Musk as being "eccentric".

It's foolish to make excuses for authoritarian, attention seeking narcissists like Musk. They will always let you down in the end.

When they show you who and what they are you ought to believe them.
I distinctly remember a prescient thread from Yishan Wong (former Reddit CEO) about how trying to run Twitter would break Musk - and - it looks like it was spot on.

He paid 44 billion dollars to be a mod - I hope he is getting his money's worth.
> I'm not leaving Twitter

Yes you are. The smart guy that works on cars and rockets and who's not a villain and who's a political moderate and a totally reasonable guy, just made you.

> I would be delighted to go back to using Twitter regularly

It's not your decision to make, apparently.
I miss the Elon Musk of a decade ago.
It’d be great if some sort of self-professed free-speech absolutist could just take over Twitter moderation.. Oh, wait.
I only see problems with LTS. I do agree that there are some stability issues with Ubuntu that just don't get fixed, but this is mostly an issue with the other releases. This is the problem with staggered releases your fix might very well take 6 months.

Arch has severe problems in my mind especially in stability, but as you say it is easier to fix stuff and that is a huge plus. It's just a trap I try to avoid for my desktop!

Thanks for the explanation makes a lot more sense now!
no one who hoards wealth that could save the lives of thousands is in a healthy mental space
I think DMs should be treated as semi-public on any platform without end-to-end encryption and a method for verifying keys of who you're DMing. So not really that different than Twitter, Facebook, and many others.
Whilst I strongly disagree with the banning of links and accounts without good reason, it is true for me that Twitter has greatly improved since Musk took over.

Part of that is that interesting voices like PG’s are not so drowned out by background noise, so losing folks like PG begins to undo that improvement.
You will enjoy Twitter or else you will be banned from Twitter.
Mastadon UX is really frustrating. Hoping there's a better option for following him in the near future
"competitors" ? I thought that Lonnie was bringing us Twitter: The True Public Square? How can there be any competitors for a public square?
ChatGPT shouldn't exist;generative AI built on nihilism–its real product:despair
Elon is so incredibly thin-skinned that he's burning bridges with anyone who dares to not agree with him even once. First Bari Weiss, now Paul Graham. Paul clearly stated here & on Mastodon that he still believes in Elon Musk. This is classic self-sabotage of a deranged dictator.
You missed the basic point: it is not about the UEFA: if you can build a team with the best (team) players in the world, it would beat other teams that are based on nationality or specific leagues like UEFA. If Qatar wants they can build a better team than the UEFA ones. Hint: look at Barça.
Or the easier explanation, that Elon has changed. He was my favorite billionaire back when all his prospects related to colonization of Mars and all his investments were aimed at creating new technology. But power can corrupt people, and he seems particularly prone to it. The entire Twitter episode is at odds with everything he did 10 years ago; Mars doesn't need a social network, and he's not innovating anything here. Not to mention that part where he's spent the last 7+ years sleeping around and fathering as many children as possible.

A different way of looking at "power corrupts" is that negative social interactions are an important part of the feedback loop that calibrates a person's sense of right and wrong. When a person decides that they don't want to hear conflicting opinions, they loose out on accurate feedback, and de-calibrate, unless they have a strong internal sense of empathy. Empathy is a disadvantage to becoming a billionaire in the first place, so very few of them have much of it. Guys like Musk and Bezos and Trump end up victims of their own success and echo chamber.
Yes, I got on the trusted riders list. I usually only use ride shares to go to the airport, and sadly it doesn't go there yet, so I've only used it a few times
It's not what the TOS say though.
What happens when the minorities themselves break these rules to talk about themselves?
Speaking of which, Kanye, Alex Jones, and Nick Fuentes are interestingly still banned. Hard for anyone to believe Musk's free speech claim anymore.
Regarding your first question, see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34042340

I see no reason why Tesla would be any different.
My prediction is that Elon will realize how badly he is fucking up things and change. I was listening to All-in-podcast and there was a really good comment that was made - "He[Elon] needs to just get back to landing rockets on barges" which I agree, moderating and micromanaging a massive social media platform doesn't feel like a good use of his time.

Edit: annnnd he reversed the whole thing and apologized: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604616863673208832
Definitely a point for the prosecution.

The question is: was Musk in the past as smart as he is today or is that changing. This could point to either mental health issues or drug usage or some other factor. But this is becoming farcical.
I used to be a free market guy. 2008 definitely broke something in me. Suddenly it was clear that the preachers on Wall Street that talked about “creative destruction” didn’t like that concept as much anymore when it came to them. And then I realized that the Fed and both parties only worried about the bankers and gave a sh.t about the little guy. COVID was the same. Rich got richer, poor got poorer. And inflation was blamed on the subsidies for the little guys but not on the massive money printing for the big guys. We are led by sociopaths .
n=1 but I previously thought the reports of Twitter dying were overblown and I just signed up for Mastodon.
Hello from the past. I'm typing this on a Windows 7, without the most of the updates. Most works fine, just can't install the newest Office or Games. But who wants that?

p.s.: Nope, no viruses or things like that. Windows 7 is so old that it's not supported by botnets anymore.
From official Twitter support:

> We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter.

> Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.

And from Elon Musk:

> Casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme.
I'm a Musk fan in general but this is hard to defend
Musk is a tin pot tyrant and wannabe fascist requiring complete fealty from all his loyalists -- nothing else will suffice. How many more straws must break before his supporters will see this blindingly obvious truth?
> how do you sync passwords across my 3 laptops and 3 phones without a SaaS offering?

With 1Password 7 I did this with their built-in local syncing feature. I don’t want my passwords in the cloud. I’m happy to manually sync them once a month (or probably less these days). But they removed it in version 8 and forced users into a subscription so I’m not upgrading. Eventually I’ll move to something else, but it’s still working for now.
> Plus, there’s some ergonomic benefits to not having to strain one’s hand over to reach the ESC key.

Doubt. I simply move my hand. There is no strain.

Gross movement is not unergonomic.
I wonder if pg still thinks Elon is "a smart guy"[1]?

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20221218210821/https://twitter.c...
It appears you won't be returning to twitter
https://archive.vn/rlOUX
apologies, i was not attempting to divert ; its just simply all i ever hear is "he called a guy a pedo"

but i never hear WHY he did so....

thanks
It's likely that programmers have this skill somewhere. We all make mistakes when typing in code, and many of them do get found. Some of them don't, that's what we call a bug. So AI isn't exactly breaking any ground here.

I played with ChatGPT and asked it interview questions, and I thought it was a pretty interesting exercise to find its mistakes and get it to fix them. Good tool for training interviewers, perhaps.
> people will realize that only 50 of their thousands of followers can be found on mastodon

But here's the thing - just enough of the people I follow are active on mastodon. It's about a quarter (78 out of 310) of who i was followong on twitter, but it's enough to give me an interesting timeline (also considering a bunch of them were muted obligation follows).

So I've fully moved over. The few people that were following me will notice one less person in their timeline, and eventually possibly make the jump as well.
I’ll help you. Soufflé
people have really got to stop pretending like Elon is smart lol
You don't understand! Elon just wanted to lighten the load on Mastodon's servers! He saw that PG's instance was slow to load from all the traffic and he felt really bad that Twitter was enabling this DDOS!
So leave. Not sarcasm - I’m hoping to provoke self analysis. How much of a hold does Twitter have on us? On me? On my company? These are things I’m thinking about.

Let’s assume Musk is a rational market participant making rational choices based on what he thinks is reliable data and accurate assumptions. He would be assuming Twitter’s network effect is strong enough to allow authoritarian leadership and decisions that are counter to the majority will. If most of us are still on Twitter, Musk is right and is exercising the control he has of the platform knowing there will be little cost. So is he?
Tax writeoff?
Absolutely. I hate subscriptions and tend to avoid them. No Netflix or Spotify or any of that popular stuff. I've only done them for things like toothpaste and shampoo where I really do need more periodically anyway, and if I cancel they just won't send the next batch of physical goods, so not really the same as SaaS stuff.
I was just about to share your tweet, and... account suspended. Things sure do escalate quickly, these days!
> if you want to pretend he has 75 IQ

I don't think anyone has ever argued that. He obviously has above-average IQ. That does not automatically make his claims of working on rocket designs himself, credible. In fact, I think those claims put credence to the story that they present ideas in such a way that he thinks he's designing rockets himself.
Rep. James Comer says Google and Facebook needs to be investigated
Yes it's mostly for entertainment. I didn't want to stress anyone out with this. Round 2 was specifically to 1) Show people not to take this seriously 2) To serve as an example that some modifications doesn't mean earlier examples do/don't inline. So they wouldn't overthink.

Outside of the first two rounds most of these were inspired by real code but simplified for reading. I think it'd be less entertaining if it was more serious and more had realistic code. A lot more people would tune out. If it was any longer I think it would have made more sense to explain why something was optimized or not. I don't work on clang or gcc so I may not be a good person to write that kind of article

> someone with "good intuition" for inlining wouldn't necessarily know (or need to care) what happens at every call site

Round 5 (the virtual function/dynamic cast round) was inspired by a person who claimed to have 20 years of experience. He suggested a way I could implement a feature in my compiler. I eventually wrote a test case to see if compilers would 'devirtualize' function calls as he claimed. They didn't. From memory he works on making servers preform so he wasn't a stranger to performance. I think "good intuition" is more about knowing what won't inline and having some tactics you can use in the first 5 minutes after looking at a flamegraph
Given that a @username account exists on mastodon, I wonder if simply tweeting a screenshot of this policy would itself be a violation of the policy.
Create your own? There are many implementations over ActivityPub, but you can create your own if you like.
Nepotism? Was that even an accusation against the previous Twitter?
It's possible, it's just that Musk's behavior is so abhorrent there's essentially no remaining reasonable defense of any of his naked hypocrisy and childishness.
There's kind of three options here:

* Elon is personally policing twitter, and has banned PG in a fit of pique, despite literally being at a party in Doha the world cup

* Twitter's staff are just being crazy over the top with bannings - this might actually be the most likely. It's kind of obvious that Twitter has some automated systems that suspend accounts when they get mass reported, and some people with a sense of humour may well have taken Elon at his word and msas reported PG's account, and Twitter is so understaffed slips like this will happen

* With so few staff left, and only the True Believers, twitter's remaining staff have adopted a "fuck you, I'm the law" approach to moderation.
C64 Wally Beben's Tetris music oscilloscope view
the fact that you thought the site wasn’t already neutral but just overwhelmed with content reports and that it is simply impossible to fairly moderate is a good indication you’re being duped in other areas, fyi
PG’s final tweet before suspension (https://archive.ph/p3ElV):

> This is the last straw. I give up. You can find a link to my new Mastodon profile on my site.

> [embedded link to new Twitter policy]
Cadbury is listed here by the organization that discovered the issue:

https://www.asyousow.org/environmental-health/toxic-enforcem...

And here is the Hacker News post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34033799
Of course I'm downvoted, best not to criticise american way of life on HN.
This shows the death of freenode quite clearly: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IRC_top_10_networks_...

I don't think we will get Twitter's metrics (tweets, DAU etc) but let's see how the Mastodon graphs change: https://observablehq.com/@simonw/mastodon-users-and-statuses...
Well I find hard to sympathize with the people saying that horrible abuse will not be moderated because "free speech", yet mentioning the fact that you use other social media apps will get your account banned as "unpaid self-promotion".

It doesn't inspire confidence in that their previous stance was truly motivated by their love of the unrestricted diffusion of ideas.
PG’s tweet said, iirc, go to my website, it has my Mastodon link. He didn’t even mention his website, it’s on his bio.

If that’s not okay to Twitter, that’s extremely interesting. Brings Apple’s App Store rules to mind.
I mean, PG basically said that a month ago. He’s turned tail pretty quickly. Blocking him might give other more stalwart defenders some pause.
Elon's vision is like Crypto exchange's balances, feeble at best when directly audited
I was getting comment-banned after 5 in one hour (5-10 in 24 hours)
Which lasted for 2 hours, and then happened again another day.
I’m sick of every product now requiring I establish, and maintain, a personal relationship with the manufacturer.

Notable examples for myself are Wahoo Fitness[1], Water Rower[2] and Roche’s Accu-Chek[3], which all now require logins and agreements to leak health data to be hosted on external services in order to continue using the products I purchased from them.

In Roche’s case, they gave barely 5 weeks notice that their apps will cease to function at the end of the year, locking all data and functionality on January 1, and punting all responsibility to their subsidiary, mySugr[4].

[1] wahoofitness.com
[2] waterrower.com
[3] accu-chek.com
[4] mysugr.com
Please stop assuming that an EV battery is guaranteed to lose 20% of its range in the first three calendar years of operation.

I drove a Chevy Bolt for 4 years, 48k miles, and I never noticed any range degradation, most likely thanks to the strong liquid cooling system for the battery and the inability to fast charge the Bolt faster than 1C (50-55kW fastest charging speed, 60-66kWh size battery means .75-88C) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_charger#C-rate)

Some cars absolutely will degrade like you describe, but that is not a guaranteed outcome for every EV, given the differences in fast charging capabilities and battery cooling capabilities.

I did not get my 238 miles EPA range on the Bolt in the winter, but I could easily get 200+ if I needed to squeeze out more range. I generally got closer to 150 miles not because I was forced to, but because my driving style and heating usage did not generally result in the highest efficiency.
This is just demonstrating American's need for euphemisms as pointed out by George Carlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSp8IyaKCs0
His mastodon account has also been suspended on the server I'm on. Ugh, what is it with person C deciding that person B is not allowed to see what person A says. I dislike human nature sometimes. Or at least the personality type that is attracted to moderator positions.