skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know - isn't that the employer's problem, not mine?

I was let go two weeks after they acquired a competitor. They claimed it was my performance that was the reason I was being let go, but when you have zero "negative performance" conversations with your manager despite having regular weekly/semi-weekly 1-1s, it's clear to me "performance" was not the driving issue.
If you try to post a link to a mastodon profile, it will fail. Old links will bring up a "this site may be harmful" interstitial. Most large instances seem affected.
Well this aged like milk https://mastodon.social/@edbott/109536397352268007
Investment banks financed a portion of the deal which they could then sell to investors. They are the ones bagholding. Twitter’s debt owned by twitter makes no sense.
Are you saying “I’m not concerned about data leaks that I could potentially be affected by and have my own personal information leaked through as much as I am about a celebrity billionaire getting their tax records released after years of litigation and after lawsuits going all the way to the Supreme Court (or others like him)?”
I don't think he posted a link to his personal site, just said the link was there.
I would love to talk to one of the people that kept saying “you all don’t understand. Musk runs billion dollar companies, he knows what he is doing. He will fix Twitter” now that this is happening. What is the grand plan now in their world view?
> the idea of "owning" software feels positively archaic to me, as strange as "owning" a music album.

Is it still alright to own a book?
Need a video editor, FOSS fans? OpenShot and Kdenlive both refreshed
Well, seems that choice was taken out of his hands by an insecure billionaire.
Less Will Smith and more Kanye.
> If they were actually concerned with people fleeing why would they do something which is more likely to make creators leave?

you're asking this in a sub-thread about if Elon is smart or not? I thought the answer was obvious.
And he's ... suspended from Twitter. Didn't take long!
Those old games still run on the old operating systems, and you can still get those systems because they were also on a buy once model.

If those old games were subscriptions instead, they would probably be unplayable today. Their authentication servers would be shutdown after so few players remained that it wouldn't be worth it for the company to keep it going. Just like a lot of multiplayer games are closed nowadays.
Truth be told if he was he MVP they would have won. Instead he contributed substantially to France being down 0-2 in the first place, a deficit if they were without they would have won handily. His defensive work rate was worse than Messi who is 12 years his senior and has one foot out the door to retirement already. This caused Giroud to be swapped out and Mbappe to be moved more centrally so they could make up for his unwillingness to track back. Arguably this was also why Di Maria was able to completely savage the left wing, forcing the penalty out of Dembele.

He scored when he got the ball and that is great but he isn't yet the complete player that Messi is. Messi got the MVP today because he won the match for his team, through yes, a goal and a penalty but more importantly through drawing out space for Di Maria to generate the opportunities that created that initial lead.
Browse the site logged out
Turns out, running a consumer social company is a lot different than building rockets.

a part of me still had some hope.
"Maybe he has better plans, maybe he knows what he's doing"

But nope. I was wrong.
Elon does not get basic systemic issues in social media: when you bark against sth, you just make it big, and it will haunt you.

Good "buy" Elon, and sorry for your German plans, which will be severely stressed by lack of water --- major drought in Brandenburg.
At this point, it's worth trying to think if and how Elon Musk can benefit by driving down the value of Twitter. It looks like he's doing it on purpose.
I think pg is one of the best placed people to critique the situation because he knows what a start-up is and how to do one, he's in the same tier of society (top tier wealth), and he knows what is takes to run a social network.

The "it is going to be hardcore from here" email the CEO sent to Tesla employees 'worked', but the same email to Twitter employees resulted in significant resignations. I think the CEO was shocked and this underlies pg's point.

Given that it was a forced buy, the game was always that of a corporate raider approach - go in, make the unpleasant but needed decisions, and then sell out as soon as the value uptick became realisable. pg applauded the cut to staff IIRC.

CEO should have taken a leaf out of Rupert Murdoch's book - as the owner don't write the headlines - let the editor do that. Being behind the scenes to just make the most considered accurate business decisions was the right way.

If instead you are out in front of the public, you're emotional side will kick in due to the slings-and-arrows coming from the audience. Hence the wrong decisions will be made.

You can't wear both the hats of 'eccentric' Corporate Jester and Corporate Raider at the same time. The Dave Chapelle boo-ing incident just underlies this.
Yes, but that’s how the market works. Turning everything into subscriptions gets you more money and makes migration even harder for customers.
> US Football league NFL, are "non-profit"

This is not true now, and arguably never was (at least not with the intention it's generally applied).

The NFL relinquished its tax exempt status in 2015, but even before that the NFL was not a 501(c)(3) but a 501(c)(6) (a trade organization) -- for interests of fairness (proven more necessary recently by actions of the Washington Commanders) the NFL collected ticket moneys and broadcast earnings and then distributed the money to the teams, where it was taxed. Without that, they'd have been taxed on the collection and on the disbursement, which would have meant that the teams were taxed twice.

There are, to my opinion anyway, better reasons to be mad at the NFL than as a tax dodge, because they weren't ever particularly good at meeting the definition.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tax-season/
You'd be surprised how resilient these people are
Paul an hour ago: "I'm not leaving Twitter"

Guess he doesn't have much of a choice now

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34042993
You were just suspended though, so at least in the short term it's out of your hands.
> A lot of my favorite games no longer work on the latest operating systems because they were on a buy once model.

How long ago did you buy them?

> As for upfront paid software, sometimes it's also just not worth it to the developer to make a whole new version anymore or they shut down.

Lots of businesses shut down, regardless of business model.

> more intentional and less panicked releases

As a software developer, I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean.
I thought about it and a lot of physical products we use everyday are either perishables themselves or require perishables for a regular maintenance.

Yes, we aren't forced to buy from the exact same brands like in a subscription model. Practically, we end up buying the same products in a predictable schedule, to keep the wheel spinning.
> since they mostly have no new learners who aren't into PL history.

They do have have new learners, that was my whole point. Whether they learn out of historical interest, to become better programmer in general, for a job, for research, or because they need it for a specific project does not matter. (And yes all those reasons apply.)

Take a look at companies using APL:
https://github.com/interregna/arraylanguage-companies

Or look how many people use it to solve Advent of Code.

As for learning them as a first language, if we applied that criteria then most programming languages would be born absolutely dead and stay there. I don't think anyone ever learned Elm or Purescript as their first language, are they dead?

I really don't get why people make such weird claims, declaring healthy and obviously alive communities to be dead. Again, things don't need to popular to be alive.
Are these automated decisions?
There isn't enough popcorn on the planet for this show. 10/10 would watch again.
This is really embarrasing. If feel so much Fremdschämen when I think of Elon Musk.
Is is possible this is some sort of "lesson" about the dangers of platforms being able to arbitrarily ban stuff, that will be revealed in a week or two? It almost seems like the exact opposite of everything Musk was implying about a low-censorship platform. It's almost hard to believe that Musk/Twitter are at serious at this point
> How do I get the backup of his tweets?

You don’t.

> I always thought it will be there all the time.

Welcome to the fun times of walled gardens owned by capricious wankers!

> Does he has back that he can share?

Maybe!
Can you give us an example how it helped to design the database?

I could not think how it would have helped me, but maybe I m limited in my imagination or don’t know how to ask.
How do you feel about his "anti-woke" behaviour? His banning of journalists? His tweets with nazi coded language like "88"?

Would you return to a site where the owner uses his considerable power/money to promote fascism?
Wow, incredible. You can't make this stuff up.
Requiring user sign-ins is a little bit different than banning all mention of other social media websites existing.
This is an absurd situation. I wonder how many "promises" made by Elon have been broken regarding how he wants to manage Twitter and make it a better place.

E.g. what about transparency here? Where is the explanation why this account was suspended?

I am not sure, that with Elon in the hot seat the trust of the public into Twitter may be restored anytime soon... very sad.
Wherever the codec has to be as small as possible and do as little as possible while not caring about the payload size
Don't forget, that during the Twitter FBI Email drops that have been happening recently, that in 2010 twitter gave a firehose of ALL tweets + Updates to the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS[0]

And if you dont think the FBI/NSA havent had a palantir like view into all of those....

https://memex.naughtons.org/library-of-congress-drinks-from-...
> That is my inclination as well, but truth be told something feels very unsettling and insidious about this document.

The problem is: it never ends. There will be new words and phrases next year, and the year after.
Just gonna leave this here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pejorative#Pejoration_and_me...
Ridiculous. Now you can’t even mention other websites exist?Time to post mastodon links on purpose to get it over with
Features I use the most:

- Global shortcut keys

- Chrome Tab Group support

- Mega fast fuzzy search through tabs

- Auto-suspension of open tabs with a custom timer to reduce Chrome RAM usage

You can also import your tab list from OneTab, or create backup files for Supatabs
I work at a unionized company in Germany and didn’t have to join the union or pay any dues to start working.

Technically employees who aren’t part of the union aren’t entitled to the benefits they negotiated. In reality everyone gets the same benefits anyway because otherwise the employer would create a huge incentive for everyone to join the union which would make strikes hurt even more.
Let’s just hope this is a moment for people who didn’t see this dumpster fire coming to re-examine a few other beliefs.
If there ever was a example of anti-competitive practices, its this.

from https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/anticompetitive-practices:

> It is unlawful for a company to monopolize or attempt to monopolize trade, meaning a firm with market power cannot act to maintain or acquire a dominant position by excluding competitors or preventing new entry.

Seems pretty freaking clear that this would prevent new entries to the social media space, e.g. mastodon.
They are like IBM. They can fail at everything forever and still get work.
That page (like many others) do need a lot of UX love. Pretty soon I hope to be launching managed instance hosting (i.e, people that want to have their own instance, under their own domain) and I'm already scratching my head at how to present two complete different classes of products on the same page.

Figuring out these small issues is hard, it gets even harder when I am promising that I am not doing any type of user tracking or analytics. I just saw a message on the support site about someone who wanted to make a deposit, but reported "on mobile, the button is grayed out". Turns out that on mobile there is no cursor to indicate that the user needs to select the payment method first. So, technically not broken, but functionally this issue could've cost me hundreds of dollars already?
For anyone who missed it, his last tweet (there may have been something else in replies) was:

"This is the last straw. I give up. You can find a link to my new Mastodon profile on my site." (Note that he didn't even link to it, but he did link to the Twitter privacy policy)
I've used the cyclonedx maven plugin, cyclonedx-bom on pypi, cdxgen for js, and cyclonedx-cli for various utilities (e.g. merging). All have worked great.
Trump supporters haven't slowed down a bit. In fact, they tried to overthrow the government under his banner. Why do you think it will be any different for Musk supporters?
The first word that came to mind when I read the new rule was "arbitrariness". I did not expect to be proven right this fast, honestly.
> Elon is certainly laser-focused on self-promotion, no doubt.

Strongly doubt. But we will have to wait until he's no longer relevant before we get a good view of this man's inner workings.
To your point, the first college football game in the US was, simultaneously, the first college soccer game because it took place before the split between soccer and rugby, and the rules were those drafted by the Football Association in England. The rugby rules were adopted by Canadian colleges, who went on to play against American colleges, who adopted the rugby rules and added the initial changes that created American football.
Someone asked the other day "How does Hacker News avoid (successful) DDoS attacks?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34001410) so obviously someone is now trying to figure out how to work around it, and it seems they succeeded!

Or, it's just busy :) I think the software in general have problems with long/deeply nested comment chains so maybe having a few of those being popular is enough to bring things to a halt.

By the way, you can usually work around performance issues on HN by either logging out (removing cookies if it doesn't load) or using incognito mode/private window (being logged out) as then the software can just serve cache views instead of having to fetch data on each navigation.

Edit: from the almighty dang:

> I've moved that one off the front page, partly because these are more or less the same story, but mostly because the traffic on this is boiling our poor server and I need to resort to tricks. Sorry all!

From "Twitter Suspends PG's Account" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34044525

Seems Elon Musk/Twitter is the one to blame for HN being slow right now.
My Kindle Keyboard only died at the start of November, FWIW.
pg in the other thread: "I still think Elon is a smart guy."

That didn't age well. Not even a full hour. I can't even think of a food item that would age that quickly.
And "balls-out" refers to locomotive centrifugal governor:

* https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/balls-out

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_governor
You are wrong about what PG said. In fact, his Tweet included an explanation of where to find a link to his Mastodon account.

Elon has made it clear that these blatant attempts at ban evasion are not allowed.
LMAOOOOOOOO
Space Karen :-(
can you elaborate on what bad or evil things he is doing?
> I still think Elon is a smart guy.

> Plus I don't think he realizes that the techniques that work for cars and rockets don't work in social media.

Given his behavior and the results over the last ~month or however long he's owned Twitter, how can both of these possibly be true?
> As I understand it, if Twitter shuts down tomorrow Musk will still be tremendously rich man.

What does that have to do with anything? My argument is that I disagree that he "understands what is a good product", and is a good business person, at least in the context of Twitter.

Whether he can survive Twitter failing is not part of the discussion.

> Maybe he doesn't have to make Twitter profitable to justify the outrageous price he paid, maybe it's good enough to make it break even?

Profit is anything right above break even, even just one cent. So no.
Power and fame are intoxicating, moreso than any known chemical drug compound. Elon just didn't have the means to express this version of himself before his companies took off.
My phone hasn't gotten update in over a year as Google dropped support for my old pixel. My 10 year old Linux desktop updated yesterday... Oh, and I didn't have to reboot my machine (live patching for the win). Android update is not "better" it is different with different goals.
LOL, this is /r/agedlikemilk content.

I could swear he posted he wasn't leaving like minutes ago...
Well you could ask paulg, who said that. But use email, not twitter.
It's been off the shark for two months. We're already to the point we've been judging people still there for having not seen it yet. o.o

Unbanning the alt-right wasn't jumping the shark? Firing over half the employees wasn't jumping the shark? Promoting COVID misinformation wasn't jumping the shark? Yeah, he finally started banning journalists, but he's been making the place unwelcome for anyone who isn't a Trump supporter for a long as heck time.

If you are just now asking if it's going to jump the shark, and I mean this not to be sarcastic or mean, but in genuine hope for the future: Please spend some time asking yourself why banning PG was the last straw for you, and not any of the crazy stuff prior.

Let's make this the last time we let hero worship blind us to the realities on the ground.
The traffic, maybe because of the drama and maybe because of the exodus, seems to have swamped his instance.

As an interesting side-effect of federation, you can still browse his profile on other instances, however: https://hachyderm.io/@paulg@mas.to
He paid some ex-con $50k to dig up dirt on the guy.
Twitter is great, but its the users that provide the value, not Twitter itself. If all the interesting people are moving to Mastodon, guess I'll need to move as well.
Previous, I thought the "he's trying to destroy Twitter along with a good chunk of his own fortune" idea was ludicrous. I assumed he was trying his best, in his own way, and would take a few months to rediscover how to run things. Eventually end up a good business, somewhat more Free than before.

Now... not so sure. Anything's possible.
I was going to disagree, but then I thought about it and gave a reluctant upvote.

Maybe it’s a bit crass, but I wonder if Elon is on some drugs or something. His behavior is bizarre, and I don’t buy the “he was always like this” line. He didn’t seem to be like this at all until recently.
To which one might, or might not, say "Yay!"
I wouldn't be surprised if the employee who did this gets fired as a result of this. In fact, I'd be shocked if @paulg isn't reinstated within 48 hours (as they did with Taylor Lorenz a few hours ago.) All of Musk's previous interactions with Graham suggests that their relationship is friendly. And if there's one thing we've seen from Elon Musk's Twitter, it's that he's not hesitant to fire Twitter employees.
I think my arguments above demonstrate that he is not as smart as people portray him.
A lot of this list already exists in windows 10.
I closed my account earlier this week. Between Musk’s erratic behavior, the fact that they aren’t paying their rent, and are trying to get out of contractual software licensing fees, I decided that it was time to go.
Germany is hostile to entrepreneurs, class mobility and is backward when it comes to how their taxation, pension and healthcare systems are structured.

Basically anyone who is not a typical cookie cutter employee will find it difficult in Germany.

Additionally employee salaries for tech jobs are quite low when compared to North America or Australia.

There are many reasons to migrate to Germany, though, if you can put up with these annoyances.
Germanys migration policies, as criticised as they are, are still easier than most other western nations
And his mind. Or perhaps that ship sailed long ago.
Slow for me. I’m guessing traffic spike from the Twitter drama.
I had hopes. Twitter was terribly run and there was all sorts of examples of them being a typical social media platform trying to push various ideas using their control.

Elon could have come in, aligned the website to be a lot more neutral, slimmed down the employee count and pushed for more features and more payments for features to get away from dependence on advertisers.

I saw some headline a few weeks ago about Japanese trending on Twitter went from a whole bunch of political stuff to more neutral cultural stuff. Stuff like that is what I wanted to see.

Instead we're getting this hilarious situation where Elon is using his authority to ban everything he doesn't like. It's worse than it was.
Do you mean that Chornobyl resident don't get enough vitamin C? Because I can't think of a link between exposure to radio-elements and losing your teeth…
In SF, It's the same price as a Lyft or Uber. About $11 for a 12 minute ride
Paul Graham probably gonna dump a bunch of money into Post now.
I suspect the account will be restored eventually but the wayback machine looks like it has a full snapshot: http://web.archive.org/web/20221218215229/https://twitter.co...
> illegal
I'm explicitly quoting the thread title, not the thread content, which is too extensive to do justice to in a line or two. Reading much of the threads there and elsewhere, and skimming most of the rest, I believe his intent was to create a bolt-hole, but had hopes that Twitter would recover.
You can have the best of both worlds: when I'm fixing my daughter's curtain rail, I use mm to measure distance from the window frame because if I use fractions of an inch I'm far more likely to bugger up the maths. But if I want to tell someone my height, I will use feet and inches as those are more human-scale and convenient than metric. For packaging and products there seems no logical reason to not cite both, although the EU mandated metric-only
I was a pretty big Elon fan a year ago. SpaceX is/was a monumental achievement.

He's gone insane.

Suggesting Taiwan and Ukraine surrender, all this Twitter nonsense...

I'm shorting TSLA to $50 on Monday.
This is a great idea; I really enjoy all these "two channels simultaneously" (side-by-side translations, video with subtitles, and in this case video with a readable transcript, where you can scroll in the video or scroll in the transcript, and be synchronized).

I had done something like this a couple of years ago for some specific set of videos (e.g. https://shreevatsa.net/tex/program/videos/s10/ — compare with https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=_0Cv1G_s4gQ for the same video), but never got around to making it general; glad someone has done it. It takes just a few lines of Javascript, using the Youtube API, to do this i.e. keeping the video and text in sync (just view source on either page to see the JS at the bottom).

Something like this can also help with audio recordings (generating the alignment automatically is called "forced alignment" and there are tools like "aeneas" for this). In case anyone's interested or wants to help (for Sanskrit texts): see https://github.com/shreevatsa/web-align-audio-text deployed at https://shreevatsa.net/ramayana/sarga/ and better version at https://github.com/avinashvarna/audio_alignment deployed at https://avinashvarna.github.io/audio_alignment/