skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brief reflection might suggest a few self-evident reasons:

1. Letting people know where and how you can be found, followed, and contacted.

2. To voice dissatisfaction with practices and/or policies of the old platform.

3. To encourage others to do similarly.

I'm surprised the question is necessary, but appreciate the opportunity to clarify.
What stupid things did he do? (I don't know much about him)

It sounds like you might be mistaking ideology with intelligence?
I don’t because software requires maintenance and R&D which improves it over time. At the end of the day, I choose if I want to pay monthly and if I do it’s saving me time and energy.
> just because some of Elon's early actions validated their priors (e.g. tech companies are bloated and need to layoff staff).

You're right that assuming success at Tesla/SpaceX indicated success at Twitter ended up being wrong.

But these "priors" are still very true. Tech companies are bloated, Elon sucking at running a social network doesn't change that fact
The big question now is how much damage can he do? To the world, not just Twitter.
IRS accidentally releases taxpayers’ private data again
There's nothing to backtrack on. Go re-read the original tweet - he never said he was leaving Twitter. If that was his intention, he probably would've explicitly said so. The OP's post title is based on an incorrect assumption.
I’ll shout out for ADA as well. Really enjoyed working with it.
Compiler was a nit picking monster but the rigour ensured that you really considered your program. Thanks for making me remember.
Well you are discussing it
There is something as old as unions that is not historically xenophobic and racist?
He's ... somewhat said as much:

<https://mas.to/@paulg/109536542792559441>
I think this isn't the case for many open source projects I use. The reason I'm drawn to OSS is for the ability to be able to fix it down the line by myself. This also allows me to possibly contribute back those improvements so others can leverage them.
Jawohl Opa! Zu Befehl!
Who is "Rihanna" ?
Musk is a victim of his own success. Even if he isn't solely responsible for the success of Tesla and Space X in his mind enough of it is him.

The problem here is overconfidence / blind spots. Twitter is a different type of business. Musk looks to be doing a Mike Jordan or a Shaq. Basketball isn't baseball, nor is it rapping. Both of them recovered from those bad decisions. Will Musk? Time will tell.
Does her beauty line rival that of the gods? Because I don’t want another Trojan War starting.
I still have Windows 2000 installed on a Digital Ultimate Workstation (2x Alpha 21164). I turn it on every few years when I need a nostalgia kick ;-)
I turned my ad-blocker off a while ago, out of curiosity, and my ads have been a mix of (mostly) no ads at all or (occasionally) a bunch of ads at once for really strange things. One time I got six ads in a row for locations in China. Not tourist spots, mind, but stuff like a dig site in a Chinese city. Another time I got amateurish Christian evangelism and a guy promoting a article in Nature about cats recognizing their names. I'm not even sure why the second guy was promoting that article, as they were neither a co-author nor affiliated. Very rarely do I get ads that are even remotely related to the kind of accounts I follow on Twitter.
> Majority of people here on HN were also convinced he will try to make Twitter better.

I was one of them. But slowly we saw him fuck it up, and then double down. Twitter is toast unless Elon is dumped by his investors
Maybe what matters to NSA bureaucrats making contracting decisions is knowing that Bezos will give them lucrative private sector jobs? Maybe exposing these public-private relationships between black-budget agencies and private tech outfits is something Post editors are now reluctant to examine in any detail?

> "Amazon today elected Keith Alexander, a retired four-star general of the U.S. Army, as it newest board director. Alexander was previously director of the National Security Agency and chief of the Central Security Service from 2005 to 2014. (Sep 9, 2020)"

Just a coincidence, nothing to see here.
High performing schools usually achieve their results by kicking out the idiots and disrupters. Not only does this obviously boost averages by removing the bottom results, but everyone else is able to learn better by having disruptions removed.

Of course then some public school has to be the one to attempt to educate these people.
California used to require it in Title 24, and might still do so.

[https://www.cailaw.org/media/files/IEL/Publications/2016/gri...]

And most municipalities will refuse to allow on-site grid independent generation, AND refuse to issue a certificate of habitability unless you have reliable power.

Practically, 99% of urban or suburban residences lack the space and other infrastructure to have a safe and effective off grid system up to the relevant codes anyway, especially when the relevant fire codes come into play.

With how weird a setup it is, most municipalities would just refuse to figure it out with you, so good luck getting through that mountain of red tape.

Rural of course, is entirely different.
Yes, you can export your data to any new server and you can even redirect your followers to your new identity. You´d only have trouble if the instance admin blocks your account before you get to do any of that, but for anything like that to happen you'd have to have done something truly egregious and/or your admin is one shitty, petty person.
‘Perpetual broths’ that simmer for decades
A manchester-encoded bit 1 is a low-to-high transition: there should be "low" on the line which will change to "high". Before the "low" the line was idle (zero voltage difference), this state is interpreted by the differential amplifier as "high", so it's "high-low-high" at the beginning, but we are interested in the "low-high" edge and not in the "high-low" one.
Gave up after 20 seconds waiting for the website to load. Is that supposed to be some retro 90s experience?
you can trace this back to the Pentecostal movement. They sound the same because they're all grifters.
do morons get accepted into Stanford's STEM PhD programs? You can hate Musk for his personality and maybe say he has mental health issues but to say he's stupid seems strange
That's why they introduce proprietary features like GitHub Actions.
I get downvoted fairly frequently and I don't mind. Sometimes it helps make my point, typically around censorship. It will be bad for another year or two but the Overton window is sliding back towards the middle and hopefully we can get back to people having opinions that differ from the mainstream not being reflexabily punished on sight. I vote in favor of downvotes.
Nitter is your friend:

<https://nitter.kavin.rocks/paulg/status/1604556563338887168>
No! I can try out a wide variety of products and services for a month or two and then cancel the ones I don’t like.
It's not though:

https://www.businessinsider.com/left-wing-activists-banned-f...

https://www.salon.com/2022/12/01/elon-musks-twitter-is-purgi...

https://observer.com/2022/12/left-wing-twitter-accounts-crit...

https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-n...
Battery technology has been as far from a standstill as it would be possible to be. New chemistries, new electrolytes, new anodes and cathodes. Batteries are improving faster than almost anything else.

But most of the world's energy storage is not and will not be chemical batteries.
> Second, and not impossible, it finds a route back to relevance.
Twitter 2.0 is so irrelevant it’s the subject of half a dozen HN front page news stories every day…
Quoting Elizabeth Holmes?
Over the last 20 years hahaha not last 20 WCs. I've only seen the last 20 y worth.
There isn’t just one kind of cancer. So even if a good fix is found for one kind it is highly likely not very transferable to another kind.
Twitter’s creditors, to be clear, are largely _new_ creditors. Old-twitter didn’t have much debt load; the 13bn or whatever is a product of the acquisition.
The edit was a clarification based on your comment which was clearly misunderstanding what I was trying to say. Nothing malicious/nefarious intended.

Also: while Kanye is clearly his own kind of category of crazy, what “other racists”?

I don’t know a single such case.
More interesting, that even HN's URL could be formed to look like "unsafe link".[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/safety/unsafe_link_warning?unsafe_link=h...
PG confuses me. Sometimes he seems extremely rational but other times he tweets obvious fallacies.
> Twitter was/remains? a geopolitical & cultural instrument.

Give it a while.
Kmonad for Linux
> But when why is he naming and shaming and whining about advertisers? If he decided to change business models, then it doesn't matter whether Apple advertises.

So far he sucks at managing a community and apparently doesn't understand the business he got it. Can he get his understanding to a point where he doesn't screw up every time and gets some sizeable wins? I don't know, I think it's not impossible and I think he is trying hard. But maybe before he gets on track for success, he will need to distance himself from the alt-right folks because as I see it they have completely different agenda and it's not their money and reputation on the line so they fight their ridiculous culture wars in their fantasy world and if Musk keeps feeding himself from these people He won't get real signals, real feedback and won't be able to correct course.
> Do you really think twitter equates to meeting someone?

I think you learn more about a person through Twitter than meeting them since for better or worse people drop the polite, professional veneer that normally associates face to face meetings.

It showcases (a) what concerns them so much they have to Tweet about it, (b) what their values are, (c) how they read situations, (d) how they treat people etc.

It's weirdly like you're watching them perform in some scientific experiment and seeing how they react to different stimuli.
You didn’t own anything with a perpetual license either. I paid for a Windows license for Adobe CS4 Master Collection several years ago. I don’t even use Windows anymore. And even if I did I doubt CS4 runs well on Win 11.

And besides, even perpetual licenses require activation in order to work.
> Basic is even more nearly dead

I would not say so. The BASIC used in the Office pack is the last child of the MS-BASIC/GWBASIC/QBASIC/QuickBasic/VisualBasic lineage, is still (unfortunately?) very much alive, and probably powering a much bigger part of the modern world than we should be comfortable with.
My mobile provider charges a ridiculous amount per mb while the price in a subscription is much cheaper, if you don’t use more nor less of the allocated amount. So even though they provide both options you mentioned, neither feels ethical to me.

Edit: 1 eur per 10mb in the prepaid version vs 13.50 eur per month for 2gb plus other stuff like calls and sms. So I either have to waste money on stuff I don’t use every month or pay 15 times more for the same service
Have Waymo announced which cities they will work on in 2023/2024? One of the comments in here mentions their vehicles in Los Angeles. Any guesses on when they may start service in New York City?
You don't have to agonize over paying for major upgrades because you're being made to always pay, whether you get an upgrade or not.

It's a nice bonus when you get an upgrade for your payments. But other times you're an Adobe subscriber and lose access to your colors, because turns out you should also be subscribing to Pantone for those. And who knows what you'll have to pay for next.
With the bigotry and cars I tend to think Ford, not Hughes.
That's kind of silly. A match doesn't have to be trading blows like Rocky for the whole 90 minutes. Stuff happens. If you have a 2-0 lead, you have to protect it for the entire game.

I get tired of things being proclaimed "the best ever" though. "It was really good" is plenty, unless you've watched every other one.
Finally not having Benzema (and Pogba) caught up to them. Giroud was completely useless when they don’t control the game
I’m sure Netflix in 2000 had a lot simpler tech stack than Twitter in 2020. However your point is taken.
I think it’s the business response to piracy of desktop software that we saw a decade ago.

When I was in college, everybody seemed to have free music, windows, office, photoshop, etc. Subscriptions are probably the easiest way for companies to avoid it.
There's a remote possibility it's the Twitter policy he's linked in his tweet:

<https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platfo...>

Archive: <https://web.archive.org/web/20221218173806/https://help.twit...>
IIRC some pieces frame Sorkin joining as Elon being "demoted" to CTO; after ousting Sorkin, he tried to become CEO but, as you said, the board shot him down.
Never understood how people would leave twitter for mastodon (which is federated) as a way to protest against nonregulated free speech (not the case for pg, but that’s what’s started the trend).
Been working on one since last year https://glue.im/noah
Twitter has very considerable market power. That's the term in law, not "dominant force on the Web" or monopoly. No-one can use market power to extend or preserve market power. That's precisely what's happened.
Someone can be both smart and Dunning-Kruger themselves in the face.

I don't know why someone who (self-diagnosed?) as having Asperger's thinks they'd be a good fit for leading a social media company, that feels like having a an amputee selling staircases [0]; but the rocket nerds I follow seem pretty convinced Musk genuinely knows actual rocket science.

[0] as in: it could work, but you'd not expect it by default
I think resourcing foot pedals from the music world (guitars and bass mostly) would be the way to go, they're designed for heavy use and would likely be much more durable.
> I did work for another payment provider

Username checks out.
One ship in two centuries: the strange tale of the SS Warrimoo
Last I knew the debt is now owned by twitter, not Elon/against Tesla stock. THAT is why the debtors are pissed right now, that $13 billion is sinking hard.
So after touting something you can do, you've never actually done it.

I have had to touch. Net code that hasn't been updated in years and bring it current. It isn't fun.

By the same token, I lost about a week and a half recently updating a front end project that was started about 5 years ago.

I'm either case, .Net is definitely not the panacea you seem to assert that it is.
This is absolutely true. But I think “smart” leadership avoids repeatedly doubling down on their mistakes. You can, very rarely, double down on what looks like a bad bet and come out ahead. I’m not even sure I’d call that smart but it does happen. But it takes a not-smart person to see the losses stacking up over and over and decide to dig in their heels.

Even if you’re absolutely certain your goals and overall strategy are right a smart person would understand that something needs to change in the messaging and/or execution given the overwhelmingly negative feedback.
Except as a user, the next version had to be better, or I wouldn't pay for it.
Now they can just downgrade my product, and I have to continue paying for it.
I think mastodon will be ok. The lesson learned from comparing twitter to Reddit, hacker news, and Facebook is that creating a successful social network is a moderation problem not a technology problem. BYO moderation strategies like those in use by mastodon, Reddit, twitch and discord can scale (while those of hackernews, fb, twitter cannot).
Ask HN: What would make a great developer-first social network?
With many people I admire and follow in the tech community moving off Twitter, and a lot of the alternatives being clones that have mostly worse UX (looking at you mastadon), what would a developer/tech-first social network look like that was actually awesome to use?

Things I would personally like:

-deeper integration with github, seeing metadata from your github profile on your social network profile

-easily embed code and context in the tweet equivalent. Would be awesome to have formatted, maybe even runnable, code snippets

-twitter spaces for developers that includes code or screen sharing and ways to bring people "on stage" to not just talk but multiplayer control or share another window to the space to show what they're working on or explain a concept together and answer questions (twitch streaming with more dev focused integrations)

What would you add?
Yet, he has the courage of expressing those opinions without sarcasm, on his own public account, and later own admit to change his mind, while being a very exposed figure.

And you use a throwaway.
> seemed like a good time to learn about alternatives.

Would be great to see you being more active on HN again!
At least France has players able to score 2 penalties
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty>
When you give a talk at a corporation they are almost certainly paying you. Is mom suggesting that her son should pay people on twitter?
Ready made for use: https://kinesis-ergo.com/foot-pedals/
He literally bought the company to unban people whose speech endangered people. But he wasn’t convinced the harm was real. I guess it’s all just vibes.
I hope you write a blog about the process of staying off twitter. It's a system that has a lot of psychological rewards and I believe quitting it is almost like changing an addictive habit.
I don't think it's a fallacious argument when the terms "prohibited sites" & "prohibited platforms" are used instead of "prohibited promotion" & what they deem to be cross-posting is not defined. We could assume best intentions, but given that the policy seems to be from a place of bad intentions, I wouldn't grant the benefit of the doubt.
You already had 3 of the 6 regular goals come from penalty kicks, and Messi/Mbappe get to kick them regardless of whether they were the fouled player. Absolutely seems that PKs are the dominant path to victory, I have to imagine the sports analytics community starting to focus on best strategies to maximize PKs rather than traditional goal-scoring.
+1, and it doesn't have the general toxicity that Twitter had. If someone is trolling, inflammatory, needlessly rude, or overly marketing themselves on the instance I'm on, it appears to me that they'll likely be quickly ostracized into oblivion, not encouraged with likes and retweets as they might have been on Twitter.
Money can get you into any university program. I did a google search, he left after two days. This is not impressive.
General Fusion is building their test plant in the UK right now.
Nah I kind of like it. It's a low upfront cost to demo something for awhile plus it encourages developer updates if you do stick with it. Too much software gets abandoned when it's just a one-time purchase.
2015 was a disaster we never recovered from. Millions of voters voted for real change, and got ignored. But then the party who DID actually win the election pandered to those voters to try and win them over. We ended up with Brexit and a whole host of other related problems with populism, etc.

I blogged about it here at the time, in case anyone's interested: https://tinyurl.com/39r8r3rr
At that point, replacing the lens with a one having a better focal length might be a good idea...
Fair enough, it's left ambiguous.

He's applying pressure/lobbying in a passive-aggressive way. Even less principled.
Helicon is as far as I can tell the least likely fusion effort to actually succeed because they are making serious hype without producing any data to actually back it up. As well as making some wild claims that don’t match up with reality. A single advancement is vastly more believable but when they are suggesting so many advantages such as not needing tritium or steam turbines the most likely thing is for them to just be lying.

At a more practical level, any device actually producing non trivial amounts of fusion using helium 3 would quickly make the device extremely radioactive from all the high energy protons being produced.

PS: DD fusion produces H3 half the time, it also produces tritium the other half which isn’t generally going to be a waste product it’s going to fuse in the reaction chamber filled with D producing very high enegry neutrons.
Are we doctors or data workers?
At least you can cancel after a month if you don’t like it.

Otherwise I feel the pain, too many little easy peasy stuff is looking for big bucks.

Maybe there is going to be something like humblebundle for these subscriptions tok.
That particular exchange really was one of the most embarrassing and ignorant ones I've seen on part of pg.
I've seen people make these semantic arguments you're making to confuse the situation around base load. The reality is that you have not offered any alternative, and your post only muddies the waters.

> Base load on the producer side is an outdated term. It simply came into existence because the most inflexible plants used to be the cheapest, that is not the case anymore. You can talk about base demand, but that can be fulfilled using any source.

Oh really? What's this more flexible power? Is it perhaps natural gas? It's interesting how anti-nuclear people always gloss that over.

> Or because you still have to measure the radioactivity of wild game and mushrooms in northern Sweden and Bavaria.

Having to test some mushrooms and game meat is nothing compared to the damage fossil fuels do in their intended use. Rivers and soils in many places have been poisoned by fossil fuel extraction, including from natural gas.
It's not a short summary, but if you are into podcasts then Behind the Bastards have a two parter on him.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/part-one-the-ballad-of...
What i hoped he would he'd do was to find another Gwynne Shotwell and have them run the company while taking his advice and kindly ignore it when it makes sense.

Alas, I don't see something like this panning out, that future is gone.
I really like the Jetbrains model. Buy a yearly subscription for the software, but you get a perpetual license for the major version of the software when your subscription is renewed.
To all extents and purposes that are relevant it is, or you can treat it as such. I'm not aware of pg overruling dang on anything, though obviously it is property of YC and there are limits to what dang can do when it comes to risking the site (legal risk, for instance).
On Arch Linux the Firefox installed via the package manager has never auto-updated and never shown this "please restart" page. But probably the official packaging on Arch resembles a manual install on Ubuntu.
But you go to far. "Meeting someone" is meeting that public veneer that they use when meeting new/random people. It is not spending a lot of time with them and getting to know them. It is about how first, in-person impressions match up against your expectations.
But this sounds incredibly like “buy the dip!”
The situation with twitter is dire. Nothing indicates that any of the things listed are remotely achievable.
Desperation grabs attention.
> Ctrl is the most pressed control key for people like me who live in the terminal. But the default placement of the ctrl keys in modern layouts is so wrong. I have never understood it. I guess there has to be a historical reason but I've yet to find out. (Help me, greybeards)

I've seen this talk here and the speaker mentioned the ADM-3A (that is also mentioned in the article itself) terminals at about the 17/18 minute mark. Mind the keyboard layout :)

https://jackrusher.com/strange-loop-2022/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-3A