skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole “Elon Musk polls Elon Musk’s followers and acts like it’s a) representative of the Twitter userbase in general and that b) the results of the poll are an infallible measure of which option is best” thing is just bizarre to me. The former is pretty clearly untrue, and the latter is untrue for most definitions of “best”.
I think he only posts polls when he believes he knows the outcome already. Yesterday he posted a poll about unsuspending the journalist accounts and when the outcome wasn't what he wanted instead of following the majority vote he posted it again with different options (with the same result, which he did abide by the second time).

I think this indicates he's tired of Twitter already. But he still owns it, so who will he put in his place? Or maybe he is expecting a landslide "no" result?
In one hand, he is horrible at it. On the same hand, he should pay more attention to SpaceX and rest.
On the other hand, a world with Musk is better than one without.
I can say that easily; culling a population of free-roaming wild animals because people believe there are too many of them is very different from breeding a population of captive domestic animals with a goal of achieving specific results.

As for whether humans are good at breeding when done intentionally, the evidence is a bit equivocal. Mixed breed dogs and cats are usually much less prone to heritable health issues than purebred, but I think that's less true for farm animals where health issues impact profits.
> Edit: and now he’s asking if he should step down https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046176439731240...

If it doesn't go his way how many times will he put up a new poll?
The reality is that South Asian subsidiaries have a revolving door of employees and are functionally equivalent to the contract labor firms. Their work output isn't any better.
Can you charge double and still keep your customers coming back? (2015)
Does it bug anyone else that they don't play enough games to actually reasonably determine 2nd and 3rd place among the 4 semi-finalists?

The current system of having two teams that win in the semi-finals play a game to determine the final winner, and the two teams that lose in the semi-finals play a third place play-off only actually determines who is 1st (the winner of the final) and who is 4th (the loser of the third place play off).

In years like this one, where the winner of the third play play-off (Croatia) loses in the semi-finals to the eventual winner of the final (Argentina), we get no information on how they compare to the loser of the final (France).

In years where the winner of the third place play off played the loser of the final in the semi-finals, we then do have enough information to rank all 4. The winner of the finals is #1 with no losses, the loser of the final and the winner of the third place play-off both have 1 loss, but they played each other in the final so we can order them, giving the loser of the final 2nd place, the winner of the third place play-off 3rd place, and the loser of that 4th place.

In years like this one, we are missing that game between the loser of the final and the winner of the third place playoff, who both have 1 loss, to order them, so all we can reasonable say this year is Argentina is in 1st, France and Croatia are 2nd and 3rd but we don't know which is which, and Morocco is 4th.

I suppose as a practical matter they don't want to have a France/Croatia game to figure it out because that game would come after the final and they want the final to be the last. But why not determine who gets 2nd and who gets 3rd by applying the tie breaks they use in the group stage?
Just because there are other situations that suck, doesn't mean this one has to. Allowing users to use software if a company goes bankrupt or kills a product costs next to nothing.

A big difference is also that many other subscriptions are much more fungible - I can easily go to another gym or rent a similar office in a nearby building, but I can't go play Sadia-exclusive games on another cloud gaming provider or move my Adobe Lightroom catalogue to some other software.
He had a different reasons however. He said it would be because he can't make any political side happy. We see here different behavior which is tyranny and unrelated to any political aspects. Probably most entrepreneurs have some level of egoistic, self-righteous, tyrant behavioral aspects but private control of social media, gateway to all people, really allows one to exercise and amplify it without any controls. This is why democracy was invented.
Everywhere he would have turned in the past 24 hours he would have seen @'s and DMs with embedded images of his jet track via London to the stadium.

I suspect he's been boiling over and rage messaging staff to banhammer the world.
Holy crap, a poll to see if Elon stays running twitter. A bold move.
I believe the first line. I'm not convinced about the second...
> 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.

Did the twitter files contain info about active Honeypots?
And yet, lots of people in pre-Musk times said "Twitter is not a government body, it's a private company, it can ban whoever it wants to ban". Now these people are leaving in droves.

I hope it's a good lesson for everybody that a private company can't be a de facto town square. An internet town square must be based on open protocols and, like an IRL town square, paid with taxpayers money. Otherwise, we're doomed to have this story repeated again and again.
The sad thing is that many more do it for free.
I'm just going to politely refrain from further comments. I stand by the title, and not only was no clickbait intended but the first sentence was intended to reinforce this was about his presence on AM radio. I hope my good faith is obvious. That said, I appreciate the efforts at clarity.
> The "please restart" page only appears when opening a new tab (so the disruption is minimal).

I usually open a new tab when I want to do something in that new tab, which makes the disruption very annoying. (As far as I remember, it also blocks loading of new pages in existing tabs thereafter so the disruption is total.) Then during the restart it loses all info in private tabs.
The previous CEO of Twitter barely did any work. It was frequent to hear chickens and birds in the background of Jack's video calls.
Sadly enough, I have the same issue with written content: BS websites add a ton of fluff to their texts as their deplorable approach to SEO and making some space for ads.

"Streaming your phone screen to a TV is something many people at some point want to do. But seeing the picture of your smartphone on a television or other device can be a daunting task. Here we list multiple ways how you can achieve the goal of sharing a mobile screen of an Android or an iOS device on a different device. It works for any manufacturer, like Samsung Smart TVs or Apple TV."

(goes on for another 15 paragrpahs before presenting a non-solution)

It's hard to put in words the amount of hate I feel for the authors of such pages. I'm desperately looking forward to the day Google comes up with better models for detecting useful content and those trash piles can burn in hell.
I've watched him on Everyday Astronaut (https://www.youtube.com/@EverydayAstronaut/search?query=musk)

and he seems to explain things pretty well and have some input in the design. You've got to admit the rockets etc. work pretty well although of course they are a team effort.

It's ironic that linking to him on youtube might get me banned on Twitter.
It appears that he was wrong about that first bit though.
Plasma fluid dynamics is arbitrarily hard. It counts as physics.
>No, it's not clearly a violation. From Elon Musk:

>> Casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme.

Also, something Elon Musk says isn't policy, even when he owns Twitter.

The policy specifically talks about linking out and usernames, nothing about generally "promoting other platforms".

Musk-defenders are getting absurd here.
Tecent already had a diversified Internet business before they launched WeChat. Musk needs a whole portofolio of companies to enable his mega-app vision, and that is not considering all the anti-competition lawsuits coming his way should he acquire those companies and refer to them exclusively within the X app.

FB/Meta and Google likely had similar ambitions and they haven't succeeded in building one despite being in a far better position to do so. Google Maps is probably the closest thing we can get to a mega-app in the Western world, for now.
Hello, hard materialist camp representative :)

That possibility makes sense, but I don't really know enough about the universe to be certain.
"If I can't have you I'll destroy you".
I use Twitter, and most users are totally baffled, even more than they have been before with prior bans. Musk just keeps finding new ways to alienate users. It was one thing to ban links to Mastodon, but to Instagram and Facebook and link tree? That's going to piss off a lot of people...
TIL all about showmax.com - As a ZA expat living in the UK, I'm all over this. Looks like some good content from ZA, Nigeria, et al!
Looks like it’s back up, but they dumped his followers.
You can have them in there, but not wear them!

It’s kinda a pain to drive with a big puffy jacket, especially once the cabin gets warm.

I’m often in this position: car is in underground car park that sits above zero (Celsius) when it’s far colder outside, so I hand-carry my jacket and keep the vent off until the engine heats up.
"I am sorry, I didn't know so many of you liked Paul Graham. I can reinstate him. Please like me."
If they were capable of that, they wouldn't be antivaxxers...
F1 drivers are required to be extremely fit. Braking and cornering at over 4G for almost 2 hours, applying well over 300lb pressure to the brake pedal repeatedly, in cockpit temperatures over 110F, would destroy most athletes from other sports.
>That's basically just posting a link to your Mastodon account, but with an extra step.

No it's not, and it's absurd to equate the two.
Rich and deranged = eccentric

Poor and deranged = mad
Mr Dumpty had something of Mr Musk's way with words in "Through the Looking Glass":

`And only ONE for birthday presents, you know. There's glory for you!'

`I don't know what you mean by "glory,"' Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. `Of course you don't-- till I tell you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"'

`But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument,"' Alice objected.

`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less.'
My point is FORTH should definitely be on the list. It is pretty much dead as an actual programming language in that no one programs in it anymore. But it was/is very influential... For example, PostScript is basically a dialect of FORTH.
Imagine thinking homosexuality was a sin or being such a simp you cared about offending Qatar for being idiots.

Corporate niche dwellers are some of the most spineless people.
It's literally about EV range loss in the winter. The journalist put Tesla's advertising to the test and took a drive up the east coast. Experienced massive range loss and had to sacrifice speed and heating. Was not instructed to plug in overnight. When he woke up he was dangerously low and only trickle charging was available at his destination in the country, which couldn't help him.

Musk tried to do damage control by attacking his reputation. For example he claimed "the data showed" the NYT journalist circled one of the charger stops to run down the battery on purpose to make a juicier story. People ate it up. But turns out he just had a little trouble finding the charger in the dark.
36 years on and still seething x)

The Hand of God is a clear foul, but the Goal of the Century is clean as a whistle. Funnily, these two goals alone — both so different — are pretty much the summary of Diego Maradona
Do you have a link for this?

The Mockingboard I heard of was this Apple II board that provided sound/voice synthesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockingboard
If mudge's testemony is anything to go by, anyone engineering level access can do pretty much anything - with zero accountability. So the only way Musk can't do that, is if he's activly avoided getting access...
I'm sorry, but the standard you are asserting there is simply ridiculous. You would have them be unable to say anything about what they are doing (the topic would ensure great interest which you call hype) without sharing all details.

Of course neutrons will cause issues, but the point is the very energetic ones could be much less of a problem than in a DT reactor. It might make the difference between replacing the first wall once a year and replacing it once a decade (say). I will add that the cylindrical geometry should make such replacement much easier.

I advise you to study what they've said with an open mind. I believe you'll change your opinion, or at least convince you to reserve judgment.
Agreed, this is annoying. I just have to go back to my instance, and search for the link (https://mas.to/@paulg) in the search bar, then I can follow them.
Odd use of 'gatekeeper' isn't it? Even if I would call this 'gatekeeping behaviour' (I don't think it is, the way that's usually used around here at least? Not to say that it isn't 'misbehaviour') surely the thing that's objected to really is gatekeeping by x platforms, where x is 'monopoly' or 'dominant' or something?
Please, they're called assassination coordinates now. He's trying to protect us.
That was a wonderful comic slip-up and brought a smile to my face. TY for that!
And now I'm wondering if I can go to a lawyer and get a "no-regurgitate" directive put in place. :-)
Actually, Elon just had paul's account unsuspended. Regardless of the reasoning, it makes much of your argumentation moot (irrelevant) because it's clear you don't understand Twitter or Musk's reasoning (nor does Musk).
Which two sides? I'm only seeing Elon Musk vs the world
> So the Accenture engineer probably gets paid a lot less than you.

Given that roughly 1/3 of Accenture employees are in the US, is there any evidence for you to believe that this was someone outside the US?
Does this relate to the OP?
David Sacks is in the inner circle of the Twitter executive team. He has financially benefited from being a "Yes man".

One need only refer to the texts released in the Discovery phase
It's already possible to tag (parts) of sentences on how tts has to speak them, quiet, excited, etc. Soon it'll be just a matter of what is cheaper, a recording or a tagger/director, and that tagging will be partially automatic. As with many things absolute quality, sadly, won't be the target, good enough to keep people buying the product is.

Not sure how I feel about this prospect, I love audiobooks, and for big titles the narration cost is a drop in the bucket, and I like the idea of real narration. But at the same time lots of indie books don't get an audio version, and that tts allows more books the have an audio version is a plus and having each character get their own voice works be nice.
How reassuring...

Not.
Taylor Lorenz was suspended for “prior doxxing” (i.e. before the policy change, and why now?) immediately after asking Musk for comment on a story about his allegation that @elonjet was responsible for a stalking incident.

https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/elon-musk-bans-washing...
Very good guess!
But his follower count went back to 0.
Only if you have very short memory x) he is part of the greats, but he is not the GOAT of the sport.
https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/mastodon

My costs are more like $18/month.
Paul is back but has 600 followers.
It seems the account is back. I assume the damage is quite irreparable though.
He's really making it up as he goes. I don't know how anyone can look at anything he's done recently and still think that he's competent at any of his roles.
To put this into perspective, here's user growth over the last few days [1]. Before Musk bought Twitter, it was often ~4k a day. Earlier today it was back down to less than 2k an hour, after a peak a bit above 4k an hour after the journalist fiasco.

It's currently at 5,477 in the last hour.

Before the journalist fiasco it had fallen back to ~1k/hour, and I think you need to go back to Nov 19th to find similar peaks.

In other words, things had died down massively, and he's chosen to pointlessly inflame things again rather than letting it calm down further.

[1] https://bitcoinhackers.org/@mastodonusercount/10953715946301...
I wasn't buying paid software before, and I'm not buying the SaaS version either.

There's enough perfectly good open source and freeware(Although you might be the product with some of it), that I don't currently pay for any software at all at home, aside from maybe $15 a year in DLC for games, and services that aren't just SaaS. Although Tile Premium doesn't do much that couldn't be done locally as far as I know.

A bigger problem is media streaming, which was great back when everything was on 2 or 3, but it's getting insane now.
Marion Smith, the world’s most prolific cave explorer, dies at 80
> Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.

Does he mean a twitter poll?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604616863673208832
Ok, I think you’ve answered my question. “Bluechecks” is innuendo for liberals, regardless of whether Ben Shapiro or Donald Trump possesses/possessed the same verified badge.
Furthermore, Hispanic != Latino (or even Latinx)

Specifically, Hispanic relates to Spain and the Spanish speaking world, whereas Latino indicates Latin America which includes Brazil, but not Portugal.
It won't actually stop working, it just means you're much more vulnerable to malware.

The biggest threats haven't come from direct external assaults on the OS for years. I expect a typical consumer device is more at risk from an out of date browser than any other type of vulnerability now. The biggest risk for most of us as personal users is someone stealing our data via a hack, which often doesn't require root/administrator access to the host system anyway if you can compromise something already Internet-connected like a browser or messaging app.

Of course old versions of Windows not getting updates from Microsoft any more is a concern on some level but it's probably a long way down the list for anyone who actually has a good reason to still be using the old versions. I know quite a few people with quite a few different and entirely rational reasons for doing so, though many of those reasons involve some other form of predatory business model by some other big company that makes hardware and/or software. (Hardware that was declared EOL and doesn't have drivers for newer Windows versions, software with some sort of DRM that ties it to running on a specific system, that kind of thing.)
https://archive.vn/mAhvV
I see the "Firefox has updated, you must restart Firefox to continue using it" window every two weeks or so on Ubuntu.

Though I never seen it on Fedora or Windows, might be some quirks related to Ubuntu packaging.
How many non-background-checked foreign employees work at Accenture on this project and have access to all these files anyway?
It’s kind of a philosophical discussion and there’s no clear line, but I do think it’s good to take responsibly for clarity of one’s writing. At some point you can assume the audience (or individuals) are being willfully obtuse, but we’re a long way away from that.
"The rules are that I get to do what I want. you may disagree with that policy but that _is_ the rule."

Just because it's now apparently official policy doesn't make it any less juvenile and mercurial
No, follower counts are known to be wonky immediately after someone is unsuspended. This has been the case for years, well before Elon. Wait an hour or two and it will show the correct number.
For reference, 4 of them are still in the current TIOBE top 50 (https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/):

BASIC: 6 and 13

Pascal: 16 (Delphi/OP)

COBOL: 27

ML: 50

Mentioned as being in the next 50 (for reference, Elixir and Clojure hang out in this tier):

Smalltalk, APL

Not in TIOBE top 100:

ALGOL, PL/I, CLU, SIMULA 67
Additionally, Elon Musk just tweeted asking if he should resign as head of Twitter: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097
"galaxies worth of schlock": Robertson Davies in an essay on reading mentioned the old proverb "We must eat a peck of dirt before he die." He was arguing against too nicely restricted a diet of reading.
I agree. We can say with near-certainty that had musk not bought Twitter, PG would still be on Twitter. Whether Musk pressed the button or not, he’s ultimately responsible for the mess.
Hughes had a lot more restraint than Musk though.
The role of Mike Griffin in helping Musk set up SpaceX and source the right people, and then steering NASA support his way can’t be ignored though. Without that it’s almost certain it wouldn’t exist now.
At least unbanning alt-right figures (as much as I disagree with) was in line with Musk's free-speech pretense. Everything else that came after that... yikes. I wonder what juicy government contracts the GOP has promised him.
Yeah indeed, but it's so much harder for something to gain traction on Mastodon vs on Twitter and its country specific trends.
My money is on David Sacks if we would take the job (probably not)
I made that decision when I first time sat in one.
Elon Musk killed Twitter Spaces because he was mad at being called out over lying about why he banned journalists: https://twitter.com/ForeverEversley/status/16036127708929187...
I love seeing how many people mention Jetbrains as a good example of a subscription model when this topic comes up. I agree. But I think the reason it is good is that a yearly subscription to one of their products can also be seen as a one off purchase of a 1 year older version of that product, with an accompanying free trial of their latest version. Then if you liked that trial, you get a chance to purchase it after 1 year, at a discount. And then another deeper discount after 2 years.

That's really hard to find a problem with, whether you prefer subscriptions or one off purchases. It's really a mix of the two.
This is partly explained by simply no value being assigned to base load in many systems. And importantly nuclear often not getting the credit for being green. Also nuclear plants being able to run for 60-100 years while all these wind plants will need to be replaced long before that.
The way the 'markets' are structured just isn't to the advantage of nuclear.

Nuclear was and is often excluded from renewable subsidies. France just had to pay 500M Euro because they missed their 'renewables' target, all while being green. The same thing in the US when they favored solar. There are lots of example.

CDU isn't business friendly, they are Russia and Fossil friendly. They knew it was a popular choice that would be supported by the anti nuclear left. It was a populist choice.

All that said, even some old nuclear plants that currently exist do sell long term electricity at quite good prices. Germany was actually pretty good at operating them and given their security, base load capabilities, being green and long term viability, turning them off because of per kWh pricing was basically an insanely delusional populist choice based on fear mongering and incomplete estimation of the pros and cons.

But I guess the Germans are now breathing the dirty air that this has produce (sadly blasting it all over central Europe and Western Europe). The South of France at the same time had nice clean air since 40 years.
His Twitter account is no longer suspended as at 2022-12-18T23:34:19+0000