skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can just combine different software to have it work as you like.

- KeepassXC as password manager

- Syncthing to synchronize your db (no server is required on your part)

In general security software should be stable. I'm not sure why updates are needed other than for vulnerabilities (which should be exceedingly rare). The security is guaranteed as long as the software performs up to spec (the crypto implementation being free of errors)
>> It's the base-level social protocol that all other platforms are adjacent to

I have no idea what this means.
Musk seems to be indicating that banning it was a mistake:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604616426114932737
> Where are all the startups?

Before: Twitter was everywhere - any clone would fail.

Now: Twitter is still everywhere. Seems like drug for journalists.
> Why is it so plainly obvious to many of us and so god damn impossible for others to see it.

Technically? That is the nature of consciousness. Though that's no fun, so how about: some people are just stupid - the ones who have a different opinion than the observer.
You right, just build high-temperature nuclear and use if for everything, then no peaking is required. And you can also use if for both industrial and residential heat. Solving all your problems at once. If you have electrified transport (electric trains and electric cars) you can have a 100% green economy.
Just yesterday any new tabs I opened refused to load until I restarted Firefox due to a forced update. Existing tabs became unresponsive. Granted, it did restore my session upon restart, but it did not restore the DOM and data state of those tabs.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34044047
It doesn't work like this. A 1T model without architectural changes would not perform substantially better unless it has been trained on a lot more code. The original Codex was trained on 100B tokens, so you could possibly get some gains by increasing the model size but only up to a point. See the Chinchilla paper for reference.
You'd still need to type in (or select in some other way) your home instance. The instance you're browsing on has no way of knowing otherwise.
> Elon might be getting margin called on Tesla right now, which could wipe him out financially.

I don't think this is how margin calls work. Presuming your broker is properly managing risk, then a margin call is explicitly designed to not wipe you out financially. You have to put up more capital or sell positions in order to maintain a certain amount of equity in your account, and that required amount is never zero (again, if your broker/lender is managing risk properly).

Of course it is a stressful situation, and he may need to sell assets at "unfavorable" prices which would effectively lock-in some reduced paper wealth. But I don't think a margin call is going to wipe him out.
I feel the same way. I was done by the time Tom Merritt left. But I will forever have gratitude towards Leo for all the things he taught me on ZDTV/TechTV growing up. I probably owe my entire career to him and Patrick Norton.
Hello! I am the CEO and cofounder of Radiopaper. Thanks for mentioning us. The mechanism you describe is indeed one of the core features of the platform. The effect is to distributes moderation decisions to those most immediately affected
Syncthing is really key, no need to pay for photo sync services, just send it to your Nas or desktop, no need to pay for password managers, just sync it, no need to pay for notetaking apps or todo apps, just sync Obsidian or Joplin.
Hijacking top comment to note Elon Musk has commented: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604616426114932737

> Paul’s account will be restored shortly

And https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604616863673208832

> Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.
Musk just tweeted that @paulg will be restored shortly: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046164261149327...

And “Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.” https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046168636732088...

Edit: and now he’s asking if he should step down https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046176439731240...
The benefit of doubt is for yourself, to have an accurate understanding of what you know and what you assume.
This is all rather entertaining to watch from the sidelines. Both "sides" in this power struggle are making hilarious cock-ups and are playing hard to their bases, to the point of absurdity. The sad thing is watching people say things like this as if it's some kind of "checkmate, alt-right!" but anyone with even an eighth of their attention resting outside of a filter bubble can see that A) nobody on the other side gives a shit and B) the side accusing Musk of not adhering to his promise has already squandered so much cache over the past 7 years that this kind of reneging, which is by all measures incredibly tame and expected given both Twitter's business interests and Musks personality, is in no way damning let alone surprising. Neither side has moral authority, you're both just street fighting and are too covered in mud and manure to figure out that you're punching in the wrong directions.
TikTok seems to have managed it well. Well, except from being chinese-owned.
The weight of evidence is against Elon but this is not a court of law. He can ban everyone and probably will soon. Remember this post.. first person to say he will ban everyone at some point soon.
Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes
I think control-r quietly automates a good portion of what I do.

As a matter of fact, I automatically (subconsciously) type control-r before every command.

I think I've only ever typed this command once:

git log --graph --decorate --oneline --all
For certain types of software, like audit editing, I am definitely tired of subscription models. I'm looking at you Avid - I just want to be able to buy a version and have reasonable support for 3-5 years, and then a small paid upgrade fee for the next major version.
I mean ok, yes it's part of the web and there are legit reasons to link to content there but, you know, make the effort to not do that without a really good reason.
No, but you do see the rise of online distribution, which killed cd sales.
Does it make any sense to spin up your own little Mastodon server just for you and your most trusted friends, so you don't have to spend any time moderating content?
Just look at the guys coming from paypal and see what they did. More than a few household names.
Every 5 seconds and no stopping time
It seems that PG's account will be restored shortly:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604616426114932737
Musk really gets Twitter. It's always been an outrage machine, and he's just fueling the fire. Pretty brilliant...in his mind.
PG left instructions for how to follow him on Mastodon, which is against the new policy. You may not like it, but you can’t say it’s not transparent.
I'm in NL and absolutely not concerned about the quality of health care here or what it will cost. Insurance here is very good and reasonably affordable.
> Twitter must be bleeding DAUs

My thoughts exactly, he was in some random meeting last week and learned that traffic is falling and this is his dopey “solution.”
It's unclear if the companies could be profitable because of the VC propping them up. That said, the service economy is here to stay.
It's the physics degree. Most people accept it without considering its provenance.
Here's the problem with that - there's not enough room for every company and their subscription model. So where you have a chance to get money from someone with a one time purchase, you're going to have to fight to get another piece of their subscription budget.

And more and more - you're not going get that piece.

Customers only have so much money and so much time. Expecting them to make a long term commitment is going to be a worse and worse business model in the coming years.
Sources?

You do know they covered different topics, right?
So if Twitter restarted Vine they would ban Tiktok's Twitter account? Unheard of
Many get paid to.
> This is not true now, and arguably never was

you mean to say in your first breath that the 501(c) series of US IRS tax structures are not called "non-profit" but then in the next breath confirm that the NFL was in fact 501(c)(6) ?

I do not say I was "mad" so, let's not include that as a summary of what I wrote, eh?
But what if the decoder rots?
Is there an archive of Paul Graham's tweets somewhere? I was hoping to get around to reading all of them at some point, but now I might never get that chance.

pg's current Twitter ban and my desire to read pg's full tweet archive reflect two things I despise about common design practices for contemporary social media sites:

1) When a user's account is banned, all their content is made unavailable, even if the rest of their content didn't run afoul of the site's policies. (In other words, user-provided content bans are almost universally draconian.)

2) A user's content can only be accessed linearly. I'd be more likely to have read the full set of pg's tweets by now if I didn't have to always start from the most recent tweet and start scrolling backwards. We've regressed to the time when data storage was primarily tape-based... except that now I, the user, am the human, manually-operated (and frustrated) tape drive. (Sites do tend to provide text-based search but that doesn't fix the full-content-access problem, since I'd have to know the keywords for every bit of content that I'd want to find.)
Not really, like others said, in many cases subscription is well justified.It normally brings consistent updates, data hosting and backup on top of typical purchase.

In addition, for me most importantly, it forces a continuous relationship between business entities that brings trust and continuity.
It was in several places, Bloomberg among them: https://archive.ph/0P9i7

The entire thing is a joke.
The Streisand Effect encoded as a Term of Service [0][1].

As of 2:22 PM Pacific Time:

> What is a violation of this policy?

> At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms, such as linking out (i.e. using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter, or providing your handle without a URL:

> Prohibited platforms:

> Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Post and Nostr
> 3rd-party social media link aggregators such as linktr.ee, lnk.bio
Examples:

> “follow me @username on Instagram”
> “username@mastodon.social”
> “check out my profile on Facebook - facebook.com/username”

1) Why are only specific social media platforms banned, but the entire category of “3rd-party social media link aggregators”?

Where is Reddit? Where is HN (this forum)? Where is Sina Weibo [2]? Where is VK [3]? Where is Parler [4]?

2) What would happen if different third party websites were used as link aggregators? This could be an individual website’s “Links”/“Socials”/“Contact Us” page, or something like an HN/GitHub/LinkedIn/etc profile page. What about the *chans?

3) What about discussion happening via different text media like Slack/Discord/IRC and the text descriptions in YouTube and TikTok videos?

4) What about text embedded as part of the video itself?

5) What about websites constructed with easy-to-guess login and password or a series of captchas?

Personal observation/feeling:

This entire situation seems like an arms race between the richest troll playing whack-a-mole against the rest of the Internet where the moral and/or legal high ground shifts between the parties each round.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_service

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_service

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VK_(service)

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler
he basically just bought twitter because he wanted to ban people from making fun of him, every decision he makes is completely personally motivated and has absolutely no bearing on making the website better or reflecting the will of its users at all
Not really. The pixel buds app is in the Apple store. So is Amazon.
Back in the day, he used to be a really nice guy. At least that's how he projected himself. I met him a few times at different trade shows and he was great.

Then he got his own "empire". He became the boss. He married his business partner and then he totally and completely took a 180 and became a jerk and treated his employees terribly. None of the original crew that were instrumental into making TWiT into a big thing (back then), are left. It's just a shell of what it formally was. It's really sad when I see people I used to admire turn into something like this, but I moved on.
Unlucky, looks like it was an libx11 upstream bug. Has since been fixed as of a few hours ago at least.
And indeed there are no unisex competitions.

>FIFA competitions are separated for men and women. This separation must be safeguarded and protected.

I messed up here by trusting the first results on google while searching "can women play in the world cup" which brought up a bunch of Quora results saying that they can. I was a bit too eager to believe them because this is a thing in many other sports.
"I Am Altering the Deal, Pray I Don't Alter It Any Further."
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll
> I'm not leaving Twitter.

This aged poorly.. just 2 hours later and Paul has now been suspended on Twitter.
> With error checking removed, my decoder is ~600 bytes of x86 object code — a great story for embedding alongside assets.

Soon in an IOT device near you. Ready to be exploited.
> The BASIC cause of death is written that it was seen as a lesser, kids language.

Nah, its more that:

(1) The standardized, broadly compatible subset was a mostly unstructured, imperative language with very limited features, only global variable scope, named custom functions limited to a single expression (and a syntax that sharply limits what can be in a single expression), variables limited to numbers and strings, that was very tightly adapted to systems without modern capability (“line numbers” seem baroque now, but it really was a great way to have a simple, line-oriented text environment that worked as both REPL and simple dev environment.)

(2) While there were plenty of nonstandard versions with more modern features, they were mostly proprietary, often tied to very specific other pieces of software, and not particularly interoperable between them.

(3) Plenty of more modern, just as easy to use for simple cases, languages became available that had broad cross-platform compatibility (sometimes, not always, with formal standardization) without the limitations of BASIC’s broadly-compatible subset.

(4) Almost no computers came with “power on BASIC” anymore, so the unique role the ubiquitous use of BASIC in this way in the 8-bit home PC era gave it and which provided a support for its overall popularity went away.
It’s interesting to consider that this is likely the “less online” crowd’s (i.e. what I suppose to be the vast majority of Twitter users) first experience with capricious and arbitrary moderation of their online discussions. Folks who have posted a lot in smaller forums with moderation drawn up from the user base are a lot more familiar with this kind of thing, but if you’ve only posted on corporate, “professionally moderated” platforms, it must be quite disorienting
Severance claw back? For real?
I grew up with a good friend with a surgeon for a father, and my friend is finishing his surgery residency now. I watched (with some envy, really) as my friend was able to navigate the process of becoming a doctor with ease. He was no smarter than any other hard-working student, but he had the system working for him to point him in the right direction at every step of the process. (How to allocate his time studying, what kinds of jobs to work, even which foreign language to choose.) I still wouldn’t be ashamed if I were him. He’s good people and is headed to work for the VA (with all its warts, at least it’s free for the patients).

Blatant favoritism is obviously wrong in the treatment of doctors and their families. That’s not what I’m talking about (it’s disgusting). Them knowing how to use the convoluted system is different, though, and I don’t think it’s something of which you should be ashamed. Especially if you/they work to make it a better system.

If the parent comments have made it to this response: I’m sorry for your loss. Watching my healthy grandfather fall apart and die during the peak of the pandemic was a wake up call for me regarding the sad state of our healthcare system.
It seems Elon might be rolling this back.
Check His latest tweet
Well, in the context of Musk's entire public premise for buying Twitter being to provide an at-scale safe haven for online free speech, it absolutely is a free speech issue.
It's hard not to be reminded of Howard Hughes. And to be reminded that such is a tragic outcome.
The secret sauce of a union is, they bargain over wages & working conditions for you. Especially the "wages" part.

Non-union companies are acting perfectly legally if they create workers' councils to discuss working conditions. That is not an "employer union." If they submitted a new salary schedule to the council -- that would be an employer union.

Telling employees that these discussions would not be permitted with a union is similarly legal.
What has he engineered? Why did he have to claim to be a founder of Tesla when he never was? If you go back his shenanigans are actually quite well documented. The fascination with this guy has always been peculiar to me.
People promoting space-based solar invariably pick Rube Goldberg complex designs that will reliably fail.

A big, very low-mass reflector concentrating sunlight on laser tubes tuned for various wavelengths found in sunlight, and beaming visible light at only solar intensity onto wavelength-matched solar PV farms on the ground, at night, would substitute for storage. Since the light intensity is no more than in sunshine, there is no danger.
> misunderstood

Unless pg’s account is re-instated within 12 hours I don’t think the moderation staff has misunderstood anything at all.
Remember, if you can censor traffic at the network level, so can Comcast and China. Hopefully, there will eventually be a day when Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and CloudFlare all serve DoH from the same IPs they serve the rest of the websites they host from, so that it won't be feasible to block them anymore.
On the other hand, Alpha had an infamously weak memory ordering, and it dying means that we don't have to deal with that when writing software. Check Documentation/memory-barriers.txt on the Linux kernel for the gory details (recent versions are after the kernel was changed to make Alpha work somewhat more similar to other architectures; check that documentation file on older kernel versions for the full horror).
The article is propaganda junk.

Did not read every accusation from it, but it mention for example, Andy Ngo and VPS_Report.

Here is the tweet about both of them:

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1594550575383072770

I must say, VPS_Report is an evil person. I don't know if he deserves his right to speech after he posted his threats, but I won't miss him on Twitter.

Andy Ngo is fine. You may disagree with him, but he only does journalist work.
Would love to hear Paul’s response to this.
One of the journalist didn't even talked about Elonjet, but posted an article about Tesla with data from an insider btw. This claim just fell apart for me when I learned that, do you still believe it's true?
Elon had explicitly stated in interviews himself the Hyperloops intentions stated above
And North American ones (Mexico and the Caribbean).
I wouldn't be so dismissive of Algol 68. It wasn't particularly successful in production, but then neither was Algol 60. OTOH conceptually the former feels closer to modern PL design, with a greater emphasis on consistency and orthogonality. And if we're talking about specific features that ended up in other languages, well - the C keywords "void", "struct" and "union" all came from Algol 68.
I always wanted to start and write on my blog - just to share some things that other may find useful.

I started with something simple - entirely preloaded (all howtos) and static:

1. http://www.strony.toya.net.pl/~vermaden/links.htm

I assume no one ever entered it ... besides me of course.

Then some time later - I though that having that 'static' links site is pointless - lets start 'proper' blog this time. I have chosen Gogle Blogspot this time.

2. https://vermaden.blogspot.com/

... and after several posts I generally abandoned it.

Several years later I made a decision to make another blog ... but this time with some strategy behind.

3. https://vermaden.wordpress.com/

This (3rd) attempt was 'successful' and people sometimes actually visit my blog - sometimes even comment. In March of 2023 I will 'celebrate' the 5th year of that blog. I have made about 100 posts there and I made about 100,000+ views per year:

- https://i.imgur.com/raWvrZj.png

What is the secret of [3.] being successful and [1.] and [2.] definitely not? Sharing.

I do not know what blog (subject matter) you are trying to share - but for IT/UNIX/BSD/Linux related blogs (as mine) you need to share each post on these mediums:

- mastodon

- twitter

- lobsters

- hacker news

- FreeBSD forums

- reddit (r/BSD)

- reddit (r/FreeBSD)

- reddit (r/unix)

- reddit (r/linux)

- linkedin

Not sure about Facebook/Meta as their 'ecosystem' definitely does not suit my needs.

You need to ask yourself where and how people would try to find your content. They would definitely not browse a catalog of blogs. Maybe they wil ltry the search engine ... but search engines only pick up sites that are somewhat popular. They omit pages/blogs that are 'unknown'. How blogs are known? By many links pointing to them.

In other words - if you do not share your work/posts on all 'relevant' platforms - then you will 'die' in a 'non-known' hell.

If you believe your work - and it is work, you 'waste' your time to write/share these things you do - is valuable - then share them in all possible mediums/medias. If your content is good - you have to do nothing else. If your content is crap - You will immediately get feedback about it :D

One of the things that I really appreciate was the feedback I got. I often assumed that I know a lot about 'X' topic - just to change my mind after several comments later and providing and UPDATE to my blog post :)

I do not know what should I add here more so I will end my comment - but feel free to ask if You have any questions.

Regards,
vermaden
His bad luck, which could be seen as poor choices, led to him attempting to restart his film career in probably the worst possible place given his ethnicity.

"After he got out of jail, Goldstein tried to re-establish himself as a filmmaker...Eventually he drifted to Germany. ...Goldstein almost certainly died in the Holocaust."
It definitely dissuades me from working for Twitter for sure.
Is anyone keeping a list of twitter and it's TOS changes? I feel like it'd be hilarious to get a git history of all these.
Interesting turn of events. I do not think that Elon suspended PG's account. Maybe it's an act of sabotage, or AI systems running amok? It looks like there could be more to this story. I guess we will find out soon enough, one way to the other.
If my memory serves, Graham would sometimes link to his essay when people criticized Musk. It’s hard for me to check at the moment, as Graham’s Twitter account has been suspended.
If you are thinking of TI calculators, it's very much still the case; at least until the nspire range completely takes over the older models.
Lol by this reasoning any possible moderation decision is consistent with freedom of speech. Dude came in guns blazing on team “any legal speech will be allowed” and is at this point banning all references to perfectly legal competitors.
It has to be a drug.