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> Alternatively, you are confusing familiar with intuitive.

That's why I mentioned that other developers were having the same problem. There were dozens, if not hundreds all struggling to get a decent Ruby IDE going in VS Code. Enough so that documenting and sharing VS Code config became a week long hack days project. My familiarity with Emacs doesn't explain that away.

> If you hit a wall with vs code, which many people consider the most user friendly editor because of lack or familiarity, imagine how it is for emacs newcomers, when the community’s approach to user experience is “you’re a user? Nope, you’re one of the devs now”.

I never claimed that Emacs doesn't have a learning curve too. My claim is that VS Code required at least as much effort to configure to be a proper Ruby IDE as Emacs did. And that's not an argument, it's a factual statement based on my experience and my observation of my peers' experiences. Maybe VS Code is a great out of the box IDE for some blub, but as soon as you need to configure it, it's just as much of a hassle if not more so due to its inferior discoverability.

You do raise a good point though that the Emacs community has a high average level of respect for Emacs users. It's one of the things I find refreshing. Even in places like reddit where the default discourse is around the cesspool level, the Emacs community is great and practically encourages achieving competency and then mastery.
Why? It's a free market, easiest thing to do is vote with your feet.
Also, people can be both smart and stupid at different times and sometimes even at the same time. It's not a binary thing.
See my reply to the other comment.
South of the border, down Mexico way...
I have seen 0 people who support Elon in this.
To fit the style of the OP link I think you should be saying “person who is without housing”
Yeah, let's just agree on the used architecture, the compiler(s) version(s) and call it a day!
See if there are any saltwater pools next to you, they still need chlorine, but it looks like the chlorine effect is gentler.
In Canada, electric block heaters for the engine are fairly common as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_heater . Similar concept to fire under the engine, but a bit more modern
APL is a great language for on the fly number crunching, which is pretty niche like writing with shorthand as a stenographer.
> Elon Musk was barely more than a nobody when he got involved with Tesla and started SpaceX.

He was extremely wealthy and had a lot of connections from buying his way into other companies. He was not yet a household name/ global celebrity, only one in more niche (but very powerful) circles, that changed soon after.
> it’s not uncommon for highly regulated industries or high security systems in general to not only use an internal CA but to break the public chain of trust altogether by removing the public certs from the system.

Yeah, I work with internal PKI systems professionally and that's usually the biggest or one of the biggest motivating factors, especially these days with Trustcor / the Turkish and Kazakh examples of public CA sussiness in the news. From the headline I assumed the article would be about this.

I guess you could theoretically dump the bundle and explicitly only trust the public CA used to issue your internal certs, but I've never seen that configuration in the wild; public CA usually implies bundle.
Twitter has done a lot of things worthy of boycotts. This seems like the least of them, though it does strike me as rather petty and telling (that the moves off Twitter are hurting). The whole thing is fascinating. Is he destroying Twitter or saving it? More time is needed to find out.
I'll admit that I didn't care much when Elon took over. I assumed it wouldn't have much impact on me. Now that he's compiling an ever-growing list of unacceptable speech, I've stopped using Twitter, and may very well not return.
I actually prefer the subscription model for my software, if the monthly price is reasonable.

It gives me faith that they can actually sustain their business and pay their employees to maintain and improve the service over time.

I hate the other model, where with Windows and Office you end up getting useless forced upgrades and terrible makeovers because they need that upgrade revenue every few years. Or the ad driven model. I wish I could pay a personal Google subscription for better results and no search ads, for example.

Subscriptions allow companies to better develop organic roadmaps that's not tied to an upgrade cycle, and deemphasizes the needless shiny that's often there for no reason. They don't need to refresh the UI unless there's just an underlying good reason to (like with IntelliJ), but can still keep adding new features.

As a user it means I don't have these huge spikes in my budget every few years and can just plan for a predictable monthly cost. Or sub for something for a month or two and cancel when I don't need it, which I do often.

Owning software is worthless to me because their effective lifespans are so short anyway, usually just a couple years, before the ecosystem has moved on and left them behind anyway. It's not like code is collectible or appreciates over time. Owning it just means you prepay years in advance and lose access to the present value of that money in the meantime, and can't easily switch to a competitor if and when one appears. The subscription forces companies to keep delivering value unless they want you to cancel.
I guess it is philosophically good that I will forever be an amateur. Since I can never be a master of my craft. And any company / startup didn't change their branch from Master to Main would fail to hire anyone from Stanford.

And I was surprised Stanford still invited Peter Thiel for their Conference last month.
Same with most distros.

It really is a ubuntu problem.
Yep. The randomness. And the helplessness of others (speaking as the relative of the cancer patient). Its just a terrible feeling all around.
Lol Paul Graham is drunk after that WC match. Clearly his business interests were stunted if he’s at all near sober.
What does the ` mean?
I don't think people are calling Elon Musk stupid because they disagree with him.
I'm legally blind myself and TBH I don't see how this politically correct language is useful. My daily experience tells me that having a disability is indeed abnormal and a negative so attempting to sweep that under the rug by cute word games is kind of condescending and offensive itself.
I don't think the investments of what, the 0.1% wealthiest of society is the same as "society collectively" doing anything!
Agonise? Seriously, capitalism is based on your decision power, and you give it away and call it Agonise? I might need to write a new book, about consumer disempowerment phenomena.
Deep Introduction to TypeScript Decorators
The last 20 WC covers pretty much all of living memory, and I doubt many of us on here are qualified to talk about more than 5-10 WCs.

2006 I remember Italy v France was very exciting.

1954 was supposedly pretty exciting with allegations of doping, blatent fouling, and a very dodgy offside call against Puskas.

'58 was also supposedly pretty exciting (certainly a lot of goals)

'66 was a great one for me as a Brit, but also interesting because of the stolen trophy, yet more doping. The match itself was also tense, with a last minute free-kick pushing the match to extra time, the first (and only) hat trick every scored in a WC final, the controversial third goal and the final goal scored while the pitch was being invaded.

'90 was interesting because of the sheer dirtiness of play.

'98 is interesting for me because it's the first World cup I really remember following closely, but not particularly noteworthy as these things go.

That said, 2022 was a very exciting final and will go down in World Cup History.

And definitely nothing should kill a browser without explicit user confirmation.
I'm in the same position as Paul Graham. Happy to support Elon... until he flagrantly broke the law. My twitter tabs are closed, when Twitter reverses I'll open them again. I was having fun.

IANAL but: You can't use market power to extend or preserve market power (monopoly isn't necessary nor the term in law.) The courts could and should enforce interoperability; never mind mentions of other services being censored. Restraint of trade.

There are lots of dumb criticisms of the transition - nothing is more difficult than changing a corporate culture, hence capitalism that allows the death of companies no matter how large. Changing software and systems is also difficult. Elon should be given time and considerable leeway. But the law is a bright red line.

Elon fired his main inhouse lawyer recently, he needs another fast. He'll figure out that this plow won't scour, and reverse himself, and I'll be back. If not, Congress or Biden will rectify the situation, probably with clear and close regulation of the sector.
He was definitely standing and walking a little more in those overtimes.
BTW, he's already backtracking and stating he has not "left twitter":

https://indieweb.social/@paulg@mas.to/109536543079310226

"I haven't "left Twitter." I just don't want to keep using it while it's banning links to other sites. Plus given the way things are going, it seemed like a good time to learn more about Mastodon."

Expect Musk to reverse this policy, and all the people who were fine with all the even more terrible things to just hush down and return.
Lacking Gab stood out to me as well.
The benefit absolutely is the safer computer driver. I'd pay more for that.
Rihanna’s underwear company Savage X Fenty was estimated to be worth $3 billion earlier this year, which is roughly the same as the market cap of Victoria’s Secret.

Probably that estimate would be lower now, given the market downturn. But clearly she’s well on her way to building up a competitor to the established brands.
His pearl clutching at moderation decisions made by the old Twitter contrasts badly with his series of arbitrary, self-interested moderation decisions under his leadership. But hypocrisy is one other luxury of the perversely rich.
This will live on forever.

I'll be doing my part.
The end state of all of this is fewer customers, but each customer is more passionate about what they're buying (and paying far more). Customers who were only marginally interested in the service are de-prioritized, and the business focuses on people who, for whatever reason, literally cannot go without the service and accept 10x prices (captive markets).

Why is it happening? Slowing macroeconomic growth means dividing the existing pie rather than going for maximizing volume in a world where there is more pie. You need to take someone else's lunch.
This Twitter drama is strikingly similar to Freenode. A rich guy bought it, people started moving to Libera.chat in small numbers and advertising their new channel on Freenode in the topic. There wasn't a huge exodus, though.

Then this new owner started taking over channels and kicking everyone out that had mention of a Libera.chat channel in its topic, forcing everyone to move all at once.

I haven't heard of anyone still on Freenode since then.
Ah ok. Well, after he quit MS as day to day leader there was that bit around his divorce, the Epstein link and more sordidness.

Gates didn't really change, he just used his fortune to whitewash his reputation. He's still smart and I would be happy read what he has to say but a nice person he isn't and never was.
MBappe scored the most goals in the WC final history (4), yet it wasn't enough.
Was is Delphi creator who left Borland, created C#, then TypeScript?
I wish it were not so, but Apple has shown you can get away with a whole truck of anticompetitive ‘no you may not hear about my competitor’ behavior without harming a business.
For one thing, why is everything written as "scientist retracts paper" instead of "paper retracted" ?
Its much better than the ad driven model of the Internet where advertisers and investors called the shots instead of the users.

Maybe subscription model would have been de facto model of the Internet from the start if the unlimited amounts of VC money that was made possible through low interest rates and the dominant foreign ex currency position of the dollar did not enter the landscape and turned everything into a growth race without heeding any healthy financials.

So we ended up with gigantic social media companies that do not have actual revenue that could justify their stock price like Twitter, FB etc, companies that basically rode on attempting to corner a market with the assumption that it would end up being profitable at some point like WeWork, Uber etc.

Companies that had healthy financials and unit economics were belittled and ignored, they were not ambitious enough and they were not growing fast enough.

Now that the global economics is changing with competing currencies eating into dollar's foreign currency dominance and cash-awash economy through low interest rates not being possible, the startup game will likely change.

The subscription model is one of the models that could make things work. But everything being a subscription does not feel like its sustainable consumer-side - $3-$5 apiece, dozens of subscriptions for different things, amounting to a hundred dollars or more - that doesnt look like manageable or affordable. So eventually bundled services may rise - subscribe for $x, and get all of these services across the Internet.

Not the open Internet we want yet, but its better than the corporate dominated Internet - at least this format gives an opportunity to small players too.
That's a good point though.
This exact behavior drives planned obsolescence. This has led to so much waste over past century that it's going to be very hard to go back. I was baffled that we invented a bulb that could last 100 years over a century ago and I still have to change bulbs every year or two. There are nice documentaries about this

[0] The end of ownership https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOO-pYUl9-w

[1] This is why we can't have nice things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5v8D-alAKE
I think their emphasis was on fluency
This isn't pg's site, and hasn't been for a long time.
Most athletes who are at the top of their sport when they reach age ~40 tend to be crazy outliers. I’m thinking Michael Schumacher (F1), Tom Brady (NFL), Roger Federer (tennis), etc.
I wonder this about Messi. Does he just have better perception of his own body as well as another sense of where the competition is in the field and how best to adapt his play in light of their changes.

Can he perceive time better which is why he's so good at soccer.
Twitter was/remains? a geopolitical & cultural instrument. The precise reason why there is a fight over who gets to say what on Twitter is because it is a powerful platform for propaganda and agitprop. You can organize uprisings on Twitter. That is why it is such a hot potato. (It is not about utility. think Payless vs Prada.)

Elon apparently bet on the fact that the establishment could not stomach the idea of reconstructing that high visibility platform elsewhere. Everyone knows it is not simply about technology. Twitter remains "the clown car that fell into a gold mine". He will probe on how far he can go but will promptly retreat (ex: EU).

My guess is that his strategy is to prolong this period of uncertainty. Things like PG's decision may signal a consensus that they need to reconstruct humpty dumpty elsewhere.

Watch for trends in use of twitter as a news source in establishment press. If that significantly declines, the political class will follow.

p.s. It is upsetting to think that one of the immediate beneficiaries of Twitter itself being 'deplatformed from polite society' is the relief it offers regimes like Islamic Republic. They are happy, that much is fairly certain.
There's this weird thing where a principal might be deluded about their own intentions. It's useful because it allows them to give inaccurate information about their future behavior without 'lying'. If a sincere/passionate person's actions regularly mismatch their words, suspect this.
But so were hundreds/thousands of other people, most of whom did not go on to found companies rivaling Tesla and SpaceX.
1994 was my first World Cup and this really felt similar from what I remember. Except the stars put in their penalties
My science fiction philosophy is that much of human thought is more like interacting with an objective, shared thought universe with other humans (living and dead) as well as gods and angels and stuff. As opposed to brains firing based on physical perception.

Most of the scare of recent AI is about how it’s a big brain model therefore it will overtake us. This falls apart in my model, which is that we have little brains which see the thought universe, and that’s where most of the interesting stuff goes on.

For AI to be even on par with humans, it’s not enough to simulate a brain. The computers would need a transmitter for talking to angels and dead humans, which they clearly don’t have.

Even if a ChatGPT co-opts human input in real-time as a proxy to the thought universe, it’s not clear to me what the boundaries in this thought universe are for automation. Even in the physical universe we are severely lagging behind natural technology in many ways-can’t make cell sized machines, or new world level environments to live in. Stuff that we have that we can’t make artificial replacements of. The thought universe should have similar practical difficulties.

Anyways, technology such as writing, radio, internet aren’t much different than ChatGPT in this sense. A new lens into the thought universe, but not itself capable of interacting with it apart from humans.
That would be called a gather operation, which is itself slow, exactly as the OP comment said.
Related to this - what's the deal with the HN new pages having a bunch of "[dupe] Twitter bans promotion of other social networks"? Shouldn't posting the same link add to its upvote count?

Paul Graham is specifically leaving because of this, feels like a pretty major topic of interest to HN...
Strong Opinions, Weakly Held comes to mind.
I would expand this list with: perl(mostly-dead influential), and ceylon and coffescript(these last ones mostly-dead and not so influential, let's be honest).

I also would say that ruby is a future mostly-dead language, but I don't want to sound too controversial.
If someone did truly try and attack grimes and little XÆ alphabet soup, that's wrong and they need to be prosecuted. But so far no police report has been filed and journalists pointing that out have been banned. Besides, if he's that concerned about aircraft location tracking, he should pay for a private rolling transponder code for his aircraft through the FAA.
It's always so strange to see one of these articles that endlessly seeks to philosophize modern political/economic circumstances but never directly reference labor theory/the alienation of man from his labor. I wonder if people are simply unaware of the large existing body of work on these issues or are just trying to use "politically neutral" language to describe the explicitly radical study on our existing structures of power and how individuals spend their time
AWS got $10 billion from the NSA last year. Do you really think Bezos' Washington Post is going to be publishing anything that might derail contracts of that value?
I guess I meant “extended periods” to mean “longer than two weeks”, which is about how often I’d fill up the gas tank when growing up there. Average temp in January through March is below 20°F per Wikipedia for most of the state.

Regardless, I agree there’s still good use cases for EVs in cold climates.
And the nice thing about wall power is that it generates itself thanks to the magic elves.
How is judging people’s way of thinking as being a binary between “necessary” and “unnecessary” not just calling people “stupid” or “not stupid” the same thing just using different words?
None of the other programming language compilers in the world would not build anymore if C++ would be dead or dying.
You’ve completely moved the goalposts there
I often prefer command-line, although GUI is also sometimes useful.

Native programs can often have improved capability interacting with other files/programs on the computer better, including user configuration, and can often be made more efficient, and files can be stored locally (working without an internet connection, although sometimes this is possible with HTML too); however, in many modern programs they tend to avoid such things so it is often just as bad (or maybe even worse) than web apps. WWW also has many problems with its design; some things simply do not work with it, and even some things that could theoretically work, don't work well due to web browsers being badly written.

Even for things using internet, there are better alternatives than web apps, e.g. NNTP, Telnet/SSH, IRC, etc. (However, web apps can still be made available too for users who prefer them)

Regardless of that, FOSS is much better. But, even when I do want to run non-native programs, they will often be NES/Famicom, DOS, etc, rather than HTML.
I doubt github has significant interest in the small org accounts. If you look at the prize differential between the „normal paid“ and the „enterprise paid“ tier, you can see where the money is. Burning the goodwill of many technical decision makers would be an issue.
Maybe you could be come one too

https://www.amazon.com/Never-Thought-That-Way-Conversations/...
I find quite amazing that expressing such mild opinion as Paul Graham does can yield reactions so strong and labels so intense as "out of touch reactionary x".

I have at least half of my friends that express weirder, more dangerous opinions that are in total opposite to mine. Is that what internet is all about now? Taking every people we disagree with and dress them as Hitler so we can shit on them? It used to be were I went to actually meet people with different point of views and new things.

On hacker news, I expect people that disagree with Graham to prove him wrong with an argument.

Name calling feels more like being with my mom on facebook.
“I’m going to Mastodon!”
Three weeks later
“Mastodon Is awful!”
A heuristic for somewhat ethical subscriptions it's probably to decouple subscriptions from the calendar.

Instead of $X/month, which must be paid even if using intensively, barely, or not at all the service, to have $X for Y amount of "no expiration date" minutes of service. Just want to try the service, pay $0.X for 10 minutes. Really like the service, pay $X++ for 1,000 minutes and not worry about it. Of course, the minute counter would stop when going away from keyboard. Maybe even more ethical, instead of paying for minutes to pay for actions per minute, $X for 10K APMs, use them how you deem fit.
This is when the world learns Musk has been a non-sentient AI chatbot all along lol
Are those supercomputers still a good idea compared to building dedicated hardware for each single algorithm that those computers will run ? When i look at bitcoin hashing, the trend seems to be to not use gpu anymore, but rather asics

Are they going to run such a wide variety of algorithm that they need general purpose gpu ?
> I saw too many software companies go out of business because not enough people wound up upgrading to the next major version

Do you have examples?

Most new businesses fail regardless of their business model, so you'd have to argue that this phenomenon was somehow worse for non-subs.

> Not to mention that a yearly subscription is cheaper than buying outright

Not in the long term.
I’d struggle to accept there is a reasonable definition of harm that includes using the word “brave” as harmful.
At least now we know what the 'Coup de grace' was referring to.

I'm not sure if Elon realizes yet that it is mostly his own neck that is in the balance here.
You may want to try those automated tools which search your Twitter following for profiles with Mastodon-Links. Movetodon is rather easy:

https://www.movetodon.org