skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a lot of right-wing people I have spoken to, the Hunter Biden story getting falsely removed for "Russian disinformation" was the last straw. Think of it as a dumb scandal if you want, but the issue was a legitimate news story published by high-profile mainstream news outlets getting removed using counter-disinformation tools. That really damaged Twitter's credibility.

Now they would rather hang out on a site where they don't have to worry about overbearing moderation, at the cost of a handful of nutters talking about Satanic rituals or whatever. I think Musk had a plausible route to getting those users back if he could promise slightly more limited and fair enforcement of the rules.
Yes, in very cold conditions, regen braking can be reduced/restricted until the battery warms up sufficiently. The car will warn you about this, so hopefully no surprises!
I think it's important that this community in particular bear witness to Musk's actions, as Musk's potential employees are largely drawn from this community.
How can one know that the voting is fair and not just a sort of PR of Elon's bots voting as he pleases?
League is up there with Fortnite and Minecraft in terms of of video game name recognition. Considering how hard Riot has been trying to branch out from the notoriously toxic MOBA reputation (Arcane, Legends of Runeterra, Project L, etc) it makes sense they would care about a high profile case like this.

> "e-sports for people who suck at video games"?
Come on now, I'm a committed DOTA player and even I wouldn't say that. Playing League well takes skill.
He’s just going to put someone like Blake Masters or David Sacks in charge. Which, honestly, would be worse than old Twitter but better than erratic Elon Twitter.
> I wonder what Earth will be like 88 million years from now

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1596439328338890752
I'm a little stunned that there's a non-zero number of people in this thread who actually consider the possibility that this poll isn't rigged (or riggable).
These types of linguistic obfuscations remind me of the increasingly complex bodies of law in America. (like tax code for example). It seems like they're designed specifically so that one can always go after one's enemies by interpreting whatever they say in the worst possible faith.
> You shouldn't be disabling unattended-upgrades unless you're very diligent with security updates yourself.

That statement might be true regarding some users.

But for many Linux users and installations, it's false.
> He started out after college with negative net worth

He did not. Maybe "on paper" in a very specific way you could say that, but that ignores everything else like how he had very, very rich parents and connections. His very first company, Zip2, had his father as the first investor like come on.

He would have had to try NOT to fall into money.

> from that became the world's richest man through transforming electric cars and rocketry

Tesla existed before Musk. He provided investor money then a couple of years later lead the charge to unseat the founder as CEO which eventually led him to becoming CEO. Up until about 2016, Tesla would have gone bankrupt without government assistance, and they have an entire management team that deals with the day-to-day as well as managing Musk.

For SpaceX Musk did found the company but it was essentially engineered by the CTO down. Musk isn't out here making rockets himself.

Now that him and his yes men are running twitter, you're seeing his true management style in action. This kind of stuff has been said / reported about him for decades. I knew multiple people who worked at Tesla and all of them quit without a year and just talked about how terrible it was (especially the multiple times when they found out they were delivering things they had never discussed and hearing it first from Musk when he said it in public / social media).

He's not going to see your posts, bro.
I would expand on your statement by saying that Helion is planning to generate electricity by directly extracting the kinetic energy of the particles created in the fusion reaction. And they need charged particles rather than neutrons.

(I watched the video and really it's as simple as charged particles moving in and creating a magnetic field inside loops of metal which in turn generates a current that can be used. (Just add several dozen years worth of post-doc maths to sort out the details)
Here's an article about the F-150 Lightning being driven in Quebec. You can use Google Translate to obtain a serviceable English version.

https://mobile.guideautoweb.com/articles/68882/ford-f-150-li...
The second poll about unbanning the journalists went for 24 hours (the first was only an hour or so), so even though "now" was the winning option, he still got the outcome he was looking for by giving them a 24+ hour suspension.
Dark, considering Lowtax’s end.
Toyota chief says ‘silent majority’ has doubts about pursuing only EVs
I’ve never seen a billionaire so desperate for attention
five week, five days a week radiation? was this "proton" radiation treatment?
Amazing this guy was ready to get on his knees for Putin up until January.

Lots of stuff are known about Putin since 2000 till January 2022, some perhaps even worse than Ukraine invasion

For sure he has a soft spot for Autocrats both in Moscow and in San Francisco
I thought Jason Calacanis was going to run it. He'd be much better.... also the type to not put up with crap - and not the type either to "run by committee".
I wonder if paleontologists specializing on extinct proboscidea are in trouble.
> In that no, these are not the first water worlds we've discovered. And the author knows that since they directly compare to Europa in the subtitle and second paragraph.

As explained in subsequent sentences/paragraphs, these are different from Europa in that they very likely have liquid water surfaces rather than being encased in ice. That's what makes them water worlds instead of ice worlds.
Why Robert Caro Now Has Only Ten Typewriters
Remove the trackers (everything behind ? in the link) and you will see the thread. I was logged in but couldn't see the thread until I removed the tracker.
Could you explain how clothing needing to be cleaned is relevant to subscriptions? After all, you don't have to buy the cleaning products from the clothing manufacturer. Same for car tires, etc. So the clothing companies and car companies aren't making any extra money from this.
An Explanation of the Rendering Equation
After stepping down as CEO, he should sell the company (even if it means accepting a heavy loss), then delete his Twitter account, then hire an image consultant to try and repair the damage done to his personal brand.

To see how far he has fallen, watch this emotion-filled video [1] as a reminder of what a nice guy he used to be. After he became the richest man in the world it is as if he flipped the "evil bit" of his personality. Time to flip that bit again.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOMcCNNdSl0
Mastodon is large and fat??!

Finally an honestly named piece of software.

If I'm already running a moderately sized $30-or-so-per-month server with its own local database process, that's not very busy. Should it fit on that kind of system just fine, or does it need a lot of CPU, memory, disk space, and/or network bandwidth? Or do you think I'd have to upgrade to a 50-or-so-per-month server?

Again, not planning on having many people use it, but I'm just wondering how much baseline and peak overhead there is to just being on the network, along various dimensions.
> because I saw too many software companies go out of business because not enough people wound up upgrading to the next major version

Really? How many companies did you see do this? Because I see lots of companies still around who have been selling software for decades. Because the marginal cost of software is near zero it’s possible to make money off upgrades and new products because it’s not a linear function of labor to customers.

I think it’s more profitable to charge as a service. Adobe and Microsoft weren’t at any risk of bankruptcy when they switched to subscription.
I’m going to piggyback some thoughtfulness on your absurdity. I hope you don’t mind.

The only place in the universe where you can get bitcoin is on Earth…I wonder if there are any other assets that can make that claim? Perhaps most other cryptos — but bitcoin was the first, so it has scarcity and historical significance, making it, at a minimum, a valuable collectible. Life, maybe. But not gold, platinum, or any other scarce atoms.

And in the entire universe, 21 million is the cap for bitcoin. Whether it works as anything else, there is no denying it is an extremely scarce asset in a possibly infinite universe. And it is a scarce asset whose ownership can change at the speed of light, without any but the two involved parties deciding whether or not it happens, from anywhere within 15 light-minutes.

Think about it.
The majority of Twitter employees have already been punished, i.e., fired.
I am sure I saw its corpse on the road.

I kicked and kicked and it would not get up again.
Yeah, no.

Pretty much every platform (including Twitter) considers that to be doxxing.

You don't get to make up your own definitions for words.
As a hack, I wonder if tacking 10 minutes of ambient video onto the end (after a "And now, 10 minutes of ambient video" warning) would help.
Oh you’re right. It just makes analysis like, dumb.

Making piles of money, inspiring a lot of people, while holding a questionable vision just isn’t something reactionary people do, usually. It’s something con-men do, but they usually try to save their image. Not go all Kurt Cobain on their kingdom…

Indeed. This one is funky. I’m open to outliers. Good call.
I bet a cron job shadowbanning people could run through 1 million user ids pretty quick.
Oh this is nice. I made a similar tool to search twitter archives a few weeks back https://observablehq.com/d/2f43e70f2168ddab . You can see mine to get a feeling for how it looks https://observablehq.com/@mauforonda/my-tweets .
> There does not seem to be an exact definition that I could find.

From the regulation, Article 3:

1. An undertaking shall be designated as a gatekeeper if:

(a) it has a significant impact on the internal market;

(b) it provides a core platform service which is an important gateway for business users to reach end users; and

(c) it enjoys an entrenched and durable position, in its operations, or it is foreseeable that it will enjoy such a position in the near future.

2. An undertaking shall be presumed to satisfy the respective requirements in paragraph 1:

(a) as regards paragraph 1, point (a), where it achieves an annual Union turnover equal to or above EUR 7,5 billion in each of the last three financial years, or where its average market capitalisation or its equivalent fair market value amounted to at least EUR 75 billion in the last financial year, and it provides the same core platform service in at least three Member States;

(b) as regards paragraph 1, point (b), where it provides a core platform service that in the last financial year has at least 45 million monthly active end users established or located in the Union and at least 10 000 yearly active business users established in the Union, identified and calculated in accordance with the methodology and indicators set out in the Annex;

(c) as regards paragraph 1, point (c), where the thresholds in point (b) of this paragraph were met in each of the last three financial years.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

("core platform service" is explicitly defined to include social networking services)
He doesn't want to lead Twitter... social media is a junk hole mostly filled with lowest common denominator users. He's definitely tired of the stupid issues on both sides that are filled with entitled users and whiners. It's a lose lose, let someone else fill their day with that.
This was only 'enforced' by the linker on x86. You could handcraft a Mach-O executable to get around it. But it is now enforced enforced by OSX on ARM.

I don't see any good reason for this. My own half assed explanation is they're enforcing 32b cleanliness. It's not a very good explanation. But it's my explanation for something I don't like.
> The issue isn't whether the rules are good or bad, the issue is that El No decreed that he was a freeze peach absolutist.

This is the issue you're trying to forcibly inject.
Perhaps, but whether that is actually true is the tricky part....though truth seems to be not very interesting/fun to some cultures, so they instead imagine "truth" into existence and discuss that instead.

If no one breaks character (so far so good in this thread), it works out really good, ignoring the consequences of course.
He seems to be pretty happy with putting up with Musk's crap, as any sycophant would.
How to make phishing and smishing impossible
on seeing who has been announcing their departure it's a net positive for my experience on Twitter. there are some noted exceptions but overall I don't get the sense those folks will be missed. anyone longing for their content will follow them elsewhere.
You can't vandalize HN like this here. Since you've posted quite a few flamewar comments in other threads too, I've banned the account. Please don't create accounts to do that with.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
> The same is true for your EV.

I don't think that's exactly true. -30F and below is cold enough to permanently damage the battery in an EV. Letting the electrolyte freeze just once will ruin your battery. It doesn't matter how many -40 days you get, you really do have to be prepared for them.

Your ICE car may not start if it's that cold, but it will work like new once it's warmed back up.

The solution is simple - just keep your EV plugged in, and it will heat itself as necessary. If you don't have a place to charge 24/7, probably don't get an EV in these climates.
Maybe he's got a stimulant (or other psychoactive) prescription that renews around this time of the month and we're witnessing a periodic, chemically induced mania?
Does he even have a high level vision beyond generating a reaction?

(The "free speech platform" sounded like a vision, but we wouldn't have new banning offences every five minutes if that had been a serious consideration rather than something he said for the likes)
Possibly, an algorithm banned him just for writing the word "mastodon", then someone noticed and reversed the ban just because he's famous, to avoid public backlash.
I can't comment on Ubuntu, maybe they do automatic upgrades in the background and you don't know about them.

For me on arch Firefox has shown the "Need to restart" page every time I have updated it's package while running and not a single other time.
What? Really?

The House of Representatives controls the money for the FBI. The Senate, as you might know does not.

The FBI should be anticipating a haircut.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3770060-with-new-twitt...

Jack Dorsey can certainly be prosecuted for perjury.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/twitter-files-flashback-jack-d...
> The "this is a forum mod meltdown, at scale" joke keeps popping up because it's not a joke — it's recognizing a persistent pattern in bad governance of a mediated social space.

https://twitter.com/eaton/status/1604632585849765889
One of the reasons Schumacher was able to dominate was that he was one of the first F1 drivers to train for it as a physical sport.
this is a very serious concern, but i'd be more worried about starlink filtering access to news media carrying anti-musk or anti-spacex stories
https://i.redd.it/99mtbmwnnq6a1.jpg
The main difference between Musk and Lowtax is that Lowtax actually built something rather than buying it.
Crimethinc describing themselves as the ‘canary in the coal mine’ is hilarious. Social media started dying off when people weren’t allowed to voice their valid opinions. Those people were conservative, or more accurately not far-left enough. The real canary was likely the deplatforming of a sitting President for nonsensical reasons.

Crimethinc was instrumental in building the shitshow that we see today. Save your tears.
Ransomware, like the old data trashing viruses of the past, is trivially defeated by having backups.
So, the guy who has blocked half of the Internet for having any kind of counter-argument whatsoever will become its new CEO?

Context:https://twitter.com/search?q=%22blocked%20by%20lex%22&src=ty...
He really needs to get out of there and back to work at Tesla. Nobody's driving over there, the stock is tanking, and all the other auto manufacturers now have electric car lines.

Usually, CEO contracts have a clause that the person will devote substantially all of their work time to the business. Not spending time on side projects.
You are making a subjective judgement on what a modern note taking app or password manager should be like. They could be developed as local desktop apps, just like the office and image editing programs are.

Personally, my notes are not going on anyone else's servers.

Part of the problem with being tired of subscriptions is being tired of applications that would be perfect to run locally being instead developed as a web app, for the benefit of requiring a server and justifying the subscription.

I hate using a phone and its small screen. I don't need my data to sync with other devices. So there's nobody "modern" making software I'd like to use.
He definitely seems to like the flavor of Elon's shoe polish ... That should be qualification enough
Argentina fan here. I was too young to really remember their victory in 1986. Saw them lose in the 1990 and 2014 finals. Can't tell you what it means to win today.

I went through hell but I feel like I watched a truly extraordinary match. Maybe the best ever? The drama, the changes in fortune, Messi finally doing it, emulating Maradona in 1986, Mbappe getting a hat trick and not being on the winning side. The game was also a handing of the flame of world's greatest to Mbappe and, of course, the completion of Messi's trophy cabinet.

It was clash of the titans, Mbappe vs Messi. Fifa and the Qataris could not have scripted a better final. Unreal. I'm still in shock hours later.
Sort of like “post this cat the 19th of every month”: https://ifunny.co/video/post-this-cat-the-19th-of-every-mont... .
> I am fine with this actually

Yeah when people show you who they are, believe them.
bon voyage, thanks for the succinct demonstration of the right wing interpretation of “free speech”
He’s probably right, right? When was Twitter profitable, and was it profitable enough to pay for his leveraged buyout?
Something like what AWS does seems reasonable, charge per consumption/usage not fixed priced per user/feature. For example, if you average user spends 10 hours a week using your software, bake that time into the price point, unless usage is correlated with load/compute on your backend, in which case use measurement metric to price things.
I have a feeling that Twitter could be politically important enough to have one or more governments reign them in unless Musk manages to calm things down or drive it into the ground.

The smartest thing he could do is find some pretext to remove his public persona from the daily operations. He's clearly in over his head (micro managing policy etc) and business sense alone should tell him that.
Hi. I'm nonbinary. I do, in fact, honestly and genuinely think that Newspeaking the rest of you into believing that I'm not someone with some kind of horrible mental illness or whatever it is you want to believe these days is a Good Thing. And it's fewer words. So please stop saying "preferred pronouns." I've also heard people say "PGPs," meaning "preferred gender pronouns," which is silly and makes me think you're talking about encryption. Please also stop saying "identifies as." I don't identify as a damn thing, I am who I am.

You have no chance to survive, make your time, ha ha ha ha...
Your comment seems especially prescient if read in the context of the insane asylum going on in the "Twitter suspends pg's account" thread - what a time to be alive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34044047
He can take as long as he wants to find a replacement. There aren’t many that can do to Twitter’s revenue what he did to Twitter’s revenue.
Yeah I honestly think it is - some extra time to try to get an edge then a series of set pieces where ultimately if they’re evenly matched everyone, even the goalkeepers, could end up taking a pen.

There’s no easy way to handle a situation like this, but utilising an already integral component of the game like penalties is probably the fairest solution, and it helps that it’s the one with the most excitement and drama for those watching. It could be much worse, before penalties a literal coin toss was used. If recall correctly teams made it thru to the European Cup (what the Champions League used to be called) final based on a coin toss
Individuals in societies have this thing called reputation. Him claiming to supportive of free speech while doing this to a social platform he now owns is pure hypocrisy and damages his reputation, whatever's left of it.
It’s going to be Jason Calacanis, isn’t it?
I don't think that abnormal is always treated as a negative - it just means out of the norm meaning the majority of the people are not included.

You can describe somebody is abnormally intelligent for example and it's a positive in this light.

But I really doubt you're gonna find a group of people that want to celebrate the idea that they are unable to see, in that context vision impairment is a negative abnormal trait.
And, on a historical level: the thing that Lowtax created laid the cultural groundwork for Twitter's success. Weird Twitter didn't appear spontaneously; many of them came from SA and similar communities.
One of Musks children has already abandon him/estranged themselves.

IIRC child custody issues is what did Lowtax in.
The problem is that people who want to do social media will become what they hate, because of the very real constraints which people learn about quickly once they're actually steering the ship. Very few social media places don't suck, and it takes a pretty heavy hand to keep things from going completely to hell. The two places I know which aren't hives of scum and villainy are HN and Metafilter; both are heavily moderated, text only, and basically ad free.
To be clear, I don't object to there being the regulation at all, I was just commenting on the word choice, which to me, and apparently vehemently not others, seemed unusual.
That's interesting. To confirm, it doesn't appear in the 'Matched scripts' list when that occurs?
namely, you have to invest your life savings.

Sure. He can have my 38 bucks. I can't do any worse than he's doing.
Back around 2001, I bought a secondhand Alpha ATX mobo and for a lark installed NT 4 on it. I didn’t do much with it though.
I am enjoying the drama tbh. Internet hasn't felt this interesting in a while.
The extremely unpopular link-banning policy makes sense in this context.

He wanted something to anger people right before the poll so it’s guaranteed he gets voted out.
I think you mean competitors..
Was really helpful for me to read this comment. I'm entering my 40s, have young children, and am still relatively healthy but I start to notice old age stubbornly pushing for a foothold. The aches and pains take longer to go away and some of them never quite do. I'm terrified of an irreversible "drop off a cliff" as you mentioned.

The most important thing for me now is to preserve my health for the next 30 years so I can see my kids grow up and hopefully have their own children. Seems exercise, diet, and sleep are things I need to prioritize.
It’s a good disassembler that is fairly expensive. https://hex-rays.com/ida-pro/
Nice to see an HOA rule created to try to keep working people out of neighborhoods used against a $150k Rivian,