skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be willing to bet that Elon follows pg... and he probably took personal offense to him leaving.
Also, that foul on Di Maria in the penalty box wasn't.
I think flags adjust the ranking. The moderators can adjust the weighting on a story.

If a story has a lot of people starting flame wars, it often gets knocked off the front page. Duplicate or similar posts with a lot of traffic, will get merged or one will be picked and the others pushed off the front page.
Are you supposed to follow Elon or Twitter Support accounts to find out about changes in the Terms of Service? This is crazy, I never got an email that something in ToS is changing.
You are incorrectly quoting the TOS. The TOS very clearly says "Emperor will decide who will be banned and for what reason.". Go read it again.
The outraged responses to all of these suspensions is pure gold. Contrast this with medical doctors who were banned for sharing their own expertise because it contradicted the prescribed narrative around the pandemic, and realize how absurd that sounds, just as this very suspension does.

I think Elon is making a point here, and if it gets lost on people, it really speaks to how little attention was being paid to pre-Musk suspensions for absolutely ludracris reasons.

Now average people know how conservatives have felt for the past several years as they've been targeted by TLAs and taken down for completely baffling reasons.
Sunsetting-based promotion cycle. Manager dies with the product only to be reborn at the higher step of the ladder
The closest comparison would be Reddit powermods who ban users from hundreds of the most active subreddits because the user: a) posted in a subreddit they don't like (this is often automated); or b) did or said something the moderator didn't like.
yeah sort of curious what they do with them. it’s the most direct violation of this rule, but maybe they pull too much engagement to get rid of entirely.
I was thinking about this the other day.

You can approach a group of women and say " hey guys", that is fine.

To a group of men," hey gals", and that is not fine.

"Hey guys" to a mixed group, why... You've now 'elevated' the women to men so everyone is ok with it.

It all implies that being a woman is somehow lesser. And so that is why I'm going to stick to everyone or folks.

Although I don't begrudge or ask anyone to change.
Ethical Twitter Alternatives
It is possible that this becomes the inciting incident that leads to a viable twitter alternative.

Making many programmers and tech people annoyed at the same time isn't a wise move by Twitter.
This game was exceptional. Most games don't have any penalties.

"In Europe’s top five leagues, 10.41% of the goals were scored from penalties"

https://www.driblab.com/driblab-en/how-significant-are-penal...
Mind sharing your evidence that that was Hyperloop's intended effect?
It is a leveraged buyout. Toys'r'us was killed by one because all the debt of buying the company was dumped on the company.
Imagine being so rich you could just flush $40B down the toilet.
If PG isn't a case of malicious enforcement by moderation and doesn't reverse this policy, he's truly lost the plot.

Now let's see if he bans and fires George Hotz, who is working at Twitter.

"Agreed that’s this is an absolutely ridiculous policy. My bio link has been a link to my Instagram since I created this Twitter. Feel free to ban me." https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/160459789929523609...

"Btw follow me on Instagram in case I get banned here, you know how to find me

If saying that is banned, this isn’t somewhere I want to be anymore. That’s so far from free speech." https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/160459985556060569...
That's not leaving.
Use another registrar. Do it quick, as it may get parked.
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another datapoint regarding pelé:

>After changing the rules in 1995, France Football did an extensive analysis in 2015 of the players who would have won the award if it was open for them since 1956—the year the Ballon d'Or award started. Their study revealed that Pelé would have received the award a record seven times (Ballon d'or: Le nouveau palmarès). The original recipients, however, remain unchanged.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pel%C3%A9#Accolades
The bustiest times twitter has ever been have all been after he bought it, if you believe him.

And he's so controversial - even here - that all he has to do is keep fiddling with it and people flock to the circus with popcorn.

What evidence does anyone have that it's being destroyed? What are the metrics for any social media site being destroyed?

Thinking about myspace and digg - it seemed to be loss of user base. Does anyone have metrics independent of Musk/twitter insiders that it's losing users? Seems like https://alexa.com/ is dead...
> is ban evasion

FWIW, that's not the definition of ban evasion.

Specifically, ban evasion is attempting to evade an active ban already in effect, e.g., registering an alt.

A fit of pique doesn't redefine a term.
I'd only accuse someone of hypocrisy if they did one thing while saying another simultaneously.

If someone changes their mind that's not hypocrisy. I want to stick to that definition because to do otherwise seems to be to be disapproving of people's ability to change their mind. People changing their mind is necessary for the political process to work (and for society and friendship in general!)

Elon Musk might indeed be a hypocrite, but I don't think he's necessarily being hypocritical in this case. If he _continues_ to harp on about freedom of speech on Twitter while keeping this policy in place that will be hypocritical though.

[Edit: I'm not trying to defend Musk in general. I think the facts of the current situation, and things he's done in the past, are pretty terrible!]
It's not a violation.

If I had to bet at this point, I'd say it's a mistake caused by a poorly articulated spur-of-the-moment policy.

I don't believe this was the intent of the policy, but that doesn't mean it's not the way it's being implemented in the absence of clear guidelines.

Musk's lack of clear articulation is the biggest problem Twitter faces.
The good thing is that many of these things are now happening at mastodon, among other places.
Hands are exempt, feet (and any body part you can score with) are not exempt from offsides.
I’m sure Elon said on day 1 at Twitter that he wanted a Twitter client app for his phone where he can just click on someone’s face and he’ll never hear from them again.
You can think and believe both with no hypocrisy. It takes some insanity to successfully build a bunch of rockets to Mars or whatever. This is like a more intelligent version of Kany West's breakdown from idiot to straight up mental patient.
Drugs are possible, but this looks more like stress to me. If you run on cortisol and adrenaline for too long, your nervous system gets shot. That explains the way his behavior has changed pretty well to me
Do y'all not realize or not care how utterly petty, pathetic, and out-of-touch you come across? Like, you won, your guy is in charge acting like a petty baby tyrant and you still manage to frame as "conservatives are so persecuted". Sorry you can't post Hunter's nudes on Twitter, that must be tough.

I love threads like this, with people furiously voting to try and offset the sinking realization as the cognitive dissonance gets too overwhelming to ignore.
he also started a poll asking if people are in favor or against „realtime doxxing of a person“ which soberly isn‘t what the ElonJet incident was about. I don‘t even know what my opinion is. I just think it‘s really lame, like a parent that executes on a principle they don‘t wanna back off from.
> I don't buy into all the freedom of speech rhetoric he has been spewing.

I think what you meant was you didn't buy into it, and this is proving your point of view.

He's gone from freedom of speech absolutionist to defining the limits of freedom of speech by whether you discuss social interactions on other websites.

It isn't as simple as a one-dimensional scale between freedom of speech absolutism and not, and the fact that so many people seem to believe this makes me think that people don't have a basic grasp of ethics, nor an ethical framework to make decisions on.
Emperor doesn't like disloyal twirps.
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platfo...

> Examples:

> "follow me @username on Instagram"
Wait doesn't this just make the point that SaaS is the proper model for Windows? Do you expect that Microsoft should "support" everything, for free, forever? If you want bugs to be fixed, or for things to improve generally, then you should pay something I think.
> After the takeover they dropped the login wall, but it is back, and way more aggressive than before.

At least in one small aspect it's better now: the X in the corner is back, so you can dismiss it. Shortly before the takeover, the X in the login wall was hidden unless you somehow found out the trick (you had to click as if you were going to login with an username and password, and that second form had the X in the corner to dismiss it).
This whole situation feels like Musk saw the Freenode meltdown last year and thought "I could do that... but bigger".

There was speculation at the time that the new owner was deliberately destroying the network just for funsies, because no one could possibly be so consistent at making the wrong decision at every turn. That's what Twitter feels like right now.
I think it is high time that HN steps in and just becomes the new twitter.

dang I propose that the admins here enable multimedia posts and explicitly allow porn. You’ll have a sensation overnight!

hahaha
Of course it is, because these types of policies don't really work. It doesn't change the fact that this policy was created for this exact scenario.
Mastodon servers are self-hosted by various groups or individuals so they aren't designed to be as scalable as Twitter. Today's events caused a large influx to pretty much every prominent server. A few ones I follow have announced they are either going down for maintenance or upgrading their servers already.
>If you're on the left

Why do this? It honestly seems like most cases of anti-right bias in moderation are really just due to a rightward bias in the personality types that have a higher tendency to break common social media rules, and the remaining cases of potentially true bias are numerically small. And yet even giving your implied complaint the most possible benefit of the doubt, it still makes no sense to use sarcasm to look down on people for simply having different politics from those experiencing the bias.
You seem to be assuming that it has to be policy, and that it has to have been justified by policy - instead of just a capricious exercise of power by someone with a very thin skin currently losing a ton of money on the social media site the court made him buy because he was trolling.
Why would you think Elon is good at engineering? Not trying to be snarky. It's just I clearly missed something.
I'm on the same instance and holy crap they've gone down with every single major e-long caused migration wave. Poor admin crews of all the instances - can't even enjoy a Sunday off because Musk decides to do something stupid yet again.

I had hoped to have gotten rid of that anxiety the day Trump left office, and now it's back with a vengeance.
Indeed. It's already beneficial to think about your own death for just 10 to 20 minutes a couple of times. Or imagine that you have only one year to live.
Because he’s just spouting bullshit.
Biden team planning a dramatically expanded digital strategy for 2024
If you want to read the original manuals, someone undertook the work to clean up the OCRed text and typeset them to produce clean PDFs: https://maciaszek.net/26768/cp-m-users-manual-recreation/
There is; grim satisfaction. I'm enjoying it quite a bit over the last couple of weeks.
> Twitter must be bleeding DAUs

Secondary indicators seems to indicate DAU is surging. I don't know why you'd think it would drop from controversy this kind of shit is what people live on twitter for. Real question is is it sustainable and can they actually monetize it.

> The ads are also really weird and odd.

Twitter has always been an embarrassment in terms of targeted ads.
I choked up a little bit reading the headline. I have good memories watching him on Tech TV when I was a teenager. Kevin Rose, too.

He definitely helped kindle my early interest in tech.
I finally got it to do something useful for me the other day. I got it to invert the rendering of rows and columns in a React widget I was writing.

It wasn’t something I actually needed help on, though. When I tried to go further with it and complete more of the task, it got stuck in a loop of just suggesting more and more comments but never offering more code, and then it mysteriously stopped responding at all.

This is the best experience with it I’ve had so far.
I have two questions:

1) What happened to "it's a private platform, they can do what they want?"

2) Does anyone think Musk bought Twitter to deliberately destroy it?
Sure they could. They could have lined up a job or impulsively lashed out, or think enforcing the policy gives them cover. It’s the sort of thing I might do.

This is just a probability you may have a different weight on.
Hyperloop wasn't an idea for "how to do it better" because Hyperloop cannot do "it" at all. The nameplate capacity of Hyperloop, granting all of Musk's fantasy parameters, is in the low thousands of passengers per day. High speed rail can land a thousand people every minute.
>In that case, it would seem that "blind review" would be a contradiction, isn't it?

Yes I suppose it is. But that's just more evidence that we shouldn't take parts of a phrase and start interpreting them out of context.
Is Mastodon always this slow?

Maybe something could be done to make it run faster now that they have a chance?
Paul Graham Twitter account suspended
> Mastadon

> Mastadon

Is this word especially hard to write properly somehow? At least, please let your spell-checker do its job.
This whole server concept is what makes it viable as a network and what will make it outlive other popular services like Twitter.
Woah woah woah, career death, please be considerate. /s
I believe I’ve also written (typed) & stated on HN that Paul Graham is a ghoulish charlatan (exact words).

Funnily enough, my account has yet to be fully banned on here (I think there was a point in which Dang gave me a last warning)

Yet Paul has now been knocked by… somebody at least wealthier than him, least I say more ghoulish…

It’s been an interesting month on the internet to say the least

Edit 3:35 pm best coast time

I have misled you my friends. I actually called Garry Tan a “ghoul and a charlatan” as he came back to YC as an advisor or something. I have felt the same about PG for a while though :D

Paul, you can always change for the better.

How you’re currently looking at Elon is how some portion of those, whom once-upon-a-time looked up to you, have viewed you for some time.
mbappe is amazing, don't get me wrong. but we are talking about the "greatest of all time" -- mbappe needs to get at least 3 "best player of the year" to get close to the kinds of messi and cristiano ronaldo

and that's while not even talking about older players like maradona, pelé and garrincha.
The subscription model for the diving app is literally what made me decide against an apple watch ultra. I was disgusted and angry at the idea - over a thousand bucks and it doesn't work until I also pay a monthly fee on top of it? Fuck it.

It feels like pure rent seeking (It certainly isn't using any remote resource while 60ft underwater).
> Hey, if it leads to your father consuming less unhealthy food (which milkshake and hamburger both arguably are) it works

Unfortunately not, he just eats them at separate times!
Yes, the protocol is terrible, which plays a major role in the UX. And yes, the semantics game is very fun to play with Mastodon, but people say they're quitting Twitter for Mastodon all the time and we all know what it means.
Whether you think the idea is good is irrelevant to my point.
I won't buy software that isn't licensed like zw3d or bitwig.

You own the software. The purchase lets you get updates for some amount of time, but you can use what you bought and the updates you're entitled to forever.
If you don't like TOS, don't worry. Emperor will change it in next hour or so through his next tweet.
Decentrialized network doesn't mean every node is equal in size. Natural user behaviour will still aggregate onto a few larger servers. That's completely normal.

Mastodon wasn't meant to be a 100% replica of Twitter nor has it ever attempted to be. The only reason it's getting such a rapid influx of users is because of Elon's sabotage.
(author) Why? He's not on AM radio anymore, so the radio show is indeed done.
Someone's going to go ballistic when they run into lecture notes on red-black trees. Skip lists are also ableist.

Hopefully we don't find anything troubling in the pasts of Adelson-Velsky and Landis, or AVL trees will also be on the chopping block.

At least they'll probably be able to lecture about treaps.
> letting people suffer and die in poverty in the center of one of the largest engines of wealth generation in history is wicked. Blaming them for it is monstrous.

Thank you for reminding of the larger context in which the dehumanization of our fellow brothers and sisters occurs. The state is failing to care for its weakest due to 50 years of unfettered accumulative greed and individuals hearts’ have hardened as a psychological coping mechanism against an inability to help.

This in the season of charity and good will, no less.
Messi himself would tell that you're wrong, stats or no stats. Just look at this photo link [1], you've got one of the best forwards in the history of Argentinian football, Kun Aguero, carrying Messi on his shoulders just to reproduce, as an homage, that iconic Diego photo from 1986. Diego is a religion in Argentina (and not only).

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkSY4BDWQAEug3L?format=jpg&name=...
Agreed with this. If the main bottleneck is typing, then Copilot can dramatically speed up the process. If the bottleneck is thinking, it doesn't help out nearly as much unfortunately.
Perhaps in VR/AR this will be possible. Would be fascinating, but also potentially a great training tool.
It's only censorship if Twitter was being coerced into taking action on the accounts. Conveniently, Taibbi included evidence showing that Twitter made its own independent moderation decisions -- some accounts reported had already been suspended, and others were not acted on after a review.
It’s funny how in one month I went from considering a Tesla for my next car to never wanting another cent going into anything with Musk at its helm.
He’s running all of his other companies like Twitter. Total disregard for any risk management, firing people who aren’t yes man and lying about his products and intentions.

With Twitter you get to see how sausage is made. It doesn’t scare you, that same chaos is used to build machines that can kill people?
Charge for updates after your license to them expires. This is how zw3d and bitwig work.
> He's gone insane.

He has literally always been this way. He's a moron. There is no meritocracy. He got there through dumb luck and narcissism which the media/you people interpreted as confidence. If you actually listened to him talk at any point you could hear that he really doesn't know shit about anything.
my main frustration right now is the inability to follow somebody on a different instance from a web link, coupled with all instances using the same theme. when somebody links to https://mas.to/@paulg, i end up on a site that looks exactly the same as mastodon.social, except i can't sign in to it, and i can't actually click the follow button there. if i want to follow @paulg, i have to go to my instance and search for @paulg@mas.to
You are correct in that this is not a free speech issue. Private organizations can control what is said on their platform.

You are 100% incorrect in that free speech is not, has never been, and will never be limited to political preferences/opinions.

Commercial, frivolous, inconsequential, satirical, and all other forms of free and independent thought are "speech".

"Drink more Ovaltine" is speech the same way "slavery is bad" is speech. These two disparate utterances are equally important and protected as "speech".

"I like big butts and I cannot lie" is speech as important as a treatise on political theory.

The comment you replied to lampoons Musk's "free speech absolutist" schtick. A nuance you have failed to appreciate.

What hasn't been noted here, yet, as far as I can tell, is that the EU prohibits this type of behavior (banning mentions of competitors) and it will be interesting to see how they respond. But that's an antitrust matter, not free speech.
I feel like someone should lean into the fact that twitter is going insane and make a carbon copy of it, instead of trying to innovate on the concept/UX. Maybe even use a similar name, like bitter, xitter, etc.

Innovation is usually the way to overthrow incumbents, but in this case a carbon copy might be more effective.
My own father passed roughly a year ago as well, also at a particularly advanced age. I had a similar experience, where I became frustrated with the lack of what I perceived to be care. As in "give a shit", or even a desire to find an actual diagnosis. One doctor told me, as my father lay intubated a foot away, that [the Dr's] best gift he gave his own parents was to DNR them so they never spent a day in a nursing home.

A year later I've realized that my father was 80 years old. We all have to die at some point. Your father was 87. I understand you're upset. It may be that there was more for the medical system to do, there may not have been.

At what point does spending possibly millions of dollars to extend some one's life 1 year, 2 years stop becoming good and turns into actual harm?

They have to go at some point. Even if it is someone else's fault.
Or just eat average American non-organic food varieties.
This article from two decades ago certainly gives you some perspective on the consequences of censorship.
> This is not exactly free speech issue, because Twitter does not ban based on political preferences/opinions.

Maybe not as much before Musk, but it does now:

https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-n...
> despite literally being at a party in Doha the world cup

I wasn't sure that you were serious, but lo and behold...

https://imgur.com/a/kyoI2X6

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