skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's one type of suspension. There are multiple types. Many of the suspended never got an email what's their violation, or which tweet to delete. Just "you violated the rules".

More importantly, right now none of this matters, because you may get suspended, unsuspended, suspended and again unsuspended and then suspended on a whim. Happened to some of the journalists.

It's a mess.

This is not a left/right issue. It's shoddy management and leadership
The sad part was Elon's responded @paulg tweet with two ROFL
emojis.
It's a ridiculous policy.
wondering the same thing....
But handles are the thing they are specifically trying to stop people from linking. Cross posting content is okay, but not profiles
Malicious? Elon Musk wants employees to have utmost loyalty to him, what's malicious to risk taking the fall by clicking the ban button on the rich, famous and powerful to safeguard the vision of the visionary CEO? This was fulfillment of orders beyond the call of duty.

Graham was a threat to the Master, what's a loyal servant to do?
eccentric (adj) 1. Socially maladjusted + wealth.

<https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/107453472642613292>
tbf same bus-factor applies to everything you collect

but have you tried simply using bookmarks in your browser — full control, full responsibility

also if you on the level of creating and maintaining your own server — its all open source
Musk literally held a poll over unsuspending the journalists that were banned (which failed twice, he had to delete it once and retry it and still failed to get what he wanted), so it's the first option. He's the head honcho telling people what to do.
Ok, what do you think of that rule?
That's my reading as well.
So when you say propagandist does that mean he spreads lies on behalf of a government? Reading between the lines it sounds like you find him to be deliberately dishonest about something(s)?
I really don't know who he is.

I see him make "pedo" commentary and I cringe, but reusable rockets are an enormous achievement. I don't see any compelling reason to buy an electric car, but his execution of the Twitter buyout has revealed biased regulation in the extreme, perhaps by illegal proxy from the FBI.

These are important questions, and he has admitted that he is under stress and not completely stable.

I'm not sure what to think.
The evidence he (and Bari Weiss) presented and his analysis of that evidence were not consistent with each other. Given the choice, I'm going to rely on the primary sources, not the guy who was handpicked to promote a particular agenda.
Haven't we learned anything from the Trump era? People like you continue to give people like Musk the benefit of the doubt despite massive public evidence that we are long past the benefit of doubt stage.
Ask HN: Why don't calendar apps poll ics more frequently?
Why do the big calendar providers, like Google and Microsoft allow ics imports, but only refresh them every few hours. It sort of seems a bit useless. OK for public holidays, but not so good for a view of all your calendars at once.

I can't see that calling a mostly-static and simple query that produces the .ics would put a lot of load on the server hosting this (if it does, the hosting server could charge for real-time updates otherwise cache it). But it seems silly for the client to no bother keeping it up to date.

Checking every 60 seconds while you are actively looking, with a refresh button, and another check if you have been away for a while and come back, seems like a good UX.

I checked the other way around and if you update a Google calendar, it's export would immediately update! So it is on the polling end that there is a problem.
Musk did publicly apologize to the diver and the courts ruled that Musk was not liable, so lots of people considered it a settled matter. I considered Musk a cool tech person before that event, then a weird tech person after that. Since 2020 though he has turned into just an awful tech person.
I hope his Tweets are archived by someone.
He didn't just casually share a link to his site though; he said "you can find my Mastodon account on my site". That's basically just posting a link to your Mastodon account, but with an extra step.

Is the new policy bullshit? Sure. But clearly this is against the spirit of it.
Maybe we'll just revert to the linkbaity title in this case. I had it briefly as "Mostly-dead, influential programming languages (2020)" but that probably did more harm than good.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: that didn't work. I'm just going to take the whole 'dead' thing out.
You should check out Radiopaper (radiopaper.com), which was designed to address this dynamic: when someone sends you a message or comments on something you wrote, their comment is only visible to you and remains unpublished until/unless you reply.

HN post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31210680
I say this without any proof, but it will not surprise me the least if he has access to unilaterally ban users directly (i.e. click of a button) without any sort of approval from other staff.
There is a social club locally that has done a used book sale for years and years, with the proceeds going to scholarships for local women. It's a major event - takes up one of the largest meeting spaces in town and is so crowded they practically have to control access into the building. Raises a lot of money. I know we are just a small town (approx 35,000) but if we are any example, the rumors of book's death has been greatly exaggerated.
Only Emperor is permitted to interpret his words.
https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514938507407421440?s=20&t...

For those curious
The problem is cost. You're a good grandson for fighting for your grandpa, but there's no way we can afford the level of care you're demanding for every person close to end of life. It's inherently a futile battle.
He really has though. I remember in 2013 when NYT gave Tesla a somewhat bad review he became extremely combative trying to use the cars GPS data to allege that the reviewer was intentionally trying to get lower performance, then a bit later he sued Top Gear for a bad review. Most famously of course is the whole pedo thing but Mjsk has always been very combative.
It feels like Mastodon is limited by the limitations the web (rightfully) added to improve security/restrict third party tracking. A lot of these UX issues could be fixed by having native client apps, where you add servers and the client takes care of mixing feeds and searches.
SaaS is a menace. There are lots of valid use cases - streaming service, cloud storage, online games come to mind - but otherwise it means users basically lose yet another part of their ownership. I view software as a tool, like a hammer. You don't want your tools to break unexpectedly, phone home, or change their functionality without your explicit approval.

For a price I expect the developer to release bugfixes and security patches, nothing more. Feature updates and compatibility fixes can be billed. They should be worth the update price. Honestly, most software can be "finished": when it does its main function well, and has compatibility, why bother? Who even looks at changelogs of Jira, Photoshop or Office nowadays? Users are more afraid of what will be removed rather than what they gain.

It's each maker's choice to set up a scheme, but I see the industry sliding to exploitation by default.
Growth hormone called food
Automated update processes that run at the expense of securing access to information when it's needed or that do so with the risk of data loss are a complete failure in my view.
Why would anyone fund a startup to reproduce something that’s already wildly popular and successful and still not producing a great ROI?

Twitter is hard enough technically, but the global compliance/regulatory challenges must be daunting.
Check out Lens Protocol if you’re looking for a viable decentralised alternative, Paul.
> were definitely not banned for their opinions on Musk?

They banned because they shared his jet location.

> he was claiming that the journalists caused him to be stalked

Did he claim that specifically? I'm not sure. But if he did, these claims are probably incorrect.

But that does not cancel the fact that journalists were posting jet location after he asked (via twitter policies) not to.
They also provided them with training, access rights, and general governance over the data.

I'd personally blame 70% of the blame on the IRS, 30% on the contractor. Organizations should not be able to skirt blame by way of contractor IMO. Hope the IRS gets fined for gross negligence and breach of data. (lol)
https://web.archive.org/web/20161125135500/https://www.wefor...
It will go away one large bank bankruptcy at a time (perhaps several at a time in case of country bankrupcy). Who is going to use COBOL for a new project at a new bank ?
I've been exploring a pay what you want model for a subscription. Would you prefer something like this? Or more about just putting in more options for selecting based on one's usage? something else?
Very true. That too is a feature of our society.
Emperor Elon, First of his Name, Savior of Twitter, Defender of Freedom merely desires the respect and adoration he deserves. If some ungrateful blue check freeloaders disagree they may experience his evenhanded judgment and wrath.
No, in the past there was a committee. There is zero evidence that the previous CEO of Twitter personally judged who was and who was not to be banned.
no because you can't also say that your free app ios is on android too
>It's so strange to see someone use a PR logic process ("optics") to evaluate a technical claim, rather than using physics and engineering.

I think it’s fair to apply the “smell test” in this case.

We’ve recently see several high profile collapses of fraudulent companies like Nikola and Theranos that claimed to have miraculous technology breakthroughs.

Nikola claimed to have solve problems in hydrogen synthesis, transportation, fueling, electricity generation, engine miniaturization, and more. They didn’t have a piece of that technological chain and yet made some incredibly bold claims so they could continue inflating the hype around the company and skyrocket its valuation.

I’m not saying Helion is in the same boat as Nikola but it’s fair to be skeptical.
Ask HN: How much jobs are there in ML?
I was curious so I opened up stepstone.de (popular in Germany) and set the location to Munich which competes with Berlin to be the most popular techhub.

I searched for pytorch as a competence and got 8 results.
I searched for tensorflow as a competence and got 12 results.

For some reference,

C++ has 281 results.
Delphi/Pascal has 4 results.
Cobol has 8 results.
Fortran has 3 results.

Considering that there will be approximately a 100 graduates this year just from my university who have some ML experience, and considering that there are about 100 universities in Germany. And I am not even mentioning the Ph.ds and the disgrunted Postdocs who will be on the market soon.

Are there any actual jobs in ML? For real? Or what am I missing?
Making Art in the German Democratic Republic
This isn't as much behaving like the App Store as it is telling the App Store "hold my beer".
The FBI passed along reports they received of possible violations of Twitter TOS (something we already knew they did), and the evidence is clear that they did not limit these reports to conservative accounts (something that has been claimed, but which never made sense, considering the FBI's historical Republican lean).
Maybe they once did, but no longer. If they did, they’d cover the laptop story or the sketchiness with Burisma. Those are conveniently ignored for articles about diversity in knitting communities [0]. Journalism is dead outside of a few remaining gumshoes.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/style/ravelry-knitting-ba...
he hasn't gotten dril yet https://twitter.com/dril/status/1604547162708185088
"if you're on the left" lmao so persecuted
I used syncthing for years and never heard of those features

keepassxc + syncthing this is the way

android: keepassdx off f-droid + syncthing
Didn't he supposedly want to make twitter make money? For most of its highly followed people, twitter is basically that, a feed to lure users to other venues where they sell their stuff. He could have requested a fee for promoting those sites. This makes zero sense, twitter will never be a facebook replacement, not even instagram replacement.

looking forward to more craziness as the week unfolds
Gleeful cruelty? Really? That's quite an overstatement for a bit of social media drama.
I'm really glad that Messi got to win his World Cup but you can't really compare players from very, very different eras. I grew up in the '80s and '90s under Diego's spell, and for that I would always see him as the greatest player ever, no matter what will happen next, but Maradona was playing a different game than what was played during Pele's time, and Messi is playing a different game compared to what used to be played in the '80s and '90s.

But, yeah, in the great scheme of things this would be the magic trio for me: Pele, Maradona, Messi, in chronological order, that is.
That's not what ban evasion means. Ban evasion is the attempt to circumvent an existing ban or suspension. Posting content that does not benefit Twitter, without violating Twitter's rules, is not ban evasion.

Here is Twitter's policy on ban evasion: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/ban-evasion

In case Twitter changes this policy, here's an archived copy of the current version (October 2020): https://web.archive.org/web/20221218225353/https://help.twit...
Marx's theory of alienation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation
Actually, they do. It's copyright. Plenty of legal precedent. They defend WordPress, but are willing to allow WP.

The law is on their side.
The value is not having to wear all that gear while driving, and just comfort generally.

Living in the bay area it's nice that the Teslas have this capability to warm the interior from 55 to 70 before I get in the car. It means I can leave the house in a t shirt in the morning.
They are all still pretty sure he will buy them a horse thought.
This is like bragging about not wearing a seatbelt because "I haven't flown through the windshield yet"
No one seems to have mentioned the really interesting aspect here:

Twitter must be bleeding DAUs.

There are other indicators too.

After the takeover they dropped the login wall, but it is back, and way more aggressive than before. You can't even scroll down to see more tweets now, or view replies.

The ads are also really weird and odd. Either their ad targeting system is broken, or they just lost so many advertisers that they have nothing good to show.

I bet the initial influx of previously turned away users is over, as well as the returning users just there for the show, and now the effects are compounding.
is this for cutting a whole documentary in ffmpeg?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kaIXkImCAM
Paul Graham's mistake was he should have made an NFT of the link and posted that.

/s ...maybe? I honestly can't tell anymore
There's a Kindle jailbreak that lets you query an RSS feed for content. I added the frontpage as my main feed and downloaded the top 15 links while making my coffee in the morning.
I think we need to be at least open to the possibility that the current owner of privately held Twitter is an extraordinarily thin-skinned douchebag with the conflict management skills of a spoiled toddler, and a lengthy track record of petty ridiculous retaliation against people who suggest he is wrong about something or otherwise not the biggest genius in the world.
The case you cite was overturned by the DC circuit and sent back to the NLRB for reconsideration a year or two ago.
The NLRB found again last month in favor of the CWA, and it will be appealed again (and the CWA will lose again) to the DC circuit, because it is in, fact, true.

If the employer says "we want to hear what you think can be better about your pay, your benefits, or your work schedules", there is nothing illegal about this. Even if it creates groups to do so.

To the degree the NLRA tries to ban this, it would be struck down as applied. Courts will construct it to focus on the bargaining aspects of a union rather than speech aspects. This is very clear from precedent, and in line with what happened at the DC circuit. None of the unions have been dumb enough to spin the wheel here because the result is obvious. If they tried to control non-union speech-related feedback loops, it would fair very poorly, and has so far in court.

It is true the NLRA tries to ban company unions, but the part most likely to stand these days, is again, effectively "company controlled collective bargaining" (IE the company elects representatives and only bargains with a company controlled/elected union), etc.

Again, i'm not stating a position of whether this is good or not, just trying to accurately state the current legal reality.
The one potential silver lining is maybe now more people realize the ridiculousness of this all and the pendulum swings back the other way some how.
Right, Twitter is absolutely nothing like SpaceX or Tesla. Twitter's problems aren't engineering issues, they're political and related to moderation. Content moderation is one of the hardest problems current which no company has managed to solve. Especially when you have the user-creator-advertiser triangle. It was clear from the very start Elon has no clue what he was walking into.
Do you know what the word relentless means? A single mention cannot be relentless.
Mastodon is the protocol. You can't really quit "Twitter" by joining "email", for example. It doesn't make sense.

Now maybe you can "quit Twitter" to join "Gmail", which is an email service. Similarly, people are going to have to pick Mastodon servers that work with them the best.

Tumblr seems to be the weird one (promising ActivityPub, aka Mastodon, support soon). Tumblr seems to be my personal best bet, but I'm also open to suggestions.
Seems like its going to be a bit late - what better way to promote your competition than acknowledging it and banning it? Just streisanded himself.
It is kind of an institution, it really has been a de facto town square of the internet in a way that no other social media platform ever was.

But it could die. The network effect works both ways, and if big accounts emigrate it's in real trouble.
That’s one part of it, also if you sell say ebooks or MP3s, you can’t sell them in-app, but also you can’t even provide a link in-app to buy them using the mobile browser.

I don’t want to derail this conversation with App Store policies, but the notion of policing links isn’t great, especially for a social network.
>everyone now knows he is a greedy charlatan.

I think he's good at the engineering stuff. It's just social media is not really his forte.

I wouldn't go for the TSLA short myself.
Yes, but it would be folly to continue to invest into a forum that is run in such a capricious way.
Even worse, does it apply any ethical principles to the decision making around the limits of freedom of speech? I.e. when you're weighing up whether, say, incitement of violence, or Nazi support are beyond the line of what is acceptable, do you also place 'promoting alternative social media technology' as somewhere near these limits of freedom of speech?
Not an investment, but a donation to a server is a good start: https://mas.to/@paulg/109536767974913388
Twitter gave some suggestions:

https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/160453126541959168...
AM radio doesn't consume very much of the radio spectrum but I wonder how much longer it is going to keep going. When I lived in California in the 90s, I'd often listen to whatever KFI was playing while driving up and down the coast multiple times a week. If I lived there today, I'd probably end up listening to audiobooks or podcasts rather than terrestrial radio. Wonder how much the market for AM can shrink before it can't cover the bills.
What happened to absolute freeze peach?
This comes across as especially petty of Elon Musk, to do it to another prominent dotcom-boom rich-guy. (Even if it was an accident of automation this time, it's easy to believe Musk personally ordered it.)
Napster peaked in 2000.

Here is a chart of CD sales

https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/12950/cd-sales-in-the-us/

You do not see any sharp drop off because of Napster.
I thought this was going to be Google automating shutting down their own products. Might be a good idea. Just start a clock for 18 months, shut down the service automatically, and reward the relevant executive with a bonus.
Missing the reference, sorry.
Spotify?
What the heck is it doing in this list. When you pay Spotify - you are paying - supposedly for a large part - for Artists's right, not for a Software service.
The silicon valley VC class failed a basic history lesson - never prop up a dictator thinking your are his equal and will be spared from having to kiss his ring. They are all going to have to fall in line or be labeled the enemy.

The All In podcast crew must be sweating right now.
Maybe he had a download. Let's hope for that.
My own personal sense tells me no employee/subordinate would carry out such abrupt and drastic actions without explicit approval from above, no matter how much they want to please their boss. I could be wrong though.

Unfollowing Bari Weiss and suspending Paul Graham over very minor disagreements they voiced seems like a very personal & impulsive decision that I don't see why anyone besides Elon himself decided on it.
Trying to come up with a theory that makes sense. This is my best effort - Elon Musk as the Beast Rabban. Rule with an iron fist, brutal, harsh decisions and insane demands. Then, step out, to be replaced by a leader who is demanding but comparatively much more reasonable and lenient. Remaining staff and users will appreciate the new leader, though they might have resented the change if they weren't first shocked by the Beast Musk.
Also hot weather. I rented a Model S over a weekend and got less than the 60% of the advertised range because it was 44 C (111 F) outside. With the air conditioning running at max and the battery pack likely overheating, the expected range just wasn't there.
> not URL cloaking or plaintext onfuscation.

Those methods are presented as non-exhaustive examples. "Technical or non-technical means" resolves to every possible method.
Sigh. Just completely missing the point.

If an employee couldn't afford to leave before — for whatever reason! — then they can't magically afford to leave today either.
> explain to me how it would work, such that elon wouldn't notice

He's a narcissist. At least, it seems obvious to me that he is. And narcissists are absolutely amenable to co-opting other people's ideas. It's what they do, because everything is about them.
This feels particularly relatable as my company has also been acquired. I now know how it feels to work at a large company for the first time.

I've always thought Big Techs where the best to build innovative products because they had resources. It's the opposite due to politics and bureaucracy.

Big Tech gets away because of existing products that were made when the company was nimble. Plus some products are capital intensive like Apple Watch or AI research.

The best organisational setup to make great products are startups. Politics tend to be minimal in early days. If the company is rapidly growing, there is no time for politics.

I think it was Erik Schmidt who said that when a company stops to grow, politics and bureaucracy settles in.

That's probably what's happening at Big Tech.

Ad-powered businesses can project growth by simply adding more ad placements in their products.
I’m not an Elon basher but I’m genuinely confused by what you’re saying. You’re saying the fact he has a BA implies it’s something in STEM rather than Econ? Maybe I’m wrong but isn’t a BA the degree you would expect to get an basically any school when studying Econ?
Which hoster do you use?