skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I can't see how "I can't post my handle here so go to my website to find it" isn't an effort to bypass restrictions. That doesn't mean that what Musk is doing is good, or that trying to bypass restrictions is bad. But there's this strange trend recently where in order to be part of one "side," you have to start uncritically repeating anything that looks good for your side, or else you'll be accused of shilling for the enemy side. It's not impossible to think that these new rules are stupid, attempting to bypass them is fine, but that also "I can't type my handle here so go to this other website and find it" is clearly an attempt to bypass them.

And these beliefs become opportunistic and change as soon as its convenient. Just a few hours ago when the promotion was first announced, most people were claiming that it was extremely expansive and that John Carmack could get banned for crossposting (which the terms say is allowed). People who disagreed were downvoted. Now that someone has been banned, the comments start claiming it's _not_ expansive, and people who disagree are getting downvoted.

That's one thing that makes it hard to follow this saga. It seems like Musk is doing pretty bad things, but there's so much hyperbole and inconsistency coming from his loudest critics that it's hard to have a grounded discussion on the matter.
The guy who said he'll be the champion of free speech is now banning even the mention of other social networks.

Imagine setting yourself such virtuous goal, but not 6 weeks later ending up with your own Great Firewall of China.

Journalists banned for mentioning a suspended account, pg banned for mentioning his website, banning every mention of other social networks. And that's a recap of just the last 72 hours.
I would content that a lot of these long distance projects are 'profitable' of sorts because of the choices made in the respective energy markets.

If everybody would simply have the rule of every per X00000 people you build one reactor in a geographic location near them. Then you would simply not need the waste majority of all long and medium distance energy transport.

You need some connection to be able to support temporary maintenance but for the most part each region is pretty independent and relatively simply.

That reduces your grid complexity a great deal and doesn't require country or even continent wide coordination with lots and lots of highly variable inputs, complex energy price markets and so on.
Techies get paid well, but in the conflict between capital and labor, we're not capital. Not most of us anyway, not by a large margin. Occasionally a blessed few might win the IPO lottery and become rich enough to get out of the rat race, but exceedingly few become rich enough on top of that to "extract surplus money from society".
Mastodon lacks one very important thing: global trends, the most important tool for minorities and the oppressed to call for attention. So many crimes got the spotlight because of that, and Mastodon by design can't replicate it.
I'm an outlier. Most of the software I use on a daily basis isn't subscription based. But I'm far from the bleeding edge. I write a lot of my own software at home in Lisp. It's a lonely existence, but at least I know how stuff works.
Gene Simmons tells anti-vaxxers to “get over yourselves”
After that famous level of Tesla quality? I think he is stealing the fame of the real SpaceX engineers just because he has a much bigger influence in the media.
I think neither did Paul. But if he did he probably at least has a backup of his stuff.
I’ve been having that issue for years. Occasionally it will do that and after a while go back to normal. I’m actually sunrises to see so many people mention it lately.
Please don't compare Emperor with "insecure reddit mod". Whatever sentence he may utter is the law of the land.
Not surprising at all. This happened consistently with Trump and all the moderate republicans who supported his rise but eventually realized that his extremism wasn't an act and he was never on their side, just his own.
The actual tweet that got him banned:

https://twitter.com/samtabahriti/status/1604612720325697538/...
It sounds like you want to control a policy of when things should update. For example Firefox every 4am, Kernel when you say so, Python 2.6 never, etc. I understand "something should update itself" to mean that the user doesn't get to set the policy, it does.
He isn’t, Musk is a lucky grifter. No need to short Tesla he is destroying his own net worth AND Tesla all in his own. Sit back, relax & enjoy the fire.
Sorry for all those downvotes. I get people dislike Elon right now, and dislike the ban, but you are correct. I wish we would seek understanding instead of trying to… promote misunderstanding and silence people who point it out?
I've no idea what it actually does, but the manual and car settings for my Subaru say that when it has sufficient power it will auto-heat/cool the battery to prevent damage.
First thing I thought reading the title. He's a bay area native. Glad to see he's not dead, but his radio show was terrible and hope that he can pivot to something more interesting.
I keep hearing "maybe it was a rogue employee" or "maybe it was automation" about everything Twitter does lately... until Musk comes out and defends the thing. I don't know why the benefit of the doubt should be granted at this point.
Twitter is an advertising company not a consumer company (Tesla is a consumer company)
It's really great, because it means that avoiding spending is really easy, and has been a massive improvement to my budget.

Cancelled Hello Fresh, so I'm doing to just Netflix (which is on thin ice, but I have a kid.)

"Oh, look I want this, oh wait, it's a subscription service and you'd have to fill out a 2 page form. Fuck that then."
Your argument is dubious for two reasons:

1. You assume that “guys” is the male equivalent of “gals”. It’s not — the latter is much more strongly gendered. Your argument is circular, because you assume that “guys” is gendered as one of your axioms.

2. You are talking about “hey guys”, whereas I was talking about “you guys”. The whole point of my post was that you can’t understand the meaning of “you guys” simply by referencing the meaning of “guys”. They are completely different words, and their only relationship is historical, even though one is a substring of the other. Even if “hey guys” is mildly gendered (which I’m not sure of, but I’m at least willing to believe it’s possible), “you guys” absolutely isn’t, empirically.
Pretty much irrelevant where I am at. It wasn't even on a main TV station and then they cut the coverage to go to NFL coverage right after the penalty kicks.

The biggest problem is that soccer and American football are both Fall sports in American high school. A great athlete needs a special love for soccer to not end up playing on the American football team. American football in high school has all the prestige.

Christian Pulisic is a great example. If he has a different upbringing there is a good chance he is playing American Football as a wide receiver.
You can check how much they're earning: https://www.levels.fyi/companies/accenture/salaries/software...
1password - the non-SAAS version - works a charm on my phone. I haven't needed an update. And aside from compiling for newer phone versions, I haven't noticed an update.

Except on the desktop which was updated to be crippled (can't edit items) and it advertises for the SAAS version with every other click. Which, fuck them. Their move to SAAS has done nothing but corrupt what was a good software company.
3rd party link aggregators are banned too and tons of SFW/NSFW content creators use them in their Twitter bios.
With Jared Kushner right next to him? Man the Monkey’s Paw is fully clenched.
That's right. It's a memorial for his AM radio show.
The thing with TK is, it costs nothing upfront, but the internet is bursting with countless reports that if your site eventually becomes popular, TK domain admins might outright snatch it from you for their own ads, without the possibility of seeking retribution as it's all in their TOS ...
https://getfreedomain.name/domain/tk/
With Twitter, it's been demonstrated that what Musk does, does not follow what Musk says. There's nothing to reconcile here. The new policy is very clear and leaves no wiggle room for the occasional link.

Much like when Elon said he wouldn't ban Sweeney and that he's a free speech absolutionist, followed by him:

- banning Sweeney without justification

- unbanning some of Sweeney's accounts

- banning linking to Sweeney's other social media

- putting links to any mastodon instances behind a warning

- rolling out new policy to justify banning Sweeney and links to his other social media

- walking back the permabanns after a bunch of journalists get roped up in the Elonjet fallout

- this new policy, presumably to justify the continued banning of Sweeney. You can put other reasoning here, like making it harder to migrate off Twitter. Other commentors mentioned in previous discussions that linking your mastodon in your profile allowed mastodon users to more easily find/recreate their Twitter network automatically.
And even those 20 min of injury time are probably waaayyy less than the time the game was actually on hold for due to injuries or other shenanigans.

Unfortunately TV time slots are so strict, that getting actual 90+30 min of game time cannot really be a thing anymore.

Thus, strategies to waste time dominate, much to the frustration of everyone except the winning team
I'd make two pedals.

Crtl and alt. Caps as escape..
There's a difference between learning a language as part of history, and actually being proficient at it. I know ALGOL 60 well enough (having tried to implement it), but I wouldn't consider myself a "native speaker" of it.
I like trivy[1] a lot. Nice to see more alternatives like this.

1. https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy
Except that persons C, who control the instances where many interesting people are, have banned instances run by people who are not like the Cs. Furthermore, I don't even want to bother with all this stuff, playing detective trying to figure out the character of the moderators of different instances, figuring out how to migrate, and figuring out which other instances they federate with. There is no beauty to be found here, just human nature being such that as a species we can't even accomplish a platform where we can read the text messages from people we want to follow.
Trump tried to make Truth Social the new Twitter.

Musk is trying to make Twitter the new Truth Social.
The difference with Twitter is that, being a web site and app, his decisions have immediate visibility. Bans, unbans, blue checkmarks — those become visible to everyone in the world to see right away.

With his other companies, the lag time before anything becomes public is longer. We presumably don't see a lot of the eccentric decisions Musk makes because the companies are able to course-correct before they end up becoming real.

Of course, we still get screws-ups like the Cybertruck and whatever that robot was.
macOS never interrupts the user, for example. Even if you click the install button, if you (X) out of the "restarting" notification it won't restart/install the update.
Wait, when did he suggest that Taiwan surrender? I missed that.

He is speed-running the Howard Hughes game.
Kim Komando is on my local FM/AM talk station every Saturday and she sounds the same as she did 20 years ago. It's comfy listening, sometimes. The main problem is as another poster mentioned is that most of the callers are elderly folk (or people my age who simply don't "get" technology) asking the most simplistic questions over and over such as "how do I back up my family photos" and "how do I stop my grandkids from using my credit card on Roblox" or similar. The second problem is the dissonance - in one segment she will discuss the hazards of privacy threats and cookie tracking, and in the other she will shill an advertiser that does even worse. I can't tell anymore whether she cares.
Yet, lead balloon transport will reliably not happen.
He employs rocket scientists.

And also, I hear, a layer of glad-handing management dedicated to keeping him from putting his thumb in the rocket scientist pie, patting him on the head for his cockamamie ideas, and faking up Potemkin demonstrations to keep him happy.
It tells me that I leaned a bit too far into being neutral and wasn’t clear that I think the ban is ridiculous! Good corrective feedback for me.
The trick can only be played so many times before it gets old. Abrupt announcement of policy changes followed by strawpoll repeal is not going to undo 100% of the damage.
I was a big fan, growing up. Screensavers etc. I haven't kept up as much since, but he was a big reason, I got into computers as a kid. Big up Leo.
For anyone on iOS, you can use this in the new Orion webbrowser: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/orion-browser-by-kagi/id148449...
I can literally ask for what I want. That's the whole point. Did the whole AI generation stuff just woosh over your head?
SaaS software? Yes.

News papers and media? No. They should have done it a long long time ago.
This is a big reason why macOS snapshots your disk before an update. If you ever have a problem, reboot to recovery mode and you'll see a "Restore backup" entry from just before your update that will instantly revert the system to the previous version.
The problem is everyone is treating it de facto as an institution to the point that the Library of Congress preserves tweets, and nearly every government and corporate PR uses it to issue announcements.
When in doubt, and to be inclusive, you can use "idiota de mierda", which is not gender-specific.
By that logic basically any Twitter user with a link on their profile should be banned. For example Microsoft would have a link to Microsoft.com on their profile and on that webpage there will be links to other competitive social media.

In fact, Tesla's Twitter profile links to Tesla.com and at the bottom of that website is a link to Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn (in addition to Twitter).

Almost anyone with a link to a site in their profile will likely have competitive social media links on that site. PG's website didn't even link to his Mastadon profile, its a plain text representation of his Mastadon handle.
Having been on both sides as a customer and foundee, I love subscriptions.

Every business needs a business model. Subscribers is a very clear one. I'm untrusting of any service that's free and doesn't rely on ad-revenue, because they have incentive to make money in other shady ways like selling your data to third-parties who will use it against your best interests.

Subscriptions are a nice business model because they are predictable costs/revenue to both customers and the business.

What I don't like are subscriptions that don't grandfather you into higher pricing, and pay-as-you-go plans, because it's so easy to forget about then and their rules and get charged a nasty bill later.

As a customer IMO subscriptions are the lesser of all the evils, and the best alternative to ads, eg YouTube Premium.
https://nitter.net/about
George Hotz: If I am banned on Twitter, follow me on IG
their entire ad backend is in a state of crisis. i have friends who were on the monetization (read: ads) teams at twitter and every single one of them has been asked/ordered to return to work if they want to collect their severance
My exposure to SmallTalk has basically been from professors who always referenced it as great and a pillar of OOP back in the day at university. Of course I was a crontrarian student who was drinking the functional cool aid at the time so my response was usually "lol OOP" or something similarly clever. I investigated it a bit and my main takeaway was "ellegant but slow". Being the mature student I was I then proceeded to read up on OOP in detail for the following semester and changed from "lol OOP" to "yeah, yeah but it's so much better in Eiffel". I'm very thankful that I've since turned from a flamewar-triggerhappy person into a very pragmatic person that uses whatever language gets the job done while trying to find the value and neatness in each of them :)
A tip (which I learned from @dang years ago). Browse in "private mode", which is much easier on the server than browsing while you're logged in.

The server IIRC does a decent amount of work per page determining your user-id and various behaviors of the text. But if you're a default, anonymous, "private" browser, the webpage is always more responsive.

Not necessarily "as responsive as it should be" mind you, but it does seem to help.
Elonjet is on FB, Insta, Mastodon, and Truth Social. I'm not surprised if this blanket ban was partially motivated by his obsession over the made-up doxxing accusations over ADS-B data.
Out of the products you listed I use 2:

IntelliJ - JetBrains actually offers perpetual model along with subscription. That is the reason I use their product.

Postman - I use free version to play with the APIs. It costs me nothing and if it disappears tomorrow my development is not going to get disrupted at all as for anything serious I just use plain old scripts that are free.
Can't we all just go back to syndicating RSS?

It was so simple in those days.

Except for that time before they got html escaping figured out and some joker put an unclosed <BLINK> tag in their title, and the entire blogoverse started blinking.
Jack has been promoting it.
That was an example of sporadic immature behavior on his part, certainly. Lately, though, he seems to be losing the ability to think almost anything through.

IANAD, not a medical opinion, etc., etc., but I wouldn't be surprised if a dementia diagnosis is in his near-term future.
Most of all, it's really exposes that the whole free speech ethos is a made up construct
I get why snap is needed, but, like others, my experience has been poor. The first issue was Ubuntu 22.04 shipping the firefox snap only. It's ok for small occasional use programs that you need the bleeding edge version on. But it's not ok to wait 30+ seconds for firefox to open.

They fixed that. But I hit into it's idea of security - being unable to open html files on my local drive, unable to load links from my mutt client, and unable to download and save directly into a specific folder.

And worse, the snap updates just don't function well. They remind you when you are using the program, and they don't seem to update when you're not using it.

Real shame, but these are fixable problems.
The way it's worded right now, it reads as a memorial for the person (who has not passed),
rather than the radio show.

A different way to word it might be:
A minor memorial for Leo Laporte's terrestrial AM radio show.
That gets me the subs in some usual complicated format? It's a bit of work to extract the actual text from that.

To get youtube subs in .srt format this gave me some limited success:

yt-dlp --convert-subs=srt --write-auto-sub --write-sub --sub-lang "en,en-us,en-GB,automatic-caption-en" --skip-download "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y"

Behind the scenes yt-dlp is downloading the subs in .vtt format than using ffmpeg to convert those to .srt. Depending on your situation the original .vtt format might be fine.
From the Dallas Observer article quoted by story I linked to (Jan 1999):

"Throughout it all, ION Storm has been hemorrhaging employees; of the approximately 85 people ION employed a year ago, more than half have quit or been let go. Finally, six weeks ago, virtually the entire team working on Daikatana jumped ship and joined Wilson's company."

https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/stormy-weather-6427649?s...

To think that John Romero has the slightest bit of credibility as a character witness when it comes to such issues is so far from reality it is almost funny.
If musk decided to ban use of the letter A in tweets, whether PG ran afoul of the rule is not an important factor in the story. What actually happened here isn't really much different. Who cares about adjudicating whether he was in line with the rules or not? The rule is insane and the real story is that Elon is banning colleagues with little thought.
What is the point then of having a downvote option that is exclusively available to "seasoned users" if they are going to act like children again

i dont mind the downvoting itself, but the fact that it is used as an emotional release. that s contrary to the dynamics of the site here, which generally promotes frank discussion and not quick dismissals
LMAO.
What secondary indicators are you referring to?

And yeah Twitter ad targeting has always been confusing to me. Some people here are saying it’s because they fired that team, but it’s been weird for years. The automatically determined interests listed in the settings were 85% completely irrelevant to me. At various points I’ve been given ads for restaurants on a different continent, HIV medication (I’m not HIV positive), and nuclear engineering consultants (not my industry at all).
What “privacy protections” are there on ads-b data?
Elon now reminds me of the many characters talked about in 'Ego is the enemy'
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27036528-ego-is-the-enem...
What about it? I make no attempt to justify any of Twitter's policies or say they good or even consistent. All I'm saying that any honest good faith interpretation of the stated rules will say that this is clearly against it. Whether these rules are good or bad is an entirely different matter.

This is like the time someone post a link with "here is someone calling you a cunt" (not on HN, another forum) and then try to defend that by claiming "I didn't call them I cunt, I merely linked to someone who did". That didn't fly either.
> However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter.

So much for free speech.
>HN is a lolbertarian paradise

The idea that HN is some sort of libertarian paradise is ridiculous. This is definitely a liberal haven.
I would like to hear more about this. I haven't seen any reputable news about employees who were severed and then asked to come back.
> These are important questions, and he has admitted that he is under stress and not completely stable.

Look, all Musk needs to do is stop digging.

Lots of people underneath him want to keep their nice, cushy, well-paying jobs and would do what needs to be done to keep the companies on an even keel.

If Musk could just sit down and shut the fuck up, things would start self-righting.

But he can't. Because of who he is.
Regurgitation resuscitates food ;-)
Not true. They have a super follow feature that is nearly identical.

They were planning on launching an OF competitor this year.
They bought Maps too.

However, it would be silly to imply that either of those products were nearly as popular and solid/full-featured as they are now, by many magnitudes. Those products today are nothing compared to what they were back then. Even for me, as someone who has been using YouTube since way back then, just randomly seeing screenshots of the old YouTube throws me off and makes me go "is that what it really was back then? it doesn't even look similar at all".

And no, I don't mean it in a bad way. Up until about Honeycomb (3.0) or Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0), Android imo felt more like "minimum viable product that technically has feature parity with Apple and some more, but you have to have some really good justification to willingly pick it for any reason other than the price", and the experience of using it felt entirely subpar. The release of 4.0 (or 3.0, i honestly forgot) was when Android started feeling like an actual solid competitor to Apple for the first time, and not just an obvious "second best option".
You a G!
What do you mean "just" restarted? Isn't killing one single program a subset of what happens when your computer restarts? And isn't 2 weeks a lot more lead time than Windows gives you?
does a 501(c)(6) file a form 990-T ?