skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the article didn't explicitly make those claims, it's still trying to imply them. For instance

>Why Binance may not have as much money as they want you to think

>When FTX bought out Binance’s share in the company, Binance got paid $2.1 billion in funny money. CZ told Squawk Box that “it was all in FTT tokens, which are now worthless.” [Twitter]

A strict reading of this would be that Binance lost some non-zero amount of money through their FTT token holdings, because they became worthless. That's factual and not in dispute. However, by omitting the fact that they sold their FTT tokens prior to them going to zero, it's pretty obvious that they're trying to imply that Binance took a total loss on their FTT holdings when that's not the case.
It's a testament to the work created by their amazing infra team (now mostly gone) to have the platform on autopilot for so long.
I've just caught the BBC's top-of-the-hour newscast, and the fact that Twitter is banning posts / profiles for referencing other services made the news summary.

Web story: <https://www.bbc.com/news/business-your-money-64021412>'

NPR as well as of the 5pm E.T. news rundown.

For anyone who doesn't think this isn't huge news with global impact, think again.

NYTimes: <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/18/business/twitter-ban-soci...>

Washington Post: <https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/18/twitter...>

Deutschlandfunk: <https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/links-zu-konkurrierenden-onli...>

And since that Twitter link may change, and archive I captured a short while ago: <https://archive.vn/ucUdh>
This is a pretty cool idea even for just engineering the prompt! It's a complicated tradeoff to decide what should go into the context and what should be selected from other files (2000 tokens is a lot but sometimes not long enough for the longest files). Previous cursor location is a great signal directly from the user, compared to metrics like Jaccard similarity. I'd actually like to try this out for our next release of Codeium.
Unlucky? I mean, unlucky to be born when he was I guess.

Otherwise, he did a thing, was told not to do a thing, then went ahead and did it anyways and had the book thrown at him. That was his choice, not some stroke of bad luck.
Wow, that Twitter Moderation Council must be working overtime, what with having to convene and hash out the merits of each of these bans. I bet they'll be getting good bonuses.
It's gotten a lot busier today
All these proposed strategies to live with variable storage only work for short term variability, in places close to the equator. In my country, there is an almost 10x difference on solar energy between Summer and Winter. While (domestic) energy usage doubles in the winter.

The only feasable 0 carbon options are to either install an absolutely massive amount of Hydrogen storage and conversion, to give up any hope of self-sufficiency and import all electricity during the winter from places on the other side of the world, or to use Nuclear.
I claim to speak American English. I don’t recognize any dialect of English, including my own, as the primary one that all others have to follow, because English is a pluricentric language. I’ll never tell someone from England, Ireland, Australia, India, Zimbabwe etc. that their version of English is wrong, and they shouldn’t tell me that mine is either.

This phenomenon isn’t unique to English, by the way. Every language spoken in more than one country (AFAIK) has some words that vary between countries.

Your argument is a bit ridiculous IMO, it’s like saying neovim should merge every patch that gets merged to vim.
Funny tik tok allowed.
That he could be an egomaniac moron was a thing but that he would be unable to adjust and react to massive blunders is still staggering to me. Even a mobster would know how to keep a low profile to keep his 'business' going.
Not really; it’s the same. You can’t release products that compete with apple, ala an App Store, or games store, etc. It took a lawsuit to change that for Europe, but we still have yet to see what that looks like.
I don't think subscriptions per se is that much of a problem, but for certain products I feel like there needs to be some kind of regulation mandating companies to enable some kind of self-hosted solution on the event they take their cloud down for whatever reason (including bankruptcy).

If the product requires online servers, and the company is not willing/able to keep those servers online, anyone who has paid for the product should at least have the option to drift it for themselves.

This is especially true for products that are upfront purchase+subscription. At present I just refuse to purchase such products cause I just know they'll stop working and then I'll own a brick.
I don't agree. The whole Hyperloop thing was not an alternative implementation it was a pitch for a completely different society altogether. Instead of moving everyone in California at a reasonable price, let's have a giant infrastructure that is at least as large and disruptive as rail but only serves a tiny slice of the ultra-rich, everyone else has to take a car.

It wasn't "how to do it better" it was an attempt to reframe the entire question of whether medium-distance mass transportation should exist.
If you want to dive deeper and watch a beautiful tribute to Gary Kildall, you can find the tribute episode of the Computer Chronicles (which he cohosted for years) on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdj8gh9GPc4
Counterpoint - Thai cave diver.
Shielding the ball is one the first things you learn to do in football. Even an average player should be able to keep a "layperson" away from the ball indefinitely, no magic required.

Magic only matters when you're trying to beat multiple players or someone who is roughly the same skill level as you, otherwise you can literally just run past them or beat them with a simple cut.
The last thing Elon engineered was a website about 30 some years ago and when he hired developers, they rewrote everything he did.

He's always been pretty bad a managing a business, too. This is why he doesn't actually run any of them. You'll notice SpaceX and Tesla both have adults in charge.

It's always surprising to me when people think he's amazing when really, he has a lot of money and people get paid to manage him_ inside of his companies. Twitter just showed what it looks like when Musk tries to manage things himself.
> As a regular vim user, only sometimes do I actually press i to insert

This is important and the same thing I came to post. I'm not by any means a power user, but even for me, just having i as the way to get into insert mode pretty much defeats the purpose of not having to use the keyboard, because you still need the keyboard to get the cursor where you want it.

The concept of a pedal system is cool, it would be nice to think about how it could be made more comprehensive to handle a bigger subset of mode changes.
TBH, I have 0 sympathy for PG. he was excusing Elon’s Twitter actions, with roughly “he lands rockets, and you don’t, so he knows what he’s doing”.

He only has an issues with him when he’s personally affected? Cool.
.NET and Java definitely are when compared against many fashionable alternatives, naturally you can come up with corner cases like projects using remoting or RMI, while ignoring their ecosystem stability versus those alternatives.

It is still MSBuild, Maven and Gradle after all these years, three major IDEs, most libraries just work, there are hardly talks about why we are doing it all wrong and use framework XYZ or build system ABC instead and so on.
> all other major companies do the same but not as blunt: Facebook, Google, Amazon for example

I do not think this is true. At least not in this scale.
You can post on FB about Twitter or Mastodon. You can search on Google about DuckDuckGo[0] or OpenStreetMap and so on.

[0] Even first suggestion for me when I enter the 'd' char.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial
By the way twitter dropped this policy change during the World Cup finals, trying to minimize the amount of attention it gets. Doesn't seem to be working for them.
No: not if the subscription bundles useful continuing services, such as cloud sync or software updates. You mentioned password managers. 1Password’s subscription bundles in updates along with a cloud sync that works across the 4 devices I routinely use.

I once said “1Password subscription is nonsense, I can do everything it does myself, and for free,” so I cancelled it. After about six months of trying to use my own spreadsheets, I gladly went back to paying for 1Password.

Software wasn’t subscription years ago because we just didn’t expect as much out of it. In particular, we didn’t expect it to seamlessly work across multiple devices and platforms and keep its data synchronized.

If you don’t expect new versions and sync, go use free-as-in-Freedom software. It’s better than ever.
Musk doesn't want to see his $40bn investment disappear in a puff of smoke in a couple of months. Sure, he expected his brand with the public to stay strong but then, at about the same time, he started to behave in Trumpish ways, nay say Dr. Fauci (so Musk is an anti-vaxxer?, really?), treat a large proportion of the Twitter employees like dirt. This all adds up to very poor timing. Musk needs to find a top class PR firm or his entire $40bn could slip through his fingers. Look on My Works Ye Mighty and Despair.
> should have

lol
We are watching a real life portrayal of Citizen Kane, staring Elon Musk. How long until he retreats to his own personal Xanadu?
The people who were talking about it are not in Seattle. Which is interesting as we're one of the host cities for the next one, you'd think there would be pre hype.

If I was in a Seattle only bubble without friends from over seas or who immigrated yes I would not have seen or heard about the world cup.

Maybe if it was on after 1pm here I'd have seen it in a bar, but nope watched a sun belt conference Duluth trading bowl game instead.
I disagree with the password manager as an example. If you don't like the SaaS products offered by some password manufacturers, then don't use them? There are many other non SaaS options.

A large chunk of the world lives in the cloud, whether its Azure or AWS, there is an enormous amount of infrastructure that is sitting in the cloud as a service.

For many a SaaS password manager is better security for them than what they're doing now by remembering all of their simple passwords. Many people don't know how to use Yubikey's and the sort.
ActivityPub is the protocol, Mastodon is an implementation of that protocol. There are other services built on ActivityPub that can interop with Mastodon, which is part of what makes the whole system awesome.
Either drugs or straight up mental issues. This won't end well I'm afraid.
Propaganda has nothing to do with the government. It has to do with perverting the truth in favor of a narrative.
This isn't true for most things you "subscribe" to. If the gym closes down, they aren't required to provide a new location near you. If your office building gets demolished, there is no recourse. You just have to deal with it and sort out your own alternative.
So does that make twitter the communist version capitalism?
I fondly remember listening to his show on KGO while hanging out on IRC. I even played Quake 2 with him (hosted on his shiny new cable modem, of course). Good times! He really was ahead of the curve engaging with his audience. I followed along with TechTV for a little bit, but it just wasn't the same.
There are no rewards to be reaped here by defending him. There is nothing beneficial being achieved by Musks actions on Twitter as of late who is banning whoever is clearly against him personally. Not you, not me or anyone else is gaining anything. Love Tesla, love SpaceX but understand when something else is clearly wrong.
The charitable reading is that a lot of people are saying "Mastodon" when they mean the "Fediverse" (the large collection of mostly inter-communicating servers running an instance of the software).
I personally feel that Bitcoin maximalism is strangely stubborn but aside from that she makes a lot of good points.

People here who automatically hate the article because it's associated with their idea of "crypto", please consider some of the problems raised and how you would solve them as a technologist in a holistic way.

If you take it seriously then you will end up going down the route of learning about digital signatures and cryptographic ledgers. And end up with some type of cryptocurrency.

Also most people don't understand the difference between a centralized "cryptocurrency" exchange and the actual core technologies that can advance our systems of money. Please realize that these exchanges and related activities are actually antithetical to the concept of cryptocurrency and don't use cryptocurrency for their internal books etc.
Like what happened with Stronglifts 5x5.. yep.
On the converse, you don't get to say the words "global warming" to handwave away human wants and desires. Especially when there are alternative solutions that allow car users to keep doing their thing, while also completely mitigating global warming concerns.

Carbon footprints can be offset. It just needs to be done honestly. Specifically, an "honest offset" is an offset that has already occurred prior to purchase of the offset, and prior to the production of the carbon being offset. If vehicular use was required to be honestly offset, your global warming concerns completely evaporate. It really is that simple. The one downside is that you don't get the emotional satisfaction of "sticking it" to car users.

If your sincere and sole goal is to fight global warming, you have to remember that most people simply do not care. If your proposed solution is to take comfortable things away from people that want those comfortable things, you are simply going to lose.
archive.is - ft, wsj, foreign affairs. Have at it! FA has specially good fare, in fact, well worth the visit to the archives.

p.s. just read the whole thing. When did I conflate? Some do however reasonably point out that power comes out of the barrel of a gun and you need money for guns ..
We seem to be well into "Actions speak louder than words" territory.
Debian stable with flatpak and appimage is a good way to go
I started watching Leo when I discovered ZDTV (which became TechTV). I watched him build up twit and used to watch him record ever show.

But over the last 5 years I have basically stopped paying any attention to him. He pushed out the people I liked and I just found myself with less and less patience for him.
In people otherwise predisposed, serotonin excess causes anxiety; serotonin depletion causes depression.

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Wasn't there something about Elon trying to sell Twitter stock privately? I think in the financial times. They have probably lost a lot of advertisers, and Elon might be in financial trouble.
Thank you for the information, I'll have to ask them if they are interested in Dutch books.
Tangent: on 64-bit Apple platforms, nothing is mapped in the lowest 4GiB of address space. This ensures any pointer truncated to 32 bits and dereferenced will segfault.
Agreed, the problem I face is that the pricing is hard to make fair. As a casual user I might use a particular tool very infrequently but some users are using it commercially and getting massive value out of it. It's hard to get the pricing right so both users are paying a fair amount for the value they get. This is the same problem as "buy once" software though, $2,000 is too much for the home user while it's pennies to the corporate user.
The view from a higher, more abstract perspective is excellent, highly recommended.

I would be very surprised if Elon doesn't realize how infuriated this will make everyone.
It looks to me like he might still be ignoring those red flags. Like I said elsewhere, PG can be an inspiration and still be wrong about a whole bunch of things.
I'm not sure what your point here is. Paul Graham is a notable user in the context of Twitter based on his follower count, user interactions, and legacy verified checkmark. Any employee handling the suspension of accounts would've noticed this is not some random spam bot or edgy no-name. They would not have done that autonomously without Musk's personal directives.
This is what training on the job looks like, even moderation is a much harder job than it may seem to be at first glance.
No. The servers are just getting hit hard because of everyone rushing to see what all the hubub's about.
There's that. What stood out to me was the philosophizing over how transactions won't fix the widespread outbreak of ennui/existential crises, but the audience here is tilted towards programmers who likely must advance this proliferation of XaaS, even if it is out of personal fiscal necessity. The political/economic circumstances would lead to this end, where the economic nibbles away at private spheres of life and everyone can sense something undesirable happening but cannot fight shadows.
Let's agree to disagree then. My arguments looks weaker ATM anyway, I'm starting to think that he shaving his head from the top and peeing on the streets might be a plausible end to this saga.
Reddit bans for linking out to alternative communities. Facebook blocks links to sites it finds problematic, even in private message.
Curious, what functionality did you find the most useful? Sometimes on edits, I find it adding more than expected (potentially entirely new files) which causes me to not accept the suggestion. Explain does work well sometimes though!
Naval turboencabulator
Unless you're Roblox of course. What's up with that? Does Tim Cook own a bunch of Roblox stock or something?
And what interpretation of 'absurd in the extreme' should we take?
> vlambeer, if anyone knows them

I absolutely love their "art of screenshake" lecture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJdEqssNZ-U

It really shows how there's a very high ceiling for polish and _feel_ when it comes to interactions. "Screenshake" is something that I'm sure a lot of people might look at and say: "oh, that would take 15 minutes to add", and if you're just talking about shaking the screen a bit, absolutely! But if you want to make the screenshake _really_ communicate a feeling and an emotion, there's so much more you can do.
Don't have much of an opnion on him being good at the engineering stuff or not, and not saying I would bet on it, but I could see the logic in shorting TSLA either way, he's distracted, it seems possible that Tesla's customers overlap with twitter users/left-leaning people enough to cause trouble, him getting involved in the first place could be a sign that his judgement has got worse for some reason.
Tired if adtech, applications mining your personal data. Better if one would pay for the content instead.
OF isn't exactly a directly competitor with twitter, since they don't currently have a way (that I know of) to post content people have to pay to view, especially pictures/videos, and I doubt they want to get into it with adult content since payment providers tend to get iffy on that sort of thing.
I made that decision around the Thai rescue.
I only tested insta, which worked fine for me.

Also, it looks like you can trash my post above, Graham got suspended. I really did not expect this.
From the "Twitter Files", the platform reporting system has a list of accounts, and those accounts can have different levels of "approval" for moderation. For example, any moderation action taken on Libs of Tik Tok would require approval from a committee [1]. Larger, more popular accounts require more eyes as they're likely to garner more "false" reports.

All of this is to say that there are three likely scenarios:

1. For whatever reason (e.g. staffing, technical problems, lack of training), PG's account didn't get treated with the scrutiny it deserved.

2. A report on PG's account went up the chain, landed in front of a trained moderation team, and they banned him against Musk's wishes (presumably unintentionally).

3. Musk desired his ban.

If it was a random tech CEO, I think Scenario 2 would be most likely. Given the recent technical issues with Twitter, their employee turnover, and Musk's recent actions towards "former allies" that spoke out against him, I think it's actually a toss-up.

[1] https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601018810495995904
Offering free upgrades for life is almost always a terrible idea:
https://successfulsoftware.net/2008/09/08/should-i-give-free...

And offering upgrades for life and then trying to backtrack on it is even worse.
Elon is doing God's work, killing Twitter.
What you are looking for is "levelized cost of energy". And, yes, renewables are cheaper even when you count in storage or gas turbine backup. As storage gets built out, the gas turbines will be fired up less frequently.

Land is utterly a non-issue. Not only is there plenty of spare land, solar and wind can be sited on dual-use pasture and cropland, as well as floated on reservoirs.
> 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.

I don't know how you can say that with a straight face. This is only a small bit of his capricious rules. Earlier this week it was publicly available information about flights, now it's even indirect mentions of social media competition, what happens next week if he decides that no one should talk about other electric cars? It would be entirely in character for his actions to date. Users now have to anticipate that there is going to be a day where the rules change in such a way they earn a retroactive ban. That's not freedom of speech, that's just a tyrant who hasn't come for YOUR speech yet. I don't know why anyone would stay invested in this platform.

If there was any sort of real framework in place there would be a set list in place instead of a flood of randomly generated rules that are just "whatever is ticking Elon off today", and there wouldn't be popularity contests to see if content gets restored.
Getting big "on a bender" vibes from Elon right now...
EVs could (and some do) self-heat the battery when temps are low enough for damage
This was my first exposure to the US style where the host reads out the advert. I’ve gotten used to it now obviously but it was jarring at first. It felt wrong even, i remember thinking surely it’ll cause some people to buy the product just because they like the host. I suppose that’s the idea.

I met him once and accidentally offended him. I didn’t mean to, just crossed wires. I think he misheard me, probably thanks in no small part to my accent!
It is not right that TOS can be changed abruptly and people made to comply at once. Why not just delete a post than suspend account?