skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps not your intent, but you have hit on the entire social media mindset, distilled.

TV debate long ago decided that every complex human concern can be profitably reduced to a crass binary which can be argued about in front of a camera for the audience's thumbs up or down.

Social media democratised this decerebrate approach. A thumbs up or down from your tribe. Mastodon, Post.news et al only replicate the Twitter model.

It doesn't matter which platform PG, or anyone else, is on. They're all worthless distraction. Fiddling while Rome burns etc.
Correct, I meant per year
Mastodon looks workable to me.

Choosing a Mastodon instance is like signing up for an email provider. Email is decentralized and seems to be doing alright.

I picked an instance that was good-sized at 9,000 users with a focus I liked: indieweb.social. That gives me a Local feed of interesting indieweb-related content in addition to my Home feed of people I follow. I didn't have to trust my privacy to an anonymous activist. I know who is running the instance and support it via Patreon.
Honest question. What is probability that Elon will run poll and revert policy change? (My pick 80%)
Pray this diagnosis is not true and by some miracle you can be here longer. Pray your work leads to breakthroughs so your name is never forgotten. I pray if your passage is inevitable that your long lost loved ones will help you with safe and comforting passage, like I prayed someone was with my child.
I experienced a similar phenomenon. I have 2 accounts, the latter following very few people. So it’s showing almost exclusively ads and promoted tweets since there is nothing else to show.
This is my experience. Mastodon has absolutely replaced Twitter for many of my use cases, because many of the communities I follow have left Twitter.
yep. is the problem with capitalism. if you are not growing in profits then you are dying. the happiness of the people be damned.
Intelligence is overrated for it's utility in navigating the world.
This is a phenomenal metaphor that I concur wholeheartedly with and will be stealing. My Star Wars fan friends will understand the point immediately :)
He's tweeted out some pretty hard right wing talking points and advocated voting for conservatives. It seems pretty intentional.
Anecdotally the content in my feed seems to be drying up, with less and less fresh new tweets every time I open the app. Either people are posting less, leaving or there's technical issues around serving content.
This was a great trip down memory lane for an old retired sometime programmer and software engineer. I learned programming in K & K BASIC on a GE time share machine and FORTRAN II on an IBM 7090. I wrote production code in many of these languages (BASIC, COBOL, PL/I (not much), Pascal, SmallTalk (my favorite)). Among the odder "language" projects I ever worked on was a cross-compiler written in Pascal for a report generator. The compiler generated COBOL as it's object code, which we chose because of it's facility with reading database records, and formatting output for fixed spacing line printers.

I'm familiar with all but a couple of the languages in his list, and wrote code in most of them, although in some cases not code that ever went into a product or production environment. ML and CLU, though, I've never touched.
I grew up using windows until I got myself a MacBook for college. I’m now a heavy Mac user, I enjoy using the Magic Trackpad (so much so that I barely have touched a mouse in the last five years), copying something on my phone and pasting it on my Mac with barely any delay, sharing stuff using Airdrop, not having to worry about virus most of the time, and the consistency of user experience.
I disagree, because it's not only Elon who is losing money these days. The economy is doing a nosedive. Everyone is affected, including Elon. It would've been a different conversation had everyone was making money, but Elon.
See also ERGs.
Not really, because I saw too many software companies go out of business because not enough people wound up upgrading to the next major version -- the ownership model of software can be awfully feast-or-famine for developers' income, it's a very tough/risky business model.

Generally speaking, I'm happy to pay a subscription because this way I get a steady stream of all the updates, and it's much more likely the company has a sustainable business model. And I don't have to agonize over whether paying for a major upgrade is worth it.

Not to mention that a yearly subscription is cheaper than buying outright, and I find that in some cases I no longer need the software, or now prefer to switch to a competitor. So I feel like in the end, a greater proportion of my money goes to the software companies who have actually continued to earn it.

By this point, the idea of "owning" software feels positively archaic to me, as strange as "owning" a music album.
The last major work of investigative journalism of that nature at the post was "Top Secret America" with lead reporters Dana Priest and William Arkin (2010):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Secret_America

Feel free to point to anything even vaguely similar since Bezos took over the post.
My experience of the hospice system is the opposite of yours. My dad was 73, passed away from cancer that took him way too soon as he was more active than people half his age. He swam, ran, worked out everyday. Was one of the most positive people in the world.

The hospice people were absolute angels as to how they handled him and his last months. Truly the most compassionate people work in these places and it was good to have at least that in his dying days.

I am sorry for your loss and the experience you've had with your dad.
> There's an old adage about never meeting your heroes that applies well to PG.

I wonder how much of that is down to the person themselves (judging someone else, through the lense of whatever prejudices and biases) and not their heroes.

As they say from where I am: short of meeting true evil, there's no one worse than your own self.
He could be, but I'm looking at Musk and seeing big Howard Hughes energy.
Do some actual research. People regularly got heart attacks throughout recorded history even if dying earlier from other things was common.

The history of coronary syndromes and sudden death, and apoplexy or stroke, goes back to antiquity and has been thoroughly treated by historians and experts from many disciplines. By the beginning of the twentieth century, a heart attack with myocardial infarction was well known to cause death, but comprehension of it as a syndrome that one might survive was much delayed.

…

Part of the historical delay and confusion in recognizing heart attacks apparently lay in the Greek word, kardialgia, which could mean either abdominal or precordial pain. Biblical and Talmudic references abound, however, about chest pain of a life-threatening nature, and Hippocrates mentions sudden death related to an episode of chest distress (Leibowitz 1970).

Leibowitz points out that the great Italian anatomist Morgagni failed to tie it all together, but nevertheless clearly described in 1761 the late pathology found in survivors of myocardial infarction in his well-known dictum: “The force of the heart decreases so much more in proportion as the greater number of its parts becomes tendonous instead of being fleshy” (ibid., 4).
http://www.epi.umn.edu/cvdepi/essay/history-of-heart-attack-...
> Overall JetBrains’ model of “subscription with fallback license” seems the best compromise here, you do get to keep a license permanently if you quit your subscription, it just happens to be the one from 12 months ago.

Yeah, this model is pretty good and should be the default if you're offering subscriptions. Subscriptions where your data is basically hostage to a monthly payment are awful.
Following Paul Graham's link to his profile was my first visit to Mastodon. This was hugely underwhelming. It looks and feels just slow and sad, not sure how this should attract the average user.
I once learned Ada for a NATO project. I was amazed by the simplicity you could start a thread and monitor it.

Its not dead but you will never see it trending. Its just a niche language as most of the languages at the post are.
No, all links to a variety of Mastodon servers, plus official Mastodon account, plus hashtags mentioning Mastodon... were banned.

No idea if they still are. I don't hang out on Twitter. But sheesh.
Race is crude social construct. It's practically useless and needs to be phased out.
It shouldn’t be a surprise that humans respond to such desperate behavior.

Who took him seriously about free speech? This week it as “doxxing” last week it was Andy NGO’s accusations.
The thing with subscriptions is that you need to be intentional about them and review them semi-regularly. In fact, writing that, I think I'm going to put them all down in a spreadsheet when I have a chance.
There are a lot of things that happened where I could see both sides of the debate. As usual, a lot of outrage on Tweeter was more about the reflex of it than something really meaningful, the Tweeter files were underwhelming and I didn't find anything in the new Twitter that I thought was completely bonkers.

But this ban on link is, indeed, in my book, a bad move. And it will also make me reevaluate the past Tweeter drama in the light of this decision.

I always was of the opinion that eventually things would settle down and Twitter would go on its merry way.

But I'm not so sure anymore. I don't think I'll leave right now, but I'm not giving the benefit of the doubt to any of this anymore.
He doesn't do this every time. Clearly he was animated.
Social media is a massive advertising platform for these companies. They'll go where the people are. Most likely it'll begin with posts being mirrored between the two places, and then switching over when/if Twitter becomes less and less relevant.
This is true. Wealth is what matters in this world, not intelligence.
A bit unrelated, but comes to the features of different languages and who introduced.

Does anyone else still remember how JavaScript prototypical inheritance was touted as a “good” idea?
Jetbrains products have paid plugins now. I hate it.
To be absolutely fair… do you have a reference for Zip2? I was at AltaVista for the acquisition and while I wasn’t close enough to it to be sure, I know he walked away with a bunch of money.
>PS. what is aluminium oxide w/ chromium?

A ruby.
The policy doesn't mention individual accounts but the platform itself:

>we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms

>Accounts that are used for the main purpose of promoting content on another social platform may be suspended
Twitter will be part of the entertainment center of every self driving/electric car and new mobility device. That is where Daddy Musk is taking us. Either you get on board or you lose out and play with your VR toys from daddy Zuckerberg. Either way, you can't escape it. We are going ahead ladies and gents. I would get in early if I was you.

Just like Daddy Jobs did for most of us. RIP. Those that shared the vision went far.
I guess that the story is already quite explicit as it is: simply recalling all that amount of details is a clear indicator of how much the time slowed down for the gp during the event.
Mark Cuban is not the example that I would reach for. He's been an asshole since before Yahoo! threw too much money at him.

I know a few, but they're modest people and that's why I will not name them here, I will name one that is deceased, René Sommer, if you want to know more about him, I wrote about him here:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/in-memoriam-rene-sommer/
Exactly. There needs to be a reward system for healthy initiatives, not a punitive approach for unsuccessful accomplishments.
I agree with you, it makes sense that they may want to charge money for a service, but if you download a program then you should be able to use it on your own computer without subscriptions (unless you want to subscribe to automatic updates, I suppose). However, local programs should be made possible too. In the cases where it is not currently available, we should make them, I hope. (I often find what I am looking for is not available, although "web based" is not the only problem that may exist with what is found)
You - urgently - need to read up on Gates then.
In a meritocracy, this would be dang's site.
Well, they’re particularly vulnerable to the current twitter failure mode.
Did your dad drink? I ask because my dad died of the same (although they never did find the origin other than liver) and he was not a drinker.
Elon Musk has done a lot of nasty things after taking over Twitter. He has acted basically like a conquerer taking over an evil country, then publicizing all the evil things that have been happening in the country: publicly deriding engineers and their work, deriding management decisions with his "Twitter files" exposés, public firings, followed by abusing remaining employees, refusing to pay bills, letting nazis and vaccine deniers back in, and so on.

Of all those things that Musk has done, the one that paulg chose to highlight is Twitter banning links to competitors? That doesn't even seem like an unreasonable restriction!
> in which no new works are written

There's a lot of new code written in most of these languages. It might be existing systems, but the code being written is new.
> I guess that's where the "linear" came from (implying gamma = 1.0).

"Linear" means the colors are stored in a state that means you can do linear transformations on them (basic math in other words) without loss. You can't do this with gamma corrected colors - for example as you say, the sRGB EOTF is a piecewise function so by definition it's not a linear transformation.

So yes, when talking about "linear" colors, they still come from some gamut like sRGB or a larger HDR gamut. The linear part means they are safe for use in a renderer's internals.
I haven't thought about that angle, it makes sense. But I'm not sure it'll happen in the near future.
I confess, I was one of those people who believed that he’d try hard to make a positive change. The reality seems to be exactly what the most cynical takes were; it’s all about money and petty personal things. It’s a shame. The wasted potential is enormous.
They're obviously talking about individuals, not a collective intelligence.
That seems to be a real boon for advertising revenue there at twitter. Just what advertisers dream of, their ad next to a post by some antisemitism/racism/lgbt hate.

You just lost a large group of potential customers. Brilliant marketing strategy.

Maybe if you sell flags that go on oversized pickups. About everyone else is a miss in that sort of stupidity.
What triggered this?
For some reason the link here points to the slowest Mastodon instance in the world. From the one I use (indieweb) it's quite fast:

https://indieweb.social/@paulg@mas.to
I picked for you, it's https://hachyderm.io
This to me feels like the right analogy.

It’s both possible that Musk is a genius and that he’s cracked as many geniuses do.

His embarrassment in no way erases his accomplishments of the past decade and warrant a “he was never smart”.

But his downright pathetic demeanor the past few months do eclipse and ruin what could’ve been an incredible legacy.
> There is nothing wrong or morally objectionable about this.

Depends on the opinion. "We must kill all the [insert ethnic group]" is a legal-to-hold opinion. But I'd say it's both wrong and morally objectionable to provide a platform for transmitting that opinion. Which is why Twitter banned people like that.

And even for those without a moral sense, I should point out that it was also bad for business. Twitter had a business choice to make: they could keep all the blatant racists or they could keep the non-white audience they targeted plus the white people that don't like open racism. Even if you're a-ok with open bigotry, it's pretty obvious that the right financial choice is to boot most of the open bigots, so that the platform feels safe enough to everybody else.
I don't use Twitter much and never followed pg there. I do read his pieces that get posted here. What would someone like me gain from having followed him on Twitter, or following him on some other platform now?
So, if you’re pissed at twitter, you should do the very thing that keeps the money flowing in?

I don’t follow.
In the early 1800s my Latin American country still had separate towns for different ethnicities, but today most of us are of mixed ancestry.

Does the modern definition of colonizer include mixed ancestry descendants too?
Would VR goggles make you feel better?
The EV Transition Explained: Local Policies Shape Global Competition
Concurrent Write Problem
Concurrency control is one of the most challenging aspects of software development.

Optimistic locking and pessimistic locking strategies will be discussed.
Yeah, I checked my portfolio this morning and I lost 10s of billions of dollars. This economy is killing me!
It's contextual. Whichever you mainly play, you call it 'football'. One of the side effects of us having three kinds of football!
>Pushing cochlear implants is like genocide on deaf people.

If this is serious, I've now read the dumbest thing I may ever read in my life. People who've been traumatized by rape affirm their lives as rape survivors. Yet, we don't consider preventing rape an attempt at cultural genocide of the rape survivor culture and community. Likewise, combat veterans have their own culture and community. We don't consider preventing war as cultural genocide of veterans.

Call it culture if you'd like, it arises from being injured in some way, or not having an ability. Restoring this ability and preventing the injury is an absolutely good thing. Reframing the community of the disenfranchised as a 'culture' so you can call this benefit 'cultural genocide' is nonsense semantics. Deaf 'culture' dying is as good as people being born with functional hearing.
if +/-30% pricing isn't significant, then the benefit isn't lower fares, it's higher profits for the company operating the cars. either way you slice it, not having to pay drivers would be a significant win for a taxi company.
The internet has a short memory. No one's going to care in 6 months and everyone will be back on twitter.
> why is that?

It is essentially for licensing and DRM reasons. It's been around for years in B2B stuff. But as it turns out it works for B2C stuff too, and you can actually charge more by charging less.

Let's look at it by using an example. Many people see a 9$ fee as something they can afford right now, and the company sees it as a 108$ per year, per person, payment for the service. Even if they loose 30% of that in operating costs, it is still 75.6$. If 1000 people pay, you have 75 600$ in annual reoccurring income. If you have to sell hardware for people to use your service, you can now sell that at a loss and recoup the loses via the subscription.
Quite the opposite, I think it shows that what you call a red flag, they analyzed seriously before making a judgment. And now that they have more data, they change their mind about their conclusion.

It's the sane thing to do.
Probably the policy change forbidding posts that promote competitor platforms, currently being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34040165
Subscription is definitely better than ad-driven.

Unfortunately connected devices require continuing development to close security holes.

At this point, though, the ability to run something locally and just not have the internet touch it is a huge perk.
From his point of view, he probably sees it as his son being groomed by an online cult, and will do anything in his power to vanquish it.
Fable -> JS is our main use case for F#; having had to hire for this, I wouldn't say it's accurate. Most are still focused on the .NET implementation side of things. Compilation to Python is nice, I've yet to figure out why we wouldn't just use Rust rather than F# -> Rust... Rust is a great language and it feels a little silly to abstract over it.
(Branch Education's) How does Computer Memory Work? [video]
I think that, by leaving Twitter alone, he already has. If we've learned something about Elon so far, from previous episodes of the cursed news cycle we all inhabit, is that he's vindictive and petty to an irrational extent (calling rescue officers who don't agree with him pedophiles, banning journalists who report on the jet account, ...)
This feels disingenuous.

Elon Musk was barely more than a nobody when he got involved with Tesla and started SpaceX.

Fenty was founded after Rihanna had scored countless hits and was basically a household name.
You've got to be kidding. How can it possibly make sense to expect retailers to pay more for security instead of having the police actually do their jobs?

If a city has descended so far into anarchy that taxpayers think that crime prevention and interdiction isn't worth spending money on then that city is ultimately doomed. The retailers are just going to leave and online purchasing will become the only option for most consumers products. The profit margins on laundry detergent and baby formula are just too low to cover a high level of private security.
Any suggested readings/links? I am merely going by his current public persona and whatever the Gates Foundation is doing.
…on a long dead architecture.
I have a very fond memories of Delphi, but if I need something custom nowadays (think utils, not something SAP-like) I just write it in PowerShell.
> I have to copy his profile url and paste it in my logged in instance.

It used to be different; in older versions of Mastodon, when you clicked on the Follow link on another instance, it asked for the name of your home instance, and redirected to a pre-filled follow screen on it. This was probably changed because it's an obvious phishing risk: it could redirect you to a fake domain which asked for your Mastodon account credentials (as if your login had expired), so it's not good to get people used to that kind of mechanic.
correct. only big brother must agree.
So, what was the last straw?
Possibly, I might be. (Hence, post processing magic, regarding white points and clipping.) Wasn't the final color space transform handled by the driver? I don't recall having to do any manual color transforms to present a linear RGB render target correctly on an sRGB display, at least. Haven't had the chance yet to experiment with high gamut displays, unfortunately, so I might be missing something.

Fortunately I mostly just deal with embedded graphics that do their technically incorrect blending math in unmanaged sRGB/display space. (:
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Also, <c-c> does not trigger InsertLeave.
I agree with you that the policy should be clearer and I agree there's a chilling effect and I agree that it's absurd. However I disagree that the policy is so unclear that Twitter would be at all likely to interpret it as applying to the specific case of Carmack's post, as OP is arguing. Using fallacious arguments like that weakens your position rather than strengthening it. We can do better.
Nvidia to drop support for GameStream in 2023
Dude's website is a sin against the future. heh.
It’s called the network effect.

Twitter, Facebook and WeChat are mainly valuable because others have it.

You may be immune to the network effect, but then again, you’re commenting on Hacker News. :-)