skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d agree with you except that linktr.ee was also referenced as a violation. That’s the part that makes me pretty sure that his original intention was to cover links to links.

Hey, can we have this discussion without referring to disagreements as “ludicrous”? It’s a moot point now, but still.
If that's how Twitter ends up being run it's nice and tidy to have that particular information on your permanent record.
A true display of acumen in how to make business decisions… (y)

Corollary: from the beginning, popularity is driving the Twitter venture rather than anything else.
> The story from Carmack is also based on his word. Unless you've worked with him directly, everything you know about John Carmack is based on some or other's words.

As an admirer I saw a few videos of Carmack and immediately pegged him as NPD, obviously so. GGGP's post supports my observations, re: bully, disparaging, can't admit when he's wrong, can't acknowledge the accomplishments of others, all of which predicts what we don't see, deep anxieties, extreme self-criticism, long-held grudges, envy, etc. And I respect Carmack for leaving Meta, but its hard to ignore that he joined in the first place when Meta already has a CEN (Chief Executive Narcissist).
Yeah, I actively resist it.

Running old versions of products that I own. I'm 100% on Linux now running pretty much everything on Wine which seems to be more compatible than Windows if you're going down this path.

Nothing good has come from subscription models and there's some fantastic FOSS options taking over where purchasable software once existed. I'd rather fund those.

As a developer I do like that there are people out there happy to have me attach a leech to their wallets.
Yeah, it's a nice balance to the murican propaganda.
I also don’t see how “person who has immigrated” constitutes defining people by multiple characteristics.
Also he can trivially determine the outcome of said poll if he wants too. It's incredibly insincere to even pretend to use them.
Fair. I guess I pedantically object to using the term "margin called" as a verb that implies it causes financial ruin. The margin call helps to avoid ruin.

But you're right, if he had to sell so much TSLA to meet margin requirements that he lost control, that would be bad.
>"Wankadia" is an intriguing surname, combining as it does "Arcadia", the ancient Greek idea of a rural utopia and "Wank".

This[0]:

CALIFORNIA: From Latin 'calor', meaning "heat" (as in English 'calorie' or
Spanish 'caliente'); and 'fornia', for "sexual intercourse" or "fornication."
Hence: Tierra de California, "the land of hot sex."

Should be right up your alley (yes, there's a double entendre there), friend. :)

Sadly, your sense of humor (and mine, for that matter) isn't very popular around here. And more's the pity.

[0] http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/23088.html
Fedora also solved this with dnf offline upgrades.
Last month he implied he was looking for a successor: https://www.axios.com/2022/11/16/elon-musk-twitter-ceo-new-l...

Although I'm not sure who would want to run Twitter now.
Musk launches poll asking if he should step down from Twitter
This is a consequence of most Linux package managers not caring if apps are running and updating their files anyways. Firefox does this because it would crash otherwise (as most other software does when you pull its files from underneath it). If it happens frequently, you must have automatic live updates enabled - maybe you don't on Fedora and that's why you don't see that happen?

On Windows, where no standard update mechanism exists, Firefox updates itself, so it does it only when it knows it's fully shut down (before it opens or after you close all windows).
As someone who has muted his account, it's already baked in that only his followers are voting.
> but there's no way we can afford the level of care you're demanding for every person close to end of life

You are referencing a pernicious myth - a classic selection bias. For the majority of illnesses we don’t know whether someone is near the end of their life or not. We all “know” that people tend to have expensive care just before they die, but the selection bias occurs because we ignore the counterfactual where people have expensive care and then go on to live for many years afterwards. Edit: A study found “most people who die aren’t expected to, and many people who are expected to die don’t. In particular, less than 10 percent of those who die within 12 months had a predicted mortality above 50 percent. And if beneficiaries are ranked by their predicted mortality, the group with a high chance of dying accounted for only 5 percent of total Medicare spending, and among them about half survived in any case, perhaps in part due to the health care they received. As the study's authors conclude, ‘These findings suggest that a focus on end-of-life spending is not, by itself, a useful way to identify wasteful spending.’” https://archive.ph/gUzzO

Also “total spending on end-of-life care is only 9 percent of the total cost of health care”. Chronic condition are where costs lie.

And US healthcare costs have not really risen: https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/why-conventional-wisdom-o...
HN loads faster than any website on the internet though.
Fascinating article, thanks! It didn't touch on why people want driverless trains. Personally, and I'm not a train engineer, but I think driverless trains would let them run trains every 15 minutes at all times of the day, not just rush hour.
That is not the case. In the past we've made huge improvements to human efficiency in terms of resource usage and waste output. We still can and will. Unless we destroy the economy before we can develop the required technology.
If he’s doing such things, then it’s not a platform worth staying on anyway.
Which is odd, as they all have that functionality.
Real ppl get credible death threats in real life because of his tweets is gleeful cruelty ...
I’m with the HOA on this. He knew the rules.
I think people haven't quite gotten yet what's going on.

Twitter fell out of the news cycle about two weeks ago because SBF outdid Musk on "CEO from Hell".

For the past year or so, whenever Musk has dropped out of the news cycle he has started acting out to get more attention.

Reinstating accounts like Trump's did not give Musk much of a boost, so Musk decided to try banning accounts.

Musk will have to find some exit eventually (he can't afford to spend $40B every time he gets bored) but if whatever he does is not outrageous enough to outrage people he'll just do something more outrageous.

For now we could quit posting links to Twitter and Mastodon. I followed a link to those "Twitter Files" and it was so awful to see the first post and a bunch of mindless comments from people who'd just seen the first post. Maybe people who read the whole thing might have something to say about it, but that cacophony reminded me why I say "the less people have to say, the more they are worried about being censored online". I clicked on the author's link and found the story on that author's twitter... Backwards. Reading the story backwards I did find there was a coherent (if boring) story there.

Twitter's ability to drain anything interesting out of content like that is a reason why Twitter would have been a rip-off at $40 million, never mind $40 billion.
Oh please please Elon give me a brown check because I voted against you.
Clown shoes behaviour.
I don't understand how come you get podcast content pushed to you, and I have to actively search for podcast content and can't find anything outside of the bubbles I listen to without going to external sources.

Also, arguably, shuffle is not broken, it is working as intended, as there is an intended method to shuffle the songs according to popularity, right? Unless they changed that.
In the six weeks he's been CEO, he totally gutted Twitter, and chased away who knows how many advertisers.

There's no reasonable way to right that ship.

I think he knows he's on the Titanic. I think he's looking for a pretense to get out, to stop this from taking TSLA down with it even further. TSLA is down -50% in three months, whereas the S&P500 is flat.
It's back up! The account is back up
Corruption is a very serious allegation and typically involves some form of quid-pro-quo (direct or indirect, tangible or non-tangible). There are contexts it likely applies, such as lobbyists and PACs getting favorable laws passed, wealthy donors getting ambassadorships, etc, but I can’t see how it applies in this case.

Are you suggesting that everyone involved from attorney generals to congressmen, senators, federal judges, and Supreme Court justices (not a one of which - including the two Trump appointees - formally registered their disagreement with the unanimous decisions/reviews or lack thereof) were, somehow, making decisions and getting something out of deciding/acting contrary to how they would have otherwise?
Very fair.

It almost seems a dream to a space nerd. A O'Neill protoge with a long term vision of "moving heavy industry into space to enable the Earth to turn into a garden planet" and uninterested in short term profits investing a billion dollars a year to pursue that vision.

They then successfully identified the first two steps along that road. 1: dramatically reduce the price of access to space through reusability. 2: return to the moon for exploration on the path to exploiting its resources to enable the space industry that's the long term goal. 3: LEO space station.

That SpaceX beat them to the first two goals should be cause for celebration and partnership and a move on to the next goal. Instead they've been fighting SpaceX with dirty tricks that luckily have failed.
Elon Musk has or a had large group of followers.
And that's exactly my point, that his new decisions seem petty and self-centered, where his old decisions (sinking his significant wealth into risky car and rocket companies and sleeping in the factory instead of buying a Caribbean island and living out his years in paradise) seemed to be more about lofty goals and ambition. Something changed. $40B could have done sooo much more for his previous ambitions; it's a crime to see it wasted like this. If he starts gold-plating his toilets, we'll know he's really gone forever. Thank goodness he wasn't born in the USA.
I just voted no. Guy needs to stay in charge and completely obliterate Twitter.
Well, doesn't it feel like twitter let you down now too? It didn't get run over by a bus but it sure feels shaky.

At least mastodon has a complete export your data feature available for you, without hassle.
Folks should vote no just to let him crater it and we can all move on.
Huh? That's not elucidating anything; it's not even a cursory summary. Big dogs eat little dogs isn't help.

Let's start here: what's legal isn't always ethical and vice versa. Second, when legal vs ethical goes sideways, the state has force. Individual's don't. That's important too. Finally what about fear as a basic component of human nature.

I'll leave it this way. Firefly the TV series played this up nice:

- escorts + paid sex was legal even a status card

- theft wasn't esp against the "man"

Mal wasn't having any of that because law enforcer wasn't legit as he saw it. Now what?
I don't think he'd dare. Everything he says internally gets leaked immediately, no way he'd order someone to mess with poll data.
Tesla is absolutely the same.
One has to wonder if they ever heard of "double edged sword".
It seems like only an idiot would bother read Musk's TOS. Twitter will just ban anyone for whatever reason and it's your problem to bother appeal. I honestly don't see why anyone would bother. Musk has turned the entire site into nothing more than a circus. I certainly don't need this bullshit drama in my life and I don't know why anyone would.
You don't need to be that young to push a button to launch a missile.
"It's a trap!"
clickable link to the podcast interview: https://lancerkind.com/series/scifi-thoughts/
"Cloud" isn't a reason for password managers IMO. Password managers don't need to sell you cloud subscriptions for you to use cloud in the same way desktop apps don't need to sell you OS licenses for you to use a desktop app.

And yes personally I avoid purchasing them (see post title) but it's just another thing to filter out. Especially since sometimes apps actually have useful/novel cloud integrations and other times they just want the subscription money from making you put it in their choice of cloud.
This man is having a legit meltdown. Go back to torturing monkeys to death and making your employee lives hell.
> 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.

software was (marginally) better before than now. congratulations, you fell for their trick
Do I have to be logged in to see threads now? I can only see the first tweet that ends in “Long thread emoji”
Care to share what GNOME extensions you like? I've gone so far as to hack its CSS files, but that's not a happy place to be.
Right. And I am saying, Deaf people, and other people who don't think they have a disability, are asking for us not to say that they do when they don't think they do. And the answer from some quarters seems to be, I think "objectivity" is on my side, screw your conception of your identity.

It's not that different from refusing to use someone's pronouns. I think that both are a mean way to respond to a fellow human.
Surprise, it's Blake Masters!
STOP THE COUNT!
Musk's hierarchy of disagreement:

Banned

Name calling
They'll slowly rehydrate and return to what they were pre-suspension. The same thing happened with Donald Trump's account after it was unsuspended.
It's amazing to me that an EV is causing a problem here. I think the intent of the HOA rule a quarter century ago might have been to prevent someone from leaving a work truck overnight on their driveway. But no one back then could have imagined a $100,000 pickup.

I've seen two Rivian's locally in the past month and I think they're beautiful. But for me personally they're not worth the price of two F-150 Lightnings however.
Well with officer involved shootings I can kind of understand the passive perspective, seeing as cops are not really acting on their own accord.
He's just got his devs to debug the new algorithm live. It's hilarious to see 47882394 people get banned or restricted in some way and every one of them thinks Elon hates them personally.

It's a mess but it's the right idea, a social network cannot be run with either hand curation or self curation. If something destroys Twitter it'll be some place with a better algo.
I use Obsidian for things that I can't or don't feel like remembering. Whenever I take notes on subjects, I often find myself forgetting the notes I took quickly. I tried different methods, refreshing methods, and more. But I found that by just doing the homework or practice problems I would remember the information for years. I still use Obsidian for a lot of things, journaling, pictures, etc. But not for recording information that if it was really that important to me I would just remember myself.
Interesting. Maybe he found the CEO he wants earlier than expected. That would make sense. If the poll says so he can step down immediately, and if not then he can still step down later whenever he feels like. Of course he still maintains ultimate control either way but he can go back to focusing on SpaceX and Tesla more, either immediately or maybe in a few months.

So in this case he may not believe he knows the outcome ahead of time, but it doesn't matter because the outcome is the same either way. Only the timing is different.
not too long ago he claimed that spam and bot accounts make up an estimated 11% of Twitter’s total user base, I don't think that has changed much so I agree these polls are simply a farce.
I think he very much expects people to vote yes.
He clearly has no idea how to run Twitter and this gives him a way to get out of this disaster while still somewhat saving face.
Mastodon is not really a twitter clone, there's a lot of features they disagree with and don't want.
apparently the policy is being reversed now https://twitter.com/realgeorgehotz/status/160462193543833600...

to say this is a shitshow is an insult to shitshows
There's no option "No you don't need to step down, just start running it well please, letting people say whatever they want".
If the pathology is adaptive in the social system, I doubt they’re independent.
The servers on the Mastodon website are servers that have been running for a long time, are trusted, and have a plan for what happens in an emergency (multiple people with full access to everything required)
Yes, I'm familiar with the woes of the particularly weak memory model. It's mostly a problem when writing lockfree data structures, as mutex acquisition and release executed the necessary fence instructions to maintain proper happens-before relations.
no, i never used such a product.

> Want a password manager? It's a SaaS now.

i have never had this problem because i implemented it myself in a few hours of work
I don’t know where you’re getting this from. The idea has nothing to do with only serving “a tiny slice of the ultra rich”. You’re adding all this dramatic extra stuff about society and reframing.
Depends what we mean by his high-level vision. If it's the "everything app", I'd say that vision is not bad by default, but the details matter.

But if his high-level vision is described by his actions so far... oh my God, yeah, no one would wanna touch that with a thousand mile pole.
Elon is a yes-man. Steve Jobs was a no-man.

Being a yes-man doesn't make you categorically stupid, but a no-man is strictly further along in some of the dimensions of intellect and creativity.
Times-of Israel banned for giving out assassination coordinates. !
I tried Kagi for a couple of weeks and the results were painfully inferior to Google's. I was really hoping they'd be good.
As a BEAM fan, Pleroma looks interesting, but "which fork of the Elixir project that is related to Mastodon" is... peak open source isn't it? In all the good ways and bad ways.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pleroma/comments/yu8xof/pleromas_re...

I wonder what the resource requirements of that look like compared to the default Mastodon thing.
> Secondary indicators seems to indicate DAU is surging

Which ones?
Curious they don’t ban “git”, given that it can be interpreted as referring to a mentally challenged person in a negative way.
Looks like it's back up already
It does seem so, and hilariously, it appears to be backfiring.

"As the saying goes, be careful what you wish, as you might get it"

https://notabird.site/elonmusk/status/1604623424164282368
Howard Hughes unfortunately developed allodynia after his aircraft accident, which is a hell I wouldn’t wish upon anybody. Not trying to say anything nice about his before life, but the insanity which followed after is… a bleak reality of what such agonizing physical suffering leads to.
"You'll Own Nothing and You'll Be Happy"
I saw the same thing when I voted when the post was 14 seconds old. I think it's just a cache thing and a great many people saw they were "first".
Their Substack in the event their Twitter account goes dark.

https://kenklippenstein.substack.com/
Why so afraid of masto? Twitter seems way better
He can likely manipulate the results on the backend anyway. This is a real cowardly way to make decisions, by pretending they come from someone else.
Everybody, vote NO, Elon Musk as CEO of Twitter is too much fun, let's not end it...
Show HN: I created an SDK to embed ChatGPT created surveys to web pages
Because nearly every article posted on HackerNews comes from a website whose entire purpose is to promote electric vehicles. The "naysayers" in the comments offer a balancing view.

You'll note it's RARE that the article is negative towards EVs, only the comments. Because it's pro-EV, all the time.
Yes, but given the information in pg's comment, you could easily reconstruct the string "follow me @username on Instagram," which is very clearly a violation of the policy.
How the world changed. I was heavily downvoted for a comment like this few months ago.
LOTT doesn’t usually link to TT. They reupload the videos to twitter.
Now Musk is running a poll on whether or not he should step down as head of Twitter. Claims he will abide by the results. Hrrmmm.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097
On the grand scale of things, Musk's twitter behaviour isn't even a nanohitler, well bellow Bill Gates, the Koch brothers or Murdock and not even close to basically any world leader (Tony Blair, George W Bush, Barrack Obama, Emmanuel Macron). Don't overuse words like "abhorent" unless you want to seem like you're hysterically overreacting.
I'm sorry, can someone with serious business acumen please eli5:

What is it again CEOs do? Because I thought they got paid the big bucks to make decisions.

/s
Right after a massively unpopular policy decision.

He can't control the narrative anymore.
Former Real Madrid and Hungary star Ferenc Puskás stated: "The greatest player in history was Alfredo Di Stéfano. I refuse to classify Pelé as a player. He was above that."

https://web.archive.org/web/20190627023833/https://www.fifa....

Alfredo Di Stéfano:

"The best player ever? Pele. Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are both great players with specific qualities, but Pele was better," Di Stefano told El Colombiano.

Di Stefano played over 300 games for Real Madrid, winning eight La Liga titles, and five European Champions Cups.

http://en.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/169585.html
There are currently almost a million Yes votes, so you'll have to stand in a very long line for your punishment.
Thank you for your conference announcement
You can run compositor locally.
If he steps down now his sycophants will just be able to claim that as the cause for the company further collapsing after he leaves, and not the braindead management decisions he's been making up to this point.
To be honest, I kinda hope he sticks with it if only because I think he's been great for the adoption of Mastodon and other alternatives.
I am running Akkoma which is an Elixir server with Mastodon-compatible API. Super fast and runs well with my 10€ two server Hetzner setup.

https://akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma/
So, any guesses as to whether Starlink will start filtering access to Mastodon instances and other Twitter competitors? Or do you folks believe that would be a bridge too far for Elon?
Elon Musk posted "Vox Populi, Vox Dei" on 19 Oct and 19 Nov.

Today is 19 Dec, and in 12 hours he'll post again that the people have spoken. He's playing some sort of game.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1582778449583693836

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593769469741932544
Damn, startup people were like the last crowd that might have had any sympathy for elon. way to alienate your last non-fashy constituency.