skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) allows you to use, and share various scripts. The scripts are written in Lua.

Stuff like this is why I can't take people who argue against systemd because of the Unix philosophy seriously.

The idea of this mythical program which does exactly one thing is just that, mythical. Yeah, modularity is important, but these programs are also made for real people who'd rather just use a command flag than figure out how to chain 50 different programs together in a brittle Rube Goldberg machine to get the result they want. Just look at how many command flags GNU ls has!

The Unix philosophy is a good one, but I'd rather judge program's based on their actual usability.
Most developers in Uber use local builds anyway because of input lag. Dev pods were mostly good to prevent laptop from working at 100% fan volume at all times though.
Libel requires saying something you don’t believe is true. I absolutely believe they are a scam based on their statements, thus it’s not Libel.
And now he's talking about his kid's ideas for new Pokemon instead of Elon's BS. Seems like a nice place!
My pet theory is that the cybertuck is just an excuse to start prototyping a future martian ground transport, in which case atmospheric drag may be less of a concern.
That's quite the contrast between the Japanese being known as feverish world travelers, and also borderline germaphobes. Who can blame them. Airports seem like ground zero for covid transmission, and who wants to be sick and quarantined in a foreign country during their whole vacation? No to mention potentially missing work?
Without a doubt. I think a more eloquent and concise style could capture a bit more and maybe provide a little more intrigue, but yeah, there’s no way a small blog post will capture the works of people like Camus.
The interesting takeaway is that this means the mastodon migration is having a notable enough effect that Twitter is now blocking it.
Expensive enough to try and shirk the bills, it seems[1].

I would say that 95% of my professional circle was on Twitter 3 months ago. Today, it feels like less than 50%. Of that same circle, I only know one who paid $8 for Twitter Blue, and he canceled this month.

Outrage-driven engagement is definitely happening. But it needs to happen on Twitter, and in a way that doesn't threaten Twitter's ad sales, for it to be of any value to Twitter.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/technology/elon-musk-twit...
You are clearly uninterested in having any sort of conversation and merely wish to ram though your own conversation to score "zingers", never mind the pathetic childish namecalling, so good day to you.

You know why these threads tend to derail? Stuff like this. I don't even care all that much about the entire thing, but you know, it's kind of interesting. "Replies" such as yours make it impossible to have an interesting conversation.
This is exactly true. I was a kid (like, around 10 years old) who ran a handful of online forums, on one of those free managed-hosting "proboards"-likes. A lot of these patterns bring me back to the mid-200Xs.
That is not what happened at all. In the first poll, he asked when the journalists should be unsuspended and the options were (a) now, (b) tomorrow, (c) in 7 days, and (d) longer. Choice (a) got 43%, not the majority. Choices (c) and (d) totaled 52.5%, which means the 𝗺𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 voted for a minimum suspension of 7 days. Elon then essentially invoked "rank choice" voting and ran a new poll with only the top two choices (a) now, and (b) 7 days. "Now" won, and he made good on it.
Does Hacker News have 'significant popularity'?
The time to "not lose face" was months ago.
This is common post ban, it's not as simple as a flag.
Free speech is the horcrux of silicon valley.

No one date touch this.
I don't think he's trying to anger people. He just can't help himself making impulsive executive decisions, and there'd be minimal pushback internally. This stuff is coming out hour by hour.
Meh, private company. He can do whatever he wants. Don't like it? Leave.
Firefox doesn't update itself. Your automatic background updates update Firefox.

Consider going to your settings and changing your update preferences. Firefox only shows the "please restart" page when it's already been updated, in your case (from a PPA) by something else like your OS upgrade service.

It'll also keep your existing tabs working as best it can, only new tabs will show the restart page. You should restart anyway because the underlying libraries have been swapped out from under Firefox while it's running that makes Firefox VERY crash prone for very obvious reasons.
Way more being born lucky, and abusing lucky timing to abuse positions with enough money. No where near a genius level anything.
A one-ish off login with other big instances is a tolerable solution for me.
I'd actually love to work with COBOL professionally, my problem is that COBOL jobs still pay a substantially low amount of money compared to jobs using modern stacks.

For something so "critical" you'd think the base salaries would start at $250k/year; but I guess we aren't at that level of desperation yet.
Also, smaller company can probably go a long way just on codespaces. If GitHub can, 99% of projects out there likely can too.
We don't have to force anything. We could just stop subsidizing livestock ranchers billions of dollars per year, plus subsidizing feedstock farmers billions per year.
I had a theory about this about 5 years ago as I started noticing that there was a correlation with my friends who had autism. I got a lot of heat for it though when I mentioned it, even as someone who is lgbt myself.
Technical details on the Musicstore, per one of the engineers
I believe in the specific case of L4/Alpha, the PALCode did perform the context switches. Granted, I doubt it was as robust as the VMS or Tru64 PALCode versions that were production-ready.
> This is a person who could not care much about ideology until ideology reached his house and destroyed it

I think this is made all the more powerful by being imaginary: if there really was some organized group he'd at least have some way of knowing who’s in it or what they do. Since it’s basically a conspiracy theory driven by not wanting to consider what he could have done differently, there’s nothing falsifiable, he can find signs of it almost anywhere, and anyone who tries to talk him out of it is suddenly a traitor. Since his son was trans, there’s an entire preexisting opposition group all ready to provide reassurance any time his faith wavers, too.
Murdoch is the worst possible example, being in it up to his eyeballs. It's especially the case in Australia, where his empire started and still dominates. This article is one of many, its headline and opening line being:

"Special report: Rupert Murdoch, a hands-on newspaperman"

"To illustrate the extent to which Rupert Murdoch used to micro-manage his newspapers,..."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-newscorp-murdoch-papers-i...

The article is past tense, but there's no reason for it to have changed.

The difference between Musk and Murdoch is that Murdoch lets other people do the talking, even if they are his words.
He undoubtedly can for soccer-related visual, audio and physical stamina. I wonder if he can do it for other things, though.
except i have some protected songs that i cant play because the provider went out of business
To me, that just sounds like an pretty good argument to improve feature detection. Freezing user-agents and improving feature-detection aren't mutually-exclusive.
> Is there still any doubt about that?

I think there is. Not so much because of Musk himself, but because network effects businesses are hard to kill. Exhibit A being Jack's years of vague, indifferent, part-time management.

I think he could continue to fuck it up for a while, find a reason to declare victory, and turn it over to a department-store mannequin to run while he goes back to his real job(s). It would slowly reconstitute itself and keep chugging along. As comparison, I note that Tumblr and Flickr are still going concerns.

That said, he's been far more diligent in breaking it than I ever expected, so he may well manage to destroy it.
Here’s the link: https://mas.to/@paulg
Yeah, i am pretty distrustful of any "news" website still reporting on low-hanging fruit such as trans swimmers.
That's mostly an effect of the title, which included the word 'dead' until I finally realized we needed to take it out.
Discussed at the time:

Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22690229 - March 2020 (289 comments)

also
Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24602741 - Sept 2020 (13 comments)
Out of curiosity what about COBOL appeals to you? My first job out of college was working with RPG on an AS/400 (so I'd consider it at least a cousin) and the experience was awful.
Will everyone who argued that paulg broke the rules with his last tweet now admit they were wrong or will they now argue the unbanning isn't justified?
I would not be surprised if he snaps like Howard Hugues.

He should never have spent so much time on Twitter, the interactions with his fans and his haters are not good for his mental health.
You can fix policies, but trust is very difficult to build back. Elon is very lucky there's not a viable alternative to Twitter, otherwise there would be a true Myspace to Facebook style exodus.
I think you're the dog being wagged by the tail. He's probably realized what a clusterfuck it's been, and he wants a cheap way out without losing face, and a poll where the answer is "Elon has to go" is just that way out.

Maybe he's even sicced his bots to vote yes.
Ah, wish you'd hit them. Armed robbers deserve a quick end.
Have you ever tried to start a business? Myself and five of my friends simply can't afford that level of health insurance, even with our resources pooled together.

Just because you say the word "business" doesn't make insurance cheaper for small players.
In the doxxing affair, Elon said any indirect links count as direct links because it's effectively the same thing and it's an attempt to do ban evasion. I assume he has the same mindset/rationale here.
> And yet, lots of people in pre-Musk times said "Twitter is not a government body, it's a private company, it can ban whoever it wants to ban". Now these people are leaving in droves.

Usually, this was followed by "and users are free to leave if they disagree". Nobody said you have to accept these decisions.
Considering how consistent he’s been with his other proclamations. I find his sincereness about this doubtful.
I agree. At least now the conversion can move to "what are the limits of free speech and why?".

And I think anyone would be hard pushed to explain why journalists and people discussing other social media platforms should be a limit.
The editorial pages of WSJ are definitely conservative. The news side tends to lean center left. As a conservative and subscriber to Wall Street journal for the past 6 years, the news side regularly butts heads with editorial side.
True he’s more of a “I am the news” guy.
You mean the Paul Graham that was banned today from Twitter for "violating Twitter rules" ?
https://twitter.com/nearcyan/status/1604598879973883905
True. One feature that was missed about BASIC on those early computers: you’d turn on the Apple ][ and you were greeted by the BASIC prompt and you could just start typing your program.

This was before floppy disks… you could load a program from cassette tape.
> I think this indicates he's tired of Twitter already.

He’s also facing a huge amount of backlash, pent-up backlash, that he hasn’t experienced before or more successfully insulated himself from before. For example, when he was recently booed off stage.

I saw someone comment elsewhere that he is also highly leveraged, and that if Twitter tanks and Tesla’s stock keeps falling, he stands to lose a lot of money and even potentially control of Tesla. I haven’t looked into the veracity of the argument, but it seems plausible that he’s in over his head in more ways than one.
I don't understand how anyone could look at everything Elon has done around the Boring Company and still think he's some sort of genius.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expos%C3%A9

lol.
Yeah... aside from Hacker News running on a single threaded server, the language it runs in isn't very efficient, and the application uses text files and RAM rather than a relational database, so scalability and data synchronization are always an issue.

It's great for what it is but pg's application design philosophy seems to have stopped at "macros go brrrr" so it has definite limits as well.
>Poster’s Heart

Thank you for making me explain to my wife why I was cackling at my phone.
Kinda hard to find info on if. Found a few thing a though:

386 Hummingboard by A.I. Architects Inc. (supposedly $7,000-$19,000 in 1986 w/16mb)
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10263350...

https://groups.google.com/g/net.lang.lisp/c/y-NxUbbwxH4?pli=...
https://books.google.com/books?id=EjwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=P...
https://books.google.com/books?id=izwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=P...
input lag like when typing? I use remote env on vscode and afaik it’s locally editing and syncing after the fact for lint, compilation etc
Look, if you want to claim you are governing by poll and have people believe it then you can't change the rules after you start no matter how bad they are. It's far too easy to manipulate the result by adding or removing options after you know the voting trends. It's not as if this was that important of a decision anyway. There was no downside to simply respecting the first poll result and counting it as a lesson to think about the options a little harder next time.
Another reason is that this is the platform Elon Musk himself claims is full of bots. If that's the case, wouldn't it make online polls on that platform pretty untrustworthy?
This slow down is real.

I still clearly remember, 40 years ago(!), waiting to turn left across oncoming traffic, seeing in my rear view mirror the car behind me being rear-ended, and, looking forward, deciding I could just make a quick left turn. I particularly remember seeing what looked like plastic from the tail light flying away from that car.

Yay teenaged adrenal gland! I made the turn and immediately pulled over. I was shaking.

The only other times I knew my life was at risk it was slow and embarrassing. Nothing like NickRandom's experience.
People buy and sell crypto in other currencies. It’s possible for the dollar to crash without destroying crypto, though it seems unlikely for the dollar to crash without severe global issues that would likely take down crypto as well.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2000/07/the-unluckiest-m...
"In fact, Chatterbox has since learned, Goldstein almost certainly did not die in the Holocaust."
> Amazing this guy was ready to get on his knees for Putin up until January.

What do you mean exactly?

> For sure he has a soft spot for Autocrats both in Moscow and in San Francisco

The West establishment has a soft spot for autocrats: whitewashing the wealth of oligarchs, buying cheap oil stolen from common people, selling anti-protest crowd control gear and tear gas, etc, etc; even though "lots of stuff are known about Putin since 2000 till January 2022, some perhaps even worse than Ukraine invasion". I don't think Lex has done or has expressed a wish to do anything comparable to that.
He should sit down with some conservative Christian parents and ask them if the culture wars un-gay’d their children.

Anyway I’m not inclined to believe this given that he’s cozied up to people who are openly hostile to trans people (calling them groomers etc) rather than “Trans people deserve our love and support but actually are just confused we can fix them!”
> I still think Elon is a smart guy

Against all available evidence
Type Theory (As a Foundation of Math)
Outside of the absurdly conservative WSJ opinion pages, I wouldn't even say that. The Wall Street Journal is the paper of Wall Street, it has a slight inherent pro-business bias but besides that it reports the news fairly and accurately.

The rest of Murdoch's business empire is nothing like it, compare WSJ.com to FoxNews.com at any given point and you'll see a drastic difference.
Yes, absolutely. Being frugal is one thing, but there's also the mental baggage of having these renewing financial decisions stacking up. I am begrudgingly a Photoshop/Lightroom subscriber but resented the monthly fee to add Premiere and paid $x00 for DaVinci Resolve Studio. I definitely appreciated their model of having a generous free tier so I could learn the software and have it prove its worth, then a one-off charge buy it properly (even though I barely need any of the unlocked features).
The first thing any new CEO of Twitter should do as a litmus test of their freedom to act would be to ban Musk. If that sticks Twitter might regain some trust. Plenty of stuff Musk has done in the last couple of weeks would be bannable offences by their own TOS.
How is this in any way relevant to the original point being made? None of this precludes what was said from being true.
That’s an incredibly generous take.

Why not just develop the thing instead of playing this “oh, we didn’t fail, we were just doing this other thing all along” game.
If you mute, the rewtweets will be masked unless you reveal them. I saw this one because it was on HN before it closed. I never saw the previous polls until they were closed.
Amazing how the “silent majority” can never actually be found but always agrees with person invoking them.
I noticed something weird once about time perception.

I kept thinking I was getting texts at work, because I'd suddenly become aware of my lit-up phone screen out of the corner of my eye. But then I'd go to pick it up and it was off, with no text.

What I realized after a while of this is (assuming I didn't have a unique software bug) that the phone must have been lit up the entire time and was then turning off, but my real-time perception was actually a fraction of a second behind reality. So my brain would notice a state change on the screen and "play a memory" of the phone being suddenly lit up, which I experienced as real-time perception.
What does Paul Graham have to do with my comment?
"The Gossamer Albatross is a human-powered aircraft built by American aeronautical engineer Dr Paul B MacCready's company AeroVironment. On June 12, 1979, it completed a successful crossing of the English Channel to win the second Kremer prize worth £100,000 (equivalent to £538,000 in 2021)"
...
"In still air, the required power was on the order of 300 W (0.40 hp), though even mild turbulence made this figure rise rapidly"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacCready_Gossamer_Albatross
Vote by deleting your account.
Yes, and there are other interviews where basic engineering/physics knowledge comes across as well. Many technical people saw it as some kind of shibboleth, and while I think that's a bit silly -- many CEOs are technical, especially in this day and age -- I also think there is a good reason why he became the posterchild for "first principle thinking" and "best part is no part." He didn't just give those concepts lip service, he lived them, and that is special.

Corporate structure pushes every executive and manager sharply against these concepts no matter what their technical background. Being wrong (or effectively wrong) about first-principles will get you fired, but nobody gets fired for chasing comps like a second-rate real estate salesman. Being wrong about "best part is no part" will get you fired, but nobody gets fired for kitchen-sink hedging. Large companies are risk averse to a fault and it's no secret why: the optimal career strategy for management is always to favor non-attributable failure over the possibility of outsized success.

Every technical person who has seen these problems in action secretly dreams of becoming "benevolent dictator" for a day and defying the ossified risk aversion. It's why many of us are on ycombinator, because startups are a path for this kind of play. Musk was crazy enough and lucky enough to win the startup lottery, double-down all-in on two technical dream plays, and win both of them. Who among us wouldn't want that?

Unfortunately, it would seem that being crazy enough to live this dream also made him crazy enough to try... whatever he thinks he is doing with Twitter.
Ah... guilty as charged. I'll go drink some engine oil now, I feel a bit rusty. Need to recharge soon as well.
Yep

Plurality is not necessarily majority
Western society is reverting to one which bases consensus on feelings rather than reason.
Honestly, I think that being Twitter CEO could really be what Lex Friedman was put on Earth to do.

https://mobile.twitter.com/lexfridman/status/160462708738566...
It's hyperbole. Tesla and SpaceX were insane accomplishments in moribund industries (the first successful auto startup in 80 years, and pretty much singlehanfedly revitalizing space travel which was basically dead, people with way more resources tried and failed at both of them). That being said, the Twitter acquisition is the work of a petulant child
It will be great seeing how many bots get honey trapped by this.
Yes, pretty much. Anyone who's run a community or been involved in one with more than a few hundred people understands that one of your most important jobs is working with community members to implement unpopular policies - which is to say, people will take their medicine if you make a good case that it'll help them!
The "Privacy – Copilot for Individuals" section under https://github.com/features/copilot does say that Copilot collects code snippets if allowed by telemetry.

> User Engagement Data
When you use GitHub Copilot it will collect usage information about events generated when interacting with the IDE or editor. These events include user edit actions like completions accepted and dismissed, and error and general usage data to identify metrics like latency and features engagement. This information may include personal data, such as pseudonymous identifiers.

> Code Snippets Data
Depending on your preferred telemetry settings, GitHub Copilot may also collect and retain the following, collectively referred to as “code snippets”: source code that you are editing, related files and other files open in the same IDE or editor, URLs of repositories and files path.
Well, I would be exceptionally overjoyed if a Star Trek-like utopia like the one you describe does come to pass. If technology can solve world hunger, remove dictators, and remove dead-end jobs, I would be very happy and all for it. To some extent it does do that by providing education where it before did not exist.

I hope what you are describing is right. Nevertheless, I still advocate an extreme amount of caution involving new technology, because it can also be used to subjugate as well as free, and conquer as well as liberate. If we can shift to a responsible, voluntary society where we are much more responsible and no one has to work, that would be great.

I am a little more skeptical. I am not 100% anti-technology, but I do not believe it is the panacea that you make it out to be.
Or, it requires malicious disregard of the truth. Saying something you don't have good evidence of would count, even if you don't know for sure it's false.
I thought hn was all about the generous take.
Didn't the original PC have a 8-bit data bus? A 68k had a 16-bit data bus. (Not sure what the Z8000 had though)
It was a leading cause of death for the same age range it’s a leading cause of death now.

Saying it was or wasn’t a leading cause of death overall is quite arbitrary, though it was at a minimum a common cause of death back then.
I don't think they are expected to have technical merit, but Carmack at least has that going for him.
Oh good, a conspiracy theory.
Disagree with the GP as much as you want. Don't say it like that, at least not here.