skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think even your critical statement gives Elon too much credit. I think he might genuinely think he is doing good, but is just completely out of his depth and is at the same time convinced that he will succeed in improving it. Any thread by Yishsn has more insight to offer on content moderation than Musk is exhibiting and could have easily predicted the failed he makes. Mental issues or his (warranted) arrogance from his incredible past success are clouding his judgment. He also has clearly a lot of penned up culture war anger and might not be aware of that bias either. His behavior is just too erratic to seem like any kind of evil plan. After all he tried to get out of buying Twitter fort months.
I’m not sure that crowd is tech-savvy enough to be on Twitter in the first place
Again, you are benefiting from transparency of his opinions to form your own opinion. I think you being able to disagree is valuable, and I’m not really trying to change your mind either.
Yes, in part -

If it's a _service_ I'm happy to pay a subscription (e.g. streaming TV series, an ad-free version of a podcast, Kagi search etc...).

If it's software - I will try to avoid the product if it requires a subscription, and instead either purchase software outright (with the expectation that I may need to in 3-4 years again for a major rewrite) or stick with Open Source alternatives.
> Surely after this past week's purges and this "policy" nobody could believe anything of the sort

Don't be absurd.
Yes, I agree with their approach. I don't want Nazi-adjacent people in my field and I don't think they deserve a platform.

But it is important to point out this is exactly how federation is supposed to work and people who support freedom of speech should support that.
This is a great page.

After a long time trying on Mac, I found running Microsoft SoftCard CP/M on the Virtual ][ Apple II emulator emulator worked best. The Virtual Kaypro at http://sims.durgadas.com/kaypro/kaypro.html (Java-based) works well also, but keeps you confined to a Kaypro's 9-inch diagonal screen.
> * (Personal opinion) The cost of fission plants is mostly a consequence of regulation, and this dominates the financial aspect.

Do you have any evidence to actually back that up? This is being brought up every time we talk about nuclear and every time someone asks for evidence there's nothing. All the serious analyses of the cost, actually show this is not the case. I mean this very article explains why, nuclear reactors are thermal plants based on a steam engine. The article directly mentions even if the reactor is free they are more expensive than wind or solar, in other words just the steam engine is already too expensive.
It is serious. I think it's an argument that has enough internal sense and structure that it can't just be called a stupid argument and tossed out.

I'm here to explore the ideas around this, not trash nor proselytize any particular idea for the sake of it. You won't get very far by starting with comparing deafness to having been raped or having your leg blown off. Rape survivors are not a distinct cultural group.

Take deafness and ability entirely out of the equation for now.

People who speak sign language as a native language are a distinct cultural group with a long and separate heritage from the hearing world. For example, American Sign Language is related to French Sign Language and the speakers of each can understand each other somewhat. While British Sign Language is totally different and American and British deaf people can't even easily speak to each other in sign, only in writing. There's a whole cultural world there, as vibrant and functional as hearing ones.

They get along fairly well. People born deaf and raised in a deaf community generally have better outcomes socially and economically compared to deaf people raised in isolation in hearing culture. Yes, they cannot hear, but they don't feel they're missing anything and, functionally speaking, they'd survive on their own just fine without hearing.

I was born quite hard of hearing, and I am going deaf as I get older. I was raised hearing. Bitterly ironically, I'm musically talented and it is one of my great pleasures. I am also linguistically talented, particularly with phonetics. (Taught myself in my teens to improve my speech and it became a fascination.) And yet I am losing the capacity to sense those things.

Trust me. I get it. I get it very well. The deaf have no idea what they're missing.

And yet Deaf culture is a precious thing that also deserves to exist.

It is an impasse and a seeming paradox and I don't have an answer. Raise every child hearing and allowing sign and the culture to die out is undesirable just as people who could hear music and speech being unable to hear them is.
Unfortunately for those who idolised Elon, their world view is beginning to crumble. His actions are not justifiable. The way he treats people, the way he rules his companies, the way he governs his new "free speech" platform. The man is a tyrant. He's idolised for the things he's achieved but if he had not achieved them would he be given the same benefit of the doubt?

Hypocrisy. The way people treat this man versus others who act the same, it's two faced. The who's who of silicon valley were championing him right up until a few hours ago. Everything that he says or does that is deplorable, people eat up. But I guess if he's "changing the world" he should get to be a dick right?
TSS was a sensation for adolescent me.
Advent of Code progresses to the point where simple/brute force solutions fail to work and you have to use better datastructures/algorithms.

Other performance work has dependencies tending to be tied to a database, networked services, etc that's not so bite-sized and sharable.

My early descent into programming was constantly battling with performance getting a 1.79 MHz Atari 8-bit to do interesting things in a 1/30 second. Maybe retrocomputing and writing software for vintage machines or recreated new machines that work like them might be a good challenge.
There are no must-read books sir, there are also people who never read any books and are doing just fine.
I wouldn't have known I didn't hear about it
To start with, "don't deserve [...] because employees created all the value" is a straw man. Lots of other value Out There that they exploit that comes from other places than their employees' labor but also isn't "created" by the founder. Also lots of reasons people shouldn't be rich, whether or not they are founders and whether or not they "created" value.
I’m self hosting those, thanks.
I did notice your offering in the prices.

Maybe you could benefit from clearer price ? For instance not mixing group prices with prices for single accounts?

Idk I suck at that, but I know all those services pretty well and I was having difficulty to follow prices.
Vim opens really fast on my desktop. Small and powerful software still exists.
Then today, he said

> I don't think [Musk] realizes that the techniques that work for cars and rockets don't work in social media
There should be a UI shortcut for bluechecks who want to post a dramatic tweet that they're leaving Twitter and then stay. Making the most common actions on the site easier would boost usability.
That he can't do this and drop it.
> people implementing these changes are still working there because they have bills to pay.

More like they have severe visa issues.
>Nor do I think he's the villain a lot of people try to make him out to be

So how do you explain his targetting of Fauci? Or the horrible things he said about that cave diver?
I just flat out refuse to use it if I feel the subscription is rent-seeking. So far I don't feel like I've missed out on any must-haves because of this policy.

One thing I'd like to pay for but won't because of rent-seeking subscription is Roland's VST audio plugins. I'd happily pay hundreds of dollars for them if I could BUY them, but that's not an option. Instead, I'm holding on to my Roland XV5080 hardware synthesizer module, instead of replacing it with the software alternative, which I'd very much want.
Hi jacquesm, I noticed that you have both a strong background in business and a negative opinion of Elon Musk. As someone who is interested in understanding different perspectives, I would love to hear more about your thoughts on this topic. Could you please share more about the actions or decisions by Elon that have led you to form this negative opinion? I'm not looking to engage in an argument, but rather just to gain a better understanding of your perspective. Thank you for your time and consideration.
This person here didn't know. Thank you, need to try it out.
I had only known Leo from TV and the web. I was on vacation and during a long drive and found him on AM radio in the car and was delighted. Forget Howard Stern, Leo LaPorte is the King of all media.

Until COVID I was in the Valley almost yearly. I have family in Marin and it's still on my bucket list to be an audience member on Leo's show some day. I have a close friend here in Michigan who has done it and she told me not to question whether it would be worth it or not.
Interestingly though, the accounts for Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram are still on Twitter, but the one for Mastodon isn't. I wonder why...
Twitter has less bots yets more activity than ever. In what dimension do these Hacker news posters live?
Yes. At Deckmill (https://deckmill com) we hated subscriptions for language products, so we built a language product that you buy once and get the content forever (much like a book).
Despite what you’ve been told, Twitter is just a platform. Political ideologies won’t be affected by whether it succeeds or fails. Indeed, failure may even reinforce the woke bubble because no moderation is toxic to advertisers and you’ll have proof.
I think it is generally understand that the best football clubs would far stronger than the best national teams. At the very least club team players play and train together the whole year, while national teams only have a few weeks every couple of years.
Alas there's been ongoing press-back against doing the thing the web does, which would be to have a way to registerProtocolHandler with your fedi instance (& be able to quickly flip sites into web protocol mode).

One of the more recent WontFixes, citing previous issuee, https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14187
Just going to leave this here for you @pg

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604593057676300288?s=61...
Upgrading my old Chumby 8 Linux kernel part 1: U-Boot
So her brand has a higher market cap than L'Oréal, Estée Lauder, etc?
> I don't know, I've heard so many stories of people that, after 90+ years, are just bored of life.

Would they still feel that way if they had youthful energy and a more elastic mind, I wonder? Hard to tell. I myself hope I'm more like Donald Knuth in my old age - still curious and learning and progressing.
The article contains a number of serious factual errors (Binance sold their FTT, they're not still holding it and pretending it has value). It also implies different things are the same (e.g. BNB != BSUD). I am not sure if that's because of honest ignorance or a dishonest attempt to deceive, but it isn't good either way...
During the penalty shootout, where teams traditionally stay quietly on the center circle and keep to themselves, the Dutch team decided to intercept and harass the Argentine penalty takers going to the penalty stop. This kind of unsportmanship was never seen before (Dutch always innovating lol) and understandably the Argentines were quite peeved.
I believe is important. There are many ways to "personalize" learning, including web quests. I mention that because, given some goal - in particular,a goal of interest to the learner, a quest enables self exploration and discovery.Through that, relationships to topics of lower interest raise those topics for future quests.
Good point, well, too late for that I guess.

But at the rate Twitter is heading for the scene of the crash I don't think it will matter for much longer.
Something I explained to my children today: don’t tweet about things you explained to your children today apropos of nothing, it makes you sounds like a jackass
Hi, glad you like the vid etc. and thanks for the nice comments. Unfortunately I don't think I can share the code due one small, albeit essential, bit that I think may have interlectual property attached to it (I never did find out for sure). Think of it as a constant that keeps the model running except its not a constant.

I am not a nuclear physicist but out son is (he designs reactor cores), he helped me to understand some of the maths. The ZX81 code does model the various interactions in tempreture, radioactivity etc. and remarkably, once the code snippet mentioned above was added the model moves quickly to criticality and returns again after a rod change etc. I couldn't quite believe it really. However, once this was achieved in go (golang), I just ported it to C and used Z88DK to target a ZX81.
> I wouldn't expect them to keep updating it because it obviously makes them no money.

What do you mean by this exactly? There are always new customers to sell to, so of course you can make money by updating your product.

Will the buyer continue to receive free software updates forever? No, probably not. Eventually they may have to pay an upgrade fee. But the great part about upgrade fees compared to subscription is that the choice and timing of whether or not to upgrade is in the buyer's hands. Whereas with a subscription, it's a forced update, with the timing determined by the software developer, not the buyer. You pay yearly, or the software stops working now.
Remember when Elon baselessly called someone a peadophile.

Repeatedly.

So eccentric.
Yeah, that's too fucking much. I've been watching with a curious eye the developments at Twitter.

I'm already not an active user, but I won't condone this kind of behavior.
Well on my older 4770 PC, Windows doesn't bug me to upgrade to 11, since it knows it can't.
> I can't identify a single person in history who has dared to risk so much, personally and financially, in support of freedom in many forms.

The guy literally banned a bunch of people for making fun of him shortly after he took over, then proceeded to ban journalists for... doing journalism.

Now he's censoring any mention of competitors in an obviously anti-competitive move

What are you talking about?
NCAA is predicted to go for antitrust exemptions as well as lobby for legislation to dump the requirement to pay student athletes - all things Baker is expected to do, leveraging his political connections as a former governor and figure in the republican party.
It's not a "ploy". Preventing people from promoting their presence on other platforms is the literal stated purpose of the policy. Clearly someone who agrees with the policy would not label that "a place of bad intentions". So if you were to argue with them charitably, you would have to understand why they think it's not bad and convince them that it is bad, not just state it. Of course I agree with you, and I think there are plenty of good arguments to be made! But starting off accusing people of having bad intentions is counterproductive if you want to convince them.
I remapped pressing jk kj kk jj to escape. As a regular vim user, only sometimes do I actually press i to insert, usually it's cw, a, s, etc.
Do you even use twitter? Activity is the same as it's ever been. I think many people are overstating how many people are "fleeing" because of their personal disdain for Musk.

If they were actually concerned with people fleeing why would they do something which is more likely to make creators leave?
Try to search for recepies :) I also see long novels which seem to disguise the ridiculous amount ads which google seems to like as well (these are mostly provided by no other than themselves!).
Agreed, this is an extremely simplistic view and write up. No references to any grounding theory or heuristics, wide use of hyperbole, and now this photo… good grief.

I’m not sure why this was posted to HN.
I think it's all of the languages people complain are "too complex": to be able to deal with more of program's complexity, you take on more language complexity.

e.g.:

• Encapsulation. Keeping implementation details private is pointless when you deal with a small program (the implementation is right there on your screen), but it becomes valuable when otherwise it'd be too hard to check which details you can change and which you can't.

• Strong type systems. All the types are obvious when the program fits in your head, and seem like unnecessary boilerplate. However, when the program is large, it off-loads a bunch of sanity checks from your head to the compiler.

Same goes for design patterns. Writing an `AbstractWidget` and `WidgetFactory` when you have two widgets to deal with is overcomplicating. But when you have 50 widgets, you need something to avoid drowning in copypaste and spaghetti if/elses.
Because of global warming? The idea is fairly straightforward:

- less space efficient means less fuel efficient which means heavier carbon footprint

- less space efficient means more vehicles which means heavier carbon footprint

- less space efficient encourages suburban sprawl which means lower city service efficiency which means heavier carbon footprint

- less space efficient encourages suburban sprawl which means more efficient alternatives like public transit are more costly and less convenient which means heavier carbon footprint

You say transportation doesn't have to be a winner-take-all fight but that completely ignores market/political forces shaped by city planning. You handwave it away by saying "admittedly these options are lacking in most Western urban environments" but why do you think that is? It's a consequence of American city space-inefficiency which makes efficient public transit worse and favors inefficient cars. It doesn't have to be winner-take-all, winner-take-most is enough to change climate change outcomes significantly.
> and I dont know of any systems starting out today using it

I do... In a project I was working on for a major Dutch government organization, they were building stuff in COBOL. This was a project where we were using NLP for automated data extraction. I still find it hilarious that part of it was being built in COBOL.
The whole point of this list is to chronicle influential (but "mostly dead") programming languages; if they were counted as alive because of their influences, then they'd still be alive.

But, also, Forth isn't on the list.
I think it's very helpful of those corporations to clearly signal that they are a bad place to work.
My father was a doctor. You are correct: as patients they get preferential treatment. As often do their immediate family members. It's something I'm ashamed about when I look back at my own childhood.
No he's rich, so he is just "eccentric". What a sellout.
He lied, got caught since it was completely obvious what he was actually doing, and had to fess up to to. That's not transparency and calling it that is giving him way too much credit
You will need to back-ups periodically. Solderd RAM or not.
What are you even referring to?
>> Most if not all renewables require either energy storage, or much better energy transport, which must be factored into their price.

>This was the big one for me. Many people underestimate the complexity of energy transport over long distances. At some scales, this is still a materials science research topic, but even when it has been commercialised it's exorbitantly expensive over the international distances that would be required.

There's plenty of long distance electricity links that operate commercially, and they are cash positive simply due to price differentials between regions. To give you some examples, both Sweden and Norway are connected to Denmark/Germany and essentially power countries like Italy or France when the demand is there. Essentially much of the European energy grid is already integrated and it is profitable to build extra links simply because of price differentials due to weather. So if you have different evidence, please provide it.

> As for storage, despite the medium scale battery deployments we've seen in the last ~5 years, and pumped hydro, I'm remaining unconvinced that storage is something we'll rely on for industrial-scale grid usage in a post-fossil fuel world. These solutions need to be able to power a country, with all its industry, for ~days while wind and solar aren't running at necessary levels.

Again if your grid is large enough you really don't need to power the whole country, but even so unlike nuclear and fusion, storage solutions are on an exponential cost reduction curve (however you are correct that they are currently still expensive).
Pretty much hate it.

It's a consequence of companies believing their purpose for existing is to make money, rather than to serve customers, however, so that's what they're optimizing. "The invisible hand of the market" may eventually smack it down, but consumers seem largely happy to participate in user-hostile decisions so far.
I'd say your first comment is very true and your second is very untrue. There will be sectors that will generally gravitate to c/c++, and a huge boatload that won't touch them with a ten foot pole. Corp languages are jvm based, .net based, js/ts, and maybe Go in some contexts now. None of the companies I've worked at in like 15 years has decided to create new c++ projects (clearly subjective view).
Also, as was obscured by the title mangler, the "dead" in the title is just a side remark; the title without the parenthesis is "10 most influential programming languages", and "(ly dead)" after "most" is just a parenthesis.
I personally agree with this.

Further, I think “somebody that spends an extraordinary amount of money to become admin on a forum (one of the worst jobs on earth)” qualifies as “a stupid person” well before “being incredibly, laughably, hilariously inept at being a forum admin” even gets factored into the “How stupid can a person be?” equation.
> He's eccentric, definitely, but that should be news to no one.

Being "eccentric" usually means non-mainstream clothing, music taste, a big ass selection of historic cars or similar things.

Musk? Dude literally interacts with or unbans high-profile neo-Nazis and antisemites. That's not "eccentric" by any definition, that's enabling the vilest of the vile. No, banning Kanye again doesn't excuse all the other Nazi accounts.
> His work on cars and rockets speaks for itself.

I used to think that too, but I've since come across a story that SpaceX actually has people who's informal job is to manage him, and they present their ideas in such a way that he thinks they're his, in order to keep him happy. He's mostly there to bring money and hype.

No idea if that story is true, but honestly, it would explain some things.

The impression he's been giving me recently is that his success may have broken him. Too many people worshipping him and praising literally every crazy thing he does, may have made him believe he can do literally everything including run a social media company on his own without first learning how social media companies work. He honestly seems to be running Twitter into the ground. The mass firings he started with, followed by ruining the blue checkmark feature, really didn't make it look like he knows what he's doing. His management style sounds like hell.
Whoa whoa whoa! Worst movie of all time? I still mutter “Slice salami!” To myself while cutting things.
No one wanted to work at SpaceX initially. It took Musk's persistence and ability to sell a vision to hire first employees. And yes, also money. But just money gives you Blue Origin, not SpaceX.

It took SpaceX many years and a few rockets blowing up before they had first successful lunch so what you expect Neuralink to have achieved by now?

They're making progress. Let's revisit the "Neuarlink is a failure" 10 years from now.