skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linette Lopez

I guess she got banned for reminding musk about the time he doxxed her for reporting on Tesla.

They are other examples.

And the question isn't if it's true or not. The question was: what would make you change your mind about EM. To me, it was the pedo accusations about a rescuer who refused his 'help'. I then found videos about how fake and dumb the Hyperloop was, and I was done with him.
"Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll."

Wow. 50.9 opposed, 49.1 pro.
Nova spent a whole bunch of freetime upgrading hachyderm.io a few weeks ago.

Then a bunch of time on mischief after the ban, making aliases for the server that weren't on the naughty list yet.
It has been restored a few minutes ago
And it's the time almost more than anything else. A subscription means I need a login to some subscription portal. I need to monitor the subscription and the payments. When I want to cancel it, quite possibly that will take some time and need me to call. There's a non zero chance it'll slip though the cracks and end up costing me four figures.

You know what? I didn't really want your software enough to get into any kind of ongoing relationship here, I'll make do without it. I don't have the energy for dozens of services.

It does work a little better for business as I don't need to personally deal with the admin, but even then on a financial basis, per-user-per-month costs still add up very fast.
The customer can be involved. At this point why not just shoot everyone? The payment processor can be involved too! The police are on in it, obviously.

I mean, we're almost beyond the civil asset forfeiture guilty-until-proven-innocent level.

It's plain and simple corporate bullying. Because they can. Yes, I know it's a hard problem. Yes, if it were easy there were endless cheap knockoff payment processors. Yes, criminals are constantly outsmarting the good guys. Yes, I know it's in the ToS, etc. Yes, I know we don't live in a just world.

These still not make it right. It's yet again a fucking tax on the small shops.
I agree. VB6 was actively executed by Microsoft. VB6 didn't have to die.

I'm still surprised to this day that nobody stepped into that vacuum and created a VB6 clone. There should have been a ton of money for doing so--I wonder what prevented it.

I still have clients who are struggling to upgrade millions of lines of VB6 code base into something more modern (generally Python). GUI construction sucks in every single language since VB6.

The nice part is that they are unanimous in not choosing a Microsoft language ever again.
I think if the poll says 'yes' and he does truly abide by it, I think it will show some honesty around the whole 'public town square' and 'for the people' rhetoric he has espoused. I'd be quite impressed.

However, he has a history of noble intents on Twitter (eg the 'end world hunger' thing) followed by lack of follow-through, so I can imagine a scenario where the poll comes out 'yes' and he doesn't abide by the results by calling foul play somewhere (bot accounts, multiple user accounts etc.)
I'm kind of shocked that Bezos hasn't commissioned an ActivityPub/federated network (mastodon instance) that obfuscates the decentralization (for easier onboarding) and gives you some kind of "deal" for having Amazon Prime.

Feels like Amazon could eat Twitter's lunch here (especially since they, allegedly, run Twitter's servers now, meaning that they could handle the traffic).
Long form video is a paid feature of Twitter Blue marked as 'coming soon'.
For sure. PC runs in my family and I have somewhat of A/B test due to this based on family members living in different parts of the world. I had family travel to india recently to get provenge ( after exhausting all other SOC options ) because NHS said its too expensive

https://www.ajmc.com/view/nice-rejects-provenge-says-treatme...

It was apparently available under some clinical trial but that trial wasn't recruiting at that point.
I agree with your assessment of responsibility, but it’s not clear the extent that your obligation to the IRS is even an “agreement”.
That's great for you, congrats. But that was in like year 20 of Elon Musk being a notorious jackass. Someone who shorted Tesla early on based on Musk being a charlatan would have got their face ripped off.
When people get duped, it's really hard for them to admit it. Huge blow to the ego.

It's surprising to watch people turn on Trump because of this.
Eh you'll probably be fine without his Twitter history. A lot of his takes (such as the recent one on Marxism and the one on editors) were basic and laughable.
"Yes" is now in the lead, and will likely stay in the lead given the trajectory.
This guy sold “full self driving, someday” for $10,000 for years with no delivery. He doesn’t give a shit about consumer protection agencies.
We’ll see if twitter gets gatekeeper status. They have significantly less MAU in the UK than the example qualifications here.

https://www.dpocentre.com/the-digital-markets-act-and-gdpr-c....
Paul's account is back up, but I don't think that the feeling will fade as quickly as the ban. Musk can and will do all kinds of stuff and test the waters to see what he can get away with, then backpedal when it blows up in his face.

But if he could have gotten away with it he would have. So if you don't have Pauls' stature you are on thin ice.
1. you can copy-paste same url ( https://mas.to/@paulg ), no need to re-format, event simply writing `paulg` will start the search and likely find intended user pretty fast

2. https://indieweb.org/webactions
I assume that the extra day comes with a 20% increase in salary over similar 5-day-per-week jobs?
In the future, everyone will be banned for 15 minutes.
Odd, I can just click follow, on hachyderm.io even if the followee is on mastodon.social. No annoyances.
A trust or monopoly doesn't prevent competitive companies forming, just makes it very hard for them to succeed.

Baseball has an exemption due to a court case, though their hiring cartel was broken in the courts, resulting in free agency (same for NFL, with the Roselle(?) case).

But the important one is all about the money: monopoly control over monetization of broadcast. I direct you to 15 U.S. Code § 1291 which you can read for yourself at https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1291
PAL code didn't do anything like context switches and I'm not sure how it could, given how the OS needs to know the specifics of the thread context in many scenarios.
Now it's back up. Also, Elon just apologized for the rule change.
If you talk to folks who've worked within SpaceX, he's always been like this.
Sure you didn't see a fake screenshot meme? I haven't been able to find anyone else talking about that, I couldn't find that on Elon's twitter replies page, and Elon just tweeted that he's reversing the ban (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604616426114932737) which I'm not sure tracks with him posting exactly like that. (Not trying to defend him at all, just trying to keep a handle on what exactly it is he's doing.)
YouTube also isn’t included. I think it’s possible that while the policy is foolhardy and vague, he deliberately excluded video sites.

This means he’d have failed to achieved his purpose, since TikTok is certainly a competitor even if the medium is video rather than text, but I also don’t think he understands social media all that well.
Elon Musk's new Twitter policy might be in direct violation of EU rules
What will tomorrows lottery numbers be? Asking for a friend...
Absolutely. This is one last attempt to frame his failure and giving up as being his dedication to “vox populi”.
> This is not exactly free speech issue, because Twitter does not ban based on political preferences/opinions.

Freedom of speech encompasses far more than just "political preferences/opinions".

> This is dishonest competition (all other major companies do the same but not as blunt: Facebook, Google, Amazon for example).

1. I know of exactly zero other social media platforms that ban the mere mention of other social media platforms.

2. Precisely none of those companies are owned entirely by individuals claiming to be "free speech absolutists".

3. Mastodon is not a company, major or otherwise. It's a "competitor" to Twitter in the same sense that me raising chickens in my backyard makes me a "competitor" to Tyson or Foster Farms.
Not really an escape hatch, he still owns it and has to hire a replacement to run the trainwreck.
No, government contractors do not staff foreign nationals to US projects.

US contractor labor rates are typically below market, and typically auditable as GSA labor rates (T&M).

It’s possible there was “outsourcing” to some lower-income area in the US. Most large firms setup large dev factories in the Midwest/south-Midwest.
It could be interesting if it was an alternative that a user could query. I could imagine someone starting to write a new function might be willing to wait 10x more time to get something better.
Given his current behavior, it seems more likely he did consult lawyers, didn't like what they told him, and elected instead to Do It Live.
> as strange as "owning" a music album.

praying that this is a joke rn
Podcasting Business
Yes. Just happened.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604616863673208832
Violating competition law with their new "no mention of competition" policy was a really dumb move.

Does Elon Musk always do such stuff without consulting with anyone who can tell him it's a legal disaster?
Page isn't working for me but what happened? I use over a bunch snaps on my Ubuntu install (1password, firefox, docker, telegram, discord just off the top of my head) and updates don't happen until I restart the app, and it gives me a desktop notification something like a week out before it forces it, never had an issue with it personally. I can't think of any desktop app that I use that stays open for more than a week at a time that is a huge distruption to close it and reopen it.
> If musk decided to ban use of the letter A in tweets, whether PG ran afoul of the rule is not an important factor in the story.

You'd certainly be justified in saying that a rule banning the letter A is ridiculous. But you wouldn't be justified in then going on to claim that a Tweet that contains the letter A doesn't contain it, and downvoting anyone who points out it does.

[Edit: Not just downvoting. Now the post that said they thought it went against the new terms of service has been flagged and removed.]

There's this unsettling trend where once someone thinks they're on the right side, the truth no long matters. Or worse, should be considered verboten if it doesn't back up maximalist claims. And when enough people are doing this, measured discussion is no longer possible.
Yes, well put. Steve was ... scary, but at least he seemed to know it.
Wow, what an absolute moron. If this is how he runs his other companies, it’s amazing anyone stays for more than a month.
> Plus I don't think he realizes that the techniques that work for cars and rockets don't work in social media.

How do you reconcile this with

> I still think Elon is a smart guy
One caveat to your logic... some sensitive pieces of financial information cannot be offshore. We've had to use onshore contractors because regulations wouldn't allow us to use offshore for some of our sensitive financial data in the system, and I think it also covered SSNs.

Although I would still guess that for reasons other than being offshore, they are earning market or less (or overworked to reduce any higher comp to lower effective hourly rates).
The way Elon seems to like to take his chances, Twitter pulling out from the EU/EEA market might be a possibility. Personally I think that would be beneficial, as even more would switch to Mastodon in 2023. Even if I don't use social blogging websites myself, I think that would be a net win.
Yes, and apparently I was the first person who voted.

https://mastodon.weinzierlweb.com/@ludwig/109537268355917100
COBOL is not dead, if few (if any) new projects are launched in it. APL is hardly dead; J is more an implementation than a descendant IMHO.
Smartphones saw rapid growth in China at the same time as mega-apps formed. The tech giants that built these mega-apps also acquired many consumer services that used to be independent companies and integrated them into the mega-app over time. Then out of the interest to compete with each other, these tech giants kept making their own mega-app larger in order to capture more user activity within their ecosystem of services. The emergence of mega-apps in China was not the consumer's choice.
It makes sense a bit in a world of continually releasing and patching software on the fly. Some are ridiculous cash grabs (Adobe) but how am I gonna charge a one time fee for a web app? Are you obligated to maintain and upgrade it forever?
Damn, I just tried to create a twitter account just to say 'no' so I can settle down with some popcorn and watch the world burn. My signup failed with an error, I guess they must have sacked the poor admins responsible for signups :(
Elon tweeted a video he took at the game, not like he's hiding it.
For people sick of this shit I recommend changing the hacker news link to this

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=fals...
Subscription services are a bit like gym memberships. GREAT for those that workout minimum 3 days a week, a waste of money if you go to the gym once a month. Absolute bargain if you go to the gym once or twice a day.

Now, if I could pay $1/day for some service, instead of $30 / month - I'd probably only use subscription services. But that's not how they make their money.
We should have seriously invested in next generation turbines for high temperature systems.

A efficient small CO2 turbine powered by a small GenIV nuclear reactor would be absolutely incredible, in terms of economics, reliability, environment, efficiency, energy security and so on.

But sadly, neither high temperature reactors nor turbines have received the funding they should have over the last 50 years.

Even with a CCGT a high temperature nuclear plant could be really competitive specially if you want to have power when both wind and solar are at 5% utilization.
The shot goose isn’t ever coming back
It seems like it would be the smart move to hire someone with expertise in social media, give them his high-level vision, and let them implement the details. The last few weeks of Elon's micromanagement have been a complete shitshow.
Looks like now you're not allowed to so much as mention that you use other websites on the internet besides Twitter.

I think soon getting kicked off of Twitter will become a tech badge of honor. Like having a gmail address back when it was invitation-only.
Riot Games says Sam Bankman-Fried’s love of League of Legends hurts the brand
Yes I wish we could have some sort of rule where you could never have more than 100 or so people per server and the community really really focused on making the deploy instructions as simple as possible for people to use with things like Oracles free tier, or the low cost VPS's out there.

Mastodon instances with 10's of thousands of users is a TERRIBLE idea for the long term viability of the service.
Elon owning Twitter is the most public accountability Twitter has ever had. Him owning Twitter, the way he's currently operating, will force a critical eye toward a lot of bad behaviors that we all experience but nobody really talks about on every network.

I say bravo. Twitter is dead. Long live Twitter.
Could also be malicious compliance.
What's his way though?
"'because I can’t pay $9 to have my American passport renewed I have been fined 75 marks–and as I consequently can’t pay that either–two weeks in jail.' Goldstein almost certainly died in the Holocaust."

Wow.
I believe the new in vogue term is "Latine"
Show HN: Log in to Mastodon with your Twitter account
This is an idea I've had for a while. Given recent events, I decided to finally implement it and see what happens. I assume if it gets any traction it will be banned.

The bigger picture here is that Twitter's network of users and follow lists is potentially reverse-engineerable. Why not take that network graph and implement it in the Fediverse?
Well no, I expect the scope is limited to "the Tweet level and the account level".

But that is still certainly absurd.
Am I cynical in thinking that if you vote yes, it’s a permanent record on your Twitter account, which he can then use later to mete out anti-musk retaliation punishments?

I mean, it’s not like he’s used the platform to do punish anyone who opposes him or his views before.

Maybe I’m reading by too much into it.
Home owners association wants electric pick up truck gone (2M video)
Whether these rules are good or bad is an entirely different matter.

The issue isn't whether the rules are good or bad, the issue is that El No decreed that he was a freeze peach absolutist. If something is absolute there's no room for exceptions.

I didn't call them I cunt, I merely linked to someone who did

No. It's like El No saying that you can absolutely call him naughty names, someone calls him a cunt, and El No throws a tantrum.

Actually this is even more ridiculous since El No decreed that accounts dedicated to promoting competitors would be banned. Honestly, I don't even know who "pg" is at this point and I couldn't possibly care less (presumably he's one of those Joe Rogaine types). However it's pretty clear that this twitter account was used to post all sorts of content. Even with a tweet about Mastodon, or two, or like twenty that means there are multiple reasons for that twitter account to exist. It is not dedicated to promoting Mastodon. This is just El No throwing a very expensive tantrum because his massive ego is bruised.
This fall, we lost about sixty books to a plumbing failure. This led to reflections along the lines of, Well, I definitely enjoy Peterer Schneider's The German Comedy, but will I really want to read it again? My estimate is that twenty or so I don't really want back. I suspect that the same ratio holds for the house generally; but a lot of the books are my wife's, and her and my criteria will be different.
MARVEL's Spider-Man:Miles Morales and Sony Playstation
PlayStation developer Chris Barton interviews with SciFi Thoughts about his work with PlayStation, what it's like to work on AAA games, and what's the story with Miles Morales. Listen to episodes 209 through (upcoming) 211: <https://lancerkind.com/series/scifi-thoughts/>

SPIDER-MAN:MILES MORALES just came out on the PC in December.
No he didn’t, but most people think he did!
you can pin tab with your instance, or even open it in a sidebar

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webpage-sideb...

if that's the biggest obstacle
You're might want to look for the job titles like ML engineer or data scientist instead of using specific tools like PyTorch.
AI breakthrough ChatGPT raises alarm over student cheating
I’ve heard about people depending on Twitter for visa sponsorship but I don’t think I’ve seen any firsthand accounts. Is it actually happening? I’ve also heard that people who work for (or were fired from) twitter were deluged with job offers despite it not being a great time for hiring (so my guess is that people on H1-B visas could find sponsorship elsewhere)

It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that some people are staying for risk-aversion reasons but I feel like most people are there because:

- they actually like Elon or believe in the future of Twitter under different management

- they see it as an opportunity for career growth (you can have proportionally larger impact on the business; fewer senior positions at the company; they will likely hire more people soon, just not at salaries that are effectively inflated by Elon’s purchase)

- they correctly infer that they would be in a worse position if they moved to some other firm. (I think most people thinking this underestimate themselves, however)

It seems like it could be possible for employees to have a big impact on the platform or the business. It also seems like the whole thing could go up in flames. I don’t really know how bad it is to be associated with a site that goes up. I guess not that bad for job prospects for an average employee, especially if they got to learn about putting out fires / many more parts of the system than an average big tech employee. But then experience hacking in minimal fixes to keep mountains of software going perhaps isn’t going to teach you as much as properly understanding and improving fewer systems and making more changes that will have impact over a longer timescale.
Well, I think I have to update my understanding of "Free Speech". It's such a simple concept on paper that got extremely complex to deal with once deployed to production.
this could be solved by not requiring collection of citizens' private info at gunpoint. but im sure all the idiots who reacted to snowden by building half working "solutions" with "please donate" buttons will not get this.
OEM aircooled VW heat came from air heat exchangers that took extracted heat from the exhaust gas. Worked terribly when new, and even worse when rust hit: the channels carrying the air from the rear to the front of the vehicle were among the first parts of the body to rust out (at least in Beetles), and if any perforations developed in the heat exchangers you'd get CO going into the cabin.

There were aftermarket gasoline heaters available, which is probably what you're thinking of.
This is the exact opposite of my experience, on many, many car related forums.

EVs are presented as a panacea, doing everything an ICE can do, only better. It's not true. There are tradeoffs.
The Nobel Prizes are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind."

I'd always heard it as: It's not just about new physics but about impact for actual people. Is it awarded that way? I couldn't say. But cracking fusion sounds worthy to me.
I’m not rich by American standards but we were offered growth hormone for our son since he is trending to 5 1/2 feet.
Well, it's standing on the shoulder of a giant. Wine has been going strong for 29 years now, counting from its initial release. What I really appreciate in Valve's contribution is the integration and UX work they have put in it. It's just a breeze to use Steam and Proton, I can hardly imagine it being even more simple. Which, of course, was not the case with the original Wine, although Winetricks, and other projects like Lutris made it a lot easier.
Agreed, and it makes it doubly funny when he loses one.
The "reddit mod" the comment you're responding to would be one in charge of a particular subreddit, not of the entire network (the latter would be an "admin" in reddit parlance).

A quick perusal of https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/ should be sufficient to understand that subreddit mods indeed do go on power trips of capricious banning, including for the grievous sin of mentioning a competing subreddit.
>I made that decision around the Thai rescue.

To anyone who missed it, this is in reference to Elon Musk slandering a rescue diver, who called BS on Musk's grand idea du jour, by saying the diver is a "pedo guy".

PSA: By the precedent set in the argument of his defense in the defamation case[1], a "pedo guy" just means a "creepy old man" to Elon Musk and the court — especially so if such a man is into younger women[2].

Therefore, by his own admission,...

> Elon Musk is a pedo guy. <

Feel free to copypaste/cite/link this comment, or simply refer to the Twitter CEO as "The famous pedo guy Elon Musk" from now on.

Thanks in advance for respecting me for stating the facts.

[1] https://nypost.com/2019/09/16/elon-musk-says-pedo-guy-insult...

[2]https://www.indiatvnews.com/entertainment/celebrities/tesla-...
Everyone with expertise in social media hates Elon's high-level vision.
Isn’t that just a private Discord? Or do you specifically mean something you can host yourself?
I was born in Central America and while not a comprehensive sample, I don’t know a single person where I’m from who doesn’t think this an American imposed thing that’s trying to fix our “wrong” culture.