skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making money is not about the stuff as much as it is about the people who deal the stuff.

In the stock market you cannot hunt fools, whereas in entrepreneurship, real estate, resturants, garage sales etc. you can be predatory all you want if your morals allow you to.

You can hunt for misinformed people and rip them off while laughing all the way to bank.
A professionally hung painting would not be on wires but on a dedicated wall mount. But Cable mounts are easy to reposition.

True story... I once went to a public museum in Malaysia to photograph a painting I had an interest in. The light was bouncing off the glass, so I raised its lower edge by placing a cigarette packet behind the frame. Worked a charm and I got the photo I wanted, all without the guards seeing. I came back a year later and later lo and behold the cigarette packet was still there.
Elmo (and specifically the value-extraction-by-merchandise craze CTW created around him) pretty much single-handedly destroyed the original ensemble cast spirit of Sesame Street, so it's actually pretty apt.
This is our natural tendency, to seek the quick rewards but we are intelligent beings, capable of planning.

The same arguments can be made for future of your own children, retirement plans, planting trees, long term investments, etc. Yet these are not as controversial and we accept them, more or less, as generally good practices.

This natural instinct on its own is not enough to make people forget the coming danger. You need constant advertisement, news cycles, opinion pieces, disinformation campaigns, etc. to make it stick.
I think I agree, but would like to point out an etymological thing: You speak of a distinction between "that which is good" and "God". But the words "good" and "God" sound similar for a reason. They originated as the same word.
And now this article (and the very comment this is a reply to) are the English-language authorities on the word "chronocration" according to Google.

If it hadn't been for a 1657 French book, this article would have been a Googlewhack when published, too.
We're speaking about success as a business, on its business goals, not what was developed on it.

If somebody wrote the "first web browser" on BeOS it make it any less of a failure as a business venture.
Dude... come off it.

You're wrong here, both legally and technically (and in my opinion, also ethically).

In the bluntest possible way, even if you were correct (and you're not...): They could have just deleted the billing information and not the account.

Ubisoft designed products that require an online account to use - Ubisoft is on the hook for providing that online access for account holders because they paid for that product. Alternatively - in any region with good consumer protection laws, they're about to issue a lot of full refunds.
The app is also "Twitter", the <title> tag is etc. Everyone is going to keep calling them tweets. It's just the logo and redirecting the x.com domain really. Which makes sense IMO (regardless of whether it was a good idea which I'm skeptical), I don't think they should go hard with the rebranding immediately. You need to slow roll it so people don't get confused. The logo is a good start making people notice and get curious without making a big disruption in Google results and mobile app discovery.
AMD mulls new chip manufacturing partners amid supply chain jitters
Do you know where I could find a free body diagram for a door with hinges? I don't understand why my doors are trying to close themselves. I think something is not level, but I don't understand the hinges though to draw a diagram myself.
He's opposed to censorship by others, but in favour of censorship by him.

Actually, he's also fine with government censorship as long as they're not censoring him or people he likes. Twitter obeying government censorship requests have gone way up since he took over.
How many people who believe in astrology but are not otherwise spiritual/religious have you ever met?
The only change I would say is not an improvement is the api restrictions. Which ones don't you like?
"Free speech!" Meanwhile, Twitter's former management would have at least put up a fight when Erdogan wanted things taken down. And we know this because they did, regularly, with regards to requests from governments around the world.

What of Musk? Could it be that he just likes strongmen and weird bigots, and it's for them he wants free speech, and everyone else can hang?

(Hint: it's this one.)
Editable comments and subscriptions predate Musk.

Alternative check marks and forcing people to put parody in the account were both caused by the idiotic decision to put blue checkmarks for sale. There's no need to conspicuously identify government/business accounts as "no really, this is for real" if you haven't completely devalued the "no really, this is for real" symbol of your platform. And there's no need to put "parody" on an Elon parody account if you can clearly see that it's not verified.

Are you saying that API restrictions is a good thing? You seem to be suggesting that, but I don't know why you'd feel that way. Revenue sharing just incentivizes inflammatory behavior, which is an obvious net-negative for the platform as a whole. Culling of old accounts is neutral at best.

And the DM spam problems were basically unchanged until just the past week when he forced everyone's DMs closed. He did manage to introduce new spam problems though, because now every large account's replies is full of the most braindead nonsense, just because the user paid $8. I'll gladly take crypto spam instead this.

Also, the text you quoted said "no product improvements", but you're saying that the product is not "unchanged". I agree the product has been changed, but I would agree with the GP's statement that there haven't been improvements.
Elon has owned x.com for over 20 years.
It's legally hairy in the United States for the government to moderate Internet platforms. As I recall, some public officials were taken to court over blocking people on the site formerly known as Twitter. There's a court case pending against the government right now regarding its communications with platforms during the COVID crisis.
neverssl.com has been my go-to captive portal for many years now.
Obligatory mention of r/RealTwitterAccounts. The content at the time of the enshittification of verified accounts have been fantastically funny!

But you are absolutely right, that trust was very important.
Looking forward to reading this after work.

It reminds me of finding this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_units_of_time

I always thought it was neat how grand and epic the sense of time is in Hinduism. Something I wonder but have never looked into is do other religions have long time scales like this?
Crypto lobby faces new Capitol Hill reality
I was there when Scully "took over", and can tell you from firsthand experience that Steve Jobs was the young, rebellious entrepreneur whose startup had grown far beyond his experience (or interest at the time). Scully may have been the only man in Silicon Valley with the guts to push Steve out, and Steve knew that it needed to happen. He couldn't, because Apple was his baby - he needed someone to give him that last shove.

You mean NeXT, the company he sold back to Apple for $400 million dollars?

I would argue that the majority of design flops from Apple in the past twenty years were more Jony Ive than Steve Jobs, based on history and design style. That said yeah not every idea the man had was rock solid, but comparing Steve Jobs to Elon Musk is laughable.

Elon was wealthier than 95% of the people in the United States, the second he was born. He's been playing with a stacked deck this whole time.

Whenever someone says "oh so-and-so is so successful" only two questions enter my mind:

1. where did they start?
2. how much help did they get along the way?

I would argue that in Elon's case he's been successful despite himself.
> from within the app itself

Where in the App does it download the extensions? I know it will download the Guest Additions for you, but those are something completely different.
Made-in-China Tesla vehicles exported to ROK for first time
I mean have you considered you don't get to be Bruce Lee without being a bit er crazy?
I don't get the hype between Notion, Airtable, Asana...

Sometimes they feel like glorified Microsoft Office!
https://archive.is/0FrWS
We're long overdue for a "digital property" law that defines specific rights around purchasing media, for consistency if nothing else.

To my knowledge no country is seriously working on this, which is a bit surprising.
It’s Been Called a Mushroom or Hobbit House
Wikipedia Adds Sticky Navbar
They justify it with engagement metrics.
> just that now from a tech point of view IE seems garbage, but that's a false believe and when a new IE launched it was decently competent.

I think, perhaps, we are talking about different eras. When IE came on the scene in the mid 90s it was garbage. Anyone tech-savvy was using Netscape and laughing at the pitiful entrance from Microsoft. Netscape was vastly superior and had a huge runway (so it seemed). But the thing is, MS bundled the browser with the OS and called it the “internet”. Click here for the “internet”. How do you compete with a free app installed on the desktop of every computer? Netscape had an existential crisis on their hands and legal wrangling over anti-competitive behaviour was never going to be fast enough to save them.

Behind the scenes things were already chaos and the code was an irredeemable pile of technical debt (or so the story goes, I’ve never looked at the code). New Netscape versions came out, but the rapid improvements of the early years were gone. It was a buggy unstable mess that seemed to get worse with every release while IE got better (not great, but the trajectory was clear). Soon even nerds like me were using IE because Netscape had jumped all of the sharks. By the time we were partying like it was 1999, IE was the only game in town. And then MS called the internet “done” and went back to throwing chairs and yelling “developers” a bunch.

I’ve never been a web dev, but I expect that the pain of those lost years where MS cared little for standards due to lack of any meaningful competition, could have been dramatically shortened. I’ve always hated www, ever since it devoured my beloved gopher and brought on the eternal September, but it’s a real testament to the power of standards that this inefficient, ugly, slow but ubiquitous method for deploying content has been so successful. Once Microsoft and Adobe finally got out of the way.
I've done this once in 30+ years. Little Nicky was a terrible movie, no clue what Adam Sandler was thinking with that one.
He was well known for disliking fans in computers, a factor in the G4 Cube. Also a big reason why the Apple 3 was such a failure.

Just saying. Overall I certainly think Steve Jobs was anything but a failure.
Can you explain wifi chips like rtl8852 that have power levels and channels specified in the linux drivers and are fcc certified, then?
It wasn’t the top selling car. That seems to be something Elon made up:

https://www.autoweek.com/news/industry-news/a44600661/is-tes...
Thanks, as a user I hate it. As a developer this is a great library to use to satisfy product.
To search the best movie for me to watch
Byo-linker – Build your own: linker (simplest possible Linux x86 64-bit linker)
> encryption be banned

You want a law that says we can't share prime numbers?
The current system is built on low effort content farms with articles written by ghost writers who stitched together what they googled on the subject. If anything changes in the seo world, it's less ghost writer jobs. Already happening.

The current system is driven by ad revenue, but when the customers are advertisers, then the user experience sucks. Why would I want to wade through search results full of ads when OpenAI, Bard, etc can answer my question in seconds.

How does the landscape change? The cheap low effort content farm business model is dead.
https://archive.is/OVccd
Yes, using NeXT workstations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_server#/media/File:First_W...
He's probably way less smart than he believes himself to be. But he's already tried in the past to get out of problems by throwing a a curveball to the issue.

Boring Company / Hyperloop existed mainly to stop California from building their own high speed rail, and The Tesla Truck existed mainly to rebuild hype around the Tesla brand at the time, and it's probably never going to go into production. Both were "built to fail".

Once he realized that he couldn't get out of buying Twitter, I believe he's trying to apply the same script to make sure the loss is way smaller than 44 billion dollars.
Twitter was dying even before Musk bought it. There was no way of running Twitter profitable in a market where ad revenue is shrinking and VC founding is drying up. Forcing Musk to actually buy Twitter, at a grossly inflated price, was one of the smartest business moves in the past 10 years.

I don't know, I think the rebranding is a bit silly, but I also think Twitter should have gone bankrupt years ago. Musk paid $44 billion dollars of other peoples money for what was a billion dollar company at best. Trying to turn that around probably require someone as reckless as Elon Musk.

The dream of the everything app just seems to fare way. The potential early adopters shy away because it's Musk. Unless his own branding (as in "Elon Musk") is enough to get other businesses to jump onboard I don't see how it will ever get off the ground.
Sounds more like inadequate testing than any deficiency in raw milk. It’s still absurd to deny people who want raw milk from obtaining it. Gatekeeping of the worst kind.
Why not? I've found I've been using Twitter more ever since Elon bought it. He's made some good improvements. It's popular to hate Elon but I think he's trying to make Twitter better than he found it.
You still don’t want a fake Russian Government announcing nuclear war on Twitter, do you? Of course non-verified accounts had value, but you also want to know if a supposedly official account is the real deal.
(Written in Rust...)
With the return of astrology, crystals and tarot, we 1970s prophets have only biorythms, mood rings and disco remaining. Our messiah will descend from a cigar shaped UFO, blinding us with the reflection of his lapels. He will speak one-sentence truths below a bushy porn-star mustache and laugh tracks will sing our adoration.
Gross. You’re abusing the child any time you watch it.
My point wasn't to gush praise on Firefox here, rather to point out that we need browser ballots again -- and permanently.

Otherwise Palemoon is as doomed to obscurity as Firefox, if not moreso.
The product has had several new features added, is more performant, the bots have been culled, and a rebrand is common when a company is going in a new direction. Not to mention when Elon first bought the company he announced his goal was to create an "everything app" called X so I'd hardly call the move "desperate".
It's a sum type, which is not quite the same thing.
I do solo tarot card readings all the time as it forces you to think about situations in a different way via the card imagery. I find it helps with decision making. Nothing mythical about it, just a weird form of brain hacking.
What an.. interesting set of clarifications you felt the need to attempt
This looks great. What does it do differently to Shepherd[0]?

[0]: https://github.com/shipshapecode/shepherd
He sure is going about it in an odd way.
Or the people in charge are of the belief that things work and they're a tiny part of the overall organization's costs--and any massive migration will run over schedule and budget, won't necessarily be better at the end, and will be unnecessary and disruptive. They may or may not be correct but it's not an irrational belief whatever those advocating for moving everything to a distributed platform think.
For me it's not funny so much as shocking, and sad. He had a hand, of some sort, in at least a few great things, and it's upsetting to watch it falling apart. I often think of the quote:

"You either die a hero, or live to see yourself become a villain."

Far too many icons outlive their hero phase, and it's kind of depressing.

Edit: Or rather, the hero phase fails to live long enough to outlive the person.
I don't think so, I guess people is using it without talking about it, just that.
>To suggest otherwise would be falling for the old "it's been heads 9 times in a row, it must be tails next" gambler's fallacy

I don't think you understand how this fallacy (and logic ) works. This is only a fallacy because the coin toss events are trivially expected (and assumed) to be independent chance events in the first place.

Business success are not supposed to be independent like that, unless you take for granted what you're supposed to prove.

And to do that, you'd have to ignore some pretty big factors different to coin tosses, like the continuity of an agent making business decisions, their promotional and organizational skills, their connections, their reputation with VCs and the press, past performance as part of their image, their experience, and several other factors besides, which makes repeated business successes nothing like independent coin tosses.
Something like Tesla only worked because of the era of low interest rates, quantitative easing, insanely busy tech investment market, etc, in the post 2008 era. 15 years of record low interest rates meant investors were desperate to find places to shove money to get returns, and Tesla was one of the chosen spots, profitability be damned.

These days it would be harder to pull something like that off, investors would be demanding better books from day one.
Most startups would consider a continually expanding Vegas Loop project, $5.7B valuation, and competitive throughput to non-express, bulk transport to be marks of success at this age.
Road to madness: charting Apple Music listening data • Cory Dransfeldt
Use `dbg` for prying. You can also use `break!` in an `iex` session to manually set breakpoints without modifying your source. Additionally, you can use Erlang’s `:debugger`for visual debugging, and `:observer` for understanding the entire VM when prying is not enough.
It seems like a hassle to re-negotiate federation each time for each celebrity. What about a general PR themed instance (strictly moderated so that everyone will peer with it).
Thank you for highlighting a real-life scenario where this plugin proves to be useful! It's crucial to have such practical examples, as they allow us to understand its functionality and benefits in a more tangible way.
> No product improvements

That's false though. Some of the improvements are gated behind a subscription, but HD video streams with more options and longer durations (allowing full movies to be distributed on it), longer tweets (reducing the need for "threads" which are obnoxious to read on Twitter and have led people to write bots that put them together), view counts, bringing back the chronological timeline and increased transparency are all net improvements.

What makes this surprising, or sad, or funny depending on your perspective, is that among the rapid product improvements, he sprinkles odd, impulsive decisions with little context and controversial messages that alienate a bunch of people. I guarantee you that without that he'd be hailed as a genius by the people who are calling him Elmo and pretending that revolutionizing the car industry and satellite Internet was "just luck". If there's a lesson to be learned there it's that social media addiction can spoil anyone.
>There are some really great interviews with him on YouTube too.

I can search, but can you recommend any?
Myers Briggs seems so arbitrary. Why 4 dimensions instead of 3 or 5? And is there any reliable evidence that using it actually produces better outcomes?
I wonder what's more inane: The Facebook name change to 'meta', or this.
That's the danger of investing. It's boring. Trading is so much more fun. I've adopted the Bogle recommendation to set aside a percentage of the portfolio for trading never to exceed 10%. But that 10% can eat up an entire portfolio without a downside limit (which I haven't yet figured out how to implement).

Worse, it's a slippery slope. I end up convincing myself that reducing my stock exposure when the market is expensive (extreme Schiller levels) is not "timing the market" (ie I'm not studying technical charts). Then I try to convince myself that even if I am timing the market, it is a wise thing to do when the market is so expensive (ignoring the fact that for the past decade my stock allocation has been only half of my full target).

Oh the lies we love to tell ourselves about how smart we are.
Hmm, well you effectively said you "see the world as it is" and that would typically be understood to be a claim that you have a superior mental model, I think.
But they could pass null, though. Clojure doesn't stop you from passing null anywhere.

Also, thrown exceptions are values. Consider for example a function that searches for a file a return null if it's not found, which you are composing with a function that opens a file but throws on null. You might very well write something like open(search(...)) and catching exceptions above that level. Now if I make open(..) able to accept null (maybe it opens a temp file?) then you now need to add a null check on the return value of search to get the old behaviour. That is 100% a breaking change!
Again regarding the choice of pens: How does the plotter behave with a softer tip?
I'm thinking of the Tombow Fudenosuke pens - they have a wonderful soft tip, which allows for calligraphy in the hand of humans.

When used by a plotter, by changing the Z depht it would be possible to have very interesting dynamic variations, wouldn't it?

I can see how easy it would be to break the tip too, so better buying a bunch of those.
Second part seems dubious. Seems likely that a large portion of people are simply spiritual and go with whatever is socially popular in their circle regardless of circumstance.
Better yet, go x’ing wild
Maybe it's hard to meet discreetly with leadership + investors in a pre-zoom era.
Not just sports, either. It ain't like a homeschool's gonna have a band program or a theater class. There are probably non-school-affiliated alternatives for them in one's community, but IME they tend to expect participants to be at least already competent at it. And no, solo tutoring ain't gonna cut it for that; being able to coordinate with dozens (or even multiple hundreds!) of other performers is its own skill, and I don't know of very many good ways to teach it other than practice.
HN is definitely too libertarian to my liking, and many believe that the free market will solve every problem known to mankind in itself. But that’s their (naive) worldview.
Are there still folks on HN who think Musk isn't destroying Twitter?
Just wait until you hear about "okay". It's widely used in languages around the world, and there are dozens of competing etymologies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proposed_etymologies_o...
I used to date a gal who was really into astrology and all manner of new agey stuff. I was crazy about her, but it would never have worked out. The number of dumb arguments just about astrology was high.
Which of these is more true: a newspaper article about a battle in the War of 1812, or the Star-Spangled Banner, which was written by someone witnessing a battle in the War of 1812.

Hint: how many stadiums are filled with people standing up to recite a newspaper article about a battle in the War of 1812?