skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-x-windows-disaster-128d398...

Official Notice

Post Immediately

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Dangerous Virus!

First, a little history. The X window system escaped from Project Athena at MIT where it was being held in isolation. When notified, MIT stated publicly that “MIT assumes no responsibility…”. This is a very disturbing statement. It then infiltrated Digital Equipment Corporation, where it has since corrupted the technical judgement of this organization.

After sabotaging Digital Equipment Corporation, a sinister X consortium was created to find a way to use X as part of a plan to dominate and control interactive window systems. X windows is sometimes distributed by this secret consortium free of charge to unsuspecting victims. The destructive cost of X cannot even be guessed.

X is truly obese — whether it’s mutilating your hard disk or actively infesting your system, you can be sure it’s up to no good. Innocent users need to be protected from this dangerous virus. Even as you read this, the X source distribution and the executable environment is being maintained on hundreds of computers, maybe even your own.

Digital Equipment Corporation is already shipping machines that carry this dreaded infestation. It must be destroyed.

This is what happens when software with good intentions goes bad. It victimizes innocent users by distorting their perception of what is and what is not good software. This malignant window system must be destroyed.

Ultimately DEC and MIT must be held accountable for this heinous software crime, brought to justice, and made to pay for a software cleanup. Until DEC and MIT answer to these charges, they both should be assumed to be protecting dangerous software criminals.

Don’t be fooled! Just say no to X.

X-Windows: …A mistake carried out to perfection. X-Windows: …Dissatisfaction guaranteed. X-Windows: …Don’t get frustrated without it. X-Windows: …Even your dog won’t like it. X-Windows: …Flaky and built to stay that way. X-Windows: …Complex non-solutions to simple non-problems. X-Windows: …Flawed beyond belief. X-Windows: …Form follows malfunction. X-Windows: …Garbage at your fingertips. X-Windows: …Ignorance is our most important resource. X-Windows: …It could be worse, but it’ll take time. X-Windows: …It could happen to you. X-Windows: …Japan’s secret weapon. X-Windows: …Let it get in your way. X-Windows: …Live the nightmare. X-Windows: …More than enough rope. X-Windows: …Never had it, never will. X-Windows: …No hardware is safe. X-Windows: …Power tools for power fools. X-Windows: …Putting new limits on productivity. X-Windows: …Simplicity made complex. X-Windows: …The cutting edge of obsolescence. X-Windows: …The art of incompetence. X-Windows: …The defacto substandard. X-Windows: …The first fully modular software disaster. X-Windows: …The joke that kills. X-Windows: …The problem for your problem. X-Windows: …There’s got to be a better way. X-Windows: …Warn your friends about it. X-Windows: …You’d better sit down. X-Windows: …You’ll envy the dead.
Simple Tab Groups _IS_ a killer extension! I couldn't find its equivalent in the Chrome store. I haven't noticed any of the Firefox-specific issues that other users in this thread have mentioned that weren't due to extensions I had installed on FF. For the rare case of a website where the devs clearly only tested in Chrome, I will open Chrome to interface with that site and then go back to FF.
Looks like a great release - kudos to the team. I grew up with Illustrator and use Inkscape exclusively since a few years. Overall I am quite happy with the features, the UI and the UX.

My main pain point is drawing vector curves. I cannot seem to get the intuition on how to rapidly draw curves, and it seems I need to switch tools to remove anchors and modify curvature. In Illustrator I used one tool and a few keyboard shortcuts and could trace fast.

Maybe it's just that I never fully learned the Inkscape way. It's a major issue since this is the main thing I want to do in Inkscape. Am I missing something?
That's not a "fundamental problem", that's just the way it works. Unless you're already popular somewhere else, or your content is very good, strangers don't care about what you have to say. On Twitter or irl or on any other platform.

People seem to have forgotten that social media is for friends. If you make friends on Twitter, they'll care about your content because they care about you.
I think you are just looking for reasons to believe what you want to believe.

You don't speak for 'a lot of folks' you just speak for yourself.
> Twitter was doing fine.

It was losing $4 million per day.
He is a talented.. scammer, who is good at hyping up shit on which his people may or may not be able to deliver.

It’s not exactly rocket science to employ smart people.
Well look at Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Totally different skill sets but they were complimentary, with Jobs largely taking Wozniak’s work and packaging it up in a form that sells.

“Slapping a name on other people’s work” is something leaders do. They also typically are the ones who gather those people together and create the environment in which they can do their best work.

…that said, yes, I think Musk is an idiot.
People use Twitter in vastly different ways, so it's difficult for each of us to appreciate the uses that others put it to. Even in your case, though, the flaw now is that you don't know if 'verified' accounts are bots, paid actors, etc.
Was jokingly musing that perhaps the "brand change" is to intentionally create a dust-up with Microsoft, claiming MS needs to change the icon for Excel from the green X to something else. The intent would be to create a distraction in the news from the other chain of poor choices made around Ex-Twitter.
The problem isn't that you said Musk has Asperger's.

The problem is that you are saying Asperger's causes impulsive business decisions. Nothing in your quote supports that contention, and it's a terribly ableist thing to say.

In fact your quote suggests the opposite-- people with Asperger's tend to be bound to routine rather than impulsive.
Reframing mundane life as sexual social fantasies is about on par with astrology imo
Perhaps it’s because they wear contact lenses now.
Interesting comment on the Register (by Jedit):

However, it's also exactly identical to Unicode character 1D54F - because that's all it is. And if you examine the full "X" logo in detail, you'll notice that the scratch in the background doesn't reach the X because all the logo creator did was put U+1D54F in a black square and slap it onto the backdrop. It's the epitome of laziness.

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2023/07/24/twitter_...
The other problem with “x” as a logo is that it looks a lot like a close button.
Despite all the chaos, Musk and his personal image are the only thing holding everything together.

I’m sure he could raise a few billion via text message by the weekend if he wanted to.

Given Musk’s success in other ventures and no prominent Twitter competitor for journalists or government orgs to share quick breaking news updates, the show goes on.

If Musk gets bored and moves on though, then I think your timeline is spot on.
I’m not seeing reputable sources reporting ford got bailouts. Nor do I see ford on this list. https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/list
But is the “undue” stress of a taught wire actually a problem for typical weights?
Why not? It's not like they'll accumulate many billions of users in that timeframe, so the costs won't skyrocket or anything
Facebook is different on that an account can have a lot of data
Maybe; and yet Tesla still rolls off cars off the assembly line and SpaceX is still reliably launching and recovering rockets.

He's playing with his own money, no different than Bezos losing money and 500K subs on the WaPo.
What?!?! Netherlands illegalizes something every week. I guess your talking about the tolerant policies where even selling drugs rarely results in prison? No more shrooms and nitrous; I think the shroom thing is just for tourists and they're just expecting you to grow yourself and keep to yourself.

I know you can get quite a serious charge (in other countries) and make out okay in NL. You could kill someone and be working a good job on the outside in 2-10 years.
Was this message posted on x.com?
> Either the willingness to risk own money in engineering startups is < 1 per cent among those

Maybe? The thing about having a rich family is... you're already rich.

That removes one of the prime motivations to take serious risks, of the sort that paid off for Musk; namely, to become rich.

I'm sure you get a lot of people who invest, or toss some money into this or that.

But I'd be surprised if a significant number invested their entire net worth and time into a single endeavor.
Sure but that's just a singular person out of billions.

The remaining what 4 billion people that are below the average person can easily be worse at everything then the 4 billion above the average person.
I didn't consider that, thank you for your perspective
More than the boomers did? "What's your sign?" became a cliched pick-up line many years ago.
I listen to talks about climbing Mt Everest knowing that I will never do so, and so that will be my only experience. I've been to other wilderness areas on my own, and so I know enough to partially relive it through their talks, pictures, videos; and I have to consider that good enough.

My Everest is not safe to climb. We make it somewhat safe for tourists on the backs of many dead or mistreated locals, a lot of litter that cannot be safely cleaned up, and a bunch of other harms that I can't remember.
Has any study been done to correlate personality to seasons? Weather?.

I'm not arguing for astrology, but sometimes our 'mystical' views could have some underlying cause.

Like seeing ghosts might just be our pattern matching brain seeing things.

Maybe being conceived in the winter when food was scarce, impacts embryo development, and then personality?
Apple and windows are trademarks for software. You would be unable to get the trademark "Apple" for a company selling fruit, or "windows" for a window fitter, and neither could Apple or Microsoft.

𝕏 is a pre-existing symbol used by, and part of a standard character set for, software. You could probably get a trademark on it for a company selling apples, but I highly doubt you could for a software company.
You're missing the biggest one, concurrency model.
You... probably don't? I continue to believe that there may be some small value in a single-person-instance-as-a-service product for celebs etc (particularly if Threads goes ahead with its embrace of ActivityPub; lots of value for celebrities in having the audience but having some independence from Facebook), but it's very niche.

Not everything has to be about making money, you realise.
Elon thinks X represents a variable. So a "super app" that will do anything.

I think X represents closing a dialog/window or deleting things.

We'll see which one is more apt in the near future.
I think that most of the equity investors in the takeover were motivated by politics rather than profit. It was more or less a PAC donation.

Don't the banks have Tesla stock as collateral?
Lol, I always make this mistake because in french the word for mastodon is "Mastodonte".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mastodonte
For a company that isn’t making the economics work, how does one justify such a massive resource investment in a brand change like this?! Do the gains from the related PR (ie news coverage) make up for it? These are not meant to be rhetorical questions.
Oof, GitHub issues are not accepting new responses
Springtime for Twitler in Germany!
First thing that came to my mind was this:

https://youtu.be/hS57I6swXcc?t=59s

More seriously, at least it's not an unforeseen step. Musk actually mentioned his longtime plan shortly after the acquisition: https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-elon-musks-x-the-every...
I’ve used C++ variants (from a couple of different libraries) a fair amount, and they are sort of union types, and I generally dislike it. The problem is that logically identifying the contents based on type is confusing and refactors poorly.

Suppose I have an Identifier or a Number or a StringLiteral. To work intelligently, this needs Identifier and StringLiteral to be disjoint. This isn’t just a type theory issue —- it’s a semantic issue. What is “foo”? Is it an Identifier or a StringLiteral? What happens when I add a Filename (for including/embedding files in the future)?

Logically, the fact that an Identifier is encoded by a particular type is a bit of an implementation detail, and a good type system will catch errors. It’s the fact that it’s an identifier — that is, it’s purpose — that matters for semantics and for understanding the code, and union types (and C++ variants, for the most part) are very bad at exposing this.
My advice would be to find a niche where your business knowledge is your value, not your coding. Bonus if the niche is finance, because $$. Become a consultant not an employee.
In this world, leet code is a liability. Always code assuming the next person to maintain it is a junior, or a psychopath who knows where you live.
Prescriptions wouldn't be pointless.

I can get access to any drugs on earth, I'm still not going to try any random unprescribed med for the fun of it.

A prescription means your doctor said I think you need this, at this dosage, for this long.
You can even get prescriptions for OTC stuff.

A prescription isn't a way to allow you to take something, it's a way to tell you what your doctor thinks you need.
> reddit-esque

A certain internet board has been referencing this site as "the orange reddit".
Jokes on you, humans aren't rational, and are no better than GPT. Just because some people are GPT2, and some are GPT4, both are parrots. Now what?
It seems to be contradicting his statement that the login-walls are going to be removed.
Seems like a reasonable theory if it's the price to be paid by those in power to avoid future revolutions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Revolution
> "there's a good chance it's actually the opposite."

There isn't a "good" chance. It's extraordinarily, extremely rare that someone makes such a genius play that other experts consider it foolish. These events in sport buisness or other areas are often stuff of legend because of how rare they are. Sure, if this play works out and turns to have been undoubtably right, it will be studied for years in buisness schools around the world. But up until that moment, we can be reasonably sure that this isnt one of those exceptionally rare cases
Ask HN: What are you using Vector Databases for?
Recently, more and more people have been using vector databases for in-memory for LLMs. I think semantic search can be very versatile, and I'm curious about which other use cases people are using them.
The US is already there, with an almost brain-dead 90-year old Senator being as good as gone, so that a privately-owned company doing whatever its largest owner thinks fit for the good of the company going forward doesn't even get close to that.
Blandification? More like Penisification and Swastikafication in one swoop.
Whenever I see another change to twitter, I ask myself: Will this break the spell? Will this finally let me quit twitter? Well, maybe this is it.
The same account for a bank and a shitposting platform. What could possibly go wrong?
I'm having difficulty understanding this comment in relation to one you made elsewhere in the subthread, where you said people who liked the previous verified systems were elitists.

Here you are advocating a literal pay for play, and you're identifying certain classes of users as being "worthless" and advocating "nuking them from orbit."

That seems way more radically elitist than wanting to know if something is a parody account or not? Help me understand here?
The point is the west didn't care about Poland, the Baltics and other states that fell under Russia.

In their mind it was the "price" to pay for relative stability in the west.

The status quo was sealed once Soviet Union has developed their own nuclear weapons using stolen IP. Had this not happened, most likely Stalin would have been pushed back.
>opposed to censorship

He's not or rather he's in favor of being able to say anything he wants and shutting up anyone who says what he doesn't like (such as his jet's location or anything he views as woke).
Yeah this is a major pet peeve. Especially when the compiler crashes. Growing up writing in C, I didn’t even know that was a thing.
yeah a big USD100 moat...
Do You Have BeOS Without Realizing It
If you think astrology is dumb, how about witchcraft? I started dating a woman and after a few dates she told me she was a member of a Wicca. I never had much luck with the ladies; I shrugged it off and continued with the relationship.
He is not a good engineer or strategist. He is good at marketing though. He got lucky with Space X and the rockets launched. He got a shit-ton of funding for Tesla, the whole business doesn't make sense (competitors can do better with tighter margins) but people threw money at him, so it worked.

So he thought he is a genius and can make this one work too. He realized his mistake (tried to get off the deal) but when the deal stuck, he thought he could run this thing; and turn it over to a massive success.

His latest money (valuation) came from his Twitter pumping/dumping shitposting. That's why he wanted to have Twitter and that's what he is doing with Twitter right now. He is obviously burning Twitter to the ground and with it Tesla, which has a 800bn valuation as of today...

I just hope Space X survives all this madness.
Ahh, I honestly don't pay attention to usernames. I replied to someone who is defending your attacker and making the same low effort quips so I assume they have no problem with the bizarre employment question or they would have flagged the comment or called it out for what it is.
It’s no free speech, it’s just elon-style censorship. Somehow calling out his private jet trips is no longer free speech, right?
Any time I see Naval Ravikant's mystical musings on the philosophy of innovation or whatever, I think of Denpok guy in Silicon Valley.
> but by September 2000 the board replaced Musk with Thiel while Musk was on vacation to Australia

These kinds of stuff always surprise me, like are you so scared of the CEO that you can only replace them on vacation?
Where does their revenue come from?
We aren't living in this world, that's your imagination.
Rather than making the users suffer by default, identify a more specific "bad thing" and address only that with the min user inconvenience
When was the last time a democratically elected government toppled or assassinated in Africa by the west?
> Remember NeXT?

Wasn't that the computer that the first web browser and web server were developed for and on? And a bunch of famous video games were developed on it? It was never a consumer computer company, but for its niche it was pretty successful.
That's really helpful and I've thought about doing this because I don't have a dedicated space for my axidraw and it's kind of a hassle to move around (I have the XL)

I use it for art a bit, for creating really nice notebooks for organization. If you're into these things, I'll also say that the Cricut (a cutting / craft tool) also does pen plotting and while it's a much smaller space (max 12" wide, possibly infinitely long) it can be purchased for much cheaper and is a bit more versatile.
I would like to be a fly on the wall of meta headquarters right now.
Are they into software? I’m sitting right next to one who is. She’s my wife.

Women outside of tech are entitled to their opinion. But if their opinion is that hot women should be more likely to get a job in tech, then their opinion is on the wrong side of history.
You diluted "religion" into something basically like "belief". Religion is the belief in some supernatural power (and, I would add, that requires faith because there is no evidence). Believing in ideas, in "highest good" is not religion, although religions include them as part of their dogma.
Pikchr: A PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation
I became convinced when he said he was putting CPUs in the Tesla Wall batteries during the cpu shortage for mining. I knew there were signs (cybertruck, the robot gimmick possibly being earlier one) but that was it for me. This is separate from his personality which I disliked earlier.
No using any vector databases at the moment
No qualitative difference but a huge substantial difference, you are born to believe in a religion, its 24/7 in television, in school, in politicians talk, its much harder to protect yourself from religions than it is to stay away from astrology, astrology is a thing you pick up, religion is served/forced upon you from the day you’re born, when you swear in court you swear to god not to sagitter
I’m being called biased by a user with the name snot rocket. What’s wrong with my terminology?
Yes, the later is what Nolan avoids.

But when he says "the movie is done without CGI shots", he can't ignore that most people will assume the movie is also made without digital editing and compositing.
Several times?

I don't know if Musk's success is down to luck or not, but to answer your implied question of "Do you really think it could be luck to succeed on several different occasions?" the answer is yes. 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. Someone could succeed in building billion dollar companies largely on luck many of times in a row. It's very unlikely, but it's not impossible, at least as far as any company's success is down to the luck of the founders.
Racism is inferring personality (and other) traits based upon genetics, not "where someone was born."

I would argue that your genetics, unlike your star sign, is fairly meaningful.
Yes, but HE has always loved the name X for a brand. He also wanted it for PayPal. He put it in SpaceX. And if he loves X, everybody else surely does too, so he's a genius for rebranding Twitter to X. I'm sure that's roughly his line of thought.
An "everything app" is just an operating system. There is nothing to picture, we've been having them since the 1950s [1].

We could imagine some new way of operating over systems: for instance the Alan Kay original meaning of object-orientedness [2], or instead of a compiled binary to have some stable diffusion model + large language model which hallucinates the OS on the go [3].

But that's not what the quantifiably greediest person on the planet has in mind, by "everything app" they just mean "everything must be controlled by me, not by you".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_operating_systems

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjJaFG63Hlo

[3] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/opena...
On point 1, there is also a cost to doing registration on large scale stuff. I have the XL Axidraw and am limited to 11" x 17" so if I want to go bigger I have to set up registration marks and make sure they're aligned.
IME older plotters use DC motors and optical encoders rather than steppers, and do seem to produce perfect lines at angles. They can't do curves perfectly, as even when you specify an arc or bezier curve, the plotter breaks it down into small straight segments.
Try working in IT or software dev at a company nobody would confuse for a "tech company", preferably outside of California. The Windows monoculture and Apple hate is massive in my experience. (Not trying to say it's a bad thing, I don't mind hating Apple products or Apple the company, what I do sometimes encounter that gets on my nerves though is spiteful behavior towards end users or even customers who have Macs.)
When it comes to logos, I'm all in favor of laziness. People get way too hung up on something that unimportant.
I'm not from the US so not really familiar with FCC regulations.

> If you've got silicon that has to conform with FCC regulations it's going to have non-modifiable firmware.

Can you explain 'why?' or maybe throw me a link or two? Thanks!