skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm happy to pay a subscription because this way I get a steady stream of all the updates

Who needs that? I use office 97 with Microsoft’s office converters package for modern formats. Super fast and does all I need

I use photoshop cs2. Local. Fast. Offline

Software can easily reach “good enough”.

What is it with people today that makes them think that no updates or no recent changes is bad?

I WANT my tools to be stable and not change from under me.
It does but it's the privileged upper class mainly white women pushing it. You think randoms like me have any say in that matter? At best you get treated like a dog with a lecture of internalized racism and misogyny or some other insanity for not buying into their bs.
I totally forgot about Mir.
> Isn't review itself problematic though? To re view something implies it needs to be viewed, which can't be done by a blind person.

In that case, it would seem that "blind review" would be a contradiction, isn't it?

> This is the problem, once you go down the route of banning words that could possibly be problematic, then where do you stop, because any word can be problematic.

Of course, you are right.

But to me, my intention isn't about being disrespectful or not, but rather, to be clear and accurate.
I think it’s beautiful that more and more people are being forced to confront what U.S plutocracy looks like in real-time. It’s usually caked in legalese and unspoken cultural assumptions that finance and tech people exploit while the rest of us just watch. Musk, Trump and a handful of these other cranks are turning this sociopathic toxic mess into real-time online cartoon that even a 13 year old can understand. The result can either be a new healthy awareness of how public policy is leveraged to make society more healthy and fair , or the Elon Musks of the world can continue living in a bubble, being flaming arrogant narcissist perpetually in fear of ending up like Paul Pelosi - in our real-time geo located world.
Honestly Circles was a great idea with poor UI/UX. It would be interesting to see a rebrand. However, I have doubts about people wanting to use another Alphabet product considering they seem to kill everything that isn’t a massive success.
It was the last straw for me, as well. More specially, the annoying notifications telling me to update Firefox or "it will automatically update in 13 days". I don't know what was supposed to happen, but these notifications kept showing up for several months.
So, if his only degree is a bachelor of science in economics like the filing claims, what's the scan of the bachelor of arts degree then? He's got some sort of secret other degree in biology or chemistry he's never told anyone about? Fwiw he's listed as having a ba physics and bs econ in the alumni directory, and penn has confirmed those in emails, so like, you can pretend that he doesn't have the degrees he has, but idk what that accomplishes. And maybe he said a few times that he had a b.s. in physics (which is not a thing at penn) instead of a ba but that's meaningless
baseline is licensed under AGPL-3, and is also completely free to install and use through normal channels. It's run by a nonprofit, which gets its funding from grants.
> BASIC was the first language with a real-time interpreter (the Dartmouth Time Sharing System), beating APL by a year.

Of course Steve Russell wrote the first Lisp interpreter years before that.

Not to take away the significance of BASIC, but that wasn't it. I think in fact many of the "Significance" sections are rather condescending; COBOL was significant in being the first "mass" high level language, transformational in the same was BASIC was (and more than BASIC).

FORTRAN was hugely influential on computing, is mentioned all through the article, yet isn't considered "influential"?
> I don't think he realizes that the techniques that work for cars and rockets don't work in social media.

That’s what I find so peculiar. I thought he made so much progress on cars and rockets by trusting experts to help him. But with Twitter there have been lots of experts who keep trying to tell him he’s seriously misunderstanding how social media works, and he will just give them a snarky tweet reply and act like he knows better. Maybe it’s the fact that on twitter everyone can see the discussion and he’s got to project this persona with bravado that he probably doesn’t do in a private meeting.

Maybe he will turn it around but for a lot of us he’s destroyed our hang out spot and we’ve embraced alternatives. Mastodon isn’t perfect but it feels really great to see a problem, open a GitHub issue, and get a genuine discussion of how to implement it.

And no one is going to come crashing in and tear it all down.
>I cannot for the life of me understand why it's the norm.

If updates were not automatic a large number of people would not upgrade and would not receive important security updates along with various fixes and new features. If a user keeps running into a bug that has already been patched in a newer version that user will just think your software is bad and they will not realize that this poor experience they are having is because they are on an old version.

>The number of times I've been hacked and suffered a data loss is astronomically small

Being hacked even once is a bad thing. It is something that the industry tries to minimize as much as possible.

>the number of times I've had something update and suffered a data loss

Personally I have not experienced this, but it sounds like this would still happen when you update later. This is why doing gradual updates of rollouts and collecting telemetry is important. It is very useful in being able to detect a bad update and stop it from going out. Unfortunately, the Linux ecosystem is still behind the rest of the industry which leads to people having a poor user experience.
They need to reserve the first 2147352576 bytes for the Color Graphics Adapter display buffer.
1. That would still be ridiculous.

2. The water leak isn't actually in the apartment if we're keeping this accurate to domains. Maybe the only phone the plumber will listen to is in the apartment.

3. As someone else already said, the judge is handing over the keys to the entire building.
In my youth, I learned basic then Pascal before taking compsci in high school. Despite the fact that I was confident in both, your course supported both languages, but by far the "not a programmer" types chose VB and that was their speed and it's was fine. For those of us that really enjoyed programming, we learned and loved Pascal/Delphi more, but I'd argue most of us transitioned to C/java afterwards. Delphi took a middle ground approach that wasn't entirely successful to either of these groups.

I still think the biggest mistake MS made with their tooling was burying VB6+ and replaced it with VB.net. They may have made VB a "real" function extensive language, but I think a bunch of soft-programming people just left and never went back. C# ate any of those that would've used VB.net in this way anyways IMHO.
I'm curious why do you think SpaceX and Tesla are market leaders in their niches? Is Elon the only person who hires product managers?
Perhaps founders are not all that different from the companies they run. In time, bloat and complacency will twist them into unrecognizable shapes, until they too are disrupted by upstarts.

Why should Musk be any different?
What percentage of cars on the road are EV in Norway?
He is great at summing up these things in a way I can understand (most of the time, not being very experienced with Windows internals) without having the feeling he is dumbing it down, just that he is explaining it very clearly.
He started off by acting like it was because links to the plane tracker existed on Mastodon though. This "transparency" is reluctant and lags behind the actual policy change.
I agree on everything you said.

The pitch to potential TWIT advertisers is that they can reach a highly engaged, influential (and affluent) tech-savvy audience. The syndicated terrestrial radio show hurts that positioning more than the wider exposure helps.

I listened not for the advice, but for the "how will Leo answer this one" factor. He's very patient!

He would end up spending 5-10 minutes explaining to someone how to recycle power to a router or demystifying the basics of OTA television.
Yes, but also no.

I think we have to look at why everything became a subscription based model before we even talk about how the model is being abused now. When I was a kid, everyone was a pirate. Napster and Limewire were king because. Buying movies and music was absurdly expensive and extremely inconvenient. Amazon didn't exist and if your local record store didn't have something good luck. If you were in a smaller town, good luck getting a movie if Wallmart or your local mom and pop didn't have it (if you even had a Wallmart). But then Hollywood Video and Blockbuster ended up eating into the video pirating because let's be real, we only are going to watch that movie once and then it sits in storage. Now you have racks and cabinets full of tapes and disks. (My brother even had his car window smashed in where someone stole his entire CD collection) It was bulky and inconvenient, so renting made things easier. Music was the same way. But services like Napster weren't just free, they were FAR more convenient. That's why Spotify has taken over and to this day won. Convenience. I think Benn Jordan (The Flashbulb) did a good video talking about the music side of this argument (including software), so I'll let his video say more[0].

There's a second problem that has led to our hardware crisis. Where hardware is cheaper than ever but if you don't attach a subscription model some manufacturer in China will sell the same thing 10x cheaper than you. See Boston Dynamic's robotic dogs. Reverse engineering hardware is pretty easy, see K-13 missile[1].

The problem today, is that now EVERYTHING has become a subscription based model and we're basically back to where we were before (notice the resurgence in piracy lately?). So I think the problem is that we learned a lesson but we didn't learn THE lesson, of what people are actually after. I don't think our modern video streaming services are much different than buying cable in the past.

So I think the trillion dollar question is: what is the new model that learns THE lesson? But that has a lot of sub-questions, including what it is actually that people want. Surely convenience and accessibility is one, but that's clearly not all. Though the solution to this may be impossible, because no one wants to centralize everything into a single player (and I'm not convinced that's a great idea either, despite the success of services like Pirate Bay, Napster, and PopcornTime).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7EHRpnJICQ

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-13_(missile)
thanks for that link. that pretty much is exactly how I imagine him. I remember reading Ashley Vance's biography. At some point Elon makes a calculation about how many hours a girlfriend would need.
Many of those would be broken in various ways if they were not updated. For starters: VLC due to missing codecs, firefox not supporting newer standards.
All the software you mentioned was most likely heavily updated since your teens.
Yeah the problem with software these days is the constant upgrade cycle.

Own-it-for-life means "I expect free updates for the next 20 years" which as we've seen with the mIRC author isn't the best business model. Turns the software developer into indentured servitude to all the people who bought it in the past.

The JetBrains model where you own it up need to rent it to get upgrades seems to work reasonably well, but given how languages like C# and Rust are moving forwards all the time you want get those upgrades. Since I want to see the developers doing that work for me, it seems rational that I should be paying them.
I think you missed the context that Twitter is now reportedly banning links to Mastodon.

This is an apparent attempt to slow down or prevent people leaving Twitter.
Let’s not forget calling a man a pedo in a public tantrum AB and advocating for prosecuting Fauci among a litany of terrible anti worker positions.

Assholes can do good things. I just don’t get why we can’t call them assholes
The US Football league NFL also has an antitrust exemption so is deserving of public scrutiny.
> rather than the root cause.

It's impossible to address the true root cause, at least, not in a politically correct way. Some people are simply incapable of producing good quality research that is repeatable. Or just can't quite cut it in technical fields [0]. These initiatives around "inclusive language" and "bias" are just a way for these folks to keep the academic grift going on longer.

It's political suicide to talk against these people or question the validity of their research because they won't hesitate to band against someone to "cancel" him or her [1] (and it's essential for their survival; since there's no proof of what they are pushing, it's impossible to defend otherwise!).

[0] https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/30/yann-lecun-quits-twitter...

[1] https://www.boston.com/news/college/2021/10/07/chicago-profe...
I also shut down my computer every night. If it works for you I'm happy for you, but it's more trouble than Arch was for me.

The stability is nice while it lasts, but I've had way too many major things break when upgrading to a new release. The most extreme case was the time Ubuntu 19.10 broke GDM, so anyone with an nvidia card and auto-login enabled had their system bricked. This is even though I reported the issue a long time before the release, and there were very reasonable workarounds proposed in the issue discussion in good time to fix the issues before release. Ubuntu 21.04 released with a nextcloud-desktop application which segfaulted on launch. I also reported this a long time before release, and it was ignored because they had already frozen the packages they import from Debian, so I had to deal with a desktop which couldn't sync my files.

I haven't experienced similar huge issues in Arch, but more importantly, when an issue does occur, I can expect a fix to be out in days, not weeks or months.
I am fine with the subscription model of IntelliJ and their IDEs.

The progress is real and if you stop paying, you lose the ability to upgrade your IDE, but the older versions still work.
Personally I'm tired of walled gardens. I have nothing against paying a newspaper to read it, but I want to read it via RSS, with full articles in the feed, so I can choose some newspapers, save their logins as needed, and get all the news in a single UI on my desktop instead of having various different crappy modern web sites who do allow much profiling on me, but very little usability on my side.

Similarly I'm tired of baking porcals to be even worse coupled with mobile second factory auth instead of a classic physical OFFLINE time-based tocken, who do not allow OFX or similar feeds, some even do not offer decent exporting options and of course NO ONE IS THE SAME being different banks even if MY damn USAGE is the same.

And so on. Long story short: I accept to pay someone else works, because we use money as a tool to interact in society to get what we all want in more or less fair compensations BUT I do not accept and very tired of crappy IT choices not to ask for money but to trap users, munge more then formally paid money and offer far less with a coat of colorful nice crappy UI.
How about jello, paper and bismuth?

https://youtube.com/@kiwami-japan

(not all at once)
Top science fiction short stories published in October
Thanks for your kind thanks.

I'm currently working on a generalised approach to structuring multiple multithreaded components that run kernel threads and lightweight threads similar to golang.

My 1:M:N userspace scheduler multiplexes N lightweight threads onto M kernel threads but it's a different repository. It has one kernel thread and preempts loops by setting them to their limit.

Ideally they should be merged into one codebase.

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/preemptible-thread
Show HN: Outer Space Shack, a realistic space base building game
I'm reminded of the Mockingboard. It was pretty much just a 386 with a ton of RAM (up to 24 MiB) crammed onto an ISA board which, together with a special build of Golden Common Lisp, was marketed as a "Lisp machine on a budget" solution for PC users. This was back before Compaq started shipping PC compatibles with 386 CPUs, so it kinda made sense at the time?
What happened to the early idea that the internet views censorship as damage and routes around it? If Musk keeps this up he's might as well buy Gab, Parlor and Truth Social and merge them with Twitter because that's the audience he'll have left.
What “light” would he see?

That censoring whatever and whomever he wants on a whim is not the same as guaranteeing a platform without censorship?

And he will somehow change his personality and thinking and put the integrity of the platform above his own small thinking limited to self interest?

I really don’t see it. His reputation of an unstable, vindictive, insecure person with the power to annihilate any voice he dislikes and the track record of doing so is precise.

How does one climb back from that kind of chasm and establish public trust?

Twitter used to have certain policies. Now seemingly replaced to “whatever Elon likes, today”.

This is 100% toxic, I stand destruction of trust.
I have kept my desktop software as a one-time payment for a version N license (pay 40% to upgrade to version N+1) since I started in 2005, when this was the most common model. But I do look a bit enviously at products that charge a subscription - it would be nice to get that steady income. But I don't really want to completely change model at this point. So I may offer a choice of perpetual license or 1 year sub at the next major upgrade. It does add a bit more friction to the purchasing process though.
On the feed I was watching it showed that only attacker's hand was passed the line. Hands and feet are exempted for the offside rule.
I read some advice that it's better to lock the account than delete it, especially if you had a decent number of followers. Reduces the likelihood of impersonation.
That's just weird...
>and doing so evenly as shown in the thread

It doesn't matter, and I don't care, if the FBI requests were "even" on some partisan scoreboard.

>all they’re doing is politely asking for the company’s own policy to be enforced

This makes the incorrect assumption that the FBI's stated concerns are equal to their actual concerns. But this is the FBI we're talking about here. If they were actually investigating a crime it would be one thing. But randomly harassing private citizens by rules-lawyering is not appropriate.
When I was a kid, I always heard some Uncle claim that "rich people" bribe the doctors to give growth hormone to their children. That's why supposedly all the "rich people" children were tall (being well fed probably helps here)

Is that real that the rich, VC types give growth hormone to their children?
What “light” would he see?

That censoring whatever and whomever he wants on a whim is not the same as guaranteeing a platform without censorship?

And he will somehow change his personality and thinking and put the integrity of the platform above his own small thinking limited to self interest?

I really don’t see it. His reputation of an unstable, vindictive, insecure person with the power to annihilate any voice he dislikes and the track record of doing so is precise.

How does one climb back from that kind of chasm and establish public trust?

Twitter used to have certain policies. Now seemingly replaced by “whatever Elon likes, today”.

This is 100% toxic, I stand destruction of trust.
Teapots, Style and Substance
"Brexit sounded great to people with no clue about how economies work. Now they are dealing with inflation"

As is pointed out in every single one of these threads, inflation in the UK is no different to inflation in the rest of Europe. Like elsewhere, it's created by money printing to pay for lockdowns and other COVID measures, along with embargoes against Russia.

It's really quite impressive how often this claim about inflation and Brexit comes up on HN, despite it being so easily disproven by looking at the numbers. It seems to happen on literally every single thread about the UK. The idea that Remainer-ism is a bastion of economic logic and common sense doesn't fit with the frequency with which bad economic claims in support of EU membership are made.
It won't shock me if Elon is going alt-right to get the only remaining segment of the US population that is currently global warming deniers and ICE car pushers to start supporting Tesla/electric cars. If he gets conservatives and governments in Texas, Florida and other Red states to move to EVs, he'll really have done more for the environment than any other human alive.
Wow! Have you seen the list of words? This is completely stupid. Most of them anyway. Some of them are legit - eg. it annoys me when someone addresses a group of girls and says - "guys". But this is just a mistaken slang, it is not an established word.
Imagine - don't use the word "brave" - which is a really strong positive word.
Or take this - replace "stupid" with "boring, uncool" - you must be joking! uncool? Is there such a word? I bet many linguists and dictionaries authors must be going mad when seeing this article..

Ah but then I read this (first line in the article):

The Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative (EHLI) is a multi-phase, multi-year project to address harmful language in IT at Stanford.

So this is just a restrained group of people. Not sure why is this posted here anyway.
I brought up in-store security because the police force is not designed to prevent property crimes in progress, which is what the top-post I replied to seemed to be talking about. There are places that do this. I agree it is far less than ideal.

I guess ultimately it's up to the voters in San Francisco and/or California to agree on how to address this? I did see that their police force may be under-sized compared to other cities. It seems they would need to agree to hire more police and court personnel, and build more jails, which would require raising taxes, or cutting some other services. There may be lots of people opposed, given the already high taxes and disagreement over related social problems and policing in general.

It's interesting how many people who do not live in San Francisco are so offended by what is happening there. It's always been a dynamic place, and still is, for better and worse.
Call it Google Social. Get the usernames from Gmail. Contribute to Mastodon like their are doing on Chromium or do a fork. Get the same policy and terms from YouTube. What can be that hard?
looking forward to the Morgan Stanley era of Twitter ownership

really, the first job is to put an adult in charge
Lol

Given there is no female World Cup this year this is a little bit petty no? Im guessing you didn’t know that though because you don’t watch it.
>Plus I don't think he realizes that the techniques that work for cars and rockets don't work in social media.

>It's remarkable how many people who've never run any kind of company think they know how to run a tech company better than someone who's run Tesla and SpaceX.

If the techniques for cars and rockets don't work in social media, why were people wrong to write him off despite his Tesla and SpaceX experience?
Or they use electric vehicles and the cars just park on top of charging pads.
But there's always some kind of maintenance in involved