skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fuck cancer, but also fuck the American medical system, and anybody who's gotten in the way of making it more sane and compassionate.

We are about enter this system for my dad for end stage Prostate cancer. Wondering whats in store for us :|, curious to hear any specific we should watch out for.
U.S.-controlled foreign corporations have to pay "global intangible low-taxed income" (GILTI)
> reference labor theory/the alienation of man from his labor. I wonder if people are simply unaware of the large existing body of work on these issues

I’ve been interested in reading more about this. Do you have any pointers to good info?
My point is: if you have to leave the US due to immigration, frankly I'd rather go to Britain than Canada. At least I get an exciting change in lifestyle. Canada is too close to America in what it tries to do but fails. UK is f* up, but at least it's Europe
I'm deleting my account in the hope it will keep that data safe. I have 0 confidence in his ability to run a massive application safely and securely.

What a shit show, as if he needed to add the managerial drama on top of getting rid of 75% of his staff.

I would say delete your account while you still can. Who knows what he will do your data.
Since every Messi thread somehow ends up with Ronaldo, there is a video where Ronaldo is "smurfing" disguised with a fake beard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68E53lcUIKE
The video is not really that interesting.

As for "entire team playing against a team of laypeople" - I would like to see something like this too. Best we can have is probably the match between American Samoa and Australia that ended 0-31

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wg9ox9F7Vw
Do you think that meeting someone at his book signing equates to meeting him?
You can type "MIRABEAU" in Arial and Helvetica in the forms above, and you should see a definite improvement by using Helvetica.
I've deactivated the account that I created last month.

I agree that he may still salvage the situation, and I hope to reactivate or create a new account if/when that happens. For now, though, the best thing I can do is reinforce the signal that this was a major misstep, for a reason he should be well aware of: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1533616384747442176
If he knew he would definitely make it public so we can stop with that line of nonsense.
Your thinking I'm a neoliberal invalidates your point.

You, however, are a statist who wants the government to mandate suffering.
Title should probably read IRS Contractor accidentally releases the data again…

This is bad of course, but I’m kind of amazed it was only 112k. Given the 330some million citizens, and presumably some more entities that also pay taxes, this is a relatively small number.
It might have to do something with acrimonious ‘partitions’ brewing in ireland and scotland.. the brits cant suffer what they inflicted on others..
> A possible etymology is that it means not a game played with the feet, but a game played on foot.

As opposed to all those other popular ball games which are played sitting down?
There is still something special about spacex. There are many other space companies that get the same passionate people but they get very little done by comparison.
I have never had as many spam bots in my DMs and replies as I have right now.
Why not do `history | grep ffmpeg`? Each line will be prefixed with its place in the history ("445 ffmpeg --whatever") and you can just press `!445` to run it.
"Reputation is like a refrigerator. About 6 feet tall. 300 pounds. They make ice. And when if your refrigerator isn't running, you will get spoilage."
How generalists win in the information age [video]
Techies are very susceptible to the cult of personality. How many times do we have to watch that play out?
> In those sorts of situations time truly does slow down. I replay those times endlessly in my dreams/nightmares but either way it seemed like both at the time and in my mental replaying of the events that time slowed down to a crawl.

Interestingly, in at least one measurable, quantitative sense, time does not slow down, not even subjectively:

> Using a hand-held device to measure speed of visual perception, participants experienced free fall for 31 m before landing safely in a net. We found no evidence of increased temporal resolution, in apparent conflict with the fact that participants retrospectively estimated their own fall to last 36% longer than others' falls.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Most people are on there for a sense of validation. And I imagine 1 million followers is pretty validating.
You will need to back-ups periodically. Soldered RAM or not.
I think > 30% of fatty liver disease comes from insulin resistance
I would say that Messi is gloriously messy.
How We Made MuseScore 4 – Music App Design Is Challenging
It's not necessarily a generational thing. I grew up on DOS before Windows was common, remember v1 of OpenOffice and Phoenix and the birth of CSS and JS, and have been making webpages since before the div tag was invented. I bought and used many tools like Notepad++ and Ultraedit and Sublime, and used the heck out of Paint Shop Pro and some GIMP and the rest.

But many of those tools are quite a bit less powerful than the commercial subscription ones. Creative Cloud CC is very powerful when you use it professionally, as is IntelliJ. Worth it to me because I know the difference, having used both kinds of tools and payment models for more than 20 years. These days I make a little more money than I did back in the 90s, so I don't pirate or demand freeware and would rather pay for something sustainable and have it work well because my time is worth it.

Take IntelliJ for example. There was a big uproar when they moved to a subscription model, but their products have continued to get better since. The company would've gone bankrupt otherwise. Instead, their pricing is now both very fair and includes a perpetual fallback license, while their software still keeps improving. I am happy to pay for it because it adds tremendous value over VSCode or Notepad++ in my workflows.

Of course some FOSS software is still amazing. VLC is still the best player I know of. Audacity is still useful and I find myself using that more than Audition.

But other times the subscriptions just deliver better software that I'm happy to pay for.
I wasn’t aware that Gradle has «gradle.lockfile» that describes the dependencies tree. Is it used in the Java/Kotlin world?
I think it was meant differently, the dying are food for the hospice industry.

This sets it in conflict with other approaches like dying at home or euthanasia.
`Ctrl-[` works like escape in vanilla Vim. I prefer it because I don't have to lift my hand from the keyboard, unlike hitting escape
Opposite. I'm an infra-power user that uses AI once every two months, and I like the experience. Can't tell how it is for power users though. Maybe they hate it.
To be fair, I rarely hear the Europeans I know in real life complaining about it either. It seems to be a purely online phenomenon.
There's a bit of Putin invading Ukraine effect - Putin and frankly probably most Russians and frankly everyone else realizes it's a mistake. But it would be the end of him if were perceived to 'fail' on such a grand scale. The Ukrainian invasion continues (aka ending untrained soldiers as fodder) in order to salvage his status, and indirectly, the reputation of Russia.

Elon might be perceived to be too 'damaged' to fix anything now - his credibility on Twitter shot, but, were he to do a giant 'mea culpa' right now and put some other person in charge, he might win a few points frankly but it's going to be really hard for him.

Perhaps Elon could make a 'Freedom of Expression Constitution' and then put someone in place to 'Enact the Constitution' - maybe he could head the 'Constitutional Board' and then walk away saying: 'I've done what I've come to do, Mars needs me more than Twitter, it's in good hands, I'm on the Constitutional Board to make sure they follow the right path!'. That would give him public cover for his motivations and maybe save just enough face for him to get out his own way. I suggest most people would agree Twitter could have used some reforms anyhow and so even if the market didn't buy the 'narrative' they would see the reality of the situation and some upside.
In your tweet you said "I give up."

Given that you're not giving up your Twitter account, nor something less tangible like your belief Elon is acting in good faith, nor even something the evidence keeps building against like his ability to run Twitter well - what exactly are you giving up, or giving up on?
I get that modern software is a living breathing thing, but it's absurd to compare that to music albums, which should not be constantly modified and reissued post-release.
considering how many YC-funded ventures have failed, it's hard to believe he'd be wrong about this, too.
Bit tangential, but hey, the theme is nostalgia…

I don’t believe I ever heard Leo Laporte before podcasts—can’t recall Tech Guy Show being syndicated where I grew up in central Illinois.

But this prompted to see if Kim Komando is still on the air, and, yup!

https://www.komando.com/the-show/

The idea of a call-in radio show for computer help seems impossibly quaint nowadays, but in the old days, before you kids had your TikToks and your broadbands, these really were valuable resources.
Well, the real problem is that people are not writing native Windows applications anymore, that's what Delphi was good at. And Embarcadero also priced themselves out of the market, they should have had a long hard look at Jetbrains and how those guys thrived in an overcrowded market.
How long until we have a Beowulf cluster, er, Kubernetes cluster of these.
Depends exactly what you're trying to create it for. I advocate for doing it during the build process rather than as a step after.

We open sourced a few tools that do it automatically for containers:

https://github.com/chainguard-dev/apko

https://github.com/chainguard-dev/melange
Sigh these ‘What is Elon Musk thinking?’ discussions are so tiresome, devoid of any useful content. Do we really need 600+ comments about this issue? Is everyone really so upset about some guy they don’t know?
And from the relevant FIFA regulations:
“For FIFA men’s competitions, only men are eligible to play. For FIFA women’s competitions, only men are eligible to play.”
https://digitalhub.fifa.com/m/3950e57162ea513d/original/ihf3...
Yeah, I feel Twitter has improved under Elon’s leadership. In the past my account was banned and I could never get Twitter Support to explain what tweet caused my ban. Then I stopped using Twitter for a very long time. Perhaps a year ago created a new account and since Elon took over I am much less worried for unfair bans.

I like that many doctors who were silenced during COVID pandemic have been allowed to speak once more. Censorship was ridiculous under the old leadership. It seems Twitter is now much more a free speech platform and I feel Twitter is better for it being so.
> He could still salvage the situation.

That would involve him spending the time to learn how social media works. No doubt he's smart enough, but it seems like he may no longer have the attention span required to learn this.
Not sure how easy it would be to make work. Code edit data is not that prevalent. The best I can think of is looking at github commit changes. That's one place where Repl.it has a big advantage as it has live editing data from its users
True, but that means that they are not too insignificant to be regulated.
Why are you so absurdly adamant about people not being able to end suffering?

You dig up some bizarre stories created by people with agendas, and refuse to acknowledge that the right to life includes the right to choose how life ends, and to deny that is to deny the basic rights of humanity. You absolutely refuse to see that the government has no place to mandate suffering.

Why do you think the government should step in and demand people suffer? Why are you so pro-big-government?
Bonus points for those cunts at 1Password who have updated the non-subscription version so it is nagware and pops up an upgrade window every time I add a new password.
You can set when snap refreshes take place:

https://snapcraft.io/docs/keeping-snaps-up-to-date#:~:text=o...
Twitter abruptly bans all links to Instagram, Mastodon, and other competitors
I give as much credence to these thoughts as I do to all the Hacker News users predicting the imminent software-crash of twitter one month ago when Elon fired 80% of the employees. My reflection is that HN just seems smarter than reddit and other places, but it's just an illusion.
Lazarus ( Free Pascal ) seems to be thriving actually. APL is probably as big as it ever was. COBOL will shrink over time but it may still outlast me. I have no insight into SmallTalk but my University curriculum included it and it would not surprise me at all to see it used academically today. I was also taught Scheme and Fortran and those are still going strong. If I wanted to use any of these, I know I can find both free and commercial dev environments easily that run on platforms I still use.

Is ALGOL still in use anywhere though? Is there a compiler available that runs on anything modern? I genuinely curious.
> Just because you make more money than me doesn't mean you're entitled to an exception from the same risks everyone else takes.

But the risk that famous, very wealthy people have is not the same as other people have.

As an average Joe, you can publish your real-time coordinates on the Internet and usually, nobody will care.

Extremely famous and wealthy people simply cannot do that (unless they take many other security precautions which would greatly interfere with their lives).

They are under a much higher risk of being kidnapped, tortured and murdered than other people. And this risk is also applicable to their family members.

And yes, you can hire security, but you'd still be at a much greater risk, completely unnecessarily.

> And for that matter, considering that everyone else is also getting spied on real time coordinates-wise based on mobile phone, but no one seems to muster the will to care it weakens his case substantially with the additional ATC interest.

I agree that everyone else should not be getting spied on. But even when they are, this information is not getting publicly broadcasted.

And even if those mobile phone coordinates were publicly broadcasted in real-time, not only would it be illegal and there'd be a lot of outrage (in certain countries, at least), the physical security risk for ordinary people simply would not be the same as for famous high-net worth individuals and their families.
I imagine it comes from people's optimistic belief that trust can be rebuilt and bad people can be reformed. When a public figure was disgraced so openly, by the entire planet, any kind of comeback indirectly reflects a positive change. If they were bad people, it's hard to understand why they are still popular. I am not arguing that any of that logic is correct, just sympathizing why Logan Paul was given a second chance by a lot of these people.
Suspended. That was quick.
To the best of my recollection, nothing published so far has shown the FBI directing Twitter to ban speech. If I am wrong, please do correct me.

What I've seen is the FBI saying that they think specific accounts and Tweets violate policy and/or asking for them to be reviewed. It's reasonable to wonder if reports have more weight when they come from a government agency, in the same way one might wonder if reports have more weight right now when they come from Andy Ngo, but "directing" seems incorrect.

It's interesting to me that the way Taibbi and Weiss are presenting this information leaves the impression that the FBI is giving Twitter orders.
People are usually focused on how the payment model changed, but in fact, the products themselves have changed as well. Cloud storage and synchronizing data across multiple devices are now the norm, which incur continuous costs. And I think this is not something that's shoved into the customers' throat. Synchronization is indeed a valuable feature for many users.

Some of the subscriptions are certainly silly, like subscription for car features.

At least in the world of computers, I don't find too many products which are unjustifiably subscription-based. Subscriptions are usually paired with some form of synchronization/storage. And if you don't want cloud storage (or if you have your own cloud external to the application, or if you want to self host), there are usually non-subscription or even free options. Bitwarden, libreoffice, gimp, inkscape, etc.

So, I'd say as someone who's not currently into car purchase, I'm relatively content with the subscription models in the tech world. The services I subscribe to really do need continuous maintenance, and I've never been forced to subscribe to something that I think should not have been a subscription.

Adobe, though, has never been affordable to hobbyists in my opinion. Now, at least you can use it for a month and turn off the subscription.
I think a lot of us would love to see you post more on HN!

Twitter may be bigger and more discoverable, but the discussion pales in comparison to what happens here. This is a much more special place.
It's not too late, you have a full month to reverse the deactivation.
As opposed to which group of people who are more immune to it?
twitter has just suspended pg's account.
> I don’t believe I ever heard Leo Laporte before podcasts—can’t recall Tech Guy Show being syndicated where I grew up in central Illinois.

Did you not have TechTV in your area? That’s probably by far what he was most known for and was a good decade and a half before podcasts.
> That is because they can't meaningfully complain that apple created a non union group to hear concerns and give employees a voice (regardless of whether it did). Such a complaint would be hilarious.

This isn't true. Employer unions are prohibited by the NLRA, and the linked complaint's third violation is listed as "Creating and soliciting employees to join an employer-created / employer-dominated labor organization as a means of stifling Union activities." This attorney's site gives examples of when employer-sponsored groups start to violate the NLRA's provisions banning employer unions, which is when these groups start to discuss working conditions:

https://laborlaw.foxrothschild.com/2017/08/articles/general-...

> When the employer creates and sponsors an employee group where the discussion turns to subjects such as employee pay, employee benefits, or even matters such as employee work schedules, this creates a risk that the NLRB might find that the employer has improperly created something that is the equivalent of an employer sponsored union.
How can Elon be a villain if you don’t think villains exist in the real world? Your comment doesn’t make sense.
That's one of the rules I learned long ago. When you're rich enough, you're not crazy, you're "eccentric".
No, they pay for a couple, but I pay for most of it. IntelliJ in particular I pay for one because it's affordable enough and two because the corporate price is much much higher than than the individual price and I'm tired of begging companies to buy it, especially when other web devs are happy enough with VSCode.
I agree with your sentiment but something I can't get past is the need for security updates.

Perhaps it says something awful about the way software has become structured, but there are very few applications that are safe to keep using if they are never updated. As soon as you concede that the application has to continue being updated you also have to concede there has to be an ongoing cost model to support that. Not doing this has led us to routers that are the gateway to most people's homes running totally unpatched 8 year old versions of linux.

What I do wish is that the bare minimum viable updates were separated out from the major application feature updates. I would be happy to pay $5 a year for many of the applications I own and perhaps that would be enough to just ensure that security fixes are delivered. But instead I have to buy the major new version which not only costs 20x as much but also totally rearranges the application UI etc. and sometimes even loses features I care about.
I vaguely remember hearing he hired a private investigator to dig up dirt on the guy to ruin his life but there was no dirt to be dug up. But maybe I am misremembering things.
No, absolutely not. But it is somewhat incompatible with having the responsibility for one or more children. I'm sure it can be done but most people that I know that have children see them as their first responsibility.
The copy on your website is pure fire my dude.
That's interesting, even IntelliCode (generally less capable than Copilot afaik) will do exactly that. I've had it trigger a few times in C# recently, where I make one or two similar edits, and it prompts me to make more.
I'm curious what you know about the mIRC author's story. As a former mIRC user, I imagine it's interesting lore from the shareware era. Writing mIRC scripts was some of the first "programming" I ever did. Good times.
Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]
Is this response generated by ChatGPT? Seriously, we are talking Linux here and this is a generic response that ignores audience.
100%.

Ubuntu doesn't seem to realize (or simply doesn't care that) enterprise servers and user desktops are entirely different beasts.
> And I don't have to agonize over whether paying for a major upgrade is worth it.

What’s so agonizing about it? You check the release notes to see what’s been added, what’s been removed. Then check the reviews and make a simple decision.

> as strange as "owning" a music album.

Physical copies of music albums exist. It’s much stranger to me to rely on the streaming provider to listen to my favorite albums when everything in the streaming world can be removed tomorrow over some copyright issues.
So you can’t use twitter as a tool to promote your social media accounts on other platforms.

This sounds completely reasonable, just as you wouldn’t expect walmart to let you hold rallies to promote Target while you’re shopping in their store.

Yet again, I’m dismayed at the efforts folks will go through to hate Elon and paint him into this bumbling idiot. Hubris is abound.
You don't have a choice not to upgrade Windows, not practically, it will go out of support and you can't do anything about it other than hope Windows Next will be more to your liking.
If you can offer a service for a single purchase, where other require a subscription, then that might be your way into the market.

It's what I do for my (quite simple) ux app that doesn't require online features at the moment.
> I still think Elon is a smart guy.

> I don't think he realizes that the techniques that work for cars and rockets don't work in social media.

Hmmm...
I'm begging you to read up on the actual experiences of drivers for Lyft & Uber - there are dedicated subreddits.

Lyft and Uber are not leaving 60% of the money on the table to the drivers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/lyftdrivers/
https://www.reddit.com/r/uberdrivers/
What’s the value in being exposed to neonazis, pedophiles, racists, conspiracy theorists, etc? It’s not hard to pickup a copy of mein kampf; that doesn’t mean I need to read it when I know it represents the worst of humanity.
I'm under the impression that the NCAA (or at least the schools) fought hard to legalize paying student athletes. Most big schools were illegally paying their players before it was allowed.

if they wanted to spin off college football to a semi-pro league and let actual students play the game instead of "students" who get private tutors, sleep in a private dorm, have a private cafeteria, take exclusive classes, and generally don't interact with the rest of the student body, I would support this movement.
Jeff Bezos is hiring engineers to work on rockets. Blue Origin is older than SpaceX and still hasn't reached orbit. So, I don't think it's that simple.