skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am and it's only going to get worse with even car companies demanding subscription to enable features in cars. SAAS was a revolutionary idea once, hopefully one day someone will decide to sell a product or service for a one time upfront cost again and it will be welcomed like a breath of fresh air.
I know it is nonsensical for real world applications but golfing isn't real world programming, so why not eliminate some variance ourselves and try measuring what's left?

Don't just laugh, try and tell me why this is not possible for you. This performance golf seems like an interesting idea.
Among many other lies, Musk lied about his Physics PhD too and that's now well known and documented.
He actually wrote a blog post about how he writes. He sends drafts to people and heavily rewrites, sometimes over the course of weeks or months (IIRC).

So, yea, the agitated dad vibes get (dare I say) edited out in the process.
Physical products have warranties. They get fixed if there are defects.
This comment really adds nothing that an upvote wouldn't.

(Yes, ironic since this comment is just a vocalized downvote, but I figured I'd tell you why)
Right, and it is country-oriented which is fairly arbitrary, not team-oriented as most football is played. It's possible the best football team in the world(probably the UEFA Champions League champs) could beat the winner of the FIFA World Cup(barring the fact that some of the same players may be on both teams), since the best football team can and does draw from many different countries.
To be a great villian you have to be smart. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to get support and would likely make too many mistakes.
> And after the 2008 bailouts it became pretty clear that there are different rules for different people and it's ok to lie to people if you are just brazen enough.

Sadly, I think this has been merely a general rule that each generation must learn for itself. It was pretty clear before 2008 as well.

Every ancient civilization has some sort of trickster god, after all.
To clarify for people who did not grow up in the US: as someone identifying as male, having your mom defend you is OK if you are under the age of, say, 6. Otherwise it is (rugged individualism, remember?) simply not done.
If you want a really invaluable insight into the early life of Elon, the interview with his first wife is fantastic- https://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a5380/millionaire-start... . It paints an incredible picture of the man behind the brand and… kind of explains a lot.
This is exactly correct.

The only things worth paying for as a subscription are things that require continued human working, or at least a human on-call, period.

In my experience, everything else that's worth it ought to be able to survive on donations (either of labor or money).
Ubuntu moving window control buttons to the left circa 10.x was that straw for me.

Not because it necessarily made anything harder, but because it was an arrogant change for no goddamned reason.

UX should start with humility -- if you change things that lots of people are used to then you'd better have some damn good reasons.
What the heck subscription models are you using? In my experience the software gets broken over time and you can't do anything about it, including RUN THE OLD VERSION WHICH WORKED. There's no longer as much incentive for companies to improve because they'll get paid anyway instead of payment being contingent on actually delivering something useful. Yes subscription models are good for developers, no this doesn't make the software better, it makes it worse. (or at the very least to improve much slower)

I basically pirate everything that requires a subscription now or us a FOSS alternative, even though there was a period of time where I would pay for software between when I was poor and had to pirate everything and now when I can afford to pay for subscriptions but the situation with lack of control over SaaS is so fucking untenable that I just can't. I don't believe SaaS is moral, it basically removes all the power from the consumer and allows the software providers to rake you over the coals over and over. I'm not interested in funding such things. I feel more comfortable with piracy than I do with SaaS on a philosophical level.

SaaS companies don't innovate, they buy competitors because they're using an abusive business model with bad incentives.

P.S. SaaS can probably be implemented in a decent way, and some SaaS does actually provide an ongoing service, but in general I believe my point stands.
What makes you think they are weak?
>instead of the correct latinx

It was my impression the word latinx was generally mocked by people it's supposed to represent.
Not to mention all the boards that the CPUs and RAM took up. Here's a nice photo of the insides of a VAX 11/780 - if you enlarge it all the way you can see the annotations showing which boards do what: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/SPEC-1_V...

Note that those 16 huge memory boards each held 256K (kilobytes!) for a total of 4M of RAM.

Photo with people to show size of cabinets: https://photovault.com/363660
How to gain a working knowledge of video
I really enjoy using analog video gear. As an audio person, video feels like a whole new world! However I find I’m running into walls that reveal my gaps in knowledge, and I’m seeking a deeper understanding. I wanted to ask here for advice and resources to gain a more practical working knowledge of how video works, so I can do more with what I have. I wouldn’t say I’m a beginner but i am needing some basic knowledge.

For instance here are some questions I feel I’m swimming around in the dark with;
- how to transfer video to/from different resolutions without it getting messed up— A laptop to a vhs, a vhs to a laptop (I have been using vidbox but wish it could look better).
- how do time base correctors work and why do we need them?
- why do I need a powered piece of hardware to convert hdmi to rca?
Organizing the efforts of large teams of smart people is one of the most high value activities you can do in our society.

Edit: not saying that's happening at Twitter, but it has demonstrably occurred at Tesla and SpaceX.
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>"Federal intelligence and law enforcement reach into Twitter included the Department of Homeland Security, which partnered with security contractors and think tanks to pressure Twitter to moderate content."

>Is this a violation of the 1st Amendment or a way to skirt around it?

Which specific security contractors? Which specific think tanks? The above assertion that you quoted makes several assertions, none of which (at least AFAICT) have any facts, data or evidence attached to them. Perhaps I'm missing something important? If so, what might that be?

What's more,. I receive multiple contacts from DHS daily[0]. And I (as an individual with minimal resources and little ability to "fight" the government) have never felt pressured by the Federal government to do anything.

I'd expect that corporations with multiple billions in revenue (like Twitter) and lawyers on staff would zealously protect their independence and reputation rather than being seen as shills for some shadowy "government conspiracy."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersecurity_and_Infrastructu...
Laurene Powell Jobs
Not going out of business, but on the iPad there is a drawing app called Procreate which is a one time purchase. It’s decent, but in the two years I’ve had it, nothing has really improved and there is a whole lot missing or to be desired. Meanwhile some subscription apps have come to the iPad and they are absolutely packed with every feature you could possibly want.

For any well run company, the more the users are paying, the better the product is likely to be. With a once off purchase, any future improvements are based on a Ponzi scheme requiring constant new users which is unsustainable.
You can be smart and impulsive at the same time. Remember, he tried to get out of the purchase probably after thinking about it.
addicted: consider using: hooked.

How is hooked 'better'? They both mean the same?!?
> Plus given the way things are going, it seemed like a good time to learn about alternatives.

There's HN and Reddit. It helps to dog-food your own investments every now and then.
Not leaving Twitter, just not reading or posting and using alternative platforms.

Not to play word police, but I think that's what people meant when they said 'leaving'. But if you mean that it's not necessarily forever, I understand what you're saying.
Not sure about others but I parked our Tesla Model Y at the airport for ~18 days this spring and came back with only a few percent of the battery missing.

This might be abnormal for Tesla owners though because many leave the dash cam/Sentry mode on which drains something like 7% a day.
I once worked in a small company developing niche but expensive Windows software. The company enjoyed (probably still enjoys) relatively limited competition in it's space. During start up, the program checks for the version of Windows which it's being run on and refuses to boot if it's different to the one specified for that version.

This software was mainly sold to mid-large size companies, so although it could be trivially defeated with minimal reverse engineering, I doubt this was ever a real issue.

Every new version of Windows that Microsoft released would coincide with many customers purchasing the latest version of our software.
It's astonishing how much benefit of the doubt Elon Musk gets from his cult of personality. Whether or not he's smart, the things he's doing at Twitter are /glaringly/ not smart from a business perspective: He's driven away advertisers, alienated users, crippled system resilience by firing so many engineers, and set the stage for dozens of lawsuits that will run the gamut from employment law to SEC oversight to EU compliance. Twitter is burning, and it's increasingly hard to see how genius Elon Musk is going to salvage it when he keeps throwing gasoline on the fire.

If you were presented this whole debacle in an anonymized format, without Elon Musk's name attached, how would you judge these actions?
Some people seem to right-click Desktop –> Refresh all the time
Elon seems to try so hard to show people how he is, people just don’t want to take him at his actions…
The Lab Leak Deception
And supply and demand still have to deal with physical constraints and the current layout of the grid. You can only install so many chargers in a given area before you find blocking issues.
That's why the first thing you do once Ubuntu is installed is remove snap completely.

It's sad that now we have to fight against the OS like on Windows.
Not a villain? Well he's utterly screwed his employees and broken employment law in multiple countries by not giving proper notice or consulting on redundancies, but hey who gives a shit about workers rights? Not you obviously.
Yep, there have been many on HN mentioning they were banned by him, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34042395 in this thread
But what you're really asking is how can you share them conveniently and quickly.

Maybe the answer is, you can't. Write them down, text each other, call each other and read it over the phone.

Making a spare key for my parents to get in my house isn't "click a button easy," I have to go to the hardware store -- and maybe THAT'S the appropriate level of difficulty.
I would love to use something like this to get back on emacs, but it doesn't travel well. I'm on the bus, I'm at a friend's house or my mother-in-law's house or my brother's house all the time with my computer open. I don't want to be tied down to a specific device or get out a foot pedal on the bus every time I want to program.
before HN, i just used to post something and google would magically index it and a ton of people would pour in suddenly one day.
VCs made plenty of money, they receive pre-mined amounts of whatever token they're investing in, and then dump it on retail once the coin lists on the exchanges.
It is still better than it was before, imagine you had to buy Adobe PS as a beginner, or you could just pir.... now you know why subscriptions.
Especially amoung the people that will get in front of a crowd and shout "I'm rich, bitch!"

Doubly so when intersected with the crowd that publicly eschews earthly possessions.

Turns out hypocrites aren't self aware
TikTok isn’t on the banned platforms at all, which they claim is because its content is different, but may really be because Elon can’t antagonize China.

Of course this is also banned under EU law. (of course it is, everything is banned under EU law)
It is solving exactly that minor annoyance you mentioned.
Asking about "everything being a subscription" in tech, on a tech industry forum where, presumably, a lot of people/employers are the ones doing it... doesn't seem like it's going to get a response distribution representative of users.
Only open source and free/libre software are forever yours. Do you want to stop paying for things, stick to Open source.
Says the one using HNews which looks like it's from the 90's lol
That's why I said try. They could ban IPs or at the very least block tripcodes. I'm not aware of them trying to do so in response to criticism of moot or other owners.
Go back 1,000+ years and people did occasionally live to be say 70, the difference was they where also less likely to live to be 71. And at 71 they where less likely to live to be 72 etc.

Given a large enough population you would still see very very rare cases of extreme age but you are something like 1,000 times more likely to live to 115 today than you where back in 1,000 AD. Combined with a smaller population and it’s likely nobody live to 115 until quite recently.
I don’t know. I also don’t care to know. I blog so I have a reference I control to point to, to share pictures, and generally to have a central online place for my life I can share directly with people. If nobody else even knows it exists, that’s just fine by me.
Keeping the clock and widgets in the upper right while unifying the header window and app window was the reason. You can dislike the reason, but you can't say there wasn't one.

RIP Unity
Don't. Sharing a Netflix account with your family is easy. Send it in the whatsapp group if you need to change the password or something -- how often are you going to do that in your life? Not enough to justify handing over all of your password to a 3rd party and paying them money for it.

Anything more important than a Netflix account you don't share at all. If they need access, just call them.
More than x-ray vision? Real x-ray vision[0]?

[0] Or so I was led to believe.
Feels like this should be native to Mastodon. Is there anything preventing this from being implemented?
Twitter shadowbans journalist Ken Klippenstein despite being verified
That a language might overcome the "any hunk of code bigger than a screenfull is too complex to manage", other than by chopping the code into functions and classes or whatever, is news to me.

What are other methods for slaying this complexity? And what are the languages that use it?
I don’t know what’s cooler. This setting in MacOS / iOS or having a dedicated foot pedal to press “i” or “esc”
Well if you really believe that then I assume you think they did the right thing by overturning Roe, so it seems like (in your eyes) it has a self-correcting mechanism in place. Except I gather that it's now the case that right-to-a-legal-abortion does actually have quite firm majority support from the polls that have been done?
At any rate, I don't see either case as an example of the Supreme Court protecting minority factions against tyranny of the majority.
On the positive side - you have to give it him for realizing his error and facing up to it
It's hilarious because it plays a part in the UK economy and generates tax pounds. So in way or another they are not so disconnected form the people they are booing.
I'm not saying Johnny Mnemonic is bad, just that it dates itself to the 90's so obviously these days. Same with Virtuosity, which I think is a very underrated movie.

In particular I really liked Henry Rollins' performance. It was the one thing they got just right.
Fun fact: Silvio Berlusconi, who has been the controversial prime minister for Italy many times, sort of revolutionized football in Europe in the 80s when he acquired AC Milan and started spending like no tomorrow in an unprecedented way for the best international players money could buy. It’s not that before players weren’t worth a lot, Silvio Berlusconi added an order of magnitude or two to that. He also created the first “soccer team as a brand" movement. That trend - started in the 80s - continues to this day.

More here: https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/ac-milan-silvio-berlusc...
By this principle, every physical product in the world would be "a Ponzi scheme".
I think there’s a legitimate line to draw between “bastard does capitalism” and “philanthropist post capitalism”. Bill Gates could have laundered his reputation just fine without committing to give away the majority of his wealth.
As an aside, many former-Soviet-bloc vehicle manuals mention switching the headlights on for a couple of minutes before attempting to start the car in extremely cold weather.

The reason is that pulling ~10A or so causes enough resistive heating that the battery voltage will go *up* over that time, and allow the lead-acid battery chemistry to work better when you throw a couple of hundred amps of starter motor across it.

Edit: typo
> but they seem to have omitted the most important category: class bias.

Likely because the list itself is the product of class bias

"White space" is offensive but "white trash" isn't?
Where did you pick that tidbit up?
It sounds like a recipe for a world of unfettered tribalism, where every space has explicit in-groups and out-groups, and nobody ever has to come into contact with someone who will challenge their beliefs, and where group shibboleths (even grievously false ones) are never corrected.

The world needs places where people can discover new information that goes against their beliefs. For people to be receptive to taking in new information, it needs to happen in a forum where there is a basic modicum of civility and mutual respect, where people are rewarded for taking down the temperature rather than flaming. Otherwise we might as well write down our 2022 beliefs in stone, as closed to future revision.
Right, it appears this extension is aimed at the minor annoyance.
One has to be fully committed to the act of ending their life in order to commit suicide.
Thanks, but as I learned when I was running HN, being a regular user of a forum (which the moderator necessarily is) and writing essays are fundamentally incompatible.

If you're known to be a regular user of a forum, then when someone says something about you and you don't reply, it reads as a tacit admission that they're correct. And when you write essays people say all kinds of things about you. The combination is a disaster. Forum users can sense that you're compelled to respond, and it encourages them to pick fights with you.

Back when I used to moderate HN, hitting publish on an essay was usually followed by several hours of saying various forms of "No, what I said was..." Life is much better now that I never look at the HN threads on them.
I'm wondering, does this example work as anti-euthanasia instead of pro-UBI to anyone reading it (or the rest of the article)?

This is a perverse sort of argument. I'm in favor of social services (UBI or otherwise) sufficient to prevent homelessness. There are a lot problematic things situations in this society. But these aren't going away tomorrow - in our world homeless will be with us for a while and you shouldn't add to the problem of homelessness the problem of social services making it easy to just end your life if you're threatened with homelessness.
Of course a lot of us are. It's probably one of the top 10 topics that gets moaned about on HN.
I enjoy the short and sweet blog posts from Raymond Chen on "Why does Windows X?".
I have never seen anyone mention this issue on macOS or Windows. It's definitely a Linux package manager thing, not part of Firefox's own update process.
Or for any Twitter links https://twitter.com/safety/unsafe_link_warning?unsafe_link=h......
I use debian and i get a steady stream of updates!

And I also don't get microsoft bugging me every day to install windows 11.
Good job OP. You managed to ressurect pg since 2 years ago
I'm sorry but saying "he is a smart guy" is a bit ridiculous at this point. A "smart guy" certainly may not know everything about running a social network, but he _would_ listen to the advice from those around them.

Being smart also means understanding what you don't know and not surround yourself with sycophants.
I recently switched back to arch, and when I updated my xorg a few days later, a few things started crashing (notably godot) with a “[xcb] Unknown sequence number while processing queue”, so as much as I love arch I definitely wouldn’t call it “nearly 0 work” unless you just never update.
Maybe watch the pitch meeting first: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3JGmGR9meNc
My biggest issue with Copilot is that it only wants to add code.

That's useful but I edit code a lot. And if I have 10 similar lines and made one edit, it'd be very convenient for Copilot to suggest edit following line or even lines.
Elon Musk's peers are people like Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Mohammed bin Salman. He's not alienating them.
> the policy seems to be from a place of bad intentions, I wouldn't grant the benefit of the doubt.

The problem with arguing this way is it can't possibly ever convince anyone who doesn't already agree with you. It's a great way to get both sides arguing past each other.

If you're in the right then you can be charitable to the other side and still make your points. That's the only way you'll be heard. Unless all you care about is preaching to the choir. Then go ahead, but I won't join you. It's a good way to farm karma, but a bad way to argue.
Absolutely. 50% feels conservative. The thing is that Copilot becomes so ingrained in your workflow that you don't notice it until internet goes down and you feel completely handicapped. Only then do you realize how much you rely on it.
Watching Elon handle Twitter reminds me of how Andrew Lee handled Freenode.
This policy also forbids linktree in bio, the thing you’re allowed to do on IG.

Twitter is already under an FTC consent decree.
Ask HN: anybody dislike [bad thing]?