skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's writing about how he ended up being forced out of his own media outlet (his words; he was co-founder).

If he sees himself as more principled than they are, I would argue that the sequence of events he describes is sufficient justification for that view. It might not be, in a deep sense, true -- you could easily interpret him as being less afraid of losing a well-paid sinecure than the rest of the editorial board, as opposed to being more strongly attached to his own principles -- but it is true on the surface and it's an accusation he can fairly lodge. They caved; he didn't.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-int...

> the intended core innovation of The Intercept, above all else, was to create a new media outlets where all talented, responsible journalists would enjoy the same right of editorial freedom I had always insisted upon for myself.

> The current iteration of The Intercept is completely unrecognizable when compared to that original vision. Rather than offering a venue for airing dissent, marginalized voices and unheard perspectives, it is rapidly becoming just another media outlet with mandated ideological and partisan loyalties

> the brute censorship this week of my article — about the Hunter Biden materials and Joe Biden’s conduct regarding Ukraine and China, as well my critique of the media’s rank-closing attempt, in a deeply unholy union with Silicon Valley and the “intelligence community,” to suppress its revelations — eroded the last justification I could cling to for staying. It meant that not only does this media outlet not provide the editorial freedom to other journalists, as I had so hopefully envisioned seven years ago, but now no longer even provides it to me. In the days heading into a presidential election, I am somehow silenced from expressing any views that random editors in New York find disagreeable, and now somehow have to conform my writing and reporting to cater to their partisan desires and eagerness to elect specific candidates.

> To say that such censorship is a red line for me, a situation I would never accept no matter the cost, is an understatement. It is astonishing to me, but also a reflection of our current discourse and illiberal media environment, that I have been silenced about Joe Biden by my own media outlet.
Firewood is simple here. The only special machine used is a beat up old truck, because you don't throw wood in your nice truck. Equipment to get it out of the forest? A 100' cable to drag it out (because longer isn't allowed). Chainsaw? For sure. Waiting for it to dry? Nature does that. You don't cut the green trees, you cut the dead ones.

I wish people around me didn't burn wood, but since they will do it anyways I'm always pointing people to areas near me where there are dead trees standing. I'd rather have them pull it out than wait for a forest fire to clean it up.

It is impressive how fast one guy and a saw can fill his truck and be gone.
How old are you that the idea of owning a copy of music is strange? Do you feel same way about books? I still buy albums and books that I consider particularly excellent.
The author is talented, but these are mundane exercises, not problems. They are all trivial mechanical computations best done by a calculator, that do nothing to promote understanding and insight.

A lot of work went into this, to generate trivial exercises to train rote memorization, like flashcards.
Uber still has time for this crap? Counting the days till they shut down. Non businesses need to die out.
The idea is that you don't rely on the process but measure the outcome with a device like this blower door tester. Builders are notorious for cutting corners with insulation and sealing air since it's not that obvious to the naked eye. The testing device reveals any cut corners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msZ_E-4GFs8
Selection bias. Those that work internationally and learnt English properly have a different attitude than those that stay, they usually spend enormous amount of effort learning the language because they don’t fit in or don’t want to.

I’ve traveled around with Japanese and they definitely appreciate cleanliness and politeness more than any others. I’ve had multiple Japanese people cry saying how lucky they are to have been born in Japan when they have a short stay in pretty well off countries.

This doesn’t mean that they can’t be dirty, I’ve seen bones for ramen cracked on the streets here. Just that they appreciate cleanliness a lot. I think red mold popping up everywhere all the time makes you more careful, at least I became more aware after moving here.
Pretty much all software companies now have ongoing costs associated with the software after you would have purchased it - ops, hosting, security updates, and backports for compatability. In order to sell it to you and have it make sense they'd need to charge you a lot for it - the cost of keeping it up for however long you might use it. Essentially you'd need to pay ten years worth of subscription costs and just not have a choice in the matter. I'm sure they would prefer that, but you wouldn't buy it at that price because you know you probably won't use it for that long. Also, maintaining multiple versions of the thing is going to be a lot more expensive than just getting everyone on the current version. So, the company which has ongoing costs charges you an ongoing bill because it makes the most sense for both of you.

I think that maybe what you really don't like is the fact that US monopolies are not regulated and so all of your options suck whether or not they are SaaS companies.
Easy in theory, but always breaks down for a non-trivial project with >5 developers on it.
How many straws did it take for Trump's supporters? oh, right ...
There's correlation in longitudinal studies, I recall. Not sure how robust the findings are though.
Ask any head coach of the Dallas Cowboys working under Jerry Jones how this kind of relationship works out for those involved. I get the sense that it would be very similar.
It's less surprising than one might think, given that he passed away 22 years ago.
He can be good at rockets and cars and still be a villain. Being eccentric on its own doesn’t involve victimizing innocents, which he does on the regular…
Googler, options are my own.

This is a great write-up. As someone who has had to deal with backend subsetting a bunch in the past, this is such an interesting read.

One thing interesting about Google's scale and this architecture is that if you use classic firewalls that end up having connection tracking in them, you can easily overload that connection tracking table. M x k connections can balloon that connection count given the number of replicas some services have.

If you like write-ups like this, there is a great 2016 acm paper by Google on how it does source control: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
He states pretty clearly that he's fairly liberal. However, in the occasional times there's an important politics angle to a tech story, he does a reasonably good job of discussing it objectively. Even when there are guests across the political spectrum, the discussion never degrades to mud-slinging or name-calling.

Strongest political stance I can remember him making lately is ridiculing the idea the last presidential election was stolen.

Honestly, I think any complaints about the "politics" in his netcasts says more about the person complaining than about the actual contents of his podcasts.
Setup scripts that mutate an operating system are fragile. Break something? Unless you understand how the scripts work (which will become stupidly complex at a scale like Uber’s) you will have to reinstall your machine. Or you will have to staff a ton of support to help users when they do break their configuration.

Spinning up a VM with an image containing all the development tools is a much smoother experience most of the time. The only reason why I don’t use it where I work is because I use vim and network adds too much latency for me.
Depends on the subject matter as well. I've moderated a - large - forum for years and in the beginning I was also a user of the site. That quickly led to people figuring out that the moderator is a part of the scene and so you get people that try to get into your good book and others that try to set each other up. Every word you write gets lawyered over and so on. If your Sub-Reddit doesn't have those problems count yourself lucky. But personally I think that the way dang here does it is perfect (see: sucking up ;) ), he only enters the conversation to explain his moderation actions, but does not actually take a position on any of the issues discussed, thus leading to perceived impartiality (he still gets plenty of flak but imo that is undeserved).
Apologies and atonement are one thing but I think it takes a certain level of emotional deficiency to even have the impulse to use your position of power to lob such petty insults. It's grossly abnormal. Same thing for people like Kanye West or Will Smith. They can tap dance between insane behavior and apologizing but like why would they ever do the things they do in the first place if they were decent people.
S-curve is in 3 parts. Early, middle & late. The early & late phases are quite long with few people in each. The middle stage is quick with most people.

Many people think they are late adopters. Most aren't, but some are.
I'm not saying it doesn't happen on the left as well. I'm just saying it's easier to recognize when it does happen on the right. The Dominion v. Fox News lawsuits come to mind here. Parents of Sandy Hook v. Alex Jones, too.

Back around 1991/1992 the Democrats in congress were so convinced there was an October Surprise in the 1980 election. There just wasn't anything there.

Hugboxes don't force you to question your belief system, right? You can go on living in whatever world you want to. But anything coming out of those hugboxes, no one should take seriously, right?

Before social media we would have called much of this stuff "conspiracy theories".
Comorbidity.
How does one become a _professional_ caver?
Clearly, the vote count is full of fraud because all of the users are bots anyways, yeah? In the pools of thought that Elon floats in, it would only be more fraudulent if Dominion was conducting the poll.
Yes I think it’s probably more accurate to say his problems stem from ego & arrogance rather than stupidity.
> […] and let them learn the language on-the-job so they can do low-priority legacy maintenance.

And that is a problem frequently faced with fresh graduates and young developers (no disrespect to them) whose common reaction to legacy programming languages and platforms is best characterised as «ew, this is gross». Even a heftier salary package does not do the job – they just don't want to learn legacy technologies.

As a personal anecdote, it is the situation I encountered with a few young devs (3-4 years of the industry experience) in my team whom the management had entrusted to learn and support a 4GL platform that they borderline flatly refused to learn and left their employer shortly afterwards to code in React and other NodeJs frameworks. Which is regretful as the 4GL language in question was a pretty modern and good design and could have been learned to get a glimpse into good design and coding practices, the intricacies of the complex transaction processing etc. All of which could have been reused pretty much anywhere outside 4GL. In my view, it was a sorely missed opportunity.
If that is the justification, then HBO should refund everyone who paid for a product that HBO failed to deliver, and definitely shouldn't sell it to other customers on other platforms.
> They are also very rare

Not where I live.

> a simple diesel or natural gas generator is a far cheaper method of getting power during an outage.

Not self-sustainable. The goal is completely self-contained energy generation. Dependence on externally sourced fuels fails the requirements.
This once again demonstrates that China and America have two of the most oddly similar populations on the planet
I'm totally for subscription. But please give me an option for either on-time or short-term burst of usage too for a small price instead of a high monthly. There are times when I want to use something just for a few hours and that's it. I might never need to touch the software for many months.
Thanks! I'll point DonHopkins at this.
You will fix the bugs?
I really don't see how there's any difference between software and physical products.

Businesses are working year-round — manufacturers are manufacturing new products, software developers are writing software updates — and also selling year-round. If you run out of customers, that's of course a problem, but that's not a unique problem to software.

As a software developer, I sell new copies year-round, every day, and also release updates year-round. If I run out of new customers I'll let you know, but last month was actually my best sales month ever.

What do you mean exactly by "constant growth"? You need constant sales, yes. You don't necessarily need a constant increase in sales, if sales are at a sustainable level.
Discussed at the time:

Jugaad, an Indian Delivery Methodology - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24459888 - Sept 2020 (63 comments)
I am just too old for NFTs but I can completely understand how that is cool having grown up collecting baseball cards.

There is really no valid argument that paying for a jpeg is any more ridiculous than paying for a piece of ultra thin cardboard with a baseball player on it that tends to gain in value based on going back in time in the players career. As if the rookie card being worth more than the second year is purely logical and not just a type of supply/demand herd mentality.
> Both Bill Gates (IT robber baron) and Mike Tyson (wife beater, ear biter and convicted rapist) seem to enjoy pretty good reputations these days.

Not in my book...
>he still got the outcome he was looking for

what was that outcome? fewer people knowing about his childish behavior? no, that wasn't it. fewer people knowing about his private jet and the mechanisms of being able to track it. nope, didn't work that way either. showing the world he's a petulant little child that throws a hissy fit when he doesn't get his way. now we're getting somewhere.
> Huh, I'm one of several mods for a Sub-Reddit. Works fine.

Reddit is mostly anonymous, which can make people think they can do whatever they want as moderators/users without any repercussions. Of course that isn't true: all of our actions impact our own behavior, attitude etc.

> Also never observed a problem between mods and other users in other Sub-Reddits. Maybe because mods on Reddit are not that visible?

It happens all the time. These r/Libertarian [1] and r/LibertarianUncensored [2] threads may be the most succinct examples of how far users/mods will go to make their voices heard. I list many more in my talk [3].

[1] https://archive.ph/O0GN8#selection-2701.0-2707.56

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/LibertarianUncensored/comments/uotv...

[3] https://shadowmoderation.com/2022-10-transparent-moderation/
"assuming the rest of their balance sheet is legitimate and accurate."

How could it possibly be? If being more transparent would not destroy them, they would've already done that.

I just read this:

"CZ was asked why he wouldn’t engage a Big Four auditor to pick up where Mazars left off. CZ said most of these big firms “don’t even know how to audit crypto exchanges.” Andrew Ross Sorkin then pointed out that Coinbase has a Big Four auditor, Deloitte."

I don't need to see his expression or hear his intonation to know what this means.
*> higher SLA targets than production

Lost revenue is usually more impactful than the occasional lost developer time.
I really wish nmap has a proper API, or programmatically-friendly pipeline output.

All of its myriad output formats are just "skins" on top of the pretty-printed textual UI output, making nmap very difficult to use as a component of a larger system.
I disagree with the rule, however the rule was broken so yes I still feel the same

My number one complaint about Twitter, YT, Twitch, or any other large platform is the arbitrary and uneven enforcement of rules, Person A does action and gets nothing, person B does same action get permabanned, often as a result of their political influence, notoriety, internal connections, or in the case of twitter often just being of the "correct" political party

I would prefer a different rules set, always have for twitter but if they are going to have a rule it absolutely unquestionably needs to be enforced equally across the platform.
The reason I idle before driving is that even after I scrape the ice off, the wipers don't seem to be as effective until the window is warmer, and it's blurry and gets foggy. I try and scrape, wipe and antifreeze as much as possible, but I still find I can't see as well until the windows warm up a bit.
Steroids are rampant among fitness influencers, trainers and bodybuilders
TLDR for vscode remote users? Let me be lazy and just get a Y/N over whether it has any benefit over the normal remote vscode UX.
That’s about stuff you believe might be true rather than stuff you believe is true.

If someone says they came up with a perpetual motion device you can say they didn’t without actually investigating the device in question.

If you call someone a pedo because you don’t have any evidence their not a pedo and you don’t like them then that’s malicious disregard for the truth.

The bar is very low, you can for example call someone a murder even if they got acquitted at trial.
Even those of us who do have private garages end up having to use them for other purposes like storage, home gyms, workshops, etc. In high cost areas it's exorbitantly expensive to buy a larger home so people use the garage for other purposes and park their cars on the street.
I don't think that will work as long as Musk is the majority shareholder.
Maybe OP's statement should be revised from "staying out of it" to "giving the appearance of staying out of it."

You are undoubtedly right that Murdoch's political influence is everywhere in Fox News and his other, very profitable, properties.

But have you ever heard a single juicy sound bite by Murdoch about Hillary Clinton, or Obama, or "wokeness?"

I just checked: turns out he's made a handful of comments, all of which basically qualify as obscure. He stays out of the way, despite running what is maybe the most politically impactful business of our times.

Compare to Musk, who, just a week or two ago, tweeted "My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci."
Safemoon was a four billion dollar scam (which is another that CoffeeZilla has reported on).

I feel like many of these stories are pertinent. It may not matter to you but these are consequences from parents leaving their children in front of internet influencers throughout the 2010s and those influencers then turn out to be terrible people when they enter into their mid-late twenties.

Just a month ago "IShowSpeed" was shilling a crypto scam directly into children's touchscreens across the nation for the next generation to get caught up in this.
yup. best of both worlds.

I actually do the same in with one of my products.
They rebuffed him, poison pilled to make it really hard and required a much firmer offer, which he made and they accepted (he even threatened a shareholder lawsuit if they didn't citing boardmember fiduciary duty).

Courts didn't force this on him out of nowhere, he bought it then he wanted out when the tech market tanked, and courts just said no, you bought it.

He had a lot of time to back out with a penalty payment too and didn't do so.
This is my opinion on the matter, whether popular or not.

Yes, I'd rather own than rent. Instances I really don't mind paying a subscription for:

1) an open source product that has a free / freemium model where the base product is great, and the "extra" stuff is cheap like $10 a year (Bitwarden and Zotero came to mind) and well worth the extra $. I'll happily pay for that and think that's worth.

2) anytime hardware is involved. Email and storage services come to mind. You're spinning other peoples disks and using their servers. Shit breaks.

Things I despise paying subscriptions for:

1) desktop software that runs on your own hardware that comes with no support (Microsoft office, adobe, etc.) piss off Microsoft 365

2) desktop Linux. I love RHEL, but paying $175 a year forever to have a workstation with zero ticket support is annoying. I know developers gotta eat, but it's a big turn off. I know Macintosh computers are overpriced for the hardware but you get 10+ years of updates.

I think that's it for now?
I'm sad that the Rocky+Bullwinkle complete set I bought has different music from when it was aired. I'm sorry, I just hate the replacement music and it ruined the cartoon for me.

I do have a couple VHS tapes that had the cartoons with the original music.
The place I work for (not the government) actually started blocking USB storage devices because of the risk of data leaks. Too many of them involve misplaced flash drives.
He still seems to co-host Security Now! (https://twit.tv/shows/security-now)

Really loved that show, tho I didn't listen to it for a while.
When I read this I was thinking of Procter & Gamble, the other PG...
I've encountered this exact issue: It kept bugging me to close firefox so that I can update. I closed it. Then I relaunched it and the message popped up again. I repeated this process for a couple of days until I gave up, uninstalled snap, and installed flatpak.

Issues like this are present in a lot of highly-opinionated software; they become utterly unusable when used in a way that deviates from the dev's ideal vision, or ways they plain just refuse to support. Configurability and transparency is almost always a good thing in software. It seems that some Devs will have to relearn this lesson the hard way.
> Outside of the absurdly conservative WSJ opinion pages, I wouldn’t even say that. The Wall Street Journal is the paper of Wall Street, it has a slight inherent pro-business bias but besides that it reports the news fairly and accurately.

The WSJ had a right-wing political bias (beyond just a vague pro-business bias) under Dow Jones (in the news, not just the–even then–absurdly right-wing opinion pages), and it got stronger under Murdoch (I haven’t read it as much in recent years, but I did regularly around and for a while after the takeover.) It’s not strident in tone (outside of the opinion pages) the way that Fox News is, but its notable both in story selection and focus.
He already said he was going to find someone else to lead Twitter, a month ago. https://www.axios.com/2022/11/16/elon-musk-twitter-ceo-new-l...
It occurs to me that voting the "wrong" way (or maybe even commenting here on HN) might lead to getting booted. Despite all the nonsense, I've continued to derive value from twitter, by:

- following accounts that share interesting things

- refusing to engage in arguments

- choosing "Not interested in this ad" for every ad

- avoiding "doom-scrolling"

I'd be sad to lose my account, given I don't have a way to recreate the "feed" of my curated following list, let alone easily interact w/ those people.
I don't think it can physically clear the top of the garage door, Rivian is tall and the garage is not.
Yeah I agree but OP suggests Amazon's single big instance
This seems reductionist & rejectionist to me. If people have a reason to care, little impedances like this are not going to stop things.

In general this high judgementalism really should have a tiny smidge of humility & respect in it. That lacks. You could improve.
Passport cards are now more readily available since state DMVs can process them as part of the RealID initiative. They're cheaper than a proper passport but I would venture many passport holders have one for convenience.
> Are you a professional caver or just someone who likes to do it

It seems like they are neither!
> the pascal community has free pascal

And lazarus.
Nutty Putty Cave is the most horrifying way to die I have ever read and I have no interest in caving after reading about it.