skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue with subscriptions for me is unrelated to the price. All subscriptions are bad. They require constant budgeting and attention. They usually come with forced upgrades, or a forced cloud component. They make it too easy to get nickel and dimed to death.

If I can't pay a one-time price for the software, it's a nonstarter. I'm totally fine with paying for updates later, as long as I'm not forced into them.
Individual Investors Hang on in Wild Year for Stocks While Pros Sell
Have you seen Guardians of Galaxy 2? They're bringing Howard back to the MCU yo!
Instead of “Karen” is “entitled white woman.”

Which is racist & sexist.

You’re a Karen if you disagree.
Westworld was cancelled without an ending as were some of the other shows on this list like Vinyl which was cancelled after 1 season. Personally I liked both shows at times but I kind of get why you'd not want to steer viewers to dead end shows.
I'm in North Bend. Having previously lived in Redmond and then Bellevue, I'd say there's a lot more trees here.
> Who even uses `i` to enter insert mode?

Most novice vim users.
Because "tech stack" has almost nothing to do with the utility or popularity of a tool or product. It could have COBOL at the core, if people find it useful they won't care.
Every service has the risk of introducing a new point of failure, of course.

But compare dev productivity lost due to service downtime with that of each new SWE in your org burning time to A) setup their own unique snowflake of an environment and B) futzing and debugging it when it breaks or there's a software update.
Interesting that polling data is different from State Department issuance data. I wonder what the difference is?

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/about-us/reports-...
Hybrid are likely much better for the environment unless you live in an area were electricity is mostly renewable/nuclear.
Hand delivering servers and other gear is always a part of a good story. Makes me wish for a decent cart and maybe some brakes.
I don't think Twitter were fine: they were consistently losing money (to your point, not a ton, but still, losing money even in a great economy), with large layoffs to come, esp once you factor in a 20% or so fall in ad income. With more income cuts, and hence layoffs, on the way as privacy laws worldwide make Twitter worse as an ad platform.

So I would argue that Twitter desperately needs to either get much better as an ads platform, or switch to some form of product that generates subscription revenues. I think that does require large changes and a bunch of features. Maybe not better programmers; probably just product pointing the programmers they had towards different features.

And they already had been a target for activist investors; that was going to continue, regardless of the stock price. See Elliot Management in 2020/2021. So if Musk hadn't done this, I bet someone else would have.
I really think PHEV would be idea, if only they had just a bit more electric-only range. Many of them only get you 25 miles or so on electric only, so you would still end up using the gas engine quite a bit. Bring that up to 40 - 60 miles, then you can do 95% of your driving on electric only.

So I've heard the argument about "why haul around a gas engine you are only going to use 5% of the time". The same thing can be said about all electric -- in that case you really need a 300 mile or so battery instead of the 50 mile battery, but most days you will be hauling around 250+ miles of extra battery you will only be using 5% of the time.

Also, on a PHEV, I'd like to see the gas engine be just barely enough horse power to drive the car (and keep some minimal charge on the battery). And have it use that in conjunction with the electric motors for acceleration. That way the gas engine can be kept even more light weight.
My view is that "gatekeeper" used to - and still does - mean someone or something with actual power over belonging to something, and by extension "gatekeeping" commonly means someone who doesn't have actual power but tries to exert social influence as if they decided who does and doesn't participate in or belong to a thing. I think the two meanings continue to coexist depending on context.
Yeah, this works for the accelerator, I want brake pedal to send Ctrl+[:wq though
Westworld is a uniquely terrible show. HBO is doing you a favor by removing it.
This is specific to Penn, where elon went, and the post does mention that they believe he only has a BS in econ, not the ba, but then dont explain why they have a screenshot of a ba. (Also fwiw I am personally a bit of an elon basher now, I really think he's gone off the deep end with twitter).

Elon did a dual degree, one bachelor in the business school (wharton) and one in the arts and sciences school (aka the college). Basically, whether a degree is a bachelor of arts or sciences is totally meaningless, schools do whatever they want (science and math are both liberal arts). At penn, the undergrad business degree is a bachelor of science in economics. You wouldn't call yourself an econ major with that degree though, since you only take 3 or 4 econ classes for that degree, you would call yourself a business major or identify by your concentration (e.g. finance, marketing. The alumni portal shows that elon concentrated in entrepreneurial management, idk if thats complete since ive heard the university confirmed he has a second concentration). The college hosts your liberal arts majors - physics, biology, chemistry, math, English, history, sociology, (real) economics, anthropology, gender studies, the works. All these are bachelor of arts degrees. I believe there's even a BA version of computer science that's offered (as distinct from the bachelor of science in engineering (BSE) in Computer science or the bachelor of applied science (BAS) in computer science degrees the engineering school offers). So if you say he has a wharton business degree (the post mentions they've confirmed the b.s. economics), and you also have evidence of a bachelor of arts granted the same year, then that BA needs explanation. I guess theoretically he could have gotten an econ major from the college too, I'm sure some hedge fund wannabes do that. These sorts of dual degrees are super common at penn btw, through formal and informal programs (e.g. i have a ba biology and bs econ)

But the ground truth here is that he has a ba in physics from the college and a bs econ (aka business degree) from wharton and when asked to provide evidence of his physics degree, he correctly provided his ba. And also that at some point elok screwed up and said he had a bs physics (which is not a thing at penn) instead of a ba which they've latched onto.
I had a Customer in 2000 using SQL Server 7.0 on Windows NT 4.0 on an Alphaserver 1200. The performance, as compared to contemporary x86 machines, was very good. Was it worth the cost? I don’t know. I never did a dollars to performance benchmark. I suspect it wasn’t really worth the DEC tax.
How is it stealing? They don't suddenly not licenses of their software to sell anymore because someone made an unlicensed copy.
It is immoral. The copyright monopoly plus copy sales model was bad enough. Now we live in digital fiefdoms and get sold like cattle to advertisers and other developers.

The only moral model is free software.
Microsoft paid for early exclusive access to GPT-3 internals. They're using it to develop things like Power Apps. FAANG are all doing similar and Google in particular at least purports to have models that outperform what OpenAI is doing.
Co-founder of Y Combinator.
Stopped listening around the time he and John C. Dvorak parted ways. Laporte started taking TWiT a bit too seriously.
A great movie theater experience for me was living close to a very clean and nice theater that was a ghost town early Sunday’s. I’d go see movies and be the only one there.
This essay seems to be about having a vague dissatisfaction with relying on other people so much. If you go along with it, you're buying into an individualist philosophy that you should do more yourself, somehow.

I'm wondering what a less individualist approach would be. Maybe it would emphasize joining or starting organizations more? Member organizations, created primarily for the benefit of their own membership, were once much more common.
> When Firefox is updated by apt on 20.04, it keeps working until I open a new tab. Then it shows a page asking me to restart the browser and won't do anything else until I comply. This is a choice of Mozilla.

Parts of the program were updated and now the program is in a not tested, half-updated, half-old state.

The "other choice" for Mozilla is pretending nothing happened, attempt to open the tab, probably immediatly segfaulting and losing all your current work in a potentially unrecoverable way. Not really a good choice under most circunstances.
Nmap's reference guide is very good too. Simple yet thorough. Learned a lot about networking just by reading through this for some example on host discovery. https://nmap.org/book/man.html
Subscriptions forces companies to keep re-inventing the wheel for the 100th time and inevitably break something they may have already perfected. A lot of software doesn't need to do more than it already does.
According to this infographic from the State Department [1], in 2019 44.5% of US citizens had passports (146 million valid passports in circulation). That rose to over 150 million in 2022 [2] but I can't find a percentage.

For non-citizens the numbers are even higher and they're not evenly distributed by state. Last I checked almost two thirds of Californians had valid passports, whereas states like Arkansas were more in line with the Japanese rate.

[1] https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/travel/CA-By-the-Number...

[2] https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/about-us/reports-...
I'm not sure why you're focusing on the replacement cost of the battery pack. Used cars buyers aren't typically considering what the cost of a replacement engine is when they're buying.

Also, the data on this stuff is already rolling in since the first gen Nissan Leafs hit the market in 2010, the Tesla Model S in 2012.
So, platforms can't delete spam as long as the spam is a competitor? That's... interesting.
> Imagine how absurd it would be for Reddit or Hacker News to have a policy like this.

Some subreddits apparently ban you for linking to personal websites on them. Some forums ban links to other forums. There was a newsletter platform I recall that prevented you from exporting your mailing list (I forget it’s name). Many fiction websites ban you from linking to other sites where you share your fiction

These policies are really lousy, but we can’t pretend they don’t exist elsewhere
It’s only a tangent that they are newspapers compared to twitter.

The real comparison is that the owners are billionaires and giants in their “industries” in some fashion.

Elon forgot capitalist step zero: Choose profit before ego.

That he is a bad capitalist will become apparent at a long enough temporal scale..
> Every video of his that YT pushes in my feed I see Putin in the thumbnail with sunglasses and behind a huge explosion

I just scrolled through the past 8 years of thumbnails on his main channel and the past year of thumbnails on his clips channel. The thumbnail you describe doesn't exist.

What I found is that he has several thumbnails of Putin looking stern, but without any sunglasses or nuclear blasts. (He also has thumbnails of Hitler and Stalin looking stern, but I don't take that to suggest he's simultaneously a communist and a nazi.) Additionally he has several videos with nuclear blast thumbnails, but none of them have anybody superimposed on front of the explosion. And he doesn't have any meme-like photoshopped sunglasses thumbnails. That sort of meme thumbnail doesn't seem to be his style.

(I didn't watch any of these videos because I can't stand Lex, so I can't comment on what he actually says. But the sort of thumbnail you're describing just isn't his style.)
> By this point, the idea of "owning" software feels positively archaic to me, as strange as "owning" a music album.

I still own the very first music album I bought, an LP purchased in 1979. I still play it on the same turntable which my dad gave me.
It's legal to have two US passports.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/have-pa...
> How many Toyota EV’s are actually available though?

Model year 2022 in the US, if you exclude non-plugin hybrids, then Prius Prime (PHEV) and Mirai (FCEV) seem to be the only two; 2023 adds RAV4 Prime (PHEV), and bZ4X (BEV).
This is an excellent talk on designing successful programming language by Brian Kernighan [1]. In the beginning of the lecture he did show a picture of the Tower of Babel depicting plethora programming languages as it's appeared in the cover of Communications of the ACM (CACM) magazine in January 1961 and most of the programming languages mentioned in the article were already there!

[1] Brian Kernighan on successful language design:

https://youtu.be/Sg4U4r_AgJU
They are launching multiple EVs in the future with the bZ4X being the first.

Toyota is also the biggest car maker in the world with one of the best reputations, any EV they would make would sell great.
Oops, I think I should've attributed that to David Crosby, sorry.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under of robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some points be satiated; but those who torment us for their own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to heaven yet at the same time likely to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on the level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals." -C.S. Lewis
There is a plug in hybrid Rav4, and it is delightful for what it is. Fast acceleration and light off road capability make it good for city driving, backwoods gravel, and even some rutting out jeep trails.
In the US these days, Paid Time Off is often a single pooled block for vacation/personal time/sick leave. (Although short term disability and long term disability are separate things if they exist.) But even if sick time were separate I wouldn't expect to be able to use it instead of vacation time if I got sick on vacation.
Not sure about other car manufacturers, but I know Toyota is having trouble building up their battery infrastructure, which is why their PHEV range is lacking as of yet.
That's just silly. Passwords are stored encrypted. No way would they be able to even know what the passwords are, even if they know who the users are.
Back in the early 2000s, Sun ("the network is the computer") had a similar solution that worked seamlessly for most of their software org-- the Sun Ray. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray

It was a network terminal. Your files and entire session were on the server. Your “local” terminal consisted only of a network interface and enough compute power to display your session. The way they had it set up was that you could insert your Sun employee ID – the same card used to get into the building – into a slot in the terminal. That authenticated you to the server and displayed your session instantly. Want to show a colleague something you’re working on? Just put your ID into their Sun Ray and show them exactly what you were doing. That was cool! It was a frictionless way to demo and collaborate.
It's an old trick.

Most people will jump on a new subscription justyfing it with a low entry cost and the premise of hassle free return policy, but even if they won't like or use the service they'll be too lazy to actually cancel it.

In the next few weeks many people will sign a gym membership as a part of their New Year's resolutions. Many will give up after a month but only few will immediately cancel their memberships.
The war in Ukraine ends. Not sure who 'wins', but it feels like resources are low enough on the Russian side that an end to the conflict will be a priority.

Putin might not make it through 2023. If he keeps pushing for the war and the rest of the elites/political sphere in Russia want it to end, I can see him being taken out by them.

Twitter crashes and burns. Musk is already doing everything in his power to achieve that, and it feels like the site/company is on thin ice right now, in pretty much every sense.

The Mario movie comes out, does well. Nintendo announces the Donkey Kong movie that's suppposedly in production, plus a few other adaptations.

The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom comes out, does well. Some people feel it doesn't do enough that's new, but the general design is good enough to get high review scores nonetheless.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe gets character DLC

At least one long running show finally ends. Maybe this is the time The Simpsons finally comes to a close? Or could it be Family Guy, South Park, Spongebob, etc? Eh, if the Pokemon anime can be rebooted without Ash, this seems viable too.

Crypto continues to struggle, as people realise there aren't many use cases for things like Bitcoin outside of questionable activity and countries with broken economic systems.

The cracks show for Meta... Horizon Worlds isn't catching on, and Facebook is dying. Eventually it'll hurt the company financially too.

Discord tries to monetise its services more, users get annoyed.

Either the UK PM steps down, or another election is called.

The cat leaves the bag, and AI tech becomes usable outside of hosted services. All kinds of ethical questions get raised.
Wow this is news to me thanks
> A note taking app or password manager in the modern sense is not a product, it's a service.

Which is a very serious problem. Apps like that shouldn't be services. The only reason to make them that way is so the companies can continue to soak you over time.

Break out the services separately. If the user wants cloud storage, sell that service as an option. But if the user doesn't, they shouldn't have to pay for it.

> it would mean the companies go bankrupt, as little new revenue comes in.

This is just not true, as the history of software sales reveals. Sell upgrades. Sell more than one product.
Elon Musk blamed a Twitter account for a stalker. Police see no link
Musk launches poll on whether he should quit as Twitter CEO
That would also be very likely to end up leaking.
You already have the same concern with source control, code review, continuous integration, continuous deployment, etc.

Dev servers are arguably much simpler to provide without issues.
https://archive.ph/g37KP
I can appreciate the entertainment factor, but I don't think the news/PR world is in any way scared. For news, it's more clicks on articles talking about this. Look at how popular these stories are on HN. The news industry loves anything that creates more news.

And Twitter is small enough that I'd be surprised if it's a factor for PR companies in any serious way. I looked at one of the biggest PR companies in my city and they've tweeted twice in six months. PR companies make money from retainers and the bulk of the work is pushing stories out to traditional news, new media (large blogs, etc) and then managing social media accounts. On the last point, they can make more money producing videos for YouTube and videos/photos for Instagram/Facebook than posting largely textual content on Twitter to a tiny audience.

My wife worked in PR for years and is now in comms with a company. That company posts consistently on Instagram/Facebook, as one example, but has only posted on Twitter 2-3 times in 12 months.
I somehow ended up paying $2k for a 2009 Prius with 80k miles on it in 2019. I've driven it for three years and it has not had one mechanical issue at all. Absolutely perfect.
VHS was the superior format: it allowed enough length to fit a whole movie on one tape. That's what the market wanted more than video quality.
I've heard of zfs.rent but I haven't used it to provide a review.

Reddit also says rsync.net will accept a zfs send.
It's okay because his bots will choose whatever option he likes the most in order to make it seem like a democratic process.
I invite you to review Mao's Hundred Flowers Campaign, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
Even if your local power is 100% fossil fuels, there is a significant per-mile benefit to utility scale efficiency. Natural gas power plants are about double the efficiency of a very good internal combustion engine.
I thought Extreme Programming was the original extreme agility.
As someone who lived in Japan for 10+ years, I feel Japanese tourism is "consume product" style packaged boredom.

The stuff that is nice (easy train trips in and out of Tokyo, neighbourhood grocery stores, safety, etc..) are not relevant to tourists. The stuff that is touristy is also very samey. This is not very generous, but my view of local tourism boils down to a giant, beautifully-built temple - with Coca-Cola (TM) vending machines and cheap plastic junk for sale. Don't forget to go into a coffee shop and spend 800 yen just to have a place to sit (only to have no seats available).

With heavy crowding in places like Kyoto, and expensive lodging everywhere (rooms are priced per-person; not per room), it's hard to enjoy Japan as a domestic tourist. Having some historical context about Japan might make it better, but really, you can only see so much cracked concrete without getting bored.

Ski Trips, Onsens, and quality eats are great, but they just aren't worth the price of a plane ticket to Japan. As a domestic tourist, you can probably access the later two wherever you live.

The issue becomes worse for a potential international tourist in Japan. You have the language barrier, the length of trips (Korea is tolerable, but Singapore/HK/China/etc.. are long flights), and the ongoing loss of value of the Japanese yen. Between all this bad news, you also have an aging population who is not going to take the risk of catching Covid while abroad.

With all of the above, I can totally understand why someone would not find much value to traveling domestically or internationally from Japan.

In my case, the only value I derive is from visiting family or friends. I would probably never go again if I didn't have family there.
We are moving to such cloud environment, and it makes me sick.

Maybe you need to dockerise Mongo, MySql and 5 other dependencies - I can get this, but I don't get it why the rest the code should still be running in the cloud. Python, Rails, Node? Why? Developers should be able to run 1 shell commands to install node.

Dev experience excuses are just excuses for a bad setup. So, fix your setup, please.

Not being able to run the project natively is big red flag for me and when I move jobs will be my 1st question.
My car is a decade and a half old, and still works well enough.

Not having to visit a gas station ever, would be kinda nice.

Having to get a rental for longer trips once or twice a year would be mildly annoying.

A hybrid with enough battery range for daily use would probably be fine.

An EV that can be hybridified with a generator on a trailer would probably also be fine.
I have to believe that's in the noise. It's for some very specific purposes and, as I recall, when I looked it up at one point for no particular reason, it was fairly burdensome to do.
I like this workflow, use something like mutagen to sync from your local environment to the remote machine. For me, I prefer jetbrains IDEs so I tried using jetbrains gateway, it’s really buggy and slow. I prefer to use jetbrains ides on my local machine and use VSCode remote for interacting with the remote machine.

I wonder though, is it worth it to setup a remote dev machine if you have an M1 Mac?

I think you can get good compile times for Rust etc. on an M1. For me I have an intel Mac at work and at home so the remote dev env is better for builds.