skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are mostly non-sequiturs, with some plausible cases.

For example - I don't think subscription licensing for media is moral, and I think legally it's a rife place for some serious case law.

Simple example - Recording shows for personal consumption (time shifting) is absolutely allowed under current copyright law. If I subscribe to netflix for a month and record every show I want to watch to my personal NAS... I'm not breaking the law at all. I'll then happily stop paying the subscription after a month. Moral? Probably not. Legal? Sure.

But... what if I really do want a moral way to consume netflix content at a later date for a non-recurring, non-changed-at-their-whim cost? Well - sucks to be me because there's literally no way to buy it. I think that's also fairly immoral. I'm literally being held captive to a subscription for eternity, with no way to negotiate the deal, and the real loss of any catalogue item at any time with no recourse. Moral? Fuck no. Legal? Sure.

So... Where is the middle ground? Because I'd really, desperately like to see a better middle ground. Where I don't have to feel like a thief, and also don't feel like I'm getting extorted to watch some shows.

This mostly also holds for many saas companies. It's especially obvious in cases where the product used to be a stand-alone binary that I could install, but is now a packaged saas product, that's arguably worse (adobe photoshop comes to mind - but lots of companies are moving this direction).

I used to be willing to enter a deal where I got a static item in exchange for a fixed cost - but the new deal is... I get ephemeral products that change price/features/capabilities at any moment and with zero recourse.

And companies aren't doing this because it benefits the users - they're doing it because it's LITERAL rent seeking behavior. They know that profits are higher with this strategy.

So again - is stealing it moral? I would say no. But I don't think that in any way invalidates that the subscription model is hands down abusive to customers. Personally I've moved to self-hosted and open source everywhere I can.
Perhaps, but the passport cards aren't at all difficult or rare; you can apply for both in the same form.

> 21,995,760 (includes 3,361,037 passport cards)

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-pa...
I'm not sure that is true.

And she is unsuspended already.

Here's her explanation why https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1604559889585410048

Here's Musk explanation: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604482428281753601

(Sorry, could not post earlier, massively downvoted, so HN prohibits me from posting replies.)
How can anyone, in 2022, still have this utopian vision about open social media? There will always be another "arrogant buffoon" to ruin it for you. It's more productive to change your attitude.
You've mixed subscription based services (Google storage space) and content (Spotify) with subscription based software.

For services, it might make sense. Even so, what exactly is "getting better all the time" about Spotify the software? It's been the same for like 5 years now.

As for the rest: 1Password declined (turned to Electron shit), Creative Cloud keeps adding bloat while not adressing decades standing issues, IntelliJ is, I guess OK, Figma I don't use so can't tell.

And I know (even use) many more software that turned into subscriptions and now sit on their asses or deliver minimum value - and of course will stop working the moment you had enough with their lack of progress end your subscription.
> Not to mention that a yearly subscription is cheaper than buying outright

This is false. Software companies aren't switching to subscription models to make less money.

> the idea of "owning" software feels positively archaic to me, as strange as "owning" a music album.

This is so non-sensical I'm going to assume it's a typo.
Hopefully if he steps down he does not change the mandate to continue to allow journalists access to expose the conspiracy with the government to spread misinformation and censor critics.
As of 12/19/2022 he is very much alive.(https://isrupertmurdochdead.com/)
> Although I'm not sure who would want to run Twitter now.

If it pays well enough that I could retire afterward then I'd give it a shot. I somehow doubt it's physically possible to fuck things up anywhere near as badly as what's already happened.
PG created YCombinator and Hacker News, the site you're currently on.
Consider using "Linda's partner" instead.

Oh never mind, forgot I was not supposed to say "using" anymore...
Just checked, you can get all of Westworld on BluRay.
It's flagged because it's a fake, spam story (as evidenced by other comments). But even if it weren't, there are obvious tells that it's not real.

You can easily and quickly reach Stripe support. They don't really do robot responses; their support has worsened in recent years but talking to humans there is not difficult.

Furthermore, you have utter nonsense like this:

> Stripe is taking advantage of a lack of regulation in this space to steal small merchant's large transactions. They see a big, outlier transaction and lick their chops, hiding behind KYC and "Fraud prevention" To hold your money indefinitely.

1. There is a TON of regulation in the space. That is why transactions get flagged in the first place.

2. Stripe cannot legally TOUCH that money. It's frozen, but it's absolutely not Stripe's, and that specifically is why I flagged the post.

3. The idea that Stripe "licks its chops" at a 3k usd transaction is so idiotic it deserves its own spot on the farm.

Really, how do you fall for this? I remember years ago, this hope that the current generations are growing up on technology and won't fall for the nigerian prince scams like grandma does.
What I meant was if you were primarily on YouTube, you still had a Twitter.

On insta? You still had a Twitter.

LinkedIn? Twitter.

Blog/website? Twitter.

Everyone had a Twitter regardless of where their meat and potatoes content was.
I've read that a sudden splurge of adrenaline does that...
Agree with yellowapple. Update on shutdown isn't great either. The sane decision to me is to let the user decide when to update their software.
He co-founded and was president of Y Combinator, the startup accelerator that Hacker News is the community site for. Not famous in general, but very famous here
That’s common. School teachers face the same problem. They don’t quality for sick leave until they’ve used up all their PTO first.
What you linked to does not affect what I described. It only affects ability to redownload the file. If you still have the movie, it keeps working.

Originally, one couldn't even re-download a movie after purchase.
Glad to see industry adopting cloud server + ssh + code-server / code-remote as a standard. As a PhD student I have been working on HPCs like this with an environment I built myself for a while. It is really good and helps you to move fast.
I think the editing style of inserting old movie clips out of context was the ancestor of memes.
Not at all. You don't even need other people's passwords or accounts to fake a poll. Just admin rights to the server, or a bunch of bots.
Canada does have a program R-2000

https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy-efficiency/homes/buying-energ...

but, at ;least where I am . it has not reallu caught on.
Apparently you can, not that I ever have:

https://www.fairwork.gov.au/tools-and-resources/library/K600...
It's somewhat unclear from the article. The survey result suggests that "never travel" could mean either domestically or internationally. But the rest of the article seems to focus on doing domestic travel instead of international travel.
From iTunes? I specifically refer to iTunes. iTunes is the de-facto Music and Movie purchase platform (not referring to any subscription services).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(programmer)

Among other things, he is one of the founders of Ycombinator. He is quite known in the tech world. You've might stumbled across one of his essays which are frequently linked here.
> The survey asked about “any leisure travel” and did not differentiate between domestic or international travel plans

That's different than saying "Not domestically or internationally"
>"The Republican Party are distinct from the concept of conservative and reactionary politics."

Conceptually, yeah. In reality, it's the "conservative" party and they practice "reactionary" politics.
This is not my experience on Ubuntu. It updates while I'm using Firefox. I then open a tab and get the stupid message saying that welp, you need to restart that browser boy because isn't this a great UX?

I don't think this is a fair decision. Virtually nothing requires such a forced update. And the browser should be sandboxed by the OS anyway.
My youngest brother is 28, married with two kids and was diagnosed last Thursday with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He was admitted to the hospital the next day as his platelet count was hovering between 20 and 30k. Low platelets is below 50k where they recommend you don't shave, use a nail clipper or knives, bend over or walk around barefoot.

I know you need to be your own advocate in the healthcare system but he has no concept and I don't know enough to be able to know if he's getting the right care. In general I trust the healthcare system. But I want to know that the doctors considered x, y and z and didn't choose because of such and such reasons even if those reasons are "we don't have the facilities or experience for those treatments"

But what we get are perfunctory stat reports and then sudden announcements that they are going to be doing something in the next 4 hours. The communication is worse than any software project I have ever been on.

I need to invest time in learning about his illness without getting a doctorate but don't have any doctor friends to even point me in the right direction.
It’s not clear to me the significance you’re trying to imply but I meant learn. There are positives and negatives to learning faster.
I don't get this "everyone must be EV only" mentality - utility companies in the US are already complaining about the strain EV cars put on the grid, and again that's in the US, there are huge swathes of the world that need cars and trucks, but do not necessarily have any grid at all, not even an unreliable one. If every manufacturer goes EV only, then you'll just get new manufacturers popping up to serve the fairly giant "EV is not viable" option.
I'm going to disagree with you. EV adoption is an s-curve and we're at the bottom of it. There will be rapid adoption once it gets going, just like there was for other technical changes, including cars themselves.

All the problems with EVs are manufacturing at scale issues that will go away.

Currently EVs have enough demand that there's 6+ month waiting list where I live for all the models I've looked at. That tells me that although they're a small % of the market right now, they want to be a bigger share.

I watched a review of a Byd Atto3 yesterday. That's a cheaper EV and the reviewer said he couldn't believe how well built it seemed + features at it's price point. We're at the start of the road here, manufacturing at scale is one of those things people always seem to underestimate.

The question is probably: can we dig up enough lithium? I think everything else is irrelevant tbh.
I don't think unions can never be net negative. I'm a huge fan of unions in fact.

But to a lot of people who oppose them, it's a more convincing statement that they're a balancing force for good than anything else I've come up with.

I usually say, "The only thing worse than a union is no union." because I'm aware that they can have negative effects. Police unions come to mind. I still wouldn't ban them though. Police unions should really be an example of how powerful they can be for the working class, if nothing else.
California gonna California
I can confirm it's out there on the high seas.
Thank you for posting that, it is a very interesting viewpoint. I do think there is a bit of an inconsistency in Greenwald's reasoning though, he can't really speak for his colleagues, but he can speak for himself. So maybe he's not so much talking about his colleagues at the end as he is talking about himself? Or does he see himself as more principled than they are?
“Let structure emerge” is my rule of thumb any time I pitch Obsidian.
What's the point of that? The resulting URL doesn't seem to link to the target.

Just format it the Mastodon way, @username@example.org
Well put. I'm glad we're making them.
You can sub use cases for niches if you like, I meant it in an ecological sense.
Battery packs can be used. I just had to do this because of my own stupidity but a new VW GTI engine with installation is 20k.
I don't understand how these people manage to get by without a job. It's good work if you can get it.
Chinese business confidence at lowest in almost a decade
What a load of malarkey. You could find a thousand candidates willing to sign up in minutes. Not sure how great they'd be but they couldn't be much worse.
Probably true, but the tabloid newspapers are what he uses to influence the public. Since this is a family website I won't express my feelings abut Rupert Murdoch.
It was probably accurate at the time; but with the recent push to require passports for domestic travel, it's natural that the US has seen an increase in the number of people getting one.
Then isn’t it also the reason why your statement isn’t relevant to the point I was making?
Microsoft Begins Providing DirectX Shader Compiler Linux Binaries
> He only briefly wanted to buy Twitter;

I suspect he wanted to cause problems and pain for Twitter, and that this was the bait used to hook him into ownership at an inflated price. He has flouted so many other laws, regulations, etc, he probably thought he had a good chance at getting away with this type of behaviour in a Delaware court.
Even the most efficient ICE engines are dramatically less efficient than the worst natural gas plants (like, on the scale of 25% versus 60%), the economies of scale at utilities allow for future improvements and pollution capture, and that's without accounting for the inefficiencies involved in transporting and refining marginal oil and then transporting and distributing the marginal gasoline (and the constant gas station trips for fill-ups).

If your local electricity generation mix is 100% made up of the dirtiest possible coal being shoveled into the least efficient possible power plant, then sure, maybe, it'd be comparable over the lifetime of the car… except for the obvious possibility that said plant could be retired, upgraded, or the car moved elsewhere.

Battery manufacture does produce pollution, but it's also a process that can be improved over time, and the break-even point for an EV battery is at something tiny like 5K miles driven.

https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths
Dumb terminal + mainframe over IP?
Or he's just making things up for attention as always and will change his mind when he feels like it.

This is non-news.

Wake me up when something is announced, all the "feeling sad might delete later" is crowding the frontpage.
This would be a subsidy for builders and purchasers of new homes - overwhelmingly people with money. Why would we do this? Set higher building code standards instead. Same outcome but now the people who benefit pay for it.

At the same time you could offer grants or loans to upgrade existing structures. Which many jurisdictions do for energy efficient appliances, heat pumps, etc.

edit: also, very minor correction of a pet peeve of mine. Lumber is not a "low R-value item". It has a much higher R-value than other construction materials like concrete, masonry, and steel. Of course it should still be insulated.
It is probably the first problem in Elon's life that did not go away with some money thrown at it.
Thanks, this'll be interesting. One of my first go-tos in Wireshark is finding the interesting hosts I'm looking for, then using the built-in Follow TCP Stream to go deeper.

I wonder if tcpflow would make this easier, or maybe just different, by effectively pre-slicing the capture into sessions.
I remember trying this repeatedly with various incantations but always getting:

segaddr blah conflicts with pagezero_size

Maybe there was an incantation I didn't find. But I did handcraft it and then Apple cancelled even that. Now we're gonna have to deal with a 4GB zero page. Period.
Whether you think he would or not he’s not given me any reason to trust him about anything ever again. As a bonus he did get me to quit my Twitter habit after over a decade. Now that I’ve built up a good size list of people to follow on mastodon I actually like it more.

I understand the point is he’s hoping people will log back in to engage. But I’m just done. Even if he steps down his actions have shown what a massive single point of failure the whole thing is.

So I guess what I’m saying is: the fact that he controls everything is more the problem than whether he will exercise this one specific control.
worth a look https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/14412
Signal publishes its protocol spec and allows other applications to use it. Not on their network, but again, that's an issue of federation, not openness. The license allows you to modify it, so you could roll out your own implementation. So you are literally not locked into that system and that's not proprietary.

As for Threema, true enough as it's useless without a server. But again, federation isn't a necessary condition for being open.
You are clearly uninterested in having any sort of conversation

What is debatable about the following quote from the chief executive of Twitter? "Sorry to be a free speech absolutist."

You're making excuses for a guy who tweets Nazi images and quotes while slamming the ban hammer down on professional journalists merely trying to interview him. Rationalize your cognitive dissonance all you want, but that doesn't change that this has nothing to do with whatever the rules are at Twitter. The rules don't matter because the rules change at El No's every whim. Therefor what matters is El No's whim, and El No's whim claimed (unironically) to be a "freeze peach absolutist".

It's pretty telling that "zingers" offend you while El No's penchant for tweeting Nazis and vilifying journalists doesn't. If anything you're attempting to derail meaningful discourse by falling back on the so-called rules… rules written in quicksand.

If your argument is so weak that the "wrong" nouns derail it, you didn't have much of an argument in the first place.
It's boring but it's better than losing like Brazil did :)
> they were consistently losing money

... with ever increasing revenue to cover it. If you take a look at the quarterly reports, clearly they had a spending problem and not so much a problem with ads.

The business was fine. The leaders were not. Despite that, they certainly weren't bringing Twitter to the brink of bankruptcy.
I did misinterpret the point of issue.

However, lets say that California couldn't seize PG&Es assets directly (transmission lines, etc.) - that doesn't really matter as California can force PG&E's hand, given that they could easily put them out of business.

California is in control, it just doesn't have the political capital to do what's needed.
Maybe he'll sell another batch of stock tomorrow?
Most smart people I know are academics though. Professors. They’re actually notorious for NOT taking notes! Except maybe when they’re writing a book or something.
has ambien script, has admitted to it influencing his behaviour on twitter in the past https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/79457837541523865...
This sounds exactly like arguments some people use when talking about current was in Europe. What if the thief pulls out nukes? you get a very dangerous situation for both. You don't want Ukrainians get hurt but you also don't want Ukrainians to hurt invading soldiers. Do you see the moral problem here?
Toyota is more than happy to sell EVs to the UK. This is about not wanting to stop the production of other types of vehicles for Toyota's other markets, which they also want to serve.

Toyota revenue by region (2022) in trillions of Japanese Yen:

Japan: 16
North America: 11
Asia: 6.5
Europe: 3.9
Other: 3.0

As with everything else, as the world fragments into different blocs, there will be different requirements for each bloc, and Toyota wants to remain a global car manufacturer.
Great chance to test out their technology and learn as well. Sometimes you have to spend money to make money, and the PR is good too.
> I'm not sure that is true.

It's at the very least Musk's explanation. Lorenz's tweet with her offsite links predates the new policy; if they're related, the policy was a retroactive explanation similar to how they made up the "no real-time location" policy after banning @elonjet.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11550753/Taylor-Lor... has a screenshot of her Tweeting him asking for comment on a story that came out today, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/18/details.... That, IMO, is the most likely explanation for the action.

> And she is unsuspended already.

Yes, he's gotten a lot of backlash today.
Nitpick: This may be true of “folx” and “Latinx”, but “womxn” (despite sometimes-similar connotations) seems to have originated as a way to highlight/signal feminism, and has only acquired queer connotations recently.
Also, It just passes the problem down the line. If your dependencies are too messy to manage locally as a dev then they're gonna be an ops nightmare too. Just commit to maintaining a flake.nix and use whatever computer you want.
> ideology reached his house and destroyed it

wat? no.
I assume you hate everyone who worked at Twitter on the "Trust and Safety" team, the FBI, mainstream media outlets, etc, and want them to die as well?

They meddled in USA politics to throw the presidential election.
I’m not so sure that they only download. On macOS, Firefox (and Chrome) sometimes stop working in odd ways when they do the background ”download”. For example, file pickers stop functioning or tabs stop loading. All of this starts working again after restarting and letting it update. It’s happens more than a handful of times every year. Enough so that I’ve picked up on the pattern that it only happens when I see it say “update” by the settings menu.
PEI tourism in shambles now
Assuming that's true, it sounds like he's bad at making polls and should stop doing so. I also don't think its true since he's acted hypocritically on every value he's proclaimed to have(free speech absolutist, lol) so I have no reason to believe this is the time he's acting entirely honestly.
Their education system is quite poorly suited to teaching a foreign language effectively (as with any other), but there is also this very low exposure to English (or any other foreign language) due to the abundance of translated material.
i mean, first you target important no name scientists, there are so many scientists doing amazing work that the general public has no idea about and i'm sure these people are easier to convince to come on the show than high profile people, once you build up a following you start trying to contact higher level profile people and even if you get one, the next one will be easier.
I agree, but unfortunately we won’t realize this until years after ICE banning laws go into effect. Poor people will continue to buy used ICE vehicles as they always have. The issue of EV cost won’t become apparent until the remaining ICE vehicles and infrastructure are retired and poor people are left with two options: EV vehicles or none at all.