skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stand by a previous comment a few days ago, on another Musk and Twitter saga that he's trying to drive traffic to Twitter to increase engagement, users and get more ad revenue. It's how a narcissist would do it. This poll is all over the news now and there were earlier comments of signsups sky high now. I try to stick to paywalled, informative news (Financial Times, WSJ) and if they're covering it I'm sure the rest are...and a cursor check of cnn.com and foxnews.com, Control + F shows several articles in front page...
> It only spends the legal minimal amount for charity, 5% (way less than taxes that would go to build roads, hospitals and schools). The rest is invested in a portfolio that, by the magic of being in a non profit, can make billions without paying any tax.

To clarify, 5% of what? Of capital in the non-profit? Of revenue generated by the non-profit? Something else?
Nice. Worth trying.

Or maybe just repeat the same content a few times.
I'm confused. The article is talking about Japanese people travelling elsrhwre, but you're talking about how bring a tourist inside Japan sucks?
He has access to the databases. There’s no independent way to verify the results.
It's both isn't it? Subscription plus perpetual fallback?
Speaking anecdotally and within the confines of the bay area, the problem here is existing stock.
The last line really hit me:

> “Even if I’m physically impossible to go in a wild cave, surely I can be put in a wheelchair and wheeled to a commercial cave,” he told The Chattanooga Times-Free Press in 2014. “And if I can’t be sitting up in a cave, surely they can put me on a stretcher and wheel me into one.”
That doesn't make any sense to me as the car can just run on natural gas itself without having to disperse so much in the conversions leading to charge a battery:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas_vehicle
Not quite true re the Titanic, but the rich did do much better:
https://soapboxie.com/social-issues/Titanic-100-Years-Later-...

Musk isn't being smooth, but he may yet find his way. Here's hoping.
Agreed. I am a person who would want millions spent to save my life, but despite that I take further issue with all this: people who refuse treatment are forced into a hospice because they are not allowed to choose euthanasia.

You either suffer through a shit medical system, or have a needlessly painful/uncomfortable death.
So does Stripe. I've talked to Stripe humans over the phone for multiple accounts probably dozens of times.

Sometimes even, I send an email and they respond by phone.
I guess we have different experiences because we choose different things.

I use a commercial OS that includes a notes app, a syncing password manager, and the vendor provides a pretty good (IMO) “office” suite for free. That software is essentially “paid for” by the cost of hardware.

My IDE is a subscription if I want to update to a newer version - but the version I have works perfectly fine “forever” if I don’t want to keep paying for it. Given how much money I make with this tool, it’s not much once a year to pay for updates.

I have a few other less critical dev tools that use a “pay per version” approach, which I haven’t necessarily got the latest version of.

Subscription software is relatively common now, yes. But I’ve not seen too many examples where there is no alternative at all: either a different pricing model for the same tool or an alternative tool with a different pricing model.
IANAL but I looked this up when the ElonJet story broke and even in states with very strong anti-SLAPP statutes, the defense can get really expensive really fast. In the California case Hill v. Heslep et al. the final legal cost to the defendants paid out after they won the anti-SLAPP motion was $104,747.75 [1]. Assuming half this cost was borne by the publisher and the rest was evenly split between the other three defendants, that's still tens of thousands of dollars and a lot of stress before the case is thrown out.

Coffeezilla is playing with fire but I think with his reach he'd be successful with a legal defense fund as well as lawyers working pro bono and recovering their fees via the plaintiffs.

[1] https://www.gibsondunn.com/recent-developments-in-california...
You could be neutral now but be called leftist if you won't publish disinformation.
I'm naive about this topic, but I think other factors to consider are the manufacturing and maintenance. A PHEV just can't be as efficient to manufacture as a BEV. This is particularly true as investment dollars follow the money into batteries and the ICE supplier chain grows tighter. Then, once you've got it, you still need to maintain it like an ICE, even though you'd rather just use the battery.

That being said, I think PHEVs are great, but I think consumers and producers both see greater benefits moving to full BEV.

Edit: grammar
Hybrids are still only 5% of the US light vehicle market. The numbers are growing fast, but they're still more future than present.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-hyb...
Do you know if YouTube measures wall time or percent of video watched? If percent, then a hack might be slow-mo the content and encourage audience ti watch at 2x speed.
That only applies to TV broadcasting rights agreements between teams, it's nothing like the actual league antitrust arrangement MLB has. This is why you always see competing leagues springing up in football, but not baseball.
All of these predictions are trenchant and exciting, but #2, I can't imagine happening. It's just too much to hope for. You might as well predict that The Author Himself will make a triumphant return to HN. Which, as we both know, would never happen: he's foresworn it forevermore.
The interesting upside of your idea is that the energy price is included.

1. bank has more confidence in credit worthiness and can offer better rate

2. customer is more knowledgeable

3. energy cost can be hedged on the futures market
Yes, the throngs of Japanese tourists around the world ended in the 1990s with the downturn of their economy. It had nothing to do with health concerns. Strange that it is being talked about as a recent thing.

The last decade or so has seen throngs of PRC tourists, seemingly less concerned with photo-documenting the world than with seeking out brand name merchandise.

I don't think germophobia is an adequate explanation for increased reluctance to travel, at least for the Japanese. For one thing, they tend to be more influenced by the risk of enduring any kind of hassles in travel, which have increased dramatically since 9/11. For another thing, the shine of popular destinations has worn off somewhat in the last few years. I've heard from talking to/about university students in South Korea that the heavily negative social news about the USA has caused travel there to lose much of its appeal.
It sucks because time on page plus how much you scroll and once you find your answer you don’t click on any more results signals to Google that you were satisfied.

I’m just not convinced the preambles are needed.
Depends on what he does, but at this point the most vocal people already went away to mastodon, and he can ban more if he really wanted to.

Now I don’t think this poll is about getting legitimacy, and probably more about getting an out and putting some puppet at the wheel instead, but theoretically he has all the tools to play with the results if he wanted to.
Some houses the garage literally won’t fit a truck like that, even if the garage is empty.
He didn't question that they weren't lazy, just that they gave in to threats.
> The news side tends to lean center left.

Thanks for the laugh.
Totally agree with you on this ones. One thing I don't like about the newer (smaller) IMAX theaters is that the sound is "so" loud. And the base often rattles the theater exposing annoying sounds
It just seems like he has poor emotional control, and perhaps emotionally he's fine with lashing out at Twitter itself.

He's already reversed multiple decisions on short notice, which makes it seem like the decision making would be better if he just thought about things for a day or two.
Civilization has largely been built by traumatized, unwell people. This is a sad but true fact. Probably the kind of fucked up you get smoking weed and posting is less bad than the kind of fucked up you get marching to the edge of the known world on starvation rations to kill people and watch your friends killed. Anyway we can hope it is.
Not unless I can play too
Be skeptical. But use engineering and science to evaluate the claims, not PR 'optics' thinking and analogies.

Nikola was always an obvious fraud if you looked at the technology. Tech claims demand tech analysis.
> Why?

Three reasons from my perspective:

1) There's no setup steps. You just open your editor of choice and everything is set up for you. All the build tools, linters, specific versions of software $XYZ, etc.

2) Large VM (16 core, 96GB of RAM in my case) speeds builds and tests up dramatically.

3) Zero productivity lost if your laptop breaks. Just grab a new one from IT and you're up and running exactly where you left off with zero effort.

> Not being able to run the project natively

What do you mean by this? It's just running on a remote server rather than your laptop.
“…the legacy auto mak­ers have a much broader base of cus­tomers, in­clud­ing many liv­ing in rural ar­eas and de­vel­op­ing economies with un­re­li­able elec­tric­ity sup­plies.”

Seems pretty uncontroversial
This is precisely the road Mazda appears to be taking. When they introduced the CX-30 electric lots of folks were disappointed with range. If the rumors are to be believed, Mazda will be introducing a rotary engine range extender with some interesting technology.

In my opinion, this is probably the best option for now. I'd much rather 4x as many range extended hybrids with 50 mile-ish range than 200 mile range electric cars.
Yeah, that doesn't make me feel any better. Generally I have zero interest in watching quality shows with interruptions by ads, but on streaming networks they're especially bad. It's not like they bother putting them in at scene changes, they just jam them in anywhere.
"Never Travel" strikes me as "Not domestically or internationally", and I feel there are good reasons for both that might not be obvious.
Is battery life a checkbox with this hypothetical? VR/AR and battery life can be very important for many applications.
Just curious: How do you determine whether the title change worked? Do you try it out and then check back later to see whether commenters are still getting hung up on the topic?
This is just an unhappy sports fan howling at the moon. The ref is a fallible human being who makes mistakes, but the consensus was that the match was called impeccably well. The penalties awarded were correct. Ref also carded France for diving that was really hard to see in real-time but he was definitely correct.
I just made my own CSS for this site, too! I'm most proud of replacing those upvote arrow images with a Unicode glyph.

.votearrow {
background: none;
}
.votearrow:after {
content: "\25B2";
position: relative;
display: block;
line-height: 0.9;
color: rgb(154, 154, 154);
font-size: 12px;
}

https://github.com/dillonjohnbrown/user-styles/blob/main/hac...
You don't even have feet in VR.
What I hate the most about subscriptions is that if the provider gets big enough, their practices degenerate to what the telecom industry is doing.

Trying to unsubscribe? Here's a long and convoluted process to do that, which might not work, so you'll end up paying for a few months more. Unhappy about that? Go ahead and sue us for those €50 you lost. We're breaking the law by doing this? Seriously, do it. We have lawyers.

Also: Here's your updated contract(and updated pricing) into which we shanghaied you because you didn't say no. Naturally there's an early cancellation fee which is too high to be worth it.

I remember having to set the limit on my card to almost zero so that I wouldn't be charged for a service I cancelled via snail mail, because that was the only way to do it. I kept getting notifications about failed payments until my card expired.

Hilariously enough a year later when I asked the person in this provider's booth if I had any outstanding payments she said there was only the cancellation fee of €25.

Had I not set the limit my card would have been charged with payments that weren't even in the system.
I feel like to an extent that is the usual response to any sort of attempt at disruption.

For example, prior to Falcon 9 the argument used to be that SpaceX too would have to either succumb to relying on expensive cost-plus contracts or go bust like all other space companies before them. Yet, as they pushed up against that attitude and tried their own approach, they became successful and set the model that has now led to hundreds of new private space companies. Similarly, the argument against reusing F9 was that it wouldn't fly often enough to pay for reuse.

Thus I think that it isn't too crazy to consider that maybe with all this fiddling around they might stumble upon a more healthy model for social media for their scale. Especially considering that this environment of a large platform with an existing userbase undergoing said change is very unique (in that most other attempts at healthier social media have failed in part due to not being able to rely on pre-existing network effects).

Maybe they'll still fail, but I think it's still worth trying (even if it kills Twitter) rather than just appointing another 'expert' to continue to make things worse. Especially because it isn't my own money on the line :)
He needs a friend.
i would absolutely not be surprised if this is true. but do you have any sources for this statement?
> The only thing worse than a bad union is no union.

Could you expand on why you believe unions can never be net negative?
It's well known that one feature of a market bubble that is about to burst is rampant fraud. People are flush with cash and are therefore willing to take higher risk positions with it. This is compounded by the fact that they get caught up in the contagious social euphoria that occurs when everyone is making money. On the other side of this, predators like Logan Paul go into action to take advantage of it. This is exactly what happened here. Instead of buying things with actual value, these people spent millions to hatch virtual eggs that were sold to them by a shady internet personality. This theme played out in 1929, 2000, 2008 and now again. You see it everywhere, including the recent FTX collapse, Elon Musk's Dogecoin scam (among others), and on and on.
Those look nice. I need a pickup though. I have to put hay in the back from time to time and inside a SUV it gets really messy. I would also want more ground clearance. I could use a trailer but it really limits where I can park.
Jumping on this bandwagon, running it for 10 years now and the last 5 years or so I've touched more or less nothing (aside from updates) and had no issues.
Be careful not to assume the something special is Musk rather than it succeeding in spite of him.
At my employer in the US, sick leave was drawn from your vacation days... hence very sick people always coming into the office to work.
Why would Stripe need to be regulated "like a bank"? It's a payment processor.

It handles money. You're not supposed to keep money IN it, not for very long anyway. It's a path, not a destination.

Paypal is different. They are b2c and heavily advertise their wallet service. They have crypto and ways to earn interest off of it. They upsell insurance and credit cards.

How are they comparable?!
That's a really good price. You got lucky.
Any word on what the neovim plugin does? Considering some features like,

> Then, most recently accessed 20 files of the same language are queried from VSCode.

are probably not available by default in nvim?

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Also, do you think there's any chance you get in trouble for reverse engineering copilot?
The thing is, it doesn’t have to be ever-changing, and creating a reproducible working setup locally can be achieved by appropriate setup scripts.
The only literal Nazi I've seen on Twitter was also -- literally! -- a grammar Nazi: https://twitter.com/BenjaminRamm/status/473819950394900480
Not quite following the rationale? The hardware specs for the price didnt seem all that spectacular.

Interesting challenge I guess but that’s about it
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

The article brings up a useful point, but then diverges into reactionary terrible "video games are bad" take that really doesn't look at the main reason why this is happening in my opinion.

People are stopping work, sitting at home and checking out because they see "it"... it being the treadmill but not getting anything for it. The incentive to work is gone, and people realize that it's not going to result in enough improvement for a life-change. The desire to have friends/girlfriends etc is gone because social media provides a facade of social interaction, and dating is a competitive game that's analogous to the treadmill mentioned before. Why take part?
This is great. Sharing like this is what I love about hn. Do you have any other features planned?

I’m considering a master keyword list to index against any text that comes in.
So, you can't just make your own signal network? Sounds pretty open if you can and hardly proprietary if the license allows for that.
I asked ChatGPT to stop using the word “apologize”. Response below
Me: Can you stop using the word apologize whenever you are talking to me?

ChatGPT: I apologize (I will try to stop using the word "apologize" in my responses to you) if the use of the word "apologize" in my responses has been inappropriate or has caused any discomfort. As an AI language model, I am programmed to try to be as helpful and accurate as possible, and I apologize (I will try to use a different word) when I make mistakes or do not provide the information or assistance that is requested.

I will make an effort to avoid using the word "apologize" in my responses to you in the future. Please do not hesitate to let me know if you have any further questions or need any additional information. I am here to help and will do my best to provide accurate and helpful responses to your questions.
First time I've seen this in the context of software development.

"Jugaad" is hard to translate: it's usually associated with hacking up a cheap replacement for something expensive. Roughly translates to "we'll manage something."

Some examples:

1. A fruitpicker made out of a 2 litre plastic bottle whose base has been cut to form a claw.

2. A mobile water dispenser made from a can mounted on a trolley, with a tap operated using a bicycle cable.
I'm not an expert, but I think: yes, you're basically invisible, save to those who chose to subscribe to your feed. I think if there's a single subscriber on a server, then your toots will show in in that server's global feed, but ... on any reasonably-sized server, you'll be next to invisible in that firehose anyway.

The benefits are that it's a very low-overhead implementation of ActivityPub when compared to eg. Mastodon.
Developers tend to prefer what they know already and have had success with. Time to get something working and released often more important than endless cycling over the perfect stack.

In 2016 Ruby/Rails still had a lot of momentum.

An open source project will get more contributors if written in a more common language.
I think I really love subscriptions but for the wrong reasons.

Since every app that I purchased moved to a subscription model I entirely stopped buying new apps for fear of being screwed up again.

Here goes my list: (1password, fantastical,unread,1Blocker, pocket cast…)

Nowadays every time I see an interesting app I think: nah they will eventually become a subscription and I will simply loose my investment of time and money. This in turn, saved me a lot of money in random apps that I would just instantly purchase a few years back.
>> I am wondering what the truth really is.

If you really want to know, check out https://www.VirusTruth.NET (obviously verifying everything for yourself, just a starting point).

>> Nature or lab leak.

These two options present a possibly false dichotomy. There is a strong argument that neither nature nor lab leak is correct.

Anyone of average intelligence can learn to read the virology papers and looking at the fundamental published science. The conclusion rational agents have to draw may be surprising at first, but is not so surprising in context. And it's actually really good news.
Eh, for whatever reason I don’t think he’d do that. He’s in it for the chaos, and what says chaos more than letting a Twitter mob decide who should be ceo?
Tesla's aren't even good cars they are great batteries attached to mediocre cars sold at an unprofitable price rendered profitable only by government handouts.
That’s a false equivalency, the first takes nothing extra from the purveyor, the second takes significant revenue directly from the artist.
No one seriously believes that the UK and most other countries will stick to those aspirational deadlines. They will inevitably push back the deadlines due to pressure from the electorate due to costs and availability.

It might work in places like Norway.
I'd be more impressed if they ran a poll and followed on what the majority of their readers decided.
Sometimes they are, but this isn't the category of error you make at that level of risk. Theorizing about rationality is no less rigorous than standing him up as a hate figure though, but it's a lot more interesting.
Volodymyr Zelensky and his generals explain why the war hangs in the balance
Or how come "boomer" isn't listed under ageism? It's not like anyone choose to be born then and it's literally used as a slur.
He co—founded Y Combinator, so he’s got name recognition around here.
A friend of mine had an Alpha, and I was getting the Windows betas (I got 98se, 2000, and XP, and then nothing else). My friend was really happy to 'borrow' the win2k for alpha discs. IIRC, release candidates 1 and 2 had alpha discs, and then 3 and beyond didn't; but I might be off by one. I assume it would have shipped as part of the release if only Alpha was cancelled a couple months later.
I highly recommend this old DFW essay about the 79th best tennis player on earth in '95. Big discontinuous jumps in ability exist in many sports. https://www.esquire.com/sports/a5151/the-string-theory-david...
>low English skill

As a native English speaker, especially if you travel mostly to Europe or generally urban/tourist track areas elsewhere, it's pretty easy to get the impression that an at least minimally resourceful and adaptable person can generally get by even without English-speaking guides and other travel resources. But that's not really true for a lot of people in other countries, especially if their languages don't use Roman script and they don't really know any foreign languages.
Why do you have to worry about stalkers when you are a billionaire? Money should solve that problem quickly.
It doesn't really matter what the intent of the government and medical establishment is; In fact, it may not even be coherent to attribute intent to such an entity. What matters is what the system does, and the evidence clearly indicates that the MAiD system is resulting in the deaths of the socially marginalised.
This site we are commenting on is one of his babies.