skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly second this. The JetBrains model is the best of both worlds and everybody wins. Being able to own a certain version of the software at my option makes me feel respected by the company, and it's also motivation for the company to continue delivering real value to users over time -- they gotta earn that subscription fee :)

Depending on the product, another model I like is dual licensing, where if you're an individual or noncommercial user, you get one price/it's free, and if you're a commercial customer, you get another price/subscription agreement
Well, humans are mostly water, so...

> The patent-pending process infuses contaminated water with hydrogen, then blasts the water with high-energy, short-wavelength ultraviolet light. The hydrogen polarizes water molecules to make them more reactive, while the light catalyzes chemical reactions that destroy the pollutants, known as PFAS or poly- and per-fluoroalkyl substances.

Oh. That does not sound like a process that I want happening inside my cells. So, yeah, what you said. No progress toward getting it out of people.
Plenty of sites get posted again in the future, and past discussions are often linked. So while the conversation is over, the comments are not ephemeral.

I understand you may not want your comments to be linked to you anymore, but what's the problem if your name is removed? For the most part, your comments will stand on their own without your name, and anyone who comes to the discussion later can benefit from your contributions.
You experience nearly mirrors mine with the exception of age and the circumstances of care. But the need to exhaustively advocate for even basic care was, to be honest, harder than losing my father in the end. It's painful to say, but after he died the relief my family felt from not having to fight every "care provider" constantly for every single minor thing was palpable.

You have a follow-on comment about your options being cheaper and less time-consuming. My experience also perfectly mirrors yours. My father chose literally the cheapest, smallest resource consuming (in terms of time, people, and expertise), and fastest path available today, and it seemed at every turn we were confronted with a medical professional demanding a useless, time consuming, expensive, resource intensive, activity -- only to then fail to deliver on that activity when they actually had to do it due to: expense, resources, and time.

There were times when I felt like I was talking to confused farm animals, not people with some of the highest education possible in our civilization.
> as opposed to any number of other social/eco situations

Well don't keep us in suspense, lets discuss them. What are they?
I have a degree in math and I actually enjoy these types of problems. Keeping sharp at mental arithmetic is really fun and it prompts the brain to come up with shortcuts that can lead to more interesting math. Like, is 51 prime? (No, 5+1 = 6). It's not really rote memorization but getting better at mental arithmetic, which is actually meditative in a way.
Yes, and as I understood it the illegal part of torrenting was the upload, not the download.
Do Kia (reborn in 1986), Tata, and Saleen not count as successful? Tesla has had an impressive rise, but it's not like nothing happened between 1923 and 2003 in the automotive industry.
The one time I did any caving was Chasm of Doom in Joshua Tree[1]. I get the sense that it's rather tame, as far as caving goes, so I recommend it to any visitors of JT. But at times you need to army crawl through the smallest areas to get by. I was slightly ill-prepared in my group, having no headlamp so needing to carry my small lantern with my teeth at times when bouldering was necessary. At the end I recall a wonderful view of the full moon at the top. Highly recommended for that alone.

Don't be like the other group ahead of us, though. They got to the top and decided it was an excellent place to do shrooms. Even though a handful of their people just had a claustrophobia episode...

[1] https://thatadventurelife.com/2021/02/10/how-to-find-chasm-o...
Nor is Onlyfans. So many people use linktree though. Does this ban that?
I don't have a real opinion on the incentive side of this, but as someone who's mostly lived in older, poorly insulated places, its crazy how different a true high performance building can be. From the energy savings, to the air quality, to just the plain old comfort. If you're building new it's crazy not to do it.
A better question is why Javascript is still being used:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

https://youtu.be/D5xh0ZIEUOE

Can't we just get WASM browser APIs and then do the web in whatever programming language we want?
You're mistaken about the situation. PG did violate Twitter's rules (although I believe Elon has since had a change-of-heart about the rule he broke). Specifically, its rules on the promotion of alternative social platforms policy. You can find these rules on Twitter's page on Rules and Policies[0].

This is not the usual use of the phrase "ban evasion", but it is a literally correct use of it.

[0]https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platfo...
No, I get you perfectly.
Member since 2008 and first post!
> Pascal was the introductory computer language at my college in 1988. I don't remember much of it.

I took Pascal as a college freshman in 1982. And even though I haven't programmed in it seriously since then, it stuck with me. It didn't hurt that it was a minimal language designed for teaching computer science. For example, when I learned Pascal, there was no string type; you had to create an array of characters.

I was checking out the Free Pascal website recently; although the language has been greatly expanded, Free Pascal source code still made sense to me.
Or any actual ecosystem
My pet theory is that Elon Musk's talk about colonizing Mars is a recruiting ploy, allowing him to hire top tier rocket scientists relatively cheap because they believe in the mission.
Chrome, at least, is typically built in the cloud (I don't know about Android, though it would be weird for it to be the only major project that doesn't do this). It's not just that you can have beefier machines in the cloud (though that's a factor); it's also that you can have a shared cache of build artifacts for all your users, which makes most workflows a lot faster. See documentation: https://chromium.googlesource.com/infra/goma/client/
Archive.today is your friend...
I don’t believe so— once you click on a title from the search you then find out if it’s available as Bluray or DVD I believe.
Which is not a good way to handle a $44 billion investment.
I use Gradle regularly and have never come across it.
Looks like it might be opt-in: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/dependency_locking...

That said, all the Gradle projects I've used have pinned to specific versions rather than ranges.
That's crazy because there's houses with septic tanks all over Northern New Mexico -- outside the cities.
I just use z80pack at https://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/z80pack/

Works fine, run it from Terminal, set the CP/M software to run on VT100.

I did find its better to do some stty work to so that some control characters pass through. Turbo uses ^Y for example, and that was being eaten by the terminal. ^Z is also something you don't want the shell to see.

tty=`stty -g`

function finish {
echo "restoring terminal"
stty "$tty"
}

trap finish EXIT

stty susp undef
stty dsusp undef
stty discard undef
stty lnext undef

./cpmsim

Make sure that you keep your terminal screen to 80x25 also.
> There are countless genders according to some, and yet the only ones that transition are between those two genders?

There are countless numbers between zero and one.
I strongly dislike it (and I believe Elon has now changed it), but that's another conversation.
Why would I want to watch it more than once?
Is a tenant going to want to pay for a blower door test every year?

The price would come down if mandated for all rental units, but it’s still going to be a semi-skilled laborer with specialty equipment (and now, a government mandate) for 2 hours minimum, plus all the office, administrative, and bureaucratic overhead associated. That’s not going to be much less than $500 in any case and if you have asbestos pipe insulation, lead painted windows, or other spreadable hazards, you may not be able to test. If you have a fireplace/pellet stove/other solid fuel appliances, you have to have all appliances and ashes cold, meaning some appointments are going to be busts. Other combustion appliances need a shutdown before and startup check after the test.

In just the US, this could be over 100K jobs dedicated to just this task, or 200K if needed for all owner-occupied housing every year (rather than just upon transfer). Whether that’s a good or bad thing depends on your point of view, but I don’t see a likely benefit commensurate with burning that many people on just this task.
I have a bunch of other comments in here that relate some of the story. It's honestly too much to give a daily play-by-play of six months of somebody's life.

Suffice it to say I wouldn't accept the service-level we received at a fast food restaurant.

But medical care is wildly variable in the U.S., even just changing a nurse, or going down the street to another facility can magically transform an episode of care from "the dumbest nonsense I've ever experienced" to "reasonable and compassionate".
One thing of note: there is likely no unified “they”, given that a document seems to be a mixed bag of elementary clarity-of-language items (“this is wild” vs. “this is insane”) and obsessive pedantic nonsense (about distinctions that do not exist to either the general population or most of the affected communities, eg. “committed suicide” [1]), and the forcibly mild language in the introduction.

If I could hazard a guess, this document was probably the result of an uncomfortable compromise between some folks of varying levels of assertiveness, obsessiveness, and linguistic myopia[2]. Likely not intended to be a minefield by some/most of its authors, but would be treated as one by small but frustratingly vocal segments of both its staunchest defenders and most enraged critics.

It would be really nice if both all of us could maybe just (figuratively) go out and touch some grass, instead of letting isolated personal frustrations turn into pet peeves and then into poorly-justified prescriptivism.

[1] This also reminds me of the alleged distinction between “transwoman” and “trans woman”. (German speakers and the like might find it particularly superfluous.)

[2] Speaking as a person with severe near-sightedness. (Edit: typo)
>Plus: Keep it working on new OS versions //

People are running pre-subscription Adobe products, for example, ... what specific software is suddenly breaking with OS changes?
Those drills do exist, and they have been used in a number of mine rescue attempts. They take days/weeks/months to reach the desired depth and size of hole, depending on the type and stability of the rock being drilled through. That's assuming the surface is conducive to drilling - any preparation there (leveling the ground, building access roads, etc) will take even more time.
The Gallium Nitride Revolutions [video]
My two cents is that this is why big tech outcompetes small tech. At a small tech you need great people to build the core product.. then there might be a period where the business rightfully just wants to get paid. Going from layoff to layoff sucks for the engineers. At a big tech you can just transfer to the newest thing.
Pirate it.
“Would y’all please save my 4ss and make me look good for dropping the ball on something so I can go back to play with rockets? Yes/No.”
And the Tweet was not deleted, which suggests that the suspension was reversed rather than merely lifted.

I suspect it's simply a case of Twitter changing its policy in real time.
I think it was this: she tagged Elon (and emailed him), so he went looking at her account. Found some older posts and reported them (maybe his assistant did that).

And the account was banned until the links are removed by the account owner (this is how twitter deals with such posts).

Taylor Lorenz did enough harm already, for example, revealing identity of libsoftiktok was inappropriate, she is a bad person.

I don't think that anything prior to rule introduction should stay forever. If she was forced to delete it, that's fine.

But Elon as usual could have managed it better.
Claiming 1Password has declined is unfair at best. They release a steady stream of updates, and when I discovered a UX issue earlier this year their team were on it like a rash.
I've had the good (bad?) luck to go through a few non-US systems and can say that you have to get pretty far down the OECD development index to hit U.S. medical system level of terribleness.
Leo, I've listened to all of your podcast (Security Now, Twit, even Windows Weekly as a non windows user) for ages (maybe since I was 15?). Pre-vista (I remember you and paul going on about that). I think I came across you while watching diggnation (though obviously you stand on your own).

Thanks a lot.
I have grown to dislike "jugaad" solutions to problems (unless it is forced onto the problem through sheer necessity), mainly because -- if left unchecked -- it fosters a culture of doing just barely enough to meet minimum requirements and no adherence or even ambition to achieving excellence and craftsmanship.

I recognize that jugaad solutions are usually not what people necessarily want to resort to, but are frequently adopted because of lack of viable alternatives. In such situations, more power to us / them! I'd call that being resourceful though. Aspiring to arrive to the jugaad solution to problems when better ways of doing it are within reach though, that's where I draw the line.
Many (most) HBO shows do not live up to The Sopranos, and FWIW I completely agree with your assessment of Westworld, but I also agree with GP - part of the pitch of HBOGO, and then Max, is access to the whole back catalog of HBO. The Sopranos, yes, but also John From Cincinnati and a host of other ambitious also-rans. HBO isn't selling off Westworld because it's bad, they're selling it off because their penny pinching CEO doesn't understand what made HBO worth the subscription in the first place.
Learning Languages Ruined My Life (2021)
> If you actually listened to him talk at any point you could hear that he really doesn't know shit about anything.

I disagree. Yes he's a narcissist but you can't hold this conversation and be a moron:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Fa50Zc_3Y
The primary route of elimination of PFAAs is through the kidney in the urine (Han et al., 2008). Other important clearance pathways include menstruation (Harada et al., 2005; Taylor et al., 2014; Park et al., 2019; Ding et al., 2020), pregnancy (Monroy et al., 2008) and lactation (Bjermo et al., 2013). Sex hormones have been identified as a major factor in determining the renal clearance of PFAAs. One study examined the role of sex hormones and transport proteins on renal clearance and observed that, in ovariectomised female rats, oestradiol could facilitate the transport of PFAAs across the membranes of kidney tubules into the glomerular filtrate, resulting in lower serum concentrations (Kudo et al., 2002).

Han X, Mingoia R, Snajdr S, Yang C, Nabb D. Uptake of perfluorooctanoate in freshly isolated hepatocytes from male and female rats. Toxicol Lett 2008;181:81–86.

Harada K, Inoue K, Morikawa A, Yoshinaga T, Saito N, Koizumi A. Renal clearance of perfluorooctane sulfonate and perfluorooctanoate in humans and their species-specific excretion. Environ Res 2005;99:253–261.

Taylor KW, Hoffman K, Thayer KA, Daniels JL. Polyfluoroalkyl chemicals and menopause among women 20-65 years of age (NHANES). Environ Health Perspect 2014;122:145–150.

Park SK, Peng Q, Ding N, Mukherjee B, Harlow SD. Determinants of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in midlife women: evidence of racial/ethnic and geographic differences in PFAS exposure. Environ Res 2019;175:186–199.

Ding N, Harlow SD, Batterman S, Mukherjee B, Park SK. Longitudinal trends in perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances among multiethnic midlife women from 1999 to 2011: the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation. Environ Int 2020;135:105381.

Monroy R, Morrison K, Teo K, Atkinson S, Kubwabo C, Stewart B, Foster WG. Serum levels of perfluoroalkyl compounds in human maternal and umbilical cord blood samples. Environ Res 2008;108:56–62.

Bjermo H, Darnerud PO, Pearson M, Barbieri HE, Lindroos AK, Nälsén C, Lindh CH, Jönsson BAG, Glynn A. Serum concentrations of perfluorinated alkyl acids and their associations with diet and personal characteristics among Swedish adults. Mol Nutr Food Res 2013;57:2206–2215.

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If you use win-x to access the shutdown menu, it will give you options of shutdown or update and shutdown. Although, I think that's really shutdown and update on next boot though. At least this is available in Windows 10.
Westworld is hardly the first show on HBO that isn't exactly stellar start to finish.
Thanks for the link, good to learn more. Perhaps you are right. Mine was a genuine, layman question.
It certainly would be a fun experiment. But the dynamics are so quite different from what he usually deals with.

Lets start with employees... both Tesla and especially SpaceX had hordes of people wanting to work there. I don't currently see the same for Twitter, and Elon just removed a bunch of talent.

Customers are also widely different. Tesla were enthusiasts willing to overlook drawbacks and oopsies. SpaceX was few high value ones like NASA, and by now have a great track record, not to mention the price. Instead of believers in the company mission, many twitter users are just average people. They will complain. They might leave due to drastic changes. Sure, there is a strong network effect. But Musk payed a lot of money for that, should he really risk it all?
Personally I don't care about the quibbling over semantics as far as "problem" vs "exercise". Fine, call it a "math exercise generator". That's something I personally wanted and was very happy to find this, and I expect it's something a lot of other people (especially people doing self-study) will find useful.

I think it would also be fun to look at contributing to this, and see about maybe adding some generators for additional probl... er, exercises. In particular, adding more stuff in the Calculus section might be an interesting challenge, and could make this even more useful.
If it can be done in water purification plants then that's good news.
Japan as a whole bet heavily on hydrogen. The rest of the world is going to battery electric vehicles, and the Japanese auto manufacturers are way behind the curve.
Enhance Speech from Adobe – Free AI filter for cleaning up spoken audio
Twitter was profitable in a couple of recent years and would have been last year to the tune of several hundred million except for a one-find lawsuit payment. That’s not ideal, but all they needed to do to improve things was reduce their stock based compensation levels to be in line with their class of company rather than [old] Google/Facebook-level.

That changed dramatically when Musk added over a billion dollars in annual debt payment load, and proceeded to torpedo their ad business. That changed it from “our boat leaks” to “the hull is gone”, and dramatically reduced the options for dealing with it.
Too bad it's not being put to a much better use like curing ALZ, cancer, or CVD.

The "hottest air" on the planet right now is coming out of the climate change propaganda machine that is rapidly taking control over all of Western political discourse.

The real reason why the West and Putin have had a falling out with each other boils down to the "Two G's": gays and gasoline.
Disney;s business model for many years was to do just that, they would put popular titles "in the vault" only to re-release them a few years later

it is proven economic model of false scarcity. Just like the McRib, McDs would never put it on the permanent menu because they sell more due to it "limited run" every year.

I suspect these shows will be like that, they will be removed and readded periodically to boost subscriber numbers, probally to align with some exec needing a bonus, or if they are having a bad year and want to hide the bad news from investors
You can follow specific accounts from another server (say follow user@la.social from you@sf.social). However currently you cannot follow another server entierly (aka. local timeline). If you want both local timelines, you have to register two accounts.
While also paying the bills? Sure he could do it with unlimited capital, but I don’t see that as being the case. He has debt to pay.
The risk of orbital debris and one cheap way to mitigate it
I worked as a researcher on orbital debris during university and now work full time on this and adjacent problems. My full write-up on the approach for using cheap radar data to assess orbital debris is here on my blog.
He promoted prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms
Murdoch sure but why Bill Gates?
>>If you can't download the file, you don't own it.

I would append that with "If you cant download the file, DRM free, in a format that can be read with OpenSource Software you do not own it
It’s kinda make sense on a deep philosophical level - we all are just subscribers for our own life, never the owners.

This means we never own anything but temporarily, i.e. subscription is more fundamental pattern of object/subject relationships.
>> "Jugaad" is a cultural attitude that is hard to explain outside the Indian context.

There's nothing special about "Jugaad". It's same as white trash repair. All societies where resources are limited have some form of "Jugaad".
Submitted title said "has died". I've replaced it with "put to sleep" for now, which at least makes clear that he didn't just "die".

Although it's a euphemism (an appalling one really), it at least conveys the context, which is that wildlife professionals did it, and say it was for reasons of humaneness.

Edit: switched to the less euphemistic wording suggested by notduncansmith below
What is the problem? Are they not sharing where to get steroids like them or are they part of a sports competition? It sure motivates people to work harder to look like them, without steroids they would look less inspiring. It's easier to get complacent if the trainer/influencer looks weaker than you. A lot of people need this, the assumption that most people honestly think these guys are clean is a bit too presumtuous.
How do people usually pronounce numpy? num-pee or num-pie?
For all we know, he could also be able to put his thumb on the scale to obtain whichever result he wants.
Note-taking apps are really simple, and I can't wrap my head around why I have to ever "subscribe" to use them. I would actually self-host the hell out of a ton of beautiful open-source ones on the cloud instance I own. It may be a thing to pay monthly in the enterprise world, but no way I am paying every month for simple note-taking apps. The growth of data stored is negligible - remember it's mostly text.

Password manager is a good example, but I would love to have something as affordable as Bitwarden. One good example of a bad password manager that went in the wrong direction if you ask me is 1Password. Their licensing was such a mess and as someone who bought into their "permanent license" a long time ago I've been screwed real hard because they wouldn't let me use it on Linux at all. The prices became "subscription based" and then steadily went up ever since then.
I mean this seems like bigger news for waste-stream remediation from the sources directly?