skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite honestly, how annoying a subscription is depends on how easily it is to obtain whatever the product/service is another way, plus how critical it is to my personal metric for quality of life. This could be impacted by nostalgia. Rents and mortgages have been around for a long time. but if Toyota was suddenly only renting cars as opposed to selling them, I can't see being happy about that. They can alter the agreement any time, and tow "my" car if they don't want to rent it to me anymore. If it breaks down, am I still responsible for repairs? Will I be reimbursed? Will a replacement be provided in the meantime? I'm picturing this coming to large household appliances and the plumbing and getting a fine for taking a dump when I'm behind on my monthly lavatory subscription bill.
It seems that this is the only book that covered compiler, interpreter and DSL in one book.

Kudos to University of Idaho, some of Computer Science schools are abandoning compiler design class and teach programming in Python.
Does anyone have book recommendation on learning COBOL?
Think the author saw a way to sneak in a 'Princess Bride' reference and took it.
Its frustrating that groups can appropriate words, slogans or sayings and then they can never be used again as they are attached to that context forever :( .
Just having to keep up with it all is very tiring.
> The same logic holds for things like recurring subscriptions or ad-supported content - much smaller amounts, but many more sources, adding up to mitigate this problem.

And at some point your customers are saturated. How many subscriptions before they can't afford another subscription? After all, if they're subscribed to the max, it's not as if their budget will have room for another one next month, or even next year. It's fully allocated, and will likely remain so.
You're remembering right, and the accusation is in this video 3 weeks ago where he has Marc Cohodes accusing Bloomberg of spiking the story because it would be bad for (crypto) advertisers. A good news organization doing actual investigative journalism would have been able to get this story, if nothing else by following up tips such as these. A question which remains unanswered is: why didn't they?

[1]: https://youtu.be/FDqhM7vHR2o?t=885
That's why he said MOSTLY dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, there's only one thing you can do: go through their pockets and look for loose change.
You can use RSS if you prefer: https://mas.to/@paulg.rss
Might I suggest NixOS. Same benefits. Auto-updates are disabled by default. But even if they do happen it's not going to try to mess with currently running processes. In fact, the old version will still be installed just no longer to default. You could even run both simultaneously (using two separate config directories otherwise you get warnings). Snap seems like a huge regression in the Linux ecosystem.
He’s tarnished his legacy with his childish behaviour for club and country over the last year or so.
"Yah". Few generations ago, you could buy property cash in a "NIMBY hellhole", that is a place where you can find gainful employment, on a few years worth of savings. Not the case anymore. Property prices inflated much more than CPI.
no; the pathology is independent of social system.
Truly wild. World cup had nothing on this level of excitement from my POV.
The hyperlink is the crucical element that made the www become the success that enabled these corporations in the first place. Any restrictions at that level ...
I am decidedly not a genius, but TSLA put options are my most profitable investment this year.
Yes, but the main problem is that Mastodon is very large and fat. Running it for more than a few people is expensive.

There's also Pleroma (the Akkoma fork is recommended) and Misskey.

There are people working on server software to be fully a part of Mastodon without spending $30/month. It should be possible to do this much more efficiently.
Calling something a con is accusing someone of fraud. Insinuating inaccurately that someone is committing a crime is precisely libel. I will use a word when its meaning is appropriate.
Wait for the code freezes everywhere to be over. Can't imagine any new features at Twitter reasonably launched
How is that related?

Why can't a PI push his team to publish a lot, even callously work them to the bone (common in chemistry) without being and egotistical psychopath?

Is it because the egotistical psychopathy is the excuse the PI hides behind when stealing credit/authorship from their team members?
The company is a clown show if a CEO has to interfere with moderation policies.
Depends on your definition of wiped out.

In order to get the loans for this he wound up putting up a ton of Tesla stock. He won’t be poor, but he could possibly lose control of Tesla and likely by extension things like space x.

He’ll likely never be poor but he’ll lose his relevance
Global trends are happening there nevertheless -- we've seen a few happen already.
Cars in general are going to become huge subscription platforms pretty soon. And you just know that your 10 year old car features will cost as much to rent access to as the ones on a new car.
he replied to paulg's tweet about leaving the website with laughing emojis after banning him

he's only doing it to be an asshole at this point
> > In 2015, the company had about 150,000 employees in India,[31] 48,000 in the US,[32] and 50,000 in the Philippines.[33]

Pedantic: Accenture assigning work to their employees in India or the Philippines is not "outsourcing." The work was outsourced when it was handed off from the client paying the bills to Accenture, regardless of where the Accenture employees are located. By definition, Accenture cannot outsource work to their own employees.

"Offshoring" is what Accenture does by having the work done by their employees in lower-cost regions.
That's doing speech recognition on the YouTube video's audio and then embedding the result as subtitles? Is the idea that this is superior to YouTube's own automatic subtitles? Though if the youtube video actually has manually crafted subtitles from the creator, as a lot of popular science content does, it seems a shame not to just use those subtitles directly and avoiding doing speech recognition. Or just rely on YouTube's automatic captions which are pretty decent in my experience.

See my comment on how to just download the subtitles YouTube provides with `yt-dlp` here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34040342
Everyone is voting "no" just to keep watching the trainwreck
Can you name the journalists please and some proofs of your accusations? If true, this is serious, but I cannot take it at face value.
You shouldn’t need to be clear about that, or worry about being neutral. Don’t let a crowd do your thinking for you.
If they do launch one I bet they add OF to the list at that point. Don't wanna piss those people off w/o an alternative.
My new thesis is that an increasing number of problems is caused by human stupidity. We are entering a world as depicted by the movie Idiocracy.
1) still true. And I for one think Elon’s utter transparency if all his flaws and explicit policy about sharing competitors is categorically better than the vague policy games and hidden algo promotions that nearly every other site runs.

You may not like Twitters rules, but at least you are allowed to have an opinion since it’s all out in the open. Contradictions and all. It’s an easy target.
The investment you put into learning a piece of software isn't free.
eh he's already back to being Elon's lapdog

https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/160461725836122931...
Anyone can employee rocket scientists
Just when you think it can't get any crazier, it does.

Going to be interesting to see what this does to the price of TSLA stock when the market opens on Monday
EVs will maintain the battery temperature if plugged in, usually at 0C.

Even if not plugged-in they'll try to keep the battery above temperatures that may be damaging, e.g. -30C. This only works for a sufficiently charged battery.
Nice! Did something similar a couple of years ago: https://you-tldr.com/

Summary remains the elusive hard part...both to do and to serve at scale. But we get closer by the day.
Great point. Would it be a stretch to suggest that this language is in reality just another medium for virtue signalling?
The policy says:

>At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms, *such as linking out (i.e. using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter*, or *providing your handle without a URL*

Notice that *all* definitions and examples of "promotion" specifically involve having your URL or username in a tweet.

The "non-technical means" of bypassing policy are still about communicating the username in a tweet.

It is a ludicrous policy, but alleging that it prohibits even mentioning existence of other accounts is a ludicrous interpretation of the ludicrous policy.

"You can find my contact info on my website" is a violation under this interpretation.

As is stating "Twitter isn't the only way to reach me"... and having any off-twitter links (God forbid your FB account is reachable via some sequence of clicks from there!).

So much for the "free speech absolutist" though.
In enterprise, Windows and Office are subscriptions in most cases. I wouldn’t say they have gotten better.
This has had over 250k votes in the first three minutes. Thats insane!

I can only imagine the infrastructure for this...
He’s a less self aware Steve Jobs. For whatever reason people will throw themselves on the tracks for them.
Exactly my thought. This almost seems like satire. Is there supposed to be a joke in here or is Elon operating in all sincerity here?
> relationship between business entities that brings trust and continuity

No, it absolutely does not imply trust OR continuity. When the business folds, the customer is always the one - and in a way the only one - who loses.
Oh yeah, that is like racing against top drivers! Similar to a sibling comment, I remember a story. It was me taking part in a karts race, just for fun of course, and in the group was this kid who was like 10 or 12?, and in less than 5 laps he built a gap so large, and 10 more laps later I ended up exhausted doing my theoretical best (trying to follow "best" racing lines and all) while he was just doing a warmup. After we finished, I talked to him and he told me that he was going to take part of the world Karting championship in two months later at the time, and I felt so trash compared to him. It was eye opening in a way that makes you wonder if their brain processes the world similarly to you, or if they are built too overpowered for us mere mortals.
You are seriously acting as if money in politics solves everything and as if in most of the world energy supply was not driven fundamentally by state policy.

Neither is true.

Wind and solar were the choices solution BEFORE they became cheap and profitable. The became cheap and profitable because of a sustained demand from society and politics, both domestic and international to make it so.

Jimmy Carter banned nuclear fuel processioning, killed nuclear research projects and much more, and partly justified this by putting up solar collectors on the white house. The republicans of that period were all in on fossil and no longer had ideas like 'Atoms for Peace'.

So to act as if wind and solar just happened to be cheap and profitable and nuclear just happened to be expensive is simply a misreading of history.
If you're going down that road count me in, I'll chip in for expenses as well, obviously.
Talk about swift and immediate feedback. There must have been calls from inside the house too.
This is where the value of Twitter is. Not in the money, it's in the DMs.

Twitter for Elon, is power not money. Watch it be a massive force for influence campaigns by 2024.
Yes and no... for software I use all the time I don't mind. But there's some stuff that are occasional use type things, and I'd just like to pay a single one off cost that makes sense to me. But usually, it is some low ball subscription like $6 a month. It's like I wish for something like "Softify" where you pay a subscription to a service that has a ton of utility like software and based on usage it distributes to the creators (doesn't have to be as predatory as spotify)
He's now back on, but with all of his followers gone.
My decisions were cheaper, actually.

Sending a nurse to do a wound check daily is much cheaper than ambulatory travel to an ER (or even doctors office).

Moving him to our house was cheaper than a nursing facility.

Hospice was obviously far cheaper than any continuing care.
He can be both.
So far Elon's actions have consisted entirely of destroying and zero building. He promised a money market feature (which is a prominent part of Chinese mega-apps e.g. Alipay and WeChat), but there have been no concrete plans or any regulatory talk related to it.

If Elon Musk is still serious about building a mega-app then he needs to rapidly acquire/launch a lot more companies in consumer spending sectors e.g. entertainment, hotels, delivery, restaurant reviews, etc. But linking to those services within the mega-app would run into trouble with anticompetitive lawsuits pretty much everywhere.

There is a big hill for Elon to climb yet he's only focused on kicking rocks barefoot at the bottom of that hill.
>"Take IntelliJ for example. There was a big uproar when they moved to a subscription model"

They did not move. They still offer perpetual license. Otherwise I would not be using their products.
If you are looking at performance
I found pulling this code apart a great learning experience.

https://github.com/fredrikwidlund/libreactor
Helion is anyway the least obviously fraudulent of all the fusion startups. So if your skepticism budget is limited, save it for the other guys.
Whoa, is this possible? is this even legal?
Elon pulled a power move
Richard Stallman tried to warn people about this <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...>. As usual, nobody heeded his warnings, and now we're all living through exactly what he tried to prevent.
Paul’s unbanned now.
So what? They still removed 20GW of nuclear before they had killed off their coal power. How is that not a gigantic deal?
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/10/media/elon-musk-china-taiwan-...
Subreply.com is one good alternative.
Does he want a yes or a no result?
> horrible abuse

Every time someone mentions this I ask for examples, and generally all I ever receive in reply are examples of people disagreeing with them. I begin to think that those who shout about 'abuse' are incensed that those they formerly silenced by bending the rules are now using those rules against them, particularly to voice their legitimate opinions, and they're using their institutional power elsewhere to try to tank Twitter as a result.

In short: I know full well that this has nothing to do with free speech arguments and everything to do with institutional actors being incensed that they can't use Twitter as their own propaganda institution anymore. I won't pretend that Elon is a friend of the proletariat, but I'm also not going to pretend that those opposing him somehow are either. This is a slap fight between two groups of bourgeoisie, and petit bourgeoisie actors are trying to convince everyone else it's some sort of fight for liberty, justice, mom and apple pie. Utter nonsense.

In the end, some of you are going to have to accustom yourselves to the idea that you are not gatekeepers of public forums, the people have interests that do not coincide with your own, and no amount of force or fraud is going to change that. Don't like it? Learn to code, I guess.
Hi, Mr. Musk? I'm here to deliver the attention you ordered.
They must be leaking real users pretty hard if they're having to resort to banning people from even mentioning that alternatives exist.
Musk now inviting people to vote on whether he should step down as CEO. I guess that's one approach to getting people back.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097?s=46...
..And the headline would have been "Elon Musk created decoy labor group.."
Twitter restores pg's account
TBH, as I'm on the pay2own team, I haven't given it that much thought. However, I think some sort of pay-as-you-go model would be the most fair. For every minute the software is active in (user interaction or processing some task), the user would get charged X. I think determining the correct X might be quite difficult, but I guess that's why marketing departments exist.
His account is back up. The follower count is slowly increasing. I guess the counter is part of some other process? Event driven?
> It's baffling to me that Elon seems to be taking the opposite of a first-principles view on Twitter.

Power corrupts. The radical idealist who becomes a despotic tyrant is practically a meme.
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34045423
Yeah, part of the problem with Ghostwire's marketing is it is not super visible on the majority of Steam lists on Steam itself. I had to go looking for recommendation lists specifically outside of Steam because I was in search of an underrated game with a great story and Ghostwire popped up and fit the bill.
> QBasic (actually QuickBASIC; QBasic being the IDE)

QuickBasic and QBasic both included IDEs; QBasic was the later revision (1991, vs. QuickBasic in 1985).

(Weirdly, perhaps, Microsoft released Visual Basic the same year as QuickBasic.)
Yeah, including telling your friends in a personal conversation.

Or simply having an account on Mastodon, and other people Googling it.

It's absurd.
What was the last straw for PG?
Paul was a big cheerleader for Elon. Touted his “skills” at Tesla & SpaceX. Elon kicks him off, because Dear Leader will not be criticized. Meanwhile Tesla is pile driving into the ground. I’m waiting for the FTC & the EU to weigh in on ALL of this puerile behavior by sham Tony Stark.
I absolutely just did this. Twitter burning down will make room for the next platform, which hopefully will be more resilient.
Correct. The latest new policy as of this morning is that you’re not allowed to reference over half the internet
Yes will give him an escape hatch
And he's back
We don't know who he's instating as a replacement...
I just tried tweeting my mastodon URL and Twitter won't even let me send it! "this link has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful." LOL
Unbanned now. However, it looks like all of his following/followers have been reset to 0.
The European Union Digital Markets Act, coming into effect in May 2023, explicitly forbids such behavior. (If twitter is classified as a "gatekeeper".)

https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...

Example of the “don'ts” - Gatekeeper platforms may no longer:

- treat services and products offered by the gatekeeper itself more favourably in ranking than similar services or products offered by third parties on the gatekeeper's platform

- prevent consumers from linking up to businesses outside their platforms
He's said as much in https://www.ft.com/content/5ef14997-982e-4f03-8548-b5d672026....

> Musk has a dystopian view of the left’s influence on America, which helps explain his wild pursuit of Twitter to liberate free speech. He blames the fact that his teenage daughter no longer wants to be associated with him on the supposed takeover of elite schools and universities by neo-Marxists. “It’s full-on communism . . . and a general sentiment that if you’re rich, you’re evil,” says Musk. “It [the relationship] may change, but I have very good relationships with all the others [children]. Can’t win them all.”

Now what sort of character is required for a person to say, "Can't win them all," I won't speculate about.
i think: http is meant.

The "link" is one or "the" feature that makes the whole thing work. And it is not meant to be restictive. You link to whereever you want. That was the idea of the WWW (tim bernes lee).

No restrictions at all in the base of the protocol. The opposite is true: everythink is and has to be inter-linkable.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol
@paulg has been restored
that was the moment for me.
and given that he's not the only one going erratic after years of performing, I'm wondering if it isn't some "miraculous" designer drug finally disclosing it's side effects after years of usage
If it's purely a subscription service then that's fine. What bugs me is selling a software or hardware product for an up-front purchase price, but then disabling it by discontinuing a cloud service that it depends on. In those cases I think customers should have some kind of recourse, either as a refund or by allowing them to "unbrick" the device themselves with something self-hosted. For example, if Philips decides to shut down the Hue servers, I think they should be required to make enough technical information available so people who bought Hue products can keep using them.

An example of a company voluntarily taking the refund option is Google Stadia. They're shutting down the online service, which will effectively brick all the hardware, and also render purchased software unusable. But they're fully refunding everyone's purchases. It's not clear they legally have to though; perhaps they could've just screwed over everyone who bought the products. I assume there would've been lawsuits to try to sort that out.
Looks like its reactivated. Wild
Exactly. Big pint media companies like those you mentioned and New Yorker put out plenty of articles in spite of legal threats. They have legal teams that can tell them if the threats are founded or not and generally have a good track record of defending their positions.

What someone other than these media groups may do is make a “bold claim” that may be true but not demonstrably so. Something like that may shy a big company away from casting the first stone and instead to report on someone else’s claim as an allegation.
Perhaps it is useful to think of philosophical works as a record of the protracted reasoning process it took to arrive at those ideas.

These ideas, which now seem trivial and “explainable in less than a minute” are sometimes the result of distilling out, simplifying, and neatly packaging the ideas contained within an entire life’s work (or in some cases multiple generations of work!)

It is not clear to me that you could have arrived at some of these ideas without having traversed some of the intermediate steps these philosophers did.

It’s only with the benefit of hindsight and the fact that these distilled, bite-sized ideas, have deeply permeated the culture in which we live, that they seem simple.
Is there any security for elisp?
> You can post on FB about Twitter or Mastodon

Because people do not threaten FB to leave to Mastodon. But you can't link (maybe you can now, but some time ago you couldn't) to Telegram inside Whatsapp, because Facebook considered Telegram a competitor.

> You can search on Google about DuckDuckGo

Again, because Google does not consider DDG a competitor.

But a while ago (long before the war when everybody were at peace), Russia was the only country where Google Chrome did not offer the choice of search engine. Because Russia was the only country where Google was not the leading search engine. There's famous commit in Chromium repository which explicitly excludes Russia.
Exactly. It's reminiscent of former East Germany which had all kinds of ridiculous laws and people would occasionally get arrested under them and then others would go 'oh, but he broke the law'. It was impossible not to. They could have made a law against breathing on Sundays and there would be people trying to justify it if you were arrested under that law. Best take a deep breath on Saturday evening I guess.
https://elonpoop.com/
Cars that disable features unless you pay to unlock are infuriating.
Apple isn’t publicly claiming otherwise though.