skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really, because I saw too many software companies go out of business because not enough people wound up upgrading to the next major version

Aside from the other points people raise, the idea that someone continuing to pay money for software is going to keep the company from going out of business seems misguided.

I still subscribe, pay fucking money, to Meetup.com but over the years, despite a large subscriber base, the site become a buggy moribund piece of junk (but still the only thing in it's area). Such drift into worthless is typical for just about all subscriber software because software needs maintenance and because once a subscriber model reaches saturation point, the primary approach of management is to simply milk it for all the money possible by reducing labor costs to the minimum (look what Musk's doing to Twitter, it's not weird it's typical).
> Elon has utterly wrecked his reputation over the last couple of months (and probably longer than that) and it is getting worse, not better.

Lol. This could be the worst prediction from an otherwise smart person I've ever seen. Please elaborate and define it mathematically. (My guess in trying to do so you'll either discover the errors in your thinking or double down on your intellectual dishonesty)
Ironically, I did work at FAANG. I was a delusional youngster who was a perfectionist & workaholic like many of my peers.

The people I'm referencing who stuck around: they're now in their late-30s and early-40s. They eventually shunned ladder climbing and realized that their L6 positions could ultimately be sustained with much less grind while steadily maintaining "meets expectations" on perf.
More oft than not, downvotes reflect the biases (read: blindness) of those downvoting.
> victim blaming and outright victim stupidity.

the last decade completely removed people foresight in negative outcomes. it's always the system or the other party
Apt updates itself if you instruct it to, the updates also won't restart anything by themselves. I don't think unattended upgrades are enabled on debian or on ubuntu.
Smart and wise are related but somewhat orthogonal, Elon is quite smart but not very wise.
Actually, isn't "right to work" is the standard for most European countries? Forcing workers to join a particular union as a condition of being hired (or compulsory payment of dues without even joining) is the standard in the US but illegal elsewhere.
I agree, Arch is amazing. I haven't been using it for a few years, I've been on Ubuntu in an attempt to be closer to how a "normal computer user" would experience Linux. But every single time Ubuntu Softwate messed something up, every single time I get a notification to close Firefox in <13 days to avoid disruptions, every time I click the "update all" button on Ubuntu Software and it tells me it can't because the Snap Store is running (as a background process which I can't close through the UI), I get the urge to go back. At this point, it's only inertia which keeps me on Ubuntu, I don't want to take the time to set stuff up anew. But at this rate, I'm sure I'll finally make the switch sooner rather than later.

I'm not philosophically against Snap as an idea. But what I am against is all the absolutely terrible UX decisions and bugs which Canonical evidently considers "acceptable". It makes the whole Linux desktop look like a joke.

Maybe it's time to realise it is a joke. That Linux will remain a programmer OS and an OS for locked-down consumer devices, but not a general consumer desktop-style OS. And maybe we should recognise that in such a world, there is no space for Ubuntu Desktop.
It'd be missing the political influence though, those don't have any influence and nobody would be paying any attention to what he does there.
> my bet would be that COBOL counts.

Didn't COBOL recently (in COBOL terms) get object oriented features?

See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cobol-zos/6.2?topic=programs-wri...
Don't care that much for Tesla - the EV ship has sailed - but I hope he doesn't destroy the work being done by SpaceX's team.
I hear you... between music subscription, film subscription, tv subscription and software subscription the monthly spending gets crazy.

Not long ago I was subscribed to a nice app called Saffron (dev is here in HN). But after a couple of years, I just couldn't justify paying to use that kind of app. Same with feedly, I was a paying customer for about 4 years.

Now I pay $5 for a Digital ocean instance and have several self-hosted open source alternatives. They do what I need, at an unbeatable price.
I've never really seen a subscription program stagnate in practice. In fact I find that subscriptions allow companies to detach revenue from feature planning and deliver useful features rather than shiny new UIs.
Yeah... I'm failing to see how "barely more than a nobody" can be applied to anyone who had access to lot of wealthy networks. Maybe in comparison to others in that universe, but put any one of them out in the general public and the imbalance of power is pretty obvious.

If you can reasonably self-fund a startup with employees for a while, you are not a nobody and you are likely far more powerful than 95% of the population. You can literally dictate what other human beings do for 40 hours a week. That's not being a nobody...
I think that is kind of the point. The out-of-place x, by its very incongruousness, calls attention to and centers the LGBTQ constituent. You see it even with English words of Germanic origin, like spelling "folks" as "folx" or "women" as "womxn".
I'm guessing your assets were wiped out but you were able to qualify for house and car later due to cash flow. Anything I'm missing? Thanks for sharing btw
Funny you mention Windows and Office. Office is getting worse while moving to a subscription model, while Windows is getting worse by moving towards ads.
There are a few types of people on twitter.

1. People building their business/brand. They are not going to like this, since the reason they are on Twitter is to build an audience. The idea that you share your handle from Twitter to Facebook .... and vice versa is good for everyone.

2. People who want to speak freely. Well you are telling them they can't offer another way to contact them. What if they are the last refuge for someone under oppression? Twitter is blocked in their country but nostr isn't (it would be hard to block)?

There are probably other groups as well. This move just makes Twitter a bit useless, which is much much worse than controversial for the site's popularity.
Why does it tick you off?

It seems to me like a simple cultural/language difference related to how we count the continents. In the Anglosphere (not just the USA) children are brought up thinking of seven continents, including North and South America, while in Spanish‐speaking countries they think of six, including simply America. Neither is really right or wrong, because there’s no formal definition of what a continent is—it’s merely convention. (Some people consider Eurasia a single continent, some people don’t consider Antarctica a continent…)

Because of this difference in convention, the word “América” in Spanish is more accurately translated to English as “the Americas” than “America.”

Is this actually a problem that needs fixing in English? Is it a problem at all? Are there any Canadians out there offended at not being called Americans despite making up a major part of [North] America?

The suggested alternative of using “United States” to refer to America‐the‐country overlooks that there is another country (even another North American country!) with that name: Estados Unidos Mexicanos.
Not everyone that does not hate Elon Musk is following a personality cult. I have not much of an opinion of Elon Musk in general and kinda ignore the person himself, but what he did to Twitter is awesome for everyone, but the woke bubble. It's definitely fun to watch it.
Yes! The solution is to go 100% public domain.

Programming language information: pldb.com (100% public domain — you can download the CSV and even entire git history)

Music: try https://musicofapeople.com/ (actually, far better than ours is NoCopyrightSounds: https://ncs.io/)

Newspapers: check out https://longbeach.pub/

Much, much more coming
Yeah that’s an important distinction! Iirc, the essay distinguishes between singular visionary vs decision-maker roles. A decision maker is there to break ties and contain bike shedding, and you pretty much always need one, whereas a singular visionary is really there to steer high level design decisions cohesively. There’s a spectrum here of course.
people forget hydro - the most sustainable and cheap energy source.

you can use hydro power as energy storage as well, just pump some water back uphill into water reservoir and use it later to generate electricity when you need it.

that way you can store energy in form of potential energy of water
Given that the degree does not list a department, and that the court documents claim otherwise, I am inclined to disagree with your conclusion.
I'd rather just pay for the subscription, honestly. Especially in a bigger family or team / company context. To each their own.
While trying to create an account on https://mas.to, I realized that Google disabled my newly created gmail address ... for violating Google policies or using a bot for creating the account (not of which are true I think).

Why does Mastodon require an email for signup?
Yes, it's a very modern take on a recent problem.

I used VLC, Firefox (Phoenix), LibreOffice (OOo), MSOffice, paint, photofiltre, and notepad++ when I was a teen. They still work today.

The trending app ecosystem, the social network du jour and the JS framework fever seem to have given the impression to the new generation that there is not other way to do this.
Nice! Managed this first day in PowerShell, but we'll see if I can keep up with the rest of the days...

My solutions (or attempts) here: https://github.com/amandadebler/hanukkahofdata2022
> > He's eccentric, definitely

Eccentric people buy stuff and are too busy enjoying them .

This guy searches for mentions of himself to silence critics while sitting on 200bn dollars. When that wasn’t enough to silence everybody he went on to buy the platform.

If that is the end of the road then it’s better to get lost on the way like the Dan Bilzerians , and the other truly eccentric guys
Only my personal experience but at certain times I was in need to follow people in the light, whether shady or not, my brain was in a fog. Add the crypto get rich quick factor and people will just spend all their neurons into trying to guess where they will make the more money.
When was the one before? They also didn't publish one for 3 years after 2010 and before Bezos bought the Post.
Thanks for sharing this comment, its nice to read about the positives of snap, and not just the negative. Helps in getting a better idea of it.
That's only true because it has been engineered to only be that way.

For example many pieces of software that used to be syncable through bring your own options have dropped those in favor of charging for their sync capabilities.
"I am your wife," I told him repeatedly, "not your employee."

"If you were my employee," he said just as often, "I would fire you."
The ratio of information to misinformation on Youtube seems pretty bad.

To make transcripts easier to access might create more problems than it solves.

Granted I can't make a bullet-proof argument; there's no clear way to quantify that ratio.
How misinformation is distorting Covid policies and behaviors (2020)
Programmable MUDs need to come back.
I think villains don't exist in the real world. There are no Voldemort with no discernible reason for doing bad things, but Elon has been doing a lot of bad things lately and is inching into the realm that seems worth calling a villain to me
I really don't understand your point or your sense of humor
Great things like digging tunnels to put a few cars in them? :D

The man sells hype, and has always done so. It seems the mask is falling.
So, like, Truth Social, only without, well, the main attraction? Hard to see much of a market for that.
I suppose the 764 keV could be kinetic:

n + 3He → 3H + 1H + 0.764 MeV

I expect the concentration of ³He in your blanket would be extremely low, relative to the Li, so an unlikely target.

Really, if it takes neutrons, it is not a problem.
The commission might find that I’m mostly at fault so I might have to walk back my original claim.
Sorry to hear this. If you managed not to get "spoilered" on the result, try to watch it (I'm sure there's several ways to watch a rerun)... it was a phenomenal game.
They aren't called toots anymore.
Iran Uses Rape to Enforce Women’s Modesty
>It's amazing to me how much lack of empathy people have against other people, just because they're rich or famous. Or maybe it's just ignorance about the risks these people face every single day.

No one else gets to opt out of the same thing. FYI.

Just because you make more money than me doesn't mean you're entitled to an exception from the same risks everyone else takes.

And for that matter, considering that everyone else is also getting spied on real time coordinates-wise based on mobile phone, but no one seems to muster the will to care it weakens his case substantially with the additional ATC interest.
Try flipping through the pages of a bound book, skimming for familiar visual clues such as distinctive tables & graphs, or pictures fuzzily remembered. Physically going only about 5 pages per second, but at least each page is fully rendered faster than you can flip to the next one.

Now try it without printing the PDF first.
That seems to be mostly because he's firing anybody that is even mildly critical of him.
I think they might be in ubuntu server installations. I think they aren't enabled by default on debian… at least not on my installs.
I actually don't really care, although trying the "regular" Ctrl on my laptop feels odd, but I'm also not used to using it.

It's just what I'm used to. I grew up on the MSX which, like many keyboards of its day, had Ctrl where we now have Caps Lock. When we upgraded (well, "upgraded") to Windows 95 I found some hack to make CapsLock behave like Ctrl because I was so used to it. Later I started using Linux and BSD and of course carried over the mapping with xmodmap. I've never really known anything else than Caps Lock being Ctrl.

Another oddity from my MSX days that took me years to get rid of was that a line would only be saved if you pressed "enter" at the end of it. That is, if you were editing some file, went up a line, edited it, and then just went down a line (without pressing enter) it wouldn't actually get saved. It took me quite a long time to get rid of the habit of "End + Enter" to make sure the line got saved (which wasn't needed on any other system I've used).
Elon has been in the middle of his "come to Jesus" moment for a while.

He is running Twitter like an autocratic dictator. He is restoring extremist right wing accounts. He is banning open conversation and dissent. He is peddling QAnon conspiracy theories. He was against all covid measures and called for Fauci's arrest. He has cozied up to China and middle eastern dictatorships while putting up the "free speech" charade against democrats in the US. He was most recently hanging out with Jared Kushner in a private box at the world cup final.

Why are people still doubting who he really is?
Ignoring all the issues around ownership, corporations being untrustworthy, etc., I think one of the biggest problems is that subscription costs aren't flexible enough and require too much micromanagement.

You use a program 24/7 for a month straight? That'll be $10.

You need to use a program just for a single 5-minute task in a whole month? That'll be $10.

You literally don't touch a program for a month? That'll be $10. Or you can unsubscribe, and then resubscribe, over and over again.
> Do you really think twitter equates to meeting someone?

That really is one of the worst parts of Twitter. The form of short-form drive interaction encourages some of the most pithy and dismissive conversations and leads to some really hostile interactions that often dispense with human decency.

(I mean, not restricted to Twitter, I've experienced it here, and on Mastodon, but Twitter really takes the cake.)
Isn't it the world cup where both genders are allowed but women don't make it into the teams because their bodies aren't as performant when brought to the limit? I don't think there's a rule disallowing women, is there?
When you say "I still think Elon is a smart guy" every every time you write about your departure statement, you just communicate lots of things: too much respect and consideration for despicable actors just conveys fear.
Ask HN: How to connect internal SSD from ThinkPad E14 externally for backup?
If the soldered RAM in ThinkPad E14 fails, it may be not possible to access its SSD with OS and files, even if the on-slot RAM is ok. Is it possible to connect such internal SSD, via an USB port or some adapter device for internal SSDs, externally to another laptop for backup?

Some time ago I saw on google how it is sort of possible to make an USB stick from an internal SSD (a special casing with USB cable is needed). Is it the only way, or are there specific devices designed to accommodate internal SSD for external connection to a laptop via USB port?
Calling somebody like Elon eccentric is political correctness for rich, powerful people. It's a polite way of calling him a crazy asshole.
Are you saying frustration is simply that he changed his mind on this issue then? And actually it sounds like you think he changed his mind in the right direction.

Was he rude to you personally or something?
Publish your calendar and let recruiters schedule interviews themselves
>> What’s merlyn doing these days?

It looks like he's still doing Perl:

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-perl-8th/97814...
Not only that, but it's so expensive too. Everything is $40/month. It adds up fast.
> Even on the day he offered to buy twitter he was offering more money than the stock was worth. That is only rational if you believe you have a plan to run it better.
> According to reports he is spending a lot of his time managing twitter in quite a hands-on way. Do you think he is not trying to make it better in his own mind?

I think it's a case of the gambler having enough money to buy the casino.
Not mentioned in the article or in prior discussions, but Scala seems "dead" to me. Or at least extremely niche and unlikely to take off.

AFAICT, Scala has basically been replaced by Go for backends and Kotlin (or just plain Java) elsewhere.
Elon is smart but irrational. This goes for a lot of people who are highly accomplished and yet have bizarre opinions and behavior
This is about the VSCode extension, which is obfuscated (maybe compiled) JS.

The plugin for IntelliJ (PyCharm etc), is this written in Java? Reverse compiling this might give some additional insights.
>also won't restart anything by themselves

Is it very not true? Apt restarts processes and services all the time during upgrades.
> social media takes up a lot of time and energy, also I am wondering whether I should simply not let that go and concentrate on more real world stuff.

I dont see why more people arent doing this. How much value are these places really providing you in your life. I think its mostly fomo. Maybe theres a gem somewhere in there.
Right, I just wrote about it in my reply to "lisper". The name "dotted list" may not have been the best choice, but that's not an outlier in human history.
Sweden shut down one of nuclear reactors due to raising maintenance cost. In France two reactors were put off-line for more than a year due to unexpected cracks in piping after just 25 years of operations.

Even in Germany the decision to shutdown the reactors was partly economical. 10 years ago assumption about using cheap Russian gas until renewables catches up was not entering unreasonable.
Am I depressed, or do I have depression?

I don't think either is any more an identity than the other.

And I'd rather people engage with the problem, rather than virtue signaling by using the 'correct' terminology, whatever that is this week.
Not really, it's a relatively recent change in Firefox; I'd say for about a year, or maybe a bit longer? (time has been fuzzy these last few years). Before that I would always run updates in my distro in the background and wasn't forced to break my workflow in whatever application I was using.

Used to be able to also run Fedora distro upgrades while the system is running, now we're back in Windows-like territory, where I have to restart the system and wait for it to re-install 2-3k packages pretty slowly.
You can look into Copilot Labs extension in vscode, it does the editing and bunch of other stuff too (like explain what the highlighted code does, etc). It's not as smooth, but it's getting there.
I love the creativity in the comments to address this „problem“ if you want to call it that. A couple of years ago I made a software-only thing to trigger two alternating key sequences (e.g. Esc and i) by pressing down one of those cheap USB pedals. A little bit hacky but it works. https://github.com/baumschubser/footswitcher
Elon Musk's social media policy is now so sensitive that repeatedly linking to other platforms will get you banned. This is coming from the guy who thinks it's fair play to repeatedly call a rescue worker a pedophile -- of all things that shouldn't be considered fair play on or off social media.
TikTok Promoted Deepfake AI Porn of Billie Eilish to People’s “For You” Pages
FTA: “Plus, there’s some ergonomic benefits to not having to strain one’s hand over to reach the ESC key.”

Honest question: Is it that uncommon knowledge that Ctrl+[ is equivalent to ESC in vim default keybinds?
Twitter is incidentally a tech company. Fundamentally, it's a "people communicating with each other in people-configurable groups" and that is quite unlike building vehicles.
Two great arguments for digital readers for people like your mother and me: vision and size & weight.

You love to read, but it gets physically more difficult as your eyes age. With a digital reader, every book is a "large print edition" with good lighting.

And when you travel, you have to take several books because, well, duh! You have to have books when you travel. Obviously. But carrying heavy books is a (literal and literary) pain. And airlines are getting so stingy about baggage limits that I'm surprised they aren't yet charging extra if you want to wear shoes. You can put a whole library in a reader the size and weight of a shoe and take it when you travel.

Of course some books are precious physical artifacts (to me) for whatever reason. I MUST keep those, but they are a minority. Most of the books I want to keep are wanted for their content, not their physical form, and those I'll get rid of if I can keep the content in digital form.
Do you feel as though Windows as a SaaS would be better? At least as a consumer I have a choice to say “I’d rather not upgrade to Windows 11 and get the worse experience” and not just login and see that those changes that I wouldn’t have upgraded for have just been pushed down as it happens with a SaaS.

Windows, as an example, is an interesting one in that you’re paying once for a license and it’s good more or less indefinitely (or until things stop working and are no longer supported), but Microsoft does still have an obligation to be pushing out updates, whether security or QoL, so I’m not sure that it being worse over time has any reflection on the license model.
Didn't Elon say he was gonna stop those walls?
Just because he won't post on Twitter doesn't mean he won't go on Twitter at all.
Soccer Tournament.