skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha you are a good role model! I think most people are contracting/consulting in order to bootstrap their business
Any 2 numbers are always in proportion, but if the proportion isn't consistent (i.e. changes with location, time, etc) then your argument is just wrong.

https://data.oecd.org/price/housing-prices.htm

Check e.g. historical data (untick "Compare variables") for "Price to rent ratio" for "United Kingdom" from 1990 to 2018.
Humans not users
The marginal cost is only zero within each size category you exist in. It scales as you grow readership in strange ways. An additional 1000 subscribers might mean you need to spin up an extra VM to handle small loads. That's fine, still have marginal costs close to zero. At 10.000 more subscribers you need to diversify your coverage. More content producers cost money. 100.000 more subscribers some critical infrastructure breaks unless you employ sysadmins to manage it. And so on and so forth.
I agree, but I also agreed ten years ago...
The crazy thing is that the digital only subscription is still over £300.

Thankfully my employer pays for another newspaper subscription (but not one I'd personally chose to take, which is why I looked at the Times.)
Efficacy rates are low, but so is almost every other intervention available.

It works for some people. It's also completely free, which you can't say about medical intervention. Around here, detox and rehab facilities have 6 month long waiting lists and cost tens of thousands of dollars.
I think that the point he'd like to make (a bit clumsily, IMHO) is that we should NOT rely on SUBSCRIPTIONS only. We need more micropayments for single-shot buys.

When I was younger (but then, I'm from Europe), me and my parents subscribed to almost nothing, EXCEPT what we really and totally bought every single time - that was one (1) comic book magazine that I was buying every single week.

Newspapers? Sometimes my parents would read it at the local bar, sometimes at a friend's, sometimes at work, sometimes we would buy it, I'd say 2-3 times a week. But then: WE COULD CHANGE the newspaper every time! And, we DID switch what we bought, cycling between 2-3 newspaper we liked, so we had a kind of 360-degree view on what was happening.

Subscriptions prevent that kind of behaviour.
>> These clubs offer a lot of stimulus for freelancers and you're surrounded by people of various different fields, which sparks interesting discussions.

Could you elaborate on how cafes frequented by other designers and developers, or even private member clubs, differ from coworking spaces? I'm ignorant and am unclear how coworking spaces would not also offer a lot of stimulus for freelancers and not let you be surrounded by people of various different fields, which sparks interesting discussions.

It seems like the distractions are the same, just in one locale, the distractions are attractive, while in the other locale, the distractions are not attractive, and I'm not clear why this would be the case.
Isn't this just applying a model (i.e. it's not empirical, just theoretical)?
That might work for siof my use cases, but it stinks that you can't use it for a commercial product.
If you think newspaper subs are bad try looking at some specialist software. Maintenance costs for software like Ansys and Matlab are insane and can run into the tens of thousands a year. The situation with Ansys has gotten so bad many research groups are moving to OpenFOAM and Python and I doubt they'll be back once they figure out how much more powerful their new tools are.

We're seeing something similar with Adobe. Their Creative Cloud suite is now subscription based and ends up costing much more than buying the older software did for a perpetual licence (but a drop in the ocean compared to the above). Everyone seems to hate it. There aren't even enough new features to warrant updating from your old CS6 license other than the required 64-bit support (several components of their management software still aren't even 64 bit).

The only good thing is that their team licence is pretty permissive if you're not a heavy user, we were able to share three license across a larger team, the sales guy even suggested it.

Now we're seeing developers like Serif come out with apps like Affinity Photo and Designer to challenge Photoshop and Illustrator with exceptionally polished desktop and iPad apps with a once off purchase per OS. The apps are performant and can do 99% of what Adobe can. With a full version of Photoshop coming to iPad it'll be interesting how users respond. Adobe don't have a great track record on iOS not that their desktop backend is much better. In fact I'd say that the standard set by Photoshop and Illustrator in terms of primary features and UX over the years has become relatively easy to replicate on modern devices, even with web apps, that Adobe have painted themselves into a technical debt corner with their awful backend (compare raw performance of Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro X).

Then there's the video streaming fragmentation. Now I need Netflix, Amazon and HBO subs to watch the shows I want to see, if they're even available in my country and I also need to pay for a VPN. There's no way I can afford that so if I'm selfish I'll just torrent the ones not on my preferred platform. Unless these services introduce some form of syndication where popular shows appear on competitors platforms after a period of exclusivity then they'll burn what ground they have taken from piracy.
Of course the somewhat simple alternative is to slightly change the consumer model, where you bring multi-purpose and longlasting packaging, they put the stuff in it. Dispensery type shops. That already exists in a few shops around Europe at least. You bring your container and fill it up with grain, liquids, whatever.

I can't really make up my mind on whether that would work for all food types. Maybe there's some heavily processed food that is dependent on being sealed until eating. I know potato chips bathe in nitrogen while sealed.
> Can you elaborate as to why?

How can I elaborate on answer that I don't have?
Yet people were subscribed to a daily paper, 1 or 2 monthly magazines and a cable package with added charges for sports channels.

I think true, but I also think it's likely that there's an upper limit to the number of subscriptions someone will accept. In the past having a newspaper, a couple of magazines, and a TV service meant you had to manage ~4 subs, but today people are being pushed towards having a music service, several TV services, a gaming service, some sports channels, maybe a pay-for podcast, a news website. That's a lot of cognitive load. If there's an upper limit people will hit it fast, and anything that provides minimal utility is going to get cancelled. If your service only provides a handful of TV shows (eg HBO) it's likely to lose out to, say, Netflix that provides hundreds. That raises the question of whether or not these smaller subscription services will ever work in today's world.

It's also true that people won't accept two things that provide similar services. No one is buying Apple Music and Spotify if they can help it. Once the market is saturated services are going to go hard on getting people to switch in order to grow, which is an expensive way to get new customers. It could be that the cost of getting someone to move from one to another is more than the lifetime value of that customer, and that throws a big spanner in the market economics of running such a service.
I don't really enjoy working anywhere.
And if you want a subset of the experience without the need to go <outside>, "Firewatch" lets you play a fire lookout in the waning days of 1989.

And apparently one of the updates added a free roam mode. Which I can only assume I missed as I got the game waaaay after free mode was released and being forced along the plot was my only regret.
This post is light on new information. Why would I trust a sports writer to predict an imminent and dramatic behaviour change? I'm not trying to be shitty to sports writers, but there's nothing to suggest that this guy has done any research or has any background in consumer spending behaviour.

That all said, I think that it's much more interesting than "consumers have a finite spending limit". The first mistake is in believing that there's such a thing as "consumers". In reality, you have a population and an infinite number of slices within it. Some of those slices will be able to afford a huge number of services while others can afford none.

With the obvious stated, the next filter gets more interesting: at what point does an option become more convenient than alternatives? For example, people had no choice but to buy CDs until MP3s came along. Massive libraries of MP3s were common until streaming services offered a legal, frictionless option for a flat monthly fee. For a huge number of people, Spotify wins. And while you can keep clearing cookies, at some point you want to read Forbes, WP, NYT, etc stories enough that you decide paying is easier than circumventing paywalls, based on how much you value your time.

Finally, there's also a long list of other dimensions that influence subscriptions today: I'm a Canadian with a NYT subscription because I hate paywalls but mostly because I genuinely want to vote with my dollars to support quality news. This isn't so different from backing a Kickstarter project or a Patreon.

The blend of these services and likely other ones that don't exist yet give the population the opportunity to truly personalize their consumption if they wish to take it.

What I wish is that there was a consolidated location where I could manage all of my subscriptions to everything, period. Right now, every subscription is managed in a silo. This sucks. A more generalized payment mechanism would allow me to subscribe to the NYT, pay a small fee to unblock a single article and share it with my friends or even pay to sponsor a single writer... all from the same interface.

A guy can dream.
> buying something ~once/hr

what do you buy? 8 lattes or 8 pastries a day, every day, doesn't sound healthy...
Did you not look at StatFuns.jl? Bivariate is here: https://github.com/JuliaStats/StatsFuns.jl/blob/e21bc26b1773... . For trivariate you'd just do the same kind of translation process if you have a Fortran code which has an appropriate license of course. If you have an example of a Fortran file for trivariate, we can open an issue on StatFuns.jl and get an undergrad via Google Summer of Code to translate it over, or implement from scratch from a paper's description.

The reason why this kind of code is easy to translate is because there is a direct mapping of language features (difficult to translate code is code that uses unique language structures). The only real difficulty of mapping (non-object oriented non-distributed) Fortran into a higher level language is keeping the speed.
I generally dont believe in alternative methods, but I have tried some dieting and over the counter stuff. It didnt help at all. Thanks for the input though!
Out of interest, how did you approach disk encryption? That would be my concern with removable storage. The other thing I'm keeping an eye on is Arm's LittleFS for storage longevity.
Honestly I don't get how they deem the risk of infection acceptable, especially with leeches of unknown origin. They could carry a myriad or blood-born diseases. They are more than likely to have been used on ill humans before.

Are they thoroughly tested for all cases? I honestly doubt it. Just incinerate them and breed clean ones. And it's not like their anti-coagulant abilities are irreplaceable. Sure, they come in a convenient package but that's all.
No. It sucks but I make do with headphones.

WeWork is the noisiest fuckig shit show in existence.
Prices are determined by what they are worth to the customer, not by the cost of goods. That must mean that someone is willing to pay that much for it. (I'm not).
I've heard many Germans say that, and it seems pretty obvious from visiting and working with German products. (They love engineering things, but are slow to change once something works, is probably the best description. This leads to really long product cycles and ecosystems of incremental improvement, associated products, etc., which makes it hard to switch. Asia and the US are probably the extreme other end of that (in different areas) -- often not as well engineered, but fast to adopt the newest stuff, and through competition, if one firm's product becomes vulnerable, someone else can replace it, even if the original firm milks their old product for longer.)
Naturally this will devolve into an argument over an apples-to-oranges comparison.

Some cafés are usually busy, and there is social pressure to not be taking up space for other paying customers.

Some cafés are not very busy, and having some remote workers inside will at least make it look like a functioning business, attracting other paying customers.

It’s up to the remote worker to use some discretion in assessing the situation of the café they’re frequenting.
It depends on the profit margins. If the labour in the destination country is significantly more expensive, harvesting/breeding somewhere else and transporting can make sense.
That's because with only the Guardian that I can think of offhand as exception, media seems to think the "right" price to pay for a web site subscription is about the same as you might pay for a paper delivered 365 days. Newspapers seem to have increased cost far in excess of inflation.

Seem to remember (this could be very fallible) I was paying around 50p for a Guardian or Telegraph in the 90s and early 00s. Tabloids might have been 25p or 30p. £1 and up feels far too much for a paper, even now.

Obviously we've all adjusted how we read as well. Instead of taking everything from one site we might graze half a dozen sites for news, and a full subscription might feel too much for any of them. The few lite subscriptions I've looked at didn't feel that light.
But 10 years ago the subscription services weren't feeling as much pressure to fix this issue.

And since then we've had Patreon come into vogue, which almost all of the YouTube channels I encounter are using now. It gives support to "pay for content you enjoy". Only problem I see with it is that you have to leave the consumption platform to make the transaction happen.
I think just your first post is a snappy reply to the headline, but doesn't seem to address the content of the paper in any way, so I was interested in your specific thoughts about the content of the paper.
Somewhat late question:

What would you recommend as the alternative for someone without nvidia gpu? Google colab?
This is in response to ordinaryperson's comment but I wanted to write it as a top level answer. Working from cafes can be awesome but make sure you're not a leech. My "decent cafe' customer checklist" is the following:
- Take the smallest available space (usually a table for 2 but they'll take the chair away for another table). - Buy at least 1 coffee (even the cheapest they have, espressos are usually ~2 euros) every 2 hours. - Buy lunch if possible. - Tip or write good reviews whenever you can. - Befriend workers/owner. - If they ask you to leave just leave, it's within their rights to do so.

Where I live the average price of a coworking space is 200 eur/month (hot desk). That's 10 eur/day (working days only). If you stay in the same cafe for 4-5 hours (which often is more than enough) you'll probably spend less (unless you always take a MochaPumpkinSpiceChristmasEasterChocolateCherryMatchaLatte).

It's really not that hard to be a decent customer. The only places I don't apply the checklist to are big chains (Starbucks, Costa, etc.). But they won't mind. I worked from countless cafes and never had a single complaint.

Once I worked in the same cafe for 2 months straight. After a couple of weeks the owner would literally invite me to stay as long as I wanted without even worrying about ordering anything. Regular customers really are an asset to a small business.

Plus another customer has no way of knowing how long someone was in the cafe' and he/she should be annoyed with all customers, not just the ones who have a laptop open.

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TL;DR: be a decent customer and nobody will get mad at you for bootstrapping your startup from a cafe'.
I hope shes well! Exercise helps me too, quite a lot in fact. Most knowledgeable doctors know about brain fog. My neuro didnt know anything about it. Has she tested for anything that turned out peculiar?
I don't see what C gives you at a low level that rust doesn't.

You can translate C line by line into identical rust at no cost except that you have to write "unsafe" once per fn. With the exception of macros, but rust's replacements there are just better.

Keeping everything in one language seems like a worthwhile reason not to use C to me.
Having grown up in a working class family, I find it strange that western hipsters are so taken by industrial chic architecture. It's an environment that I grew up hoping to escape from. But architectural styles come in and out of fashion, and yesterday's factories and warehouses are being converted into coffee shops and homes that people love and pay a premium for.

In particular, the neighborhood that my parents lived and worked in is now a very expensive and trendy part of town. There's little industry left; in fact a lot of local companies are complaining that there's not enough warehouse space left to rent, because it's all being converted into lofts! Sadly my family sold out way before it became cool :(

I've heard it said that it's the styles that have just recently gone out of fashion that are the least fashionable, whereas the styles that have been out of fashion for longer often make a comeback. This applies to clothes, cars, music, and architecture too.

So one thing I've wondered is: if the industrial style could go from being considered ugly to being loved, is it possible that this could happen to another style of architecture/design that we all currently consider to be an eyesore? And what style would be next?

It makes a lot of sense that Brutalism would be it, and maybe these Singaporeans are just ahead of the curve.
> Prices are determined by what they are worth to the customer, not by the cost of goods.

I know that. I never said anything about costs, so I'm not sure why you're telling me this.

> That must mean that someone is willing to pay that much for it.

I'm sure that's literally true. But they may be making a mistake and setting the price wrong for what the market could support and to maximise their income.
Because coworking spaces are full of employees of other companies, while working cafes are usually solo people working in super focussed fashion. There's no foosball table. No startup kool-aid. It's the same with private members clubs. Usually it is the founders, investors, lawyers, reasonably successful people in whatever field they work in. The networking opportunity is immense, and it's usually a better atmosphere.

I'm sure a coworking space could maybe screen their candidates and employ a deep work culture. But so far they are focussed on free coffee, big TVs with Playstations, beer on tap and ping pong tables.
From merriam webster:

1a : no longer in use or no longer useful
// an obsolete word
b : of a kind or style no longer current : old-fashioned
// an obsolete technology

A good example is a satellite, lots of older (obsolete model) satellites are still in orbit and performing well, and replacing them is not worth the cost. But if a new satellite is needed the newest model will be send up, not the obsolete model.
> Singapore happens when you think SimCity is realistic: the primacy of the automobile, the belief that one additional Starbucks is always better than one marginal tree, the instinct that any public meeting must be broken up, unless it’s a queueueueueue (a long queue) at an Apple Store, etc.

My abiding memory of Singapore is of visiting after about five months without leaving Shanghai and feeling like I was communing with nature. Everything seemed to be either a road, a building, a tree or a park. And there was a lot of park. One day I left my hotel at eight or nine and just walked until I got to the coast. It was amazing and there is no way to do anything similar in the equivalent area of Shanghai. For six months afterwards I would occasionally think of what a hideous wasted opportunity Pudong was in terms of urban planning. Thirty years ago it was farmland and now it’s city but it’s the worst kind of horrible car centric two lanes each way hellhole without adequate parks.

When I got to Singapore in the airport I saw the slogan, “Not a garden city, a city in a garden”. I obviously thought it was total bullshit but it wasn’t, it was amazing. To be honest I’d rather live in Hong Kong because the food and hiking are better but Singapore is still a great, great place to visit.
>I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with natural harmonics in a melody.

Not sure what you mean by 'natural harmonics', i.e. which ones you mean. I was just talking about how the Ab harmonic (on trombone/trumpet) sounds very flat. It's avoided because it sounds out of tune. I'm not sure what something being 'inherently wrong' would even mean. In music, if it sounds good, it is good.

>I suspect that brass players are unusually sensitive to deviations from equal temperament because they have to work so hard to overcome them if they want to play with other instruments

I don't know what you're referring to there - I've never had or even heard of that problem. And I hadn't noticed or heard, and don't believe, that 'brass players are unusually sensitive to deviations from equal temperament'.
I like to go to a coffee from time to time and somedays work alone at home or so, but one of the things I like on coworking spaces is that you can usually have a desk with a monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc. not being limited to work on your notebook's screen/keyboard.
Another nice issue is that you also usually can use meeting rooms for video-conferences or even receive a client/partner.

A minus from coworking spaces is that your subject to its own environment, sometimes you have to much noise and so on... for instance, the place were I use to stay is excellent but they have the radio on all day, what sometimes annoys me!

Summing up, I like to have a desk on a cowork which I use most of the days but also being able to work sometimes alone at home or on a coffee and even on a client's office, together with the client/team.
Well it's just Linux so you definitely can and that's what I do. As a result I've been running my pi 2 on the same card for nearly 4 years now with no issues. But if your point is that it should do it out of the box for you, I agree it shouldn't require manual setup.
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Limiting the power outlets used to be effective until laptops started getting USB Type C. Now everyone can just bring a power bank to charge their laptop, right?

Charging for the Wi-Fi would probably have a greater effect, plus additional revenue stream, but then would this negatively impact the experience of other more casually sitting customers.

I would be curious to see the coffee purchase numbers for a working squatter vs other customers. If someone sits in a coffee shop for 6 to 10 hours a day, I can't imagine them buying only one coffee. People can get thirsty throughout the day. And if they get hungry too, well, that's additional revenue if the working squatter doesn't want to lose their spot just because they went for lunch. Or maybe they're on a roll, and can't afford to risk breaking their zone by going to a restaurant.

To determine whether the working squatter has a higher or lower sales per hour number would probably also depend on the cafe's sitting customer turnover per hour.
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