skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That really depends on how you budget

It depends on how big your budget is. If it's tight, the problem of purchasing expensive licenses at once may be a blocker - bad for the buyer AND the seller!

> This is 100% false, SaaS Opex Spend is FAR FAR FAR less flexible than CAPEX spend in the IT Space, take for example Office 365 Vs ONPrem, with OnPrem I can forgo a Capital expense to upgrade some servers, EOL a SAN disk array a year later, or choose to stick on Office 2016 for another year if needed.

I don't see how this proves that SaaS is not flexible? You also forgot to account for the necessary expenses to run all this On-Prem stuff. You need an expensive team that you pay on a monthly basis --> OPEX

> Now you do not pay your annual licensing fee well your software no longer works

I agree with you that this sucks.

> Still from a highly logical and engineering focus more than a Finance focus I will still look at $100k over 5 years or 20K annual to be the same...

You can look at it this way but that still doesn't make it (not even "highly logical") the same. Sorry.
Ha. I work on a competitor and our story is similar.

We're a little more aggressive with multi-threading but you have to understand these code-bases are massive legacy things whose value comes from a ton of business logic accreted over 25 years.

I assure you I've heard of multiple CPU cores (before this I did high-performance physics simulations across thousands of cores) but I still don't have the first idea how to get something to execute on a background thread in this codebase.
It's not just that he's a professor, it's that he has a PhD in economics. The field of economics itself has given the stamp of approval that he both understands the field and has contributed in novel ways to it.
Pixels have a pretty good chance of being supported by LineageOS though. I'm still using my Pixel XL (marlin) with LineageOS, running Android 10 just fine.
Yep. There's some work to help clearly differentiate these from group rooms that allow for some more guarantees underway: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2199

But at the core, yes it's just a group room with two people.
Opposite of my personal anecdata as well. In the 90s I was a National Review-reading, Limbaugh-listening conservative. It started changing in the early 2000s when GWB invaded Iraq. Voted for Obama in '08 (a centrist) and Bernie in '16 (a Leftist). Now I identify as a mostly Left of center progressive.
Tax law is complex and change frequently, it would have to track 50 states + federal tax law.
Yeah, I always have trouble interpreting synthetic benchmarks on a phone. Obviously it's easy to see X has a score 10% higher than Y, but how does that translate to real world performance? If I'm running Google Maps nav, and then try to open Pocket Casts, will that happen immediately or will I be sitting there for 30 seconds while Android figures out what other app to OOM kill (This was a frequent problem with my Pixel 3, and it made me swear off the Pixel line even though I love the stock Android experience).
Added benefit: post-covid pandemic, improved indoor air quality with all the included benefits!

Air quality associated with:

Alzheimers:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-new-alzheimer...

Cancers, plural:
https://www.aacr.org/patients-caregivers/progress-against-ca...

Sperm Quality:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4443398/#sec995...

Female Fertility:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2207560-exposure-to-air...

Autism:
https://www.sciencealert.com/particulate-matter-in-air-pollu...

Bipolar/Depression:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/air-p...

side note: please make the ICE>Electric transition happen faster... sigh
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Not that difficult, except that you need:

* sign up / sign in routes.

* reset password flow

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* email verification and email templates

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There is a reason entire companies exist to solve this. Properly implementing your own login creates a lot of wasted development time, especially when OAUTH2 is an industry standard.
for most people <70 sars-cov-2 is not more dangerous than the flu. so mask wearing is not necessary. we'll get faster to herd immunity that way...
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> Meanwhile, a colleague of Kuwabara’s photographed them in a love hotel, and Isohata’s husband used these photographs as evidence for a divorce. (Such evidence is needed when a Japanese divorce is contested.)

unintended consequences... policy decisions have real world implications. Marriage should not be a slave contract.
C++ has a large ecosystem in certain domains that Rust and Go can't match (and may never be able to). Graphics and game development are examples. So I don't think C++ is just going to die out and be replaced entirely by Rust and Go. Also, in some of these domains, Go fundamentally isn't a good fit, though Rust theoretically could be if not for the ecosystem problem.

That said, I do think that for a certain category of greenfield projects that can avoid needing certain types of dependencies on and interactions with other existing software or codebases, Rust and Go will completely dominate C++ going forward. For new work that doesn't need the C++ ecosystem and doesn't rely on dependencies not available for Go/Rust, it really is hard to imagine how one of Go/Rust would not be a significantly better choice in 2020 and beyond.

Some companies will be entirely based on such greenfield projects. Others will be entirely based on problems that rely on some of that existing C++ ecosystem. Yet others will be mixed and may be able to use C++, Go, and Rust as it makes sense. So I think it's going to be a complicated situation where some folks will be able to completely move ahead of C++ and others will be tied to it for a long time yet.
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350 dollars is "budget"?
Public broadcasting does not replace FAZ/Zeit/Spiegel though. There's a difference between reporting short pieces of news and the articles in the mentioned news papers.
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RIP to SoftImage. And we're all worried about the future of Inventor. The only reason I use that at all was because of the generous student license...other companies don't seem to do that, which feels like a giant mistake.
Who is being accused? Of what?

ISTM a general statement about the world accuses no one in particular of anything.
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So even though you quoted one argument, you posted a document to prove a whole other argument wrong, never bothering to bring up that the other argument you just proved wrong. I still don't know what other argument you proved wrong, did Sowell go on record saying the CRA caused the 2008 housing crisis?
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A simple phone that does well for its price.

I can't help but think the 4a would have been perfect with a 4000mah battery.
I am amazed how often people blame this on the tax prep industry and not the government itself. Of course the tax prep industry would lobby against legislation that would absolutely obliterate their industry. Every other industry would do or is currently doing the exact same thing. Pushing against a change that would put hundreds of thousands out of work seems like one of the few good uses of lobbying. However it is the government officials who should see past the one group who is hugely invested in the status quo to decide what is best for the future of the people of this country.

EDIT: This has received multiple downvotes and I'm surprised this was a controversial opinion. Do people genuinely think that industries in a capitalist society won't act in their own self interest regardless of the negative repercussions to society as a whole?
I get where you are coming from, but when I say FOSS i do not necessarily mean a "FOSS project"...

I can imagine when it's very niche with a small user base, you probably do need closed source + for profit company developing it with a high per-license fee to produce anything of useful quality. What I am suggesting is _both_. The FOSS part is purely licensing, as an insurance policy for the users, and to make acquisitions repugnant to the likes of Autodesk (since all that would achieve is funding the software that competes with theirs)... I know that is far from easy to achieve and there is no straight forward business model for that - like I said, i'm probably being too idealistic.

[edit]

I wonder if such a legal mechanism exists which automatically triggers FOSS licensing upon acquisition or bankruptcy (i.e what happened to blender, but as a requirement)... that would prevent takeovers that do not benefit users as a kind of legally binding promise while also sidestepping the issue of being profitable while developing niche FOSS software.

If legally feasible this is a nice promise any currently existing software company can add to their products without changing their business model.

In fact thinking about this, as someone who pretty much never buys software anymore, not because I am unwilling to spend money, but because the experience of having the rug pulled from under me too many times frankly makes closed source unpalatable to me - this would make buying (currently) non-free closed source software a lot more comfortable again.

It also feels like a good strategy to combat anti-competitive monopolies like autodesk from destroying choice in software.
The person you are responding to is talking about an actual IDE, not an extension to VS Code.

rust-analyzer is great and we have waiting for it a long, long time. But it is not an IDE. Neither is the MS C++ extension.
There's something really strange this situation. Arguably the most powerful person in the world (POTUS) decides to devote his time on deciding the fate of an app for teenage boys and girls.
I'm using a T60 somewhat regularly and you'd be surprised how useful it still is.

Of course, a shitty "modern" website will perform exactly as you'd expect, but I try to avoid those even on my workstation so no big loss there.

Aside from that, it's perfectly usable for things like writing code, reading/writing emails, chatting on IRC, browsing lightweight websites like HN, reading documentation... you know, 99% of the stuff I use a computer for.

I have more powerful laptops as well, but I often reach for the T60 anyway, because it makes little difference for these kinds of tasks, and I love the 1600x1200 screen.
IMO this book should be required required reading for college students.
Flex Seal?
It’s a byproduct of the fact that each cohort becomes more conservative with age: https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-millenn...

> On average, Americans identify as more politically liberal at age 18 and become increasingly conservative between their 20s and 60s.

See also: https://fee.org/media/14135/chart2_socialism.png?width=100%2...
It’s surprising, to me, that the address adder and the ALU are so comparable in area. I’m guessing the adder is like 1/3 the size of the ALU even though the ALU has so much more functionality.

My guess is the flip flops needed to register the operands and resultant compromise a significant chunk of the area in both and the extra 2/3 area in the ALU is the area of the combinational logic to implement all the extra math functions.
He repeats conservative propaganda so that conservatives can quote him and pretend they aren’t racist because they have one black friend.

For example there was a recent twitter flap because he repeated an old invalidated conservative talking point about reproductive rights and tons of white clconservatives jumped on board saying “see! The black community agrees!”

This is all a strategy to manufacture consent.
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I would like to make a small point about the letter signed by "hundreds of scientists around the world".

According to the NY Times there were in fact 239 signatories, which coincidentally is almost the same number as the "253 ... scientists from 44 nations" warning of the dangers of electromagnetic radiation (!) that can be found at https://emfscientist.org/ . If you trust one, do you trust the other also?

Regardless of the merits of the rest of the article, I would caution against trusting a claim just because two hundred odd scientists from all sorts of disciplines were willing to sign an open letter. Science is not a democracy.
Australia doesn't have a law that criminalizes criticism of the ruling party, by anyone, anywhere in the world.
When you are a nobody facing a demand for a bribe by an official or police you have no choice but to pay.

> nd more institutional bribery can generally be waited out, at the least. Even if it’s occasionally a long wait (like, months instead of days, or years instead of weeks).

And in the real world that means you pay.

> wouldn’t dream of driving without wearing a seatbelt.

Because people understand that it is in their interest to wear a seatbelt. That's very different from paying a a bride that is often in the person's interest.

It was an Indian economist, and chief economist at the World Bank, that suggested making payment of bride legal to shift incentives [1]. You still have an incentive to pay but also an incentive to report it, while it increases the risk for the bribe-taker.
Whether that would work or not, it recognises that the key to influencing behaviour is to create the right incentives.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20218833
It’s also been said that zero-interest rates has led to an economy awash in dumb money looking for a place to invest:

https://themargins.substack.com/p/zirp-explains-the-world

> Treasury investors shift to corporate debt. Public equity hedge funds shift to late-stage private equity. Late-stage private equity shifts to mid-stage, mid-stage to early stage. Seed rounds become bigger. Angel investors become a thing. Unicorns, unicorns, and more unicorns. Ashton Kutcher.

> And that's how we end up where we are. In the past, if somewhat risky corporate debt got you 10%. It now gets you 7% (I'm making up numbers here) so you start taking meetings with late-stage growth companies. The Saudi SWF wants to modernize their economy, but they are also looking to achieve returns once found in public equities, so they have to get creative. Blackrock gets jealous of KKR who gets jealous of a16z who gets jealous of YC. There is just so much money looking to do so many new, riskier things.

> And again, that's exactly how it's supposed to work. Cutting interest rates spurs demand and risk-taking.

> When that much money finds its way into places not used to that much money, weird things happen. It's how we got to Community-Adjusted EBITDA and sleep economies. You don't create a ridesharing service, but a service that oddly loses money on every ride with a promise to figure out some future business [Tough, but fair -Can]. The distortions live at the valuation level, but also the communications and expectations level. Things just get weird.

In which case, why opt for risky profit-less startups, and not attempts to revitalize local communities? It’s almost as if these cost-benefit analyses are skewed with built-in cultural biases and expectations.
Not a gripe for this phone specifically ($349 is a great price point!) but more for the smartphone industry at large: I'm disappointed in the lack of progress since Huawei introduced the first real telephoto lens on the P30 Pro. Sure, there's the cheap knockoffs from OPPO, and Huawei added a nicer sensor to the P40 Pro, but no real innovation.

That's the big thing holding me (and many people) back from being able to completely let go of DSLRs. The P30 Pro is so close, it's a real revolution. But it's not quite good enough in many situations (autofocus is slow, any kind of action, low light is pretty bad.) Whatever company puts in a truly good quality, versatile telephoto lens... they'll have my money and a massive part of the DSLR market.

I have a feeling that it's going to be either Huawei incrementally improving their telephoto lens, Google delivering a computational breakthrough (and everyone else using it), or Apple/Samsung making some intricate, complex hardware.
> I wonder if this a case of lockdowns delaying the inevitable

Even if it is "only delaying the inevitable", it bought 3+ precious months of gathering PPE, increased testing, and political change.

Yes. Political change. Mr. Trump is now wearing a mask: it took this long to convince people that masks are a good idea. If COVID19 has a 2nd wave, we're far more prepared now than we were back in March.

> The primary vector of infection is still the home

The primary vector of infection has BECOME the home, because we've shut down schools, restaurants and more. I'm not entirely sure if we can push the lockdown any further logistically than businesses / public spaces. The home remains personal responsibility.
Dassault does both Catia and Solidworks, and as far as I know, they're French.
I remember this being described in Bruce Schneier's book. When I first read it, I was terrified. Now, seeing them in action, I'm closer to dejected. Most methods of avoiding them aren't easy or practical enough to be used by the layman, hell, most laymen don't even know what stingrays are. These are incredibly tough to protect against on a mass scale.
You don't hear as much about the rest (they have smaller populations), but things are not going well anywhere. Illinois is getting close to increasing lock downs. Wisconsin should be, but isn't (though they have finally put out mandatory mask orders) . MN is is looking at options. Iowa is barely doing okay, but will probably start getting high numbers soon. Tennessee probably is going to see problems soon but so far has been lucky.

Those are states I have personal friends in and so reason to follow them. I'm sure the rest of the country isnt much better off. For that matter, much of the world seems to be celebrating they are doing better than the US while ignoring signs that thier luck is running out.
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I'm curious about lack of mention of home conditions. How many people per household? What is the community / non-work contact?

It might all be the workplace, but we just had a large jump in cases without the single workplace and we might have some of the same demographics as them.
If Google pursued github and tiktok like msft I'll be more optimistic. ADT? Not sure what they wanted here...
A lot of people already complain about wearing the regular masks and how uncomfortable it is, especially in summer. I'm sure a lot of people don't wear masks already or take it off regularly because it's so uncomfortable. I think ubiquitous use of N95s would just make that problem worse.
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He needs to boost his approval ratings for November. I don't think he realizes kids can't vote.
> “I think C++ can do anything Rust can do, and I would like it to be much simpler to use.”

I think Bjarne isn't getting the issue with C++. Yes they're Turing-complete, yes they can both solve the same set of problems.

The issue is that C++ can do everything that every other language can do, which means it's not a language, it's a universe of features. You make the language by picking which features, patterns, philosophies, architectures you want. It's like if a language dictionary included English, simplified Chinese and Korean.

The problem IMO is there's no such thing as C++. Each company, each team, each person has their own. Many of these C++'s are incompatible with each other.

Worse, many of the new language features can't be properly implemented because they would break someone else's C++.

The problem is it tries to be everything to everyone, and that makes it (and futures standardization efforts) full-on Quixotic efforts. I mean, by all means, have at those windmills tho.

Bjarne points out how much he hates templates, and has some great new ideas for generic programming. Lovely, but he's never gonna get rid of templates, so now we have 2 problems.
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There is no shortage of food at the moment. Just pay people to stay home.