skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Subscription revenue is also in and of itself valuable purely due to the fact that it's automatic. In fact, Adobe actually reduced the cost of their software significantly when they moved away from perpetual licensing. That's because it's far healthier for a business to get $50/mo out of you rather than thousands once in a blue moon.

The cost of CS6 Master Collection was around $2,500 or so; whereas a CC All Apps subscription is $53/mo. The thing is, though, that Adobe frequently updated their software to newer versions that had significant backwards compatibility problems. That $2,500 would only get you about a year or two of "the latest version", upon which you'd have to spend another $900 for an upgrade.

So Adobe went from a pricing model of effectively $2,500 + $450-900/yr, to one of $53/mo. Your first "year" of Adobe CSwhatever cost you $208/mo, followed by upgrades which were effectively $37-75/mo depending on how quickly Adobe released their software. Creative Cloud was and still is a bargain if you need Adobe's software.

Sure, you could have just stuck with CS2 or 3, and amortized your software cost over multiple years. However, by doing that, you wouldn't be able to practically collaborate with anyone else in the industry. The moment someone you work with updates from CS3 to CS4, all their files are going to start throwing weird errors and not working when you load them up in your older version. And remember: Adobe Creative Suite was THE standard in a lot of industries, it wasn't like you could just insist everyone remembered to click the save-as-old-version option (if that was even available). Not upgrading was a business disadvantage.
Honestly, having Chrome purposefully cripple uBlock origin protections "for my safety", feels a lot more like gaslighting, than anything Mozilla is being accused of here.
But we can do it all. Moreover a large number of talented people really want to do it. Whatever money they are asking for is a fraction of the cumulative benefits these people have provided to humanity. When arguing about money you never argue about "science discoveries", no-one in their right mind cares about them when it comes to fundamental science, when you talk about this level of funding. If you manage to build a 100 TeV detector you need to figure out a mind boggling number of practical technical challenges along the way. All of those sum up to a value that is far larger than 10 billion. For other projects like the Human Genome project or the Brain projects the ROI seems more immediate. But in fact physics projects have routinely yielded higher ROIs. There is an extremely long tail of physics / technology research that is funded by a new detector.

As another example take the EU quantum initiative, they managed to get ~1 Billion and have promised to get ~5000 people working on it for ~10 years. That works out to ~20000 per person / per year. This only works because a lot of these people are so passionate about this project, that they are willing to self exploit themselves for years.
And an undergrad degree from Manipal, a private university whose reputation pales in comparison to the publicly funded Indian Institutes of Technology that a lot of Indian CEOs seem to be an alumnus of.
There are three ideas core to your comment that are, at best, controversial: marriage as a predictor of success, French-born developers are lazy, and wealth/social exclusion having no role in whether "having the right parents" applies.

Also I'd love to see a deeper analysis of your "86% of billionaires" comment. Usually what happens is we discover that "self-made" millionaires grew up in quite affluent circumstances, perhaps not with millionaire parents, but with parents who earned a sufficient income to themselves retire as millionaires. That is to say, they aren't "self-made". It isn't meaningful to compare their accumulation of wealth to the struggles of those born in less favorable circumstances.

There are no "self-made" billionaires. Or very, very few (WhatsApp founder Jan Koum is literally the only one I can think of who comes close). Every single high-profile billionaire today--Gates, Buffet, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, etc.--came from a family with substantial financial means and social connections.
Why so passive aggressive?
> I implore everyone to think about this, and make a concious decision. Continue using Firefox if you want to, but don’t fool yourself that it means anything.

Cool. Cool. Cool. Whatever floats your boat, right?

I’ll continue using Firefox, thank you. I know about the issues and about Mozilla, but I’d feel really dirty, as if I’ve sold my soul, if I use Chrome or Chromium.

There’s space for criticism, and there’s space for resignation. I’m not yet in the latter camp. Firefox, for all the issues over the past few years, is nowhere close to being dead or to be given up on, IMO.
I am curious how common would it be to get actual SQL (obfuscated or not) in http response.

How in the world could that happen?

Edit: I guess it could happen if a developer decided to debug SQL via http response which seems pretty insane
> "Back Office"

Interesting, I thought "back office" was a super-set including both those (ie. CRM-y) tools and coded backend logic when a user makes a requests.
> It wasn't a coincidence that on the day Ballmer stepped down and Satya became CEO (2014), Microsoft also announced Office for iOS, Cloud first strategy, and a whole slew of cloud/Azure product announcements.

It was a few weeks later. Office for iOS was ready to go but I suspect Ballmer was holding it back (not wanting to give up precious Windows exclusives) rather than driving it.
> Every single thing he's credited for "turning around" was launched under Ballmer.

That's nonsense. Ballmer kept Microsoft in the 90's style of doing business, but this didn't work so well in the 2000's. After Satya took over he embraced opensource. He allowed Linux into Azure, which is bold. He killed the Windows division, which is very bold. He made Windows free. He made Office free for devices with small screens. He opensourced .NET and other products such as VSCode and TypeScript. He incorporated Linux kernel into Windows. None of these things would have happened under Balmer. These are bold moves and these moves are responsible for why customers, developers and investors love the new Microsoft.
> So what‘s the point of having this email posted here? I don’t find such articles little helpful.

Expensify is a startup, the CEO is sending out spam to users of the product

I’m sure both those topics are valid for HN

What do think this does for their business?
I've been trying the npm workspaces support in the last few beta and release candidate releases and it just wasn't stable enough for me.

https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/1984
That they did, but VS had always been aimed at MS tech stack: VC++, VB, C#, F#. And then VS Code appeared seemingly out of the blue, rapidly becoming the editor of choice for languages all across the tech landscape.
$2mil? Really? That kind of puts a crack in the idea of it being a non-profit.
For those wanting to avoid complex fabrication, this [1] kind of turbine is much simpler anyway, since it requires no gearing or complex mechanical bits. Simply make that out of a big stiff plastic or metal sheet, and bolt it onto the front of a motor. Then point it in the direction of the prevailing wind and you're done. The electrical side is complex or expensive if you want to feed into the grid, but if you just hook up a car lightbulb you can see it working easily.

[1]: https://w7.pngwing.com/pngs/511/987/png-transparent-toy-toy-...
Why don't you remove those things?
Create React App 4.0
Advcpmv – A patch for GNU Core Utilities cp, mv to add progress bars
See Power Toys Run

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
I've used LUKS on my external drives for over 6 years without issues. I use them with BTRFS for good measure.
>plus extra student loan debt

In engineering possibly not. Often tuition is paid for plus a stipend.

>If you don't come out on top, it's a waste,

I don't know. I didn't get a PhD but I did spend a couple of years getting a Masters. I didn't really use what I specifically researched but, who knows, may have helped me get a couple jobs and I enjoyed the time well enough. Of course, engineering salaries tended to be a lot lower then relative to what many CS people today consider normal so I don't think losing out on a couple years salary was a big deal.
Later got an MBA from Chicago but that's a BS degree for the resume.

What makes you think that?

The tech industry on aggregate has plenty of disdain for MBA's, both the degree programs and people with those degrees. Some of it is deserved, but MBA's aren't automatically BS degrees.
There is some hindsight bias there--_during_ the postdoc, most postdocs are worried about securing a permanent position. That memory fades once a permanent job is secured.
While the irony of claiming that "only a vote for <person> will save democracy" was apparently lost on their CEO, as a Canadian I have zero interest in receiving political emails like this from vendors. Doubly so when the company does something as mundane as expense-tracking.
You are confusing property with land (not that I blame you; our language makes it confusing). Property is a term of legal art term that relates to the right to possession and control over something. There are many types of property, and land is just one of them. Artistic and creative works are another.
Can we collectively refrain from making comments like this on Hacker News—or in any venue, for that matter? Is it that hard to read an assumed “In my experience, it is often the case that…” in front of everyone’s comment?
> the only people that want to go back into the office are are busy bodies and control freaks

Or, y’know, people whose whole job consists of “chitty chat”, such that remote is making them less efficient at doing what you pay them to do. The type of people that, when given the choice between individual offices and a private group workspace room shared with their team, choose the shared workspace, because their work actually occurs entirely on the shared table while talking to their colleagues, not at their own desks.

Basically, think: people who brainstorm all day; people whose productive output is either ideas or decisions.

Academic researchers are like this—90% of their work is figuring out what to try or how to try it, and this process is accelerated by bouncing ideas off of others; and, in the end, actually attempting something often requires many hands to set up the required apparatus.

Marketers are like this, in pretty much the same way: ideas percolate, reach consensus, and then applying the chosen ideas requires horizontally-scaled grunt-work.

Executives are like this. What is an executive but someone who sits in meetings all day? Managers may interface with people actually doing work, but executives only interface with other executives. They may as well all be co-located, so they can continue to bump into each-other and argue/negotiate in smaller groups “after work”—like a legislative body when it’s in session.
> part of the motivation for a GUT is that it would be a huge help towards making a theory of everything. And a TOE is precisely a unified treatment of the standard model forces and gravity.

A GUT is specifically the part of a TOE that has nothing to do with gravity... A TOE is a GUT + a theory of quantum gravity.

If we had the Standard Model + a theory of quantum gravity, this could be a complete theory of the universe (pending explanations for dark matter, dark energy etc.). These could very well be completely separate phenomena, there is no reason to believe they reduce to a single phenomenon - that there exists a TOE.

> The measurement problem isn't a physics thing, just like naturalness that's more of a life-style choice. In fact, the only reason to have problems with wave-function collapse is precisely a naturalness reasoning, technically it makes very accurate predictions just fine.

This isn't entirely accurate. There is a very clear quantitative question behind the measurement problem: what kind of system constitutes a measurement device, in the sense of invoking the need for the Born rule? There must be some precise size/kind of system that, when a particle interacts with it, you can no longer use Schrodinger's equation to predict its movement after that interaction - you must apply the Born rule. We know that this doesn't happen after a particle collision, but that it does happen after a collision with a "detector".

This is a clear empirical question (you don't need to call it a problem), well within the realm of physics. It may be extremely difficult to answer, but I see no reason to imagine it is a priori impossible to resolve.
Are perpetual stews sanitary? I'm probably misjudging, but the idea of anything being out in the open for that long makes me uneasy. I guess it's kept at a simmer, so bacteria can't grow?
I think the software was loved. It was years before Apple and Android did their own 'natively digital' designs which echoed Metro and Zune's design aesthetic.
India’s ruling party has been operating a network of bots to propagate fake news about Pakistan. But they do a lousy job and clearly show links to India.

What’s worse is that the twitter employees who control moderation for Pakistan also reside in India. They frequently silence/censor Pakistanis.
I agree completely. Steve Ballmer put all of Microsoft eggs in the Office Basket that let mobile die on the vine. He pushed licensing and marketing and left developers and new tech to languish. It's why to this day, Microsoft doesn't have a place in the mobile space, it's iOS or Android. I also aggree that pushing MS in a more Open source direction has helped make them more palatable to developers.
Does it kill all the birds?
Headline says it all. Shared for greater good and convenience. Other solutions like reading from proc and showing progress etc. unfortunately are too indirect.

The project will be maintained. It's really convenient and used in one of the popular terminal file managers, nnn.

The progress bars work just great. Sometimes before starting a cp/mv the numbers show in negative which should be a variable initialization issue. Patches are welcome to fix it and any other minor glitches you may find. Couldn't find the time to get around to these.

Note: BSD and macOS users can press ^T to check the progress.
Many of the settings aren't available on the new settings pages. You go to the settings for network, then click additional settings and it opens the old settings menu where you can find what you want.

It's terrible.

At least they finally put a screen brightness slider on the notification center.
I've been using Win10 on multiple machines since release day and I have never once seen a forced restart. That was a problem on Windows 7, but I honestly don't know how people are still having this problem with 10.
Google hasn't had a major new product for a decade.

Prior to 2010: Search, Doubleclick, Maps, Mail, GSuite, AppEngine (which was first serverless platform). All of which were category makers or category killers.

Since 2010:
I can't think of any way to give people more say based on how long they've been invested in a place that couldn't also be trivially used for voter suppression.

I guess you could do preferential tax policy but that almost requires high taxes as a prerequisite which is a non-starter in a lot of places.
When I worked for a consultant to Microsoft in the early 2000s, they were excited about the powerful search features they were planning to deliver in Longhorn. But Apple beat them to market with Spotlight, and to my knowledge, search has never turned into a differentiating feature for Windows.

It's kind of crazy to think back to those conversations with Microsoft about their long-range plans. Some they have delivered well, like the transition to a subscription model for client applications. Some they have not, like native peer-to-peer social networking in the OS.
> $600 a year isn't particularly expensive (that's for Creative Cloud).

Step out of your high pay bubble. That's a ton of money for the majority of the population. It's fine for corporate professional use but completely inaccessible to most people.
Excel Online lacks pivot tables, which I cannot live without. LibreOffice is equally helpless when it comes to them, so I am limited to the proper Office.
For a particular definition of 'better' that probably involves survival but not ethics.
My impression, and indeed my personal issue with inheritance, is financial inheritance.

According to this study[0], at least 50% of wealth persistence is accounted for by direct transfers from parents, i.e. financial inheritance, while earnings and education are only able to explain 25%.

0 - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ecoj.12535
Mike Duncan's revolutions podcast section on the French revolution is incredible, even if he has gone off the deep end as of late.
Exactly right.

The "comfort" will come from taking responsibility and owning and correcting the problem such that you have confidence it won't happen again.

Platitudes to make someone feel better without action helps nobody.

The fear is a valuable feedback mechanism and shouldn't been ignored. It's there to remind you of the potential consequences of a careless fuckup.

Lots here misunderstood this I think.. clearly the point is not to berate people for making mistakes or to foster a "fear culture" insofar as fear of personal attack but rather to not ignore the internal/personal fear of fucking up because you give a shit.
CSS Spider – fast and easy way to check, copy and edit CSS
I live and own a home in Denver but have been trying to move to Golden for 2 years now to have more room for my family and access to green space. I have bid on more than a dozen houses all over asking, 50%, waiving all kinds of inspection fixes and I have lost every time to all cash offers from out of state. While my experience may not be indicative of the market as a whole it certainly speaks to some sort of migration happening and "Golden" being on the list of these out of state people.
If you're running a compute task that is slow and takes an hour, then 5% additional speed saves you 3 minutes. If the computer gets 2x faster, then an additional 5% improvement only saves you 1.5 minutes. So if utility is proportional to time (and hence inversely proportional to speed), then this makes sense.
As an end user of Firefox, I find it very frustrating that every update I allow to the browser wrests more control from me, and now I am being constantly annoyed to keep my browser up to date as well.
Nerd Me: This is a really nice use of this visualization.

Human Me: I saw all this stuff in 2016 and Trump still beat the overwhelming odds. (Yes 16% chance of winning is still a chance, I get it... there's just so much deja vu with all these visualizations and articles about his campaign imploding).
Just tried this but it seems to have failed on the `wget` command

iPhone:~# wget http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/latest-stable/main/x86/apk-tools-static-2.10.5-r1.apk
wget: bad address 'dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org'
Boats use radar to see other boats just fine. As the dramatically faster object it’s job is to avoid other ships not the other way around. As such it can just use forward looking radar and never hit anything unintentionally.
Alaska is only 55 miles (88km) from Russia.
Twitter: bookmarklet to get original video tweet
Given the relative age of planets and stars, other alien "civilizations" would be hundreds of millions or Billions of years older than us.

The notion that we'd all be roughly at the same level of advancement is statistically impossible pop-sci-fi fantasy.

In my opinion, it's unlikely that they are even organic individuals anymore. Even the separate alien "entities" might have a process of merging once they achieve a certain advancement.

We are like fungus to them.
> my copy turned into a pumpkin when Amazon retired the Adobe DRM servers

I have never read such an apt analogy for the what remains of "purchased" content after the DRM servers go away.
Whatever you say dude. You're obviously trying to label everyone that disagrees with you as a violent extremist - you end every one of your comments like that. I don't know why you'd do that and I don't care it's just obvious and that's why everyone is downvoting you.
Not well. It makes the assumptions that all of the problems with space travel are logistically possible.
I'm definitely seeing a lot of anecdotes of people letting leases in eastern SF high rises expire, and moving to other accommodations nearby. I think this is a product of the fact that those SF buildings and those SF neighborhoods were always fundamentally undesirable and those people were only kept in place because they needed access to their jobs and our terrible transportation system was failing them. But these anecdotes involve people moving to Berkeley, not Moab.

For the Bay Area specifically there are also tens of thousands of apartments being completed right now, including about 10k in SF and several 1000s in downtown Oakland. This will naturally reduce rents.
If you have FTL ships, why don't you have FTL weapons, which would be entirely undetectable before they hit (except by FTL observation?).
Edge is dead and closed. Chrome-Edge will indeed gain market share and it is better than nothing, but I dispute that it is an independent browser making independent decisions about browser engine and other important stuff (not about GUI and telemetry).
This is one of the reasons I no longer buy iDevices. Last time I tried to get my iPad 2 working it was stuck on the activation screen. I shouldn't need to "activate" hardware I own, I should be able to use it however I want.
Depending on the salary, people might be willing to work second or third shift type of roles. Time zones only matter insofar as people are unwilling to work to the employer’s schedule
By reasonable measures of success they are succesful, arent they?
Sure, but if you were a billion years old and had seen ants before, it's unlikely that you'd take interest in any specific ant hill you walk by.
The third servile war was hardly successful. They all ended up literally crucified.
Attorney here! (Not legal advice.)

You are wrong. Software is generally licensed, not sold. The only person who "owns" Photoshop etc. is Adobe. The rest of us get mere licenses that we are subject to the terms of. Violate the terms, and you're subject to civil and potentially criminal penalties.
I mean, as a lowly software engineer that just makes a decent income, I won't do it either, for the same reasons.
In Love with the Louvre
This ruling seems ridiculous. On what grounds did the court reject the assertion that these drivers are contractors?
Linux these days works fine for a daily driver as long as the software you need is available on it. It still definitely doesn't win any awards for UX though.
Looks like BBC’s Brave project was the inspiration for this: https://github.com/bbc/brave (specifically the gst-WebRenderSrc) Brave is a real-time remote video/audio editing app. Looks neat.

Unrelated but wow, BBC has quite a bit of interesting and relevant open source projects. Simorgh, their react SSR framework, caught my eye “used on some of our biggest websites”. Encouraging for those looking to build out performance react/amp platforms https://github.com/bbc/simorgh
Yes, debate doesn't seem to work very well. The "persuaders" just pivot to another nonsense claim, and you waste a ton of time debunking it.

It has to start with public culture. People should be a little embarrassed to be wrong; they should strive to be right. They should demand evidence.

We're losing that. The rise of anti-intellectualism is allowing this fungus to grow and spread.