skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if this is actually true. Or maybe if it was, I wonder if the tide is changing. It seems there's more and more "subscription fatigue" these days (parent's reply is a good example).

I sell a one-time-purchase Mac app and I've had multiple customers tell me "I wouldn't have bought if it was a subscription" - and this is for an app that saves people hours a week on video editing, what would seem like the prototypical example of a "recurring need". I think people are just tired.
I have a friend who was in grad school and found an "...and so it follows" proof that was in standard textbooks dating back decades. To this day he can't find anyone to fill in the remainder of the proof to get the result.
Heh, this is kinda fun.

Another follow-up question, then: How did you manage to spend 50 hours making it? Did you sit there, painstakingly, making one leg thinner than the rest for some reason? Did you sleep? Did you spend 20 hours of it browsing HN? In either case, this would likely fall under the category of unproductive labor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productive_and_unproductive_la...

There's also the distinction of "socially-necessary labor", which feels (to me) like Marx's parallel to subjective value - the more socially-necessary, the more valuable the labor (a nice table vs. a crappy one).

In any case, the value is not just a measure of "hours put in" as you're making it out to be here; clearly I put more labor into it than you if mine looks/performs better in the same amount of time.
Do they? Or do MBAs prefer it? I definitely prefer buying something and actually owning it rather than essentially rent things for forever.
It would be interesting to see real-world numbers on the prevalence of money laundering via $1-$10 monthly payments to Patreon, compared to other online vendors who accept legally-permitted prepaid card payments. Most prepaid cards are limited to relatively small amounts anyway, precisely to make them less usable for money laundering.

Meanwhile, https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/09/3-count-felon-jpmorga...

> secret documents leaked from FinCEN, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, a unit of the U.S. Treasury. The documents “show that five global banks — JPMorgan, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank and Bank of New York Mellon — kept profiting from powerful and dangerous players even after U.S. authorities fined these financial institutions for earlier failures to stem flows of dirty money.”

In comparison to 7 figure flows, Patreon restrictions on already-limited prepaid cards are AML theater.
What is your preferred/proposed monetization strategy?

I see this comment or some variation of it every time a new product is shared here that has such a model.

What I rarely if ever see is a proposal for how the developer should make money instead of a subscription.

Very often, especially for hosted apps, the alternative is not better.
Ok but there's still no reason to run HV cables through pillars, right? Like part of the design of the car is to be hacked open after an accident.
America's federalism would make this idea a mess here: Each state has their own system for everything and 50%+ of the lower-level governments/agencies (county or municipal level) don't have any digital footprint at all, even a website. For example, there are plenty of elections across the country whose official results can't be accessed online at all. You have to call in, go in person, or request mail/fax. There's basically a minimum of 50 different systems for even the most basic of government services (such as renewing a driver's license). And then you need to multiply that by all the different agencies and services. The federal government couldn't force one system for everything (there are certain things that are constitutionally up to the states), so it would be basically dead in the water since the problem is getting all 50 states (each with their own internal politics) to agree to implement the same system.

Not a problem web3 can solve either. Social Security Numbers aren't secure, but we keep using them everywhere because the political will to implement a better solution doesn't exist.
> I genuinely believe that these people see "the Jews" and "Jewish people" as two entirely separate concepts in their head. One is the group of people they may know, hang out with, be friends with, and one is the concept of evil brought up by conspiracy nuts

One can only imagine that many people in, say, 19th-c. and early 20th-c. Germany held similar notions and views. This if anything makes such conspiracy nuttery even more dangerous.
I see the speculation-everywhere mode that web3 is currently in as a something that the future web will occasionally devolve into.

An idea will come along that enough of us can get behind, that idea will attract money and solve real problems for a while and when they're no longer problematic enough to warrant spending money on the system will collapse back into speculation hell until the next idea-that-we-can-get-behind comes along.
At your income levels, consider a Personal Defined Benefit Pension Plan.

https://www.schwab.com/small-business-retirement-plans/perso...
The tent theory makes a lot of sense. Prior to Solomon's temple, the temple was a tent, and is recorded as being a tent for hundreds of years.

A lot of scholars used to insist that the Bible was obviously not historical because it talked about this thing called the Assyrian empire that had conquered the fertile crescent, and everyone knew that empire never existed.

And then in the mid 19th century archeologists unearthed extensive evidence of the Assyrian empire.

Interestingly, records from that empire concur on some of the same events in the Bible. For example, Sennacherib is mentioned as the leader of Assyria who conquered most of Judah (the southern kingdom of Isreal - he had already conquered the northern one). See, for example, Isaiah 37.

From an unearthed clay tablet:

"But as for Hezekiah, the Jew, who did not bow to my yoke, forty-six of his strong walled towns, and innumerable smaller villages in their neighbourhood, I besieged and conquered by stamping down earth ramps and then by bring up battering rams, by the assault of foot soldiers, by breaches, by tunnelling and military engineering operations.

I made to come out from them 200,150 people, young and old, male and female, innumerable horses, mules, donkeys, camels, large and small cattle, and counted them as spoils of war. He himself I shut up like a caged bird within Jerusalem his royal city. As for Hezekiah, the awful splendour of my lordship overwhelmed him."

This coincides with the account in the Bible.

Note that Hezekiah is a descendant of Solomon - less than 200 years separate them.
What you are saying is antithetical to the entire Apple strategy, which is to create the best vertically integrated hardware and software and charge a premium for it. The strategy you're suggesting is to commoditize yourself, which they already tried (do you remember the Mac clone era), and is also the same reason IBM lost the PC market to Microsoft and none of the resulting hardware OEMs have even a fraction of Apple's market cap.

Also, to suggest that Apple Silicon has very few tangible benefits is laughable. The power / performance are incredible, and the deep integration provides tons of optimizations that no other manufacturer can match. This ranges from seemingly simple things like M1 Macs waking up faster than you can open the lid, to long-term strategic advantages such as cross-compiling single binaries to both Mac OS and iOS, or adding custom silicon to cover software features with unprecedented efficiency with a guarantee that every single machine running it will have access to that hardware (over time).
These are some of my favorite questions.

Is death an abyss of nothingness, like going to a dreamless sleep and never waking up? Maybe! Do we die and live in an afterlife? Perhaps! But what an amusingly and ironically simple, easy answer either would be!

Look at anything in life and the universe. In this reality, is there anything so simple and clear cut? Yet somehow this process of consciousness we call "death" is reduced to such a profoundly simple and binary thing.

Consciousness and death, two fundamentally undefined things, frequently given a conclusion so simple it can be explained to a child. Not that we can be blamed for doing this.

Given the complexity of everything else in this apparent infinity, it seems far more likely that whatever happens is complex beyond our Comprehension. Something far greater than nothingness or an afterlife.
Fellow Brazilian here, my father once used no-break batteries to start our car and i think that was amazing, but your father wins the prize!
What I am saying is that that it is not a radically different problem. They are radically different implementations focusing on different goals, but the problem is pretty much the same.

TeX's box model is in no way less optimizable than the HTML+CSS (if anything, it's the opposite due to it being much simpler). It has had a stable algorithm and implementation since 1983, and that implementation was never optimized for reflow like HTML + CSS has. TeX itself is also Turing-complete, which makes processing more expensive by definition, and that's mostly the reason for the slow performance, rather than the box model — and it is from 1983, after all. For some things, the reflow model is even used with TeX today (eg. table of contents generation usually requires at least two passes to "reflow" the output).
I didn't enjoy stacking timber at my Dad's timber yard on school holidays.
He'd come down at the end of they day and ask how many stacks did I strip out.
"...do you want to do this for the rest of your life or go to university?"
You are not alone in this. There are two ways to fix this problem: either (a) move away from them (changing the environment, and this is easy); or (b) seek enlightenment (changing 'your self', only to discover that there is no 'self', and that 'self' is a product of learning). I would say, 99.99999% of people will pick the option (a). In (a), there are any number of varieties, which you hear from various answers here in this thread. Some answers appear to fall in the type (b), but they are transient, as one answer already noted.
Perhaps a riff on French immersion schools like we have in British Columbia which are supposed to impart a higher level of education due to their much-vaunted academic standards.
> does the establishment of washington dc as an unrepresented area make sense today in 2022?

Many things in the US political system don't make sense in 2022, especially from an European point of view - mining and water rights, inequality of rural and urban votes because of unproportional representation in the Senate, Presidential votes in "stronghold" states being effectively wasted thanks to the Electoral College, the effective two-party system caused by the effects of FPTP, the fact that the US votes on Tuesday because of farmers going to church on Sunday in Ye Olde Days, the entire gun rights complex (it was reasonable and made sense back in Ye Olde Days that everyone could own a handgun and a hunting rifle, it was not anticipated that civilians would be able to own weapons of war), the fact that "gerrymandering" is not only a thing but actively and maliciously used, the general lack of federal protections for voters, that "union busting" is legal, the weirdness that is how DC and the US Territories are set up... the list is endless, that's just what came up in my mind in five minutes.

The problem is, the US and the UK are the only geopolitically relevant (sorry, Australia and Canada) countries in the Western sphere that haven't had a revolution and/or WW1/2 in the last century to re-set and modernize their constitution, power balance and judicial precedence - and that lack is really, really showing. It's no coincidence that the US and the UK are the Western countries hit the hardest by the rise of populist demagogues.
> At Google it took me roughly ~5 months from my first chat with a recruiter and agreeing for interviews to signing my offer.

Forget leetcode, this would burn me out much more.
That particular model seems to be running with the be_fckin_rich cheat enabled, which allows for a team of clinician-type bots to treat her avatar. The rest of us don't quite* have that level of luxury.
Yeah, a cheap joint is usually paying cash without proper rates and benefits (the staff being complicit and not declaring income/violating visa work restrictions if not local).

In these places the credit card machine is often ‘broken’ or there is a 5% discount for paying cash. I’ve even seen a place that was ‘cash only’ and had built an ATM right next to the cash register in the middle of the restaurant so you couldn’t complain.

In Australia it isn’t helped by a labor law system so complicated that even large firms with HR and finance departments the size of a small army can’t pay people properly.
I am reading that now. For reference- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kalanithi
We do the same, but with gitea as a backend, works well!
Did this exchange happen on HN, by chance? Color me curious.
The humor of those days was lost on some.

https://archive.org/details/RichManPoorMan
> The primary issue this week is that this section of Virginia rarely sees snowstorms of this magnitude and further most DC residents have no idea how to drive in it (or know when to stay home).

That's not really it. We get snowstorms of this size once every 2 or 3 years, sometimes more. The problem is that somehow they didn't keep up with plowing and salting on that stretch of I-95, and that led to back-ups, and once that happened, there was no way to prevent ice from forming on the road. An exacerbating factor was that it was raining before the snow event, so they weren't able to pre-salt/brine the roads.

Notice that the major traffic jam was on I-95 South outside of the beltway, it wasn't on the outer loop, inside DC, or in Maryland even though the storm blanketed the area.
Which is a problem 99.999999999% of people will never experience in their lifetime.

And even if it is a problem you can always reach out to the website and get them involved in moving your account to a different provider.
I carpooled with a fellow traveler who lived in my city when our flights got cancelled at Midway and we picked up the same outbound from Indianapolis. The friendship eventually fizzled but it was a great experience during and for the few times we hung out after.
Walking at 2 mph shouldn't cause a 150 bpm heart rate in a healthy adult. Either your heart rate monitor was faulty or there's something wrong with your cardiovascular system. There's a lot of normal individual variation in heart rates but seriously 150 for casual walking is abnormal.
Green rupees turn yellow after exposure to light? Infinite money glitch!

(Yellow rupees are worth 10 green rupees in the Zelda games)
Grass is always greener on the other side.
Doesn't AMD similarly send their recipe to TSMC to be printed?
A lot of people on this website, in my experience, do not take this seriously enough, preferring to put on blinders or tell stories about how it’s all for the better we just can’t tell why (thanks invisible hand of the market!).
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> James Watt was only able to build efficient steam engines because Joseph Black discovered latent heat in 1761.

No, in fact both Black and Watt explicitly claimed that their research and results were independent.
> because labor gets allocated to the most economically beneficial sectors naturally through fluctuations in wages.

In a perfect market economy, yes. In an imperfect economy, where the value of each teacher is hard to measure, and where teachers cannot capture the full value of their work (e.g. a lifechanging middle school teacher can't charge much more than a normal teacher) this isn't true.

> Imagine, for example, that the US allowed unlimited migration from China, India etc for engineer positions... wage situation would be much different.

This is really not clear. First of all, as software engineering can be done remotely, there is already a fair level of global competition. Second, migration doesn't always decrease wages (see Mariel boatlift for a counterexample). And even with open borders I don't think the current top 10pct of SWEs would be paid more than 20% less.

> But yeah, generally in a free market wages will be set "fairly".

Again, assuming that the market is efficient, which it probably isn't.
Similar dark patterns are now everywhere, e.g. now most phones are with irremovable batteries. Someone might argue that is to make phones thinner by remove the back cap. Unfortunately that was not the case, I did see some phone with removable back cap but the battery is still fixed.
US pay-TV drops another 637,000 subs in Q3 2021
I like this but I would never actually trust this unless I ran a self-hosted version myself that I could ensure was run on my own server.
The proper operation of monetary policy (which you can verify by cracking open any macroeconomics 101 textbook) calls for the central bank to control interest rates via the creation and destruction of money, such that the interest rate in the market for money (via fixed income instruments) always remains at an equilibrium rate.

The Fed failed to effectively create money in ‘08 and afterwards, and instead settled for more or less directly controlling the price of fixed income instruments. This is bypassing the textbook cause and effect mechanism and is indeed the equivalent to a price control in the fixed income market.

You can see negative effects by realizing that price controls always widen the gap between the marginal borrower vs. non-borrower — in a ‘true low rates’ scenario, loans would’ve been freely available at the low rate, but in post-Recession US, loan rates were low, but only strong borrowers could get liquidity. That directly widens the gap between the haves and have-nots, and was a direct result of Fed policy.
>FWIW, the initial boost of happiness derived from living in nice accomodations is shortlived, after a few weeks or a month you'll likely feel about the same as before you got the nicer digs.

That hasn't been my experience. When I found my current place I was ecstatic over it and ~3 years later, I still am just as much. I have no plans of moving out unless I move cities -- it hits the spot that much for me compared to all the previous places I've lived previously.
Can you build an ARM computer of the components from Newegg?
Can I use this with a browser that's not Chrome-based?

No.

Well that's disappointing. I mean, it's license is pretty restrictive, so I probably wasn't gonna get too close to it, but the hardline of no browsers other than chrome is kinda disappointing. Back to the drawingboard.
That show is so underrated. It reminds me of the vibe of Charlie from Always Sunny in front of the bulletin board going on about Pepe Sylvia, but as a thought-provoking sci-fi show.
Yep. There is an extremely well detailed guide on MacRumors that has got everything you will need: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/opencore-on-the-mac-pro...

Personally, I use OpenCore because I run a RX 5500 XT which isn't supported by Apple's EFI (making the bootpicker impossible to use).
Why is your two year old seeing a lot of people with masks? Kids aren't expected to wear masks until they turn two, and for under twos, most people I know just have nannies or relatives take care of them, maskless of course. I guess you could do center based care instead because it's sometimes cheaper, but even then the other under 2s will be maskless. My 1 yo doesn't like when I wear a mask, because it is an unusual thing to him. To be clear, where I am I wear masks indoors all the time, but I typically don't take the kids indoors with me, so he only sees it when I run into a cafe or something.
You don't have to explain to me how demand and supply works, but I appreciate it nonetheless.

> Unfortunately many people choose to be teachers regardless of low pay.

I don't think this statement is true any more. At least in the state where I live, teachers were quitting in large numbers before the pandemic, and the situation is far worse after. This is one factor that's not touched on in the article at all, and IMO is mainly responsible for why schools haven't returned "to normal".
As I understand it a drop of blood is simply not large enough of a sample to get statistically reliable results.
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I would also add that the fact they are undefined itself is interesting. Are they undefined because we do not know about them or we do not want to define them?

I think we do not want to define them as they would make humans not so special and we do not want to feel "not-special".
Hello, American parent here. In non-COVID times, there are endless summer programs of all variety to provide childcare for kids during summer months. This is not the case during Thanksgiving / Winter Holiday and depending on where you are, Spring Break.

As an American parent, COVID has been rough. I love spending my time with my kids, but there’s also an endless debate of “am I going to take time off work today to properly raise my children, plop them in front a screen when that’s the last thing their young brains need, or try and parent and work simultaneously while simultaneously failing at both?”

If you want to work full time, and your partner wants to work full time too, there’s lots of childcare solutions to supplement school during non-COVID times. Without those options, it’s just a continuous unstable compromise with work, partner, sending your kid to school vs online learning, etc.

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I can’t explain the pay thing with teachers vs doctors. I don’t understand how my wife, a healthcare provider, was able to deliver a baby at a private, well-equipped clinic in Kenya for a total cost of $300 USD while having to pay >$6000 USD out-of-pocket after insurance for an uncomplicated birth of her own a few years later in a US hospital. Just the way capital, normal supply and demand, mixed with lobbying has distorted things over time I guess.

I also don’t really understand why people send their kids to private school instead of just putting that same monetary support directly into the public school system. Anyway, these are totally separate issues from the cultural reliance on schools as childcare providers.
Very cool and inspiring. Good luck getting to $10k MRR. I think building out a large community of 9900 free users was very smart for this type of app.
It's timeless because it's present in all economic systems even those that espouse equality above all or communism, etc. Kim, jeung-un, Xi, Jin-ping and their circles, the Politburo and its circle. They all had whatever they wanted even if on the books it belonged to the people.
Have you actually used a web2 website with a Mac ?

For every website I can just press TouchID once, it will auto complete my credentials and click the login button for me. I can't see how web3 could possibly be faster.

Plus I can still access that website on any device e.g. public or work computer without needing to worry if I can install a Chrome plugin.
What? Where's the evidence?

My 0.02: people feel the exact opposite. People hate subscriptions, people hate not having control over something that they feel has been "purchased".
Sure. Seems like a classic "seven whys" kind of situation... coming down hard on the person who wrote the bug is counterproductive in a way that the whole tech industry understands, except for your former bosses at Apple.
Trump declared himself the most pro-Israel president in american history. That seems pretty definitive.
There's been a heck of a lot of friction though. It turns out that there are lots of open source builds that believe darwin but not x86 implies powerpc, and there are lots of python programs that believe they are entitled to build and install .so libraries, overwriting one arch with the other. Also fortran continues to be a mess.