skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kudos to OP for spring cleaning, but the idea of many of these being subscription services to begin with is outrageous to me.

Software as a service rarely makes sense on a scale of 1.

- 1Password (Family): $59/year. Replace with a shared spreadsheet.

- Bear: $20/year. A markdown editor for Apple devices.

- CARROT Weather: $40/year. For the weather.

- Day One: $32/year. A personal journal app that runs on "unlimited devices." Why, unless writing the journal with a team of ghostwriters?

- Lost It!: $28/year. Supposed to be Lose It!—a weight-loss app? Replace with books: The Blue Zones, Spark, Self-Directed Behavior.

- Habitica: $63/year. Habit tracking, gamification. Replace with books. These are tactics, not technologies. Learn the tactics once and use them for life.

- Ulysses: $67/year. A writing app for Macs. What could justify a recurring fee?

- Squash 3: $41/year. A batch photo editor for Mac for resizing photos. Like the free IrfanView or many others.
The same thing happens on a lot of mobile devices as well. It's the reason that mobile devices generally don't get advertised with clock speeds. E.g., see:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3032970.3032982

Unlike desktops, where CPUs from different quality bins are sold at different price points (with different clock speeds), mobile CPUs are simply run at different voltages to compensate for quality differences. The resulting differences in power dissipation end up creating different temperature profiles, depending on which bin you happen to get.
Developing a negative carbon emission industry and economy will almost certainly lead to better ways of doing things on the Earth.

Which is cheaper? Which has higher certainty?
I see what you did here, but

> the Vietnam war effectively ensure no single nation able to challenge China's long term superemacy

I hope you realize that China flat out lose this one?

> They are the only equal partner in the cold war containment over USSR

This is not true and embarrassingly so. That's like Mazepa declaring himself the only equal partner of Charles XII (google it up). Triple embarrassing for chinese communist party. Probably fourthly embarassing in the context of USA "containing" China right now.
No, the author has no self control. This is a financial issue rather than subscription addiction.
The Java language doesn't have a goto statement, and so all code is properly structured. A labeled break statement is almost a goto statement, but it still obeys structuring rules -- i.e., you cannot jump into the middle of a loop.

At the bytecode level, all structured constructs get compiled into forms that rely on goto statements. Is this inherently insecure? Should the bytecode require structured programming too? How does this guard against malicious use any more than verified bytecode that relies on gotos?
I have a feeling they have some VC backing and they're just farming the work out to cheap overseas companies and freelancers. Sounds like it's some quasi-incubator banking on finding a billion dollar unicorn.
That's still more work than dropping them in the trash bin at home, or on the street. And at least here in the US where I live, while many areas have residential recycling pick-up, you can't put electronics in with that.
The median family income in US appears to be 84,000 in 2020 [0] if that helps.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEFAINUSA672N
The atmosphere there provides all the carbon, oxygen and nitrogen you need, hydrogen (from water) is the thing in short supply at present.

If you can synthesize methane there, you should be able to make longer chains and polymers with the right application of chemistry. One thing for sure, you'd never just burn fuel/oxygen together instead of using fuel cells, batteries and solar.

Nuclear would be a good power source if cooling isn't impractical.
When Will the BA.5 Wave End?
Previous hobbyist distributions (for Alpha and VAX, at least, not sure about Itanium) included compilers. Certainly, it will be much more useful to hobbyists if compilers are available.
Just like Solaris SPARC has been doing like for 10 years.
And in the US, which gave the world May Day (a day to remember the fight for worker's rights.) Sadly, it gave the US (the country that ruthlessly crushed and salted the fields of the organizations that fought for worker's rights) "Law Day," where we celebrate obeying the law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Day_(United_States)
or if you’re less interested in that concept and would rather see demonstrations of alternatives (and post agriculture, in societies with much higher than dunbar’s number nonsense), graeber/wengrow’s dawn of everything is a mind-altering read that collects modern anthro/archaeological evidence
I was in London recently - December 2019 right before Covid hit. Stayed at the W Leicester Square hotel, and was disappointed to see how many restaurants were closed early.

On NYC, it has the best subway system in the US, but by global standards, it is filthy, disgusting, and unreliable. Any criticism leveled at the NYC subway is countered by Newyorkers saying "but we have 24/7 service while city XYZ does not!" However that same 24/7 service is arguably a big contributing factor for the NYC subway's many ills.

Seoul, and perhaps Tokyo and Hong Kong and other cities, arguably have an even more hardcore workaholic and party culture than NYC, but get along just fine with subways that don't run 24/7 so basic maintenance and cleaning can take place.
Ive been working in a very successful international company where English was an official language of communication.

At the same time there were plenty of teams who used other languages within the team for verbal communication when possible.

And nobody to my knowledge ever felt discriminated, neither there were major issues with performance and team audit.

So your generalization seems theoretical to me. I've know multiple teams with near zero negative effects.
Neat. I thought Web pages were limited to 2 GB memory. I guess tines have changed.
I wonder how does age affect these recommendations, if at all. The older I am, the more (or less?) should I stand? Does it even matter?
> “Good times create weak men”

Convert it to any form of observable, measurable phenomena, and you will see it doesn't make any sence.

How do we measure 'strength' of a man - perhaps military success? Then best fighters should come from background of poverty and deprivation - is that true? Medieval knights and samurai were the best of their time, did they recruit recruit starving peasans? No, they were a social class and were offered the best training and considerable social cloud. Commanders and officers where basically a nobility.

Well, perhaps those social institutions didn't recruit the best, what about sports - if this statement was actually true, we should find best MMA fighters in places where they encounter tought times, like Russia or Somalia. Does that match observation - do they win all the MMA championships or something? It doesn't.

Maybe 'strong men' means being morally upstanding and doing what's right, even when it is going to cost you? If this were true, we'd expect to see less corruption and fewer crimes in communities that are poorer, right? Does that sound like the world we live in?

Bad times only create bad things - they create uneducated, malnurished, and psycologically damanged people, and they lead to violence. Anything good that ever happens, happens in spite of them, not because of them.
> While tremendously valuable, using WebAssembly in a web browser is not what excites me.

The article should have been titled "Why Am I Excited About WebAssembly Outside The Browser?"

The reasons the author gives don't seem that exciting.

I'm excited about WebAssembly in the browser because, as other commenters have pointed out, this allows a new area of delivering executables to run in a sandboxed browser tab with just a click. Convenience, speed and safety. I think it fulfills the early promise of the internet before the malicious hackers got to it. Some might want to say here that this is still insecure, but it's a lot more secure than downloading and running a binary on the main OS.
That sucks for apple users I suppose, but I don't think that's the direction the rest of the industry is taking outside of luxury brands.
Oh man. I used to be up to around 2014 the last asshole keeping a specific group in Facebook Messenger. It wasn't much of a problem for them because my friends were using FB for other stuff anyways, but they wanted to move to WhatsApp (now they're on Signal), an app I didn't really used.

What it took for me to bite the bullet and accept changing platforms was all of them agreeing on moving, and then one of them making a hard stance.

Sorry that wasn't much of an answer, but I guess my point is that you (EDIT: royal you, not talking to you directly) gotta find sympathetic people before you declare war on the ones that don't wanna change.
I think categorizing users for marketing purposes is different than someone proclaiming they’re a brand.
You are in the majority. I bet 99.9% of HN readers don't have these either.
The bed is a great example.
Saying that investment should go linear with a time spent is a bit of a harsh generalization.

Instead, you certainly want to get a good enough bed.
However, at some point, you get diminishing gains when investing more into it, and it does not matter anymore.
Usually, good enough is the point to which healthy competition leads—an affordable price and with a not too high-profit margin.

Similarly, with password managers, are free alternatives good enough?
The initial comment implied that it is not worth paying at all, but I think the good enough is not met with current free alternatives, at least for non-tech people.
This is a pretty bananas take that conflates people caring with their technology-related behavior.

Most people don't have problems with Facebook. It's useful for them, and they don't consider the bigger picture because they're not in tech and they have more important things taking up their attention.

Now you swoop in and say "Facebook is evil, and if you don't get off of it, I'll cut you out of my life!" In that scenario, you're the one who doesn't care about the relationship, not them - you're the one that won't get off your high horse. You could make a minimalistic FB profile that has no information and use it to exchange messages and reply to event invitations. But instead you demand that they change their behaviors in order to support your moral imperative. That's your prerogative, but it is ridiculous to think your relationship is pretend as a result.

Also, to be clear, you're the only one here talking about a relationship that consists of a few likes on Facebook. Everyone else is talking about a broader set of interactions, like using Messenger to chat and sharing photos with each other.
That's very helpful. Thanks.
I'm not sure if rust does this but C#'s embedded docs are integrated throughout the toolchain so they appear alongside intellisense as your writing or navigating etc. Keeping them with the code makes sense to me because they have the same reasons to change.
A friend of mine who lives in the area was shocked to learn this road has never been repaved! He asked locals and found out that it was paved from a mixture of concrete and Granitoid.

What's Granitoid? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granitoid#:~:text=A%20granitoi....

Road builders apparently moved to concrete solely because it was less expensive. However the concrete roads are falling apart after five years and are targeted for replacement after ten. Would it be more effective to move back to Granitoid and concrete roads?
Assuming 40 minutes per entry is way off base imho. Most of the stuff I watched is sitcoms with 20 minutes per episode each. If you are just going to count the lines of the file I "Upload" to your website, maybe don't even do it at all.
Also why does the button say "Upload" and right below it says "Your data is processed locally and not sent to any servers.". Upload implies precisely that data is being transferred.

It's great that this page informed me about the existence of that CSV file though. Thanks for that.
For points 1-3 I suggest reading Colbert and, separately, reflecting on the history of excise taxes in the pre civil war era.
> Native reader mode

This fixes most of the links on HN for me - I'm one of those people who doesn't like the browser to save anything, so every time I visit a site it's for the first time - so anyway reader mode just cuts right through all the shit in one click, no cookie banners, no subscribe banners, no interruption banners, it gets straight to the content if it's there (sometimes even cuts through shallow front end paywalls) - honestly if the site looks horrible and reader mode doesn't work, close tab - can't be arsed.

It also makes far better use of screen space than most site designs, e.g those common yet horrible headers with css position: sticky. Pretty much every big news site is made better by pulling any content into reader mode.
What does downward tilting mean?
These types of situations make me think some externalities should be priced in, perhaps through taxes. It's ridiculous that these devices make litter of rare metals that also have a risk of fires. If we're gonna allow it, it ought to include the cost of inevitably cleaning them up off the streets
But sit-stand desks are not.
And building a military machine didn't do much good for Germany.
If you’re in the US, you never experienced a ‘lockdown’ policy.

And nobody has been harmed on the order of the victims of toxic waste dumping.

You seem to be assuming that the vaccination programs that have been given to millions of people globally have had some kind of devastating consequences: mass disabilities, cancers and reproductive harms…

But, they haven’t, have they?
> And since it's extremely difficult to escape your class.

This idea that it's 'extremely' difficult to escape your income class is commonly spread and factually incorrect.

It's true that upward economic mobility is lower in the USA than many other developed countries, but it's not 'extremely' difficult. In fact, of people born in the poorest quintile, more than 50% rise out of that quintile, and ~10% climb to the top quintile.

Not only is this idea incorrect, I think it's pernicious because it robs people of their sense of agency/control to improve their lot in life, and turns them into victims.

Source: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/02_econ...
In Just 3 Words, Google’s Sundar Pichai Taught a Leadership Lesson to Every CEO
> And I do seriously believe that purely remote hurts your networking possibilities.

While I do agree, I am glad in some ways.

I find that the line between networking and nepotism happens to be very very thin.

Though, I suppose there is no shame in networking or nepotism. One must do what it takes to survive in the Rat Race.
I followed a guide. Kind of.

I started here: https://www.oocities.org/timessquare/1965/darling.html

After building a couple of point-to-point Darlings I created a PCB version to make building it much simpler and repeatable.

There used to be other Darling PCB's on eBay but I don't see them anymore. I should probably get my own PCB back in "production"....

There are plenty of tube amp kits on aliexpress, but I can't vouch for them. Maybe you can look around here for ideas/recommendations: https://diyaudioprojects.com/Forum/viewforum.php?f=9
so glad research like this is getting traction, some workplaces I was at, there was a stigma for programmers who kept leaving their desks to move around (PDD or Panopticon Driven Development)
I mean I pay for Creative Cloud subscription partially because I feel like I’m paying it forward (or back)
- 1Password (Family): $59/year. Replace with a shared spreadsheet.

Saying (Family) doesn't mean they only use it for sharing. In our family we're using it for our individual password management, sharing is just an add-on. Having it as a family plan is just cheaper. Please don't replace your password managers with spreadsheets (unless you really really know what you're doing and few people do).
In a phase: code sharing.

Say you are a C# developer and there is a C / C++ / Rust thing you want to use as a dependency.

Well, WASM is your interop layer. Same with Node.js, Deno, Go etc. You can start to share alot more code with a solid interop layer that WASM presents.
I think a model of economics which doesn't ignore the huge value inherent in the fossil fuels we're burning, and can account for both energy and currency, would go a long way to better understanding the Earth economy, as well as giving better predictions of the Mars economy.
As the aphorism goes "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step".

Seems like you'll only do things that make a significant contribution. Yes, with drinking straws it was a symbolic action, and yes you risk people thinking "ok, done it". But the current alternative is no action at all. We need to start, take the first small steps before chastising ourselves for not having gone any miles yet.
The fallen off wheels create bad times, which create all these stong men, ready to slap the wheels right back on, right?
Clang directly outputs WASM.
It is that sort of thing that ruins the internet
I would be stunned if the median laptop purchased from Dell cost more than $750 before tax or was used less than three years. I think you're significantly overestimating that - maybe it's the median cost of a MacBook, but with the $1K MBA as good as it is, I even doubt that.

> Maybe for those who have lots of money to spare, they might be willing to pay as much for incremental increases in convenience, but I doubt that applies to most people — even in rich countries.

The cost of a product is more closely related to the cost (e.g. labor) of producing it than how useful it is. My mattress was purchased online for less than $200 and shipped. It's lasted almost a decade before showing any signs of age. That's maybe $25 a year for something I spend almost a third of my time using! By that standard, I shouldn't even be willing to buy a computer, which has a higher cost / value ratio.

Doesn't really work like that, of course. Competition acts to keep prices down, but this only operates within a product market, not between different markets. Most stuff is much cheaper than would correspond to the use we get out of it, thankfully. Expensive writing tools are targeted towards people who can definitely afford them, and they manage to get away with enormous profit ratios in part because they're in niche markets with little competition between products. They're a rare exception where the price has trended closer to the value to users rather than the cost of production.
> Replace with a shared spreadsheet.

I really do not suggest storing passwords and sharing them with family members in a spreadsheet. Of all of the services on this list, a system that provides end-to-end encryption, autofill, generation, and sync for passwords across a family, is a fairly good rationale for a subscription. They at least offer a server side component that has to be paid for somehow.

A shared spreadsheet doesn’t even come close to matching 1Password’s features.
You can also purchase heavy zippered containers or Velcro-ed pouches made of fire-retardant fabric that are intended for use as safe charging containers for lithium polymer batteries.
You might do well to get some perspective on how valuable your time is. Go volunteer at a soup kitchen or a boys & girls club or something. You might be less inclined to write pointless automation scripts if you see you can spend that same time and make a real impact in someone’s life.
And like all ideals, that's easier said than done
The solution to that isn't tapping your boy's IM and chat history though. It's having a relationship with him where he feels comfortable mentioning he's talking to someone new.
Minimizing Liabilities Is Making It
I hate to even bring more audiophilespeak into the thread, but I have heard the distortion (harmonics) are "even" in tube amplifier architectures, "odd" in solid-state. (I don't even know what that means though, or in any event why that would be.)
Politics in this country have become upside down and backwards.

To my mind, AOC is a moderate. Joe Manchin is an extremist. And calls for Democrats to become "more moderate" must inevitably mean that actually-moderate Democrats would better align themselves with cynical political movements which provide thinly-veiled cover for alt-right/MAGA propaganda and unfettered crony capitalism.

Abso-f'n-lutely not.
Sure. It’s a beast.

But don’t expect crazy battery life in dev mode for 14”
MAD is also not as simple as generally described in the popular press. Power Transition theory is a school of thought that has some interesting ideas about the emergence of conflict and fits into a social physics type analysis.
Product that would be really useful here is a sit stand desk that you can schedule: there’s just no way I’m realistically gonna context switch every 20 and 10 minutes to adjust my desk height; if it just happened and I had to intervene to stop it, I’d probably let it happen
If you want to see a American movie that has similar feel to the Nazi wartime propaganda movies, watch "Acto of Valor" (2012) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1591479/ It's Navy Seal action movie, and not a very good movie (propaganda rarely is) but it has the "dark undertone" where individuals, enemies, heroism, duty and sacrifice are presented in the same way as it was in the Nazi propaganda.
That’s not a great strategy from the perspective of the victims that get burned through.
They do wonders for me. Any chair I sit in mostly upright for more than a few minutes will start to cause me pain in my lower back. (Herniated L4-L5)

Alternatively, a standing desk where I have tons of movement and am constantly moving my feet and legs, I can stand at all day long. I'm sure it's distracting when I'm on camera, I'm constantly swaying from side to side.
WebKit Downloads for macOS and Linux
You mean like getting on page 1 of HN?
> I've been railroaded into using Facebook 2 or 3 times by friends, family and even my SO

Just out of curiosity, as long as you don't mind: what was the reason (or which feature, actually) they asked you to use Facebook in those cases? I haven't needed it in 5 or 6 years and nobody I know really uses it (or nobody admits), but that might be due to my location (Germany), so I'm a bit curious what's it still good for!
I see a lot of potential for the EU* to mandate an API that each company offering software or service subscriptions would have to implement. The goal being that every end user can have a central point where they could see all their subscriptions and cancel them at any point in time.

* or any other powerful government body
Good tool, but a sample result will be really helpful so that people can see how it looks without sharing their private data.
I really liked that, thanks!
I agree that if you are able to consume filter coffee quick enough, grinder is optional. Of course, unless you want to be picky with the roast of the coffee.
I think it means the top row is at a lower height than the spacebar, i.e. your arms are angled downward?
IMHO this was totally expected and is an argument for "browser neutrality" --- I believe a browser shouldn't be doing this or many other things by default.

Modifying URLs and filtering page content should be the responsibility of extensions and the like. I personally use a filtering proxy.
Honestly I’ve come full circle on this

No conflict = no interest

What other organization would talk about the topic interesting to that organization?

And even when it comes to paid research, why pretend like someone else was ever going to do the research? “Woah smoking gun guys! The only organization ever interested in this funded a paper!” Yeah sure so put that observation in your back pocket for how much weight you put into it and move on
Thanks for these suggestions