skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely understand the comments around valuation of a recurring revenue business and ongoing maintenance. Those are all true and accurate.

I've also been thinking about this from an ecosystem standpoint that it is now very difficult to develop a software product that is not SaaS.

If everyone else is SaaS, and you are not, your business will be:

- Valued lower than equivalent revenue SaaS businesses, because revenue is lumpy and comparatively unpredictable

- Have greater difficulty raising capital, because investors aren't used to valuing non-SaaS businesses any more

- Have greater difficulty hiring engineers, as they know the next job they have will likely be SaaS related

- Slower sales cycle due to higher upfront price required (IE - Doesn't automatically fit on an employee card for land and expand)

- Higher customer acquisition costs, as most customers, other than those on HN, are used to the subscription model and prices, and would encounter sticker shock at the high prices required to make a one time purchase work
Depict? I've held off from the ASCII art here. Though I recall a 1975 Ascii art of a Playboy centerfold (in 1975, no vulva in Playboy at that time). Yes, I was in computing at that time, though as a prepubescent at that time not super into porn.

Point about god knows what? Pretty sure it's been clear all along, art encompasses things we like and things we don't.
There's a glaring difference between a digital nomad working remotely and someone on an H1B or an illegal immigrant - the digital nomad isn't participating in the local labour market. Increasing the labour supply (which most assume would decrease the price) is the major complaint people who dislike H1Bs/illegal immigrants. A digital nomad isn't competing with the people he lives near for scarce jobs, so that complaint doesn't apply.
Thank you for the feedback! That's what we're hoping our opt-in tools will help artists do. For the problems you've posed here, you might actually want to both opt-in and opt-out. You'd be able to flag the imageurl-caption pairs that don't accurately credit you or describe your work and we'll forward them to the dataset creators for removal. You could then add any works that you're comfortable being used for AI training, and caption them however you'd like. Those would go into the dataset and be used when training future models.

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The rule of thumb is if there are still at least 3 competitors left in a market, it is not "substantially" lessening competition
This.

Further, for credit cards, you can add `autocomplete="cc-number"` to the input and it will provide platform-specific UI for pre-filling the credit card number.
https://mobile.twitter.com/pitdesi/status/157046798711905075...

What investors first paid for @Figma , which @adobe buying for ~$40.20 per share:

$0.088: @dannyrimer/@IndexVentures , Jacobsen/OATV

A $0.199: @johnolilly /@GreylockVC, @semil

B $0.332: @mamoonha/@kleinerperkins

C $1.098: @andrew__reed/@sequoia

D $4.619: Peter Levine/@a16z

$21.29: @henryellenbogen/Durable
"We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.” - Lao Tzu
The Ethereum merge finally happened – here are the fallouts
You asked for (a list of peccadilloes worth standing up for) and instead got (a list of opinions that commenters hold but believe are unpopular).

Here's my lowest hill... Process pronounced prawcess is a noun but prohcess is a verb.

I'll prohcess those files using our usual prawcess.
Making blocks is much different than accepting blocks. Blocks have to be verified & accepted by peers aside from getting over the hurdle of POW. He complains about BTC arguing that the ability to “make a block” is the true basis of decentralization. But it’s the ability to verify & reject blocks that’s important. And anyone can maintain their own BTC blockchain from the beginning of time relatively easily (less than $500). Trustless is the way.
"Computer network" to "Niger"
Time: 257.660 Seconds

Number of links visited: 3

The path you took:
[ "Computer network", "Internet Assigned Numbers Authority", "Time zone", "Niger" ]
I understand your point but axing the entire tax portion of this problem is massive. Sure, your employer would probably still have to know to some degree, but it would be much easier and could end up with something like "you don't need to tell us unless you're working from $listOfPlaces".
In general SaaS vertically scales to increase demand which means factors of increased revue with no new work.
try using Upwork or another Contracting Platform and post a job of "Expert Lua compiler consultant needed" with a one-time job fee of $250 (or pick your number). Then, filter their available talent by Lua and reach out to 20-50 contractors with Lua in their description, asking if they're interested in this job.
It's best to think of it as three loops.

1. The loop of just regular maintenance. How long is that version of Node supported? 2 years? Alright assuming you did literally nothing, no bugs, nothing else your software is already needing to be tested against a new major version in just 2 years.

2. External loops, integrate with XYZ platform? Oh version 1 is EoL in 2 years? Guess you need to get on upgrading to API version 2!

3. Someone uses your out of date software and runs into an issue, now they email you, tweet at you, complain that your software sucks and you should support it better. (My first job would get this all the time for software we released 6+ years ago) Oh you fixed that bug in the new version? "I should get it for FREE!!"

Who is going to do this work for free?

Even if you cut the support emails down to a minimum, that alone costs money to automate...

Another favorite of mine was complaining about price, "$5,000 for a perpetual license?!"
This. Fireworks was my go-to tool for years. Hit the perfect sweet spot for a semi-professional user. I've not yet recovered from this loss.
Same friend was in a motorcycle accident where he hit his head on something so hard he broke his helmet. Had a mild concussion. Only other real injury was he broke a bone in his hand.
You're making very fine distinctions. Many people will draw the line somewhere else. Our society has drawn the line somewhere else, because this well-known and respected physician makes a good living providing this treatment to satisfied patients. IANATrans person, but I doubt many of them would see a problem here either. In the context of USA health care, invoking Hippocrates on this guy is silly.
What’s your basis for believing this will happen? If anything the state of accessibility has improved over the past 20 years, not gotten worse.
Step 1: Find a new payments processor, get the customers back online, and then see if it's worth switching <em>back</em> to Stripe.
Credit card processing requires a sponsor bank, and that sponsor bank sets what categories they want to process for. If you fall out of that, or the account gets reviewed a second time and someone thinks it falls into one of those categories, the account is shut down. OF almost had this happen to them because of their sponsor bank and I've seen it happen for other companies from the underwriting department (not stripe, another processor).
Even looking at the title only you can tell this is from Quantum Mag. What is it about Quantum Mag that produces these pseudoscientific-sounding titles (regardless of content)?
ICs work _in_ the business. Entrepreneurs work _on_ the business.
Cardinal voting systems ask for information few voters really have, and we get GIGO. We arguably shouldn't want to receive the cardinal info if they did have it because that mainly helps ultra-partisan voters. They allow candidates to improve their position if there's a more extreme candidate to their side, because voters may still want to express the ordinal preference.
I find it incredible how many arguments rely on a uniform distribution assumption here. There are markets where crypto miners are double digit percentage of utilization. They have very favorable conditions for mining, like the Pacific North West. The “one Finland” isn’t smeared over all power consumption, it’s highly congregated in a relatively small number of locations. The argument that a sudden devaluing of the use of electricity has no impact in the power infrastructure where it’s concentrated is absurd. I’m not saying it has or hasn’t happened - I’ve no idea. But it will be news if it does happen because operators will see double digit drops in demand locally and it’ll be noteworthy. But I don’t think it’ll be like energy prices in the EU improve - the mining happens in places with huge gluts of power they can’t otherwise sell or distribute for more.
On the busiest day of the year at peak hour here in the Netherlands the debit card transactions (creditcards are uncommon) reach just over 700/s. [Search for 'pin transacties per seconde' for news items covering this]

Maybe around Christmas it will be in the 10k+
Sad times. Figma could/should so easily have stayed independent. Clearly some VC needed a payday to buy a new yacht.
Rental fees, so to speak.

Software as a service becomes a rental property and owners can milk consumers for more money over time as well as introduce features to encourage lock-in. Basically, you're teaching frogs to boil themselves.
I pressed the "please just tell me WTF I'm looking at" option three times and it never did, so I left.
> They are giving money to your local businesses, but aren't competing with locals on anything but housing.

Competing over housing i quite significant if you ask me.
You probably don't understand how either of them work. Do you remember for how long Apple was trying to fix problems with their butterfly keyboards?
Can a nuclear plant produce enough energy to capture all the carbon emitted in its construction? While still being profitable, obviously.
Figma doesn't have Adobe's predatory cancellation fees AFAIK.
Practical Tutorial on Deep Hierarchical Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
> no, traffic lights are efficiency.

That's exactly what I said. Traffic lights for governing car traffic are the result of a modernist obsession with efficiency; in this case a pre-occupation with car travel speeds, throughput, ... as if these are the only things that matter. I gather you view that as a positive, but I see it as a very impoverished monomaniacal mindset. That technocratic value system has poisoned (literally and figuratively) the public realm. We need less of it.
> Today, CryptoKitties is lucky to break 100 sales a day, and the total value is often less than $10,000.

This seems shockingly high to me
What a downer. I couldn't get past the first few seconds. No thanks...
Sometimes when fucking happens, both parties did the fucking.

Betting the farm on Stripe should never be the modus operando of a 'standard enterprise' and thank god I have never worked with anyone in any position of power over money that shared your beliefs. That is just insanity.
These exist in many different generations (sensor-based traffic control devices) but as there are state and/or local certifications each solution and implementation must meet to be deployed, plus the additional cost of installing and periodically calibrating sensors, they are not warranted unless the situation calls for it. The inconvenience of waiting an extra minute at a minor cross-street doesn't usually cut it.

If you live where there is a light that causes disruption or accidents because it needs sensors based on the traffic flows nearby, you should bring it to the attention of your local government. At the very least you could get them to do a study on it.
Love this site design. Looks so good on mobile.
Yes, I too noticed this issue with vscode extensions being unreliable, having possible telemetry, and other bloat.
Jetbrains wanted to go full subscription too but their userbase revolted.
>Wow, that zip file of JSON is 6.5MB, but when you decompress it you get a 382.MB CvrExport.json file!

Not only is it so small, but it's easy to improve while remaining compatible with zip:

Infozip -9 -> 5693Kb

zopfli -> 5437Kb
I recently took the TGV from Avignon to Paris. It was fast, clean (a notable improvement from the past), efficient and on time. I was left with my usual feeling: why can't we have this in the US? It will never happen. A confluence of NIMBY, onerous regulation, a judicial system that ensures private contractors have the upper hand in legal disputes, just to name a few reasons will always mean this kind of infrastructure will remain out of reach for most Americans especially those living outside the northeast corridor.
In which world is the bus not a nightmare?! Waiting for it at a random bus parking where nobody knows where it arrives, almost no ability to walk around nor go to the bathroom, less space than train, no access to your big luggage.. I'm not even talking about speed or efficiency.
Conversely, the heated dry cycle if used where I live just deposits hard spots of calcium on dishes and melts plastic, so I would prefer that dishwashers default to non-heated dry.

But I agree that it should be included.
Sort of. The signal standard (at least CV and 1v/octave) has remained largely the same, and the rackmount form factor is still the go-to. Beyond that... I'd say the past 10 years were actually the golden age of modular synthesis. The biggest revolution has been watching digital components roll in - contributions by Mutable Instruments and Make Noise have completely changed the modular game, if not music as a whole. Plaits, Clouds and Braids are all instant-classic modules that found their way into a lot of popular music. Make Noise's Morphagene further pushed the digital buffer manipulation barrier, with their René inspiring a variety of novel input modules.

That's only touching on two of the hundreds of manufacturers that have cropped up over the past few years. Modular is back into it's waning period, but it's hard to complain when there are so many new toys to play with...
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> Media outlets put this disclaimer on practically every Tesla article because the media in the US are clearly butthurt that Tesla doesn't need (or want) them.

No, they do it because they need to explain why almost every article on a Tesla issue has zero response from Tesla. Just like the "We reached out to Company but had not received a response before going to press."
Not everyone, the "participants" in the chain (typically 8-10 addresses) can arbitrarily inflate pricing by only paying fees which are trivially covered by the final trade. Once inflated, that final address can use a "mixer" to exit (for example) and essentially if KYC is performed in the conversion to fiat, it's after the mix and relatively untraceable.
Operating expenses force miners to spend at least some of their earned coins.
Depreciation also means that you need to periodically recapitalize.

With PoS, without significant operating expenses, you can simply use your earnings to perpetually increase your stake.
Can you sue them to get the money unlocked, and in the meantime switch to cryptocurrency? I recommend using one with fast block times, such as Algorand which is going to be 3.7 seconds in a few days.
I think we are in the dead-end in this discussion. Thanks for your time.
Did GoogleAI just snooker one of Silicon Valley’s sharpest minds?
In what ways do we let "chronic crash causers slide"? What changes would meaningfully alter their behavior? I'd argue that most bad drivers know what they're supposed to do, and can be on their best behavior during a driving test, but don't care about anyone other than themselves. As soon as they can they'll start cutting people off, dangerously passing, running red lights, etc.

In the US, the penalties for crashing your car at this point is often being forced to buy a new car since even low speed accidents can total your vehicle, then you also have your insurance rates skyrocket, and you're often on the hook for a lawyer and showing up to court where you can face being responsible for hundreds of thousands in medical expenses. It's a pretty damn punishing system for people who cause accidents. I suspect that most people (alcoholics aside) are not going around getting into one car crash after another after another. It's just vast numbers of assholes each of which thinks it won't happen to them until it does.
Because you're usually on a tourist visa and those will say something about "not working" with varying language. Since your "working" looks identical to "dicking around on a laptop" it's unlikely to draw attention, but if you were to piss off the right person at the wrong time, they might be able to drop a train on you (but even then the most likely thing is being kicked out of the country, but some countries could get very "spicy").

Of course, if you were a rock star coming in to perform, they'd definitely want their cut even if you were only performing for a day. The laws haven't advanced to cover this situation entirely well, so there's a lot of leeway on what you can get away with.
> charging a real card, and if it works, reversing it

Why would you reverse it? If you can’t afford to consume one unit of whatever you are selling are you really in a good place to be in that business?

I guess there can be rare exceptions where the business sell only a handfull of high ticket items. But then again probably Fincantieri does not let you put your bespoke mega yacht on a card through a web transaction.
The FBI really doesn't want your garbage reports about random restaurants unless there's actual evidence of a federal crime. They're overworked as it is.
Well, this is an amazing comment that I didn't super enjoy reading. And it looks like Bohemian Crystal has announced their closing as well:

https://www.lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=45872

LTH seems to think Westchester Inn is still going strong. I'll have to hit it up. I've been to Prague a couple times and remember enjoying the food (I need more rose hips in my diet).
Using taxes as punishment makes for a very unreliable revenue stream. Rent seekers move on, and you're left with everyone else holding the bag.
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Timezone is noticeable, but really depends on how different and how many "Webcam On" meetings you have. My home office has blackout curtains, so it's always the same light condition regardless of time of the day.

Now, it's hard to attend some meetings when time difference is very dramatic, like it's 1am in your local, but 10am at work HQ.

> If you go too far of course, then your workmates might notice that it's winter when it should be summer.

Doubt. Most of my co-workers use virtual backgrounds. I wear the same home clothes the entire year.

> And anyone with the login details can see where your login pings are from.

Good luck, I have a WireGuard box at my parent's house that I route my work traffic through when needed. Maybe I should start a business of hosting "residential" VPN exit nodes...
The article didn’t mention it will get cheaper. To me it is a bit of a sugarcoating.

Making faster - too hard
More seats - more profit
Less energy - more profit AND better company image

Good MBA student.
Alternatively, they ban any new accounts made from a known VPS ip range due to scam bot issues and that ban was just unrelated.
I disagree. I want to see more actual software on Hacker News. This is a space for "hackers," is it not?

While Godot fairly established, there are up-and-comers in software development, and one of the few ways I will ever know about these people and their projects are by Show HNs and product update submissions.

It may be dozens of releases or years before I even hear about a project, and this type of comment clearly comes from a place of not knowing at all what it is like to work so hard on something nor knowing at all how to promote a product.

People have an aversion to promoting and advertising, but I want to see "WAYWO?"!

I'd far more* rather see that than political nonsense, bullshit tech opinion articles, and news completely unrelated to the hacker or business space.

Edit: Further, with respect to Godot, the authors continually make more progress on the codebase and there is a lot to talk about. Not just specifically with Godot and their prioritization of software features, but how the developers and contributors are having an impact on the hobbyist and independent developer scene.

I have gripes with the space as it currently is, and I know I'm not the only one. I want to read those opinions here. If you don't like it, don't upvote it.

For example, why have they in the past prioritized their own programming language? Decades old game engine codebases have rich features like material sounds, and fully integrated multiplayer features, but almost no open source game engines feature these things. Instead, they all focus on shallow flashy features like PBR workflows. I want to talk about those things.

Another comment here mentions a custom physics engine that is being introduced. That's interesting! And further discussion is warranted over whether or not that is something that developers care about! What about other features like native split screen support? There's so much in this space to discuss.
I looked at that E&C "horseshoe" - it still looks hairy if you're riding north on the A3 and want to turn right into the A201, given the number of crossings of busy roads with no traffic signals. But better than some of the busy 3-lane roundabouts I've had to navigate here with no provision for bicycles (or pedestrians really) at all.
I tried unsuccessfully to get my HOA to adopt approval voting. Their current voting system has so many flaws that in this case approval voting almost "strictly dominates" their current system, with the only change being to "count all checkboxes" rather than "throw out ballots with too many checkboxes". The vote to adopt it failed, 4-3, partly because the HOA's lawyers (who have a vested interest in the old method) gave "legal advice" that it might not be legal, and party because one of the HOA members thought it "sounded weird".
They would still be using a lot of city/state/country local infrastructures (utilities, roads, parks, emergency medical/police/fire services, local libraries, to name a few), won't they? Costs for these might not be funded by Sales Taxes alone or at all. Not paying one's dues to the City/State/Country of residence in accordance with local laws is not only illegal, but also immoral; it breaks revenue calculations city/state/country makes based on multitude of things (at least in most sane places), and if a nomad is not doing not paying equal share, then the locals are footing the bill for them!
Mere income tax on landlord's rental income is not something that will come close at covering all the income gaps city/state would face if one were authorized local worker.
As someone else pointed out, these nomads are earning in foreign currency that literally translate to 10x-100x in local currencies, they will simply drive the prices up and soon drive them up enough out of reach of the locals simply because nomads can afford inflated prices.
While I agree with your point, I think banning redheads would violate Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Buy a “rare” NFT with clean money. Sell it a few months later for some multiple of the original price, the “buyer” is still you but using dirty money.

NB: I work in fintech but have no particular experience on the fraud / KYC / AML side of things. This is just how I imagine it would work at a high level.
Does the postgresql interface support jsonb?
I think it is called GDPR in Europe

Depending on amounts, small claims in the US might be viable.
I think this goes beyond just HN. Their discord was also buzzing since last night when the tag got updated on the main branch.