skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Not really, because I saw too many software companies go out of business because not enough people wound up upgrading to the next major version -- the ownership model of software can be awfully feast-or-famine for developers' income, it's a very tough/risky business model.

If the Monthly Recurring Revenue is a make or break for companies that provide the software, then inversely the Monthly Recurring Expense would also be a make or break factor for customers or business using the service.
Buy once may reduce the overall cost for customers and allow them to invest in upgrades only when their revenue is better.

There has to be balance and empathy for the customer too..
That is a fallacy. There are no better alternatives. HN lives in a bubble where something like Rust is considered "a better alternative" than Ruby on Rails for consumer/SMB/social web application development. It's absurd.

Don't get me wrong, Rust is great for what it's good at. Go is great for what it's good at. There are many languages that are good for what they're actually good at!

Meanwhile, not only am I not surprised that Mastodon was built with Ruby on Rails, I would expect Mastodon to be built with Ruby on Rails. (Or maybe Laravel.) Outside of the HN bubble, this isn't controversial in the least.
https://streamff.com/v/QEoL1wzkAo

Messi was offside on the initial pass to Martinez (which you can't really see in the clip because of the close-up shot) but was back onside by the time Martinez passed it back to Messi (which you do see). So it's a good goal.

They did replay the entire sequence on the US Fox broadcast without the close-up.
That's why I only buy shows/movies on Blu-ray or DVD. I'm not paying a similar price to that and risk having it taken away at some point.

EDIT: And if that isn't a reasonable option, I can probably download a DRM-free version of the movie from some "movie preservationist".
I have found Ctrl-[ to be the best option for a while. I swap Caps Lock and Ctrl since I am most used to Emacs/Readline-style keybindings, and even though I have moved over to Vim-style keybindings for all development I use Ctrl too much for other things to justify swapping Esc and Caps Lock. Ctrl-[ works 99% of the time, and the places it doesn’t work are usually mouse-driven anyway.
HTML over the wire, but feel free to use YAML.

JSX may have solidified the XML markup style in the developer's toolbox though. Especially with server side rendering too.
> "and when the outcome wasn't what he wanted instead of following the majority vote"

Not true, he changed the poll well before its conclusion. Then he abided by the majority vote and unbanned those users. But you're not happy, and need to make stuff up about what he did or didn't do.

His latest poll deciding his own fate reveals the bold transparency approach. People can't handle transparency it seems. Almost like they want things decided behind closed doors that decide the terms they agree to. The world needs more transparency not less.

It will be sad to see him step down, if the poll decides that. It's been highly entertaining. The outrage and temper tantrums sparked in entitled over-sensitive Twitter users and commentators, is quality popcorn material. Must the curtain close?
In 1971 US started printing money for the global economy, which caused people who worked with money to get rich while for people who worked with real stuff nothing really changed. But normal economy people since then needed to compete for everything with money printing economy people who drove up the cost of everything.

It's especially visible when you look at the prices of hard stuff like gold or real estate in dollars. If your income doesn't grow on par of them you are working in the wrong part of the economy.

At this point to understand situation it would be better to express value of dollar in terms of value of gold, to see that it's not gold appreciates but dollar depreciates and along with it average men incomes and savings.
> I find it wild that many “low performance” suburban homes are still largely built using similar ideas as 100+ years ago.

First reaction: the homes are solving the same issue (somewhere to keep people warm safe and dry), so the solutions will look similar.

Second thought: Almost none of the actual technology in a modern home is the same as a hundred years ago, from insulation to ventilation, even down to fundamental structure - balloon framing became platform framing, tongue and groove sheathing became plywood, wood shingles that would need to be scraped and painted every half dozen years became one of a dozen products that'll last a quarter century without maintenance easily. A stick framed house a hundred years ago would be lucky to have crumpled paper in the cavity as insulation. Communications cable, high R-value insulation, air exchange with heat recovery, water and waste plumbing, electrical, multi-layer building envelopes, water-tight foundations, ... the list could go on and on, but a house built today is vastly more efficient and useful than one built a hundred years ago. (If you're looking on the market, most hundred year homes will have had all or most of these features added over the decades, at much higher expense)

> it seems to me that an interlocking LEGO style brick would make things go up so much faster and cheaper…or at least make DIY more possible

If you told me I should make a house out of some sort of brick-style product, all I would see is a hundred joints where water could get in and cause issues. I'm not going to do it unless the product has been on the market and heavily used for decades.
The new rule about whether or not you can mention other social media platforms has since been scrubbed.

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platfo...
Why do you read Hilary’s comments in the best possible light and Trump’s in the worst?

Why the double standard?

Either calling into question our electoral system is ok or not ok.

It’s important we hold all people accountable equally.
I also voted no, as I hope more mistakes lead to a wider adoption of decentralised social media
I am tired of my editor closing my <div> tag when I wanted it to cover 3 other tags, and now I have to move the </div> it generated elsewhere.
How do you figure moving hundreds of passwords + shared passwords (requires other people to also move) from one solution to another is easy.
I suspect it's similar to seasonal affective disorder and similar things. I know I personally have a worse mood if I spend most of my day awake when it's dark out, due to working a night shift or what not.
My EV still works for weekend trips. I've been on several with it without any issues.

I can still park at Home Depot with an EV, they don't crush them on site. Practically every Home Depot trip I've made was doable in any average vehicle. I see plenty of sedans and crossovers in the Home Depot parking lot. If it's something that's going to be a ton of stuff, I can rent their vans and trucks for $20. If I'm buying so much stuff I need an F-250, $20 isn't a significant part of that budget. I don't know why having an ICE is critical to go to Home Depot.

Towing, really depends on what you're needing to tow. Pulling your boat from the nearby storage to the boat ramp? Probably fine with an EV. Pulling a fifth wheel around national parks? Towing horses around? Definitely not an EV job, for sure.

But people aren't towing a fifth wheel with their Camry or their Rogue or their Equinox. The 99th percentile needs of most vehicles on our city highways could be accomplished with an EV without significant challenges, assuming decent charging is available.
It depends on the area. For example a city near me requires 60 feet of road frontage in 90% of the city in order to build a house. Maximum height 30 ft, side setbacks required a total of 15 feet. Front setback required 20 ft. Only 35% of the lot is allowed to be covered by buildings. No ADUs allowed. If the government addressed this problem, there could be a lot more construction.
You can still put windows in airtight homes. They're usually triple paned to insulate well, but nothing is stopping a builder from putting windows in. Most passivhauses do this. ERVs are additional engineering needed for when all the windows in the house are closed, but yes are necessary in those situations. ERVs aren't really that much more expensive than an exhaust that needs to be added in most homes anyway to release ventilation/dryer exhaust/cooking fumes. Only the really, really old homes don't have something like this and many of them have chimneys.
So basically you want to condemn countless women to being forced to living in poverty and raising children in poverty, while letting men off scot-free. Bodily autonomy means absolutely nothing to you, because to you, women's only real role in life is as an incubator. Nice values you have there.
Sure but buying a DVD isn't great either as it has a real destroying the earth cost for something that can be delivered to me using a negligible amount of energy digitally. I don't think there's a way of getting movies/tv shows reasonably in 2022, though I don't mind paying for, and do pay for subscription services such as Netflix, I just pirate the content anyway because it's a much better user experience.

At least it's still mostly possible to buy a set of *.flac files when you want some music.
Love the sentiment here. Whoever is reading this should try disabling all notifications ever.

There really isn’t a need to know when someone messages you or you get news.

Doing this helps you focus more both for work but also for chill time.
source code dot pie
The demo is pretty disappointing in that it hitches whenever you flip the switch. They should have invested a little more in making it seamlessly switch.
Ask HN: Why Did Musk Ban Links to FB, Insta, Mastodon, Post, Nostr and LinkTree?
Looks like the @TwitterSupport tweet and help section announcing this have now been deleted, but I don't even really understand the thinking for the new policy and policy reversal.
First of all this move is enough for me to never subscribe to HBO Max so don't take my defense as positive, just explanatory.

> If that were the case, there'd be no reason to remove it

If the deep parts of the catalog don't generate subscriptions they are a money hole.

Remember you don't want to supply users with everything they want when paying residuals. You want to give them exactly enough content to justify the subscription cost and nothing more.

The ideal user is one that only watches a single show and nothing else.

Of course the problem with this perspective is it assumes users ignore such actions. Hopefully the user base proves them wrong.

> Given that though, HBO might be removing Westworld while residuals are the most expensive and it could come back in a couple of years.

That isn't necessarily true, it could be that by pulling the content the residuals are frozen or even worse (as someone suggested on an article on the topic) reset when you begin streaming again.

> I agree it does feel like HBO is breaking their viewer expectations by removing one of their own originals.

Honestly I would bet a lot of money viewers were ignored for this discussion. It is exactly the kind of "short term profit at all costs" play that has become more popular.
I feel like people who think the "CTRL" key goes on the home row never pressed CTRL+Z, CTRL+X, CTRL+C or CTRL+V in their entire lives.

Makes zero sense ergonomically to put the CTRL key on the home row.

I tried it for about 0.05 seconds and after pressing CTRL+Z one time I knew it was not a good idea for me. pinky finger does not like pressing a key while being on a higher row than another finger also pressing a key. painful.
Their 2021 financial report is literally comical it is so bad for a company that should have been printing money.

I can't stand Musk but my god did he give the shareholders a free lunch. I can't even imagine what the stock price would be right now with no deal.
Offer a "summertime energy required" and a "wintertime energy required" number. That should be obvious enough to most people while not so technical that folks become confused.
> WSLg is limited to Win11 though

WSLg added support for Windows 10 recently. Run `wsl --update` to get the latest version.
That's a cloud vs desktop distinction, not a subscription vs buy once.

If Adobe went out of business, you wouldn't lose any local stuff.
The multi-millionaire founder of MySpace retired before he was 40 (2017)
> He’s saying such a rule from the EU could allow spam from the companies themselves

The word “consumer” in the rule that gatekeeper platforms must not “prevent consumers from linking up to businesses outside their platforms” has a meaning, and that meaning is, in this case, “Elon Musk is wrong”.
Meantime the page of new rules has now been deleted.

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platfo...
Ironic: "This content is unavailable in your country" (EU).

I couldn't even see if I guessed the party affiliation right, with my limited sense of US politics.
WSLg added support for Windows 10 recently. Run `wsl --update` to get the latest version.
Nuclear received significant more subsidies than solar and wind combined even discounting the military sector [1,2]. I still find the thought that somehow nuclear with massive lobbying from corporations behind them is supposed to be sidelined for political reasons, really strange. In particular considering that in the last 50 years in most western countries conservative governments who generally favor business over community interests have been in power about 50% of the time.

[1] https://www.taxpayer.net/energy-natural-resources/nuclear-po...
[2] https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Too_much_money_for...
>No IDs in an election are a culture war issue in US and lefties argue irrationally on the topic.

Do you live in the US?

If not, looks like you're missing the important context that the Republican party makes access to facilities that issue IDs limited.

For most Americans, the primary ID is the driver's license.

And for those that don't drive, it's... non-driver license, also issued by department of motor vehicles.

Which is often not accessible by public transportation.

And whose locations strategically avoid black and poor small towns.

So no, it's not a "culture war", and the arguments are rational once you learn the context of the issue at hand.
Yep, but I can see the day coming when the major studios stop releasing DVDs and Blu-rays altogether to clear a path for their streaming offerings.
And yet Russias sway over them is so loose it cannot even convince them vote against the motion just to abstain from voting.
> the evidence clearly indicates that the MAiD system is resulting in the deaths of the socially marginalised

The enter point of the MAiD system is to result in deaths. I think the intent matters a lot. I don't think it's a cause for alarm if we find some subpopulations that use a medical service more than others. I do think it's alarming if people are scheming to kill poor people.
I don't see #1 happening. There is no way anyone has my personally customized development setup in some VM ready to use. More likely it is going to be one common setup that they want everyone to use.
In Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg9fDOvE80g
As a side note, I've never understood why Windows and macOS updates take so long compared to Linux updates.
Problem: building new homes is impossible due to restrictions and costs imposed by government regulation.

Solution: We need more government regulation!
Trying to interpret trends in garbage data is a fool’s errand, and the store dropped to “normal levels” presumably because it stopped reporting incidents.
According to longstanding HN jurisprudence, this is a "bill proposal", and, because they rarely go anywhere (and, in the odd cases where they do, always present better, more concrete opportunities for curious conversation later on) they're generally deemed off-topic for the site.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
>Analog laserdiscs as a home video format. It was the right basic idea, and boasted some exotic technology under the hood -- but disc-based A/V needed to wait for digital techniques before it really made sense.

I'm not it really needed to; analog laserdiscs were a huge improvement over existing videotapes, at least for distribution of movies (not for recording obviously). The main problem was the price: they were expensive as hell. Not sure if that was due to technical limitations, or the players pricing it high because it was a "premium" format and they priced themselves into irrelevance and obscurity. I've seen this with many other technologies over the years: someone introduces something really cool, but it's so damn expensive no one buys it, so it goes nowhere, and eventually some cheaper alternative comes along and becomes the new standard.
IMHO it feels like the subscription model in many cases (not all of them) protects a developer from having to innovate and deliver other products. In the real world you shouldn't expect to get unlimited income from one type of product regardless of Whether or not you are maintaining it. There is a saturation point.
> Controlled toolchain–pre-curated secure environment

I'm a hacker dammit. I'm supposed to be dangerous if you let me within whistling distance of a payphone.

The idea of slowly becoming useless without an internet connection and access to my devpod makes my skin crawl.
Yes, there is a bug with image uploads. Work in progress!!

What is your username so I can check the logs?
"Leave, but if you tell anyone where you've gone, you'll be kicked out."
Has anyone noticed numpy running slower on Windows vs. Linux given the same hardware? I would have expected similar performance, but it seems like on my setup the same python runs about 20-30% faster on linux, all other things being equal.
>This could point to either mental health issues or drug usage or some other factor.

My money's on inclusive or.
> That one-quarter of Medicare spending in the United States occurs in the last year of life is commonly interpreted as waste.

This is the issue this paragraph is dedicated to refuting. But this thread is not about this issue. So it’s largely just an irrelevant passage. However;

> Here we analyze how spending is distributed by predicted mortality, based on a machine-learning model of annual mortality risk built using Medicare claims. Death is highly unpredictable. Less than 5% of spending is accounted for by individuals with predicted mortality above 50%.

This quote is dumb. As a data scientist I give it an F. Less than 5% of spending is accounted for by individuals with predicted mortality above 50%? Ok but what proportion of individuals is that? Is it 10% in which case they’re underrepresented? 5% in which case they’re average? Or .1% in which case they’re pulling in 50x their share? If we pull the criteria down to 40% what happens? What share of people who died are above 50% in the model? It’s a quote that is basically impossible to make use of on its face but is being used to push a very specific narrative.
Nor was it all that accessible or useful for research before then: https://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/library-of-congress-t...
P-22 is thought to be the only mountain lion to have ever tasted a Koala.

P-22 jumped a pretty high fence at a LA zoo & left with an entire koala in its mouth.

https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-cougar-koala-...

The zoo spokesperson did not blame the mountain lion for doing predatory mountain lion things.
To say this in more detail, it’s observed that any number with digits adding up to multiples of 3 is divisible by 3

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/341202/how-to-prove...
for american context that's around $4.54/gallon at current exchange rate
Straight talk about epigenetics
>perception of foreign countries as dangerous

Foreign countries are dangerous, compared to Japan. You can see it in all the national crime rates. Only a few places are as safe, such as Singapore, and some rich micronations in Europe.
"The pace of growth accelerated further in January 2007 when U.S. citizens traveling by air between the U.S. and Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Bermuda were required to have a valid passport. Previously, it was possible for them to enter those countries without one"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/01/11/the-sh...
Sounds good. Shame it'll likely never happen though, at least in the near future. It's a terribly abusive industry where women routinely get raped and abused. Pornhub for example is basically a huge cache of crime scene evidence.
To get attention. It makes sure that he gets a story in Bloomberg Businessweek next week.
California does a fine job killing railway projects all by itself. It doesn't need Elon Musk.
that's like, just your opinion, man.

Please compare to every other World Cup final now. Even the ones before you were born. List them all here.

OR : we can just agree that it was a great game.
Sorry for the reply to my own reply here but I'm genuinely incredibly curious for someone to explain to me why updates are necessary. It really seems like a cargo cult thing to me but I'm not the smartest person and if someone can explain to me where I'm doing my threat model/attack surface analysis incorrectly I'd love to learn.
I feel that the “support / updates” subscription model allows a constant stream of income for devs while still allowing one to “own” a given version. There are things like Bitwig (DAW) that sell the initial product for $300ish and that comes with 12 months of updates and priority support. You get to “keep” the latest version that falls within that update window (and IIRC that means major versions, so you get any future point releases / security updates). If you want to renew, it’s something around $120-160 for another 12 months of updates. This seems more or less fair to me; active users who continue to benefit from updates contribute to development, and people who just need it for a while plus occasional users not getting that much value out of it get to use that again in the future if they need, without “losing” anything unlike with traditional subscriptions.
fwiw I have never met a native English speaker who says "num-pee". Although -py = "pee" for most English words, this random made-up proper noun is yet again another weird English exception...
Note that this is from 2017.
Hm, the remote controlled bombs angle is one I hadn't clued in to yet. The ICBM one was clear. For both you'd hope that if he tried anything like that his employees would perform a citizens arrest and hand him over to DHS.
I enjoy the humour in this. Well done.
Controversial leader, a vote that isn’t anonymous, and the Twitter privacy policy (https://twitter.com/en/privacy) doesn’t mention the word “vote”.

I don’t think this is the way to gauge public opinion.