skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Monthly subscriptions should be reserved solely for software that is adding new content extremely frequently e.g music, movies, games etc. Not for regular software. For regular software you should be able to buy a license that gives you one to three years of updates and then you have to upgrade to the next major version if you deem it worthy of the money. It’s essentially still a subscription but on a longer time frame.

People worry about growth but more people are being born every second who will eventually grow up to need software. And you don’t even have to wait that long because there’s still a lot of adults without computers who will eventually need software in the future when they become connected. The people crying about subscriptions being the only viable model are the people looking to get rich quick and are probably backed by some VC company that’s hounding them to increase users and profits. If your software is good, you’re in no rush to buy a yacht, and you have confidence that you’re still going to be around in 10 years time then you don’t need to mess about with subscriptions because you know you’re going to have revenue either through people recommending your product to others or reinvesting at each major version update.

I try to avoid subscriptions wherever possible, and will always purchase yearly if it’s an option. But I get that monthly allows people who can’t afford the up front cost to join in too. I really don’t think it’s the way to go though.

My only software subscriptions currently:

- Feedbin (yearly)

- Duolingo (yearly)

- Amazon (yearly)

- Zwift (monthly)

- Netflix (monthly)
are you talking about photocopy machines, or something fancier like "to your SD card" or something really fancy like "turns the pages for you"?
Cough Uber cough Airbnb.
I've also found that a custom-written generator is surprisingly productive. My own attempt is at https://github.com/muxup/muxup-site/blob/main/build.py and I wrote up a few notes on it here https://muxup.com/2022q3/muxup-implementation-notes#site-gen....
And so is mine.

But to be fair, history will probably side with you. AI's going to eat the world regardless of what anyone says. I wish there was an ethical way to use it, but there isn't.
If you find this interesting, read "The Devil's Chessboard" by David Talbot. Nixon was highly indebted to the Dulles brothers, and they carried out many operations like this at home and abroad (including against their own-- see Frank Olson). They also looked the other way (if not helped facilitate) such plots that were carried out by foreign governments they were working with (see Jesús Galíndez case). But let's not pretend this is only something that happened in the past, and would only happen in "Putin's Russia" today as this article's annoying preamble suggests.
They have the same downsides you identified for plants.
I you want to try Alfred anyway, it has this multi clipboard functionality included.
Yeah but even if it's not a causal relationship it's incredibly suggestive. It mirrors my own personal experience and what I've seen in others. I'm pretty much a bleeding heart liberal now but I used to be super conservative to the point where my friends had to sit me down and have an intervention. It matches exactly with the time in my life when I was in constant stress, horrible mental health, even worse physical health. It really was, "I'm incredibly lonely and isolated, people suck and treat me like shit, I hate myself, and I have no support why should anyone else get it?" Like damn, I never connected the dots.

It took so long to turn my life around that I never even noticed the shift. It's so obvious in hindsight jesus.
There are two things under development.

In the short term there are derivatives of the pressurized water reactor that integrate the steam generator (heat exchanger) with the reactor vessel, NuScale's reactor is moving along in the US but there is a Chinese reactor that is currently under construction

https://nucleus.iaea.org/sites/INPRO/df13/Presentations/011_...

That kind of reactor is small in terms of size and power output. It might get some advantages in reliability of construction which could help manage costs but the reason reactors got so big to begin with is there is strong reason to believe larger reactors have an economy of scale. (To be fair, GE has lately been talking about a SMR version of the boiling water reactor which may not be too different but the BWR has the stigma of having secondary protective systems such as the isolation condenser fail in the Fukushima accident.)

The second line of development involves "Generation 4" reactors that operate at higher temperatures than the PWR at a much higher power density. If a number of challenging problems can be solved and such a reactor be coupled to a gas turbine powerset or another consumer of high temperature heat, that kind of system really could have radically lower costs than current nuclear plants. Such a reactor would be much smaller than current reactors at the same power level and smaller still if scaled down. There's a lot more technology development required to realize that, however.
Firstly, it's tough to avoid subscriptions on platforms like web and iOS because it's awkward to distribute a v1, then 2 years later a v2 as a new purchase, the way desktop software used to work. On web, you'd have to run multiple versions server-side which is tricky, on mobile you'd have to release a separate app which is not what the App Store UX is designed for at all.

As a consumer, of course I have "subscription fatigue" and some apps when I get a $20 monthly charge I question whether I really need it.

As an entrepreneur, it's all just customer lifetime value , there's a lot of factors to whether subscription or lifetime makes more sense. Recurring revenue is easier to build a business upon but given people have subscription fatigue, there's a lot of merit to looking for ways to sell one-off, despite the aforementioned challenges.

With all this said, my biggest theory is that we _think_ people have subscription fatigue, but it's an illusion. What's really happening is that web software was VC subsidized for a long time, both directly (with sites like Facebook having no ads their first decade of existence), and indirectly (with many startups forgoing monetization favoring growth following companies like Facebook's lead). So people got anchored to web software being free/cheap for a long time.

When most people say "I hate subscriptions, I don't want to pay $20/month, just sell me the one-off software!" So as a business owner you say, ok, then give me $200 for lifetime, and they say "$200 for an app, that's crazy! I want to pay $20 lifetime". This debate looks like it's about subscription when really it's a debate about price. And consumers have been psychologically anchored to apps being very cheap for a long time - nobody would bat an eye at a $14.99 book on Amazon but that's considered a hefty price tag for an app that might have taken a fair bit of design and development (in-demand skills).

Last but certainly not least, most software is internet enabled these days. Not all of it, but a lot of it. It's risky as a business owner to offer a lifetime purchase for something that will have ongoing server costs. This is doubly true if there's an AI component that might involve expensive GPUs.

As far as it being "counter-intuitive" to hike prices, the cheap money is gone, and businesses are realizing it's better to make a small number of paying customers happy then a large number of non-paying customers happy.

If you're looking at this purely from a consumer perspective, you're sick of managing subscriptions, you're sick of getting billed for something you didn't use much, etc of course I relate. But if you put yourself in the shoes of software businesses, if people are going to complain and moan about paying $10 a month for an app because they think the most they should pay you is $20 their whole lives, you just can't build a sustainable business around those types of customers, when you have expensive design, development, marketing, and server costs.
For me it's based on a pretty simple feedback-loops model. The length of the feedback loops limits all sorts of important things, especially external responsiveness, adaptation, learning, and error correction. Collaboration requires co-laboring.

There are circumstances where collaboration isn't particularly necessary, of course, so maybe that's what you're looking for.

I agree of course that there are plenty of ways to have bad collaboration even with short feedback loops, as in your last example. It's not a panacea. Nothing is.
To reinstall Win95 in late 90´s was a chance. You had an hour or two then the worms ended it. Fun times. :)
In the case of humans, language is just a way to express knowledge. In ChatGPT its the other way around - the focus is the correctness of the word chain.

It happens to get some things right because other people have chained similar sentences together in expressing that knowledge.

Even if it’s “lying” to you as long as the sentence is correct and the paragraph reads nicely, it’s done the job it was designed to do.
Anecdote regarding #2:

When I was a little boy and just joined another back office unit, my first assignment from boss was to create a spreadsheet, that basically served as a log of performed work. The boss went out of his way to tell me to hide anything that would give other employees an idea of what is being tracked ( in that case, average cases resolved ). I did with objections that it is not a great metric to begin with and that people are not idiots. I was overruled, but we didn't have to wait long for results. People starting skipping 'hard cases' to up their averages and grabbing 'easy cases'( cuz you know.. during one on ones boss discussed averages without officially disclosing it ). People are not idiots and they quickly figure our what is being rewarded ( or at least not punished ).

It was my first time learning that boss can make stupid decisions too.
>To use Take It Down, anyone—minors, parents, concerned parties, or adults concerned about their own underage images being posted online—can anonymously access the platform on NCMEC’s site. Take It Down will then generate a hash that represents images or videos reported by users as sexualizing minors, including images with nudity, partial nudity, or sexualized poses. From there, any online platform that has partnered with the initiative will automatically block uploads or remove content matching that hash.

This sounds impressive if you don't know how file hashing works. If a malicious actor wants to get around this, all they would have to do is change a single pixel and/or re-export as a different format.
As a user/purchaser I hate subscription models.

The only exception is when there really is distinctive ongoing value being delivered (eg. VPN provider). But my bar for what constitutes 'ongoing value' is high.

I don't agree that it aligns incentives between me and the developer. I've found many of the subscription services I've signed up for tend to substantially degenerate in quality after a few years, as they start chasing a perceived larger market share by bloating with features I don't want and would be happy to pay more NOT to have (looking at you, Dropbox).

By contrast, I'm still using lots of software I initially purchased decades ago (tools like Hard Disk Sentinel and Beyond Compare are great examples).

I consider bugs to be manufacturing defects, for which fixes should be free (generally, minor version upgrades). Many parts of the world even have 'fit for stated purpose' laws to that end. If a car manufacturer sells you a lemon, they have some responsibility to fix the faulty parts (eg. recalls).

When the developer adds new features I'm interested in, I'm happy to pay for them (traditionally, major version upgrades). I prefer having the opportunity to make my own decision about whether the new features are worth it, and keep using the old one if not.

I own a ton of useful software, and I'd be broke if I had to pay for all of it on an ongoing basis.

In a world where all software is subscription, we'd all be using the same handful of suites from the top vendors. Better for a rich and diverse ecosystem.
Don't give Russians ideas.
> I don't think anything forces you to keep it after

Many watchOS apps and features require an iPhone in order to be set up. For example: Oceanic+, Waterlamma, Overcast, various Apple Health features, or Sleep Cycle. That's a pretty wide variety from my own experience so I suspect it's quite common.

Until that stops being a thing, we'll need iOS to maintain our watches. In some cases it sort of makes sense because you're using apps that function sort of like a sidecar to iOS apps, not a standalone app. There are several where this isn't the case at all though, and it feels a lot like unnecessary tethering which limits our ability to use an otherwise very capable device on its own.

I think we'll get there; other manufacturers won't have the same incentive to keep watch apps tethered to phones, and I suspect that freedom will become increasingly appealing to Apple Watch users. I could be wrong, but I imagine eventually that limitation will seem too ridiculous to consumers. I don't expect to happen for quite a while still, though.
Fairly long-term .de resident. Just try crossing the road against the red man......"rules are rules", to the nth degree.

And, I agree of course, the rich have a better system.
This is a response to a different comment of yours that was flagged (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34962126), I can't respond to it, and normally I'd just drop it but I wanted to offer you this in case it was helpful:

I think maybe you're not communicating as clearly as you imagine? Your statements don't feel connected to me, I don't understand why you feel some of the things you're talking about are related. Maybe you're better at communicating in person than you are over text? Maybe thinking we're all being dumb is a hindrance to you seeing what you might do differently to explain yourself better? Maybe we just disagree with you and that doesn't mean anything is wrong with us or with you, but that we simply don't see eye to eye?
UK is not a part of the EU so it wouldn’t have to mesh at all unless I’m missing something?
Of course. It was meant for argument, not as an omnibus to comprehensively testing PDFs. :)
Right way of implementing Design Patterns in Spring Boot. Stars are appreciated
I have been interviewing candidates at my company for a while, where we have been asking (experienced) candidates to provide a code-based solution. The idea is to check the code quality.

The candidates, experienced with Java and Spring, end up providing a number of if/else conditions (best they do is a switch case) to switch between strategies. I felt many aren't aware of Spring Dependency Resolver.

So I have created a sample implementation, which I believe is not redundant, that explains how to use implement Strategy and Factory patterns in Spring boot, that will allow you to just provide a new implementation and Spring will do rest of the magic.

Feel free to share any feedback, I just want to make things easier and better for fellow engineers
> You’ve been imagining I have an interest in punishment the entire time…

You don't have in interest in punishing the MAGA crowd? You're claiming that they are supporters of the SS.

Sorry I don't believe you - if somebody - be it the MAGA crowd, or "white people" in general were as reprehensible as you claim to believe, then punishment would be the only suitable response.

Be honest. You wish these people ill, and if they receive racially discrimitary treatment - then so be it.

Ok... but don't then turn around and claim to oppose racism, because you clearly don't.

"There are no bad tactics, only bad targets" -- Moviebob
Working on low level performance sensitive code in games, this is something I see in code LOTS.

As mentioned in the article, data oriented design runs into the pattern of wanting to iterate over parallel arrays of data frequently.
I agree that iterm2 password manager is great (i use it too).

I just wanted to mention the sudo-fingerprint feature for the local machine in case someone did not know.
Some of us like to have a bit of open lawn for outdoor activities that need some space. I've still got dozens of trees, shrubs, wildflowers and such, but there's an area of just grass that is really nice to have. I can't remember the last time I saw a lawn around here that didn't have a boatload of additional plants as well.

I assume this must happen in other parts of the country/world, or it's a meme.

If you want to go completely wild with your own back yard, I understand, but I don't see the appeal of that either.
Why would learning a historical fact force anyone to ignore a current fact? The logic does not compute
It kind of depends on what your app is/does. It would be kind of hypocritical that we all settled on the same form factors for mobile devices, but we want the apps that we use on them to all be radically different looking or "artistic".

Most modern UI kits look and feel the same because we have figured out what works and what doesn't.

"why bother having a time of designers" -- on an individual basic application level, definitely. Just get a reasonable UI kit and save the money.
Indeed, this is only really useful if the cameras aren't actively being monitored. If you're the odd one out wearing this at a protest, you might be specifically targeted.
> The thing is, as a person of color, the onus isn't on me to convert your racist grandparent or uncle from being a racist piece of shit. Fuck them. That puts me in the subordinate position of having to placate a white supremacist and that, in of itself, is fucking white supremacy. Fuck. That.
Mr President, we must not allow a grow light gap!
Information density.

One thing I really dislike over the last 10+ years the web has brought is a huge reduction in information density.

W3C old site was great at being dense on content/info. This site is not.
Yeah, the initial price is pegged to CPI inflation as well. So everyone is paying the same amount, I’ve grandfathered in a few old customers on sweetheart deals, it’s a lower cost substitutable good so my market is at the low end and sometimes they really don’t have much money. It’s an ignored segment and we’ll work our way up the value chain to the high end eventually. It’s a slow but steady process.
Probably easier to pirate her competition and upload them to piratebay
Only semi related, but can someone explain to me how the hashing process works?

Of course I get the process of hashing passwords and such, but how do you hash a photo so that the hash isn’t invalidated as soon as I convert it to a different format or trim a single pixel off of it or add a scrolling banner that “this video was uploaded to…”?
I mean that's what regular hoodies are to me already. It makes you look like you're going to rob a petrol station for meth money with a screw driver.
until you get put on a list and you get SSSSed every time you fly
I've had some trouble getting bitwig running properly, and some graphics quirks with i3wm. Still happy with my setup overall though.
It is honestly just a terrible idea - you are essentially placing a target on yourself, no matter how you use it. Simply scanning a crowd of people with a camera, you are identifying people protesting from other civilians, in real-time and no cost. If you watched a crowd from above, over time you could find all sorts of patterns. In some countries, that could mean your whole family disappears.

The only groups I see benefitting from this are the agents of oppressive regimes, and the meth heads breaking into your storage shed at night and stealing your bike.
No, you’re right. I misspoke on that. I’ll edit my post.
Significantly less bright.
How does this fit in with upcoming EU data sovereignty laws?
https://www.mediaatelier.com/CheatSheet/?lang=en
Yeah, fair enough.. I don't want to get into a big flame war here, but you should look up the concept of the "motte and bailey" fallacy or "moving the goalpost"

You pop into a conversation about private industry vs government and insist that government organizations have often been much better historically, but they're underfunded now so they're all suffering. Then someone points out that one of your examples is grossly terrible and has always been terrible, and you retreat back to a nearly-meaningless interpretation of your argument: "Oh, I wasn't saying we should actually have the government run things, I just wanted to say that possibly there have been good government bureaus at some point in the past! If you very carefully cherry-pick just the right instant in time and space!"

To that, all I can say is ".. OK"

I don't think you set out to be a troll or anything, and the post office is a pretty good example of exactly what you're trying to say. But you're getting really combative and watering down your core argument that "The Government CAN get things done and has in the past" by attacking people in defense of the nearly-universally-hated VA
Fallen trees killing people is not unheard of.
Also check out:

https://petapixel.com/2016/07/01/anti-paparazzi-scarf-makes-...

https://adam.harvey.studio/cvdazzle/
Is there something like this that does not require you to give them all your data for free?
you set a maximum on period so that doesn't happen. if you develop something with a known pattern, that can be programed in to be countered. hence my example of Macrovision. randomizing the values means it is much harder to counter.
LOw-Rank Adaptation

It's a way to cut just the components/styles/themes/patterns out from a model and apply them into other models.

So if I have a Disney characters checkpoint, but I really like this MakeGiantEyes checkpoint, if I can get it down to a MakeGiantEyes LoRA, I can apply that on top of my Disney Characters model which is already a custom trained set. It definitely does not always work, but when it does it's like magic. At a practical level, it's a model-modifier.

For example... Here is a Peter Griffin LoRA.
https://civitai.com/models/13606/peter-griffin-lora
or
https://civitai.com/models/13763/thomas-the-train-i-lora

... It took me a minute to get those because I had to sort through a LOT things that would probably get me banned here. If anyone wanted to know nationalities were using SD more... It's Asians, hands down, all day long, and I think that's interesting.

EDIT: And if you were wondering what a Textual Inversion is vs a LoRA... Don't ask me! They're both model modifiers, but as I understand it, textual inversions are good for faces (which is why most of those are people, and they are kilobytes in size), and LoRAs aren't as good for faces specifically but better for themes.

TI exmaples (I couldn't use any of the million women... there are almost none that would be appropriate to post. Even though civitai does a good job of removing the nsfw posts of real people even with cloths on some are just still too much... Thirst is driving AI now)
https://civitai.com/models/11039/ian-mckellen
or
https://civitai.com/models/8060/seu-madruga
I disagree, I think a degree of homogenization is good for information heavy websites, like government ones [1][2][3] and sites geared towards documentation. Consistency here is good because it makes things familiar and therefore means people spend less time trying to figure things out/find what they're looking for. Creativity isn't necessarily the point with sites like these. Now if you're marketing a product or showcasing something on the creative side, that's a different situation entirely and in that case I agree with you. The Bootstrap wave 10 years ago was indeed excessive.

[1] https://18f.gsa.gov/

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/project-gigabit-...

[3] https://www.healthcare.gov/
Many of them are - because the land is long paid off (often been in the family for 100+ years). If you have to make payments (other than taxes) then you need a lot more land to extract a living wage.