skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that in your thoughtful survey of alternatives, you don't consider simply challenging the assumption "and provide updates forever".

Subscriptions do indeed fund perpetual development in a way that one time purchases don't, but the implication that comes along with that is that features are to be added along the way. If you only released maintenance patches, you subscriber satisfaction would dry up really darn fast.

So now we have this model where publishers charge subscriptions so that they can keep their business stable or growing, and subscribers are demanding features be added so that they're getting value for the ever-growing total cost of ownership. And what do you get from that? Feature Bloat.

The subscription model insists that successful products need to continually grow their code base, complexity, and feature set. The idea of stable streamlined applications that do a few jobs really well and otherwise stay out of the way is very hard to sustain in a world of subscriptions.

The alternative -- which was common in the past and remains common among many (not all) game publishers now -- is to temporarily expand your team payroll with talent that produces the product, and then scale it back to warranty the product with necessary maintenance patches while your emphasis turns to growing the market through sales instead of growing the product through features. Later, perhaps, you create another related product or a successor product.

It can and does still work, and it can make for very high quality products that don't become bloated monstrosities. If subscription fatigue is making the news, I'm sure will see a resurgence of this model soon enough.
It's actually more than that. Many apps have a server component and this requires ongoing revenue and support for multiple versions of the app even if the new OS of the device doesn't break that app.
I'm not sure why you're bothering replying to someone who's misgendering someone in their previous comment?
>> I would much rather have 20 apps that I pay $10/mo/ea for than to buy one new $600

Right, and that's a fair preference, as long as we understand that some people have different preferences. I'm in completely opposite camp - I'm paying ridiculous amount of money a month for apps that I use once or twice a year. I am also paying money for apps I use all the time but that I'll lose the moment I stop paying.

I have frequently rejected a $5/month app that I would've happily bought for $30, even if I know I only need it once and can cancel after a month (utility type software usually).
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Most of these are just the equivalent of "in the near future" at the time of eriting which is a bit less interesting in predictions of decades or centuries to come.
This is what we're working on at https://soundmind.co - improving the efficiency of deep sleep by monitoring your brain for slow wave sleep, and using auditory stimulation to increase delta power.

We're about to begin testing with our first users in the next few weeks.

To answer your question about evolution, I speculate...

1) the evolutionary element was likely only adapted to impact mothers, and still impacts mothers more than fathers. But fathers (I believe) are now more involved.

2) for mothers, less sleep may be linked to less memories of the pain of early child rearing, which may make them more likely to have more children.

Lastly, new mothers had a (if I recall correctly) 15% chance of dying during childbirth or shortly thereafter. From an evolutionary standpoint, the mother had mostly done their job, as long as a village was left to raise the young.

The priority for evolution was to get the child through the first year or so with the mother intact. Beyond that, mother nature didn't prioritize the mothers health over their offspring.
It's a fantasy even in US. Witness all the people demanding that e.g. Facebook "respects their First Amendment rights".
This is actually kind of ironic, because Apple's refusal to allow for paid upgrades to pay-once software is actually a major driver of developers switching from pay-once to subscriptions. It's way easier to convince customers to buy a subscription to a piece of software than it is to convince them to buy an _entirely new app_ with a new version number on it, then migrate all their data, re-organize their device so the new version is in the same spot, etc.

Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate the Apple subscription interface, too, but I wish it wasn't the only reasonable way for devs to monetize ongoing work.
I did read the summary from the HRC (the largest LGBTQ lobbying group in the US, btw). I also decided to bypass another summary to read the text of the bill, which explicitly bans social transition by disallowing:

(1) Enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex; or
(2) Treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor's sex and asserted identity.

What am I missing here?

HB1 text: https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bill/SB0001.pdf
> Maybe the AppStores can implement something like version limiting and you can ask for a payment for upgrading to the new version

I can only assume this is a deliberate omission to push people into subscriptions.
>refusal to acknowledge the complexity of obesity

It is never an obese person's fault for stuffing themselves, it's always something else. In this thread it's the big bad pharma corps that don't give away for free diabetes drugs to people that don't have diabetes.

I wish you all the best, when you realize the problem is your lack of willpower maybe you'll lose weight and not gain it back.
Those kind of deals (and trainings) are not offered to everyone. Either the company has such program opened only to the best employees with high potential or an employee comes forward and asks, and again only the best performers may get a 'yes'.

This is a win-win deal with absolutely nothing 'morally wrong'.
It's a cute term for freedom of association, which is a right even more fundamental than freedom of speech.
I have seen Delphi in some very established industries where there was never a concern about it for a very long time (and now there is a lot of nervousness about what to do about it).

Amazingly Embarcadero still sells and markets it!
I recommend a visit to Cuba if you can. Parks are used extensively as a third place there. So I think that this is cultural as much as it is anything to do with parks. Cuba and the US have a lot of differences, of course (maybe you could attribute this to the comparatively much poorer state of housing) but nothing is stopping us from doing this per se.

You may also be surprised how central of a third place are some cafes in southern Europe: in rural Spanish, Greek, Italian villages they’ll often have a contingent of pensioners regulars chatting throughout the day. Again, this could just as well happen in the US - even if you argue car culture or whatever, it could happen in NYC or SF, but doesn’t really.

I think actually, we are culturally averse to third places now. There used to be more in the US (saloons were huge before prohibition). I question the extent to which we “need” it given that we’ve gradually shifted towards not having them. Maybe it’s because those needs are met elsewhere. You could argue things like the workplace (as reimagined by tech companies and startups) or Internet are a third place for example
Even if the standard consolidated on one way or another to pack up secondary exceptions (or discard them) how likely is the calling code going to be able to handle and recover from this case?

I am personally on team crash - I would rather my program exited and restarts in a known state then being in some weird and hard to replicate configuration.
Looking at this your pricing strategy is totally reasonable. Like I’ll try something like that out and if it’s worth it pay just the lifetime cost.

Question: I couldn’t find this with a quick skim of the site on my phone. Do you have an API?
So... don't do that? If it worked before, but it doesn't work in theory, it works.

It might not even be placebo! Perhaps the combination of (well rested) + (optimistic) means you have a good day, and the experiment changes those conditions enough that you get different results. Heck, you might end up having better days more often. You never know if you don't try.
You can use Delphi to build mobile apps, which blows my mind. Must be a Codename One sort of enterprisy cross-platform solution.

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/features/mobile
I bought my son the entire compendium a couple of years back and they'd been edited then. I'm fine with them being edited, tbh.
let's remember that the US helped fund this research too https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-...
The "vast majority" of SAT instances would be something like a SAT instance you would draw uniformly at random from some kind of distribution on all possible circuits. Making this idea rigorous is what k-random SAT is all about.

It turns out that most randomly generated SAT instances in this way will lack certain features that tend to make industrial instances "hard," and in fact there is research on randomly generating random SAT instances which have those features and thus which are more difficult to solve. For instance: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3385651
That's not true. There are a very small number of protected attributes that you cannot discriminate against as an employer. Everything else is fair game.
The big underlying factor is that so many software prices are artificially low because they're subsidized by collecting and making money off of users' personal data.

Unlike with physical goods, users don't know any "objective" ways to judge the fairness of software pricing. So they see (monetarily) free software everywhere and think that good software is cheap to make.

You can view the subscription/purchase debate as a second-order effect of people just not wanting to pay much for software, because they think that's what it's worth.
> Unlike paid upgrades, a subscription guarantees recurring revenue not only for the developer, but for Apple themselves.

Actually, Apple would get more revenue the other way. They only take 15% on subscription revenue after the first year.
I think having young kids in the mid-30s is a modern trend though, humans generally had their first kids in the mid 20s or even younger which would be an easier age to live with less sleep (at least from my personal experience).
Forget the article, AirBnBs actual rules say “Any device monitoring a common space should be installed in a visible manner and disclosed in the listing description.”

So I hidden camera that is technically within frame of normal photos is not installed visibly and certainly not disclosed in the description.
You can do both, HN of all places to find luddites is weird. If there's something my doggo can do while I'm working that just seems great.
> I find the attitude on display here utterly gross and it makes me wonder where this person got it.

It is gross. It's also very ignorant. The author's argument basically boils down to, "I can't see an obvious major downside to this proposal, so that must mean there isn't one nor will there ever be one". How many times to we have to get burned by large companies invading our privacy and after promising not to before we wise up?
no one is going to care if the deaths were "intentional" or negligent.
> Android turns a general-purpose device into a restricted one, without a possibility to run desktop apps.

You should not run desktop apps on a phone, because smartphone have much less power. This is an important design feature. This is why smartphones OS are built differently.

And even then, I don't see how android "restricts" things. It's software. Android does not "restrict". It's an OS.
> Today people become personalities on twitter that end up with a similar cult following.

Do you have any evidence of this? Name one Twitter personality like this who isn't famous outside of Twitter, and who moved from Twitter to Mastodon, bringing their "cult followers".

> Also I mean I'm not here to spin conspiracy theories.

Your whole argument is a conspiracy theory. Occam's razor suggests that people moved from Twitter to Mastodon because of Musk. And indeed, that was the case for me personally. Yet you say no, it's... something else, Twitter "cult" leaders wanting to move their followers out of Twitter to avoid "challenges", and Musk was somehow just an excuse or something.

> Your Mastodon server could be dedicated to die hard star wars fans or it would be liberal tech folk on the west coast who want a smaller space in which to voice their thoughts without the other side of the argument.

This is a misunderstanding of Mastodon. It's distributed. A server is just a server. I personally switched servers because of technical difficulties on my old server. You can follow and communicate with anyone on the fediverse. You're not restricted in any way to activity on one server.
The app store is full of programs that haven't been updated in several years but still attract subscriptions until they get too buggy. Eg most popular ebook readers (eg kybook 3 still costs £15/year).
> The idea that the lab researchers were the initial Typhoid Mary of the pandemic is also simply not believable because it requires one to believe that they lived within a bubble EXCEPT for one trip to the wet market where the outbreak happened.

Except that SARS-CoV-2's epidemiological dynamics are well-known to be overdispersed? Almost all lineages die out, and a few explode due to repeated super-spreader events. It's therefore unlikely that the first cluster will be discovered at the site of introduction. For example, SARS-CoV-2 was presumably first introduced to other continents at airports and seaports; but that's not where the first clusters were found.
And then there's the multiple Substack subscriptions.
Whoa whoa whoa, why are we immediately jumping to solving this problem through legislation / talk of rights?
To think, numerous respected scientists we mocked, ridiculed and canceled when they pointed this out this was likely, years ago.
Relativity Space sets date for first Terran 1 launch
I’m no rustacean, but I agree - for vastly different reasons, though.

A type having similar algebraic properties to a set of assembly instructions isn’t what being close to the metal is about. It isn’t a thought experiment or learning experience - it is the ability to interact directly with lower level parts of the system, including the kernel and the hardware. It’s a great power that comes with great responsibility - a power and responsibility that safe rust will never, ever grant you.

Unsafe rust is essentially the same as C++ in terms of level of control. It allows volatile memory access, for example, and it allows embedding asm blocks. It basically gives you the abilities of C with additional tooling and compile time power, which is why I compare it to C++.

Safe rust would be quite far away from the metal. It provides a safety net that prohibits you from doing anything metal-like. The lower you go, the more “trust me, bro” and “hold my beer” you’ll need to incorporate, and safe rust is designed specifically to void bro-trusting, beer-holding situations. A kernel or a driver written in safe rust will never be possible.

But that’s where my terminology falls apart. Rust isn’t a choice of safe and unsafe, it is and will always be a dance between the two.
You’re missing the entire point and it’s important because it was completely novel at the time and still is really. It has nothing to do with the particular rights that our founders believed to be natural. But the idea that they aren’t granted by a government. That government can only infringe on rights, not grant them and take them away, etc. like kings did forever or even today even in many western countries where the rights are limited.
I killed so many instances of svchost.exe back in the day! Never ran into anything bad that a reboot wouldn't fix. I remember figuring out by trial-and-error which instances were safe to kill by looking at their memory usage.

There was something exciting about stripping Windows XP to its bare essentials, and also it seemed necessary at the time, if you wanted to run it smoothly on an ageing laptop that was basically obsolete when it was new. Especially if you wanted to run such RAM and CPU hogs like The Sims 2! (Not to mention the 40 GiB disk space that just filled up so fast with save games and expansion packs.)

I wonder if Windows 10 still lets you use an alternative to explorer.exe for its desktop shell? I used to write my own little launchers and spotlight-esque programs.
I also hear this as a pretty common complaint of companies in the US (including big tech companies). It feels too generic to explain why things are different for the UK
I recently wanted to use a program for a short amount of time for personal use, but the trial period was only 7 days.

I used strace to find that it kept the timestamp of its first run in a text file, and would read that on startup. Deleting that completely reset the trial period.

I was pretty amazed - I know most people aren't computer savvy to bypass trial periods, but I figured there'd be third-party libraries a developer could use to effortlessly guard against this sort of thing?

(If I ever need it again I will buy it. I just literally needed it a couple of times for something personal and will likely never need it again)
Learn how to cachbust your Cloudflare hosted Blazor app's CSS.
How did you find out they were edited?
The least terrible of the IEC Programmable Logic Controller languages is effectively a pascal.
Picoin magazine for all updates of Pi cryptocurrency
I agree with the government plans, it makes sense, they are here to help us all.
A quick mvp for the Picoin magazine. It is like the Bitcoin magazine but for the Pi Network. This is a mvp to test the idea so far >6k Pioneers love the idea.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34927481
Circular definitions, circular definitions, circular definitions everywhere.
I think it has more to do with the fact that one opinion is supported by more conspiracy nuts. Doesn’t mean it isn’t the right answer, but having lots of crazies insisting it is the only possible answer makes more grounded people less credible in the eyes of others.
> GPT-3 certainly isn't 100% accurate, but neither is it so perfectly unreliable that no one could ever get it to produce a relevant fact not in the prompt.

I think I understand the sense in which you claim it produces relevant facts not in the prompt.

It's not that we differ on easily observable behavior of the system.

It's that I question if GPT-3 is "producing" these identifiable facts, and if the user is "producing" them instead, whether they can possibly be "relevant".
Yes, they are broader projects, although it's too early for a proper announcement. They make sense together, hence why CCTV is under C2SP, but they have different motivations.

C2SP is an experiment in producing specifications applying techniques from software development, including semantic versioning and the concept of a maintainer. It was borne out of displeasure with the pace and output of the IETF's CFRG, which is taking years to publish ready-made documents like ristretto255, and makes complex protocols with lots of sharp edges and moving parts, as well as being generally a pain to engage with.

CCTV is a place to pool test vectors, so we don't have to keep reinventing them for each implementation and we can cross-pollinate our test coverage. It's also a place to drop new vectors to test for newly found edge cases or issues. You can think of it as an open Project Wycheproof.
I don’t understand why very large neural networks can’t model causality in principal.

I also don’t understand the argument that even if NNs can model causality in principal they are unlikely to do so in practice (things I’ve heard: spurious correlations are easier to learn, the learning space is too large to expect causality to be learned from data, etc).

I also don’t understand why people aren’t convinced that LLM can demonstrate causal understanding in setting where they have been used for things like control like decision transformers… like what else is expected here?

Please enlighten me
> 75% of all new infectious diseases come from animals. How many of those do we have start to finish routes from animals to humans? And if we don't have that route, how many of those are we suspecting of being lab leaks?

None, as far as I know. Nor should it be particularly surprising that no animal origin for COVID-19 has yet been found. The animal origin for SARS was only discovered in 2017: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07766-9 The first outbreak was in 2002. We're less than 4 years away from the first known outbreak of COVID-19, so dismissing a wild animal origin at this point is extremely premature at best.
> India is completely balkanizing right now and the rest of the world is ignoring it.

Ok

> The central government is becoming increasingly authoritarian and arresting opposition politicians.

Hmm

> In Punjab the Sikh separatists are beginning to make moves.

AAP government is releasing Amritpal (separatist guy) without any charges, whose supporters attacked Punjab police [1] in yesterday's news. I am not saying AAP was trying to bargain with centre but there is a hint of connection.

> In South India there is also increasing separatist sentiments with many feeling the central government is forcing them to learn Hindi. The same is happening in West Bengal.

I am in the south and nothing much is happening about 'separatism' here. parties are/were/will be anti hindi but it is business as usual. It definitely isn't a BJP stronghold (except, may be, Karnataka) and that is the card regional parties use to get attention.

[1] https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2023/feb/25/punjab-c...
I agree with parent poster in their assumptions. Few posts up @nailer repeats anti-trans talking point that originated from 4chan.
Last year I tried to buy a mahjongg game for my iPad. My requirements:

No subscription
No hoarding my personal data
Updated in the last year or so

I couldn't find a single one. They're all subscriptions, slurping up personal information, or not updated in a very long time so they can continue to fly under the radar and not report what data they're selling about me.

I'd pay $20, maybe $25 for an app the just let me play a simple tile game. But greed rules the app world.
Or for Athletic Greens. :-)
No I genuinely don't like clojure because I just finished my first clojure class, it was also my first functional language and it was online and i am bad at learning online so thats why.
I think the requirement means something else: If a consumer purchases a product, they cannot be charged more than the declared price, e.g. by adding VAT or "handling fees" during checkout. The price must be transparent up-front.

If you download a free app from the App Store that has some obscure in-app purchases or subscription, that's not a problem either, because you didn't purchase anything yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNCF
make sense to me, node/bun/electron are common words but not so common in software, socket is a well known software term.

I still have no idea how the "socket" magic works, need to be convinced, till then I will stay with flutter for now.
Well, when all 17 intelligence agencies agree on something, you know they must be right then.