skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This all makes sense to me, and I partially agree.

However, people whose whole job revolves around "you must provide evidence of something that gets published in a journal, on a regular basis, even if it is never of enough interest for anyone else to try to replicate it", with an extra helping of "if it's confirming people's biases enough to get you speaking gigs or a best-selling book, you get a pay raise", then you might over time start to attract a slightly different crowd.
> I never had problem paying a company for patches

But you had to decide to pay. Many did not. Those are transaction costs. As is downloading and installing software, something software running on a server and delivered through a browser doesn't require. Those ongoing costs must be paid for with ads or subscription revenue.

> Software had to be made right the first time when released on CD

But it never was. Particularly in a networked world. Perfect is the enemy of good.

SaaS isn't a fit for all products. Some software can be written once and never updated. Most cannot, and for that, SaaS is a better business model fit.
From the 2000s onwards (given my age) I remember permanent licenced software being very expensive and out of reach: Photoshop, Visual Studio, Macromedia Flash, Visual Basic.

> ``You're going to see an economic model where software companies become giant incubators for good ideas,'' he says, likening it to the record business, which takes the creative product of an artist and markets it.

I feel the big tech companies should be expanding into many markets by their sheer programming prowess and complexity budgets/capacity. They should try run the cost of complexity to zero and make complexity a commodity.

Maybe I'm in a bubble but I don't see much new desktop software.

I feel it is difficult to get people in the world to pay for digital things. £10 for an iOS APP???

What software am I actually willing to pay for? Probably software that earns me something. I bought Sublime Text a long time ago but nowadays I just use notepad++ or IntelliJ or VS Code rarely. I bought Typora, a markdown editor because I write a lot of markdown.

The same problem also applies to the web. What websites would you pay for?

Would you pay $3 for a HN subscription? What about digital magazines? Are there any newspapers that are actually worth it, that enhance your life?

EDIT: it just occurred to me that the web IS a digital magazine. But I meant publications.

I feel if you want something to stay around then the market has to support its costs at a bare minimum. If you only charge lifetime licences/permanent licences traditional software then the software has a lifespan because the company can only support it while their costs are covered. SaaS is the outcome of web technology, browser technology and business needs.

I just don't like the duplication of effort, every SaaS has to implement authorisation and authentication, backup, security measures, billing, subscriptions, user management, account management, an Android app, an iOS app, dashboards and maybe a desktop client. It's such a waste of effort.

What about a SaaS dashboard SaaS, where all your SaaS are mangaed from one place?

Edit: Saas As Code?
For those who weren't alive at the time it's probably hard to understand what an inflection point Windows 95 was.

Both in terms of the number of homes with computers in them and what those computers were able to do things skyrocketed.

The software business went from primarily being targeted at businesses, schools, and hobbyists to being targeted at mainstream consumers in a once ever opportunity to establish a brand name with people who have literally never purchased anything in this class before.

It was the most dramatic shift certainly that I've seen in my life with the adoption of the internet being second and the adoption of mobile phones being third.

It's been more than a decade since we've seen anything like those shifts. The 2010s feel a lot like the 1980s to me. Lots of progress, lots of it incremental, but no inflection point. I do wonder if AI will be the next big paradigm shift like Windows 95, the internet, and the iPhone.
> There's a cost to society to carrying over such a technological deadweight loss and these people are free riders.

The same capitalistic analysis can be said for fetuses, infants, and children up to working age.

Is your proposal for infanticide the same as your gerontocide?
I get that the subsidies themselves aren't going anywhere, but in evaluating the cost effectiveness of this alternative it should be part of the math in comparing to the previous version.
Will preserved old rice tastes better than freshly harvested rice. Old rice is normally sold at a premium and preservation is much more simple.
Sorry but have you looked at the pictures? There is zero risk to what he is doing. Its not just "me" its common sense that its not a risk. There is zero hazard here.
not to mention coal kills more people via radiation yearly then have died from those 2 reactor accidents
My banking apps ask only for my fingerprint, or a short PIN if biometrics are not available. You could call that “logging in”, but it’s certainly not as serious of a log-in as you would have on the web (with a username and a password, and if the computer is unrecognized, authentication on the phone).
I do, often. I keep my new tab page in all browsers blank for speed and minimal distraction, regularly hide all background apps (cmd-opt-H on Mac), close windows I'm not going to use for a while (especially anything that could have unsaved state), and use the set of items on my desktop as shortcuts into my key workflows.
A lot of omega-3 in supplements comes from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menhaden
I introduced Redmine at my last job and it was great. I heard one dev say 'we would never have launched without it'.

My biggest memory of Redmine is that EVERY time I thought, 'I wish it could do x', I clicked around and found it could.

I installed it in 1 click from an Azure template too.
> ...WHAT DID YOU DO TO FIX IT?

I think the general assumption when the reply lacks specificity is that it’s something embarrassingly routine like “I checked to make sure that the device was plugged in” or some variant thereof.

It’s not a 100% safe assumption, but I think this is the answer more often than not.
I finished my Ph.D. in 1991 and thought I wanted to be a professor. I applied to a few dozen openings, but it was the middle of a recession [1] and there were hundreds of people applying for single openings. I was not a standout candidate so I never stood a chance.

In retrospect, having now learned more about the realities of academic life, this is probably one of the best things that ever happened to me. I think I would have been as miserable as a professor as I was as a grad student. The idea that tenure == freedom turns out to be a Big Lie. There is no more freedom in academia than there is anywhere else in the world. The life of a professor is, first and foremost, a never-ending Sisyphean treadmill of writing grant proposals. At the end of the day, it's all about the money.

Of course you can get yourself into a nice comfortable niche where you are The Man and all your proposals are greenlit by default, but you can do that outside of academia too by finding a patron or a big enough group of fans, but then you are beholden to them. The only real freedom is having money of your own, and even that comes with strings attached because then you have to manage the money and deal with people asking you to write checks.

Always be careful what you wish for. The hardest part of getting what you want is figuring out what it is.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_1990s_recession_in_the_U...
I've been 100% ChromeOS for ten years.

All my dev work, personal, and internet while I work. KVM to swap. External screens.

Strict separation of work and life. No key logging like the work system. No fillers.
LLVM as a project might be old, but to make its way to university's curriculum takes years or decades.

So I guess you are avoiding answering my question: can you give an example of university's curriculum, when they make students work on both FPGA and LLVM? Because that's what you were suggesting in your statement.
Yes, this is absolutely the point.

Note that all of this is deeply problematic, EVEN IF the truth is that the virus was a normally evolved bat coronavirus that got to Wuhan through some method that did not involve a lab in any way. The dichotomy between what they were saying in public, and what they were saying to each other in private, severely undercuts the idea that they are who the public should be trusting for advice on this topic.
Yeah that's a good point, I definitely that automatically generated passwords should be limited to alnum, using symbols is asking for trouble.
Ye. On my phone I used some half-bad text editor, Acode, to view a patch I meeded to review on the fly. It shows ads and does an ad popup when you try to exit.

Like, Google does not let you search their app store and filter by cost or spyware. It is hopeless to find some good utility tool without knowing its exact name.

A simple text-editor should be free. I don't want to give some dev reccuring revenue to unlock Notepad level features.
Sometimes it's hard to calibrate and compare expectations about something far in the future.

There's kind of a "haha, we're screwed" undertone to a lot of things. How is a young person really supposed to know which ones are really horrible dead ends and which ones are actually workable if you care?

Is a singing career or a professor more of a dead end? English PhD or history PhD? Lawyer or video game programmer?

Those all have different chances for success, different time horizons, and different off-ramps when they don't work out.

Tracks that allow you to have some kind of job earlier, even an unskilled/unrelated one, at least allow you to potentially collect some savings or maybe even start a family. It grounds you in reality somewhat so you can compare your life against the world around you rather than only seeing your peers struggling with you.
Anyone more knowledgeable know why they can't file for a single patient IND, assuming the vaccine is even acquirable?
"aside from being open-source"... That's a huge difference and the main difference that many care about.
Sounds super useful for tracing curves onto a material you need to cut.

Is there still lead in it? Any health issues? Is that why I can't find them in North America?

EDIT: I do find hits for Flexible Curve Ruler on Amazon but several reviews complain they don't hold their shape well. Are they made of a substitute that doesn't perform as well as lead?
So what if you're one of the 170 people who are easy to reject immediately? Are you a candidate who has a "lot of choice"? It would seem not.
There seems to be a growing sentiment that FDA delenda est, but if we don't fix the underlying problem that led to this situation, it will just come back.

As the author says, no one ever blames the FDA for the people it failed to save. But approve something without the certainty that it isn't potentially going to kill someone, and there will be hell to your doorstep.

Even if you want the experimental treatment, you cannot get it. Killing someone in an attempt to help is deeply unethical, while merely letting them die is not your fault. This is sometimes also known as the Copenhagen interpretation of Ethics.
My understanding of the post was the the author means that from the point of view of “authenticate this user”, the TOTP _key/seed_ is quite similar to a password, which I would agree with.
Especially if you’re storing both in your password manager like the OP.
I get that the FDA is bad but how come there is no country anywhere on earth where these treatments are legal and available?
> but does that mean xenoarchaeology

My favorite "crazy theory" is that the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) was caused by a previous industrial civilization that, like us, found a bunch of easy to access hydrocarbons, naively dug them up and reached the same climate change problem that we did, ultimately wiping them out.

Of course there is 0 evidence for this at all, but it was also more than 50 million years ago. If you look into it basically nothing about an advanced industrial civilization would likely survive to make it into the geological record for us to observe. The only reason to even entertain this hypothesis is that the PETM also experience a very rapid increase in atmospheric CO2 and we aren't entirely sure why.

Unfortunately this means that there's probably not much chance for a rich field of xenoarchaeology to exist since it's not even possible to do this on our own planet.

What is an interesting thought experiment is: Suppose we realized we as a civilization were doomed and wanted to sent a message to future industrial civilization on Earth warning them about being too aggressive with hydrocarbon usage. To my knowledge there is no known method to ensure a message could be sent that far in the future, but it's fun to try to think of ways we could send a message to a future, essentially, alien civilization here on Earth.
> The only function nuclear has is to keep the profits flowing for the same companies that have been running all coal plants.

Mission fucking accomplished. If nuclear simply isn't profitable they'll have to shift to solar+wind+battery eventually.
My workflow is always closing everything when I’m done with one segment of work (a bug is fixed, a commit polished, an email replied, the day has come to an end, etc.), and take a big stretch after getting out of the chair.

So, I see my wallpaper quite a bit; though I don’t notice it much any more.
The die hard masking advocate is your example? Wow
40-mile commute? That's cute. Some people have to travel 60-80 miles to work both ways. My parent's nearest grocery store is 30+ miles away. The cheapest new electric car is $35k+ the newest gas vehicle is $12k. That doesn't even mention that there are no hard numbers on longevity of electric vehicles, people in rural areas have vehicles that are 20-30 years old. An electric car lasting that long doesn't exist because they haven't been around that long, and you'd have to drop thousands for battery replacement in that lifespan. I would love an all-electric, or at least a clean alternative, future, but it's just not feasible for some people. HN is so disconnected sometimes, clearly have only ever lived in cities and are used to relative wealth.
https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/
I work at a small-to-medium sized ISP, and we use pure Redmine since 2018 for documentation, and 'internal tickets'. It's a really good tool, helped us get really organized. You can customize the heck out of it, nowadays we have really complex BIs to monitor tickt times, SLAs, project activity, etc. The API is very good and i made a ton of usefull things with it, even Telegram bots for our internal groups.

The biggest complaint we have on it is how bad it's wiki search features are, and indeed they are too simple.
For me, the lack of free will follows from my study of physics, which seems to allow no room for free will.

That my thoughts are not under my control is the counter argument to the claim "But then how is it that you feel like you do have free will?" The answer to this is that, upon more careful introspection, it seems I don't even really feel like I have free will either.
In the private sector, you have to invest your higher salary and try to reach Financial Independence. Then you’ve bought yourself tenure, more or less.
Indeed, who watches the watchmen? It's an insoluble problem. Your choices are circularity or infinite regress.
HBM’s Future: Necessary but Expensive
The situation was far more complex.

We sold semiconductor IP blocks. There might be a product that sold for $500K and they might sell 50 licenses a quarter for $25M. For our product our direct competitors sold it for around $4M

But at the end of the quarter the division that we were lumped in with would be short of their target by $2M. Then the VP of sales would go through the list of customers we were currently negotiating with and instead of selling for $4M would offer a big discount at half price in order to hit the quarterly revenue target.

This went on for 3 years and then they say you need to increase your ROI numbers. Our plan was to not give huge discounts and sell at the same price as our competitors but we got sabotaged by that VP of sales every quarter.

After we were at other companies our former customers told us that it was widespread industry knowledge that you could just wait until the last day of the quarter to get huge discounts from us.
Amazingly impressive! I just spent 5 minutes on your website, changing colors of adjacent tiles.
> duckduckgo ... exclusion operator

Removed a few weeks ago.

Somebody posted in these pages the github diff showing the removal of the options.
Must feel especially shitty to have your freedom curtailed like this, looking at the probable end of your life.
>As far as I can see, that war is primarily about ideology, not natural resources.

The area of Ukraine is and has been the Bread-Basket of Europe since pre-modernity and also is EXTREMELY strategic for logistics routes from the "East" to the "West"

Which is why it has literally forever been disputed territory

So yes the conflict is foundationally about food and logistics access

https://www.farminglife.com/country-and-farming/why-is-ukrai...
Yes but it's clear they are going too far
Thanks. But I really mean "object-oriented", which has a (quite) specific meaning in CS; there are a lot of uses of the term "object" even in CS, with different meanings. The referenced report [1] from 1961, as far as I understand, uses the term "object program" for the output of the Algol compiler, something we call "object file" today; this use of the term seems to have been common in the sixties; e.g. in the book "ALGOL 60 IMPLEMENTATION" (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1095699) from 1964 we can read on page 8 "An ALGOL translator is a program which takes as its input the coded representation of an ALGOL source program and produces as its output an object program (which may or may not be in machine code)". Only Simula 67, which is an extension of Algol 60, was object-oriented, but its authors didn't use the term back then.
> The problem was that the engineering was a lot harder than he thought it was going to be

This is true of many (most?) innovations. E.g. the steam engine: people knew about steam power, and built primitive steam engines. Watt succeeded eventually in manufacturing one that had the right mix of reliability, power, cost, maintainability to be widely useful. E.g. the jet engine : Whittle conceived of turbine aircraft power during WW1, but didn't succeed in manufacturing a viable engine and putting it in a plane until the end of WW2.
What I don't understand is why the FDA doesn't automatically rubber stamp approvals on medicine approved in Canada and the European Union. We all know their medicine is good - so why can't I get it?!
Every country that the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) recognizes gets a two letter country-code top level domain (ccTLD). These are all two letter domains, as country codes are two letters. Some of these are kind of boring (.us or .ru or .pl) but some of these can be interesting (.tv for the nation of Tuvalu, .io for the British Indian Ocean Territories, .in for India). Sometimes countries will lease the management rights for a ccTLD to a private company to manage for a while, as most governments are either incompetent at managing these things or have more important things to care about.

Theoretically each country can change the rules of their country code at any time. These rules can be rather arbitrary and can technically happen whenever. As an example of a rule, the .us domain is only available to US entities.

Also, if the country ceases to be, there's a chance the ccTLD will go away, because that country doesn't exist. Hence the fear with .io, as the Indian Ocean Territories as a political unit may not last very long or .tv as the islands wash away and disappear with rising sea levels.

As others have mentioned, IANA isn't always fast at removing old ccTLDs. The .su domain for the Soviet Union still exists.
This is a very interesting question. Why are medicines regulated federally? As I understand it (and IANAL) doctors, pharmacists and nurses are regulated on a state by state basis.
Pet 'dog' Go2 from Unitree Robotics, cool:)
They are making progress.
There are "right to try" laws both Federally and in 40+ states. It's unfortunate the author doesn't address those, I'm curious how they interact with his case.
we already do have that and needs no certificates or other complex things for the end user: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/loca...

is it secure? hell no, but it can be used.
Why would you lie to investigators? Why commit a felony and spend years in jail? Maybe if we had a real prosecutor that actually runs a real investigation and puts the main target in front of a grand jury instead of doing some bogus here’s some questions for you to answer whenever you want bullshit. That has to be history first and speaks to the coverup by Republican prosecutor to protect a Republican president.
Because the mRNA vaccine approach is just about as cutting edge as it gets right now and only a few countries on the planet are any good at it.

The same is true for a lot of cutting edge treatments.

It quite strictly limits where such treatments are likely to be available.
actually, the reason why I need an air conditioner so badly is because my body naturally generates enough heat that I don't need a heater in winter. I also usually don't need a coat in below-freezing temperatures unless I'll be out there for longer than 30 minutes.

Commonly-accepted indoor temperatures of 70-78F are far too warm for me, I need closer to 60F, ideally below. I have to open up and modify my air conditioners so that they won't shut off near those temperatures, because from the factory they will refuse to make the room cool enough.
I would hazard a guess that you and GP live in different countries. In Europe it is generally rare to remove wisdom teeth after the mid 20s, as if they haven't caused acute problems while erupting then they probably won't.

In the US it is a routine procedure to remove wisdom teeth that would be considered healthy and non-problematic elsewhere, even in older adults.

Source: my mother is dentist, and I've known multiple people move to the US and suddenly as a middle aged adult need their wisdom teeth removed.
This isn't even close to true (was: was there).

Or maybe we're misunderstanding one another. By "inane corner" I mean "can't even fill a single session at a 100 person specialized conference". Even in the early 2000s NIPS was larger than I'd consider "inane corner sized".
The last shop I worked at used Redmine. The owner loved it, most folks found it okay, but the UX just rubbed me the wrong way. I'm not opposed to working with software with classic UIs and such, that would have been fine if the update workflow and page layout made sense.

I wish I could adequately convey why. Based on other commenters talking about the APIs being strong though, and other products that seem nicer (I tried OpenProject for a time and had a pretty positive experience with it) are built upon it, it really goes to show how much a good UX can make or break a project with really great bones.
One possibility that I don't see discussed is that the pandemic caused a reduction in childhood physical activity. Not saying this was the link, but it seems worth investigating. The mentioned seasonality of normal rates also suggests either a link to physical activity or exposure to sunlight.

The resumption of normal school attendance in 2022 will test this theory anyway; it would be nice if it showed it going back down.