skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say sometimes data needs to be rejected as invalid. I don't know the exact scenario here, but you'll never be able to know if a street number/name alone is unique as almost any street will have dozens or more matches across the country.

If people are jamming their entire address into address line 1, that is also solved by CASS.
It does seem like every subsequent year is exceptional though. This is the Simpsons' "the hottest year of your life so far" meme personified.
It is odd. Especially since their ideas are built around an older form of economy that we have long since moved beyond. Materialism as a guiding philosophy for economic theory seems outdated when in the developed world, economies are built upon services and information rather than production and many types of goods are already post scarcity.
Why do you believe this work would not have passed an ethics review?

(your comments are a bit obscure, in a way that suggests you aren't familiar with how modern biological research is evaluated)
Been quiet quitting since before it was a name
I’m 40 years old and generally hate subscriptions for desktop software. Local tools that work offline should be “ownable” in the licensed sense.

When I built my indie app “Label LIVE” it was designed to work offline and be paid for ONCE. After a few years there was enough user demand for a less expensive subscription-based license. Today, about 20% of customers purchase the subscription and the rest buy one-time licenses.

Why would someone buy the subscription? Here are some good reasons: 1) seasonal need, 2) monthly price is small enough for company credit card without manager approval, 3) extend the 14 day trial without larger commitment, 4) can’t afford one time license due to cash flow.

Another unintended benefit to me (as a solo developer) is the inexpensive monthly license lowers the demand for pirating and cracking. That’s a nice plus, because it makes the app accessible to all.
I mean, they lost a good percentage of their top engineers a couple years back because leadership had a pretty serious communications issue with their employees. So not exactly surprised.
I will also add this excellent breakdown of why pricing SaaS is the way it is, by the OrbStack FAQ page and their section on their business model [0]:

Look, we get it: subscriptions suck. We don't like them either. But we think that subscriptions are the best way to align our incentives with yours, and we want to be transparent about it. If we're not living up to your expectations, then you can cancel.

We also plan to introduce online services to simplify developer workflows, which would not be sustainable to run without subscriptions.

Lifetime licenses are unsustainable. OrbStack's components need continuous updates: compatibility with new macOS versions, Linux kernel, and other assorted pieces, as well as new features to stay competitive.

Major version upgrades incentive us to withhold features for months when they would otherwise be released much faster; we'd rather deliver gradual improvements so you get continuous value. Also, major upgrades have a high risk of introducing breaking changes, bugs, and other issues due to a lack of gradual testing.

1-year updates + fallback perpetual: More or less a yearly subscription in disguise? Just cancel if you don’t want to keep paying. JetBrains does a hybrid of this + subscription — not entirely opposed to it, but it shares a lot of these issues (e.g. incentivizes slower feature development). Realistically, would anyone revert to a year-old version and stay on it forever?

It's a hard problem.

[0] https://docs.orbstack.dev/faq#free
Right now the CVE process doesn't allow unilateral rejection of CVEs by maintainers because they have the opposite incentive. It is in their interest to deny that a vulnerability exists, both because there is a perception that more vulnerabilities discovered means lower quality software, but also because that is extra effort their team needs to handle. It's not ethical but its also not uncommon for companies to not investigate and just deny a bug is real. Sometimes it isn't even an ethical issue but just poorly described by the reporter, or something that seems absolutely implausible to the developers.

I don't know what improvements to the current process actually look like but it needs to be able to account for effectively fraud and apathy on both side of the equation.
They hack iPhones without Apple knowing? I really don't think that's possible.
It pains me to think of the energy expenditure being used just to see if two addresses are the same.
The amount of money I have spent on subscriptions I have forgotten to cancel, or subscriptions I have misunderstood the agreement to(Adobe ahem) has to be in the few thousands or more...

This is of course my fault and I have learned to be very wary about what I sign up for, but it doesn't keep me from having an icky feeling of dark patterns that take advantage of psychological behavior.
I’m working my way through a German book that explores Physics with Python: https://pyph.de/1/2/index.php?name=intro
AGPLv3 if that interests you: https://github.com/ddosify/alaz/blob/v0.1.3/LICENSE
Forget about whether or not people are “working”. That’s just micromanagement.

There is either work not done, or work finished. If work isn’t being finished, then people aren’t working. If it is, then people are working. That’s all you need to know.
The question isn't "did both sides attack" it is "do people on both sides feel attacked." I'm sure there are plenty of Russian's who feel attacked by the Ukraine; that doesn't mean the Ukraine started the current war.

Consider this mindset (to be clear, not my mindset):

1. The US is, and always has been a Christian nation

2. Homosexuality is unchristian

3. For the past 60 years, anti-christian liberals have been trying to (and in large part succeeding) in legalizing many sinful behaviors, at least one of which is tantamount to murder (i.e. abortion)

4. Following the legalization of the sinful behaviors comes normalization via indoctrination in schools

From this mindset, it's easy to see how e.g. legalization of homosexual behaviors (and then of homosexual marriage) is seen as an attack.

As far as attacking first, well that's simple: all those people who attacked, beat, or killed homosexuals were isolated incidents and e.g. the raid on Stonewall Inn was just the cops doing their job (these people were breaking the law, after all).

See e.g.: https://source.wustl.edu/2021/08/cultural-backlash-is-lgbtq-...
I recently was headhunted by a company trying to place someone in Denver. The pay was 80k a year, less than I make in the midwest.. a substantial raise in cost of living for a pay cut with no remote work option. I told her she would have a very hard time finding someone in my area to take that job.
The rest of that sentence is important don't cut it out! It's not an interesting observation about the individuals; it certainly is about the cultures though.

Sociologists and historians both spend tremendous amounts of time on this, some devote their enter careers to small facets of this single dynamic.
Because with QKD you can distribute a random key knowing that there were no observers but you cannot distribute a message with the same guarantees. Specifically, any given bit exchanged might be observed, but that is detectable so the bit can be discarded.

I read some years ago about a non quantum technique to achieve the same based on (I think) noise in a coupled electronic system. I wonder if that has been tested further.
The mud will be much cheaper than concrete. The scheme you propose will either require complex machinery for switching hoists/generators between concrete blocks, or large numbers of hoists/generators. PHES easily shares one or a small number of pumps/turbines among the entire mass of liquid.

They state: "R19 has a viscosity of ~20cP, comparable to milk." So, not that viscous.
> no infrastructure was attacked or destroyed

Value was destroyed in both cases. Users having their private data stolen have been harmed, the company's brand value is harmed, and they may lose users over this.

> or lives lost

Lives can be lost and real people can be harmed if their private information is stolen and used against them. There are dissidents and journalists in repressive countries whose safety depends on information security.
Measuring the quantity of harmful VOCs inhaled through masks
Full Title:"Measuring the quantity of harmful volatile organic compounds inhaled through masks"

"
This study demonstrated that disposable masks (KF94) released higher concentrations of TVOCs in comparison to cotton masks, with values of 3730 ± 1331 µg m–3 for KF94 and 268 ± 51.6 µg m–3 for cotton masks. The concentrations of TVOCs in KF94 masks are high enough to pose a concern based on indoor air quality guidelines established by the German Federal Environment Agency."
Ironically your cheap phone may have higher specs than the Librem 5.
Vocaloid: Singing voice synthesizer software
I think they're implying he's drumming up attention through controversy, in the hope that some of it spills onto "Once".
Who to my dismay (though not surprise) have now also gone SaaS :(

EDIT: I think I've misunderstood the V2 Universal License. Looks like it means I get access to all version 2 apps from Affinity.
I don't know how you can guarantee that. That a well designed safety protocol for am AI machine would never make a mistake that a given human wouldn't make.

People are allowed to operate with their own additional steps of safety precautions which may be much more conservative than the steps assigned to an automated machine that they must now interact with.

I'm talking about general personal safety protocols that a person could follow, that could be safer and more conservative than the protocols governing a more automatic machine.

A machine being controlled by AI could have unpredictable behavior, I mean look at other areas of AI. Can we really predict what will always happen?
Looks clean and nice. I really like the UI
https://archive.ph/pqthA
Or you installed the lint rule once 4 years ago and never had a problem again.
Exactly this - if a web app, it should be offered primarily as a container image for self-hosting support - the age of <insert specific program runtime here> artifacts that the customer installs and runs on an installation of said specific runtime are almost long gone. As a customer, I'd even question why I wasn't handed a container image if they tried to ship me build artifacts and a runtime of some kind.
Maybe just download QGIS?
The only reason I started using Figma was because of how annoyed I was at the Sketch licensing as a paying customer.
We laid off half of our employees, and the other half seem demoralized. We have no idea why so we're going to try making everyone come back to the office.

Also hey everyone we made record profits this year! Great job! Pay raises are on hold though due to economic uncertainty. Remember, we're a family!
Translated: 1928 book about four centuries of typefounding history in Augsburg
Super simple. The office sucks hard. Just don't do offices. Adapt or die.
Uff, how much was that domain?!
Thanks but No Thanks
It will turn out to be a great conspiracy where the React team are being encouraged to make it so only LLMs can make sense of React code in future.
Just don't update for 12 months then decide if the updates are worth another 12 months. Rinse, repeat.

The fact that they do churn out lots of good updates is an argument for SaaS.
That particular case feels better because the original price you mention was incredibly high, not because the model is better for the customer. Especially when more than 1 application does that.
Idiomatic enough that I, as a native speaker, didn't understand what was intended by the phrase outside of context.
> There is no objective cost to things

What? How do you produce things? Do you will them into existence? That's great for you, most everyone else uses resources and labor to produce things. These represent objective costs.

> If the person is tired today and wont work unless you pay him a thousand dollars, then it costs a thousand dollars today.

Or you don't hire them today.

> How do you avoid this in your system?

A labor market.

> Do you enslave people and force them to work? Soviet did that, you weren't allowed to not work, you had to work, nobody was free.

...calm down.
"Crossplatform" but only available for MS-DOS, and you are instructed to download, install, and run it in order to discover the licensing terms. Unbelievable.
Maybe people wouldn't see facism in local police departments if there wasn't facism in the local police departments.

"Police Chief Pat Flannelly said Officer Joseph Zacharek, hired in June, was called into the police station Friday night after claims started showing up on social media that he was linked to Iron March, a neo-Nazi forum disbanded in 2017 but that had its database exposed on the internet in late 2019."

Yay that he was fired, but how many haven't?
Apple’s BIS acquisition is a bet on a classical music catalogue
SaaS is an entirely appropriate, and often preferable model, but in the right context.

The context being that you want a service to be provided to you, with no infrastructure/support overhead, with regular updates, and you want the company providing it to be commercially viable so that the relationship can be ongoing and symbiotic.

And if you're a company buying software, rather than an individual, then all of the above becomes even more important.

I think people's growing aversion to monthly pricing is because it is becoming the default model regardless of the context or whether it's appropriate. And this is especially a problem for individual consumers.

Not everything should be a monthly subscription, but that's where we're heading, and that's where the pushback is.

So this announcement looks simultanesouly interesting, but also slightly odd to me, because I think the monthly subscription model is perfectly appropriate for something like, for example, Basecamp.
Changing Operating systems is not a small feat. Also there are MANY enterprise applications that depend on windows, windows server, or Microsoft SQL server. It is not an easy task to migrate away from those. That is why companies pay Microsoft $$$$$$ in licensing.
This is bullshit.

If you can get away with "not really working" remotely, you will also get away with "not really working" in the office.
> There are many polite fictions like this in society.

Which is deliciously ironic considering how much non-theists enjoy mocking theists "for their 'irrational' thinking".
So they didn’t introduce anything yet.
Is Sketch subscription only? I had it on my list to purchase because I thought they offered a perpetual license.

But you're right, now that I'm reading the FAQ on their pricing page, I'm finding it really confusing:

"""

Q: Is Sketch only available as a subscription?

A: No. You can still get a Mac-only license for $120 yearly [sic] if you don’t need the web app and only want to use the Mac app to design. (...)

"""

Their answer seems rather contradictory. Does anybody know whether they offer perpetual licenses or not? Or know of a competitor who does?
The idea that playing trains with the kids ended up this far down the rabbit hole is very funny.
I signed the petition and donated to Mozilla after reading this article. This is really important work they're doing. https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/article...
Most importantly, it’s bankruptcy laws in the US that encourage and reward risk taking which push technology forward.
Last I’ve heard Europe is trying to update its laws for this exact reason
Just a data point, but my experience has been exactly the opposite of yours.

And I say this as someone who invested a lot of time and political capital trying to find good (and within constraints) virtual whiteboard solutions.
I paid JetBrains for a subscription that will last 3 years, so that I won’t have to renew it again in a good while.

I bought that subscription in September 2022, after having paid monthly for a long while.

Now I won’t have to think about renewing the subscription again until September 2025.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptians_Act_1554

The Romani, disparaged as "Egyptians" and demonized as criminals, were ordered on pain of execution in the 16th c. to settle or leave England. Perhaps British of that era lacked the words in their lexicon: "racist", "classist", "conformist", and "Hobson's choice."
The reality of my career and that of those around me is that you usually can pick even- or odd-numbered disruption cycles and do pretty well. If you miss the hype train for one fad, catching up might not be your best bet. You might be better off looking for the next train.

In that regard React is a bit of an anomaly. It's occupied the station for far longer than expected.
No, thanks to union bargaining the other players make at least millions in all of the major professional leagues. This is in large part due to players being transparent with each other about how much they were getting paid, which led to the formation of the players' unions several decades ago, and to the subsequent stratospheric rise in player salaries.

The point is that wage transparency enriches all of the players, not just the good ones.
The assumption that neobanks always use a sponsor bank is false. Most European neobanks have a full banking license.
I’d bet my life we start to see a massive influx of bad press aimed at messaging providers, focusing on how criminals are using their services, over the next few years.

When the general sentiment of the average Dave is ‘encryption === bad’ this BS will rear its head again.

Seems to have been the standard play for governments of this country for decades now.
We have an example of how a planned market works in practice: the housing market.

The housing market is one of the most regulated “planned” markets. We’ve made it impossible to build in some cites and impossible to build density in almost all suburbs. And so we have a massive housing shortage that’s doubled the fair market price of housing.

If we let the market build enough homes to meet the demand, an apartment would be incredibly affordable. Someone working as a fry cook could afford a two bedroom. That being said, one could argue this planned market is working as intended… renters and first time home buyers are taking 30-50% of their incomes and giving it to property owners… who voted for this system.
> But to me its use here suggests a lack of restraint, and that makes me form a negative opinion about how the business is managed…

If you dig a bit more, the use of the word "shit" may fall lower on your list of things that give you a negative opinion about how the business is managed.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22418208/basecamp-all-hand...
Freedom is control, and competition requires a firm controlling organization.
Automatics have been more efficient (given their additional mass) than manuals, for all but the most skilled drivers (top 1% of manual drivers) for several decades already.
A lot of the hacking I did on the Nokia N900, I did while standing in queues at shops or riding on buses. The built-in keyboard made that easy. Sure, I could use a Bluetooth keyboard with the current Linux phones, but it is not as convenient.
Sure, as long as Adobe doesn't arbitrarily decide to permanently ban your account and no longer accept your money. Also, speaking of ships that have sailed, you could just as easily check out Final Cut Pro or Adobe subscriptions from some libraries for no additional fee.
> CAD software is a great example especially at larger orgs. Why should software be a recurring cost in the name of development and support?

But it always has been. Every larger org has always wound up purchasing upgrades. Not only for new features, but because professional tools often include all sorts of interoperability plugins and you need the upgraded ones to interact with other newer third-party products.

Maybe an individual hobbyist can get away with not upgrading, but upgrades have always been just a recurring cost for larger orgs.
I really don't know what our London borough's council does outside of garbage collection and passing school applications over to schools. Weeds overgrown on every footpath, litter all over the place. Oh they mow the local football pitch every blue moon. I pay 2500 pounds a year.
I used to be a pipe welder and that's exactly the reason I quit. Toxic fumes, grinding dust. We could make it safer but it slightly lowers profit margins.
Nobody should expect this announcement to be met with enthusiasm on HN. Many kids have been put through college on the back of SaaS dollars.

In the words of Dave Chapelle (who was quoting someone else) "Young man, don't ever come between a man and his meal."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D25pDcsg1MY
It is more convenient to attempt to unionize in person I suppose.
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Not OP but I agree with his sentiment. Maybe I'm not as "into music" as some people, but I do like finding new artists and songs, though probably only to the tune of 1-5 new artists a year and I buy on average about 5 new albums a year.

It's cheaper and better for me to own the stuff I want to listen to than sign up for a subscription in perpetuity.
Tax hikes coupled with higher interest rates and an increased cost of living are making a dent. For software developer, contractors in particular - the only way to reach something that somewhat resembles US pay - are now subject to tightened regulation called IR35. Contracts "inside" IR53 are taxed just like regular pay even if done via an LTD and you can't claim expenses. This regulation is meant to catch disguised employees, but large clients don't want to risk it. In reality what's happening is that contract work is sent to outsourcing companies, one of which is the prime minister's wife's father Infosys. And that's one example. Outside tech there are all sorts of "traps": people's wages are increasing only to be caught up in higher tax brackets essentially meaning their pay is still low. Factoring in what I wrote about taxes, col, and interest raters, everyone is much poorer now than before. A lot of low income earners are squeaking about further tax hikes as if that's going to improve their lifes somehow. It's a crab mentality.

In regards to regions, it naturally varies, but overall the situation is the same everywhere. For instance, the second largest city just went bankrupt and I suppose those people are in for a ride. The region where I live, despite being the type that pays the tax so many yearn for, roads are filled with potholes, and the local surgery constantly complains about how much work they need to do. Friday, 2 PM it's closed for the weekend, and each day there's a two hour lunch break. You can't make this up.

But throughout schools, hospitals, complain about being understaffed, including private companies, yet when they try and increase wages to attract talent, said wages are immediately taxed. I can go on for ages, but something's way off about the country and it seems like a lot of factors are converging and forming a perfect storm.