skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My reasoning is that power users prefer subscription because they use the service more often or matter a fact very often. Casual users would perhaps prefer micropayments so for example you would rather pay a few bucks to watch one movie that interests you than go for $15 Netflix subscription just to watch that one movie.

Another interesting category is books; some publishers allow you to purchase certain chapters that interest you but the price of those chapters is obnoxious[0]. 30 euros for one chapter?!

I think the content producers and publishers need to embrace micropayments first and then demand will follow.

>The only true way around this is a token model. You make a large payment, but you use it for proprietary tokens that you can then "shop" around with for goods that you normally couldn't pay $0.50 for otherwise.

I had the same idea; for example you would deposit $5 and then use it for micropayments like 1, 5 or 50 cents.

Like somebody already mentioned, Steam does it already in a sense that you can for example buy skins for 50 cents.

Btw one of the ideas of Satoshi's Bitcoin was micropayments where you could pay for instance one thousand of a cent for some service. So called "cryptocoins" can very much be the future of payments and micropayments in particular.

>I imagine the issue comes from the fact that many consumers will simply buy 1-2 key things and then never come back.

That's why companies like subscriptions, they provide them with forward recurring revenue.

[0] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781403932754_1
Ha, I feel exactly the same. I asked HN about it a year ago[0], and there was some interesting discussion.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32984776
You missed out. The conclusion is actually pretty reasonable.
Qualcomm says it will supply Apple with 5G modems for iPhones through 2026
PC Gamming === Windows, not WINE.

The only thing Microsoft is helping with, is exposing XBox Cloud streaming, which again isn't Linux.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/xbox-cloud-gaming-...
What do you consider Rust's relevant properties in this context? Traits? Inner object references? Associated types and constants? Compilation tending towards monomorphization?

C++/CLI covers some of these aspects, but I haven't used it and don't know how large the vcpkg ecosystem is.
Mine was a cheap bastard... they gave me an old Macbook my boss had dropped from the top of a server rack. It still "worked" (with random freezes and other intermittent issues), so they thought: why not save a buck?

I'm sure my experiences with that tainted my views of MacOS somewhat, but still nothing compares to having real control over your OS. In the long run, Linux always wins in that regard.
> The cheaper the energy we can produce, the better off everyone will be.

This is a good point. But it only holds if the benefits of the cheaper energy accrue to society in general. It does not hold if it goes entirely to the ones who have built the means of generation. Which ironically, unlikely almost every other economic situation, is the small indie consumers! The big players and the grid operators are the ones that get squeezed out and, as a result, causes harm to the majority of normal individuals.
Instacart seeks up to $7.7B valuation in IPO
They were, but in different directions. Poster 1 was sarcastically pointing out an advantage that people claim Chrome has. Poster 2 was pointing out that it isn’t even true.
There was no complex stuff like SMP, no netfilter or similar. Software in and before the 90s was written with extreme naivety; buffers would be blindly allocated / assumed based on user (even network) supplied input. This makes code much simpler, even with bloated designs like UNIX. If you think about it, UNIX actually can't even be defined, you just have a way to execute programs, some process management (in this case which is overly defined for no reason, with superfluous concepts like process groups), the UNIX file system with a permission model that only needs a hundred lines of code, and output (and input) just goes to a terminal that interprets it however it wants. It has no say on anything so that's why you have 13 different programming languages that all do the same thing, dumping files all over the place trying not to stomp on each other, a shell language which itself is so poorly defined that people aren't even sure if comparing something to empty string is portable, no standard way to pass around data (just strings, whose encoding changes every 5 years), even the encoding of file names.

On the other hand, UNIX is bloated with garbage like `wall`, the ability to output text into another user's terminal, metadata all over the place with no discipline, like ps being able to see other users' command line including if they typed a password in it (security is a bonus but beside the point: you shouldn't expose data through an API that isn't explicitly needed for the purpose the API purports to serve). Stuff like hostnames, DNS, email, are built into the kernel in various ways. This could answer why it needs a whopping 13KLOC.
There are more Excel databases in the wild than any of us could reasonably fathom.
Super curious what you're doing with AppleScript + the browser. I definitely prefer Safari over Firefox. Haven't tried Orion yet but I'm super stoked there's another webkit browser.
Yeah agreed, I worded that poorly, there’s always multiple causes. Both logging and fire suppression are significant causes too.

It is worth noting, though:

- That paper cuts off at 2017. Things have gotten even worse recently: the previous high (on record) for hectares burned by wildfires in Canada was 7.1 million, this year we’re already at 16.5 million, and still growing quickly: https://natural-resources.canada.ca/simply-science/canadas-r...

- Climate change is seen as a major cause of the exceptionally hot, dry, wildfire inducing weather we’ve been seeing, e.g.: https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-change-more-...
Same companies made an ad with a wind turbine on top of Eiffel Tower to mock wind energy. Same companies had direct access to real studies and knew the truth. Meanwhile people were lied constantly. So no, we are not equally culpable.
Note also this rebuttal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37448460

As someone who works with async rust professionally, I wouldn’t let takes like the one you posted dissuade you. My personal opinion is that async rust is easier to work with than in most other languages because of the extra concurrency guarantees that rust gives you. There are some rough edges, but not nearly as many as the link you posted suggests.
> Chrome will track user data for the benefit of advertisers.

The entitlement mentality towards user behavioural data is wild
call me crazy, but I found old-style Rust, runtime and all, much more appealing.
> I'm not a UI/UX designer,

> One item I can bring to the table from the world of designing cockpits for racecars and airplanes

Sounds like you are most definitely a UI/UX designer. Those are interfaces. Those are experiences.
Exactly, you'd use a section of the context as a permanent scratch pad. There are a few existing techniques (e.g. tree of thoughts) that look a bit like this.
The regulations [1] list national standard NAG E-209 [2] for copper gas pipes, which is metric based on ASTM B88M.

[1] https://www.enargas.gob.ar/secciones/normativa/pdf/normas-di...
[2] https://www.enargas.gob.ar/secciones/normativa/pdf/normas-te...
> but a bunch of the internet breaks if you do that.

I hadn't noticed, although I've heard this many times. I mean, I notice some broken pages, but nothing so important that I'd bother working out what's wrong with them.

If it's really that the site is checking that the 3d-party cookie they set really got set, and failing to load otherwise, that's an abusive site that I don't want to use anyway.
Enjoy your Electron based apps, folks.
Unrelated, but the other day, I searched something on DDGo on Firefox mobile in private mode, and a few hours later, I see a targeted ad related to that search.

Whats the deal with that? The only extension I have installed is Ublock mobile.
I don’t think the article makes the case that tracking cookies are required. It only claims that automated reminders can benefit people, which is far less controversial.

The article gives instructions on how to turn this off and concludes with the classic warning about being the product.
this is dope. great work. it's cool you can tweet about past commits too.
After reading your summary, I'm thinking this might be the only way to get my kids to take a break from their iPads for a few days. That is terrifying and exciting at the same time.
I expected someone to write a rust-based scripting language which tightly integrated with rust itself.

In reality, it seems like the python developers and toolchain are embracing rust enough to reduce the benefits to a new alternative.

https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3
Not the original commenter, but here's a more recent anecdote:

My wife and I were staying at a family farm outside the US for several weeks during Covid lockdowns. We had data turned off since our plans would charge us hefty fees for international roaming. One day we took a walk outside WiFi range and I was explaining how grain augers operate, since we were walking to a few old rusted ones. About a half an hour after we get home, she shows me some advertisements on her iPhone for new grain augers.

Could it have been the IP address we were on? Perhaps, but the owner of that family farm no longer farmed for a living and hadn't been looking into purchasing new machinery for more than a year; to add to that, we had been there two weeks prior with no farm equipment advertisements.
A few bones to pick:

1. It's been known for decades that it's essentially impossible to not run a trade deifict with a reserve currency. It's called the Triffin Dilemma [1];

2. The US Dollar is unlike gold in that you can create it out of thin air at any point. Many gold bugs and Crypto Andys (who are usually the same people) have a problem with this. This isn't actually a problem because the notion of "value" is completely made up anyway;

3. What backs the value of the US dollar is the long dick of the American military. Just look at all the wars the US has been involved in [2];

4. Colonies often turned into a drain on the colonizer's economy even with all th eexploitation (ie outright theft) going on. The costs of holding a colony only go up as the locals (rightly) become increasingly unhappy about the situation.

There's an interesting parallel with the Roman world here. Carthage, for example, used the common system at the time of tribute for its holdings. Rome, on the other hand, used a system of military alliances that tied the colony to Rome in a much more stable way. Some of Rome's colonies were colonies for a thousand years and became so Roman that even when conquered the conquerors became more Roman than the other way around.

5. The US has largely avoided the colony drain problem with economic imperialism. For example, the US now uses child labor in West Africa through intermediaries [3];

6. One cannot overstate the importance of slavery to American economic development and power. To be cleaer, slavery has never really gone away. It still exists in the form of prison labor (ie convict leasing). You could argue that the reason the US is the most incarcerated nation in the world (ie 4% of the world's population, 25% of the world's prisoners) is driven by economic exploitation more than anything else.

If you didn't get to the end, there's a bizarre conservative screed at the end:

> [The American ruling class] can no longer tell you what a woman is, and has gone to great lengths to censor and suppress stories—the Hunter Biden laptop, the Wuhan lab leak—it later acknowledged to be true or plausible. The same elite ties itself into absurd knots to deny the fact that it seeks to establish a system of racial quotas in education, government, and business.

So, transphobia, conspiracy theories and complaints about anti-white racism (which is not real, by definition). I'm not sure how any of this is relevant to a comparison between the Spanish and American empires.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...

[3]: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/our-work/child-forced-labo...
Economics is astrology partly because people like you believe everything at face value. Why on earth would " canadian sources" i.e. PR firms for big business shoot themselves in the foot by letting everyone know that the cheap labor they love is partly a cause of the housing crisis?

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, like the saying goes "the road to ruin is paved in good intentions".
The backing implies the military. A strong military is necessary for any independent, thriving state.

The USA economy is the most dynamic and powerful in the world by a large margin. People want their wealth backed by this and will pay a premium for the right.
Why did you refuse parent? What is your selection process? Be as transparent as possible
Can common rooftop solar setups actually deliver power locally with the grid being down? I would imagine them taking at least frequency synchronization from the grid, and probably also not faring too well without the grid to compensate for variable output when a cloud passes over them etc.
Does building the "missing middle" still mean paving what was once forests and making farms into town houses? If it is (which it is) then I'm all against it.
Python and SQL work great together (especially with SQLite that is build into Python).

So it’s not one or the other.

I have thought ML Phd students that mostly used Pandas in Python about SQL, and they where a surprised about the similarities (and the additional power with combining them)
Seems strange it thinks Julia is more popular than Elixir. Or that Perl has more jobs than PHP or Ruby.
> Understandably, the author does not really advertise that everything he does is available completely for free on F-Droid. If you install it from there, please consider to donate. I find these apps to be usually excellent and have used them for years.

It's the same with OsmAnd
Distribution of rare butterfly species in Denmark has shrunk by 72%
I don’t pay for bash yet I have plenty of excellent tooling in it thats free, and I’m not the product. Software can be released freely just like a poem can be. The people who develop popular software like one of the functions in bash I use for free probably aren’t hurting for work I’d imagine.
> or because no one was empowered to pull the kill switch because of the opportunity cost (perhaps pulling the switch at the wrong time costs $500k in opportunity).

Isn't the problem that pulling the plug on a trading bot doesn't just have opportunity costs, but may also leave you with open positions that, depending on the kind of trades you're doing and the way the market is moving, could be arbitrarily expensive to unwind?
TIL that Prolog is only slightly less popular than ABAP. I mean I'm a big big Prolog fan, but as a niche language for constraint solving and similar stuff; there's no way that Prolog is used as much as ABAP (SAP's language), so usage can't be the criterion for popularity here indeed.
I wonder if SQL will be able to catch up to C#. Maybe they’ll add the English language next year so I can see how popular it is compared to Javascript.
I do, and when I do I get a tax person. But 7 out of 8 years in a row my taxes were standard deduction...

Question is - how does it excuse Intuit at all?
Web browsers don’t need innovation or vision at this point. They are just the medium for displaying content.

If we kept trying to innovate paper, it would just be annoying too.
thanks, glad you like it! yes, you can also manually type a feature that you want to launch in case you don't have any PRs/commits for that
that's the usual targeting we know and love since early 2000s. we are talking about something worse.
"Green transition" in a nutshell.
Those numbers are quite interesting and a good wake up call for all those mentions how relevant Kotlin happens to be on the JVM space, across all three criterias.
> And also the menu bar is a massive violation of the "controls should be obviously linked to the area they affect" principle,

On other hand a menu bar at the corner of the screen has an infinite size if you are using a mouse, a trackball or a touchpad. But it's size is finite if you are using a touch display. Let me explain what I mean with infinite size. You can overshoot arbitrarily far when using the mouse and you would still be inside the menu, since top of the menu is the screen corner.

While writing this, I've noticed that in a maximized Firefox under Gnome this isn't true anymore. There is at list one line of pixels above menu. When you click on them nothing happens. Therefore I cannot overshoot anymore. Another failure of modern UIs.
Thanks for that explanation! I'm going to have to dive into Rc/Arc [0]. Reference counting built into the standard library is really interesting. Several years ago I wrote a Windows kernel minifilter and reference counting is used a lot by anything that interacts with the filter manager. RC was very helpful to ensure the minifilter didn't leak memory when it was unloaded.

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/struct.Arc.html
> With Linux I don't get bullied to install their stuff.

$ sudo apt full-upgrade

...

Get more security updates through Ubuntu Pro with 'esm-apps' enabled

...

Learn more about Ubuntu Pro at https://xxxxxxxxxxxxx/pro
If you believe what you say in your comments, why don't you use your real name as your username on HN?
I guess, it depends on the physical keyboard layout. The point about C-j C-m is that you'd have to crunch your index finger too much. Well, maybe that's not the best example, as that still seems possible. Try maybe C-j C-/ to really feel the strain.

> Windows Terminal

Why not use shell from Emacs instead? Emacs has a bunch of terminal emulators. One of those ought to work decently on Windows...

If you do it the way you describe, you will set yourself up for a painful experience. Because Windows Terminal (most likely) doesn't have the editing capabilities of Emacs, and (most likely) it doesn't use the same navigation / editing scheme as Emacs, you will have to switch between the two and make mistakes in both of them. It's really annoying to work like that, and it causes people who chose Vi or Emacs to use or to configure other tools to work in the same way their preferred text editor does it. But, ideally, they'd just want the other tools to be embedded in their editor (because any customizations they make for the editor will automatically extend to those tools).

Having to deal with switches in how you write or navigate text is similar to having a crying baby nearby or a loud pub etc. Most people wouldn't willingly put themselves in that position.
I do wonder why there hasn't been more exploration in a series of languages that have a very similar style and toolchain but have different audiences. It would be great to have Rust, Rust with a GC, and then some sort of interpreted language that has a similar syntax. When jumping between languages I feel like half the battle is overcoming muscle memory.
> Isn't Rust's type system mostly about not having GC? What specific type system features are you looking for outside of borrow checking? Macros?

1. ADTs with exhaustive pattern matching

2. No exceptions

3. Zero cost generics

4. Traits

5. No nulls

6. No inheritance
Ask HN: How do you deal with TOTP 2-factor auth?
I asked this on Mastodon too (https://fosstodon.org/@mort/111046321693058214), but it feels relevant for HN too.

Since this github 2fa thing is happening, I'm gonna need a better solution for 2fa. So far I've used Authy on my phone for work stuff. That's fine. But for personal stuff, I want more control.

What good open-source options do you all prefer to deal with TOTP? I'm thinking I'll use Bitwarden to sync TOTP keys, since I already use them for passwords, which means I need apps which let me freely and easily copy those secrets around. I use Linux, iOS and macOS, so I'll need apps for all those platforms.

I'm not interested in moving to a different password manager, and I'm even less interested in moving to a closed source password manager. (Imagine that, handing all your passwords to some closed source application from some random US company in the name of security...)
Modern fly-by-wire systems often don’t have a mechanic backup, and even for mechanically controlled ones (like the B737) I wouldn’t be too sure if they’d fare that well without any electronic controls.

But it’s not a given that an event of this type would even disrupt electronics not connected to the power grid. Even the longest possible line in an airplane is only on the order of a couple of meters, compared to thousands of kilometers for power and communication lines.
But there could be benefits to being followed by a PI. For example, if the author forgets to brush their teeth, the PI could remind them.

/s
It’s probably because the article is quite sloppy. It doesn’t link to the original study. It doesn’t discuss anything about how diagnosis rates and incidence rates might differ (e.g. increased screening / better medical care). It reports a global figure without attempting to disaggregate, so we don’t know if this is a dramatic change across the globe or driven by improving healthcare in developing countries that previously weren’t diagnosing cancers reliably.
The essay is “I, Pencil”

It’s a rollicking good read. Here it is in pdf form:

https://fee.org/media/14940/read-i-pencil.pdf
Mozilla claims over 700 of their 750 employees work on Firefox. It's a bit harder to find out the number of people working on Chrome. The founding director remarks that there were 40 engineers working on Chrome mobile in https://mdwdotla.medium.com/some-thoughts-on-running-success.... That's obviously just a slice of the whole team. Search results suggest a range of numbers between 23 and 500. There appears to be about 12k in the whole department building Chrome, Android and the other software shipped to users. From all that you can extrapolate that there likely isn't a huge disparity between number of engineers on both browsers.
Why would it be the only option? It seems to be the standard in Europe, but not sure why you couldn’t connect it to the hot water line instead. This is especially true if you have an efficient hot water source like solar or a heat pump water heater.
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Good advice! What are they thinking when they get rid of the pre wash cup?
All the annoyed people in this thread, reading this post from their Google Chrome window.

And every time I mention this, I get a ton of excuses, from people that should know better, that they can't leave Google. Boo woo.

There might be exceptions, but to the large majority of other lazy tech users, this is on you. Enshittification doesn't happen in a vacuum. You are passive actors to a shittier web.
isn't metal in orbit much more valuable than metal on earth? i.e. you can build plenty cheap satellites with it.
They're working, but not necessarily getting paid.