skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does Apple's change do anything at all to help alleviate any of the concerns you have?

You have fewer subscriptions options for creators (1st-of-month billing and per-release billing is going away, despite the fact that creators regularly use them to simplify the experience for subscribers). You're going to pay more (I promise you, creators on Patreon are not rich enough to swallow a 30% transaction fee on iOS subscriptions). You're going to use the same app that you were using before. And this will change nothing about when Patreon cuts off service when you unsubscribe (incidentally, I'm pretty sure this is a creator decision and creators can choose to extend benefits to the end of the month).

What is Apple doing that is making any of this better for you?

Maybe you sort-of marginally have an easier time unsubscribing? But it's not hard to unsubscribe from a Patreon tier, and it's difficult to argue that Apple is providing infinite value by organizing your subscriptions into a list.

What are you actually paying this fee to Apple for? They're "on your side" except in the sense where them being on your side creates any tangible or significant change in your experience using Patreon. Seriously, what about the iOS experience using Patreon is better (or even different) than the experience elsewhere?
It only reads that way if you're being very very generous and have lived under a rock for the past few years so that you've not seen any other information about Boeing.
I wrote "positive unemployment rate". I meant that it's overall positive numbers even though it's complete doom and gloom on the market.

see the 5Y chart https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/employment-rate
It could be "pay cut for different domain" or "pay cut for better location but lower CoL". In a more extreme case you can re-spec to another industry altogether. You may not make anywhere close to what you made in tech, but you have 7 figures in stocks and 6 figures in savings anyway. Money is no longer a worry, why not follow a passion?

In addition, it can be non-job motivations. e.g. you take a year off to travel for a bit, or engage in some hobby that you know won't make any income. I wouldn't mind doing some art classes if I ever got to that kind of money to live off of for years.
Don't know what it is
> 30 minute docker builds?

At Blacksmith we do see this pretty often! Rust services in particular are the most common offender.
I really want to love Go for side projects but it’s just so verbose and time consuming.

I understand that a framework with ”batteries” goes against Go principles, but coming from Rails, which solves the common boring problems for me, Go just makes it too much of a pain.

At least as far as web dev goes, I’m sure Go is great for other stuff.
'anatomically modern human lineage' discovered from 40k-year-old hip bone
I like using this great library to build progressive web apps using Declarative Syntax https://github.com/maxence-charriere/go-app
Right but just because they said it doesn’t mean they’re not playing fast and loose with the messaging. I’ve never heard of a single app where the off-app billing affected the inclusion of the app in the store. I mean maybe it’s true but that seems like it would be breaking new ground in App Store rules. I suspect Patreon is playing semantics here but would be happy to see evidence otherwise. To be clear, I’m taking about the case where Patreon could decide to show no billing details or links at all in the App Store, just like eg Audible. I think the problem is that Patreon still wants to offer billing options in the app.
I would probably sooner point out that by far the most money Apple makes off of their platform (and you don’t even have to look this up or have inside knowledge to know it is true) is from a TON of addicts gambling on gacha boxes in pointless video games. They are incentivized by predatory behavior.

Edit: seriously, even the casinos and bars will eventually tell you you’re done.
> sharing it with the broader HN community

Note that I posted this, but I am not the author
In Australia/Perth we have a "Daily Supply Charge".

We also have one of the higest rates of residential rooftop solar here, you get relatively little payback for exporting in Perth (its hard to get more than about $20/month) but can save quite a bit on what you self-consume during the day.

As a result, this Daily Supply Charge has been steadily going up over the last decade, much more than the per-unit fee. Currently it's $1.13 AUD/day + $0.316/kWh (that's 74c USD/day + $0.21 USD/kWh)
That doesn't really seem like something SpaceX will do any time soon though. After all, they want Mars. The moon is just wasting time to SpaceX. So until SpaceX achieves Mars, they have too much to do to become too comfortable. Of course, I just sit on a couch offering opinions.
Quiet quitting was a way to blame worsening economy on younger generations, or just to take a swipe at them, that's the extent of the relationship AFAICT.

With you on the AI crash.
my friend's daughter wants to know how she can make it for her high school science project
That's already the case in swimming, as I commented a few days ago.

It's not possible to build swimming pools to tolerances such that timing to 1/1,000th of a second would be fair (that is, based on athletic performance rather than distance traveled), so swimming events are only judged to the nearest 1/100th of a second. Finishers within the same 1/100th are considered to have tied.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41128437>

<https://olympstats.com/2014/02/12/timing-accuracy-at-the-oly...>

FINA standards: <https://resources.fina.org/fina/document/2022/02/08/77c3058d...> (PDF).
Yeah, for all you know Bob could be one of those "weld quickly and break things" people.
I didn't actually mention private ownership, only what might be called the right of free assembly.

Also, for what it is worth, individual players in the market obviously want to become literal kings. They're "capitalists" but not "capitalist ideologists." Capitalist ideologists are people like Milton Friedman, who was not a fan of monopoly and who was himself not much of a businessman.
They are forced in the sense that they don't have a viable choice other than taking a bad deal.

Note that the issue isn't ignoring progress. Neither farmer has an issue with using more sophisticated seeds. The issue is with the deal that goes along with the seeds.
Discussion (20 points, 4 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41198728
What we need is a cheap, “dumb” headset which simply mirrors screens from the computer (including virtual ones), with low latency and in crisp resolution. No standalone apps, no gesture controls, etc. Just plug it into your computer and start streaming the screen contents in VR space. Right now the only contender in this niche is the upcoming Visor from Immersed [0], which is a proprietary, value extraction, user-hostile nightmare, with compulsory online activation + monthly subscription + jailed OS and probably overpriced. But at least they’re proving that the form factor is already possible.

[0] https://www.visor.com/
> arbitrary JSON is the opposite of strongly typed

On the surface, I agree. In practice, many big enterprise systems use highly dynamic JSON payloads where new fields are added and changed all the time.
Yeah...this is nauseating.
I think you drastically underestimate the influence that World War 2 had on up-skilling a technological workforce in the United States. I know a handful of people who's fathers or relatives went from farm boy to a radio technician with basic electrical engineering skills (or a similar story) because of the war.

The effect that war had on the technological progress, including learning the skills of how to manage a not-so-simple idea like going to the moon into reality was incredible, and a direct spinoff from the bureaucracy created during the war.
I remember making a demo in 6th or 7th grade of console login dialog and disclosing password asking friends to log in.. they couldn't, because during typing my program would analyze time between pressing different keys.. I don't remember if I hard coded it or it was trained first... But yeah, essentially it was checking not just the password, but also signature of it..
There's a similar building in San Francisco, I think it's near the new Transbay Terminal? I've moved away so I can't drive down and search for it myself, sadly.

I was shocked when I first encountered it: "What eldritch thing broods in a windowless skyscraper?" But of course, a phone exchange.

(Any hams here? I remember seeing a tall building in S.F. with a log-periodic antenna on its roof; a consulate, maybe.)
Something very similar was done a while ago by Petar Gyurov:

https://petargyurov.com/bookshelf/
Help wanted: AI designers - Why designers can fix the AI product drought
the fed typically aims for 2% inflation because if they aim for 0% inflation, the economy may experiencr deflation. if you get stuck in a deflationary spiral, it's very hard to get out

also since 2% is the typical target, they have a little room to lower rates and stimulate the economy, such as what happened in covid
Another way to think about it--i.e. hoofed animals can only walk or sprint. Humans can jog, so as long as a human hunter can pick up the trail after the animal sprints out of sight, the jogging will eventually win out.
This is fairly obtuse longform writing with no obvious message. What is the intention of sharing this?
Who stack-ranks the management? How?
Back in 2012 or sometime around it, I was trying Akka a Java library and trying concurrency and stuff. Around the same time I gave Go a try and it was much less verbose and simple. Never looked at Java after that, but I never felt Go is verbose.
Half true. In the USA for vehickes there's simply too few recharging stations, and the price of gasoline - for political and economic reasons - is kept artificially low.

We're talking about a system that offers direct financial incentives to drive EVs, at the same time intentional does all it can to lower the price of gas, and doesn't see the waste if not stupidity of doing both. That is, raise the price of gas to make EVs make more sense. Use the additional tax revenue to build more charging stations.
There is this scene in Das Boot were one of the crew members says that they are going deeper than the sub is rated for and the captain says "don't worry German engineering".
kind of hard for someone to prove a negative - feel free to find some Go code that meets that definition.
If you read the OIG report, it states:

"Michoud officials stated that it has been difficult to attract and retain a contractor workforce with aerospace manufacturing experience in part due to Michoud’s geographical location in New Orleans, Louisiana, and lower employee compensation relative to other aerospace competitors."
Thanks for this, I was referring to the great depression of 1929.

in 1933 when the unemployment rate reached 25 percent.

ref. Google
I strongly suspect Patreon is playing fast and loose with the wording here. Note they say “if creators on Patreon disable transactions…” but not “if Patreon were to disable all transactions.” I’m pretty sure they could still go the Audible route where they remove all mention and links to billing options off app. But Patreon doesn’t want to go that route across the board, they still want people to be able to sign up for things in app.
So, potential future shooters will be limited to the number of guns that they can bring in to the hotel in 24 hours (or however many hours they have between the last inspection and their "event".) I'm sure that will help a lot.
In my opinion the US and many european countries are going through stagflation where parts of the economy that went down or decreased dramatically with covid are recovering so you have economic growth in those areas but the rest of the economy not doing so good as well parts losing the covid boost.
The president is not elected until the Electoral College vote. Whatever the newspaper publish before that is only an educated guess.
In the first diagram I see well-encapsulated services B, C and D and their orchestrator A.

In the second diagram I see ill-defined responsibilities and a looming callback hell.

What if we could look at more concrete examples with a dozen services that model a real process? Maybe that would elucidate the benefits.
> does anybody want to argue that Apple hosting the Patreon app on iOS provides more value to Patreon subscribers and creators than the existence of Patreon itself does?

For people who would never give Patreon money by going to Patreon’s website? Sure, why not? That sounds like a niche market that Patreon would be completely unable to participate in without Apple’s help.
I appreciate you looking into this.
Here is the list of recent flagged/dead stories, ordered by rating, that they managed to accumulate: https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUIGlkLCB0a...

Here is the list of recent flagged/dead stories: https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUIGlkLCB0a...
How about no bloated webapps at all? Let's get back to developing reliable native applications.
Considering Texas doesn’t give a shit about the environment…
Yes.

I work in a medical practice as a receptionist/guy-who-knows-IT-stuff and the system is locked down pretty hard by the sysadmin (for good reasons).

Sometimes I need to crop a photo, or a how-to screenshot for our wiki, or circle something in red on a screenshot etc. MS Paint is what we got, and it works fine for small jobs like that.

I'd be sad to see it go for that reason.

I have a sneakernet connection to a isolated linux box with GIMP and Inkscape on it, but MS Paint often fulfills 95% of requirements with less overhead.
Free assembly is gradually being chipped away in the West.
Another version of this first is the Blue Marble and Earth rise images when they looped around the Moon for the first time. IIRC, at least one climate group formed based on them.
Fight back:
1) Get video of everything
2) Try to get video of their in room search
3) Get names of the security people and upper management
4) Share facts on line
5) The find the legal entity's ownership. Find out who. Publish
6) Put videos online
7) Warn all hotels and conference companies of this vendor.
8) Look for intel links. It may cost them far more in security and lost of future revenue for any revenue they gain this week. This is likely not done for more revenue. Look for other reasons it is being done
9) Publish all. Have fun with it.
Plenty in Asia. But in the west, that's a hard question. Especially since the few that come to mind, like Costco and In n Out, aren't exactly "lifetime careers" for most people.

Apple came so close. Still very young, but their retention seems better than competitors and they dodged a lot of the layoff stuff the rest did (with caveats. They simply "did not renew" contractors). But that came to an end in May.

I'd probably need to look up some companies in trades, but my impression is many of those are small businesses as opposed to a corporate career.
> I can tell you “sub-nanosecond overhead” is misleading and marketing fluff

If and only if (1-thread Spice - non-parallelized baseline) > 1ns, which their tests back up their claims.

https://github.com/judofyr/spice/tree/main/bench
Email the mods suggesting a link to the original source, and if you feel that the submitted site should be penalised or banned, why. At hn@ycombinator.com
7500 tabs? That's it? I at times have more than that on a single Firefox window on just one machine, and each of my machines usually has several windows open at a time. Where's my TechSpot article? :)
I think that's far enough ago that we can't really draw any conclusions from that to today.

It's like someone deciding my current skill based on how good I was when I left university.
Man, I really miss a good poetry slam. The judges usually suck though ;)
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I want share something I find. It is called FLUX Generator. Website is https://aiflux.cc/.
This tool is free now. You can use it no need pay money. But I not know how they make money. Maybe later they charge?
I want know what others think. Is this tool good? Will it stay free?
Thank you for read. Sorry my English not good. I try improve.
Patreon really hates their good features.

Like the best one they've had, bundling every charge for the month into a single transaction so that $1 payments aren't wasting a huge percent.
Yikes. I would be so much less productive with a 30 minute build time.
> i.e. hoofed animals can only walk or sprint

I did horse riding for a bit, that is not true. There is a lot of speed ranges you can choose from
I've heard they retained well, and basically took the forefront in both AI and GPU vending in general. That plus the specialized knowledge needed to work with such tech leads me to believe that claim. They'll be stable for decades unless something catastropic (depression level) happens.
And a middle-age'd man named XFree86 lol.
I can't speak for OP, but in my case it's a mixture of ADHD and a terrible story for bookmarking, which hasn't evolved at all in the last 20 years.
But it's not very cooperative, as in tasks yielding to each other. They mostly cooperate by letting some tasks to be given to other threads, and not all the time, but once in a heartbeat. The scheduling happens rarely, so its amortized cost is low.
To be a bit pedantic, I guess may be it is fairer to say python is the main glue language for scientific computing where DS and ML are part of. The “big bang” seems to have started from Numpy/Scipy and friends and cascading from there.

Companies like Facebook also have huge interests in speeding up python as they have a lot of stacks written in python.
NeoVim has additional scripting functionality over Vim actually, which is why some of their plugins aren’t compatible with Vim. So OP is referring to Vim over the likes of vscode, jetbrains etc
I think another big reason why Apple users are more willing to spend money is because they haven't normalized providing 'free' services the way Google has. But, I think Apple's gradually starting to encroach into pushing it too far though.
If “I thought they had a gun” is a free pass for cops to murder why won’t cops simply say “I thought I heard a cry for help” when they kick a door down without a warrant?
> My microservices all build and deploy in parallel so this system doesn't get slower as you expand to more services.

If you're deploying all your "microservices" in parallel, then what you might have built is a distributed monolith.

A microservice can be tested and deployed independently.
There are plenty of examples out there, but keeping it to the ones I've already pointed out:

Costco makes the vast majority of its profit from membership sales, and not from the items they're selling. They absolutely gatekeep access to "their" customers, and regularly play hardball with their suppliers to keep prices low, even major ones like CocaCola. Suppliers that don't meet their terms don't make it to their warehouses. Same as Apple.

The difference is their market power.
Holy shit, there are hotels that still do housekeeping every day post COVID? Please name names, I want to stay there! Even better if there are ones that still do real room service where someone wheels a cart into your room, not leaving a bag at the foot of your door.

Last time I traveled the concierge looked at me as if I was some horrible person because I requested daily housekeeping, not this "on demand" nonsense which has sadly become pervasive.
I like the WAMR approach... utilize the portability of WASM but with a wrapper for writing desktop native apps with it.
The greenfield Ladybird browser is adopting Swift as its C++ replacement language.
> hoofed animals can only walk or sprint

Horses have more than two speeds. They can walk, trot, gait, gallup.
hn.algolia.com can't do "or" so just the normal stuff for search would be a good start.
https://hn.algolia.com/help

The date chooser on hn.algolia.com is also broken but a very handy setting.

And I just saw why search always brings up wrong stuff "typo-tolerance" is default on - https://hn.algolia.com/settings

I have been to the settings, but it's a good example of why defaults matter and on-screen really helps people.

And extra crazy with "typo-tolerance" ON, "optimized" and "optimised" are very different results. Which is technically true, that is not a typo, that's grammatical.

Filter by author is important as people use that to search their own stuff.
Google's Cloud Build has always worked very well for me for remote builds, but it'd be nice if BuildKit works as consistent service interface so it's easy to switch between build backend providers.
excuses for bad tech. Elon is liar
sounds like someone needs to have USBKill amongst their drives for when these clowns try to check them.
If you find this much value in it then you'd be happy to be shown the alternatives at -30% the cost and you'd still use it. But Apple doesn't allow users to see this information.
It looks like page 79 of that doc has a typo. It says mercury in sample 1 is 113 µg/L. Maybe they meant 0.113.
> where the kitty developer is on a vendetta to refuse the historical precedent

I mean, he's not wrong. Everyone else should update their shit to be proper so that he doesn't have to deal with all this legacy nonsense. It's just annoying as hell for people using it right now.
Our rights can't be eroded, only infringed. :-)
I feel like the author needs to read the Out Of the Tarpit paper if they haven't already. It feels like they are grasping at some of the concepts that are presented there in a far clearer fashion.
Then you'll especially love Dylan Beattie's talk on this exact subject, regarding an alt-history take on the web.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JOD1AQGqEg
this sounds a lot like the psychology of having nothing to lose vs something to lose. You play more aggressively and are more successful in the former case.
> Why does patreon need its own app?

Wondering about that, too - I always use the website on my ipad since a browser allows me to enlarge the font size when reading novels on Patreon (a feature that the app does not offer).
I find it sadly shocking that they have "breakdancing" as an Olympic sport and not squash -- which is played worldwide at a very high level. It's not as popular in the US as other countries, but at least as popular as badminton.
There's a standard response to a particular PETA campaign: "Meat is murder. Delicious, delicious murder.".

It's a bit odd that someone would like to argue on the topic, but also either not have heard that or not recognize the ha-ha-only-serious nature of it.
For those confused about SCP-4987, it refers to https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/where-have-you-been-all-my-life... and not https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4987

Not sure if there was (is?) ever a true SCP article for it.
I've worked in a few places that use vibrating windows to defeat parabolic directional microphones; they've been an imoportant counter espionage measure for at least 25 years - probably a lot longer!
If Sweeney wins here, consumers win. Creators keep more donations, and patrons increase their support for the same cost. I don't think you'll find anybody who says they'll side with Sweeney no matter what, so your point doesn't seem relevant.
The problem is that stack ranking rewards the political actors and not people who heads down focus on their work. This is especially true when the organization has already been taken over by the parasites.

I think Boeing needs to immediately fire everyone in leadership positions with a finance or consulting background, unless they're under the CFO. Everyone needs to be reviewed to make sure they have the background to lead their team. If the leader can't do the work of the people at least one and ideally two levels under them they need to be fired for incompetence. Basically Boeing needs rebuilt from the top down as a company of doers.
Whether it is a distributed monolith or a set of microservices is independent of the speed of build.