skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We get it though; gotta white knight for your meal ticket

This is a rather presumptive conclusion. Unless, of course, you have specific knowledge corroborated by others such that this assertion is more than a trite ad hominem.

Full disclosure: I am not associated with anyone who owns, administers, or in any way runs this site.

Nor am I "white knighting for a meal ticket."
You do realize many US companies are not practically allowed to operate in some European jurisdictions? Uber and Amazon come to mind.
Is piracy a concern? Or are there good enough libraries to implement a client side license key mechanism?
But if the EU or Canada or Australia bought it, that would fulfill the terms of the law.
That’s not true in many domains where doing it on a personal computer would be either too long or too long in asfar as you are are skillful as using faster memory as cache.

video production, climate simulations, pdes, protein folding, etc etc
Logic Pro iPad is a subscription. It remains to be seen if the desktop version goes this way.

Reason is pushing a subscription model hard.

Online services like Splice are sub based for sounds & samples.

Bitwig is a yearly fee. You don't have to upgrade but you're probably going to have issues with newer OS versions before long if you don't.

Overall I agree it's sill a better space than most for software you actually can own.
I’ve been running BoltAI[1] and it generates enough revenue for me to work on it full time.

I follow the “perpetual license with one year of support/updates” model. So far it’s working great. My customers love it as they’re in control of the software. Some users can run BoltAI entirely offline.

But I’m adding the subscription soon as this model is not sustainable when I’m adding other cloud features such as cloud sync and other collaboration features.

I think the pricing model should reflect the value and cost of the product. If it’s more on the software side (think winzip or other smaller desktop widget where there is no or low operational cost), it should be one time payment. If it’s more on the service side (cloud sync, collaborative features, fast changing niche where you need to update the product constantly…) then it makes more sense to charge a subscription.

But the tricky part here is that potential customers might not see it that way. Many assume it’s just like another desktop app, therefore it has to be one time payment. So in my experience, I’d start with no cloud feature and offer a perpetual license. Then I’ll add a subscription and with other cloud features. Basically 2 different offerings.

[1]: https://boltai.com
What about privatized utilities then? What prevents e.g. electricity or phone companies from shutting down when they don't like some rules? It's a little more nuanced than "all or nothing".
Nothing is a foregone conclusion when investing. And yes, you need a place to live. And the mortgage is only part of your cost to live there, see my previous post.

I just had to fork out a big chunk for a new roof, and another large expense removing a very large tree that decided to lean towards the neighbor's house.
Yes! As it is, '1' is ambiguous, as it can mean "True" or '1 decisecond', and deciseconds are not a common time division. The units commonly used are either seconds or milliseconds. Using uncommon units should have a very strong justification.
Production of software is nearly 100% R&D. Making a million copies of a software product has a trivial cost. There are no assembly line workers in software (and the very word "assembly" means a different thing). A software engineer very often brings in revenue many times their salary.

Production of hardware is some R&D, and then actual manufacturing. Production of each physical item costs you. Production of every physical item has a chance to go wrong. Production of each physical item requires a number of humans (often a large number) to do repetitive, high-precision, high-skill work, as fast as practical. You can augment or replace some of them with robots but it also costs you, and you can't replace all the humans with satisfactory results.

So, with hardware, the cost of the workforce plays a major role, while with software it does much less. To produce physical things, you need a lot of people who are not well-off, and for whom factory work is an upgrade of their financial and social standing. A "developing country", with huge swaths of population leaving rural life for a better city life and factory work, is best in this regard. Ideally you sell your product to richer folks, maybe outside the country of production.

Of course there can be situations where the workers are highly paid, and produce very valuable things through their skilled work. Ford in 1950s famously paid the assembly line workers very well, so that they could buy the cars they produce, and valued their employment. But this does not always occur; people doing work that does not add a lot of resale value also want to live well, especially if the society does not want a flood of immigrants who are willing to work for much less. Check out how much the work of a plumber costs in Switzerland. So only high-precision, high-margin, low-volume manufacturing remains in Switzerland, such as precision optics, precision industrial and medical equipment, or premium mechanical Swiss watches. The US is in a somehow similar situation.
In cases like AT&T where they provide telecommunications infrastructure for much of the country, threatening a shutdown is coercive.
A little off topic, but, if you'll indulge me: Why do you think nobody has been able to make a successful alternative to Photoshop? Everybody I know complains about it constantly, and yet it's still the industry standard.
timegm was finally standardized by C23, and POSIX-2024 mentions it in the FUTURE DIRECTIONS section of mktime. I don't know precisely what happened with POSIX. I think timegm got lost in the shuffle and by the time Austin Group attention turned back to it, it made more sense to let C23 pick it up first so there were no accidental conflicts in specification.[1]

[1] POSIX-2024 incorporates C17, not C23, but in practice the typical POSIX environment going forward will likely be targeting POSIX-2024 + C23, or just POSIX-2024 + extensions; and hopefully neither POSIX nor C will wait as long between standard updates as previously.
i buy very little software but i made an exception for that recently. i bought Alternative A2DP Driver (https://www.bluetoothgoodies.com/a2dp/) from Luculent Systems, a windows driver that allows extensive configurability of my bluetooth headphones. i have a sony WH-1000XM series that supports the higher-quality LDAC codec, not supported natively by windows, and can now use them at a great 990Kbps quality.

it was a one-time purchase of $5.99, though it's unfortunately locked to a specific computer, with a small charge to use it on another machine. no subscriptions, no ongoing charges.

if you use a windows machine and bluetooth headphones with reasonable quality, it's worth a buy.
Now they’re building hundreds of gas stations every 100 meters. Gas stations with very unique architecture.
You but Not You – Headshotphoto.io
The UK pays terribly in a lot of areas when compared to the US, Canada and Australia. In software, the only way to keep up is contracting, preferably in London, preferably in finance.

But my partner also pretty much doubled her pay in retail management when we moved to Australia.

The London financial sector may be losing talent to Europe, but from what I can tell European pay in fintech is not comparable.
At the time, the idea of "Twitter as a protocol" was pretty hot during the flurry of third-party apps using the API both for posting and browsing; I remember implementing a "post a photo every day challenge" site using hashtag search, and these use cases seemed exciting at the time, creating a "cloud" of posts you could contribute to or dip into.

Then Twitter chose to go for the more boring route of monetization via ads and selling access to the firehose, closing up the API more and more, which then lead to the creation of App.Net as an alternative, if anyone remembers that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App.net
I did the same- replaced an Ender with an A1. Unfortunately, I’ve had it 10 days and have yet to be able to print anything. Won’t calibrate and cannot update firmware. Seems like a commonly reported issue but tech support is still bumbling around with no useful suggestions. I foresee it going back.
Those poor lonely parens!
I have used your headshot services - I got 10 headshots that were super awesome. Recommend it highly!!
I turned these summaries off, but then turned them back on because I find them humorous.

A bit notable: the AI summarization of spam texts makes them seem much more credible.
I find the whole summarization use case completely misses the mark. If a message is from someone I want to hear from, just give it to me verbatim. Otherwise, give me tools to delay/down-prioritize/ignore their messages.

I get the sense that making group chats silent by default would have a more useful impact on notification overload than AI summaries.
Because authenticated commands removes the liability issue. Hacking the device vs we knowingly let anything send g-code.

This is basically the equivalent to having passwords on a MySQL database or redis server.

Why on earth would they add a subscription? That makes absolutely no sense business wise. No one would buy their printers, and they don't have a captured market to strong arm anyone.
Due to the way iOS apps are sandboxed together with their user created content a lot of users have video projects that are locked into CapCut without an easy way to access them following the ban of the TikTok suite of apps. Remind me how your iPhone is yours, when your creations on your device can be locked away from you.
> I don’t have time between meetings

[guillotine raises]
European Innovation Centre for Industrial Transformation and Emissions
They’ll support him even after he sleeps with their wives and fires their sons.
ok. And you're right too that CBOR is the "correct" thing to use (despite what I said about acceptance), if we wanted to do it right. CBOR could be the only "complex" piece. Everything else could be Nostr-like (i.e. simple, and using relays).
> If you still have problems with it, turn it off... Have I done that? No, of course not. He may be messy and lack common sense, but that’s no reason for me to kill my husband!

I know this is probably a joke but it reminds me of the moral questions that appear in the Apple TV+ show Severance. The idea of turning off a feature being compared to "killing" someone reminds me of the innie/outtie moral quandaries.
Unless you are homeless why you need so many things on you all the time?

But even if yes, it's much less dangerous to lose 1 out of 1000 instead of losing one phone and poof all 1000 are gone and you are stuck asking random people a phone to call your relatives for help
Architecture is a game of constraint satisfaction
likely due to subscription fatigue

It's due to a-hole fatigue. These are too often just VMs running an installed solution in a 3rd party cloud, run like garbage and cost way too much. There are just too many vendors in the middle to get any expectation of a good experience. And to top it off, every time I buy SaaS the vendor is bought by some private equity giant before the first payment and the product turns to shit by the second one.

That said, it depends what the software does. If it's a platform for sharing or interacting with the public (e.g. eBay), then a true web app makes a lot of sense to me.
Cursor Alternative from ByteDance
That’s true. What’s the relevance of this obvious fact?
In the meantime, it seems your parliament is quabbling over (the limitation of) Maori rights and so on. I guess the end goal is to improve the economy but is the chaos worth it?
the OP is a journalistic summary of

Breaking the Flow: A Study of Interruptions
During Software Engineering Activities

Yimeng Ma, Yu Huang, Kevin Leach

(2024) icsi Portugal

it's not properly quoted, but it's directly linked, prominently.

yes, I agree, peopleware is on the must have reading list, but this article certainly is not guesses on guesses
* He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society in 1988.

* Milner received the ACM Turing Award in 1991.

* In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the ACM.

* In 2004, the Royal Society of Edinburgh awarded Milner with a Royal Medal for his "bringing about public benefits on a global scale".

* In 2008, he was elected a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering for "fundamental contributions to computer science, including the development of LCF, ML, CCS, and the π-calculus."

* The Royal Society Milner Award and the ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner Young Researcher Award are both named after him.

He had four Doctoral Students.

His Doctoral Advisor?

None, as Milner never did a PhD

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Milner
OPL Studio MIDI Synthesizer
It might be surprising, but SCOTUS confirms it
I don't think the post has held up, but the "it's not a protocol, it's just HTTP on top of TCP/IP" is a lame argument. It's clearly a protocol. I've been doing protocol engineering work since the mid-1990s, and people have been saying things built on top of HTTP aren't "protocols" since HTTP went mainstream. I was one of them, in the 1990s! That was dumb of me; most new important protocols since then have been built on top of HTTP, and I expect that to continue.

The subtext of these "it's not even a protocol" arguments are that Paul Graham doesn't know what a protocol is, which is not a plausible argument. Why make it?
I got an A1 mini about a month ago and so far it’s been decent as a beginners printer. I transfer models to the printer via the microSD card and refused to install their networking software on my machine because I don’t trust it’s safe enough. Im also very reluctant to get updates whenever they’re pushed. Maybe im spooked by past bricked devices so I keep all my devices dumb and offline as much as I can.
I just skipped to the bottom of this crap to find the real gem: it's produced with the help of ed.

Yeah, someone working with ed its not going to like 19 repeated leading spaces across lines for vertical alignment. They will like that less than even somebody working with Notepad.
Good for you.

I also feel the concern over who is President is largely overrated. It’s as perverse as deeply worrying about who the next CEO of one’s employer will be — even they aren’t that concerned!

Frankly, we should be more concerned about school board and sheriff elections but society is too broken for that to happen or be meaningful.

People act like they know Congressional/Presidental candidates as well as their own relatives yet they cant even name the local office candidates.
I also find it useful for group texts when a long conversation happens. Easier to get an idea when I don’t care to join in. Another use case for me is image descriptions, particularly in carplay.
Could use the electronics convention and save a character: 2k6
The entertainment value for me is in seeing these features turned in by Apple/Meta/Google and then working backwards to the real use cases they must be seeing. They simply wouldn’t do it if people didn’t want it, hence lots of people want it. You’re all weirdos.
You introduce four new variables. You get five lines instead of four, and four of these lines are pure cognitive overhead.
If you lie about the nature of your application, you'll only hurt performance in this configuration. You're not telling the OS what cores to run on, you're simply giving hints as to how the program behaves. It's no different than telling the threadpool manager how many threads to create or if a thread is long lived. It's a platform agnostic hint to help performance. And remember, this is all optional, just like the threadpool example that already exists in most major languages. Are you going to argue that programs shouldn't have access to core count information on the cpu too? They'll just shoot their foots as you said.
If it can burn down your house with the wrong G-code, adding a cloud service is not the way to fix that.
Gimp works great. The worst thing about it is the lack of high end YouTube video tutorials. That's what you're really paying for with Adobe, I think.
Actually, websites shouldn’t set a preferred color scheme by default.
I may be cynical but I don't think men flee fields were women manage to enter. I do see this trend though. But I rather see it as men moving to the next cool thing, leaving the leftovers of their no longer prestigious / downward trending field for women to finally enter, who may see it as a victory without realizing the goalpost has yet again shifted on them/carpet has been pulled from under their feet already.

Much like women no longer qualified as gamers for playing the same games that men grew up with (point n click, puzzle games...) because men flocked to newer genres since (actions/shooter) Bit of a dated caricature but fitting imho.

If men wanted to keep women out, it is easily managed, case in point programming was seen as secretarial work until men decided it made good money and they should appropriate it.

(Fully expecting to be downvoted for saying this)
>In plain English, this means Trump once he is President will have authority to order a one-time up-to 90-day extension to enforcing the ban if TikTok can present evidence that they are in the process of selling to an American entity.

There is zero chance he can satisfy A, B, and C tomorrow. Zero.
I used to worry about it a lot but now I have made peace with it. It's a cat and mouse game. Pirates will always find a way no matter how hard you make it to crack. There's no way to make it impossible to crack.
How do you get kids if you can’t meet someone your age to partner up with?
Completely agree, the problem in Europe is not regulations or anything like that - it is a mindset issue. It is one of things that europeans can learn from Americans.

My hypothesis is that this is a combination of old money and class consciousness. In other words, the rich are risk averse because all they care is preserving their wealth and the working class don’t believe and can’t even imagine that more is possible.
prenatal consent

I don't think that means what you think it does.
Wait till you see US troops on the ground in Ukraine working hand in hand with russians, killing Ukrainians because Zelensky refused Trump "just give up" deal.
Good point. Nationalise essential services
> The world is more than just China and the United States.

But this particular situation is not. A Chinese controlled company that operates in the US. If you want access to $CC market you are subject to $CC's rules. Other countries do exactly the same thing (aside from China, GDPR comes to mind) so it's unclear what the basis for your complaint is here.
OTOH, in some ways it does seem to have bitten off more than it can chew ;)

Perhaps not digesting everything very well either.

And then there's the reverse where the world's sick enough of some of the stuff since 2011 that it's virtually puking it back up like projectile vomit.
I work for a solar CAD+CRUD app that runs in browser. WebGL is more than fun stuff. Wasm is becoming The Way to run applications in a portable way in servers.
China is Tesla's second-largest market and the company is granted special privileges there that other foreign-owned companies don't receive thanks to Musk's warm relationship with China. He will not rock the boat that hard.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230813015210/https://www.nytim...
As someone who has shopped for a dumb TV, this may very well never happen.
EU meaning… Germany?
Do you really think it's just a matter of style whether or not you must add or remove a parenthesis? Or whether that change shows up in a diff?
There is no mechanism by which Trump can offer a statement of intent that legally binds him to following that specific course of action after he becomes president.
or, alternatively the limitation of Pākehā rights.

It goes to the foundational treaty between the two peoples and the land grants and land uses agreed to.

There are sticking points lost in translation, to say the least.
Great app, I actually mentioned you in my other comments as a good example of a one-time payment model and why it works for you, at least until you add the more service oriented features as you mentioned.
Commute is killing lot of creativity.
But TikTok is an entertainment, not utility, company
Implementation is what takes that raw R&D and uses it to solve problems real problems, which is where it derives it value. Armies of people slightly modifying slightly different saas is how those foundational ML models end up in the everymans workflow.
I don’t use TikTok but the “down” page mentioned you can still login to download data. What’s the cost and scope of providing that feature without US cloud providers?
Maybe a not-so-hot take on this... The only option this configuration parameter should take is "never", which should also be the default. Any other value should be interpreted as "never".
>>The fruit loops in Europe have natural food coloring which isn't known to cause cancer

>are you just being obtuse about the artificial colors?

No, just being evidence-based. There's no particular harm known to come from Red 40. It's popularly associated with cancer, similar to how homeopathy is popularly associated with cures. There's no significant evidence of any harm to be concerned about.
unfortunately, California alone cannot carry the entire US in reversing climate change. We need federal action to get this country out of the stone age.

Shame this stupid country re-elected a very friendly administration of the O&G industry, gutted the regulatory agencies with reversal of Chevron deference, and a party which installed a SCOTUS that is _very_ friendly to O&G.

It fucking sucks and I hate it. We have failed and the decisions happening today (re-election of an idiot) will be felt for _decades_
You can be passed out in the back seat but a car crash is still going to kill you
Once you have even a small amount of that background it's complete shit. Or else if it isn't, nobody wants to work with you. But at that point that probably suits you fine. If you want to work completely alone, yet be maximally productive, you've landed in a good language family.
Some fair points, but remember that the US had the benefit of knowing that post-WW1 settlement was a failure. Of course, Wilson did object to the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles, so it's fair to say the US had a better perspective from the start -- though one can argue that the US' own failure to ratify the League of Nations was a contributing factor to WW2.

Another key factor is that the US had no empire to hold together, and, to its credit, wisely did not seek to expand its territory after WW2 in order to create one (which it could have easily done, and which the UK had done many times before).
Read the linked paper, rephrase the question and ask again.
I worked, fortunately briefly, in Apple’s AI/ML organization.

It was difficult to believe the overhead, inefficiency, and cruft. Status updates in a wiki page tens of thousands of words long in tables too large and ill-formatted for anyone to possibly glean. Several teams clamboring to work on the latest hot topic for that year’s WWDC — in my year it was “privacy-preserving ML”. At least four of five teams that I knew of.

They have too much money and don’t want to do layoffs because they’re afraid of leaks, so they just keep people around forever doing next to nothing, since it’s their brand and high-margin hardware that drives the business. It was baked into the Apple culture to “go with the flow”, a refrain I heard many times, which I understood to mean stand-by and pretend to be busy while layers of bureaucracy obscure the fact that a solid half of the engineers could vanish to very little detriment.