skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe they are called "apps" now, it's a $500B market. As far as desktop software, it's the same as it ever was... you make a product, you release it for download, you sell a license. No mystery to it.

But it often makes more sense to sell it as a subscription; you can make it very cheap for the user up front, and get a continuous revenue stream. Subscriptions make more sense if you provide constant updates, support or online services.

If you don't do those things, one-time purchase might be better. Require a new license for major versions, put your killer new features in there. Traditional vendors like Microsoft do this with their software.

You can also just combine the two, and let people purchase it once for one release, and subscribe to get support and more services/features.
Ah yes, the Robert Mugabe school of economics, a surefire way to create a nation of billionaires.
If you're going to store that unit in one byte (possible even signed) suddenly deci-seconds start making a lot of sense
The difference between 20 ms and 30ms is the difference between 33 fps and 50 fps which is entirely noticable on a 1080p60hz screen.
I’ve personally harped on the failure of globalization since the 1990s, before it was cool.

Nothing has been this bad.

But perhaps I’m wrong. Could you point out how today is the same as before?
The problem with a poll is that the general public is likely not privy to all the information that the people in charge have. I think the best thing to do here is just come out with all of it, lay it on the table, and see what the public thinks then. If you have a good reason then show us.
The president can, and he promises he will take said action.
Numbeo: Largest crowd sourced Cost of Living database
New "software" grads? Easily? Today? In flyover country? I'm not seeing it. Salaries got a nice bump over the last few years, but hiring has slowed down and new grads are the first to suffer. (and some of what you see when people on forums like this one talk about what they're paid is bullshit, for some reason)
It's like the difference between Bacardi 151 and Michelob Ultra.
David Lynch
I'm thinking the next time I have to spin up some swag for a conference, it will include hashiibukuro. Mostly just to be memorable.
I had never heard of Enver Hoxha until I listened to the episodes about him on the Real Dictators podcast. Very wild stuff. I find it really fascinating and rather sobering that these invasive authoritarian governments can one day take root and control most or all of the rest of your life. I fear that people's complacency or thoughts that "surely it can't happen here" are part of what lets them rise in the first place, and I wonder just how quickly you can find yourself inside of one.
Why do most users believe this when it's obvious to me that Musk is a petty tyrant who bought X to expand his petty tyranny?
Credit where credit is due. https://x.com/secretGeek/status/7269997868
A foundation? Kamala got a $20 million "book deal". Obama took the Clinton method to ridiculous extremes getting paid $400k for 30 minute chats of minimal content, repeatedly.
curl https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/AA1xolsJ \
|sed 's/.*body":"//;s/","readTimeMin.*//' \
|tr -d '\n\134\xa0\xc2\xe2\x80\x93' > 1.htm

firefox ./1.htm
Why would the US want the UK? The UK does not seem to have natural resources that the US would want. The main resource is intellectual talent, which is already free for the US to obtain via immigration and a common language.
I lived and worked in both countries and I feel like the UK is in a worse situation than France nowadays.

It's hard to admit for French citizens but the EU significantly props up the French economy and reduces the structural issues of the country.
Absolutely. No public transport, almost no culture, and housing anywhere nice is even less available than in London. For a young person working at one of these firms, where can you live? Where could you meet someone to date? What can you even do at the weekend?
No my point was that both sides are frequently manipulated, but I see comments on the Internet EVERY DAY to the effect of 'the other side is being manipulated', apparently oblivious to their own manipulated opinions.

And CNN has ALWAYS been a propaganda wing, they just didn't have a serious competitor during the era when both parties were controlled by the same group. (Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama)
I understand the first one, but why the second two?
It's a very similar philosophy to Qubes - one of their open challenges is to port the qubes infrastructure over since qubes is (in theory at least) hypervisor independent. https://genode.org/about/challenges Which would be nice since NOVA hypervisor is dramatically less code then Xen and Nitpicker/Dialog for the management console is dramatically less code than Fedora.

I've looked into it briefly but it seems like too much work for me right now.

The True Genode Way of course is that everything worth having would eventually be ported as a native genode component instead of a qubes style VM. They've put a lot of effort into making that as easy as they can with Goa (a nix-inspired package management and build tool) and adding to their C standard library and ports of popular 3rd party libs like SDL
That's the toxic English class system working as designed.
Most older closed systems were vanquished by the end of the 80s, early 90s.

Unfortunately, the mobile revolution didn't work that way. Regular folks don't care about open, flexible, and cheap. Only convenient and cheap. The gravity of those folks has led us here.
Over the years I’ve come to realize that coders will argue about protocol and what that says about someone’s personality - anytime, anywhere.
I see a lot of people get started by building an otherwise indispensable app within their extremely niche business and selling it to the other 100 entities in the same vertical.
Show HN: WapiKi-Open-Source WhatsApp Business Manager for Campaigns and Support
I built WapiKit, an open-source, self-hosted WhatsApp business manager. It’s a single-binary tool.

Built with Go, it’s privacy-friendly, lightweight, and free (just pay WhatsApp API costs).

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=angyd5-gKtU&t=1s
>Maybe the profit margins for software are higher.

This is easily confirmed by checking public financials of publicly listed companies. The profit margins are much higher, and the liability is much lower. The only exception is for those hardware manufacturers at the cutting edge whose products cannot be commodified, such as TSMC and ASML and the ilk.
Uber has used this tactic many times in their early days. It mostly worked because citizens got used to cheap rides and got mad at their government for taking it away.
The executive branch is responsible for enforcement of laws. He could just choose not to enforce it, no?
Down-ranking "political content" requires a definition of "politics" which is, inherently, an ideological posture, QED all content that remains is "political content."

It's an oxymoron.
Are you saying serving content to the application would not count as maintenance?
Yep -- I read that, but that doesn't spell out auth back to BBL's servers, just auth.

And keep in mind that OrcaSlicer already used Bambu Network Plugin to communicate with their printers. (It prompted you to download this on install of OrcaSlicer if you picked one of their printers.)

The move to Connect means that OrcaSlicer needs to send the print data to Connect via a protocol handler instead of to the plugin. Connect will then send it on to the printer itself, and from what I've seen it'll do that over LAN. (But I can't test because my printer doesn't support this yet.) I see this as akin to a print driver vs. printer-specific support built into an app. Not a bad thing at all, if done right.

The plugin already did (very minimal) auth via the Access Code and can do it with the printer and Bambu Network Plugin completely isolated from the internet. (I've done this.) So I'd like to know specifics of what's changing here.
This was my experience even before COVID. Most of my meeting were video calls due to time zones and different offices.
Because if they were owned by an American company it’s much less likely they’d allow that content to go viral.
I don't think you understand socialism and capitalism.

Suppression of wages is very much a feature of capitalism (the company's mission is to acquire capital for shareholders; technology that lowers costs by reducing the need for labor, or reducing the payment for labor, is a goal); whereas socialism holds that those who do the work should benefit from their labor (workers should own the means of production).

A "socialist" company in the U.S. would be an employee-owned company or a co-op (like REI) though they would never call themselves that because Americans don't understand what socialism is (and have been taught that it's "evil").
The problem with the nimby/ecofascist/exclusionary perspectives is the obvious retort is always "okay, yes there are too many people in this domain. The solution then is for you to quit, not me." And substitute whichever group doesn't encompass you which usually falls along racial, gender, or class lines. At the end of it, no one wants to fall on their sword for everyone else.

The thing is the older I get, the more it does seem like at the very least we are not growing pie in a number of areas (the example at the top of my mind is academia) and sometimes it just seems like an easier solution is to decrease the numerator. But I don't know how you can do that and justify it morally, both to society and to yourself.
https://mathspp.com/blog/sockets-for-dummies might help
There's also Fuzzing 101: https://github.com/antonio-morales/Fuzzing101
I expect these comments to be full of agreement. Corporate behavior in the computer space leaves much to he desired.

I will however observe;

None of the supplied examples showed any form of network effect. It was all stuff you did at home.

Today, there are certainly options for personal computing for most everything- as long as network effects are not in play.

Those options may not be as convenient, as cheap, or as feature-rich as the invasive option. That's fair though - you decide what you want to prioritize.

Network effects are harder to deal with. To the extent that in order to be in community you need to adopt the software the community has chosen.

Not surprisingly, software producers that can build-in network effects, do so. It's excellent from a lock-in point of view.

The title of the article is perhaps then ironic. It's trivial to make computing personal. All the tools to do so already exist.

The issue is not Personal Computing. It's Community Computing.
It can be >1% of that figure and still be at "millions of self-hosted installs." "Normal people" should not be self hosting in the first place, not sure why you got the impression that they should be. I should amend my previous comment though, I meant that for normal people, they should be able to follow the hosted Ghost instructions and if they can't do that then they don't deserve to have a blog, not that they should set up self hosting themselves, as that's not feasible for most non-technical people.
> the executive branch MUST enforce it

Or what?

(I'm not being flippant. Are there consequences I'm not aware of if he decides not to enforce?)
Text can be addictive though, silly and arbitrary distinction.
Bambu should be working on scaling their consumables and customer service, it takes weeks to resolve any tickets, 8 days to a first response has been normal for them.
That's a rather sad office. Maybe I'm just lucky, but my experience is that if you're in the office, you will meet people and have casual chats with them.
A lot of normie voters care but they are at least one if not two generations removed from the median TikTok user. Generational divides can be pretty stark and it's clear that future generations increasingly don't care as much about internet privacy. In fact, being a public figure on the internet is a good thing these days since you can make a career out of it.
Yes, I’d love to drive to an office just to zoom with my teammates in different time zones.
The problem with centralized totalitarian/socialist/dictatorial governments is that they can be hijacked by an idea and over-execute on it with no feedback from the people, until the resources really needed are blown out. In capitalism, companies specialize on human needs and if a need goes away, investments can go down rapidly, unless the feedback loop is guarded by some government regulation. But when government is doing the investing, the whims or corruption of politicians has no feedback loop.
anybody who really wants to learn to code will just install linux on an old clunker. every uni and highschool student i know who means business does this.
broad brushstrokes: democracy as a sideshow while the rulers prioritise warriorism over the material needs of the population was clear last century.

what's worse? I mean, I'll readily admit that the sideshow has got more ridiculous, but the main game is the same.
You’d be surprised how many people that work in Manhattan offices have 1hr+ long commutes.
You might want to look into the "commons clause". It is a non opensource addition to a license, but is relative simple.

You will not find an OSI license with the protections you want because it is a violation of open source principles.
I should probably have a pre-defined disclaimer "signature" whenever I write about Mac OS, since I always get this response.

I know Linux exists. In fact, I've been using it as my primary OS roughly from 1994 to 2006, and since then intermittently for some tasks, or as a main development machine for a couple of years. I wrote device drivers for Linux and helped with testing the early suspend/hibernate implementations. I'm all in support of Linux.

But when I need to get work done, I do it on MacOS, because it mostly works and I don't have to spend time on dealing with font size issues, window placement annoyances, GPU driver bugs, and the like. And I get drag&drop that works anywhere. All this makes me more efficient.

But I don't want to turn this discussion into a Linux vs MacOS advocacy thread: that's not what it's about. In fact, if we were to turn back to the main topic (ensh*ttification of everything around us), Linux would be there, too: my Ubuntu already displays ads in apt, as well as pesters me with FUD about security updates that I could get if I only subscribed. This problem is not magically cured by switching to any Linux, it's endemic in the world we live in today.
Titans [1] goes sort of a bit in this direction.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00663
I do wonder how much friction it'll really add, since the slicers can send the data to Connect via a protocol handler.

It also means that Connect could act as a farm / queueing system as well, more like a print driver vs. individual printer support within the app.
Foreign countries are already banned from owning TV stations in the United States so this is certainly not a speech issue. I dont think its clear that Trump can really save TikTok without passing a law through congress though.
SCOTUS pointed out that they weren't crimes committed by Trump. We then saw the political prosecutions of Trump backfire spectacularly in a way that strongly suggests that the balance of the US population agreed with the SCOTUS call that the prosecutors didn't have a case that Trump had to answer for.
Please share any pre-Covid example of the government shutting down all public gatherings including weddings and funerals and closing the vast majority of businesses for a substantial period of time.

There may have been isolated examples in the past, but the degree was not the same.
In the is Seattle area you’re likely spending 30-45 min to go 10-15 miles. 20 miles is easily an hour.
what else would it be auth'ing against if not Bambu servers?
Wait, wouldn't it be cheaper for him to buy, if excluded from the US market, so he can make more upside?
> he could have offered private and legally binding statements

No, he couldn't? It's not even clear he'll be able to do anything with an executive order when he is sworn in, but President elects certainly can't.
Also - their defaults are pretty hilarious.

They dont assume you want a RAM-Only filesystem. By default it starts out completely immutable with nothing being able to save anything anywhere.

If you want to save anything to a hard drive you have to enable that driver because they don't assume that you'd need one.

Copy and paste is an optional extra to install

It's wild :p
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Not to disagree, there's interesting stuff in the nature of "posh" english and how it has shifted over time. I am told a lot of racing slang wound up being used by upper class twits, Polari was picked up by art college students. Everyone speaks a bit Essex now.

Scots has it's own posh and working class, as does Liverpool and Newcastle. Even in regions, you can tell. "sex is what morningside ladies get their coal in" and all.
Wouldn't TikTok become that bugbear of free market economies, State Run Media?
iOS 18.1 has enabled more and deeper integrations: You can now essentially write your own, custom-logic SE applications, and more use cases are available than before.

But all of that is still gated behind a ton of requirements, most importantly a required third-party lab certification [1]. I haven't found anything regarding pricing (but I'd be willing to bet it still doesn't come cheap), but even just the public requirements make this a no-go for hobbyist projects, unlike Android's HCE.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/support/nfc-se-platform/
Basically zero communities have the growth needed to compete with commercial offerings. Eventually users switch to a different paid offering because it has better fratures/performance. That's how communities die.
AIPAC is an organization made up of American Jews, not Israelis.
> None of those obviously correlate to the kinds of websites you’re allowed to visit.

They don't have to.

> The issue is that it’s awfully close to the kind of speech you are “permitted” to be exposed to, which is a slippery slope.

It is not. The so-called "free speech" issue with this ban is bullshit and a red herring.
“Good thing” doesn’t have to mean good for you. It could mean good for the platform.
I program most languages like this, in emacs.
Which prusa would you recommend for someone switching from a bambu P1S? Primary requirements are single-color PLA and PETG with a comparable ease of use, speed and print quality.
I don't know why you think he couldn't. A legally binding statement of intent to offer TikTok the 90-day window and work out a "deal" once in office would be more than sufficient justification for the heads of the various companies involved to ease enforcement until things become more resolved.
There definitely is neglect and a slippery slope.

The new settings are half-baked and terrible. The OS pesters me constantly to update to the latest revision and I can't turn those messages off, not even close the notification without displaying the settings app. And I don't want the latest revision, because it is buggy, breaks a number of apps, and introduces the "AI" features that I do not want or need.

More and more often good apps get broken by the new OS policies (SuperDuper is a recent example).

The old style of system apps that did wonderful things is gone (think Quicktime player, or Preview), these apps are mostly neglected. The new style is half-baked multi-platform apps like settings, that do little, and what they do, they do poorly.
The U.S. is still the second largest manufacturer in the world by a large margin [1][2]

Like, yes, manufacturing's % of US GDP is low (and has been decreasing for a long time) and manufacturing employment is flat or slowly increasing but we're still making a lot of stuff.

[1] https://www.nist.gov/el/applied-economics-office/manufacturi...

[2] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/manufactu...
I'd sort of invert that and say it's better to use LLMs to just generate tons more test cases for the SQL DBs. Theoretically we could use LLMs to create 100s of Thousands (unlimited really) of test cases for any SQL system, where you could pretty much certify the entire SQL capability. Maybe such a standardized test suite already exists, but it was probably written by humans.
I don't thank that Dan is saying that the discussion is best held elsewhere. And I don't think he's saying it shouldn't be held. I take his point to be that if you are going to start that discussion, you are responsible for the overall effect it's going to have on the conversation.

When he says "a comment like that would need to be written in a particularly flame-retardant style" he's asking you to write your comments the same way you've done for the two comments directed at him: as if you are trying to persuade someone intelligent who happens to disagree with you.

There's no need "limit your comments to the tech arena". It sounds like we'd be better off if you bring your full experience---not too many people know both law and programming. But please do it in the style of these excellent follow-up responses rather than the flame-bait you started with!
Nitpick here: both models are still SaaS, the only difference is the first way was deployed via (desktop?) app and the second via web.

But indeed, web is typically the most flexible option unless you are leveraging something on the OS that would otherwise be cumbersom or impossible via web (not often the case)
There’s two hard problems in computer science: cacsynchronizing shared access to the same resource.he invalidation, and
It wouldn't be HN if it's been six hours without attempting to shame someone with HTTPS demagoguery.
'Horrible look': Crypto lobby reels from Trump's 'memecoin'
Data point 3: does not work for me. Also using NetNewsWire. “Throttled or blocked” changes nothing, if it’s down for half of visitors then it’s down for half of visitors. I highly doubt NetNewsWire is breaching spec or poorly behaved. I bet rachelbythebay is just throttling by IP address and really has a 24 hour limit of exactly 1, so only one person per IP per day can subscribe.
Perhaps some... other or better way of authenticating to the printer? Previously there was just a single, essentially fixed, numeric string that gave complete access to the printer, and communication was via TLS with a self-signed cert.

I don't want to hypothesize about what it could be doing, I want to see what it's actually doing (or see some actual info from folks about what they've seen) so I can decide if I'm comfortable with that or not.
Cryptography is a means to an end.

You can achieve both better privacy (e.g. by not revealing the UID to unauthenticated readers, and never in plaintext) and better tracking (by cryptographically authenticating cards to unauthenticated readers), depending on how you structure the system, so I don't think it's possible to intrinsically say one is more private than the other.
If the UK wants to pretend that WW2 (or, indeed, WW1) happened like a shock storm, unforseen and unforseeable, with no involvement from them they are welcome to do that. The result of that attitude was that the UK parliament was only allowed to govern a small and increasingly irrelevant island with lousy weather and steadily worsening economic prospects instead of a global empire.

There is a lesson for people governing global empires here - don't allow major wars to blow up on your borders. Or, ideally, anywhere. Maybe spend some time promoting peace and prosperity. Train the diplomats in diplomacy.

You'll notice that the US solution at the end of WWII was completely different to the European settlement at the end of WWI. And the US approach to warring was a lot more staid than the UK's. These are basic matters of competence.