skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was some low hanging fruit for companies to create subscription plans who shouldn’t have been adding them. The more subscriptions your target customer has, the harder it is to convert them on the new one. For the business side the ceiling is a lot higher, but for consumers there is a very low limit.

Each market is different, but when I look at an area like Photoshop or Illustrator, the competition keeps getting better. In some areas they aren’t even competing.

The workflow of a game artist will have them going through a bunch of different products to get to an end result. A lot of those steps can have alternatives. If a vendor has some proprietary format that doesn’t work with anything else they never even get a user base.

If a subscription is funding continuous development, and th company is doing a good job, and I use the software daily it doesn’t bother me. If I use it twice a year, I’m going to be looking hard at alternatives.
Last octet or first?
> The middle ground doesn't work

The "middle ground" has been the most common model for desktop app pricing for decades. You buy version X of a product. When the next major version is released you pay an upgrade price.

In fact, the "middle ground" has been the norm for the majority of software apps over the history of desktop computing. It's the SaaS subscription model for cloud-hosted software that is the new deviation. But that cloud-based subscription model is now leaking into desktop apps (like the Adobe suite).
> The biggest hurdle is not price elasticity between getting someone to pay $10 versus $35, it's getting people to pay anything instead of something.

I'm not doubting that's tough; but it's significantly easier to get someone to pay $1/month than $35/month. People aren't completely stupid; they won't just blindly pay any amount just because they'd decided they'd pay something.

Like I said though; if I was making this decision, I'd start high.
Agreed. It's just a downward spiral and my fault is that I've stuck myself in it for so long. So maybe it is worth bailing asap? My 401k vests in August, which would be about 8k extra.

I don't want to be a developer even 5 years down the line. For me it is simply to develop this toolset, so that I can better understand how to build solutions for REAL problems (banking doesn't seem real enough to me). Something in the environmental or healthcare field seems interesting to me.
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Here’s the problem with paying per article read: The vast majority of people likely don’t want to read articles so much as they want to say, “I subscribe to The NY Times.”

Netflix released data showing that people added documentaries and art house movies to their queues but never watched them. Instead they watched the same action movies and comedies over and over.

It’s the same reason as why gyms charge per month not per visit. What people say they do and what they actually do is barely connected at all.
All these workarounds sound like a reason to use start using tramp more (apropos, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dljNabciEGg / http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.htm... is a pretty neat demo of combining org-babel and tramp).

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There is also emamux, which seems to be able to copy from tmux: https://github.com/syohex/emacs-emamux/#emamuxyank-from-list...
Good question. It used to require a membership (I think it's like $70/year); then there is a fee for the course on top. I believe now they have opened the courses up to the public.

There are two courses, actually. The first one focuses on sun sights- I've had that one. The second uses other stars. It's really for marine folks- so it includes a lot of navigation stuff.

https://americasboatingclub.org/education-matters/in-person-...
How to change emotions with a word: study (2018)
Anyone here using solar on their home? What did the initial investment cost?
Okay, this comes up sometimes in climate-related topics, usually because of a combination of misunderstanding and a need to be the clever contrarian that's thought of something nobody else has.

The question isn't whether Earth will survive these CO2 levels. Earth will (probably) be just fine. It's common knowledge, especially among the scientists that publish claims about rising CO2 levels, that Earth has had much higher levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the past, and that at those times, there was lots of life.

The question isn't necessarily even whether humans will survive much higher CO2 levels. We're resourceful, we have the ability to shape our environment. Some people will survive.

The question is how much we're going to enjoy all of the adverse effects of this global climate change. It is going to cause or contribute to a lot of natural disasters: hurricanes, tornadoes, extreme storms, droughts, flooding, massive wildfires. There are going to be migrations. Wars. There are some solid arguments that climate change contributed to the Syrian civil war [1]. Many species are going to disappear as they fail to adapt quickly enough to the changing environment; it will take much longer for new species to take their place. We will see, for example, an environment with fewer butterflies and more mosquitoes -- many more.

Nobody is going to get out of this unscathed. It's going to cause widespread political and economic instability and unrest. Even if you manage to find yourself a nice little spot untouched by the most direct effects of climate change, it's going to cause enough suffering in enough other parts of our globally interconnected human society that you'll see the costs somewhere. The US spent a record $306 billion on disaster response last year. Where do you think that money comes from?

[1]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-ha...
That's not a great example. You can buy your own plastic bags for 1 cent a piece on amazon.
> One way we could fix that situation would be to allow subscriptions to combine together more cheaply.

“There are two ways to make money in business: You can unbundle, or you can bundle.” — Jim Barksdale.
> I highly doubt it.

I never said it was likely, just possible. And I wouldn't question the incompetence of anyone these days; big companies make questionable decisions all the time ;-)
Those maps are usually orientated so that the direction you're looking at them is how things are laid out.

From traveling in different countries, I've learned to first look for the compass rose before assuming north is up.
Mandatory, yes, but the GDPR does not say it should be done for free. I offer data exports for all my services, so I'm compliant with the GDPR, but you will have to pay me for my time
The value of stone money has always been fluid, challenging the Western concept that currency value is pre-determined and fixed.

How can you write an article about money and be this ignorant? Western currency value is predetermined and fixed? Really? Currency value fluctuates, some currencies fluctuate a lot, and the value is neither predetermined nor fixed. The value of our currencies is probably just as arbitrary as the value of these rocks - probably even more because you cannot make rocks out of thin air behind other people's backs.
I don't understand your complaint, especially since the OC register article you seem to like for whatever reason is not the first to publish and is itself just a cribbed knockoff.

Are we expected to research every URL and find the first to report on it no matter what? Even if it's obscure, out of date, or wrong?
That seems counter to what makes moviepass so successful. I pay a fixed monthly cost, and now the incremental cost of each movie is $0. Decoupling the consumption from the payment changes how I think about going to see a movie. It seems like consumers may prefer this model, at least with regards to movies in theaters (moviepass), movies and tv at home (netflix), and music (spotify).
I want to warn my fellow readers that this point, besides being absolutely spot on, is insanely hard to do. The golden cage is real, at every level, beginner to advanced.

Only when you say no to a better paying offer you can affirm that you learned the lesson.
And even countries like Germany who say they take climate change seriously are revising their CO2 goals because they are having trouble meeting them due to their abandonment of nuclear power. https://euobserver.com/environment/140475

At this point if you are opposing nuclear power, you aren't taking climate change seriously, even if you say you are.
There was poor math and methodology behind that 1 in 100,000 estimate though. I don't think that level of error should be held against an estimate made with rigourous and scientifically valid methodology.

https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/roge...
The question isn't whether some humans will survive or not, but where they will survive, and how expensive it is to adjust to that change.
> Anyway, monads are hard to compose,

Monads don't compose because monads shouldn't compose. Many things form monads that do not form proper effects. Perhaps the most obvious is the typical continuation monad. It is a good thing that this particular monad does not compose because if it did, you'd be in for a ton of hurt in understanding what happened when.

Effect systems are good when all you want to do is write code that has effects. Monads are not really about effects, although they can be used to describe certain classes of them. Monads are nevertheless, strictly more powerful.
For a lot of digital businesses a subscription makes sense.

Imagine if back in the day Rails Casts was $3 an episode instead of $20 per month for unlimited monthly access.

Suddenly if you wanted to learn Rails, you'd end up watching many dozens or hundreds of 5-10 minute videos for $3 a pop. You would constantly feel like you're being nickel and dimed. It's hard enough to get someone to buy from you once, but expecting someone to make dozens or hundreds of small transactions would be madness.

It creates a really high pressure scammy feel to it IMO.

Don't you feel the same way?
This is going to happen, potentially: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Asian_Railway

Of course, it will go through Russia and Belarus. I’m not sure anyone will be too keen to rely on it absolutely.
Great story man and inspirational. I oscillate between this thinking and the capitalist mindset that I'll "fall behind" by going out and letting it flow for a few months to a year. Just wondering, how old were you when you did it and how much did you have saved up? Also, did your "skills" deteriorate or did you work on "productive things" while you were out in the world?

I really just want to go the same thing, I also am into human languages. Even just for the idea, like you said, that you DID it. Get it out of the system and then see what comes next in life. I've met tons of people on the road while traveling before. People you could link up with for business and life ventures in the future. Never a linear path.
Gitea is a disreputable and hostile fork of gogs. You should stick to gogs.
Yeah, what about it?

The non-jerkish community-friendly thing for them to do would be to recognize the need and reality of such questions, and devote a special type of general start-off point like pages for such topics.

Instead they hide behind the "original purpose and rules", as if what they came up in advance could have captured 100% of what's useful for such a community/website.
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The one at Sugar House in Charleston, SC was famous for punishing slaves.
> Every day you are being subsidized by users that don't use adblockers

I guess I'm a subsidiser; I don't use an ad blocker (for many reasons). I'm also slightly of the opinion that people using ad-blockers have made things worse for those that don't :(

I don't mind ads - I don't even mind advertises tracking some things to give me more relevant ads (heck, I'd tell them what I like to get more relevant ads).. I do mind obtrusive and noisy ads, and the security risks that tend to come with them (and other third party content) being slapped on every site with no thought though; and for some content I would pay to a reasonable fee to remove them.
Yeah. This is going to raise the cost of new housing even further; one wishes that it were combined with something like SB 827: https://www.vox.com/cities-and-urbanism/2018/2/23/17011154/s... (which failed in committee).
I'm wondering if Gitea is a little better than Gogs in term of security.

I remember that Debian considered Gogs to replace Alioth, but rejected it because of security concerns like injections (SQL XSS, etc).

I've also seen Gogs REST API behave badly when we tried to migrate/create a few hundred repositories using said API. Some of the repositories had special characters in their names, and the REST API accepted them without warnings. And after that the instance was pretty much unusable.

It was a while ago, but at the time, it seems that Gogs didn't do much input sanitization.
> I'd expect prompting users to choose whether reading a story is worth $0.05 to them every time will cause them to read and engage significantly less.

The example that gives me a little bit of optimism in the long run is power: people don't really have a problem with the fact that their power bill is pay-per-use, and if it discourages them from unduly wasting power, all the better.

But the problem you describe is still significant: people are _already_ used to that dynamic for electricity, and it's not clear to me how to get over the hump where they'd treat micro transactions for publishing in the way you describe. Most people aren't remotely rational enough to realize on their own that stressing over each minuscule payment has a cost of its own and coming up with a better strategy for handling it. (In the electricity example, this is the difference between 1) calculating the power usage of each device in your house and considering whether you want to pay a few cents before flicking that light switch or 2) conserve in common sense ways and adjust if necessary based on your monthly bill.)

> When Washington DC did it, plastic bag use dropped by 50% - 70%. I'd see people that just spent $30 bucks at the store with their arms overflowing with stuff rather than pay that extra nickel.

Case in point... This may be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. My city has had a ten cent bag tax for a long time now, and the way everyone reacts is 1) carry it in your hand if it's one or two small things, 2) pay a freaking dime if you have too much stuff and be slightly more likely to remember your reusable bag next time.
Selling a product for a set one-time fee is a "pyramid scheme"? Is someone producing and selling apples running a pyramid scheme as well?
What you're describing sounds similar to Basic Attention Token [1] which is used by Brave browser [2].

[1] https://basicattentiontoken.org/

[2] https://brave.com/
Blendle looks awesome, thanks!

It's worth it to me to avoid managing dozens of separate logins for every site.
That's probably right.
That doesn't change the fact that there are adverse effects we are noticing, which CO2 is a contributor to.

Its also worth noting that a lot of what has scientists concerned is the rate at which we are seeing these changes.
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Modern, mechanical sails have been tried, too. The Japanese Nippon Kokan built ships like this in the 1980's:

http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/66022.html

Apparently the savings in fuel consumption were ~10%, so not really worth the hassle. Viking Grace's new tube may actually be more effective if the 20% of fuel savings can be trusted, besides being simpler to operate and less intrusive.
What would you recommend as CI solution for gitea?

I'm looking for something that's self hosted, foss and does not require an admin to set it up for every project. GitLab offers this, but I haven't found anything that competes really.
About Ulysses specifically... they say when they were charging a monthly fee their users still expected regular updates after they paid.. and that sales would spike after a release, then fall to an unsustainable level:
https://medium.com/building-ulysses/why-were-switching-ulyss...

"that price is vastly out of proportion from the cost of providing the software"

That's just an unfounded assumption by the author. He says he knows this, even though he doesn't know how many developers are working on it, what they get paid, how much time each release takes, how large the code base is, or how many users the product has. Essentially, he has made up a cost in his head, and decided that the costs must be less than his fantasy. For all we know, he's one of 2 users, and the cost for keeping his editor available is $100k/yr/user.

This also completely ignores the fact that prices for software aren't generally set using cost plus pricing.
Don't we have better water-based power storage systems called reservoirs? Far many more 'recharge cycles' and there are some that operate by storing water pumped during times of excess energy generation and then releasing it back when needed during a peak demand.
Yeah I think the unintended consequence would be it'd be massively profitable to produce funny memes and little else.
> Recent update even brought mentions and reactions from Github over

What does this mean? Mentions as GitHub has it or that you can mention GitHub users in Gitea and vice-versa?
> California could turn open fields in to solar farms like you mentioned, but that requires that someone foot the bill and also build the infrastructure for it. "Forcing" people to put solar panels on their own home solves both of those problems.

You're missing the obvious alternative, which is that Cali could instead tax new homes the amount required to install the equivalent panels in some field, where they're cheaper and easier to service, where they can be positioned for optimal sunlight, etc.
Content is information which is goods (edit: not a commodity) and nobody has the right to say it is "right" to force others to pay for it. The market decides its price.
I remember this question via discuss, and I personally said that this list will be anyway always out of date.

If you want to compare Gogs and Gitea you have to compare the feature list.
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The same thing that used to happen to you before everything was a subscription--you will run insecure software.
I tend to prefer subscriptions for things where what I'm consuming is somewhat throwaway; so things like TV, films, books (things I'd never want to revisit/rewatch). I don't prefer it for things I might like music though. Some years ago, I ripped all my CDs (yeah, it was a lot of effort) and said I'd spend up to £10/month on music rather than a Spotify sub. I don't spend anything like that, but still tend to pick up all the new music I like. At any point I could stop buying new music and still having a big library, so I think it's worked out well.

That said, if Google Play Music Unlimited was either half the price (£5/mo) or was shareable with my wife for the current price, I'd probably have a different opinion!
> I should also note that your language is highly dehumanizing to your brother

No, please don't do that here. It's patronizing and, given the story we just heard, crosses into personal attack.

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Unless you're running something particularly esoteric (which means you aren't used RDS anyway), software updates will come from either your distro's packages if you use them, or the vendors packages (e.g. mysql, percona, mariadb, whichever flavour of postgres, etc). So updates are straightforward, regular maintenance, not that different from any other Linux server. Who maintains the servers that your app/site runs on?

Security is basic OS security, and then DB specific security, which is IMO easier to deal with than AWS security.

Your infrastructure setup should be repeatable, regardless of whether you use AWS or a bunch of old laptops in a closet. This can be anything from shell scripts to your own custom apt repo and private packages - so if you need to 'redeploy' because you don't have a HA failover (I dunno, maybe you like to live dangerously?) you re-run the setup process on a new cluster, and import the last backup you have.

Sure, for some organisations AWS may be the best case scenario, but I've yet to see one where it actually is. More likely, is organisations that somehow believe AWS means "I dont need ops" because a developer with zero ops capabilities/experience clicks some 'create instance' buttons, and follows a web tutorial on 'how to run your site on AWS'.
I wonder how safe this will be with hydrogen gas being a part of it. Sounds promising but you’d want it extra safe considering a mini Hindenburg would be attached to your house. Edit. I suppose I read it incorrectly as this is being invented for the utility scale.
You nailed it. Every kid is different, and overtired = not going to sleep. Rituals and good scheduling are where it is at + stupid dumb luck.

Our first, we didn't sleep for like 16 months. It was horrific.

Our second has been great (with a few stretches of waking up (to be expected)). Last week he crawled up the stairs and said "i go sleep" and asked to be put in his crib and laid down and went to sleep immediately. I was just sort of shocked ....
> Today’s consumers though have significantly higher standards than the original users of the web. Consumers want immersive experiences, well-designed pages with fonts, graphics, photos, and videos coming together into a compelling format.

Citation needed. This comes up quite often, and people like to assume they know what users want all the time. But is there actual, scientific evidence that, given the same content, a plain HTML+CSS web page that's not interactive but well put together is less compelling to users than a JS-heavy, interactive, overengineered, ad-ridden, tracker-infested and bloated one? Moreover, where do we get the backing evidence for the currently-popular aesthetic choices other than the subjective taste of designers themselves?
I've noticed this trend of trends. It's as if media outlets have become an echo chamber.
I have a feeling that one of the biggest blockers to actually doing something about climate change is how easily the conversation gets derailed. Almost everyone agrees on clean energy, but once you get into specifics people lose their cohesion(people are pro- or anti-nuclear power, or for or against wind energy(birds, off-peak power, etc.)).

I think people get too focused on any one particular solution, and cannot see that a mixture of things probably is best. Nuclear for places that can tolerate it plus wind or solar for peak times. Hydro and solar/wind for places that can't.

I have heard for years, and at various times expounded myself, of the virtues of nuclear. But the public in most industrialized countries cannot stand the thought of it near them, so looking at a more balanced approach makes sense.
Google's actions made it clear that Google Finance has been an unowned or skeleton project for several years. Google never made a Google Finance app for Android. Just because there is a vocal audience that likes the old product does not mean that reimplementing the flash features is a good use of resources.