skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In light of so many companies making it difficult to cancel, maybe a new pattern that we should take is, if we're going to be putting substantial money into a service, we need to test not only the promised capabilities of a service, but also the capability to cancel the service.

Call to action: when a company promises something, the pitch appears good enough and bad enough to be true, sign up, then immediately cancel the service to see if its possible and what the hurdles are. For each additional service you enable with the company, iterate on the cancellation process. If at any point you find that the cancellation process becomes 'too much', you can evaluate whether the value provided by the company exceeds its inability to cancel or provide refunds.

Ability to cancel a service should be a function of the service, no?
A lot of advertising isn’t intended to influence people to make a specific choice, it’s to keep the brand in mind as an option in the first place. For example: if you’re going to buy soda from the store, you’re more likely to buy Coke or Pepsi than to buy RC Cola. Why? Because until I reminded you just now, you didn’t even remember that RC Cola existed.

“Comparing specs and functionality” is exhausting, technical, and almost as prone to pointless marketing gimmickry, like the megahertz wars. And it’s usually not worth the effort. Many purchasing decisions aren’t necessary to optimize, and many of the ones that are can only be optimized subjectively—which shoes fit the best to your feet, which helmets fit the best to your head, which furniture looks and fits best in your home. If you’re buying a motorcycle, the technical specs can be the best on the market, but if it doesn’t physically fit your body it’s a bad motorcycle for you.

So if you’re building a personality and a brand around your company and products, does that mean you’re expecting your customers to make irrational decisions? No, you’re just trying to get attention, get into people’s heads, and make them remember that you’re an option. And when it is a deciding factor, most of the time it’s because all of the other factors are meaningless anyway. If you buy Nike because you want to be like LeBron James, and you’re at least satisfied with the shoes and whatnot themselves, odds are that wearing a slightly better designed Under Armor shoe won’t actually make you happier anyway.
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It will likely never be a true monopoly. But an oligopoly with two or three players? That's where we are and where we'll remain.
> The obvious comparison is Travis Kalanick, who is definitely a billionaire and retained much more of Uber.

That's because Kalanick got screwed by VC's previously and made sure that wasn't going to happen again.
> Is restricting a persons ability to travel due to their inability to pay back a loan really reasonable?

Yeah it's weird because I think the one about reserved seat is more reasonable than the others ones. It's bad, but at least it's related to your capacity to take the train. Just like it's reasonable for someone with unpaid loan to be unable to takes more loans.

It's when you bring unrelated things than it become punishment instead.
Recently the US Cyber Command was granted greater authority to go on the offensive, which enabled them to take actions such as this. You can read more here:

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This reads like somebody based ELIZA on Monty Python's argument clinic instead of a therapist.

Alert fatigue kicks in easily under the best circumstances, and "an annoying bot cluttering a group text" is hardly the best of circumstances. If the bot limited itself to high-confidence assertions that a claim is factually false, I'd be interested. (I wouldn't use it, the social and privacy aspects guarantee that, but I'd be interested in the tech.)

But "not all information about water is credible" isn't fact-checking; it's a tool you could duplicate with keyword recognition and a list of random stock refutations. Maybe I'm overzealous, but I'd consider removing an actual human from a group-chat if they consistently made that sort of post.
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I block the requests to google-analytics.com, newrelic.com, and statuspage.io.

I allow the requests to atlassian.com, cloudfront.net, "bytebucket.org", and bitbucket.org.

For comparison GitHub connects to github.com, githubusercontent, githubassets.com, and githubapp.com. I am blocking the githubapp.com requests, though.

And finally sourcehut doesn't make any requests outside of sr.ht
Okay, I'll spell it out for you. I understand that most people in the world and the USA are packed in to high density cities on the coast. But your numerical superiority does not mean that your ideals define what is or what should be. Nor does commenting on alternative views of what is good mean we are full of 'rage' despite what your stereotypes may suggest.

Living in high density areas is a trade of individual rights for job opportunities. And it makes sense. You can't have people in high density areas playing around with things that make loud noises because everything you do in such areas effects others. It's just common curtesy if not against the local laws.

It's not about house size. It's about all the comprimises you have to constantly make when you don't really own the land or building you live in and can't chose what behaviors you want to do even if they don't hurt others (ie, San Fran saying they can tell you what you can do with your apartment or house re: airbnb). This diminishment of the individual is bad for US society as it has existed for most of the past. Unfortunately the urbanization of America by relative population is unlikely to stop and those born into it will likely never know freedom is available elsewhere.

ps, high density areas have terrible, terrible radio frequency interference. If you want to set up an amateur radio astronomy kit or do a bit of ham radio you're pretty much out of luck except for the line of sight VHF and up bands that are, mostly, boring. And don't even try to to put up a decent size tower; it won't be approved because all the people nearbye will be "effected" by being able to see it and complain (if it's not explicitly against local law).
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Curious, isn't it. Google cancelled their forced arbitration policy so soon after we saw it going so badly for chipotle and uber...
This is one of those times I just sit down and think: "Damn... such an obviously good/bad idea".

I am really proud of humanities ability to be creative.
SQLite is used in a LOT of environments, including low-overhead embedded systems. This means it's impractical to add the overhead for those systems. As to desktop and mobile, I absolutely agree, it should be the default in a lot of places.
Ref counting is a poor kind of garbage collection. In particular it has a very large overhead: typical GC has an overhead of a couple of bits per allocation, but ref counting usually wants to allocate an extra word (eg. 32 or even 64 bits) per allocation.

Another actually more serious problem is that typical ref counting implementations mix the allocated data with the references, so that when you inc/dec the reference you dirty a cache line containing the data. There exist implementations which improve on this by storing the references in a separate part of memory, but they are not how it's commonly implemented.
> how do you loose $1B in a year on $2.2B in revenues and ave any concrete plan at all to become profitable?

These are not role models (or similar business models), however there are several well-known examples of companies that have survived comparably substantial red ink to revenue ratios:

Twitter was a red ink machine its entire existence until 2018.

Amazon had a net loss of $719m on sales of $1.6 billion in 1999, as they spent aggressively to build out the infrastructure that would facilitate their present advantages. Again in year 2000, they did $2.7b in sales with a $863m operating loss and a $1.4b net loss.

Box looks like it will survive based on its latest quarterly burn rate (in 2015 they had $300m in sales and a $200m operating loss; latest quarter was $163m in sales with a $21m operating loss).

Tesla has burned enormous amounts of red ink to scale its business. Their 2012 figures were $413m in sales with a $396m loss.

Splunk lost $278m on $668m in sales for 2015. Operating income finally turned positive in the latest quarter, after 15 years of losses.

Those companies all survived thanks to sales growth that continued to march forward. A bet against Lyft is a bet on their sales having a low upside from here. They have to get a lot larger to bring that $1b loss down to a reasonable level.
How much do you think it costs per person to build a road that 50,000 people use every day vs a road that only sees 5 cars per day? You’re trying to argue that 1+1=3, I am not making a controversial or radical claim when I point out that urban areas subsidize rural ones.
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stoopid question from a total ignorant about mars

Why if we find a dry ridge have to be made by running water? Couldn't be made by another fluid, frozen methane, a stem of sand, dilatation differences or even wind?
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You make it sound like it a marriage or something. If you don't like it you can always leave. That's worked for me so far.
The case can be made that we were attacked first in 2016, both by hacking (and releasing) the DNC emails and a coordinated propaganda campaign via social media, and this was an offensive move to prevent it from happening again in the 2018 elections. I don't see how this is just an "attack whenever we feel like it."
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> If you don't trust them then you don't trust your PC.

This is absolutely the core of the problem with windows and Microsoft. Of course I don't trust Microsoft or any other third party. In addition, I don't trust any government, including our own. Even if I trust Microsoft, once the info is on their servers, any government agency can easily access it. Same thing with third party companies that Microsoft might sell the data to.

So to clarify, if you don't trust Microsoft, or you don't trust any of their partners, or you don't trust your government or any government in the world that Microsoft is subject to the jurisdiction thereof, then you don't trust your windows pc. That's a lot of trust that no logical person would ever have. Incredible how Microsoft managed to pull this off and convince millions to just open up their computers to so many untrustworthy organizations in the world. It goes without saying that a company like this is untrustworthy, hiding behind legalese and lies.
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> Immigrants are not invading in hordes.

Subjectively, they are.

> Men at work are not harassing every female employee.

Subjectively, sexual harassment is extremely widespread.

> People are not trying to kick out elderly widows to turn the block into a shopping mall.

When I complain about my rent going up, it is of course much easier to make the case for the poor widow than myself.

> Your shoe is not going to make you a star athlete.

Of course. It's still going to make me feel like one, just a little bit.

> An immigrant is not knocking on the door to take your job -- that was decided decades ago.

Subjectively, he is. Even factually, as a laborer, immigration drives down my wages. That's basic economics. Of course there's nary a citizen left willing to work for as little as an illegal immigrant - but that's because those wages have been driven down already.

> For every policy you put in place to protect the imaginary elderly widow, you make it harder for 10 young people to have an affordable place to live.

Maybe, but doesn't everyone like elderly widows? Doesn't everyone hate those hipster millennials?

> Stop believing so much in symbols.

Never. Not in a million years.
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If I recall correctly from an economics class yay days ago, it doesn't matter if the seller pays the tax or the buyer -- the effective cost is shared (fewer buyers too).
A quite high quality device by the looks of it, no wonder it is $90!

Interesting to see that each LED is individually dimmable when the device is not a display (the 3 LED drivers are 16 channels each, and there are 48 LEDs total). Looking at the animations on the article, you should only need 8 channels or so to get the top to bottom effect, using a higher voltage boost to get the LEDs as series strings. It's a fairly expensive LED driver to have that many of them, but I guess designing it that way adds flexibility in future. (A "flickering candle" effect maybe?).

The use of the discrete Nordic IC rather than a module definitely suggests a higher volume product to justify the cert costs, especially as the device is not pushed for space.

Finally, the power management side is also quite premium, with a high current switching battery charger. Looking at another review[1], it appears to come with a mains adaptor permenantly wired to the base, rather than use Micro USB. As the pogo pins are quite small, the mains adaptor might provide a higher voltage e.g. 12V to reduce the current through the pins, and so a more expensive switching charger is used to step this voltage down for the battery. The battery wiring appears to be doubled up as well for a higher charge current by using more connector pins, so it can probably charge quickly in 2.5 hours or so (0.5C). Surprised they didn't just use a larger connector and wiring, again this isn't a small product.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/review/casper-glow-light/
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Winamp 5.6, on all my Windows PCs.
It's my most missed software on my Mac.
I'd even install it in my car if I could...
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The DNC is not an institution of the US government.
With cloud vs DC you also needs to consider that re-sizing datacenter space is a very slow process, and if you're wrong about how much you need it's a massive pain. Buy too much and you're wasting money, buy too little and you're stuck throwing eng time at scrambling to keep your services from falling over, and bottlenecking your entire org with resource constraints.

That's not a judgement on whether it's worth it for Lyft or not, but especially for a growing company with spiky load the decision is not just a dollars to dollars comparison.
That's like saying "The cancer ravaging your body is down from 62% to 58%" It's a positive trajectory but don't confuse trajectory with absolute value.
> For example people are losing access to payment processing functionality for essentially thought-crimes

Can you be more specific? I have an hard time figuring out what you are talking about here. Are you talking about like losing access to Patreon?
A shift in consumer habits require orders of magnitude in improvement over previous solutions to achieve mass adoption and become the new true "normal".

The reality is bitcoin and crypto are not much of an improvement (if any) for the avg consumer compared to cash/debit/credit card.
Microsoft has done more to damage computer security than any other single company in history. They quite simply don’t belong in this space. I can’t believe anyone takes this type of shit seriously.
Wouldn't work for people with referers disabled. I wonder if browsers have a max redirect count to prevent looping like this?
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You have to wonder how agreed upon these targets really were. Perhaps milestones are being missed because they were driven top down and were never realistic to begin with? Developers with ownership are more likely to work to complete their goals. If they aren't then that's a symptom of problems, not the cause.
As I understand it, the software itself never really gets changed, because if it did then the whole plant might have to undergo testing and regulatory approval again. But the reactors get shut down periodically (every three years, maybe) for refueling, so the control hardware undergoes routine maintenance at that time. Or something like that.
why would anyone actually read a book in 2019? just google it and find an article
I usually reach for Ragel [1] for this kind of work. It has a very steep learning curve and is a bit more complex than a straight-up translation of a conventional regular expression, but the state machine combination algebra is incredibly powerful and flexible. I've used the tool in numerous projects over the years.

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Sure, or by picking the right Powerball numbers.
> If they do go public for $20B+ they that would be for more than Twitter and Facebook went public for.

Huh? Facebook's IPO was at around $100B.
Neither is social media. Your point?
It's pretty impressive that they've managed to lose that much money despite the fact that they are just running a website and an app.

Yeah, that's oversimplifying it, but it's not like they own factories or storefronts or need to buy access to expensive services or something. The vast majority of their "employees" are independent contractors with no healthcare or retirement benefits who get paid by the ride (so Lyft doesn't lose out when business is slow).

It seems like it should be a license to print money, but somehow they're losing cash hand over fist. Are they subsidizing rides all over the world?
We used an iPad with Night Shift to accomplish a similar effect when traveling with our toddler. I wish there were a web app that let you do this in a more customizable way (starting color temp, ending color temp, starting brightness, ending brightness, fade time).
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"Cheapside", indeed!
It is interesting to consider how federated social networks (e.g. https://joinmastodon.org) fit in here. They seem uniquely positioned to be able to thread the needle of broad inter-connectivity combined with more localized control.
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To elaborate on this, in America today it's possible to waste your vote, because you can't represent secondary political opinions, e.g. a vote for the Starbucks CEO doesn't flow down to your second choice.

In some other systems, you can choose multiple options. This makes it possible to represent an opinion like "Starbucks CEO, then Democrats, then Libertarians, then Republicans", and so smaller parties can still get votes without compromising the election of larger aligned parties.
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What would you gain from actual analysis of a debug version of one OS build that will be completely different in 6 months, perhaps even before that?

Additionally, getting that debug version does actually require signing a restrictive license...

What you will find is mostly reasonable debug data, feature click and run traces and OS memory and driver state dumps. Obviously some of this might be critical data nobody should ever get.
Definitely seems low to me too. It could be almost $500 in fuel alone to drive 500 miles in a truck.