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Development + marketing + support + offset the free users. For some complex tools it's not profitable to offer $5/month plans. A single support request would wipe the profit made for that user. So would chasing invoices or any non-standard setup like dealing with purchase order forms or manual invoicing. My experience running a SaaS is that most support and questions come from the lowest pricing tier offered.

> Often there is a free trial but it is very lacking and in order for it to be useful

Free trial and most of freemium is to drive sales. The incremental cost of running the service (servers, storage, network etc) is minimal for 100 extra free users. Each one having 1 interaction with the support team is the cost to worry about.

That said I wish more companies had $10 or $20 plans myself (my SaaS doesn't). Don't shy away from asking for a discount code or if there are unpublishes plans, e.g. for students, academia.
Do you have any examples of such packages that were missing? I've been using arch for maybe five years at this point and am an embedded developer. I had maybe oneor two times that I had to install something that was not in the aur.
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This is pointing to the crux of the issue. Anti-trust action against software companies is a sticky issue especially when the market exists entirely because of their innovation in the first place. I have no love for Google but I also don't see how customers' perception of the ad market won't change over time.

Commodity monopolies on the other hand seem to have much more obvious detrimental effects longterm.
https://stratechery.com/2020/unmasking-twitter/ ???
Hmm, just a gray screen here. I allowed Javascript and even permitted it to read canvas data. Does this only work on some specific browser?
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The discussion pinpoints the issue in the fontconfig cache files. It is being worked on.
The issue is not "snap packages only show tofu characters" but rather in some cases snap packages cannot access the system fonts, hence the squares.
Yes it does? https://crystal-lang.org/reference/syntax_and_semantics/macr...
The output of a raspberry pi is quite nice. I wonder if it's better than VNC over wi-fi.
We could have won that one if politicians had listened to their military advisors. In James Mattis's recent book, he talks about how the Obama administration didn't listen to recommendations for a larger military presence because they were scoring too many political points by constantly "bringing the troops home".
I'm highly skeptical Russia would even seek a conventional war at all with the United States, but rather local reinforcement of their borders, national or ethnic, if a broader conflict broke out.
During the mid-aughts, there was at least one serious proposal that every person would have their own private record store, which they carried around (PDFs on a thumb drive). Part of NHIN shootout. Every one had a pretty good laugh.

Repeating myself here: one way to protect patient privacy is to issue everyone globally unique identifiers. Then use translucent database techniques to hide the important.

Currently, linking records across our heterogeneous systems, with all the data quality challenges, prevents data from being encrypted (in transit or at rest).
I don't think I met a functional snap package so far. Granted, I only had the displeasure of dealing with two.

Docker was a complete mess, .net Core was complete hell trying to figure out paths. Certainly stuff not meant for the just-slightly-above dummy, and even less for the actual dummies.
A simple Python library used to monitor heart rate using video
Debian testing is basically my distro of choice: if sid is the rolling release, and stable is the LTS version, testing is roughly equivalent to non-LTS Ubuntu: the packages have been tested so you don’t usually get breakage, but they aren’t stale.
I would try REI and wta.org and follow the trail from there.
How, specifically?

Information- and systems-dynamics suggest to me strongly otherwise. Mencken and Barnum seem validated.
I use it for games, like Magic The Gathering Arena, without too much problems.
You can get 3d mountain prints from TinyMtn - https://www.shapeways.com/shops/TinyMtn
Because the nature of greed is to demand the most payment for the smallest amount of work, and capitalist economies encourage greed?
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You can also

snap list

or have a look into `/snap/`.

The directory `/var/lib/snapd/snaps/` shows the cached .snap packages, including the recent versions in case you want to revert to a previous version.
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Man, I remember playing Wolfenstein on a computer at work (kids, don't do this today). I could last about 15 minutes before I had to stop from motion sickness.
You're absolutely correct. That's what I get for going off memory. Updating now.
Sorry, missed it, added now
I mostly focus on the drinking.
365 days? Luxury. Try 90 days. Not kidding.
Omg, that’s like a trophy on the wall - look where I went in 2020! That red line here. Better than a moose head on the wall.
Summary of the models available in the transformers library
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Json Incremental Digger - https://github.com/simeji/jid

"..drill down JSON interactively by using filtering queries like jq"
What I am saying is nothing new. This has always been the policy of UNIX developers. If you use only file names without space, then you can make it easier to use tools that depend on this. Of course, if you're writing applications in shell then you cannot rely just on convention.
I know it sounds kind of strange, but maybe the solution to this is similar to how you competitively attack a new market with a new company.

The DOD needs to look at a startup/agile mentality and centralize important technical decision making within one room full of competent engineers/architects/developers, rather than farming it out to 50 disparate contractors.

Russia and China will be able to continue to threaten us using only a fraction of our defense budget because of this organizational problem. I feel like our enemies have a much more centralized scope of R&D when it comes to military technology. The only reason the US is competitive is because we can 10x the budget and move mountains every day.

Imagine if we had a monorepo for the entire United States military. All warfighting software systems centralized into 1 location with a unified set of models and logic which can enforce policy across the entire force. A developer should be able to unit test the F35 avionics software at the same time they are working on the air-to-air weapons system. After all, these would likely share many important aspects being that they live in the same damn aircraft.
Unless we're going to say the war with Russia is fought with the same objectives (in this case have a US friendly government in power) I don't think we can compare against past wars.
The Phoenix Project has several main characters but arguably the main one is also a woman, as well as other characters (meaning not only one).
Does he talk about his time on the Theranos board?
Absolutely. The server-side implementation of Snap is closed source and the Snap Store is a single instance controlled solely by Canonical. Flatpak repositories are decentralized and can be hosted on private servers with flat-manager, which is FOSS:

https://github.com/flatpak/flat-manager
Because there ARE good reasons to ask job candidates about the skills they put on their resumes. Some people add the keywords to be buzzword-compliant. Others include a tool or technology in passing, as a summary of 5 years of work with it... and if it's important in your shop, it'e reasonable to ask about it. Find out whether "experienced with ToolName" means "I once started up the app" or "I can make it dance."

My resume barely mentions OS/2 anymore, because I'm unlikely to get a job that requires the knowledge. But if I happened to interview at a company where it mattered (perhaps for legacy tech) or where the interviewer shared an interest ("oh! something we can chat about!") then it's a reasonable topic of discussion.

Also, interviewees expect those questions. They can be a kind of throat clearing. That is... get 'em out of the way.
Use rotating detonation engines instead.
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In my experience this is actually rare. I've heard many similar stories to mine here from friends and family, but briefly, my own recent experience with this kind of thing:

I saw four doctors across two states trying to resolve a certain medical condition, which happens to be very common, has very negative effects, and has low recovery rates.

They prescribed a couple different medications, and mentioned that the disorder is "associated with" a list of a bunch of things related to lifestyle and diet. (These items were never brought up again by any doctor after their initial brief mention: it was a kind of "going through the motions" with each doctor—part of the obligatory informative synopsis of the disorder.)

The medications did practically nothing, and experimenting with briefly removing different items on the list from my life did practically nothing. Meanwhile my life was severely negatively impacted by this for ~4 years.

Eventually I decide to "get healthier" in a general way with an improved diet, insistence on regularly getting sufficient sleep, reduced alcohol consumption, and regular strength training.

A few months later the condition was at about 50%, and now it's at a point where I'm barely bothered by it.

I'm also a Type 1 diabetic and ran into a similar thing there: the recommendations given to me by doctors were incompatible with the blood sugar ranges they described as desirable. So I did my own research and discovered that basically everyone who had really good numbers was doing massive carbohydrate reduction in addition to taking insulin.

What it came down to in both cases: doctors will not prescribe lifestyle changes. They may mention them, but their core solution is likely to be a medication + tweaking dosage—even if this is by comparison far less useful.

I do think there's a legitimate reason, though: most people are simply not willing to make these kind of lifestyle changes. However, for those who are willing to do it, there's a good chance they'll lack the info on how effective it can be, because it's not what their doctor is going to emphasize.

(I'd urge anyone who thinks my cases may be uncommon to try this: if you know someone who resolved a medical condition by general lifestyle improvements like diet, sleep, exercise etc.—see if they made the changes because a doctor recommended it or if the motivation come from somewhere else.)
Well, I listed a lot of other things besides cars that make me happy - not sure why you're focusing on that, as if someone enjoying cars is a bad thing...

Mostly I enjoy having a nice conversation. Thanks so much for making this a pleasant one.
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Wasn't able to run this yet.

For browsing a JSON file I can also recommend jsonfui. I've been using it for many years now and I'm actually surprised it doesn't have more stars on GitHub.

https://github.com/AdrianSchneider/jsonfui
> It is OK to feel strongly about something, but using words like `backdoor` is really bad.

Okay, but... It is a backdoor. A user trying to install a deb get snap shoved down their throat.

> They can do so because they are basing the work in a common, stable runtime.

And none of that requires taking control from the user.
You don't know what institutional racism is.
It's pretty frightening that he's an "an associate professor of sociology" and he doesn't even know basic under-grad evolutionary theory, yet thinks it's ok for him to talk about it.

Basically spent his life and a bunch of money rediscovering the wheel when biologists could have told him this was the expected result.

Worse still, he talks about ants, which share 75% of their genes so actually do have a clear evolutionary reason to co-operate.
> it's still unproductive to dismiss someone who disagrees out of hand.

My original comment was the opposite of an out-of-hand dismissal. I thought about what he was proposing, carried it to it's logical conclusion, and showed that it was flawed. I then invited him to propose a fix. No fix has been suggested.

> I think it's more appropriate to carefully listen to the compassionate concerns of others than to try and develop ways to ignore them.

Strong, unprincipled moral feelings come to every human since they are a small child. There is good evidence that these are very biased and lead to results that are immoral upon reflection. The world is awash in people announcing their unreflected moral feelings, and these point in contradictory directions. "Listen to this particular random person's feelings....but don't challenge their validity" is not useful advice.
I believe most of these algorithms work on graph structures internally, which means you can use them on any topology as long as you have connectivity information.

So if you want really random maze shapes, sprinkle random points, then use voronoi to get a topology, then use backtracking on that. Your maze will be built out of randomly shaped polygons.

BTW, what do you need the maze algorithm for?
Why do you think Apple is crippling third party password managers? If you want to use 1Password instead of iCloud Keychain then there’s support in iOS to do exactly that, and if you enable it then it will auto fill in the same way it did before. I personally find the 1password experience better on iOS than any other platform I’ve tried.
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Paying for G-Suite is no guarantee your files won’t suddenly go missing with no backups: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17115643

I pay for G-Suite for a side-project I inherited (I use Office 365 as my daily-driver) and while there is human support available, they don’t make it easy to get to. With Office 365 the phone support contact details are 2 clicks away from any screen.
What measurement of lung capacity? That's pretty awesome and maybe I should look into it haha.
>On the other hand, if I assaulted or murdered someone at work I wouldn't expect them to cover for me.

Future allegations may or may not be true. Even officers who follow all procedures want legal defense against false or questionable accusations.
Drink tap water? Breathe unfiltered city air? Who do you think they are, working class plebs? These people can afford to live in their third homes on the side of mountains and get Fiji water shipped in where their servants unpack and stock their fridges for them. They get to places in cars with "Bioweapon Defense grade air filtration," and private aircraft.

So, no. They don't really live in the same environment as everyone else. Why would they care about its destruction?
But that's just part of the problem though. I want to be able to rely on my system and not have a chance 4 times a day for random things to break (the default frequency based on your link).

The argument about "latest == safest" may have some validity when it comes to browsers, but for everything else a notification that there is a new version would be more than enough.
I predict a lot of comments that ignore the fact that the United States military provides free-as-in-beer global free trade to the entire planet, all while maintaining a readiness to fight a two-front war on any two fronts. (Yes, there's plenty of reasonable debate about the US's readiness.) Other militaries don't include that in their remit, so budget comparisons are largely fruitless for anything other than political purposes (one way or the other).

I'm as opposed to wasteful spending as anyone–and I think that we have plenty of it–but this idea that the US military budget is strictly and solely about shooting wars completely misses the point. It has held together the world's first peaceful, global free trade in exchange for cooperation in security policy since 1946. That isn't cheap.

Nor is it easy or even viable for anyone else. It's not that anyone else could do it if only they had the budget, there just isn't another piece of land on the planet that could do it, short of assuming some impossible alliances.

When comparing military budgets you need to compare what it is they're buying: no other country is providing global free trade with their budgets, so of course they're comparatively small. And of course running an insurgency against occupying forces is relatively inexpensive. Of course regional security is less expensive than global security. This isn't comparing player stats on Street Fighter to see how they'd match up in some kind of March Madness bracket.

Like it or not, most modern wars (at least the non-pointless ones that aren't mostly about pork and politics) aren't about winning or losing in classical terms, but about how they fit into the broader security and trade context.
Yes and no.

Like many other things, there's probably a power law distribution in terms of the cost of reaching certain levels of military capability.

It might cost 10% as much as our budget to get to 75% of the capability, and 80% of our budget to get to 90% of the capability.

The military question is: is that high-end stuff war decisive or not? Or can you win a war with a better strategy or just more of the cheap stuff?

Bringing up terrorism is a red herring. Terrorism gets lots of attention but it doesn't win true wars. You'd need hundreds of 9/11 events to even dent the US's war capability. A war with a nation state is very different from "asymmetric warfare" against a diffuse enemy motivated by an ideology or a set of resentments rather than a true chain of command.
> It's a disease spread by exhaled droplets. How the heck could masks _not_ work?

You should really get some information on the topic you're discussing, because either you are oblivious to the point you're trying to argue against or are disingenuously misrepresenting what was actually and repeatedly said.

The main argument against wearing any protective equipment, including latex gloves which you casually omitted, was that a) it provided a false sense of safety that ironically ends up increasing the risk of contagion of everyone around you, b) create incentives for those wearing the gear to repeatedly touch their face with a much higher frequency, c) deplete the supply of protective equipment and thus deprive healthcare workers who directly contact with covid19 patients from having basic safety measures.
At the same time, billions of people don’t kill the randos they chance upon most days.

How we annotate reality with numbers matters. I feel like your trying to find too specific a claim about reality, not the researchers

You’re isolating these headlines to make them useless.

There’s also tons of rhetoric others, outside your filter bubble, encounter about the end is nigh, send in the troops!

Not every piece of information that we like to share has to be in service of you, 1 in 7 billion

The study itself is more novel and creates more discourse than your comment. Which is a bigger waste of resources? People trying to learn data driven research and habit?

Or your being pedantic about the value as if to dissuade others from such mechanics unless they’re chasing a result you agree with

Yet we seem to spend little time calling for HN to disable comments to avoid the descent into entitled whining about others not achieving what you want, dad
The cost of Arch over anything else is 100% in the installation. After that, it IS Manjaro except you are using the real thing, not a derivative. I've had to trouble shoot Arch far less than any other distro I've ever used.
I made a VSCode extension for jq[0], so I really like when people see the power of jq.

I should probably update it with a couple of life improvements now that I think about it.

[0]: https://github.com/ldd/vscode-jq
I could not find a key for that, that is, per-package keys.

A dirty workaround would be to get the `.snap` package from the store, then install directly from the local file.

$ snap download hello-world
Fetching snap "hello-world"
Fetching assertions for "hello-world"
Install the snap with:
snap ack hello-world_29.assert
snap install hello-world_29.snap
$ snap install hello-world_29.snap --dangerous
hello-world 6.4 installed
$ hello-world
Hello World!
$

No updates.
What do you mean? As far as I know, all current browsers do support them.
It would require some pretty high end text-to-speech tooling, or a lot of manual labor.

In the single city case he had volunteers check the text-to-speech outputs and manually fill in addresses that were missed. His accuracy rate was quite low with 2014 tools so it was a lot of manual work to transcribe the addresses from the recordings. I suppose text-to-speech tools are better since then, but these recordings are still quite dirty. You're talking analog radio recordings of poorly trained personnel who have regional accents, mumbles, inconsistent phrasing, etc.

Try to find tooling to get good text-to-speech accuracy from some sample source like the recordings on liveatc.net (air traffic controllers) and see how accurate your results are, noting the difference between controllers (who are trained in proper phraseology and speaking techniques) and pilots (who are not).
POP!_OS is a fork of Ubuntu though, right? In that case if I try to install chromium using apt-get will it install the snap or the .deb?
That’s probably grossly inaccurate. Vietnam despite having a much smaller economy at time were still a major regional economic power even after consideration for internal conflict. Vietnam spent tremendous resources on the war. You also have to consider that the US participation in Vietnam was seen by the Vietnamese as foreign participants in a larger civil war. That conflict didn’t end just because Americans left, but rather when the communists took Saigon.
This insight is somewhat echoed in the post itself:

"At the end of the day, doing VC right is actually much more about portfolio construction and modeling than picking."

(with a link to https://medium.com/ulu-ventures/successful-vcs-need-at-least...)
Makes sense, I personally don't mind snaps for proprietary applications (mostly Slack and Spotify) which are otherwise hard to discover and keep up to date on Linux, but I don't understand why Canonical would force this for Chromium which is already packaged and open source.
I was fond of the "do you think AI will get us FTL travel" question.
I would say people freely give who feel that they gain from the community far more than they give. And they do right by others when they feel the community is doing right by them.

And this is not PER INTERACTION but over the long haul.

People that are not connected to their community strongly, meaning they don't have mutliple adults protecting, disciplining and sustaining them, aren't as likely to do right by others or give freely.

Sons without fathers living in the home are far more likely to have behavioral problems. I think we grow into our social hierarchy or we seek to establish a new one that competes and clashes with the existing one.

Unfortunately, the trend more and more across most groups is single parent families.
You're being downvoted, but it's actually a good point that others have raised: https://warontherocks.com/2019/12/why-russian-military-expen...
This bug has not been addressed for almost a year, which is completely unacceptable when the Snapcraft homepage advertises that "Snaps work across Linux on any distribution or version."

https://snapcraft.io/
That was kind of the point of my post, sorry if it wasn't clear.
Poor indoor air quality.