skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Subscription fatigue, yeah, I know. Hoping to write an article about this in our industry, but the reality is that this is what's sustainable for a small team that wants to avoid venture funding (and eventual acquisition "incredible journey" stuff) or monetizing by selling your personal data.

I've been thinking about this repeatedly for years, usually triggered by apps like this. I might even have written about it here or on my blog and I agree it is a hard problem.

First, for anyone who wonders why do companies need recurring revenues after the initial version has been (I didn't either a decade ago):

Releasing software into the wild is less fire-and-forget than one would think. Platform APIs change, security holes are found etc.

Second: I have been trying to look for models - hoping to find some I truly enjoy - and I'll try to summarize the ones I can remember, with examples:

- the original WhatsApp model: a tiny recurring charge. In an alternative world where they weren't bought and at about the same time - as network effects set in they could have started charging companies for API access, not to spam but tonrun helpsdesks, bots etc. Micropayments also looked promising.

- The Jetbrains model: you pay a subscription but as long as you have paid for a minimum amount of time you get to keep the last version that was released while you were paying.

- A similar model is used by the Agenda app. I almost never use it and yet I'm tempted to pay (again, I have done it before) because I love the business model.

- then you have the commercial sponsor model where someone pays to be the default choice for something the end user would probably choose anyway: this worked really well for Mozilla and Opera for a number of years.

- Then there is the old school pay one model, this often bleeds into one one of the above models as new more or less improved releases are pushed every year.

- There are freemium models which are more or less free: some charge only for superficial features (reddit), other for one time upgrades to extra tools, other charge on a monthly basis for access to extra tools.

I think I currently have 3 app subscriptions going, one for MeWe and one for Concepts and one for Paper Pro, and then there's a couple of newspapers, mandatory payments for the national broadcasting, there's Netflix and Spotify and payments to Hetzner for my hosted NextCloud instance and after that I really really don't want another subscription unless it is

- very inexpensive

- or is something I use everday,

- or it replaces one of my existing ones.

I've downloaded it to test now, but for now it looks like a OneNote competior priced at the same level as the entire Office 365 personal edition?

Edit: I've tested it a bit now this looks extremely promising but the price is steep for an app and there is no option to pay monthly for a couple of months to test. At least you were generous with 100 reusable cards so I will continue testing it.
She is also not a porn star. None of this content is nude. The running joke is that there are pap photos showing more skin than what people paid for here.
Grow up and stop falling for logical fallacies
Amoeba solve mazes by 'seeing around corners' via chemotaxis
There are a number of reasons they are not contradictory.. but the most simplistic would work like this:

Day 1: John has $10 and Joe has $100

Day 5: John has $11 and Joe has $250

Day 100: John has $15 and Joe has $1000

They certainly both have more than before, but one of them is much better off (especially if there is some form of inflation in play).

Also, blue collar wages have been largely stagnant or declining when measured against inflation (a very important point) since ~1980 while conversely white collar job incomes have been ballooning against the same measure. In particular, Executive compensation is utterly off the charts comparatively. When tax discount structures that vastly favor investment income over real wages is taken into account, the gains become even more stark (that is, the amount of income that can be retained v must be spent or is taxed).
generally the approach is to point a camera at it and record yourself under real world conditions writing and drawing. For instance, if a fast stroke starts to show up by the time you're already done drawing it, that's problematic latency, even if you personally don't notice.
This isn’t really new.

Historically Apple has always required consent for using such APIs and in many cases that’s a result of the API owner complaining.

I came across a remote control app getting rejected months ago for using an unofficial TV API.
Microsoft isn't "cool" anymore?
Just adding words for the initialism for those that don’t know what RCA is.
I'm expecting to see waymo autonomous vehicle fatalities in the near future!
> BlockingResponse not supported.

> Blocking requests not supported.

so uBlock Origin is not going to happen.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/saf...

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/hdz0bo/will_u...
would you be willing to actually point a camera at your device and show what the latency and precision is while writing and drawing? So far I haven't found a single device that doesn't start showing a fast stroke on the screen before I'm already done drawing it.
Well, unlike nearly all consumer devices, they did intentionally leave it open and hackable, and promote this on their homepage. I think that makes it likely that they'll leave it open in the future as well. So sure, yes, I'd love it if it was a 100% FOSS project. But I'll take what I can get.
If I'm doing a code review I don't have an idea. I only see text (yeah - limitation of the tooling, but reality). I can search for the functions, but it's a hassle and I want to limit having to do it to as much as possible. It's even not super easy in Rust, since some functions are defined on (extension) traits and you don't exactly know where to search for them if you don't have the IDE support and are not already an expert.

"if let" is certainly a special construct - but it's also one that Rust authors and reviewers will typically encounter rather fast since a lot of error handling and Option unwrapping uses it. Knowing the majority of library functions will imho take longer.
I use a Feitian ePass FIDO NFC (terrible name) - fits smoothly onto my keychain and supports both USB and NFC.
You missed my point. I am not questioning the images.

> If you read this report thoroughly, you can find out it just shows there are this sort of buildings in Xinjiang but no logic or proof that they are concentration camps and there is no evidence at least in the report that the buildings are in use.
Because creating an ad isn't a transaction, for one. It costs nothing to create an ad.

I get billed at the end of the month based on clicks or views, and Apple has nothing to do with that. The ads might not even show on iOS.
But that doesn't explain the documented unethical - if not illegal - conduct of Wells Fargo overall. Otherwise they'd be more like the Disney Co.
There is a plan for that called ForgeFed, not sure if GitHub is involved in that or not though.

https://forgefed.peers.community/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23572576
Free Hitman
Immediate red flags: all the actual drawing/writing shots have the pen move unrealistically slowly. Real people write fast, and draw fast. And then we we DO see normal paced drawing, it's either sped up, or obscured with a tactical camera angle. What the hell is this video?
I guess on top of that Tesla could stop supporting the API any day, creating a bad user experience.
I understand and agree with your sentiment, but just don't buy the uni-tasker type lego. They make plenty of sets where most if not all of the parts are general and can be used for undirected play.
If you are so healthy, why did you get cancer?
You can get Firefox mobile with extensions
"Close"? Anything over 3~4ms starts to be noticable, and anything over 10ms is "clearly" noticable for folks who expect the response of a pencil on paper.
Literally free money only to those with access to cheap credit, increasing the wealth gap even more.
You mean like this? https://www.11alive.com/article/traffic/fatal-wreck-75-north...
Safari versions can never work on older Mac OSes, correct? I would love to stay on High Sierra or Mojave and get Safari 14. I’m assuming since it is so integrated into the OS, it uses Big Sur specific APIs and references.

Too bad. I am happy enough with any macOS from a couple of years ago, but this Safari change is the first thing I can readily recall caring about for an upgrade.

A lot of my reasoning is liking Safari being lightweight. Upgrading to Big Sur would probably far more than cancel out any gains of using Safari more.

Safari still doesn’t appear to have profiles or an easy way to hack it. Good Safari web extensions that can help toward that might not come out that quickly if the extensions need some rework and packaging and be published with the $100/year fee.
generally downvoting happens when you talk about voting in the meta, which is against the rules and spirit.
Zoom is an american company by the way. Its headquarters is in silicon valley. Its founder, chairman, and CEO is an american citizen. It has employees in California and China, like nearly all tech companies.
i am still working on that storage problem. however i think transparent boxes are better for lego
Has to Be a Joke, Because If It’s Not
yeah, didn't know what to post, I just found them via a local news site.... https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2...
That's not an "only", that's still at least twice what it needs to be to cross the uncanny valley of input latency.
Let me start by saying that my comment might be downvoted. However, I'm just wondering if the device justifies the price tag. For a little more I could get an iPad Air, which can do a lot more. Granted the battery needs to be charged everyday but it's probably not a deal breaker for many.
Safari doesn’t have profiles yet, does it? That’s a pretty big deal for my workflow. Though I could get by with Safari’s Beta and Safari. Two sets of profiles is the bare minimum I like.

—-

For extensions, wont it be a while before enough preferred extensions move over to Safari? A solid amount might never? Unless there’s some initiative where some consortiums publish extensions on behalf of open source extension developers. Otherwise many made with no money in mind don’t have a good reason to pay $100/year.

Now for my bit of day dreaming and fantasizing:

(1) If this began a trend to begin charging for good extensions, I wouldn’t mind that. We pay for so much stuff, but extensions are assumed to be free. There’s less oversight on the data mining they do than almost any other niche. Then unfortunate part is how much of the revenue would be eaten by Apple’s 30% cut and $99/year. Since the developer fee is yearly, if this can also lead to yearly charges for extensions, but at very low rates, that would be awesome too.

(2) if some extensions are subscriptions at $1-5 a year or $1 for 2-3 years as the main price points for good extensions. It doesn’t come close to subscription saturation issues. At those low numbers, it would take a whole ton of extensions to get to $60/year. Which is a completely average price charged for apps these days that used to cost a fraction for one time payment.
The Poor ROI of Autonomous Trucks (2020)
images or videos of families confined in a camp, children, women and old men / women from reliable source.

When we talk about concentration camp, it is always about large number of families.
I'm able to play videos through Muse.. which is so far useful. Wish muse had infinite scroll and zoom.
Api.ipengine.dev (Free alternative to IP-info; ipinfo; ipapi; whoapi; ipstack)
Hello Reddit;

So a while back i found a website (app) called ipinfo and they provided ip info of a IP address and they are charging $50 for 250k lookups and me being a cheap ass i am i didn't want to pay for it and created my own one.

Its completely FREE.
Works with both IPv4 & IPv6

Personal Lookup: https://api.ipengine.dev
Global IP Lookup: https://api.ipengine.dev/ip/8.8.8.8

If there is a demand for this ill add anything IP related users want.

Please give me some feedback.
Only in 1 dimension (x)
Webext redux is one of my favorite libraries. I've built some great stuff with it (and its predecessor).

One use case is to create a single page app feel on websites that aren't single page. We use it in Salesforce, specifically.
You can have fatalities and still have several orders of magnitude fewer fatalities than non-AV.
Somehow those apps never seem to work for me.
Not really. They require a basic understanding of higher order functions and often heavily use closures. Those moderately advanced concepts. It’s also sometimes harder to write efficiently to avoid multiple iterations over the same collection. I think many many people are way more comfortable with loops than people are with map/filter.
And what happens when someone hacks your account?
That is why USA or the west world is losing if we believed social media has a key role in shaping opinion. You cannot go it and they can come out. And even chinese coming out with their wechat would be closed.

I am not hopeful. Whilst I believe the ccp might go, it is that asymmetric thing which is a problem.
The time spent writing boilerplate is completely negligible to the amount of time spent finding the "perfect" combination of language features to express your problem. I write production ready code in Go way faster than in any other language I've used.
I got that reference!
Chicken-and-egg etc. People will know what Jitsi is when you use it with them. It's so simple, why not have them use it? Why do they have to know it already?
QuickLens 2.0, a modern macOS App for inspecting UI, is now ready for Pre Order
If true, that's uncannily reminiscent of North Korea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inebLA3HqPo
Monsoon – a fast and flexible HTTP enumerator written in Go
I built https://plantogether.city with Svelte; really enjoyed the lack of boilerplate and the resulting application speed. Has been flexible enough for numerous changes. Nothing really negative to say!
I think there's quite a leap from "people are being skeptical" to "we now just have to believe everything China says".
A livechat plugin for embedding mobile chat window in your flutter application
Airport: The TestFlight App Store Apple Didn’t Create
> "Poor engineering culture"

The software and service is currently running at a scale that the vast majority of visitors to HN can barely dream of achieving.

But yeah, they prioritized ease of install for the client of their software over other considerations, so that must mean they have a "poor engineering culture", whatever that's supposed to mean.
Understanding - or looking up - library functions is something you're always going to have to do during code review (it's well worth getting IDE integration set up). zip is a very standard and well-known function (I used it yesterday, in a non-Rust codebase); it may well end up being better-known than "if let". Learning what a library function does is certainly never harder than learning what a keyword does and it's often easier (apart from anything else, you know that a library function follows the normal rules for functions, so if you can see how its output is used then you can often tell what it does. Whereas you can't rely on that kind of reasoning with language keywords).
Updates of Safari are made available for the two preceding releases of macOS. For example, Safari 13 shipped with Catalina, but it's also available for Mojave and High Sierra.

Any OS features not available on those earlier OSes are disabled, of course, but Web features tend to be unaffected. For example, Safari 13 doesn't support dark mode on High Sierra.
Auth bypass: Leaking Google Cloud service accounts and projects
love this extension. we recommend it for everyone at work as the zoom client is banned.
Red Teaming with Cobalt Strike – Not So Obvious Features – TrustedSec
That’s a really good counter argument.
Is it an ARM Debian-based distro or Android or something else?
Who needs a case? The 3D Printed Mil-Plastic is here
Safari has historically been released for the two previous versions of macOS.
A better analogy would be that when uninstalling Zoom it looks through all of your emails to find its email. It has no business being there in the first place.
Every screen I own is glossy, and I don't own any Apple stuff. External screens, laptops, all-in-ones, all glossy. The last matte screen I had was on a 2010 ThinkPad, and I think I had to pay extra for that.

Maybe it's touch related? Every screen I own is also a touch screen (so's that old ThinkPad though), and with my physical needs I can't really consider non-touch.
LG unveils battery-powered air purifying face mask
> I’ve unfairly disregarded Safari on MacOS for years because it didn’t have parity with chrome/FF in terms of extensions.

That seems like a very fair reason to disregard a browser, imho.
Exfiltrating credentials via PAM backdoors and DNS requests: DoomsDay Vault
There are a lot of situations where explicit lifetimes are the answer, TBH. However, you have to have a very good working model of lifetimes in order to get the annotations right.
Interesting. Oliver Heaviside continues his posthumous exploits.
Yes, except frequently they don't even have a name for the syndrome and won't believe it's real.
I agree it was only a matter of time, the previous arrangement was pointlessly arcane. But make no mistake, Apple still wants to remain firmly in control.

The development of these extensions is eased, but you still need to pay Apple tax to give them to users. If your extension generates revenue maybe that's fine. If it doesn't Apple is asking you to give them money so that you can help their users, how about No?
a desktop uninstaller messing with chrome cookies isn't a small bone imo
I know of at least some of the communities on the James Bay coast recently got fibre service and I think others along the Northern coast of Canada, along anecdotally several others in rural Ontario.

I am talking about money already spent and delivered, not future project that will probably be delivered on.
MS Teams has the same behaviour in web client. Is it browser-level restriction?
Another source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/08/russi...

Russia is a petro-state: it depends utterly on oil revenue to function. I don't know how long it thinks it can delay the arrival of electric cars with schemes like this, but evidently it doesn't mind trying, and it also thinks that the current U.S. national leadership is too inept or too in its pocket to mount a real response.
I really hope they will eventually come up with some arrangement to fix that (like being able to explicitly grant extra permissions to individual extensions). I've really missed uBlock Origin these last couple of years and the content blocking framework app I have instead just isn't anywhere near as good, and not being able to easily see what's being blocked is really annoying...
My new air conditioner control panel suffers from this. It has up/down/left/right buttons where it switches between horizontal navigation plus select/deselect or vertical navigation plus select/deselect randomly. Programming a day takes around 30 key presses. And there is no bulk update functionality.
Students.

Hence the 20-something part.
Tik Tok is the only way for MS to get big data from the social side.

Besides they can integrate it into their many platforms, XBox, Bing, Windows (Windows is still the preferred streaming platform, for example), etc.

However, seeing the other bizarre collection of companies getting into this fight, Oracle, and Walmart, I have a feeling this is more of a play towards getting into the Chinese governments good graces. I’d be interested to see if after paying a premium to buy Tik Tok, if the purchaser starts getting a higher share of China business.

If that is true, which I strongly suspect it is, or at least is a big part of this, then once again a thoughtless US action ends up giving China more leverage.
Even a simple level 2 system with driver monitoring like comma.ai in big rigs would save tens of thousands of lives per year.
Some markets are artificially limited. In Texas you can only mortgage, by law, somewhere around $600k. Beyond that you have to get a “jumbo” loan that is at a higher interest rate. Curious to see if that limit gets conveniently repealed.
Yeah, as far as I can tell there's no actual list of demands apart from "Defund the police" which isn't very practical.

Seems like more people are going to die, and public opinion of the movement will continue to drop. It seems to be pushing a lot of people to vote from Trump
> Zoom is an american company

Correct. But it has significant dev in China. Corporately, it’s American. But when describing its engineering decisions, it’s fair to call it principally Chinese.
No support to make uBlock Origin work yet, sadly.
Does anyone expect any consequences? It’s not like any EU member would ban Zoom in the middle of the pandemic.
Have you used it as an e-reader (using KOReader I would assume)? How is the experience? It sounds like the prefect e-ink device if the hardware lends itself to other purposes.
>Golang was designed for getting shit done

That's indeed a good way to explain the utility driven nature of Go. I've been predominantly using OOP languages before and Go's deliberate lack of OOP features was although uncomfortable at first, the advantages of getting things done fast far outweighed it later when I released production applications with it.

>For me, Golang is like Python but with static typing and high performance. Fast to implement, easy to read, and focused on getting code out the door.

I was tired of adding disclaimer when teaching Python, that when you want to extract performance out of it you should also learn 'C/C++'. Go serves as a perfect replacement to Python where performance is a necessity, I don't see where that would be false in a production environment where 'code performance == capital efficiency'.
This is the best post on this topic that has ever been written on Hacker News.

Only nitpick (after a bunch of brilliant conjecture that basically 'scans' as far as human behavior, chinese society, and Xi's inclinations): The cultural revolution was completely out of control once unleashed -- this seems much more 'regular' as far as how it's being administered.
RISC-V’s Expanding Footprint
Guess they should just do nothing then? Diversity in buisness is important. And Google has a whole pie from which apple can steal a big chunk of. Simply set apple search to be the default on safari and you immediately have a huge chuck of the market.
Apple explicitly disallows telling people how to circumvent in-app purchases. It will get your app taken down.
I think a more charitable interpretation is "not implemented".
Sure. And then fire them.
What is someone is trying to build a blog? I think the most minimal web development for building a blog comes from Static Site Generators that the author is suggesting to avoid.

You can't get more minimal than Hugo, Jekyll when trying to build a blog. My blog is fully functional and apart from Google Analytics, it doesn't use any JS at all.
> Windows (Windows is still the preferred streaming platform, for example)

If Microsoft cared about that then why did they get rid of Mixer?
What Did the Roman Emperors Look Like?
Why can't I buy books on Kindle? Where did the “Buy” button go?
Electrical costs were also quite high --- many places still had not been electrified yet. Combine that with The Great Depression and efficiency definitely became a concern and marketing point.
Can you? It doesn't look like they are supported: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-ons-firefox-ios
FWIW I enjoyed the manual. Too many tools go "all UX - no manual" and think a manual isn't necessary. Often I am afraid this leads to products that become less useful than they could have been.
Man, they should really advertise the openness more. I'm considering this as a general re-reader and notebook replacement, now.