skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first problem here is using Google to find information about Kpop rather than Naver. Many of the abusive practices in Kpop also happen in the western music industry. It doesn't make it right, but Americans and American media have a massive blind-spot when looking at foreign cultures.

These videos explain a few of these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn0gmu_m-os

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxj9rogBPi0

Kpop has become popular because it fills a niche that the western music industry doesn't cater to anymore. Some of it is actually better than the American pop scene. Right now there's no male western pop act with this Kpop idol's level of skill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEKVyfsYnuM

Comparing similar acts shows why Kpop is becoming popular.

Kpop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkwYeEMpTIM

western pop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe6D899cz3c

Every fan of a Kpop artist has a long list of how they have been mistreated and mismanaged, and sometimes these aren't even justified, the fans are being oversensitive. The fans pay for protest trucks to park outside the music company buildings with screens displaying their demands for better treatment.
I’ve been wrapping my head around it too as that’s how our hot water heater works even though the gas-using furnace doesn’t work in a blackout.
Most of this chatlog is "you" adding more noise than is necessary for this transaction.
The current ePub isn't put together right, so it just has headings for the pages and no actual content. You can find the docs in the archive as Markdown files.
Wow, I never understood until reading this comment that this is why Apple II graphics often had that fringing effect. Those visual artifacts I remember from The Oregon Trail finally make sense.
I recommend http://privacy.com for guarding against greedy, software subscriptions.

1. Create a virtual credit card for one merchant

2. Set the monthly payment limit just above the merchant's monthly charge

3. When you no longer feel like paying the charge, decrease the limit to $1 a month or just cancel the card.

4. Any future charges will be blocked!

5. Let the merchant's systems go through the hassle of terminating your account.
Some people, such as myself, try to reduce the noise around us as much as possible. Every person and their grandmother flooding your inbox is a lot of noise.
That's what investors are for. Even Elon uses investors.
Not great, not terrible...
I always hate it when a customer service person asks me why I'm canceling their subscription.

I called my mobile phone carrier to cancel and they asked me why. I said "I don't like your TV advertisements". That put a quick end to that line of enquiry.
Why is it different for female artists than male artists? Could it also have some protective aspect?
True - it doesn't mean that everyone drives a Tesla to me either. To me, it means that if I need to shell out some serious cash to fix an expensive kidney problem, I am able to do it (levels of insurance coverage aren't same everywhere). Because if I can't, then there isn't any freedom to do what I want because I'll be dead.
Chromebooks outsold Macs worldwide in 2020, cutting into Windows market share
> You want to take that away from me while pretending to do it for the greater good, when in reality it’s just a selfish desire to impose your will on others.

Let's call a spade, a spade. Your position appears to be "I don't want to choose, and I don't want anyone else to be able to choose either".

That is certainly not the paragon of virtue. Letting people choose -- which doesn't affect you at all - is.
I'm curious if there is a relationship between how strict one company's retention policy is (e.g., tactics like this), and the overall health of the business. Is it positive, negative, neutral? In either case, I do worry about the future of paid journalism.
Yep, "balls out" and "balls to the wall" are respectively the steam train and fighter plane expressions for "full speed" (similar to "full throttle" or "pedal to the metal"). Neither expression has anything to do with testicles.

In any event censoring the word "balls" (even when used euphemistically) is a bit weird.
This is the only reason I’m not a subscriber. I have no interest in starting an open ended subscription that I have to fight to cancel.

Shame too because I love the NYT, but I’m mostly able to scratch that itch with the economist, my local paper, and some smaller news outlets.
Likely not, and that's part of the reason why it's so high in the first place. Price is a function of supply and demand. In this case the supply is limited, but demand stays the same because there's basically zero incentive for consumers to reduce discretionary electricity usage.
I think the solution is pretty clear.

* Platforms MUST display the amount of the processing fee taken from the payment in a clearly visible format inside of the app and/or the IAP flow.

* Platforms MUST allow developers to implement alternative payment options (potentially cheaper due to lack of additional processing fee).

* Platforms MUST allow advertisement of alternative payment options inside of the app and/or the IAP flow.

* Platforms are allowed to reject apps if they think their alternative payment options are fraudulent but actionable feedback MUST be given within a reasonable time frame.

* Platforms MUST provide a list of trusted payment alternatives which will be unconditionally approved during the app review process. To prevent cartel, the list MUST be periodically audited by FTC.

If the convenience from the integrated IAP can justify the 30% fee, the users will keep using it. If not, the price will be brought down. Let the market decide.
> The Governor of Texas just got on Hannity to bad mouth a New Green Deal as people died in Texas cause no one cared enough to make sure the wind turbines worked in the cold.

And there in lies the problem.

From what I have read the gas turbines also failed as did the nuclear power plants, yet somehow the wind turbines are to blame.

The first step to fixing any problem is to first identify the actual cause of the problem.

The fact that all of these systems failed seems to indicate the whole system was not properly designed to work in cold weather.

So Hannity spouting his propaganda won't fix anything.

But just like Hannity, I too am just speculating.

What should happen is for the problem to be investigated by someone or some body with the qualifications to do the investigation. They produce a written report outlining the problems and outlining solutions. If someone is found to be negligent then actions need to be taken and those responsible held to account.

But good luck hoping to see that. Most governments try hard to hush up these sort of issues, rather fix them and I suspect the Texas government will be no different.
This is about power, women didnt get power or any of the benefits of the double standards.
> Not true, It is another ATH day for BTC, so literally anyone that bought BTC in the past and held is in the money. "Many often lose everything" is absurd.

If we all only buy and never sell or spend or use it, the price can only go up!

> I'd rather not hold tether in general, but IMHO it is less at risk than funds in bank accounts.

That's not even remotely true. Funds in bank accounts are FDIC insured. Tether depends on the liquidity of exchanges to buy your Tethers, which would collapse across the board if problems with Tether were announced.

> I know this might sound strange to you dear reader, but you may not have experienced a time where bank accounts got haircuts

The linked article literally talks about the haircut that Bitfinex users had to take when they lost money.

> Be your own bank!

The reality is that people do not want to be their own bank, nor do they want to pay tens of dollars in transaction fees every time they want to make a deposit or withdrawal. They especially don't want to lose all of their money if they forget their password. That's why most retail investors just leave it in an exchange, which acts as their bank.

Sure, they could technically withdraw to a Bitcoin mind wallet and walk around with the password in their head, but that's not a great solution for 99% of people out there.

Banks are fine.
That's a really great suggestion and I feel a bit silly for not having thought of it. (FWIW, there is a test form on the RapidAPI site, but it's more complicated to try and not as fun.) We'll add that. Thank you!
> Just to clarify, if you have a problem with what eInk is doing here, then you basically have a problem with patents altogether.

Not necessarily; having a problem with the way someone uses a legal property right is not the same thing as having a problem with them having the legal right to do what they are doing, i.e., the property right itself.
Hi, this is Antonio from the New York Times. May I inquire as to what your 'other' reason is?
Could be a number of factors. Prices are generally composed of generation, loss, and congestion terms. The generation term is driven by the marginal cost of energy (i.e. what's the cheapest generator that still has capacity). The losses term is fairly self explanatory. The congestion term factors in the thermal ratings on equipment based on what can be delivered to a location.

Someone else speculated that this is due to a rise in Natural Gas costs. This would make some sense given that the rise is uniform across the region.

Disclaimer: I work in the energy space. I know nothing about what is happening here and these are personal opinions.
Is there any evidence you can show me that those tricks work at all?
Texas banned out of state sale of NG, that will have consequence but not sure that is the reason.
Good points. Although, it is of course impossible to have perfect service. Is a major failure once a decade not "well run and stable"? What level of service would be acceptable?
Surely I'm allowed to be unhappy with the result without claiming to be a legal expert with the perfect solution
Sigh - another HN post/thread bashing the government and claiming they're basically puppets for Murdoch media.

The whole 'good on facebook for standing up to the government' is quite a funny stance, given how most people view facebook as a not-so-good entity on the web.

Fake news is a worse problem than Murdoch media and its sensationalist journalism.
Maybe then update the speed limits? Definitely much easier than program cars to occasionally go past the speed limit.
Netflix does something similar. It won't let you remove your credit card so you don't get billed automatically after the first month.
I'd say, imagine that for material you want, you have to ask for it rather than someone just deciding to send you whatever they want to send you. RSS and Atom are basically ways to organize and automate requesting desired data on a schedule. This means that using these formats, nobody can send you junk that you don't want.
Depends on your contract but a lot the time no. Interesting article:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Tex...
Federal Reserve act of 1977. Dual mandate: price stability and maximum sustainable employment. Inflation around 2% and unemployment under 4% pre-COVID doesn't smell like failure to me, but that's up to you. Especially if you compare to other developed economies with even more sluggish inflation and insane unemployment rates since 2008.
Suggesting "Cracking the Code Interview" for a front end dev should come with this repo, where it has solutions in Javascript: https://github.com/careercup/CtCI-6th-Edition-JavaScript
In California it’s about 30 to 40 cents kWh during normal times.
At the start of the month it was around $30. It held there for a week and a half, and has escalated rapidly.

You can visualize at http://www.energyonline.com/Data/GenericData.aspx?DataId=22&...
There are several publications I would willingly support (eg The Atlantic, the New Yorker) but I don’t and this is the reason why: I absolutely refuse to subscribe to services that are going to be a hassle to cancel.

It’s the gym business model. I’m sure this shows incremental gains in revenue but I bet it’s at the cost of retarding growth.

I want to start and stop a subscription as I please. I want to do it without having to speak to a human being. I don’t want to be called by the provider to renew my subscription.

I will not reward or support scummy retention tactics.
This is the advice I received when I first got into tech. Look for managed hosting services that run off Linux. WordPress, Minecraft, or just about anything that people sell as a managed service that runs off Linux. Another place to look into is web registrars.

Once you get that first job, just soak up as much as you can. And keep studying on your offtime. Learning AWS is very valuable.
This happened to me with audible. They didn't have the cancel subscription on the app. Had to hunt for it on the site.

Was asked if i was suuuuuuure i wanted to leave, 3 separate times before it canceled.

Definitely not thinking of doing that again, or like i do for some streaming services, pay for a couple months, stop, then pay for a few more.

Utterly rediculous.
I'll investigate this and get a bug fix release out ASAP.
Last month I cancelled my subscription online in about three clicks. Not sure how they determine who to redirect to chat.
Blackmail is an exaggeration. The government is asking them to pay for news articles (that have been voluntarily shared) and what Facebook simply says is "we liked the articles when they were free, but thanks, we don't want to buy them".
I track my electricity in Chicago pretty regularly and we’ve been seeing between 5x and 100x ‘normal’ pricing all week.

For scale, at this time of night I’d expect my power to be priced at ~ 0.8 c/Kwh. Right now we are sitting at 15 c/Kwh.
Yes, if you assume that both parts refer to the same “go.” But “have a go” here means something like “work hard and contribute to the economy.” It doesn’t refer to possessing the thing you “get” in exchange, ie. money.
You nailed it.

Politicians take credit when things go well and point the finger of blame when things go badly. When was the last time you heard one claim they made a mistake?

Sacrifice everything to the God of safety. Send the heretics of strength to hell and blame them while they're on their way.

This is the opposite of leadership.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

~ Benjamin Franklin
The trade deficit has also given the US power, and as the petrodollar disappears with fossil fuel no longer being the driver of energy, the US's purchasing power will keep it afloat.

With T-bills trading at negative rates, the US is in a really strong position. People are paying the US for the ability to hold US currency.

This is why I find it so odd that supposedly nationalists in the US rail against the trade deficit and US "debt." Our "debt" is actually just the currency of the world, and as the world grows wealthier and wants to hold our currency, there needs to be more of it out there. This is good for the US and puts other countries at a disadvantage!
I've been reading stories about tether's imminent demise for years and years. It's still going. Sure maybe one day it will collapse. Just don't bet on it happening any time soon.
Sadly I've seen worse for a subscription service. For example, Birchbox, a monthly makeup service will autorenew for you for a full year and won't allow cancellations at all. Also obviously you can sign up online easily but can't cancel there, you have to work through their customer service, like most of these sites that try to steal your money. I guess treating customers who already left you doesn't matter much to these companies and in some cases like Birchbox I'm surprised what they are doing isn't predatory and illegal.
Currently you can’t deploy them separately, but that’s something we could probably add.
I live in a state that doesn't exactly prioritize low consumer energy costs to put it mildly and my first thought was "$1/kwh is high but sounds reasonable if there's a massive supply restriction and demand spike at the same time". Goes to show you the power of anchoring.
1. Why would any of them care about Tether to begin with? It's not a speculative instrument, like Bitcoin. It's not useful for money transmission, unless they have some incredibly interesting requirements. It's an in some ways better, in some ways worse version of stuffing a pile of money into a mattress.

2. The problem is that even if you stay away from it, because you can't speculate with it, and you aren't moving money around, it is entirely unclear whether or not tether blowing up will take bitcoin down with it. If you want to be prudent about Tether blowing up, you should be advising them to stay away from bitcoin, until it does.
Former AWS real estate managers, accused of taking millions in kickbacks
it's bitcoin miners turning on server farms.
Buying Bitcoin to hedge inflation instead of just buying TIPS is like saying: I think the price of AAPL will go down, so I'm going to get some lottery tickets.
> You can side load an Epic on to a Android app, that is true, but that is not the same as being able to buy it from a store on an Android device.

I think this reframes the issue even further. This changes the claim to being that they're anti-competitive by simply not distributing the competing software themselves. The typical workflow for downloading software on a PC is go to website > download software > install software. The typical workflow for "sideloading" an app is go to website > download software > install software.

I would suggest the reason consumers are inhibited from downloading alternative app stores is because they don't trust apps they've downloaded from alternative locations (you could say the security warnings are anti-competitive, but MacOS and Windows have similar warnings when installing software downloaded from the internet, and they don't seem to generate the same accusations). But in any case, the complaint "consumers trust Google, but they don't trust me, and that's not fair" is not a reasonable basis for a lawsuit.
I had a similar experience with the Economist a few years ago. Signed up for a trial (something like $5 for 13 weeks?) and decided to cancel at the end of the trial.

It took me 10 minutes on the phone to cancel, and then I received 3 phone calls later that day from the Economist offering me special offers to re-subscribe. I have to admit that I may have answered rather rudely when the third caller asked how I was doing...
Sure. Unless there's a generous bonus on quality of work or project completion, the only rational way to play the game as a random employee is to maximize the gain and minimize the effort.
For edge cases this rare (and brief), there can be a small team of remote operators that take over, using the streamed camera data to decide when to tell the car to venture into the other lane.

The remote driver could also call the passenger's phone to double check that the sensor data is correct, and to reassure them that the AI isn't just guessing.
The national US average is ~$104.50/MWh (1000 kWh = 1 MWh). So, it's about ~9 times more expensive right than than normal.

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
I made a similar and more shitty version of this a few weeks ago https://peasleyk.gitlab.io/easy_fire/. I like your idea of ways to modify it with the toolkit to see alternate paths.
Signed up for some hosting online.

Cancelation apparently required a fax.
Got a legal friend to help me write a scary letter.

Service was promptly canceled.
Well, tools like this one enable a publisher to pick their format and enable a user to pick their format, so it's kind of the opposite of flaming your less desired format. It's a compatibility layer.

People who flame a format they don't like are just trying to ensure that their preferred one stays relevant. I am not a fan of email subscription and I love Atom and RSS. If I didn't constantly remind people about the pros of feeds and the cons of email subscriptions, before I know it most websites will drop feeds and pop up asking me to subscribe to their newsletter...
Can't you just cancel your account at any time? https://help.netflix.com/en/node/407
1. Google 5 help desk postings that meet your requirement
2. Make a resume with skills relevant to help desk
3. Take points from postings in 1 and add them to your resume in 2
3. Google a list of top job boards like indeed, LinkedIn and create a profile there
4. Google job boards specifically for help desk and make a profile there
5. Google companies that have postings for help desk
6. Everyday apply to 10 jobs on each of 3,4,5

While doing 6, apply to other jobs too like IT admin, customer service agent, bookkeeping, virtual assistant, secretary, exec assistant, and anything and everything else.

This is a game if numbers, apply to as many as possible as fast as possible. Kee doing this everyday, every week till you get it. Be creative, exhaustive, and bold at each step.
Also then drama in the newsroom. It does not inspire optimism about the professionalism and objectivity of their coverage.
Correct, and housing services do not mean ownership. Inflation metrics say a 700 square foot econobox is the appropriate measure of cost. If you continually shift the basket, then you can craft whatever CPI number you're looking to achieve. And ownership levels by generation aren't what they used to be:

https://res.cloudinary.com/apartmentlist/image/fetch/t_rente...
You must really like the NYT. These dark patterns are never excusable.
> If you're legitimately a people manager (not a low grade 'team lead'), there is no way, no how, you could have 80% free time.

Just because you've never seen this dynamic work successfully doesn't mean that it doesn't. The best manager I've ever had operated like this. She spent most of her time coding and made sure to know what everyone on the team was up to. We were all competent professionals, so we did a perfectly fine job of prioritizing our work and working with others within the team and across teams to get things done. It helped that much of our work could easily be undertaken in parallel with strong ownership of different parts of the code by a single person, but when there were projects that required strong and frequent collaboration she just carved out a sub-team and designated a lead then trusted the lead in the same way she trusted us as individuals. Not only did this mean that we got the benefit of her very impressive technical contributions, but it also meant that we were all able to be more productive because we spent vastly less time in BS meetings.

Afterwards, I moved to a company with a more traditional structure. Ostensibly there were three people in charge of me: my engineering manager, my product manager, and my designer (since we are "design lead"). It was a pretty big culture shock. One difference is that there are a lot more junior people in my new company (the average age was around 50 in the first one), and I think younger engineers may need a firmer hand, but I'm not sure that that explains it all. I joined the first place right out of college and thrived in that environment.

I think most people don't understand just how effective a minimal management strategy can be because they've never experienced one that works well.