skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> with each subscription comes a business relationship you have to manage, which is annoying and prone to being forgotten

Though, this is one advantage of centralized services like Paypal and the iOS ecosystem.

At any time, I can see the iOS apps that are auto-billing me and I can rescind the contract from that UI. I don't need to call anyone or hope their <button>Cancel</button> actually does anything. I don't need to watch my statement like a hawk just to make sure they actually stopped billing me or that the 7-day trial that I canceled actually canceled.

Anyone can complain about yet another subscription. But tools that help us stay on top of our subscriptions are essential for subscriptions that aren't a bad deal. The banking/financial industry stopped evolving long ago and should have built ubiquitous tools for this.

Finally, the complaints about subscription services in this thread aren't very compelling. Nobody wants to buy a subscription yet the app transaction they want on their terms (e.g. buy once, never expire) presumably doesn't exist. It's a pebble's throw from just complaining that you'd prefer if everything was free so that you could keep your hard earned money.

Aside, iOS doesn't go far enough. Just so I don't seem like I'm too kind to Apple and subscription services here, they still have a long way to go. If they cared more about consumer protection, they would enact these changes:

1) iOS notification every time we get auto-billed. Every time we get charged, we should get reminded to consider if we actually want the subscription and that people aren't just getting taken advantage of by forgetting. iOS does nicely show you your auto-renewing subscriptions, but my parents don't know how to access it.

2) nuke the ability for weekly charges. A monthly billing cycle should be the minimum because that's what people are used to. It's kinda disgusting that an app can charge $7/wk when 99.9% of auto-renew cycles are monthly, and the user has to happen to notice the "wk" when they agree to it. And if weekly billing is allowed, then the iOS pricing page should standardize it showing you how much that costs per month to make it clear that it's not $7/mo.

3) An app shouldn't be able to default to the yearly billing cycle, it should default to monthly and the user can choose a yearly cycle if they want to, ugh. So many apps will default to the yearly cycle (so, 12*fee upfront) and even require you to pick that one if you want the 7-day free trial. It's hard to see how Apple could design the system to allow this behavior without knowing it's going to make people commit to a billing cycle they don't actually want.

4) You shouldn't be able to display a full-screen interstitial that makes it seem like you have to subscribe to use the app. I was just looking for a good daily workout iPhone app this week and every app had a full-screen splash page where you had to notice the tiny "X" to skip.

That said, still better than the US system where giving someone your debit card number in 2021 lets them pull money from your account for years just because you bought a $3 hotdog from them once.
I was in 8200 and this sounds like rubbish to me. unit 8200 doesn't directly deal with human intelligence: they don't contact Palestinians/threaten them.
This stuff is done, don't get me wrong, but that's the Shabak's doing. Shabak has way more tools to gather this kinds of info (vast network of snitches, really good Arabic experts etc) and can also use this info since Shabak deals with Palestinians directly.
BTW the cooperation between army intelligence and Shabak is shit, at least that's how it was in my days. So I doubt any data about gays is passed from 8200 to Shabak.
I call bullshit, sorry.
> Also, given that study itself measured Iron and B12, supplementing Iron and B12 may help scar healing w/o the (red) meat eating downside

Unless iron is the source of the (red) meat eating downside.
Sea slugs can remove their heads and regrow their bodies, scientists discover
> son needs more discipline

This does not seem like the right conclusion. More like "needs running around time and free play".

Cf. e.g. https://www.alfiekohn.org/article/discipline-problem-solutio... https://www.alfiekohn.org/article/beyond-discipline-article/
Just think of any random invention, then look up on Wikipedia who was the inventor. Repeat a bunch of times, and you get the idea. (And please don't respond with cherry-picked examples.)
Great ideas and spectacular visuals. Good luck finding a new position!
You’re full of assumptions. Nobody is tampering with the hardware, nobody is routing Apple IPs to fake mirrors, nobody is using “self-signed” certs. People use stock iPhones, without a VPN (not that enabling a normal VPN is at all relevant here, but still), to enable profiles signed by Apple, to run Iranian software. All these can happen in the US as well, except Iranian app websites usually check the IP and sometimes the phone number before they give you links to install the app.

That Fidibo app is obviously not “compliance with App Store policy.” Said policy has never been followed consistently. Feel free to email Epic if you think this changes anything. My magic ball says the best result you can expect is that Apple says, “Oops, they lied, and we didn’t notice.”

Your article is also just an article. App Store is usually fine in Iran, but sometimes there are connection problems. This is not even always a ban from Apple, the Islamic Republic is all too happy to ban foreign services.

Instead of giving me all these made-up stories, give me a list of all the major sacrifices Apple has made for user security. I can’t think of a single one. The nearest thing to a sacrifice they have done is supposedly not selling your data to 3rd parties (except China and friends), but this isn’t that lucrative for them and the PR it generates translates directly into profits. Most privacy choices aren’t this PR-able.
I'm not even sure what non-distorted ratings are supposed to be. What you mention obviously makes them more inaccurate, but they aren't accurate to begin with. Ratings are a messy human affair, I don't know why we bother quantifying it...
Are all boys a problem?

And it should be noted -- it's not the boys that are the problem it is the schools.

Raise young boys in a way that is completely stifling and unnatural compared to how boys were raised for tens of thousands years based on our evolution, and then diagnose these boys as having a mental problem. No, it is society that has the mental problem.
I made comments critical of this institute's credibility and not only they were immediately downvoted but people then went through my comments history and downvoted all my previous comments they could.

Clearly your 50 cent party works both ways.

Now I think it's insulting to suggest that commenters who dissent are paid by someone as if there was an obvious correct opinion and any other was obviously faked, but there is also a general problem with allowing things like 'downvotes' because they are always weaponised and they kill discussion. Unfortunately the same goes with flagging as that can automatically suppress a comment.
This. If you're paying good, practically everyone will come to interview for you, so your supply is inexhaustible. So you can afford false negatives.
But at the end of the day, PoW is simply a fee that users of the network pay (in the form of inflation) to secure the network. I'm not convinced it's really a distribution mechanism.
Agreed, I should add something on this. (Haven't updated the article since posting it many months ago.)
My experience with consulting jobs is that while the interviews themselves are still difficult, they do not require nearly as much of this "devote your life to studying and taking practice tests" that the tech industry is enamored with. Consulting interviews are almost all behavioral, and sometimes require a short case presentation, but even the case rarely requires days and days worth of preparation. Yes, there are some who do prepare endlessly (like "Cracking the Case Interview"), but I know far fewer people who go that route and even those that do still spend only a fraction of the time on it compared to leetcoders.

The mindset during consulting recruiting seems to be more of "we want to make sure you have a decent base level of knowledge and problem solving skills, but if you don't know how to code/make a PPT/whatever, that's fine, because we can teach you that stuff". Big tech recruiting seems to be the opposite: even when big tech companies claim "you don't need to know everything, because we'll teach you", they still require you to jump through these leetcode-style hoops to prove your skills.

And this is echoed beyond the hiring process too, in my experience. Consulting companies hire smart people and want to keep them for a long time, so they invest a lot of money into training those people and attempting to keep attrition down. FAANG on the other hand seems to care less about attrition (sometimes even embracing it, eg Amazon) and wants to hire people that require minimal training, and thus wants people that have immediately demonstrable knowledge so they can be immediately productive.
Of course, there is no racial hate between large parts of American population against Arabs... (sarcasm)
Wow.

The industry has technological authority, but that doesn't mean it is owed a moral authority.

Just how (I hope) you wouldn't give moral authority to a grooming gang just because they're super efficient in their trafficking techniques.
I've noticed a number of fake seeming reviews on local businesses here in Vancouver, BC. The accounts seem to be leaving fake reviews across Canada. It's particularly suspicious to me given the improper grammar and almost entire lack of reference to anything specific to the business. The accounts also seem to give 100% 5 star reviews.

There's no option in Google Maps to report these users for being fraudulent.

For example:
https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/104557996396454013599/re...
https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/109949503069363340417/re...
Huh? The way I remember it, registering at arXiv is the same as registering anywhere else. I certainly don't recall needing someone to vouch for me.
> From a network perspective it’s indistinguishable from a 4G hotspot

Not exactly, because that would depend on how competent the network is. For a "dumb" network yes, they won't know whether it's a 4g hotspot or not, but it's conceivable that an all-knowing adversary (eg. NSA) can infer the make/model of the phone based on fingerprinting or even the IMEI.
I've never used trustpilot, but how do they get away with it? Why are they used at all? Search rankings? But how did they get those?
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Instead of just blaming China and pointing fingers wouldn't it make sense to find new growth markets? I have read up on how China is investing in Africa. Wouldn't it be for the best to do the same and cut China as the middleman? After all, if African countries provide resources and even manufacture on site only to send the products to China why even bother with China?
I’m confused - are you saying you find the programming interview process abusive? In what way is it abusive?
Good point. If China controls it it is their currency. (If its death is the goal one could probably pay China and it would all be shut down in less than 48 hours. No one is as efficient at shutting things down.)
The point is that status is low and working conditions poor and you're not respected - see the lack of American STEM grad students who realize they are basically pawns of the profs and administration who just listen to the lawyers and undergrads who pay the bills (outside of top research institutions)
I can understand your annoyance at the FAANG obsession, but when the total comp is literally 2-3 times that of the hum drum industries, doing roughly the same work, it makes sense that people would want to consider them.
I missed this at the time, but this sort of personal attack is absolutely not ok on HN and will get you banned for obvious reasons. You've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines in a bunch of your other comments too.

Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart? We'd be grateful.
The sum of all monies lost trading S&P500 shares should be negative, since the index as a whole was up. Which isn't to say it'll be up forever, but over a scale of years it has historically always been up. Even if you lost money trading S&P 500 shares, somebody else made more, which is why the index is up.

Even so, that figure isn't really relevant to the GP's point. Their point was that in addition to the price of the stocks, people who owned those stocks got cash money paid into their pockets, via dividends. That amounts to about 1.1% interest on money you spend buying the shares[1].

(That's not actually a great number. 2% is more common over the last 20 years. It suggests that as of right now the market is overpriced. But that's also for 2020, which is not a typical year. So far for 2021, it's more like 1.5%)

[1] https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-dividend-yield
What does IB stand for? Probably not internet banking? :)
Landing a "top job" is a zero sum game: on top of skill and intellect, you've also got to put in more labor and hours than anyone else to get there. For a large constellation of reasons, women are more likely to choose to put extra hours into childcare, and men are more likely to choose to put extra hours into the kind of market labor that lends itself to reaching those top tier jobs.
This seems spot on. I couldn’t tell what they were talking about, except the part at the end about gun control, which I disagreed with. Plenty of democrats own and like guns.
... and nary a headline. But we do get cautionary tales like the above. Sometimes I get the nagging feeling that the wallstreetbets conspiracy crowd might be on to something.
No one disagrees. We literally have a day to celebrate that and societies for millennia have cherished that. Many wars have been fought in essence so the mothers of their group would have better conditions to be a mother in as it gives their offspring the best chance to thrive.

Most everyone loves their mom more than anything else.
I wonder if there's a way to legally forbid scummy companies like Trustpilot from accepting & publishing reviews (both good and bad) about your company.

Let's say you are legit but just don't want to play this bullshit game at all (as otherwise you'd need to constantly monitor and be ready to try and take down the obviously fake reviews which you can prove are fake), can you do that?

I feel like these companies, even if they didn't have extortionate intentions, are still creating overhead for businesses that haven't asked for anything.
The problem is that the laws are trying to thread a needle between two entirely contradictory ideas - that it is both well and normal to build the world in a matter that expects everyone to drive - and that driving is a privilege that can be revoked from you.

You can't legislate, or law your way out of a basic contradiction in your society, so we end up in a middle ground where nobody is happy.

For another example of a basic contradiction - we allow and encourage people to drive intoxicated (After all, bars have parking lots, and do not enforce that every group have a designated driver), but not too intoxicated, and not in a manner that is too unlucky. The bar between the two is either an objective test from a breathalyzer device (a test that you can't take until you are pulled over - and one sets the bar too low for many people, in my opinion), or a fully subjective test of 'did you get into an auto accident, while sitting at 0.05 BAC'?
Sign of the primes: Linux Foundation serves up free code-signing service
seems to be signing using ephemeral keys backed by open ID connect and transparency logs. I don't know when it's available yet, the article does not say.
Good Products Deserve Good Design
Of course, you are both correct here.

Spam was my first thought as well. Back in the golden age of blogging, I loved getting pingbacks on my posts, but the ecosystem became flooded with spam to the point that anybody old enough to remember what pingpacks are will automatically associate them with spam. It'd be nice if this service could address this concern, which lots of people will have immediately, and it appears they do via a plugin, as mentioned in another comment.

Since this is a centralized-ish service, it'd be good if they could perhaps address this at the hub-level.
Sure, also we could define year-boundaries, cause & effect, e.g.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
Having used both, there's a big difference between Teams's approach and Slack's. Slack assumes a flat list where messages are in-line by default, but a thread can spawn out of an arbitrary one. Every message composed from the bottom bar of Teams creates a new thread, whether it has any replies or not.
Bitcoins Network Effect
That's a good one. Reviews are so abused by now, it's almost comical.
I'm saying when they write the reviews, there's only some abstract harm to consider. I'm not justifying it, just putting it into perspective
Release note says pinning version with "^0.8.0", should be "~0.8.0" right?
This sounds like what I do: Makefile with distinct steps: install, build, test, lint, deploy. Those steps call underlying tools, depending on the platform, framework, language.

E.g. in one project it will install rbenv, bundle, npm, yarn etc. Call Rake, npx, that odd docker wrapper, etc. Or deploy with git in one project and through capistrano or ansible in another.

As a dev, in daily mode, all you need is 'make lint && make test && make deploy'. All the underlying tools and their intricacies are only needed when it fails or when you want to change stuff.
An interesting thing about paid reviews - you can prove that the reviews are fake, but you usually can't prove that the business itself actually paid for those reviews. In a hypothetical world where companies with fake reviews are regularly discovered and lambasted in public, it's easy to imagine a sinister metagame where unscrupulous small businesses can buy bad good reviews (i.e. 5-star reviews that are obviously fake) for their competitors to make them seem sketchy. The folks selling the fake reviews certainly don't care who's paying. There's no obvious solution to me for that potential problem aside from stopping fake reviews before they're posted (which feels like the kind of thing that's much harder than it sounds); thankfully it doesn't appear to be a very common thing yet.
"Might makes right" is a pretty grim worldview.

Besides, the dominant player here is only dominant because of other colonial powers, namely the US.
From what I know from doctors, what FANG does is basically the equivalent of doing your board exams every time you want to change jobs. Which usually gets a reaction of dread & disgust when you couch it in those terms to doctors.

Interviews are significantly easier as far as prep time goes for doctors & psychologists.

BUT, you don't have to go through the entire med school & residency rigamarole as a software engineer either, so as far as total effort goes FANG is probably easier. I posit that software engineering is probably the most egalitarian method of socioeconomic mobility, because the only real barrier is time, a laptop, the internet and motivation, while all the other methods require an upper-middle class background and expensive schooling (law, medicine, finance) or just plain luck (business, celebrity art & sports)

But being an interviewer in FANG, I've actually found it rare to find the self taught type in practice. But we do leave that door open unlike medicine.
At least on Windows you've always had Alt-F4 so having Ctrl-Q was always a bit weird.
Yeah reviews are a shitshow almost no matter what.

It's human nature to be predisposed to leave reviews when you have a bad experience.

Then you have those f'ing weirdos who leave reviews like "Burger was really good and all but the food I had at the French Laundry was way better! 2/5 stars!" at a local pub or something.

And then if the owner gets caught up in some shit that hits the news the reviews get brigaded by trolls who don't even live in a 500 mile radius or have any intention of ever going.
I don't get it. If the law doesn't recognize the paper as the deed for the vehicle, then that piece of paper is worthless.
There is a hidden problem here, which is app store policy (all of them, afaik).

Setting up a subscription? Easy. Selling software once.. and just once? Also easy.

But if you want to follow the classic version model, where users pay for upgrades? Now you have problems. The app stores see a new version as a completely new piece of software, so you have to build up reputation for it from the ground up, and if you want to overlap the old and new version for awhile, which is usually a good idea, you run the risk of people buying the old one by accident and getting mad at you.

It's just not a use case which is supported anymore, and it should be.
Funny.

The first class was a public class & anybody could join in at any time. The second class had reserved early seats based on the initial supply of the dices; without investment in the initial dices the game doesnt start, whereas sudoku generation is free.
Preparing for tech interview has become a cottage industry by itself. We sent people to Moon before people were subjected to these theoretical tests.
Is the network so secure if relatively few groups hold most of the power? The danger of 51% attacks[0] is well known.

[0] https://dci.mit.edu/51-attacks
I'm sure there is, there are racists everywhere. I'm not sure what you mean.
> I made a hard "no Robux" rule

I had that to start with, but now he's older and using the platform to interact with his friends (especially during lockdown), we have relented and now use Robux as incentives for doing chores etc.
I've seen 25:00 and even 26:00 being used as times, in Japan.
I took one look at that logo and concluded “this is not for me”.
I've always heard this as a kid/young adult but as I've grown older, I've noticed that most people don't ever mature (well, at least not until 35-ish) so I've started doubting all claims and folk-wisdom about maturity pretty much wholesale...
Yet none of the stuff you mention here will live beyond the next two years. Fun is as much as i would describe the js ecosystem, for more boring corporate use banking on these is the equivalent of getting a trojan horse in the application portfolio.
No, if you build without spam prevention you end up with a situation where you have to retrofit it, annoying legitimate users and having a huge fight over control.

Or it drowns in spam and everyone quietly drops it .. or it never takes off at all. Shrug
I'm not sure that more fragmentation would be good.
Chats are linear because conversations are linear in time. Our brains have evolved to stay on top of linear group conversations.

Introducing too much of an opinionated interface would discourage tangents and off-topic banter, which I think is essential for a healthy group.

A different idea: delayed sending. If you want to have a conversation, but it doesn't need to be now, you can schedule your message to send in, say, 20 minutes, or whenever there is a pause.

If you want to implement a functional prototype, I would recommend hacking on top of one of the open source matrix clients [1], the open spec has experimental support for nested chat rooms ("spaces") [2] and threads [3].

[1] https://matrix.org/clients/

[2] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/kegan/spaces-s...

[3] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/kegan/msc/thre...