skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has happened for years! It's not some new terrible thing.

You sign up for an annual subscription, paying monthly installments.

They give you the option to pay half of it out if you want to cancel, it's no different than a 12 month phone plan in places like Australia.

God I hate Twitter. People on their are so used to only reading 150 characters, that it's started affecting them in their daily life, that they're not reading the paid agreements they're signing up to.

Edit: This isn't defending Adobe. I was stuck in this agreement for a whole extra year than I wanted to be, because I didn't get a notification about it renewing (but that was again, my mistake). Fuck Adobe, they have shitty practices.
The triple-jump event is literally described as "a hop, skip, and jump." The three bounding motions are done in a sequence without breaking forward momentum, so "triple jump" is an accurate description of the combination, while "hop, skip and jump" is an accurate description of each of the three bounds individually.
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There shouldn't be an "Annual plan, paid monthly" option. Software vendors shouldn't be in the credit and loans business.

Pay monthly for monthly plans, and pay annually once for annual plans.
I'd expect it to be different if I've already spent a year in or not.

Cancellation periods can be random and unattached to when you actually stopped using a service.
Cloudflare folks: do you have plans to support subdomains? I've been using AWS CloudFront and am pretty happy with it, but the performance claims made by CloudFlare were intriguing enough for me to give it a try.

I tried adding something like blog.domain.tld, and it failed with: "Please ensure you are providing the root domain and not any subdomains (e.g., example.com, not subdomain.example.com)"

Many people would use this service with a subdomain, this is kind of a deal-breaker.
Rent seeking? Seriously? You realize that rent seeking actually has a definition and it isn't "any business model I don't like" . This is the opposite of rent seeking, you pay for a monthly subscription to a product line that keeps getting updated and supported. That's a directly & mutually beneficial transaction.

Take video editing as an example. The tech it involves (such tracking or object detection) usually improves pretty quickly and the improvement can be drastic . Not having to shell out hundreds of dollars outright every new CS version just to keep up with the tech is a pretty big benefit for a lot of people and makes the ecosystem more accessible. That's true for almost every other software included in the Adobe subscription.

Now, it's absolutely okay to still dislike subscription based business models (I do too) but in this case it's non sense to argue it's rent seeking.
I think they have to display the total price for the contract here in Australia, not just the monthly payments.
It was (still is?) really cool to hate on the GPL. I think the long lost root of the discontent is because it restricts developer freedom (in favor of user freedom, of course), but in reality it just became a meme and most people who critique it don't actually understand what its purpose is. It's like PGP, show me a better alternative and I'll gladly jump ship. But it's not terribly productive to complain without offering solutions.

As a developer, you have a choice to make when you encounter GPL bashing: jump on the bandwagon, or rebut. If you choose the bandwagon, don't come crying when you can't make a living building honest software that treats users with respect because you have to compete with large companies who ~~take~~ steal agnostic software and subsidize their products with user disrespect and line their pockets selling ad profiles.

As a user, demand honest software and new companies will rise to meet your demands. Instead of ads, pay $30 and support a project that puts your interests first. Subscribe for $3/mo when you find a product that brings you continuous value.

As a technical leader and someone in a position to make impactful technical decisions at your small company, educate yourself on the license landscape, examine your core product and target market. If you're targeting open source adoption by big companies and expect them to eventually pay for a proprietary overlay, probably avoid the GPL. If you're building a product for _users_, consider enshrining that position in your license terms and simultaneously defending their freedom while deterring predatory abuse by large companies.

It runs contrary to the FSF guidance, but I'd also suggest, out of practicality, patenting your (software) inventions. Ultimately it gives you flexibility and defense in the event that somebody else tries to assert their own patents. It also protects your GPL users because you explicitly license them to use your patented work, and it allows you to license that technology regardless of any software you've written to companies who may not find the GPL palatable but still would like to use your invention. Win win win.
Starlink has the potential to revolutionize and enable a number of new technologies. Let's say urban electric planes for one.
Yes that's true. Also interesting is, AFAIK, DynamoDB does not follow the Dynamo paper. DynamoDB uses an architecture based on single-leader replication, and the Dynamo paper describes a process where a coordinator node is in charge of replicating to each node. If I am not confused, any node among the top N nodes in the preference list can act as the coordinator.

(This information may be slightly out of date at this point)
Can't do that with our ants, they don't walk in a long line anymore, instead they appear as individuals moving about randomly without any obvious source.

Some other ones are really tiny with light orange colour so you can't easily spot them, and another type had a really strong carapace so when you squashed them they'd play dead for a while before walking off like nothing happened.

Pretty sure they're evolving.
Flipr: Making changes at quickly and safely at scale
I have troubles with Mermaid. While I love what it does, the SVG it generates can draw out of bounds and some of the chart is not visible. I haven't tried some transform hack yet but it has some issues.
You offer no evidence that these scientists were biases for affected by their bias. You offer only speculation.
Well you have a shitty lease.
The Lost Art of Civil Discourse (2018)
Since when does the head of the fed need to crackdown on bubbles?

BTC is over 10 years now, and the most powerful monetary authority in the world is now afraid of it. How is this slipping by people's minds?

The btc maniacs are winning.
Mobile phone plans and car payments all display the total price here in Australia as well as the monthly payments.
Backbone.js comes to mind: https://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html.

Edit: The author of backbone.js has a tool that generates documentation in this style.
http://ashkenas.com/docco/
Fun and helpful! And also reminds me of Land of Lisp, a fun (you guessed it) Common Lisp book.

[0] http://landoflisp.com/
> even in the face of evidence to the contrary

This is the problem though. There really isn't any clear evidence one way or the other in your example. Predicting how someone will perform in a particular context is incredibly difficult (see the frequent disagreements on HN surrounding the hiring process). More technical proficiency might or might not translate to better overall performance in your particular case.

Meanwhile, the other candidate has already been in what was presumably a substantially similar situation. Given that the previous startup succeeded, I'd assign good odds (but no guarantee, of course!) of that candidate having performed well (all else being equal, a startup with dead weight seems statistically unlikely to succeed).

> You could argue for either justification, honestly, but it's the failure to see a distinction that strikes me as religious.

It might not be that someone else is failing to see a distinction (social status vs technical proficiency vs something else), but rather that they disagree with your estimates of how much various factors will contribute to the likelihood of success for a candidate in the first place. In other words, I think someone might reasonably disagree with you that there's a meaningful distinction to be made here. Such a view would of course be expected to lend their actions the appearance of religious dogma from your perspective.
It’s called literate programming, invented by Donald Knuth: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming
No, Amazon Didn’t ‘Win’ the Alabama Unionization Election. Workers Did
My thought is that anything that forces you to think about how your words and actions are perceived by others can only be a good thing.

People commenting have spoken about freedom, and related it to personal responsibility. I think this law is making that responsibility real. You spout hate and you can be held legally responsible, regardless of where you do it. If you have been reported, then obviously somebody who heard it didn't like it. Don't want to be reported, then think about who you are about to offend rather than just fire words out there ignorant of what pain they may cause.

Your (joke?) about witch hunts is a point in case... you are speaking to an open forum mostly in a country where witch hunts took place... There is a non zero chance that somebody in your audience is related to one of the people who got mixed up in the witch hunts... Joke for you, for them, maybe not so much.

I'm not saying don't use the term, it's in pretty common usage with little reference to its origins, but maybe we should start to think about the words we use, and how they may adversely impact people who hear them. In other words, take responsibility for what you say and be considerate of those who will hear your words.
Some todo list like chart made in each to help compare and contrast.
It's a 1 year contract and you have to pay part of the remaining fee. If you go to the next step in the cancellation process they give you two months free if you don't cancel right away (might depend on how long you have had a membership).
FWIW, since Git 2.23 I prefer using "git switch" and "git restore" instead of "git checkout".
Adding onto this.

The actual shitty thing that people should be complaining about, is that the subscription auto-renews (unless I missed the checkbox) and I couldn't find a way to cancel it pre-emptively, outside of blocking it at the bank level, otherwise it signed me up for another 12 months.
I read the article.

You have to be a pretty senior officer to criticize a weapons program, so it's nice to see somebody step up. (Military pilots never do so on the record.)

I study WW2, and the reason the US won the Pacific War is that we had numerous, long-range aircraft (the P-38 twin basically won the war.)

Now we have not numerous, not long-range aircraft (F-22 and F-35) for the same theater. Only 189 F-22's were made with about 150 left after the hurricane, and the US F-35 fleet is 600 delivered but unknown combat-ready - that's not enough for a war, despite China's fighters being worse, but in-theater.

The above was all forseeable, but when the MIC is just checking boxes instead of preparing for war, you end up where we are now.

The US does have an experience and quality advantage over China, but we don't have a clear quantity advantage despite our investment over the last 75 years.

Note that the US was never ready for war on Day One for the past century, so I'm not expecting anything better this time around either, and a lot of our people will die needlessly again.
it makes sense to also mention here the absinthe which is arguably responsible if not for all at least for some aspects of the Paris art of the 19th century, and the artemisia (or similar) may have been naturally known and used in the Stone Age - its natural discoverability is evidenced by the fact that it has been part of the folk medicine across the world.
Just create second account. This feature you describe is needed like to one in a million users.
modern fab is pretty automated. its doesn't required as much labors as other industries. Samsung fab was shutdown during Texas winter storm.

https://www.statesman.com/story/business/2021/03/30/samsung-...
I'm pretty sure bitcoin has less volatility than some of the meme stocks (eg. GME or AMC).
Blasphemy still exists: it just changed subject (one can’t criticize some political movements for example) and it’s enforced by "cancelling" instead of courts. In a lot of way the present situation is worse than the previous one on that front.
Check "I am an advanced user (required reading)", enter advanced-settings.html, last line is where you define your own uBlock scriptlets. Then in My Filters define

*##+js(myscript)

this will inject into every(1) executable context of every page. You still need to hotpatch workers/sharedworkers/webworkers(I disable the last one entirely).

This way you get some of the control over Chrome browser back. Not so fun fact - Google is very against users having the ability to execute arbitrary user defined code, afair Gorhill had a problem with google concerning injectable scriptlets.

(1) of course there are issues, you cant inject into <iframe src="data: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/1753 in Chrome :( so you would have to manipulate CSP to disable those.
worried about terr funding , money laundering ?
I feel this is a very scary trend starting. I have not come across a single founder in the last 5-6 years who does not start with AWS credits or is not craving for them.

AWS is a monopoly and they use their cash to buy early customers. Initially it was Amazon's money, but now AWS has enough cash of their own to push whatever they wish to. The same goes for Google and Microsoft.

AWS directly building up the software side of what started out as IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) is only going to hurt software vendors. We can only expect new software players or ones with low capital to restrict their licenses even more.

Open source licenses are not only for ideological freedom, but very necessary for companies (end users) to integrate and modify products on their own. We will migrate more toward source-available licenses instead since big giants are going to corner the small companies.

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I use to have many ant problems - and certainly not due to any lack of cleanliness.

It pretty much all went away once I got a cat. At first I thought it was coincidence, but over the years I noticed if I ever killed a random ant the cat would start rolling around and scenting the very spot the ant was killed.

I don’t have any scientific proof, but I have to think the cat’s scent/pheromones interferes with the ants and prevents more from following/coming.

Curious to hear any similar experiences
What about a 1, 7, 10? That seems to be as though it would be even more difficult?
Very interesting.

I converted it a dozen times as teenager. Once, it happened twice in a single game. A big caveat is that, I was playing ~50 games a week from age 13-15 when there was a promotion that let members of two leagues play unlimited free practice games.

I used a 16lb ball, threw just over 20mph with as little hook as possible and tried to hit the 10 pin in such a way as to send it near the corner of the pit. At least on those lanes back then, that lead to a high percentage (maybe 15%) bouncing out of the pit. Occassionally that bounce would get the 7.

Even in the 90s, 7-10s were significantly harder in professional play due to their using heavier pins than you'd see in normal league or practice games.

The new pin screens shown in this video make it look like the 7-10 probably is now even another five times harder to convert than it already was!

I totally agree with the last part, too. In all those free practice games I bowled as a teenager, I never converted a single 4-6, "big four" or a "Greek church".
12 year old beanie babies with one of the most accessible financial assets in the world with returns of over 60.000x
Depends on Every Package in NPM
Something tells me I wouldn't want to work in whatever team you work with.

git blame is extremely useful for knowing when something was added, and what the context was. It is not about "blaming" people for mistakes.
So why no criminal fraud charges?
There is no reason to give billion dollar companies with a staff of thousands of full time workers which have meetings in which professional designers meet with professional decision makers to approve of each step in a web store before it goes live the benefit of the doubt instead of the customer who spends 2 minutes in a web form.

If it looks dishonest it probably is. On this page https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.html I see an entry for all apps. The description is like so.

All Apps

US$52.99/mo

It has a big old buy now option that you are obviously supposed to click in place of the small text that says see plan and pricing details.

When you click buy now you are taken to what ought to be familiar to most people as a shopping cart pattern. On the entire left side is just a spot to put your email and a button designed to draw your attention below it that says continue to payment. Most people are going to read it from top down and not glance much at the item they have put in their cart.

If they do they may notice a drop down in the description of the item in their cart with black on grey text that says annual plan, paid monthly in the description of the item you are already buying where people are much less likely to attend to this detail.

If they click the drop down they may note the options but more likely we are already passed this screen and onto the next one.

If you put a nonsense email in and click proceed to payment you will notice, you know or not, text in 6 point font at the bottom.

In light text that on a 24" 1080p screen is 9 pixels high or about 0.098 inches tall

> By clicking "Agree and subscribe," you agree

In bold same size it says

> You will be charged US$52.99 (plus tax) monthly and at the end of your one-year term, your subscription will automatically renew monthly until you cancel (price subject to change). No annual commitment required after the first year. Cancel anytime via Adobe Account or Customer Support.

Now again in light text it says

> Cancel before Apr 26, 2021 to get a full refund and avoid a fee

If you had no economic interest and your job was to be as informative as possible you would allow the user to click the product which would take you to a product page wherein it would list 3 options with separate descriptions where you would add the desired item to the cart. This means that you would affirmatively choose that option instead of having the default in a drop down positioned so many wouldn't attend to it at all and you wouldn't mention the fee in tiny font on the payment screen. It would be fully specified in body text with a check box saying something to the effect. I acknowledge that if I cancel before the one year term I will be charged a fee of up to n dollars. If you check it you would be able to add the item to your cart and pay for it secure in that everyone knew what they are buying.

It doesn't work like this because deceiving people is good for business.
Speaking as an EE in industry. Most of us won't go near Intel with a 10 foot pole. They have shit on hardware designers in the past and they continue to shit on them now. They literally pump and dump products like Google without a care in the world of sudden discontinuation.
Opportunity, luck, timing, capital, risk, decisions, specific knowledge. Converting hours into value is way more than productivity.
Couldn't find the PR you're referring to, unless it was this one https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/15007 which was added by the same author as the OP, but looks like a different exploit as far as I can tell?
ublock is already executing in context of every loaded page, this is just one more line of js. The only website I use that could benefit from webassembly is twitch, but thankfully they detect webassembly capability and their fallback js webworker is working just fine.
So here's the thing...there was a long period of time where empires were on the gold standard. Spain during the early American colonial period was one such empire.

Spain did really well out of it's brutality in the New World - plundering the Inca and Aztec empires yielded a wealth of gold, and the big find in the salvage industry today is still "spanish gold" because just so much of it sank to the bottom of the ocean.

But now a question: did the Spanish economy boom from this influx of gold they had (through a substantial expenditure of resources), suddenly acquired?

The answer is: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_Spain#Gold...) No.

Spain actually experienced massive inflation and then an economic crisis as the government suddenly found itself, bizarrely, bankrupt. Gold wasn't worth remotely what it was before, because gold is not actual productivity - the conquest of the new world was a conquest of gold, at the cost of real resources - food, men, timber, arms etc. But it didn't yield anything that was actually worth trading for other then just more gold. So prices skyrocketed, and suddenly the Spanish empire was raising taxes - despite in theory having "made money" because it couldn't afford to pay for its own upkeep.

What does this have to do with the concept of loans? Quite a lot. Because the exact same factors would apply to a government with a wealth of productivity which was forced to seek loans from a market: demand for currency drives the value of currency up, but the same thing happens - farmers, workers, everyone else winds up poorer because the value of their labor is being reduced relative to the value of currency. So currency holders get richer, but everyone else with bills and day to day living expenses are getting poorer.
Vouching appears to undo flagging. More people should vouch, if they see abuse.
A majority is more than half.
I'm not missing it, I'm saying that a part other then nvlink isn't the important part!
Hilariously one of the backlogs I know of are PMICs from TI. TI produces most of these ICs domestically already, it's just car manufacturers fucked everything with their incompetence at supply chain forecasting.
I am with you brother. If there is an argument for bitcoin, this is it. Large banks that impose their own priorities over that of their customers.
Photoshop is overall a lot cheaper under the subscription model than it was before. A boxed copy used to cost $800-$1000 (in 90s/00s dollars). Even if you skipped some versions and upgraded every 3ish years, it would come to ~$300-$350/yr. You can get an annual subscription today for $240/yr. And that's without factoring in inflation and the fact that you can just pay for a month or two of use if you want. And you're always on the latest version.
I keep trying to switch back to Vim but the selection-first workflows and multicursor really keep me Kakoune.

I really want to like Vim again though, for Onivim (2). Looks so pretty.
Look in to alpine.js - pairs very nicely with Tailwind
Could someone clarify why / when would it make sense to use Tailwind UI with upcoming Vue support versus just using one of also very popular Vue component libraries, such as PrimeVue or Quasar?
I would avoid using bash for writing scripts (i.e., non-interactive use). There are better shells for scripting, like the one most Linux distributions are using, derived from the default shell in NetBSD, derived from the Almquist shell.
The thing I miss most when using Linux is the default NetBSD shell. It has the speed of dash plus command line history.
The goalposts are actually moving in the other direction. Batteries keep eating fuel cell's target applications.

And there is currently a very large PR effort by fossil fuel companies to promote hydrogen. I'd suggest extreme skepticism about any "news" promoting it at present. Always ask where the hydrogen is actually coming from in the present, not 30 years down the road.