skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I encountered this with Adobe Acrobat DC, but managed to get out without paying the cancellation fee.

I contacted customer support and asked to upgrade to a more expensive SMB plan for a different but related product (Adobe Sign). I also demanded the first 14 days free, as that product advertizes a 14 day trial.

As I suspected, they could not make this complex change with their internal tools, so they offered to cancel Acrobat DC for me so I could sign up directly for the trial of the more expensive product.

As it happens, I changed my mind after the cancellation was completed. ;-)

If they had been able to do what I asked, I might have requested a change in billing country into or out of the EU or US - this is often complex for tax reasons. If their tools are capable of everything I could think of, I might still change my mind around the final confirmation stage.

Here is the pricing page:
- https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/acrobat/pricing.html?promoid...

It does mention "Requires annual commitment.", but in a vastly less noticeable style than "Best value".

(Legal theorizing, IANAL and all that)

Contract law requires a "meeting of the minds". Ordinarily, a written contract is evidence of where exactly the minds met - but there are exceptions. For instance, website ToS are not really enforceable. ("By using this website, you agree to sell me your house for $1?".)

I would argue that for most people buying Adobe products with an easily missed cancellation fee, there is no meeting of the minds and the contract should not be valid.

A good test for this might be to ask 100 randomly selected customers about the terms of the contract. If a majority aren't aware, it is reasonable to conclude that this information isn't conveyed adequately and that part of the contract should not be enforceable. I've never heard of anything like this happening in practice, though.
A better term than "debt" might be "inertia", technical inertia. Every line adds inertia to a code base, because it adds complexity. Some of that inertia is necessary, and some is accidental. As context changes, or someone attempts to put the code to a secondary use, the inertia becomes apparent. But the perception of inertia changes depending on how much present demands on the code differ from past demands. One person's debt is another's well-oiled machine.
Just charge higher termination rates?
I can't even read the words "Dunning-Kruger" without getting Reddit flashbacks. That and "whataboutism".
Do we suddenly care about the labor incomes of wealthy people in SV? Because the comparison was with the middle class labor taxes, which are considerably less. And as was previously noted, capital has risks and costs that labor does not.
This was funny. But, to be fair I've seen comments like these in every game I've looked through the source of.
A previous comment quoted officials stating that no patch was applied. They only removed the specific malware in the warrant and left the servers as they were. Which means they could simply be exploited again.
Yes. There’s an iPhone app for Pass. Setting it up is a hassle but it works.
Internet Explorer wasn't just morally wrong. It was a performant browser with extremely broken standards support. Web developers had to choose if they want to support the broken IE6 or the much more logical and easier to develop for web standards. It was a painful long time for web devs with lots of lost developer productivity until Firefox and Chrome came to the rescue. The amount of money MS lost for not continuing IE development is staggering though.
This sort of thing makes me wonder what could happen to Reddit clients with access to NSFW subreddits.
That's why Zcash, Dash, Monero, et al. are probably going to pop off. That, or become completely illegal, we'll see... not even sure if that can even be enforced beyond pushing centralized exchanges to delist the coins. Coinbase delisted Ripple a few months ago, and Ripple just 5x'd in the past month, so I'm not sure how effective one-off delisting actually is.
Well, I'm downloading the image right now. Any tips for someone moving from pfSense?
Download the FCC Speed Test App
It is not like saying that at all. The emotional world is connected with but is not exclusively the physical world.

Putting the responsibility for one's emotional responses on another is the denying of culpability for one's self.

I find it is useful to be wary of those who find it useful to point a finger and say 'he/she did this to me' when they become emotionally hurt or even happy, knowing they will non-usefully invariably want me to be nanny or projection target for their other emotions when they arise in whatever manifestation.
It would be nice if there were an Adnauseam[1] that answered calls for me and carried on a life-like humanoid conversation with the spammer or asked a question as a CAPTCHA.

[1]: https://adnauseam.io/
I think you are interpreting too much into my side comment of “its a dark pattern I guess”.
Hereby I retract this part of my statement.
My personal experience is that I moved some friends to Telegram and kept family in WhatsApp.The time using the phone decreased, I found having 2 messengers more beneficial as I will switch only when there is some relevant conversation or topic happening.
My Surface Laptop 3 has been absolutely flawless and has been the most positive laptop experience of any laptop device I've ever owned. Build quality, software, battery, performance, everything, truly fantastic for me.

Just as a counter-anecdote.
Biden scores praise for nominations of White House, DHS cyber leaders
It’s not a development. Court-authorized public/private patching initiatives have long existed. They’re much higher profile and news worthy theses days, though.
How to start a country in the Cloud, a review
> I no longer need someone to show me around a physical space.

Yes you do. Sellers get to be picky. Especially in Covid. They aren't letting in looky-loos. At bare minimum you need to have an agent and pre-approval as a buyer so you come across as serious and interested, or you aren't getting into homes right now (speaking of Bay Area).

And if you aren't going in person, you shouldn't be submitting offers.
> My physical mailbox

Definitely consider USPS form 1500 if you have any repeat offenders [0]. If it's possible to interpret the spam as trying to sell you something then courts have broadly upheld your right to personally decide what kinds of content are excessively offensive without any additional oversight. Credit card offer? Discount to buy a used car? Nah, it's sexually explicit advertising that won't make it into your mailbox again without a hefty windfall.

Also, credit offers lately have been including fine print specifying how to opt out from all of them (the culprit there is credit rating agencies selling your data). That might be CA specific? Anywho, if you jump through a few hoops you can opt out from that particular source of spam for life.

> my email

If you don't need to receive inbound connections from unknown sources (e.g., recruiters) then switch your email to whitelist mode and just allow your contacts. Otherwise, at least create a few accounts to compartmentalize that part of your life. Logins and promotions go into a bucket you never read unless you're expecting an auth code or something, and you can keep your personal email filtered to a whitelist. Depending on your skillset this can be much easier to manage and customize if you host it yourself.

> my phone

I have no practical advice here; nothing I've tried yet has an appropriate balance of usability and effectiveness. Whitelist solutions aren't as great because it's uncommon for one phone to support multiple numbers simultaneously, and voip solutions can have prohibitive drawbacks depending on your use habits.

As a partial solution, Google's dialer (disclosure, noogler, but I liked this product before starting too) is decent at detecting spam if you're using a new enough version of Android that you can install it. It still clutters up your call history till you manually mark calls as spam, but in the moment if you're expecting a new number to call you can have high confidence that if Google hasn't marked it as likely spam that it's probably the call you're expecting.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibitory_Order
Does it at least boot to bash?
my phone did that when the phone became just an app on a device in my pocket. the only reason i have a phone number is you can't get a cell signal to a phone like device without one.
I think you interpreted "play by the rules" as though I was implying they were fair & ethical rules! I think I should have said "play by the US's rules"!
Private ownership has existed since prehistoric times. Even animals observe private ownership, not just over their own bodies, which is self-ownership, but also over their kills, and territory.

The principle of First Possession, where other animals have a tendency to cede control over a resource to the first animal that comes to possess it, is widely observed by behaviorally advanced animals, and game theory experiments suggest it reduces conflict, which would explain why.
Well on the opposite side of the table are the people who start arguing with me during the interview (and twice even after the interview).

I generally try to help everyone as much as I can during interviews, because honestly this is taking time away from my other work and I'd nothing better than to hire you, but sometimes it's just to much.
Which is incidentally the worst way to use Twitter
It's very meta when the caller ID shows you calling yourself
I thought I handed Apple my keys so I couldn't get scammed?
evil.com can't see the auth cookies, but if evil.com (or anyone else) makes a request to bank.com, then that request will have the cookies for bank.com automatically included.

That is precisely why the same-origin policy sharply limits what kinds of requests evil.com is allowed to send to bank.com.
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Those transition animations in the mockup are way too long, I hope that's tweakable (or just faster) in the final release.
Take a look at this: https://web.archive.org/web/20210204143915/https://www.novav...

Go to slide 28.

This is Novavax's presentation of clinical trial results. As part of their phase 2 trial in South Africa at the end of 2020, they gave everyone antibody tests. In the placebo arm, 30% of that arm was seropositive (had antibodies from a prior infection). Of the seronegative group, 2.9% contracted COVID during the study. Of the seropositive group, 2.9% contracted COVID during the study.

At the time, most infections in SA were the B.1.351 variant (referred to in the presentation as 501Y.V2). This variant has many of the same mutations as P.1 and is believed to have a similar ability to evade immunity.
That's how it should be. The point is Gates got rich off Americans, cashed in massive tax write-offs in the form of charity donations (taking away tax revenue from Americans), then those donations are used outside America. Now he wants Americans to listen to him because he thinks he knows best. Screw that guy.
Toothless, unenforceable laws are not worth the paper they aren't written on. They are primarily so the politicians writing/voting for them can pat themselves on the back as they tell their sheeple that they have done something.
I've played CSGO and ran amateur LANs for years. People online talk about how bad cheating is but I've barely run into it. Admittedly most of my time has been right in the middle of ranks so maybe cheaters are mainly at the lower and higher ends and I'm using on Prime matchmaking.

Usually when someone accuses another player of cheating they are just tilted and reacting to getting out aimed or seeing something suspicious due to how netcode handles lag/ping differential with interpolation, which is adjustable.
I feel like the headline implies a false causation. Dave wasn't unemployable because his startup failed. (In fact, he was never unemployable at all.) But he does seem to have found that there are many kinds of work in tech that he doesn't enjoy or wish to pursue. That's also respectable, but less dramatic.
Convoy effect with I/O bound threads and New GIL (2010)
There's something like that:

https://old.reddit.com/r/itslenny/

Read the sidebar. You can set your phone up to forward to that number. It's not as automated or foolproof. But it's fun.
Can anyone explain why all these sites seem to be cracking down on adult content? I don't get it. Adult content is the cherished underbelly of the web. If you want to find it, it shouldn't be up to a corporation to decide whether or not you can
Most people do notice it. The real problem is that most people don't notice it until after they've been spreading it for a couple of days.
Huh, TIL. Only in the past year or two, though, so I don't feel too bad about it.

Yay, science!
The world would be better off if he didn't exist.
The benefits of tiling window managers are mostly realized when you use them with a very structured workflow. For example, one project per screen/desktop. I use i3 this way and I dedicate one desktop per patch I am working on, including the editor (vim in my case) and the the command line for the git branch.

Without such rigor, they can end up being more cumbersome and confusing than a traditional window manager. For the same reason, I specifically don't use a tiling wm for less structured tasks (i.e web surfing) because it would be too annoying otherwise. I so still tile all the windows in my traditional wm though.
Can you share some experiences with healthcare and the healthcare payment system in Croatia?

I think we would all be fascinated to hear first hand accounts from someone who's also experienced the abysmal US system.

What does your immunoglobulin cost in Croatia?
Ok, I'll set out my own climate credentials. As a "left leaning progressive" of the economic standing you describe, I've lived most of my adult life in apartments less than 800 sq ft. All of the furniture in my apartment, save my bed, is off Craigslist or from consignment stores. I've commuted by bike or public transport for most of my career and when I've had a car commute, it's been under 20 minutes - by design.

Pre-Covid and parenthood, I took one or two flights a year mostly to visit family. I think I've taken one pure pleasure trip overseas in my entire life. The only animal flesh I consume is chicken, maybe 3 meals/week. I buy carbon offsets for everything else.

Given all that, I'll still take the other "left leaning progressives with 5000 sq ft homes" over the people who deny that there's a problem at all. At least the progressives vote for politicians who'll do something. The other guys will consume the same amount as the limousine liberals, but their politicians won't do shit.

If we keep hoping for everyone in the world to start living like you or me, the world is doomed. Carbon taxes and other big actions are the only way. With carbon taxes, people will automatically pay extra for their massive homes and jet setting lifestyles, or be priced out.
not really. these are all facts, not opinions.
That was my era too, but it's definitely true that Dan lost interest in P6 well before he stepped down, and Leo never seemed to have a specific interest in P6.
To some extent, yes, it's people choosing to do that. Just like people choose to eat sweets. If you keep people in an environment where there are always sights and smells of sweets, they'll probably end up eating more. Obviously you could blame the people for having poor impulse control, but certainly the environment has an effect. Going back to social networking, the algorithms end up reinforcing the bad habits, leading to a bad overall outcome.
> I recently bought a car for the first time in quite a while

ugh and they only get information about the loan's origination, so it all keeps going even if you pay the loan off early. my wife bought a car, had troubles, long long story, got a replacement but technically a separate loan. now she gets junk for both cars.

they also dig up home mortgages for their junkmail, too.
Me too. Why do I have to choose?
Yes, they were. There has been multiple "releases" too, with version numbers, which I assume went into production.

When you're using a product for which you can't get the source code, the product is not open source.

Commits: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/commits/master No push between: April 20, 2020 and April 6, 2021.
> Linux powers a large proportion of servers on the internet, and has done so for a long time now. The popularity of Git is a relatively recent phenomenon.

Isn’t Linux become popular in recent years too? At first they use Unix to run servers, you can even encounter some sites running Unix nowadays.

I kind of agree with the saying “Linus has a bigger impact as the inventor of Git”, because we can use git for Windows/Mac OS/BSD software, while Linux can only run Linux Apps.
Here you are:
https://chromium.woolyss.com/

Sources: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
Wow, this beyond unacceptable and borderline illegal. Even tho I’m very happy owner of Synology, my next NAS won’t be it for sure. What are good alternatives for home usage? QNAP?
Probably the real reason would be to have mechanisms to block any content deemed unsuitable/politically unpalatable or whatever and NSFW is vague enough that you can block and let the issue blow over and then make it look like a genuine mistake was made. Also, hard for most people to bat for NSFW content because it makes you look like a pervert.
Literally an opinion article that says its a scientific article.
Out of curiosity, what's your monitor resolution? I had some issues driving 2 4k screens with the surface dock, but 2k is working okay.
They've already been delisted by exchanges in Australia, although voluntarily, not by law.

IMO The whole world has gone mad with the need for surveillance of everything.
People are very weirdly upset by the addition of a feature that they are under no obligation whatsoever to use. If you think cryptocurrency is stupid...just don't use it.
But, why? I've never seen one of these questions that mimics an actual real world work problem.
> These are predators who prey on the vulnerable and ignorant and ruin lives on a daily basis

most companies want to do this. the rub is that most advertising makes you think it was your choice or that it was a good deal.
In this case the culprit is Apple.
Yeah I see Arch Wiki as Linux Wiki when I’m using Ubuntu.(and Ask Ubuntu as Ask Linux)
A WYSIWG Markdown web app that lets you edit your locally saved files
> refusing to get the vaccine if they hear it's Astra-Zeneca, because of all the overblown nightmarish news around it

Here is a small problem with this that makes me also consider if I want to take a shot with AZ even if I registered for it months ago waiting for my place:

Before EU started discussing the issue with statistical signifiant number of cases of blood clots in vaccinated population UK Reported 5 cases of blot clots in vaccinated population.

After EU talked second time to suspend vaccination with AZ lo and behold UK discovered that it missed in previous months to report 25 more cases.

Now should I trust any of these agencies that they are telling the truth? I am starting not.

But I had a mild COVID and I am sure after experiencing those symptoms that I really want a vaccine. I am not willing to experience a reinfection.
I've hired quite a few people and the process that I settled on turned out to be really working well. I will say that most of the hires were decidedly good developers.

What I like to do is to ask people to explain and algorith to me, e.g. "What is a HashMap?" as in how does it work, what's a hash function and what's it good at?

A lot of people cannot answer the question, because it's not relevant to their job, they just use it, put objects in the map, get objects out of the map.

So if they don't know it, I will explain how HashMaps work to the potential hire. At least they'll all be walking out of the interview with a little bit more knowledge than they walked in.

So we start with what's a hash function, how to choose a bucket and what happens in a collision. And then I ask people to explain to me what happens if I implement the hashCode as a constant function that always returns 1.

Now what I want to see is that people digest what they just learned and apply it.I find that is a skill that is what developers do everyday and that it directly correlates with performance.
Slightly off topic but SEC is going after small competition to YouTube LBRY and Odysee platform by claiming their LBRY Credits are "securities" and thus need to be regulated. If this happens to LBRY, then other cryptocurrencies will be next.

https://helplbrysavecrypto.com/faq

Video summaries:

> SEC vs. LBRY Could be DEVASTATING! Viva & Barnes HIGHLIGHT:

https://youtu.be/kB_TrpRikq8

> SEC vs. LBRY Crypto Lawsuit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JyIPFuUbWg
I mean they are kind of right.

Mozilla has shat the bed with firefox so badly that rust is their greatest industry contribution by the process of elimination.

I'm sure that when they put rust on a 6 weekly release schedule like they did firefox we'd be talking about how the <blink> element was their greatest contribution next.
Instead of fingerprinting out of millions of browser users a company now just has to have a rather small set (Floc) + old school finger printing to 100% uniquely identify a user.

I wonder how this feature even passed an internal Google privacy sniff test...
Both good points. I don't like the implications of the first but that probably means it's true
Could that be a blessing in disguise.
The goal of our society is to allow people to live their lives in freedom - as they wish.

Constraining society to pander to those who are essentially scared of their own shadow and are clearly suffering from irrational anxiety and borderline paranoia is not acceptable.

It is way past time that those who are scared started to pay the full cost - which means they get to stay out of the way while everybody else gets on with their lives. They cannot be permitted to socialise that cost onto everybody else.

Once we have a vaccine, and in sensible countries public healthcare free at the point of delivery, that is as much insurance as society can offer. If you're still scared after that then, as the young tend to say these days, that is a 'you' problem.
Sorry, but this is not relevant to this discussion. I refuse to flood this extremely long thread with details that are not relevant to the readers clicking on this thread. Please see my profile and email me instead, for specific answers.
Seafarer notes he signed a paper that binds him to the ship. It was blocked in the port due to safety mechanisms. Everyone left, and it seems he is stuck holding the bag.
EfficientNet – image recognition model written in node and TypeScript
This repository contains a tensorflowJs implementation of EfficientNet, an object detection model trained on ImageNet and can detect 1000 different objects.

EfficientNet a lightweight convolutional neural network architecture achieving the state-of-the-art accuracy with an order of magnitude fewer parameters and FLOPS, on both ImageNet and five other commonly used transfer learning datasets.

The codebase is heavily inspired by the TensorFlow implementation.
Twitter also has a lot of NSFW content. I understand Snapchat also does. And of course there are web browser apps...