skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with everyone else that I would prefer to pay annually up front if the cost is not too high and having the service contract up for that period makes sense. From a more basic business flow I would expect that if you offer a straightforward $10*X/year plan that your expenses are built around that cost. I would expect the monthly cost to be higher to reflect the risk of not having a committed customer base and the overhead of getting payment from those customers.

As other people mention it would be assumed that $10*X/year would be billed upfront and that you would be 'paying' yourself out of that sum as each month is invoiced. Are you accounting for your liabilities vs. assets correctly and are still sustainable? Are you profitable month to month? Are you meeting your target income after expenses from whatever $10*X/year was supposed to be? Are you sure you are calculating all your expenses precisely from the prior calculations?

If you have 'yes' to all of the prior questions maybe you need to decide where you want to take your business in other areas. It might make sense to just focus on overall growth and not sweat this signal. It would be good to establish the churn rate individually for annual and monthly customers by activity as well as cancellation.

If any one is 'no' you might just have to raise prices because you have to raise prices because you're not getting out of the business what you expect. Raising prices to ensure that you are not just surviving but getting your piece is OK. At the same time maybe the price point is just a good price point and you could focus on growth.

More philosophically how would you subscribe to your service as a customer? If you'd say annually maybe it's just a service that works better annually. I would say Netflix is better month to month because the moment I stop using it is the moment it stops providing value, while a DNS name I have multi-year agreements on because even if I stop actively using it, it's still worth having the arrangement because I am paying just to have it be there for me.
We put all our green chips in a mega-factory or two, and used trains to move them to the major places that needed them.

Unfortunately it's a multiplayer server, and someone started rerouting the trains because they wanted to build more cars.
One interesting counterexample is the Bronze Age collapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq4G-7v-_xI&ab_channel=Histo...

I'm not sure if it's technically a counterexample, but it's fascinating. Society seemed to collapse due to a series of causes, more or less unexplained to this day. (We have hypotheses, but it's still something of a mystery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples)
Money being lost or won is not that. It's a signal that the public as a whole has benefited from the endeavour or not. Loses are a really important signal to stop wasting scarce resources .
Yes that’s her.
i think it's changed names (maybe) since i've last seen it? but here is the low level io spec:

https://github.com/WICG/storage-foundation-api-explainer
The Quadra AV death chime is outstanding. It will make a nice addition to my ringtones collection.
Coupled with a custom dictionary exactly.

I'm sure you could even make T5 though it probably works less well with only 5 keys.

For those who don't remember: T9 would have one key for "abc", own for "def" and so on. You didn't have to tap the first two key twice to type "be".
You would simple tap the first and the second key, then it would look for words matching "(a|b|c)(d|e|f)" and conclude the most common such word is "be".

I think you could further argument it with grammar awareness, so really you tapped the length of the word. For ambiguous words you would have a key to switch between words.

Everything was deterministic, so you'd quickly be able to type without looking.
It's not 2.5B T. Rex at the same time.

2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus rex lived and died during the roughly 2.4 million years

I'm in a meeting so I'm not totally paying attenion to this comment as I write it (sorry) but I believe that works out to just a little over 1000 per year. That's not a huge number for an entire species across an entire planet.
I'm guessing that it had to be a technical issue of some sort that wasn't worth delaying the ship date. I mean, c'mon, $80/year + a (minimum) $300 watch + (minimum) $400 device, and you still can't play it on the big screen for lack of a $200, four-year-old device? Even if you think Apple to be greedy, surely one doesn't think they're that greedy.
Yes. But most of the crop grown in that 'corn belt' is not for human consumption, it's for feeding livestock. We're destroying farmland to feed our need for meat. The rest of the crop in the Corn Belt--soybeans--is mostly exported abroad.
Peloton owner. Long time Zwift user. Have spent a little time each with TR and Sufferfest. Peloton is the most polished experience by an incredibly wide margin. Most people aren't so much looking to be incredible cyclists as they are just wanting to be in shape, and the combination of premium hardware, dead simple interface, and the ever-expanding library of classes across a variety of disciplines is far beyond what most people would ever want/need. I do wish that there were better structured training options within Peloton beyond the intro to power zones program, but I think they could add that fairly easily if there was demand.

When I was training for races I would want to be primarily on my bike, but for just offsetting my Oreo addiction the Peloton is perfect.
I don't think Robinhood has any case here. The product is extremely and obviously predatory (as are the legion of copycats). Hopefully this is is the first step towards completely putting these companies out of business.
Xbox One/Series X/S actually runs games within a VM as well:

https://wccftech.com/xbox-one-architecture-explained-runs-wi...
That sort of proves my point in that it was a plan backed by numerous friends. US goals align with most of the free world most of the time.

You seem to have it out for the US.
Could you make a static page with the list and a bunch of mailto: ... links? Maybe their website link as well?
A little positive peer pressure can be a good thing, a gentle reminder from my girlfriend that I wanted to eat better before I eat some junk food can really help with willpower.
Yep! That sort of thing. I don't know, some people swear by them.
The Mughal Empire was founded by Babur (reigned 1526–1530).

The Delhi Sultanate (12th-15 century) was recognised for its oppression of Hindus. Muslim texts of that period even encourage oppression.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Hindus#Delhi_Su...

The Muslim texts of the Delhi Sultanate era treated Hindus with disdain, remarking "Hindus are never interesting in themselves, but only as converts, as capitation tax payers, or as corpses".

"The Muslim commanders of Delhi Sultanate regularly raided Hindu kingdoms for plunder, mulct their treasuries and looted the Hindu temples therein"

It was certainly one of the dark ages, unless you happened to be an Islamic conqueror! Comparing that era against modern India is hopefully a joke ? Perhaps you only meant to compare Muslim Nobles in that era against modern Indian citizens ? (Even then the life expectancy was lower). Being a Hindu citizen in that era meant you (and your family) could be enslaved for any reason and your village/town slaughtered to the last man, your template desecrated and looted. There are thousands of such documented cases.

Oh, btw, the Zakat tax in that era was negligible compared to Jizya. Can dig up several sources on this too, if needed. If you didn't pay Jizya, you were killed or enslaved. You were freed from Jizya only if you converted to Islam.
Uhm... no.

Ever actually had any? How do you what lab-grown meat will taste like? And why do you think lots of pot-smokers insist on the hydroponic kind? For the weak watery effect?
That's exactly how I feel about the aesthetics of the blockchain. The medium itself really contributes to the final effect. Special kudos to AtomSea and EMBII for the significant part they've played in this, thanked them directly at: https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1382080760774033415
So it's like the poster in the mythical workshop:

Repairs can be fast, cheap or proper.
You can only choose two of the above.

In this case, our choices range from 1 to 3 it seems.
Unlike the official GNU Kind Communication guidelines, its Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct:

- does not condemn misgendering trans people
- endorses censorship and banning people (which GNU historically never has done)
- does not provide guidelines for constructive guidelines

However, it does provide harassment standards.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.en.html#co...
Making money off of you is their DNA; how they do it can change, and if they could make the same money or more (long-term) without actually storing advertising profiles, you bet they would.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak:

> In 2006, the internet company AOL released a large amount of user search requests to the public. AOL did not identify users in the report, but personally identifiable information was present in many of the queries. This allowed some users to be identified by their search queries, prominently a woman named Thelma Arnold.
Tweak it with a custom dictionary.

I think the only limit is the time it takes to train a human to write using such keyboard.
And perhaps more problematic how bored said human would get, and hence, give up :)
You should be worried about soil. Increasing the soil organic matter improves its water holding capacity, improves tilth and increases infiltration rate. In turn that decreases how much water is needed for crops in dry times and allows recharging of aquifers.

With the currently degraded soil, farmers worry about a couple inches of rain causing washouts or flash floods. Water runs over the top of the soil into surface waterways. Healthy soil can infiltrate many inches of rain an hour.

Infiltration example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggDY35gGBkA

Longer soil health vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBnsgzeNIng
wait so... this is a spinoff startup? i didnt even know what Divio sells..
why there is ask hn for that. built a nice api around that and you get high quality translation as a service. it also comes powered with a good AI.
> Corn in the US is heavily subsidized.

So is oil. So farming corn is actually subsidized at-least twice!
It doesn't help the yaml ui/ux is awful.

- if ${{ github.event_name == 'why do you think this is acceptable?" }}
run:|
echo "I need programmatic CI no matter how much you think I don't"

Just let us write our entire pipelines in typescript. People are already using Actions for bitcoin mining, hosting porn, or whatever - if I can do arbitrary shell stuff you're not making my life easier by putting it behind a yaml DSL pretending to be "no code."

If it were just typescript with a reasonable library we could run and debug it locally without jumping through hoops.

/rant
Yep the most endangered elephant is the Asian elephant and there are about 50,000 left in the wild right now, in total there are half a million elephants in the world of all species having only up to 20K at any given time for a species that was pretty much on top of the food chain is quite surprisingly low.
I guess what makes humans different is that culture can let us go beyond our phenotype. And whilst it may look simplistically deterministic it really isnt. For example in the UK a lot of development clusters around old WWII airfields. The pattern of development is a result of aircraft needing flat places for runways. Runways that were needed because of a complex geopolitical conflict. And then selected for development due to politics. Slime molds don't do that.

To suggest we are somehow not different is another kind of arrogance. We absolutely are and that gives us a unique level of agency and control. That is brilliant and scary. We are able to turn down the thermostat of an entire planet (reduce co2). That kind of culturally motivated intervention is completely unprecedented and totally different to historic humans and other species.
> Yes. The annual subscription is < $250/year, so I don't believe it's expensive enough to stop people purely because it's a big charge.

One point to add - If I bought it for a month and liked in enough, I'd get annual for that price just to save me the hassle of getting invoices/receipts each month and having to run them through accounting. One payment, one invoice, done for the year.
You’re right, fuck it, let’s just all die without trying instead
Big corn. Amazing plants have enslaved us.
This is a romanticized view of the small family farm. Our farmibg practices in the US were imported from Europe and were not adapted to our climates. Settlers spread like locusts across land that was so fertile that even if they didn't know what to do, the soil would rescue them. Until it was finally so used up that it couldn't support crops.
Why skip-links are important for accessibility
Did you honestly believe that the person you are replying to was under the mistaken impression that humans photosynthesize, or were you instead choosing to willfully misinterpret their shorthand phrase standing in for "engaging in agriculture"?
So I presume this is an attempt to create a new GNU/FSF grouping without RMS and his supporters?
I thought that's the whole racket. Public dollars fund a bunch of research, and private hands collect the profits, ideally in the most cleverly design tax structure possible to minimize taxes.
Seconded, I just finished my first full-size keyboard using QMK (writeup on that coming later) and I love it! I'm typing on it right now, it fits my hands exactly and was LOTS of fun to make.
That sounds like the coveted DataHand keyboard:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand
October CMS Moves to Become a Paid Platform
The problem with languages treating strings as arbitrary byte arrays is that those byte arrays are different in each language. Java uses UCS-2 internally while rust uses UTF-8. Conversions happen somewhere, and converters don’t have a lot of good options when they see invalid data. For collaborative editing, if I send a byte level patch I made in rust for for a UTF8 string, it won’t make much sense in Java.

And a point of clarity - Java’s String.length() does not return the same value as rust’s chars().count(). The former returns the useless UCS-2 count. The latter returns the number of Unicode codepoints. Java’s length() will count many single codepoint emoji as having length 2 (same as javascript, C#) while rust will correctly, usefully count one codepoint as one character. (As will swift and go, depending on which methods you call.)
Doing the accounts for monthly billed services is super annoying. I switch to annual at the earliest opportunity just to cut down on such drudgery.
It depends on what you're using for the resolver.
I'm assuming you only care about gethostbyname(3) and friends. With glibc that means nss; generally you're also looking at libnss_dns.so, which uses glibc's resolv (copied from BIND). This doesn't include enough configuration to do what you suggest; it pretty much just points everything towards a server.

So you have two options: use a different NSS module (maybe write your own?) or have a proxy DNS resolver that sends different requests to different places.

systemd-resolved actually handles the first option pretty well (although it would prefer that you use the dbus interface over gai). It can handle multiple interfaces with separate domains and split DNS fairly well! (Not so good with reverse DNS, unfortunately. But I get it, reverse DNS is pretty hacky anyways.)

If you prefer the forwarder route, dnsmasq seems to be fairly popular these days in the embedded world and elsewhere.

If I were you, I think I'd write a short NSS module or use dnsmasq, depending upon your needs.
Top rack of the dishwasher only?

I love your dual use chorded keyboard and remote detonator. Please keep creating the craziest stuff possible!
normally these kinds of narrative web experience systems drive me batty, but i'll allow it.

one does have to wonder: why spend all that effort to make clean fuel, just to emit it back as (net-zero) pollutant again? for that effort, an electric vehicle could be major net positive. but i get that this all happens in phases, that this would indeed help, versus digging up more oil.
It's been a while since I used it, but IIRC, it seemed OK to me when I tested it, but you can always try lowering the resolution to reduce the latency.
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As someone in the industry, this is absolute rubbish and misinformation.
This is a wild twist in the Ship of Theseus thought experiment.
Facebook removed fake accounts in India until it saw BJP politician was involved
Your comment and the one you replied to don't make sense to me. How can skin only differ in pigment, but it also require additional training to care for skin of different color?
Can I separate stdout/stderr logs and get it in order or is that broken on the gh CLI like on the web interface too
This makes me think of the Grapes of Wrath:

>Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry because they hated to be cruel, and some of them were cold because they had long ago found that one could not be an owner unless one were cold. And all of them were caught in something larger than themselves. Some of them hated the mathematics that drove them, and some were afraid, and some worshiped the mathematics because it provided a refuge from thought and from feeling.

>You know the land’s getting poorer. You know what cotton does to the land; robs it, sucks all the blood out of it.

The squatters nodded—they knew, God knew. If they could only rotate the crops they might pump blood back into the land.
Assuming you wouldn't have sold all of it at $2.
Why would desalination be unsustainable? The limiting factor is electricity. And renewables continue to deliver Moore's law like improvements in the price and quantity of electricity, without any environmental externalities.
What a great idea and awesome to see Weaviate there
Or is this something that would be more at the primary level, where it really is more about personality and personal qualities than party?

>> For sure there are many factors that influence someone's vote. I think you're right - its more likely to cause leadership rotation within the parties where the rest of the factors are more similar (i.e. stance on gun rights, etc.). The challenge today is that incumbent politicians within their own party tend to have great name recognition among voters - but are more likely to be in the pockets of corporations. This would enable challengers within the party to potentially have an issue they can highlight.

"lol everyone does it"

>> And perhaps articles prove in a data science-y way that perhaps this is true - many politicians are doing it.
In my city (maybe state?), the landlord must pay the electric bill in a multi-tenant building if the electricity isn’t split into submeters and separate panels. I’ve seen duplexes where the owner didn’t bother to split the electrical service and they had to pay the electric bill (aka include it in the rent)
100% Agree. Salaries for elected officials should be far higher and then make punishments for this very very strict so there's zero incentive to graft.

The people running our country should not be making less than any typical c-staff or high level executive. They should be making lawyer/doctor/c-staff level money.
As a mechanical and ergonomic keyboard aficionado with an immobile right thumb, I agree 100%. Many of the cleverest "ergonomic" keyboards heavily overload the thumbs. This is great for moving stress away from the weak, fragile pinkies but only works for people with two useful thumbs!
As someone who also struggled with depression from an early age, taking mushrooms cured it.

I haven't taken them in over a decade and I did get in a funk during the pandemic, but the difference between the day before taking mushrooms and the days after are like night and day.

I would bet money that it would help you. If you decide to try them out, all you need is 3.5 grams and someone experienced to take them with you or at least sit with you. Oh, and put on some Shpongle.
Deeper in the article, there's an estimate of a 19 year lifespan.

So ~20k alive at any point in time, assuming a flat distribution during that 2.5B year window.
I've used Fitness+ since release, and if you're not getting the rigorous workout you desire, you're simply not working hard enough. Because there's nothing holding me back from drilling myself straight into the ground during rowing intervals. OTOH, I can sit there and just cruise if I like, with no one the wiser. Strength workouts: grab bigger dumbbells. Etc, etc. The only workouts I can think of where this strategy might not work are yoga and "mindful cool down". And maybe the weightless core workouts, dunno.
The GP literally defines yoga "This is effectively the point of 'Yoga' in it's greater sense..."

There are yoga teachers (modern and old) who teach a clear "do y, get x" system. Patanjali, author of the Yoga Sutras outlined a clear progression if you understand the language. Knowledgeable modern teachers have updated the language. See my other comment on a recommended author.

The very clear progression is:

1. Practice the postures (asana) until you can comfortably remain in one of the seated meditational practices for an hour or so. This is a prerequisite to being able to enter meditation and requires hip flexibility. The postures also provide a baseline level of fitness, relax the body and mind prior to the next steps.

2. Pranayama - breathing exercises. The aim is to balance the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems which apparently leads to a stilling of the mind. Slow breathing also reduces mental chatter and encourages relaxation, another prerequisite for meditation under normal circumstances. The GP mentions "Kundalini fire", and learning to generate heat internally via the breath (or breath suspension) is cited in many traditions as one of the fastest ways of bringing about changes in the body that facilitate meditation.

3. Meditation - entering a "mind awake, body asleep" state. This requires keeping the body motionless and the spine erect (hence the requirement for the seated meditation posture) and is achieved by turning the senses inward to the extent that you become pretty much oblivous to the outside world. This may be accompanied (or preceded) by the breath becoming shallow to the point of being almost imperceptible, and the body stiffening and you feeling detached from it as if it's a hollow shell. Once this happens various internal phenomena may occur, and they can be used as objects of meditation and may be in the realm of mystical experiences.

Goal-oriented people can be given goals. But since most people aren't able to harness the full power of their subconscious it seems rather pointless to have a goal-oriented mentality. That rather flies in the face of trying to achieve states of non-attachment which seem to help reach these levels that are dependent on deep relaxation. That said, some people do provide certain guidelines in terms of numbers of hours of practice per day to help expedite the process.
This. As a peloton user, I actually wish there was a way to set the system to "ignore" those rides for the purposes of ride count, stats, Strava upload, etc. The warm ups/cool downs are important things to do but it makes for a ton of digital clutter. If I ride 5 days a week that is 15 "activities" minimum.

That being said, most of the more casual users are probably not doing this. I know that most of the people I know/follow on there are doing one or two activities per day of use, and it seems they are a mix of discipline, so like a 20 min ride and then a stretching class or weights.