skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I signed up for a one month “free” trial of Scribd. I noticed they charged my card but I (wrongly) assumed it was a pre-authorization that would fall off before it ever actually hit my account. I liked Scribd okay but I felt I hadn’t really given it a fair shake during my trial month and figured I’d pay for this month, too and then decide whether I’d keep it. Woke up yesterday and checked my card statement for the month only to find out Scribd charged me for my “free” trial. Since I didn’t notice until my free month was up they charged me for this month, too. I cancelled this morning and had to go through one “special offer” page (for “Scribd Lite” @ $4.99/month IIRC).

I’m SOL on this month’s charges but you’d better believe I disputed the original charge with Amex. Scribd even sent me a “receipt” for my “free” trial showing a total of $0.00 at the exact time they charged me $9.99.

It’s just bad business. I should have heeded the many warnings about Scribd’s deceptive billing and now they’ve added yet another unhappy customer who will complain about their shady business practices at every opportunity I get.
While it's easy to nod along to the thesis of the article, I don't know that I agree with the examples.

Is the suggestion is that European business has been hollowed out to being nothing except a sales channel for imports really true? As far as I can see, manufacturing has been steadily increasing in the EU for basically at least 30 years, with the exceptions of two one-off events (2008 financial crisis, Covid). Likewise for exports.

And when it comes to telcos, why in the world would we want them writing their own tech? Very few of them have sufficient scale to make building their own basic infrastructure sensible. All they could plausibly be writing is value added services that nobody actually wants, rather than being dumb pipes.

(I do think telcos shouldn't outsource their network operations as a whole. Outsourcing individual commodity functions like DNS seems kind of reasonable though.)
Some context: Denmark has maintained a pegged currency policy since the 1980s, first against the D-mark, then since the Euro. To maintain this, the Danish National Bank needs to maintain inflation, and that usually entails keeping interest rates below what the European Central Bank's interest rate is.

I believe the ECB's interest rate is currently 0 or 0.5%, and thus the Danish National Bank's interest rate is negative to maintain the DKK loosely pegged to the EUR. This means, it costs money for regular banks to have their customers' money at the National Bank, and therefore offsetting the cost to their own costumers.

Initially, the limited was 750'000 DKK before the negative rates would kick in, then 250'000 and now 100'000. Danske Bank is hardly alone in this, a lot of other Danish banks have already done the same. The slow lowering of the limits is indicator that the banks more and more believe that the negative rates at the National Bank will remain with no end in sight.

Disclaimer: I am not an economist.
Nice ideas, but factually completely wrong.

The real reason why people should compose or better whole cities should, is because the nutrition in the green waste should go back in circulation which they wont do if they end up in a landfill/waste incineration.

The greenhouse gasses reasoning is bogus it decomposes anyway
Modern landfills are also used as energy source where the worst kind of greenhouse gases are burned and turned into less severe CO2.

The space argument is also nonsense. There is plenty place on earth the real problem here is that moving trash is expensive hence poor cities are surrounded by garbage mountains.
Royal Marines exercise boarding a vessel with jetpack
Consequence of easy money environment. I would say Buy Bitcoin but that goes over on HN like a lead weight.
Developers Turn Old Golf Courses into Amazon E-Commerce Warehouses
You can definitely hear the difference between many guitar models. Are you suggesting that pickups are the only difference?
How much of the conflict analysis can be explained by tit for tat? If you back down easily when things turn against you, the risk of initiating conflict with you is well known and low. I'd imagine we're biased towards finishing a project against all odds to avoid perceptions of unreliability or weakness in group dynamics.

See Strategy of Conflict. Backing down on a commitment to fight is very bad in repeated games.
You mean a vaccine?
This is not terribly uncommon in Europe; let alone Denmark. As with the other banks in Denmark doing the very same thing, Danske Bank is merely passing their own expenses onto their customers [0]. There is probably a discussion to be had about where the specific thresholds should be in terms of both stimulating the economy through encouraged spending versus ensuring people save an adequate amount.

[0] https://www.nationalbanken.dk/en/marketinfo/official_interes...
Same here. No problems at all. (I’m in Ohio.)
Genuine question: why'd you want bills to be shipped on paper? Is there some legal requirement to keep paper records in the USA and you don't want to have to own a printer or something?

Every time I get a paper bill I'm annoyed, like, just send me an email, then I drag it into the right folder and it's done. Speedy, sortable, searchable. (Of course you will want to have back-ups, but one generally wants backups for one's files anyway.) The weirdest instance of this is my electricity company that has a fairly high price but also invests in renewable energy and they send me paper bills. Like, they of all companies should get that I don't want someone to drive to my house to deliver information that, usually, I already knew about anyway. Dutch tax office also takes their time to send me letters from abroad... two weeks after I already received it digitally and opened it. They can see I read it on their website, but they still post a physical letter more than a week later. And it always contains "you owe us nothing & we owe you nothing" because I don't live/work there anymore. So stupid, I hate letters, so I'm really curious why you'd want this!
Yeah maybe. But from what I've heard the product can do, it'll guide you with a heading pointing towards where the product is.

It may be that the iPhone has some sort of dual antenna functionality where the difference in time between signals being recieved can be used to find the direction.
I recently replaced the pump in my espresso machine. Turns out a lot (maybe all?) have the same solenoid pump and they are not expensive at about €25. Also found out my "Solis" machine is sold as Breville in the US.
For privacy preserving IDs I suggest you look at Coconut Credentials — https://medium.com/chainspace/coconut-threshold-issuance-sel...
> cant we just agree on an open w3w implementation.

They don't want that to happen, at least not an open source implementation. They want to be in the position of Pantone and colour.
> We ended slavery

With at least one famous and bloody civil war in what is now a nuclear power. I’d rather not have one of those again, even though I’m increasingly of the suspicion that {the poorly specified concept named variously “sentience”, “ability to suffer”, or “consciousness”} is likely found in many more species than just humans.
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>I think it's more instructive to look at it from the other side.

I'm cynical, so I feel it's much more likely that a competitor will push actual change to come (be it through google self improving, or through future lawsuits challenging the current laws) than for a current monopolistic entity to finding alternatives to problems that don't inconvenience them at large.

>Remember it's not really an option to just throw video over the fence, DMCA requirements mean you have to be responsive

"Responsive" is the key word to be challenged here. I'm unsure if automating a removal at the behest of any barely or unverified account is the bare minimum "reponsiveness" required legally. The big problem that won't be resolved without someone legally challenging it is that there's no negative consequence to filing a DMCA claim. Or at least, there wasn't as recently as 4 years ago.
Web apps can send notifications just fine, even in the background.
Having got offside with my bin man once , it’s completely not worth it. I put some concrete in my bin. The system he used to train me was a few weeks of lifting my bin up 4ish metres then dropping it on my front lawn.
Removing broken window glass (which I was told must go in the bin, not the recycling) and household waste off my lawn each week was not worth it.

I don’t think this is the approved method for getting compliance, but it worked.
What if I don't want to get married and/or raise a family?
People aren’t in control of who sends their wallets coins and unless there is a notification system setup it seems like the tax responsibility would arise when they attempt to use the coin. Also if everyone were responsible for every trade that occurs within their wallets, and have say with one trade they make a large profit and owe the government taxes, then in the next trade they lose the profit, are they responsible for loss of government property? Also what about an auto trading bot that is run by a neural network that makes trading decisions based off key words in the news, if it is responsible for losing the would be taxes, who is to blame? It’s creator? The philosophical questions from this stuff pick apart out we normally think about this.
In my experience (UK) there is no personal information transmitted. There are two main types of bleeps:

1. Sending the number of a telephone extension you want the recipient of the bleep to call. For example, if I need a cardiology opinion, I will bleep the cardiologist with a telephone extension and wait for them to (hopefully) call back while I am still but he phone and before it is called by anyone else. This data is not sensitive. These are the types of bleeps which are being replaced slowly by asynchronous communication via apps

2. Emergency bleeps which are designed to alert a specific group of people on the arrest team to respond to an emergency. These usually work quite differently. Instead of 1:1 they are 1:many and usually carry a different alert tone, followed by a (generally poor quality) audio alert of the operator saying something like "paediatric cardiac arrest inbound to ED, ETA, 5 minutes". Again these carry no sensitive data.
If the coil itself hasn't burned out (easy to check with a multimeter), a bit of cleaning could be sufficient to fix it.

Indeed a lot of the mechanical parts like valves, pumps, etc. will be available online from various places, and I bet you'd be able to find the same thing on AliExpress cheaper than Amazon.

As for why there are so many variations, it could be a form of vendor lock-in (like laptop AC adapters, where the number of different output voltages is far greater than the tolerance itself), or different companies just chose different OEMs.
Generally, putting a single word in quotation marks changes the meaning to refer to a facsimile of the word.

polite: actual politeness

“polite”: unwilling to say something that another person might feel upset about.

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Also, there are ways that politeness obscures information-sharing. For example: I am saying the above at the risk of being condescending.
How to spot great remote jobs: The Joel test for remote work
Transferring the location from one place to another

So aside from the fact that my address has around a 50/50 success rate with people trying to find it (My address is a building + street name that has a mirror building + street name across the other side of a motorway)

Transferring the address, the obvious example people give is emergency services but this applies to so many situations, I volunteer with a litter picking group and they have found w3w extremely useful to communicate locations, you "can" transfer a pin but you need those devices set up to do a transfer already, with w3w I can check the website for the location on my way out the door and enter it to my map on the way, people who arent setup as contacts can transfer it without having to trade phone numbers etc.

Its hard to understand how someone could not find a way to easily memorize and communicate a specific location a very useful thing?
Start here,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism_ethics_and_standard...
But, again, you can, at least, try to minimize the number of people who do not like what the government is doing. Which is very different from declaring that a simple (or even qualified) majority gets to decide for everybody simply by virtue of being a majority.
Given the obesity crisis, I doubt a more efficient digestion is going to actually help.
> I'm OK with using dark patterns for a certain projects when it comes to pricing

You're right, it's an unpopular opinion. If you're in a niche where you have to use dark patterns to survive, grow a conscience and find a different niche.
A modern landfill where the gas is burned and used as energy source is way way better at reducing green house gases than fungi and microorganisms. The C02 wont go away but most of the rest way worse greenhouse gases.
Every time you sign up for a monthly service, there’s an agreement and terms which is a contract between both parties.

While this works, depending on the service and what it says, they can send your debt to collectors.

And that’s why there needs to exist regulation around it.
The various online video conferencing apps do a pretty good job at it
here's an article with examples: https://www.kansascity.com/news/business/health-care/article...

basically, they broadcast patient name, initial diagnosis etc
The failure is is not regulators that have failed to "regulate".

It is designers of the tech (browsers, Operating systems) that have failed to come up with systems that are difficult for devs to abuse.
“Bitcoin has no utility”
This hits the nail on the head. The problem with the DRC (Congo) is that it is basically the only viable source for certain resources on the planet. It is very easy for private entities to take control over the entire world's supply through a private military force. If there was a second country that could extract the same resources for a similar cost, the lack of stability would cause the DRC to fall behind in production which would dry up the revenue stream for the private military force.

The interesting fact about competition on the world market is that the easiest way to compete is by making the private and public sector work together. People complain about China subsidizing exports for unsustainable prices, sometimes below the cost of production, however this is only possible because the government is ensuring there is enough stability in the country for those companies to continue to exist and because the government is actively supporting these growing industries even if there is some inefficiency.

DRC basically has none of that, if anything the private sector may have an unreasonable degree of control over the government but the government has no control over the private sector.
I don't know why you think a brain frying system needs to operate over a 50m^2 area or why you think it needs to be small. Buildings with windows exist as do building across from those windowed buildings.

Maybe some day someone will invent phased array antennas and you'll be able to direct narrow beam emissions without having to physically move the antenna. I can dream I guess.
Very interesting. It would have been even better if there had been a link to an explanation of how PCA is performed.
Its ~$10 a month. The pagers are free with my service. I use direct page but I forget which network I am on, never had a problem! with service even out in Amish Country
i always see this as a form of stockholm syndrome.

My excesivly expensive and needlessly complex appliance is better then your cheaper and more common model becaues of a bunch of features no one cares about?

Can anyone access the Miele diagnostic board, or does it need some special Miele only tech to buy and use? Does the average consumer care that it has this function, espeiclaly when it is also so much more expensive to repair?

You can get a new base-model dishwasher for what the OP priced the replacement part at??

calling another brand "shitty" is just bad, no one said your clearly superior miele is shit, but you did to another brand for no reason?

I view dishwashers as disposable, after 4-5 years i throw them out and get a new one....
Couldn’t it be said that by holding onto the coin instead of selling it /avoiding the taxable event you are inherently depriving the government of the interest they would have made from the taxes on that amount?
For me it was trying to install malware, under the guise of being a Flash Upgrade. With synthesised speech in German. (macOS/not German)
It is definitely not an "Arduino", and to be more pedantic, the chip is from Freescale (which is now owned by NXP), but not from NXP itself.
If It Weren't for This Equation, You Wouldn't Be Here (2015)
I don't think Ross consented to that.
It's human nature to use whatever leverage you have, this kind of thing is going to happen. In my experience one of the best balancing forces for this overshoot is to ensure that you're putting as much effort into developing diverse leads as you are hiring diverse ICs.
Then don't? Having the stability that you could is good either way.
I think most americans would say "I've already seen this movie"
I'm not sure about 7-bit or 8-bit, but e.g. my NEC pager supported full uppercase ASCII and, in addition, a full set of uppercase Cyrillic. Could have been KOI-7, but then some of the punctuation symbols would be missing, so I reckon it was actually using an 8-bit encoding underneath, e.g. KOI-8.
It’s called an analogy, it’s illustrating a situation where a professional’s interests are misaligned with the users of their services.
Novel coronavirus’ spike protein plays additional key role in illness
Still seems more complex than docker compose even if the file watching is nice. I'll look into it some more though, thanks.
Which part is a lie? You can get those features without paying the $10k?
Google shows different results to different people, showing us what we’re most likely to click on — a path to sycophancy rather than truth.
Who even keeps them this long? after a few years they start to get gross inside and not work as well.. time to replace them and get a brand new one...
Ask HN: Jira Alternatives?
We (a start-up) currently use Jira, but we have an opportunity to reevaluate our tools. We find Jira very clunky and hard to use, although it's very flexible (though extremely hard to configure).

We have tried out Linear a bit, and liked it a lot. What are some other popular alternatives which are fairly flexible, and good for software development?

Ideally, we want a tool we can use long-term, is easy and pleasant to use, and is flexible enough for the requirements of a software team.
Make no mistake, making articles of that level of quality requires world class skills in software engineering, communication, math, foundational engineering skills (physics/mechanical/…), etc.

The number of people on earth who can author such content is extremely low. The number of people with the vision, fundraising ability, and general meta skills needed to lead a team of people doing such work is likely even lower.

Creating an entire encyclopedia at this level of quality and interactivity would be a Herculean project.

In the meantime, we have other kinds of similar Herculean projects like Khan Academy and Wikipedia, and they’re pretty great too :)
I'm curious about the use of pagers in healthcare. I work in an industry that would love to have pagers for on call events, but service has proven unreliable (especially indoors) unless you build out your own dedicated wireless infrastructure for every building you are working in.

We have alternative secure voice/data communication, but they tend to either be bulky or have strict storage and carry restrictions.

Would love a small reliable pager system to carry on our person that would simply let us know to check in.

All of the pager architecture in the US seems to have disappeared in the marketplace.
Glass is much more slippery than a plastic or leather case. I’ve cracked a caseless phone’s screen after it slipped off a slightly off-level table. I always use leather cases now and no longer have the problem of my phone randomly slipping off of surfaces or even falling out of my greasy hands.
I wanted long freeway rides and driving in stop and go traffic to be less painful. I wanted to be able to watch my $10k in February 2021 turn into something really cool within a year.

Honestly, I think I’m safer with auto steer on. I’ve had the car hit the brakes when someone turns across my lane and I felt it was too conservative, but then I started wondering if I was too aggressive.

I wanted to watch my Model Y get smarter as OTA updates came in.
I have never heard of most examples of what you wrote.

Now you could say that, that just shows my ignorance, and I suppose that is somewhat true. After a while I just wrote off cryptocurrency's, as a waste of my time.

But on the other hand I have never seen any of those cryptos as an option to buy anything I ever wanted to buy, and I buy most of my stuff over internet.

I have also Implemented checkouts for various online stores and have been asked several times to implement bitcoin support. Never been asked for any of the above coins.

After brief googling for Nano as you gave it as example, I mostly found how you could buy the coin or exchange the coin for some other coin on various exchanges.

I am sure if I would spend more time, I could find something somewhere to buy that is not crypto related, but I have already spent too much time on this.

As far as I am concerned my point still stands. Except for bitcoin and Ethereum, there is little you can buy with any other cryptos.

And if you can't buy stuff with it, it's not really useful as a currency in my not so humble opinion.
And they recently ran an opinion piece calling attention to dark patterns.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/opinion/dark-pattern-inte...
Cheap unsustainable food or sustainably priced food is the decision we all have to make. Unfortunately, the government subsidizes some of the worst food industries in the name of providing "staples". We can't feed 8 billion people Wagyu beef for every meal. Yes, the world needs to eat more lentils. We can't complain that eating sustainable is "hard" when we really mean "it is 50% more expensive". Great, Disney World every 7 years instead of every 5. For the families that truly need help (which is the minority), we have programs to assist. But instead of giving them government cheese, let's push for locally sourced ingredients. But again, that's "hard".
Settings > Private browsing (under Privacy and security) > Open links in a private tab

An alternative is to use Firefox Focus (Firefox Klar on F-Droid) as your default browser, then its "open in" feature if you want to make it a permanent session.
Bitcoin is a very volatile investment while people who keep money are looking for extreme safety. Because if they could accept just a bit more risk they could be investing in a lot other things with better returns like, you know, bonds.

So no, bitcoin is definitely not a replacement for cash deposit.

As to "lead weight", that is very good. There is enough people on HN to see through bullshit and understand Bitcoin for what it is or is not.
Wouldn't this cause a bank run? Why are people keeping money there if they're getting charged 0.75-1% interest.
I'd say that accurately defines the entire entertainment spectrum in a nutshell. Content creator, game developer, asiring actor, etc.

Problem is few make enough money to get to your last step. And those that do can pay others to deal with the quicksand and are no longer interested in the fight to clean it up for good.