skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth reading the whole article, I'm only referencing a couple of specifics. The very last sentence of the article is what it was all leading to, and excellently summed up into what is a modern recurring theme: good business practice is consumer-unfriendly practice.

I thought this was specifically called the "Gillette Business Model". Reading the relevant wikipedia page[0], which also mentions printers and ink, calls it the "razor and blade" model.

One must also familiarise oneself with the "Machine that goes ping" Monty Python skit (on YT, watch it, it's much better than just reading the relevant quote). It was my first introduction to the complexities of corporate finance:

"Ah, I see you have the machine that goes 'ping!'. This is my favourite. You see, we lease this back from the company we sold it to - that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account"[1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_and_blades_model

[1]: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_The_Meaning_o...
I know that's the way we say it, but maybe I've seen Airplane too many times to ignore the potential difference between literal and figurative for anything plane-related. So I just pictured you taking a drag, wind in your hair, sitting on the wing of the plane and yet somehow not falling off as it went along it's way.
Yes, every ticket on Oops that's found to be actionable should result in a postmortem about why the regular security & customer support channels failed.

A few of those and you'd get a mostly functioning system.
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I suggest searching what each of those HOCs is doing. This code is not dealing with routing, fetching, managing state or rendering. It is merely "gluing" those things together. Doing that can be considered a "single concern".

Over-splitting things only makes them worse to read and understand, even though each sub-component is prettier to look at.

Also notice there's a disclaimer on your linked article here the author retracts the recommendation.
https://archive.is/l0yDP
It's highly risky .... it is directly against Facebook TOS and people are actively banned for it, not only losing all their purchases but sometimes their lifelong real facebook account as well.
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Actually I don't remember that I ever get a reply from facebook support.

But yeah not sure how many support request they're getting considering that spam accounts are popping up every day
I have found that no matter what sense you try to tell people, someone’s business model involves telling them the opposite in order to move product.
I find it helpful to actively (and when I first introduce myself) online is to also have a disclaimer on how I communicate and to let me know if I need to change my patterns to accommodate someone. This information up front (and regular reminders about my lack of offense at not being responded to immediately) is often extremely reassuring to others rather than a source of anxiety. Because now I’ve ensured we’re all on the same page.
Didi doesn't have a monopoly in China. Meituan is also a large player in the space along with hundreds of tiny ones.
Even the older double-edged safety razors were designed around such a model, but at least there is a 'standard' for those, with plenty of different companies producing interoperable consumables.

Would it be fair to say that any product with consumables that are proprietary to the vendor, is a subscription?
They forced me to create an account but don't actively use Facebook.
Just because it isn't easily calculated on an individual basis doesn't mean that it is impossible to figure out. If you know how much revenue your group provides to the company and then look at who contributes what relatively as a good enough estimate.

Since you bring up a security team, it absolutely can be estimated there as well, what other companies have had hacks and what did it cost them? How does that compare to the risk on your product and the damage to the business if you were compromised?

Not to mention a $40k salary difference means you should be providing multiple times that difference in value to the company. Just providing $40k of additional value is a rounding error for most reasonably sized companies, I've worked on projects where two people provided >$1M of ongoing cost savings per year.
> The US offers a unique combination of easy access to capital, relatively low regulation, and high government funding […]

Yes. And none of those things are historically unique.

They just happen to be true now in the US, partly because the US is the large economy in the world. But those things were true during different times in history in other countries.

Do you think it was a coïncidence that the Industrial Revolution kicked off in the UK, when they just happened to be one of the larger economies in the world at that time? Where did all the early research in electricity happened, in the US? Do you think Volta, Ampère, or Hertz are American names? Or the concept of interchange able parts (see the book The Perfectionists by Winchester)? Where was the internal combustion engine invented? The American space program was kickstarted by a bunch Germans.

Of course culture helps as well. Britain actually lost its initial lead in the chemical industry, even though things started there:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauveine

Fiddling with industrial chemicals was poo-pooed by the British intelligentsia, so the industry in Germany ended up surpassing Britain (e.g., BASF). See the book Mauve by Simon Garfield for a pretty good history on this:

* https://www.simongarfield.com/books/mauve/

It may be that the US has the go-go culture now that other countries used to have.

What is happening now in the US is a great thing, but to call "unique" is an insult to countless historical figures IMHO.
Wonder where they parked the 29 Ford Raptors...
Here in eastern Canada milk is often offered in bags.

I know bags use a great deal less plastic and probably are easier on the environment shipping wise but they are also not recyclable.

I have seen some examples on the internet where you can refill shampoo/cleaning liquid from a dispenser into your own container. I think it would be cool if that could be done for a number of products that are liquid into a standardized glass container. That way shipping would be more efficient and users could use whatever type of container they want.
You can make those on earth much cheaper.
I feel like we already had another mistake pass since radium which was leaded gasoline. But yeah, there will certainly be more.
> The comment about 'Canada blocking foreign investment out' is basically not correct. Also, Telecoms, Banking and Communications are protected industries in every country, Canada is not special there.

... So they do block international investment. Therefore, the comment is correct.

> Second, it's 'much bigger than it's peripherals'. This means that the US sucks all the talent and capital from neighbouring states into it's systems.

Choosing innovation has the side effect of attracting talent. Other countries can simply compete on perks to retain their talent! I recall Musk, in an interview, saying that he felt going to Stanford was a better use of his time than military service for the (then apartheid)
regime.

> Think of the 'Silicon Valley' as not an 'American' place - think of it as an 'International Zone' that happens to be in the US. A 'super cluster' with a giant critical mass of talent.

And yet it's very much in America. And every time you are hearing "the Silicon Valley of X" it's someone trying to sell you something...
Either it doesn’t work for apps/Chrome extensions or it is extraordinarily badly advertised.

I’ve seen a lot of threads on Google issues. Never heard of this. Thanks.
it's hard to judge how frequent but there are a continuous stream of people and even one prominent YouTube reviewer who got their whole FB account banned (sometimes their actual lifelong account).

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/search?q=banned&restrict_sr=...
I find that NPRs stations, at least on the left coast, are pretty damn left leaning.
The "history" section has a particularly interesting anecdote about the unusual way the mayor got the state to fix the town's bridge.

Gotta say that's damn creative.
Yeah this is true, everyone doesn't like change in the beginning. but once I started using hooks for a couple of weeks, it is amazing to see that my productivity is increased a lot
Other submission here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28037039. For some reason, algolia adds 10 hours to the submission time, this one that's 1 hour ago according to HN is marked as 11 hours ago, and the other that's 10 hours ago according to HN is marked as 20 hours ago.
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Great article. One minor point of disagreement I have:

> For Adobe's subscribers, the lock-in is considerable as access to their existing bank of files and documents is contingent on continued payment.

Losing access to uploaded files isn't really a relevant factor in paying for an Adobe subscription. Their cloud storage is an afterthought, and they can all anyways be trivially exported. The lock-in comes from the software itself. We must have Photoshop, and there is no other way to get Photoshop than to pay Adobe every month till you die.
Sort of. The thing is, a truly massive number of dating sites are owned by Match Group, which used to be part of IAC.

Bumble and Coffee Meets Bagel are two examples of major non-Match-Group companies.
Hydrazine is highly toxic and Crew Dragon uses a derivative of it.
The content marketing came on a little strong for me, but a good post nonetheless. Messaging is the heart of a remote org and it should be “on premise” by default.
Yes they do and to manipulate you to obey their ideals.
Is…that what the night sky would look like If we didn’t have so many electric lights???
Absolutely. When I do my grocery shopping, I occasionally think about how I could get a better deal on something at Costco, but I either don’t have the space or wouldn’t eat it fast enough.

The “they’re paying more per-unit because they’re buying smaller packages” crowd seems to realize this, but they think that the size packages they buy are the correct size, and anybody buying something smaller is being exploited.
But disproven by my 20-ish years of safely texting while driving. You have to be smart about it but it can be done safely.
Whenever someone's used my email address, I've used password recovery and taken ownership of the account.

It's amazing the number of systems which don't verify email before giving out an account.

I've taken control of:

Disney

DropBox

Redbox

...
Nice list of references. You might want to add The Press by A. J. Liebling [1], a witty, perceptive writer about many subjects.

From 1960, when many U.S. newspapers were going out of business: “The best thing Congress could do to keep more newspapers going would be to raise the capital-gains tax to the level of the income tax. (Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.)” (p. 706).

[1] https://www.loa.org/books/302-the-sweet-science-and-other-wr...
I actually shifted to using a double edged safety razor when the cost of the disposable blades felt like too much.

It isnt quite as easy, and I still cut myself from time to time but I also am still using the variety pack of 100 blades that I bought two years ago for like 10$.
I think a lot of people are just pissed off seeing someone succeed so much at something that wasn't supposed to be possible (resuable rockets). Makes them feel worse about their own mediocre lives.

This wouldn't have been a problem in the past. You'd just shrug off the crazy explorers and write them off as soon to be dead. Now, evidence of their success and relentless progress is shoved in our face every day.
I generalized of course. I know some people use more rational (less subconscious) reasons for buying Apple products.

But it is nevertheless useful to use generalizations and ignore the outliers (like you, for example) for understanding trends and social phenomena. People like us reading hacker news are statistically insignificant.
The open source release of mattermost has a lot of underutilized potential in the healthcare industry.
I can also recommend a console client (in Haskell) - Matterhorn [1]. For me, the biggest obstacle right now is the lack of support of chat categories in mobile [2] client and Matterhorn [3]. These chat categories are available in the web interface.

[1] https://github.com/matterhorn-chat/matterhorn

[2] https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-mobile/issues/5387

[3] https://github.com/matterhorn-chat/matterhorn/issues/711
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Yeah, every amd64 box I've bought recently has had everything working out-of-the-box; weirdly, my desktop actually has much more trouble booting the Windows installer ISO (they ship it as UDF without a FAT32 ESP, so the for-consumers Asus mobo doesn't think it's bootable?)
Musk is very good at getting public support on his side. Please, we’ve already lost the public support for so many important institutions in the US. I get they are slow, and this is frustrating but I don’t want the FAA to be on the chopping block because someone didn’t plan ahead. If the FDA gets in the way of vaccine development you bet musk would tweet against it.
> automatic refactorings (pretty much impossible to achieve on dynamically typed languages without human supervision)

...are we talking about the thing pioneered by Smalltalk's Refactoring Browser?
I have a large family (many siblings, their SOs, some siblings of SOs, some cousins, etc). Many of us are not on Social Media, and the “group text” became untenable. I was able to get everyone to buy in on Slack sometime in 2017… it was great for awhile. Eventually, we hit message limits, and I wasn’t thrilled about Slacks data policies.

After a bit of research, I landed on Mattermost. I explained the reason for the shift, and migrated the whole family over sometime in 2019. As far as the family is concerned, the process was painless, and other than the lack of collapsible threads (recently fixed as mentioned in TIFA!) everything has been great. I run the whole thing on a $5/mo VULTR VM, that also also acts as a WireGuard and PiHole server.

On the backend, I’ve only had one major bump [0]- I went too long between server upgrades (I think I jumped from 5.21 to 5.29). The SQL encoding changed and caused messages to stay “unread.” Took me a day to find/correct the issue, and it’s been smooth sailing ever since.

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I have read about the coming cryptographically signed video cameras to prevent deep fakes. Now we have have signed battery packs. I can't wait to solder in mod-chips into my batteries like the good old days of game consoles.

It has become a lot of fun to strip DRM from anything I own. This feeling of freedom that I have that most consumers don't is exhilarating and sad at the same time.

We are still in the "good old days" where we can still choose to live most of life without DRM but I know the end will be coming one day.

I guess I can prolong it by maintaining my good makita tools, keep my N64 in tip top shape and take good care of whatever else I think will be DRM'ed in the future.
The exact same thing happened to me. No idea how.

I thought all the emails were spam, until one day I realized they seemed pretty legit. I went to FB directly, forgot password, and had to use Google translate until I could switch the interface to English. I tried to delete the account, but got locked out. It took a lot of effort to get FB to delete that account.

My FB friends never once offered oops. How sad.
It's weird, that even though I have a camera with me all the time now, I take way fewer pictures than I did in 1982.
> NPR is notoriously biased and niche in its politics

Niche, eh? Have you checked the listener numbers? Yes, Carlson's show on Fox beats all NPR shows, but NPR's prime time shows are consistently among the most consumed daily media events in the USA. Shows like "All Things Considered" generally (but not always) beat out supposedly "trend-forming" cable TV shows.

As for "notoriously biased", that's typically a weasel phrase that means something like "People are saying that NPR is biased". So what do you mean by "notoriously"?

I grew up in a country where the idea of "objective journalism" was regarded as idiotic, and all journalism was accepted to have a POV. By those standards, NPR stands out as one the least clearly biased and most intelligent radio journalism examples around.

What I would consider more important complaints about NPR are the fecklessness of essentially all of its interviews, in which there is an absolute refusal to hold an interviewee's feet to the fire, regardless of who they are or what they have written, said, done or represent. Like most of the US media, they throw mostly softball questions at thos with power, and on the odd occasion that they ask something a bit more pointed, refusal to answer (or just utter evasion) is met by ... moving on the next question.

I care about these general characteristics of NPR journalism far more than I do any particular handling of a particular issue.
You're implying that the people shifting positive stories towards and negative stories away from Tesla are the same people. You might be right, but that's one hell of an assumption.
That's not really a disagreement, I think that's what the author meant.
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Nit: Theft may be a more accurate term than piracy.

Arrrr, through my spyglass I did sight a hearty meal on thy dock, and being as I am a ravenous, immoral beast I bent my sails against the wind to secure it as my prize.

But thwarted I were by a hidden RFID and three days hence arrested by a regiment of dirty british redcoats. But, upon mine hanging, my belly were full and thine empty.
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We don't have a whiteboard. Could you please elaborate what you'd like to do? So is that just ability to draw on canvas - and both guests and hosts can draw on canvas?

We can add anything (all possible), but want to make sure we get 100% what you want. Elabroate?
Is anyone adjusting for demographics?

I’d assume FL has way more older folks than Oregon.

It’s like a preschool not locking down, having zero deaths then patting themselves on the back for it.
Presumably, a "PBS for the Internet" could provide a space and funding model for that wealth of quality educational content without being surrounded by garbage. Right now the problem is that good stuff like Up and Atom or Mark Rober exist right alongside Top 10 Reasons Satanists Want You To Get Vaccinated.

Having a safe educational website you can easily let your kids use without worrying about it corrupting their brains seems just as useful as having a safe educational TV station was in the '80s and '90s.
I can actually see a use case in earmarking court decisions for review that are far off from what may have been expected.

Handing over the decision altogether, however, is like handing justice over to a theatrical magician ("The Great Fully Automated Barnum Court"): it's commercially incentivized, you may not know the trick, because it's a trade secret, and it's not the real thing, either. (But, exactly because of this, people will fall for it.) Also, judgement is very much about discerning correlation from causation, so correlation based data may not be the best foundation, to begin with.
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Yeah, no. India has proven that theory false.
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Poverty of morals? Yes. Lack of opportunity for a constructive ethos to reach these people? Certainly.
> Unless it’s glass, fibre, or aluminum, you are lying to yourself if it’s going into the blue bin.

You mean you are being lied to, by well organized groups: https://www.startribune.com/lobbying-group-fights-insurgence...
'Poverty alleviation' is one of their current blockbuster initiatives that gets massive air time. TV shows, documentaries, news reports, all focused on how committed the government is to fighting it.

How much is actually happening? Fuck knows. The government controls the press and the metrics coming out.
I like to enable airplane mode for that kind of situation. Knowing my phone won't alert me about an email/text/call or whatever is very soothing.
Licensing issues aside, do we really want to rely on Microsoft to keep it up to date? I can imagine it becoming quickly outdated, particularly in enterprise skews.

I think it's best left to the Wireguard team and not Redmond.
Because you're probably a good person. In California (and the US at large), good people don't reproduce at the same rate as parasitic people. It's easy being a parasite.
also, once you realize you hardly use photoshop and cancel your subscription, you get a fat cancellation fee. so do you pay the cancel fee, or "maybe I'll need photoshop, who knows?"
Covid restrictions and screens linked to myopia in children
There is a saying that only rich can afford to save on things
Yeah. This has been my impression, too. I’m not aware of anyone who thought vaccines were a path to total elimination. But then, my only news source is HN and some science YouTube channels.