skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just yesterday, on a local streaming platform that has a series that I want to watch I was offered "7 days free". Great, I can watch the accumulated episodes and if I still feel like watching the new ones that come weekly I can keep the subscription, right?

Nope, the "7 days free" wasn't a a trail but 7 extra days when you purchase a full year subscription. I was considering to get a monthly subscription to try it out but since they tried to trick me into a yearly one I simply decide to Torrent the crap out of their content. Sorry not sorry.

That's one of the things that's great about Apple's iAP and Apple being the handler of transactions. There's no tricks, it's standart on every app: If there's a trail period you get the trail and if not you directly start paying. Also no tricks in the cancelation process, it's all in one place so you can review and cancel easily. You can also change plans right from the same screen. If somehow you manage to purchase something you don't want, get refunded easily.

I really hope that if Apple is forced into allowing 3rd party payments, we end up getting a standardised interface like the one we have currently on Apple's platforms but with an option to choose the alternative payment method(in the same screen but a different card or account kind of thing, like choosing a card in Apple Pay).
That study is looking at new cars, not the average US TCO.
Sure, just like social media. Let's start with that.

People all in here claim to be "anti-authority" and "anti-fascist" but can't resist their impulse to control others' behavior.
I think its common to call markets without legislation "black markets".
This happened to my wife and I. We both have advanced degrees and write software for a living. The fact that it had these cancellation terms was not at all obvious to either of us, and only realized it when she went to cancel. It’s one of the few trials that I absolutely remember and I’m so glad it was just the photography bundle and not the whole creative suite. It’s absolutely designed to trick you and it works. Fuck them for doing this. At least it wasn’t a lot of money to us, but what about struggling artists/photographers who sign up for creative suite trial but plan to only buy one or two apps, and are now on the hook for a year of everything? It’s pretty dang close to a scam if you ask me.
Why? Most things we think of as computers have a screen, for sure, but they also have some way of producing audio output.
Do we know the half-life of a digital record?
You're just defending the right of a giant corporation to communicate poorly in a way that enriches them at the expense of customers, who are often struggling artists.

> "Annual plan, billed monthly" is about as easy as it's going to be in four words on a button or by a button.

It's absolutely insane that you think Adobe has fulfilled their obligations to communicate to the customer what they're getting into by putting "annual plan paid monthly" in a drop-down next to a button.

Adobe should warn the user of the early cancellation fees in big red letters. We all know why they don't: because they benefit from some users taking a deal that they don't realize is very bad for them.

That's what you're defending.
What if the political appointee publicly states they would like Spotify to censor Joe Rogan? Perhaps 'the government' is simply too ineffably abstract an entity to attach to any individual actor commonly regarded as comprising it.
Just to clarify, you mean why isn't the skill of computer programming a major part of art school education, taught alongside other basic techniques, like sketching, that can be used to create art? I think that's a reasonable question, but I first interpreted your question as more like "why isn't programming appreciated as an art form, with particular examples of code treated as works of art".
> Which distributions and which settings are you talking about?

kernel.yama.ptrace_scope = 1

> If you can run gdb on that distribution, then you can definitely do it, even if it's just because they whitelist gdb in selinux/aa (in which case you can just script gdb).

No, you can't. Try it.

> And I rather doubt it is a default, since ptrace-based sandboxing is a thing (even Firefox was using it).

You can trace child processes, but not any other process.
Also does it just not get hot there? If I biked to work I would be a disgusting mess when I showed up for 8 months out of the year.
So, basically rather than the old culture of free speech, what we have now is:

You're free to speak, but as speech is centralized on private platforms, they get to make sure that nobody will ever hear you. This is good (tm).

And the American left, the ones who used to fight for free speech are perfectly fine with this, so long as they own the platforms. After all, the boot of authoritarianism is fine when you're the one wearing it.
I don't think they're on thin ice. Remember when people were boycotting Netflix over Cuties? Their stock prices recovered and everyone forgot. People have also boycotted YouTube or pulled their ads. These things just blow over.
Similarly, Spotify can choose to censor speakers if they think people will come back to Spotify/won't leave Spotify as a result of that action. Spotify should definitely censor whatever they need to in the pursuit of maximum profits.
Or it will just keep on going with the HIPAA fig leaf like before. See also: credit rating agencies, ad targeting.
> Which Android browsers show scrollbars?

How many people develop web sites on Android?

Meanwhile, there are a lot of web developers who use Mac as their dev machine; and the majority of them would never check how the website looks on Windows or Linux.
Has anyone had success using WireGuard to VPN into their cluster and have local access to pods via K8s DNS?
The Wii U had some really fantastic games.

It really suffered, however, from having such wonky hardware and bad marketing. I own a Wii U, I own all the games you mentioned on it (other than BotW because I don't usually buy games at launch - I bought BotW on switch though) and I, personally, still found the hardware confusing.

It's really great that almost all Nintendo published games have had switch releases, because more people can experience them.

Nintendo has sold more than twice as many copies of the latest animal crossing game than they did Wii U consoles. Which is just crazy to think about.
I hope to expand the protocol list once I can figure out Network Discovery on the WAN - https://github.com/zeromq/zyre/issues/701
At the same time Wordle is just the game Lingo, no?
I suspect that depends on the chosen stored medium. I am assuming perhaps incorrectly that we could find a medium more durable than genetic material with known degeneration rates.

The first thing that comes to mind is the fictional society from the planet Krypton. They stored data in crystals, likely artificially created diamond material. I suspect we could do this today without consideration for cost.
Meh, what it is is way more important that what's behind the acronym that nobody ever uses written out.
Your body does this itself. You have two copies of every chromosome and they’re practical identical. A break in one will be repaired by using the other chromosome. Similarly, even a base change in one strand of one chromosome will be repaired based off the other strand (with a chance that the wrong strand is chosen tho). DNA repair mechanisms like these are exploited by CRISPR and other gene modification strategies: break the part you want to change and then trick the repair mechanism into making the modification you want by providing it with an appropriate template to work off. (Not all CRISPR based techniques use this.)
Eyes That Don't Exist
With most installations of X11 / Xlib, there is also an extension library: libXFixes. With this, it is possible to receive an event whenever the clipboard (or any other selection) changes (even if our program is not the owner). [0]

I used this in the past when porting a Windows text editor to Linux that needed to know when the clipboard had changed.

In the C bindings, it corresponds to XFixesSetSelectionOwnerNotifyMask /
XFixesSelectionNotifyEvent. There is also a SelectionNotify event in the core X11 protocol, but I'm pretty sure it is different (occurs in response to XConvertSelection - asking for the clipboard contents). Though it has been some time since I wrote the code I'm looking at.

[0]: https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/fixesproto/fixesproto... (6. Selection Tracking)
It was. :-)
If you’re on macOS and just want a good and convenient image editor, I warmly recommend Acorn. The Muellers (owners of Flying Meat Software) have put a lot of effort to make it feel like a really solid Mac application. The price is good and from time to time they offer discounts. The whole experience reminds me of using good old Paintshop Pro back in the late 90s (^_^)

Other options are Affinity Photo from Serif Ltd and Pixelmator. IMHO Acorn has much better GUI though. (FWIW, Affinity works fine on Windows too.)

I realize that some people need the features from Photoshop and then I guess they have to pay the “Adobe tax”. But if you’re not a photo/graphics professional, you can come a long way with the above options.

AFAIK there are also lots of good alternatives for Illustrator and InDesign.
This is why last year India's policy for auto debit rules for credit debit card makes very good sense.

Under the new norms, banks will be required to inform customers in advance about recurring payment due and transaction would be carried following nod from the customer (will need additional factor authentication from 1 April). This rule is likely to impact your monthly subscription charges for different streaming platforms including Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+...

https://www.livemint.com/industry/banking/debit-card-credit-...
I think you’ve misunderstood the thread. I was arguing that you can get away with “dev builds image locally and pushes straight to prod” in an early startup, but in a mature organization you need CI/CD.
I enjoy NFTs, so why would I not want them to be more broadly supported on other platforms that I use?

Plus, this helps decentralize in two ways:

Firstly, it lessens monopoly power over the NFT space by OpenSea.

Secondly, Coinbase itself is now introducing its first web product with decentralized logins.

This is good for decentralization, not bad.
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This is a metaphor
The problem is only that they can throw lawyers at you. Normally a contract is invalid if one side can show to have been deceived.
Annual plan to me that you're agreeing to pay for the year. Disney did something similar, it was cheaper to sign up for a year. Typically you get 12 months for the price of 10.

The screenshot says you can have a full refund if you cancel before Feb 26th, assuming that holds, that's plenty of time to work out what's going on.

The US is clear, I've seen that setup several times. The UK one has several red flags

1) Free trial

2) "From" £x a month

3) It's Adobe
Yeah, this is to gather the raw data and learn probe and attack patterns. How you use the API is your choice really.
It is not generally believed that sensitivity to initial conditions (and all the other properties that make perfectly simulating a system challenging) prevent climate modelling from producing useful information. Peterson is making this argument in bad faith, rather than being somebody who has "figured out that climate modelling is impossible and therefore a scam".
> Delta is a private company looking to impose even harsher blanket bans arbitrarily.

Did you click through the link? Where it uses the word "convicted" in both the headline and the first paragraph? There's nothing arbitrary about the proposal at all.

>Being banned from any flight for being a nuisance is nothing like any of those cases.

Being on the no fly list only stops you from flying commercially. You're free to fly privately. If it's too expensive, well, flying in general is expensive and lots of people never fly in their lives.

>My God man, this is deranged!

Really? It's not uncommon to restrain people who have engaged in physical violence against others.

>You spent 2 lines being completely wrong about the facts trying to contradict my opinion,

Your opinion is predicated on untruth. And my two lines are fully, factually correct.

>and 80% of your comment with a deranged description of how someone should be abused, humiliated, punished, and almost guaranteed killed in case of an accident just for the "privilege" of being on a flight after doing something stupid.

Yes. Engaging in physical violence against innocent people leading to long term anxiety about air travel and sometimes causing permanent disfigurement is just "doing something stupid."

>Surely if such punishments were applied every time you did something stupid we would be having a different conversation now. I know because I've seen too many people with "radical" ideas having a moment of enlightenment when being at the wrong end of them.

I suspect not. As a functioning adult with a developed prefrontal cortex I've never assaulted anyone. It's not me who has the outrageous idea, it's you. Acting as if you can hit someone and then go on about your life as if you never did is ridiculous. On the other hand hundreds of thousands of people every day fly and they don't hit anyone. The vast majority of people in the US manage to go their entire lives without engaging in unprovoked violence against others at all. Unprovoked violence is not normal and that those who engage in it are not permanently separated from civil society is a courtesy, not a right.
As they normally have a deal with the numbers they can successfully call for outpayments from the Telco.
Eh, this one's a little tough. Both my wife and I extensively use Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign on a frequent basis, and we're not even designers, we just like to make stuff. I've tried alternatives like Gimp and Inkscape, but they really don't even come close. I've never found an alternative to InDesign at all. There are some applications (especially photo editing apps on Mac) that are nice, but still don't really give you everything the CS suite gives.

Do I hate that I used to pay a (large) one time fee for a version and now I've given them thousands of dollars more than I'd have preferred? Yes. Do I think this 12-month contract dark pattern is scummy? Yes. But I also can't find suitable alternatives either, so in a sense they've earned their money in that regard.
The trick to getting good at Morse code is to learn how the letters (and eventually words) sound, rather than parsing individual dits and dahs. I wouldn't recommend using this on anything but the "fast" speed, and even then, it's almost too slow.

I'll second the recommendation of https://lcwo.net . That's how I learned it, and I was able to get up to about 10 wpm after a couple months of practice.
the video shows the tesla struggle through almost every intersection. note its downtown driving and there are a lot of weird scenarios but the pole they ran into wasnt the only time the tesla had issues in the clip
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/2/moscow-ups-ukraine-r...

"US State Department spokesperson Ned Price has rejected Moscow’s assertion that Washington is escalating tensions by sending additional troops to Europe, accusing Russia of attempting to turn “reality upside down”.

“These are not permanent moves; they are precisely in response to the current security environment in light of this increasingly threatening behaviour by the Russian Federation,” Price told reporters."

Oh, so there are troops on both sides. Who could've thought
A lot of people simply don't know this. Politicians either don't know or claim to not know.

This is a good example of the law and popular conception of a concept being badly out of date, to the advantage of industry and disadvantage of regular people. Therefore industry has a vested interest in keeping the public perception focused on "de-identified" with a narrow definition of PII.
With doc strings, a lot of this is driven by linters that require you to write a doc string. People are in a hurry and don't like writing documentation, or what the function does just seems obvious, so they throw a doc string together that just rewords the function name and its arguments into passable English so the linter will shut up.

This is just one of many ways that running tools like pylint in CI can make your code worse.
It sounds like they don’t have a good understanding of the First Amendment.

* The first amendment does not consider “hate speech” to be fighting words.

* The first amendment does protect falsehoods. The case mentioned from the 1970s was recently overruled.

The exceptions to the first amendment they mentioned are narrower than they are portraying them as.

It’s fine to use the first amendment as “inspiration” or a starting point. But please create your own list of exceptions.

Those exceptions are the point where you can be imprisoned, not kicked off a platform.
Which distribution enables this by default ?

EDIT: Apparently Ubuntu, but not Debian, SuSE, Arch, etc. Well, TIL.

> No, you can't. Try it.

You definitely can, it's just that that as you said, gdb just can't attach to anything but a child process; making gdb only work with a process it spawned itself.

Anyway, in addition to changing .profile, you still can do practically everything including modifying SHM segments, writing to pipes, sockets, etc. You could start closing feature by feature (e.g. remove /proc like Android), but for some reason it doesn't seem like the right approach.
> an entire team couldn’t think of one in years

There's literally no other solution for customer verification other than an automated phone call into third world countries with corrupt telcos?

We clearly aren't talking about the engineering team here.
Google is a big problem here. Joe Rogan is like the Reddit for all our broken Google searches. So Joe Rogan + random topic = high probability of genuine, good and arguably reliable content. Everything else is blogspam and regurgitated content from "hit like and subscribe" bros.
At my last company, we enabled this by default for new company macOS laptops. Helped a lot.
A lot of European countries have great UX from the government on this specific matter. Whether or not you classify them as "marxist utopias" is an exercise for the reader.
Dang some of my favorite episodes are with other comedians. They try to out do each other’s humor, so you get really hilarious moments.

Sad to see all the removed episodes are heavily comedian episodes…
Not very knowledgeable, does it mean it can be a foundation for a Scheme compiler?
They’ve done this for close to ten years (or however long Creative Cloud has been around) and you have to be careful to cancel before they renew you into another yearly contract.

I swore I would never have a personal subscription again (and just use the one I have at work for personal projects, which is against TOS but prove it), but then they had a 50% off special and I caved. I also set a calendar entry to remind me to cancel before I get renewed for a second year.
UTM parameters can be identifying but not generally considered private - rather the opposite - so while you can link your cookie to UTM parameters and join with other UTM-keyed traffic data for useful results, you can't do the inverse and use knowledge of UTM parameters as sufficient proof to recover a session cookie.
Does Spotify require you to listen to podcasts? Not sure why your angry that a streaming company would expand into another genre without getting your stamp of approval for what the podcasts discuss and the qualifications of the podcasters. Seems like a perfectly reasonable business move to target curious listeners.

By the way, based on your standards main stream news and most media content should be discouraged. The vast majority of it is “guys talking -- not experts in the [any] subject, but random guys who are pretty ignorant.”
And weirdly (as tech tends to be), Spotify was terribad for me in terms of stability and playback continuity. :-D

But yea, Apple Music is not great here either. Haven't had enough time with their suggestion engine, but Spotify's is indeed pretty awful.
Sorry for Screenshot, but I think this small tweak would fix Google search
Looking through the deleted episodes, most of them aren't even the scientists and pundits in opposition to globalist narratives. They're comedians, actors, and musicians. I am clearly out of the loop. Why would Spotify remove episodes with Kevin Smith and Brian Posehn? I love both of these comedians/writers, but they're largely in-line with Spotify's neoliberal viewpoints, are they not?
This is good to know, but it still doesn't help if there is an application phone app, etc, that monitors the clipboard.
I actually don’t have a problem with Spotify deciding they want to pay $100M for this content.

I just don’t want to support it.

So I moved to Apple Music.
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Three so far if you include both celebrities (Reagan, Trump).
As a long time Google Music user I don't understand why people never mention them. It's Youtube Music now. For 118SEK I get pretty much the same music as any other streaming service, PLUS all of youtube's content without ads, useful on chromecast. I realize you can get rid of the ads if you have a computer hooked up to your monitor but I really like the chromecast.
Lots commercial services have their own internet forums. YCombinator, for example.
I guess casinos aren't real life
> You're just defending the right of a giant corporation to communicate poorly in a way that enriches them.

Thanks for the downvote (I guess) but no, I'm doing no such thing. I'm explaining that the giant monopoly is going to do what the giant monopoly does.

Really almost all subscriptions are like this -- they depend on you forgetting to cancel. And this one is a bit more up-front than most.

> It's absolutely insane that you think Adobe has fulfilled their obligations to communicate to the customer what they're getting into by putting "annual plan paid monthly" in a drop-down next to a button.

Sorry, this is a straw man. I didn't at all say that I thought those four words fulfilled their obligations.

What I said is, they have a maximally clear four word way of summarising the plan right at the beginning of the payment flow.

I'm quite sure they need to do a bit more to explain what the early cancellation options are at some point in the payment flow. But right before you even try to buy, they do explain you're buying an annual plan, don't they?

FWIW, if you do not grasp that "annual plan" means an annual plan and then think about what your early cancellation options might be, perhaps you shouldn't be using the company credit card.

Complaining loudly that you can't use something clearly marked as an annual plan for just one month is a bit of a stretch.
Queue everyone pretending to be constitutional scholars. Bottom line is that "we" no longer value free speech and as such it will be eliminated. Full stop.
Yeah, it’s their free will to censor the content that they deliver. It’s also the consumers free will to have a problem with it. I don’t think anyone here is advocating for a legislative solution to this dispute. Spotify is making a financial/business decision, and the consumers are concerned with the product they are paying for.
I haven't experienced that on the website version -- they give you three suggestions or let you choose any amount -- but noticed my order yesterday was $4 more than it should have been after choosing a custom tip amount. I normally don't double check email receipts for that kind of thing, but maybe it's time to start.

I'm still able to reproduce it on the website today. Trying to add a custom amount magically adds $4 to the order in a way that's not just superficially in the UI. It actually gets added to the order.
I wonder what the dark patters programmers/coders' of hn-community think about this? I really like to get their point of view.