skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> discovered it had gone subscription-only as well, meaning my entire photo library would now be trapped on my old laptop unless I paid a monthly fee forever.

I empathize, but isn't all this the reason they would fork out so much for figma?

I mean, people hated them for going subscription with the tools that used to be desktop, but they absolutely adore figma that has never been anything but subscription. It's confusing psychology at play here...
Nah, he just ran the any%.
I love ultraboosts but they wear out in <1 year for me
Well yes, someone with >1M of extra cash on hand is going to be not hurting too much.

That’s at least 35k of interest alone if they they don’t buy a house and put it in a treasury bill.

If the interest rates continue to raise, which they might suspect or a recession happens, then house prices would drop and their 1M house may be a 950k house in a year. A net loss of 85k versus safe treasury bills.

Maybe if they rent they can only be out 50k in that scenario.

This isn’t definite but people comfortably sitting on piles of cash do have reasons to pause too.

(I’d love to be in that situation)
Stripe reactivated the Tailwind account the same day, which means something at Stripe was broken in that case.

How is "coaching" an obvious gray area?
Unless some stuff has changed in the past few years gimp is not a suitable replacement for adobes products.
> Any rational person could see the issue with Stripe not approving of that business.

I think of myself as a fairly rational person, and I don't see the issue. Would you mind spelling out whatever you're trying to imply?
Does that really matter much? There will be additional account authentication after an email is sent, and half of hacker news at this point already knows “email patio11 or Edwin for stripe support”
maybe I'm not a rational person but could you explain why they would not approve of that business?
> you still need to go to such lengths
Since this is a thread of Adobe and some people might know this:

In the late 80s and 90s many of the window managers were based on PostScript. Sun News was an extension of PostScript and Next was based on Display PostScript.

How did licensing work back then. Could Sun have OpenSource News? I mean it did implement PostScript but my understanding is they were not using actual Adobe code.
I think volatility will go down over time as crypto becomes more normal and boring.
Your support process shouldn't be so fundamentally broken that it requires this to get a resolution. I'm sure this same situation has played out with thousands of devs/merchants that don't even know HN exists.
I agree with you, and it really is too bad that the Fed dug itself so deep -- there is and always will be another crisis that requires unprecedented Fed intervention.

Historical evidence points to innumerable recessions and bank failures even after the advent of the Fed, so it's unclear if they add value above and beyond what the market setting rates would do, but I don't believe that I'll ever get to find out in person.
There is none. Everything can be censured, including Bitcoin to which you implied with this comment.
Never. In 20+ years of using Internet I have never been banned unduly from any service.

I have seen way to many stories about people claiming to have been banned for no reasons from services (online video games are a popular one) before it is revealed the ban was 100% legitimate, to take any new story like this at face value.
Welcome to the cloud! This is the kind of thing that happens when everyone follows the siren song of cloud computing. I certainly understand the draw of these offerings (access, easy configuration, scalability, low initial cost, etc.) but you are handing control of all your processes and data to a centralized entity who can jerk you around any time they want and doesn't have to account when they make a mistake.

The pendulum of centralized vs de-centralized architectures has been swinging full tilt in the direction of centralized for some time. It is stuff like this which will eventually swing it back the other way.
The worst part about these type of cases is not being able to get a straight answer. There is a whole subset of big tech that has taken the "you must be a fraudster therefore we can't unfuck the situation" approach to customer support.

It's an arms race with fraudsters that eventually sucks in legitimate businesses.
I don't understand your point. If you want to speculate on crypto you can hand a credit card to Coinbase at near-zero cost, you don't need to buy mining hardware to do it. If miners are buying electricity to speculate, they're making stupendously bad decisions. They should sell that hardware and buy crypto; their leverage will be much higher and their costs will be vastly lower.

No, mining is economic activity, not investment. You pay stuff to get stuff. Whether you then invest your profits in crypto has nothing to do with where you got them.
They have continued to let frame.io flourish since they bought them. I wonder if this will follow a similar model. Let's hope.
Now I want to know how Horologists mess with their followers.

I remember new toys coming out every few months...CUseeMe, Pointcast, Palm Pilots, etc...lots of people doing lots of interesting things when things were developable.

I get some of that same vibe around AI image generation today, but also a lot more disambiguation. You type a command, 60 million lines of code happen, and now you have a serverless webapp on the internet.
in our representative system, there is no practical way to separate out political activism to one topic. What I mean is this: if there are two candidates in a race, of whom candidate A supports crypto and opposes trans healthcare; whereas candidate B opposes crypto and supports trans healthcare; then there are only two outcomes to the race. A wins or B does. If you support A "because of crypto" then you are also supporting their position on trans healthcare. You are taking a position on trans healthcare, even if that position is just "I don't care enough about it to change my material support for candidate A". The policy is saying that Coinbase can support candidate A in spite of their trans healthcare stance, while you as an employee can not support candidate B because of their trans healthcare stance - an imaginary distinction with no material political impact whatsoever.
In the current case, the extension used to be perfectly trustworthy, then it got sold with the full permission of the author.

I'd like such a repository too, but the "extensions going bad" dynamic usually happens with the full cooperation of the extension's developer, so I could imagine many extension developers would be actively opposed to such a repo. Therefore, the browser would have to possibly act against the wishes of the developers here and e.g. keep an earlier version of an extension available even if the developer would like to remove it.
Did your manifolds incorporate any notion of system dynamics, or was it a simpler curve-fitting procedure?
Time will tell. Currently Penpot is using SVG for rendering the canvas, while Figma is using HTML <canvas> element for rendering the canvas, with their own custom engine. I don't know anything about what Penpot is planning, but I'm still excited to see what a SVG canvas could possibly do in competition to Figmas own renderer.

And then the rest of the UI is just basic HTML which any framework/compile-to-js language could handle. It's all about the canvas, and browsers are arguably pretty efficient at render SVGs so again, time will tell what happens.
From my experience it sounds like one of your clients or even you are considered for doing fraudulent transactions... a bank would do the same.
You must be aware of where your employees are working from because you have an obligation to follow the employment and tax laws of that location. If your employee isn't doing work, you aren't required to care (beyond any IP or personal security concerns you may have).
Corporations that provide critical services that would otherwise be hard to find elsewhere (Stripe, perhaps) use these legal threats to completely shut their customers out of their closed ecosystems. If you hold them to account, you pay a stiff penalty on the other end being denied access to the services they monopolize. And you are very likely compelled to operate using their arbitration schemes and you will have no path to swift action. I don't know how to get around this and it remains the primary reason I walk away from companies that operate terribly with their customers (I see you, AirBnB -- https://www.airbnbhell.com/), but who provide services that I sometimes really need. I'd love to understand from a lawyer what REAL paths customers have to finding swift and fair (I should lose sometimes too!) justice without an extra-judicial penalty put down by a company operating a semi-monopoly.
Somewhere between occasionally and almost always, depending on the reason.

In most cases, you will not be given details if fraud is suspected. The reason being that companies don't want to tell fraudsters how they got caught.
”It has been an age-old practice to drug crying infants. During the second century AD, the Greek physician Galen prescribed opium to calm fussy babies, and during the Middle Ages in Europe, mothers and wet nurses smeared their nipples with opium lotions before each feeding. Alcohol was also commonly given to infants.”

yeah it’s a modern phenomenon because overzealous regulatory agencies gatekeep parents’ access to opium lotions
Elon thinks PR is "manipulating the press" and that Tesla is better off spending their time and energy on product development.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesagencycouncil/2021/06/07/...
> Any rational person could see the issue with Stripe not approving of that business.

I guess I'm not rational. What's the issue with running a job board and charging for posts through Stripe?
This is amazing, thanks for sharing it. Also quite disheartening.
If i recall correctly London is the money laundering capital of the planet. So this sounds right up their business alley.
My understanding is that Ethereum PoW used traditional GPUs whereas for example Bitcoin uses ASICs - "PoW hardware" is not as interchangeable as you're implying.
Considering the Fed single-handedly controls the value of money and demands that it declines by 2%+ per year, and home values have outpaced money devulation for the last 50 years - this seems like a reasonable long-term assumption.
Well they wont all be massive now that mostly VCs and sometimes founders soak up all the benefits from an acquisition before the regular employees get much.
What is wrong with a job board or a coaching business?
Edwin has saved me before too. Love Edwin.
> I doubt I'd get anywhere close to ROI with SSDs

I think most people assume the SSDs are more expensive, but depending on their application they choose SSDs for the OTHER properties, like SSDs are quieter, and faster, and like you mention use less power.

There was this narrative for a long time that SSDs failed way more often, or beating them up with reads and writes would make them fail while hard drives could take the same number of reads and writes and not fail. So a subset of people chose hard drives for durability regardless of cost. Personally I never saw any evidence of SSDs failing more often than hard drives, and PLENTY of counter evidence. For instance, I wrote a program that unintentionally overwrote the same fixed length 16 byte file in the same location over and over again too often, and it failed more on drives than SSDs. (The failure mode was not whole disk failure, the 16 byte file itself mysteriously stopped being writable on some computers after a long time of working.) I had some friends that worked at Tivo and they said they had the same bug/shortcoming early on. The Tivo would overwrite the same section of disk over and over and it failed LONG before the drive manufacturers said it would fail. The drive manufacturer said they needed to vary the location of where they wrote the data to get anywhere near the published numbers.

I had assumed the file system layer would take care of that kind of management for me, but I guess not so much.
Are you really arguing that the number of blocks and the number of transactions in BitCoin are two variables that are “unrelated and not even correlated“?

Of course they’re related. It’s trivial.
Yup, I bought a house at 2.7% last year. At current rates, my house would have to be 20% cheaper to keep the same payments. I don't think I'll ever be able to beat the rate so I'm pretty happy. Even if the market explodes and my house drops by 20-50%, it was still a good deal with those interest rates.
Yes, as with any protocol email is always subject to centralizing forces. But protocols like email (to me) represent the best possible approach to trying to counteract these forces for Internet applications. They aren’t a silver bullet but maintain the best forms of optionality for undermining and correcting them.
For the record, I'm 46. I clearly remember what it was like before, during, and after the internet revolution and I've seen how things have changed. I actually partially agree with you that part of the solution may be to simply stop relying on these new media quite so much and rediscover more analog ways of relating to one another, and I actually see signs of a movement to do just that (among young people!) but that doesn't change that they are very useful and here to stay, and for better or worse a vital part of how we relate to people near and far.

Consider the postal service — imagine if you could permanently lose the right to send things in the mail at the whim of an unaccountable customer service rep in the USPS. No trial, no recourse. Unthinkable. I suspect you CAN be banned if, e.g. you commit mail fraud or send something hazardous, but only after you're convicted with due process. That's the part that's missing. You can argue that the USPS is a government-owned entity and thus different rules apply... but again, that's the point. The carrier of last resort, at least, should be run in a way that is accountable, whether technically government or not.
Phones can only use the bands they pass through FCC compliance on. There are examples of some phones that had bands software disabled that they passed through compliance on. (AT&T was notorious for disabling band 4 in their handsets in software during 3G era, as this was T-Mobile's main 3G band)

The story here is that AT&T incorrectly messaged and issued press releases that many older models had bands disabled in software and would just receive an update to supoort C-band, but that wasn't the case.
Unless you get a decision overridden by Edwin your pretty much stuck using an alternate payment process. I have been thankful Edwin was available here on HN, and Stripe definitely has a much more reliable product than competitors.
> Self driving cars are amazing. After about 15 minutes using a Tesla on the Highway, you realize you don't have to monitor it.

After four hours driving a Tesla on the highway, I realized that I absolutely have to monitor it. The UI warnings about paying attention aren't just for legal; the car can lull you into a sense of security and then make dangerous decisions that require an attentive driver to fix.

The car's capabilities are great. People's decisions to relax too much behind the wheel is bad.
I feel this in my very soul. Adobe used to be so cool and I loved the maturity and capability of their products.

Then subscription subsistence reigned supreme and now I avoid Adobe products like the plague.

Happily using DxO PhotoLab while I continue to avoid a Lightroom subscription.
Whether or not the TOS can be said to be legally nullified (not being a lawyer, I have no idea) canceling or suspending someone's account without telling them some kind of reason they can do something about is absolutely unethical.

It is also very common.
Recurse center
Unfortunately they may be over-optimizing... https://danluu.com/car-safety/ discusses "gaming" the tests. Maybe protect the driver more at the passenger's expense.
I spent a long time a few weeks ago looking for a replacement for jQueryUI's sortable(), but none of the DnD libraries supported both sortable and the grid option out of the box. Would yours work for that?
Here's where we want to use it:
https://pamelafox.github.io/faded-parsons-static/problem.htm...
There's actually a response from Patrick Collison in that thread that may shed some light on OP's case.

https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1550136569482252289

""What is happening?" => basically, a major uptick in attempted fraud over the first half of this year that necessitated making our systems stricter. But have an idea for a structural fix here. More soon. (DM me if you've had problems on this front.)"

The DM part may only apply to the high profile person he's responding to. :-)
We should, but the problem is consumers want the protections offered by PayPal and VISA who do fraud analysis and can clawback money etc. etc..

There's definitely a space for 'digital cash', for sure, but consumers will prefer the former.

When it comes to money, there are just deeply inherent issues of dealing with fraud, spam, goods not delivered etc. etc.. which adds significant overhead to the whole system.

Most people playing above-above board don't have a problem.

Usually in these cases, it's because something semi-shady is being sold, and it usually contravenes one of the T&Cs of Stripe.

The OP here didn't tell us what line of business they were in.
When I bought the All-Access pass from Tailwind Labs last night it went through Paddle.

Looks like this erroneous holds/deactivations are costing Stripe real business.
I’ve been seeing it since I was a child on everything from cheap little eight digit calculators to expensive calculators with rolls of paper to graphing calculators.
Every webflow site means paying customer (and professional setting). It's pretty expected that free builders like Google Sites will have more websites. The question is how many of them are high quality.

If you look at the 2 year old data - Webflow already had more sites in top 1 milion websites than WIX.
I normally like Molly White's crypto coverage, but this seems like a deliberately obtuse take.

In the blog post she references (but, tellingly, does not link) Armstrong says specifically that Coinbase will engage in politics around crypto:

>We focus minimally on causes not directly related to the mission:

>Policy decisions: If there is a bill introduced around crypto, we may engage here, but we normally wouldn’t engage in policy decisions around healthcare or education for example.

>...

>Political causes: We don’t advocate for any particular causes or candidates internally that are unrelated to our mission, because it is a distraction from our mission.

[0] https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-comp...
They could verify by having OP change their "about" text, here on HN.
Unfortunately this does not work for many websites... it requires additional clicking which is done via javascript or something.

I think the IDCAC extension would probably not even exist if it was just a simple filter...
> If nobody mines the coin dies.

Exactly! Which is why we expect the energy expended on mining PoWETH to drop to zero as the coin dies due to lack of interest, which was the upthread point you were arguing against.
->Picture this scenario as an example: You are sitting in the airport waiting room, patiently waiting for the boarding you begin. While scrolling through Zalando, you find a pair of sneakers that catch your attention and are ready to make a purchase. You sign in and fill out the delivery and payment information as usual. However, little do you know that a hacker has secretly positioned themselves between you and the online store, sneakily taking notes of the data only Zalando was meant to receive. Simply as that, not only has the man-in-the-middle learned about your login credentials, but also your address and credit card information.

Wouldn't a connection being served over SSL mitigate this scenario? I can't imagine any online store not being served over SSL in 2022
Damn, that's so cool. My phone has termux and is rooted as well but I never tried automating anything in it.
Can you interact with other apps using termux, because I don't use sms/mms?

I currently use it to access my PC via Tailscale and ssh.
>in many european countries tax will be 50% for contracting

This! Contracting is the way if your country of residence has low taxes for freelancers, but if its' the same or higher as a FTE then it sucks.
Or just anyone with an issue actually ...

.. and then it would become a bit unmanageable for 'edwin', and then they would have to create support@stripe.com or whatever (like literally every other company on earth) and set up an appropriate way of dealing with customer complaints.
Brits use middots as decimals?
The problem isn't the company, it's typically the state/country.

It's a compliance problem for the company, it's not about controlling their employees. From the employee point of view, it may put you on the wrong side of both visa and tax laws wherever you are sitting.
Home (land) values in select locations have outpaced money devaluation.

The national median figures even lag CPI:

https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/

This probably manifests from increasing income/wealth inequality, in conjunction with inequality of how popular some places are relative to others. If your goal is to obtain housing that the top 20% or 10% are competing for, then you will experience prices rising much quicker than housing that the bottom 80% are competing for.

Here is another source showing the variance:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/20-years-of-home-price-chan...
The baseline standards for natural selection being cruel are de novo genetic diseases, not some people being short. Nature has no way to tell whether or not a gene sequence will kill a 20 year old except wrapping a person around it and shooting it out.
Substack (YC W18) is hiring data analysts to build the future for writing
I'm rapidly nearing 50 and I might have been a crypto bro if I was in my 20s.
However, I still think VR is never going to be a thing.
I have randomly predicted that self-driving cars will be for sale by 2035 and I stick by that
I use Alexa for timers and my alarm clock and that's about it. I never use google or siri's voice stuff.
5G? I don't have a 5G capable device so I don't know if it really is better or not but the commercials were clearly hype just like every new wifi version.
I have been searching for something similar. It seems like in the 90s up to the 2010s-ish there were some great books on the subject (code complete, pragmatic programmer, clean code, etc.). But I have yet to find a book of similar caliber that is a modern version of those books. Would love to see what others are reading along these line, books or other wise.
> On top of that, neither of these FOSS alternatives have done nothing to combat the move to online versions of Microsoft Office, Google Docs, Figma, etc. since there is no need for the user to install anything which will always be ahead of manually installing these apps.

An online version of LibreOffice has been available since 2017 and now there is even a WebAssembly version in development.
I wonder whether, if every hour he is on Twitter was rather spent on FSD, could they have solved by now?
I'm about 90% certain it's an algorithm. This sounds like the classic PFA vs PD tradeoff...Stripe either lets the bad guys get away with using their "platform" for ill gotten gains or stripe stops the cretins while at the same time ruining people's lives.

And it looks like Stripe has been targeted by US State Attorneys frequently https://decrypt.co/42444/stripe-pays-120000-to-steer-clear-o.... So I can't fault them. They've got hundreds of thousands of irate algorithm victims that they're dealing with but those victims can't throw them in jail or seize their assets.