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Ask HN: Why is everything a SaaS product?
I understand the advantages of Saas - transparent updates, cloud based, redundancy, subscriptions, scaling, unicorns etc.

Why don't we have more businesses following the JetBrains model specially if the product is not a service that needs to run 24/7. I buy the product once and use it for perpetuity. If I want updates, I pay more.

As a consumer, my data does not leave my perimeter, my data is not sold or used for ads and I am not hooking into a subscription that I am going to forget soon.

1) Personal photos and videos backup and viewer. - Just give me a cheap cloud for backup and a desktop app for viewing.
2) Personal budget - Just give me a desktop app that connects to my different accounts and gives me overview.
Photopea has been pretty good at replacing Photoshop for my needs (non-designer).
Looks great in the photos on the corporate website though.
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> That majority of voters did not get the outcome they preferred.

The majority of R voters voted for Palin. Without IRV the election would've been between palin and Peltola would've still won. I also disagree that most people would prefer their second choice over the plurality first choice.
I recently saw Adyen and was interested, however, you need a minimum of £5M a year they told me :(
It makes sense I was also thinking "interactive" as well.
Just live in a state with no income tax.
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There's Paddle, but last I heard they had strict mrr requirements
Ours typically have a bit in the middle that's usually grass behind a curb, then a lower raised bit with a bevelled curb that's all concrete surrounding that, or else just an area around the center-grassy-bit that's even with the rest of the pavement but marked off with "don't drive here" stripes. The ordinary lanes are outside both.

I assume those are affordances so buses (say, school buses), trucks towing trailers, and stuff like that, can actually use the roundabouts. They'd be damn tricky for them to navigate, otherwise.
Sure, as have many other presidents. But what policy changes actually lead to an increase in home affordability?
That seems like more of a problem with proportional representation than ranked-choice voting.

If only 13% of voters support UKIP, UKIP would not win elections no matter what kind of voting system you have: ranked choice, instant runoff, etc.

On the other hand, with proportional representation, if a party gets 13% of the vote it would end up with 13% of the seats in Parliament. That's a different type of system, though, and it is hard to reconcile with a per-constituency election system.
I agree that approval voting is easy to understand. Nevertheless approval voting may violate the perception of fairness in communities where the meme "one person, one vote" is entrenched as the standard of fairness.
>Apple have provided the ability to disable cellular access from day one.

That's not what he's talking about. I can't block a specific app I don't trust without blocking the internet for the entire phone.

On Android, you can download firewalls that allows you to turn on or off internet access for each apps individually.
And another one down and another one down.
Added benefit, those real service providers, banks, cannot let you hang for that long without repercussions. Especially if it is reasonably sized business accounts and clients they have quite an incentive not to. Not all rosy of course, but much better it seems than those oyhet payment providers.
Wow, I just looked it up and 70% of cars in the UK are still manual "stick shift" transmission. Though for new car sales it's slightly below 50%. Compare Australia where at most 25% or so of vehicles currently on the road are manual (*), and barely 3% of new car sales are.
Obviously will become irrelevant with EVs.

(*) actually I couldn't find an official stat for this. The number of registrations is slightly higher but a fair number are "collector" cars that are very rarely driven, or mostly in very rural areas. I'd actually suggest in the cities where the vast majority of us live, among cars that are driven regularly manual transmission is a good deal rarer, certainly less than 20%.
Adobe got the money in the first place via skill. Photoshop has been the leading photo editing software for a generation. Hundreds of companies over decades, some with deep pockets, have tried to knock them off and have failed.

Figma didn't lose the money game, they sold out specifically to reap the money. The owners of Figma - where the profits tend to go in a business - are extracting at an epic scale. They sold out at a valuation far beyond anything sane. They won the money game big time.
Well, it does. Nuclear plants have very high embodied carbon, as they're made out of large amounts of steel and concrete.

That's obviously not as bad as a coal plant or even a gas plant. But 'a lot' is still probably correct.
That is not what the data says:

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

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/20-years-of-home-price-chan...
Land is expensive enough, and built up enough, in the UK that flyovers are pretty much not an option near any major road anymore.

In general the UK has very few flyovers. I sometimes suspect the SF Bay Area has more flyovers than the entire of the UK.
> by scoring candidates you are better able to express this distance

We have no cultural context for this distance. Until that can be harmonized, such systems are DOA.
No. I don’t think it’s unconstitutional which is why I said “otherwise unconstitutional”. And you’re (perhaps deliberately) completely misunderstanding and conflating my two comments. I am quite confident that OP’s problems with Stripe are AML related which is not at all a “fringe” position.
It seems like you're worried about something that may happen, if you sit around worrying about everything that could possibly happen you'll never go anywhere.

If you are that worried about Stripe that it is keeping you up at night, just move off to another payment processor, sure their documentation will suck, and you may need to use some really terrible library, but besides that it's the exact same. You may even safe a few cents a transaction as Stripes fees are not that cheap.
If we're talking about swimming in pools, the risk of drowning is probably a rounding error.
Neither do I, but I wouldn't expect to see it without really understanding the bad actors and what they're up to. So this could be their best effort. Or it could be that they're just going with a blanket "say nothing" policy because it's too hard to create a more nuanced policy that the CSRs can apply consistently. Or it could just be laziness and a lack of customer focus. It's impossible to say from the outside.
Even if it turned out that slavery was enormously profitable at both micro and macro scales that still wouldn't make it a good idea. Just because something is profitable that doesn't mean anyone should involve themselves in it, all it means is that someone is going to be more likely to try involving themselves in it. It falls on the rest of us (and so our governments) to punish anyone who acts in ways that are both abhorrent and highly profitable and that punishment must be much more extreme than any potential gains for it to work as a deterrent.
What company!!!??? Please don't just leave all of us hoping we aren't the unlucky guy that is using that company.
Meanwhile in ecom sites where there's a use case for this (how many do you want to add to your cart?) it's always just a dropdown anyway.
Standard "heavy rail" Amtrak (think: Pacific Surfliner, two stories tall with thundering diesel, https://www.pacificsurfliner.com/plan-your-trip/ ) can run at 120 MPH if the track has positive track control. By some definitions that makes it "high speed rail" heh.

Which the Surfliner didn't in my day (and I think it still doesn't) - but it would hit 90 MPH through Camp Pendleton and I swear my GPS clocked it at 100 once.

Still would beat a car LA station to San Diego station during rush hour traffic.
Thank you for putting TinyPilot together - it saved my ass a couple of times; but the big problem is that the USB port of the host computer doesn't provide enough current to reliably power the Pi through the USB-C, so an out-of-box Pi is not really reliable.
* Laughs in Chicago *
I'm an Adobe employee, and I think that this is most likely what will happen. I think maybe the transition to web-first wasn't going as planned. I think that Adobe's going to move their features into Figma (integration with creative cloud assets, easy importing/exporting to other programs, collaboration workflows) and close out XD.
The same goes for anything.
I get the concern, but a lot of credit card processors will review accounts. As part of a more traditional credit card processing account you provide your average transaction and a max transaction along with bank statements for underwriting. You should reach out to Stripe and let them know your concern. Stripe and Banks work similar in the US that transactions can be held and it's normal due to Know Your Customer.

Past HN comments on Stripe the person never really said what they were selling, which is also a huge part of processing credit cards as the sponsor bank also signs off on the products that are sold as well, not just Stripe.
We should really note a key difference in ordinal vs cardinal systems that has a lot of effects surrounding them. That's how the information is embedded. In a ranked system all candidates your preference between any two candidates, in order, is equidistant. In cardinal systems, since you score candidates, your preference doesn't have to be equidistant. You can have a 0 distance between any choices or a large gap. This is pretty powerful and comes at no real cost (plus they are scalable and trivial to calculate winners since it is just argmax(sum of columns))
Something is broken if a company like Adobe can hold its customers hostage by subscription.
Australia didn't inherit RCV from the UK. It wasn't present among the convicts. It doesn't magically come from the water supply. It was introduced to replace FPTP.

Again: Americans are not a different sort of human from Australians.

The problem is that losers are muddying the waters, not that the water was undrinkable by American minds.
I thought Perl's Tie::DB_file module was unique for that sort of thing. That's probably quite useful.
Exactly. After reading this thread, the chance that I would ever choose to use Stripe is exactly 0%.

What a disaster.
I have not tried personally (have no Linux installed), but from docs it should be quite possible to mount your partition of Linux with WSL2. Google for "WSL mount".

May work on latest Windows 11 only though.
pfft - we used to do this in paper encyclopedias in middle school
That distance is voter preference. Which I think we have a pretty clear cultural context of.
This is also complex though; REITs are one of the biggest builders of new housing stock in the US, so you'd reduce creation of supply (and therefore put upward pressure on prices) if you broadly tax this sort of investment. I think you need to do some careful calculations to be sure that this nets out as a positive effect on housing prices.

I think it's clearly problematic for investors to be holding properties vacant as a speculative investment, and we should definitely tax that (probably at the local level) so heavily that the neighbors are happy to have someone contributing so much while not being a drain on services. It's not clear to me what % of housing stock is actually being held back like this though.

In the middle you have the house-flip; buy property, improve it, sell it for a profit. AFAIK most of the time this involves actually doing work on the property, rather than just sitting on it and waiting for the value to appreciate; in that case a real service is being provided, as many families don't want to buy a house and have to wait to improve it themselves. So again, if you don't target your proposed tax well enough, you might actually decrease supply at the mid-/high-end of the market and therefore put upwards not downwards pressure on housing prices.

To be clear I'm not arguing against making any investigation into the policy you propose, just suggesting that it's more nuanced than you appear to be stating.
You are certainly right.
However I am under the assumption that you only mine where electricity is cheap. If you are not stealing it, there is only nuclear, wind, water and sun produced energy left => Miners are kind of forced to use environment friendly energy.
> artifact-free resampling definitely isn't a straightforward thing.

It definitely isn't in general sense. Thankfully, limitations of human range of hearing (20Hz-20KHz, < 100db dynamic range) make the limitations non-issue, except for people who claim they can hear ultrasonic frequencies or can hear Cymbals when played with over 124db of dynamic range.
> Under the framework of that system, the funds at still belong to the customer that deposited them.

Careful. In the case of bankruptcy, you probably won't get your money back. Bloomberg Law[0]:

> An exchange going bankrupt would likely have to face Chapter 11 debtors’ rules on creditor recovery. Generally, secured creditors would be paid back first before others.

> A crypto exchange is not likely to have investor protection measures in place for cryptocurrency, though it could carry insurance policies for certain covered incidents, such as cybersecurity incident. And unless user terms specified otherwise, an investor would likely be an unsecured creditor who may not be able to recover what they’re owed.

[0]: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/securities-law/if-a-crypto-exc...
> Firearms, explosives and dangerous materials

> Guns, gunpowders, ammunitions, weapons, fireworks and other explosives. Peptides, research chemicals, and other toxic, flammable and radioactive materials

Why does the payment processor get to dictate whether I can run a defense ordnance company or run a scientific chemical supplies store?

Some of this stuff needs to be challenged in the court or regulated so that payment processor has no say whatsoever in whatever their belief system says about legitimacy of a business.
Centralization is THE problem.
> it's not perpetuated by how you count the vote. It's perpetuated by the economics of capturing single-member electorates

One of the simplest tweaks to the American system might be consolidating e.g. Senate elections so that the states elect two Senators at one time. It's simpler than combining House districts in that it's merely a scheduling change.
Why did you elide the “substantially” clause?
> Then why introduce the complicated system if we're already doing it in your opinion?

Because the current system promotes extremism.

> Wow what a statement, please elaborate.

Abortion is an obvious example. The vast majority of Americans are pro-choice, but the majority of R primary voters are pro life. If a Republican votes for a pro choice bill they'll be primaried and lose, even though most of their constituents agree with the vote.
That doesn't help a 3rd party candidate beat the 2 big party candidate. If I want the 3rd party guy but say either of the other 2 is acceptable, one of them will still win. If I refuse to put either of the big 2 as a selection, I'm "throwing away" my vote. IRV allows me to vote the 3rd option as my primary choice as a meaningful strategy.
I totally agree with you that in a standard FPTP election, Palin would have beaten Begich in a Republican primary, and then lost in the final election, and we would have had the same result. I don't think IRV did worse than the system it replaced here. But they both failed in the same way.

There are non-FPTP, non-IRV election methods that would have correctly picked the Condorcet winner, Begich.
Weird. I use it 20x a day for years, and haven't even been slightly annoyed in the last 5? years since I learned all the syntax.
> Again: Americans are not a different sort of human from Australians.

I'm not talking about biology, I'm talking about culture. I thought I made that clear, and I'm sure you understand the distinction.
My apologies, you mentioned the explosives being 'redirected', when I guess what you meant was that the explosive circuitry would be redirected.

Even so, those checks aren't sufficient to handle counterfeit parts that might only fail under stress, rather than the safe conditions of a ground test.

The best approach is what it has always been: Strict process control of the entire supply chain, rigorous component and subsystem testing under extreme conditions before delivery, deep analysis of failed components coming off the flight line, and regular inspections for anomalies.
If moderates make up 40% of the voting block, but are split 20%/20% between the two parties, despite making up the larger voting block when combined, the extreme candidates will win each side's primary.

They drop out often to prevent being a spoiler for the candidate they prefer of the remaining options. If Nader dropped out in 2000, Gore would have likely won. Nader, if anything, showed he was a bad representative by dropping out.

Not sure whats so complicated about just ranking the candidates in your preferred order. Sure marginally more complicated than FPTP, but if that is too much for someone, they are feel free to just mark one candidate.
Is there a list of alternatives to Stripe with a link to their API, terms, conditions? That would be helpful.
Jetbrains can offer a perpetual license[1] in theory because old versions don't continue getting updates. They spend (relatively) little on "supporting" old versions -- mostly just the cost of the download servers.

The two use cases you described don't work that way. Both of them have cloud components, which means they need frequent security patches, and they likely also need bug fixes and other updates.

"Connects to my different accounts" by itself is a huge undertaking that most people outsource to Plaid or a similar vendor.

So to answer your question: a lot (not all, but most) SaaS products are services because they are services. They are updated incessantly by developers and have rolling updates.

1. https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...
Pretty simple. The section of road between 3rd exit and the 4th (which is also where you enter) is completely removed.

So taking the 3rd exit on a bike either means following the road all the way around, or just going directly from the entrance to the 3rd exit, as cycle lane is usually preserved where the road used to be.
The problem with cardinal systems is that political parties will tell their followers "just vote 10.0 for me and 0.0 for everyone else". Enough people will do that to obviate the other advantages.

Exhaustive or even partially exhaustive RCV makes that tactic impossible.
People are moving away from designing in photoshop to figma in large numbers hence the 20bn.
I'm talking about voter perceptions and politically effective attacks on ranked choice voting, not its mathematical properties. A complete understanding of the latter by all voters would remove the problem, but practically speaking you end up in a PR fight where one side is trying to condescendingly explain a math problem to the other. That's not a good place for the explaining side to be, and in a political environment already polarized by education level, it is a losing fight. People are going to trust their gut over anything some egghead from the political opposition tells them.
In addition to the other comment about cannabis, crypto is financial and comes with many laws and regulations that a payment process would need to be very aware of and follow.

Porn is ripe with fraud/theft/bad actors/etc.

It’s not a shadow government, it’s common sense.
Which can make sense on the short term, but on the long term I'm sure browsers' SVG renderer will catch-up and use GPU rendering in the spirit of pathfinder, piet-gpu, etc.

This is why I think it is wise for Penpot to use the native browser SVG renderer. They can spend their limited ressources on making a cool app while the browsers will inevitably improve their vector renderer on their own
Figma doesn't come close - it blows Adobe out of the water. I don't need a "suite", I need to design software. Figma lets me do that for $15 per month, and, from experience, is miles ahead of Adobe XD.
Most of the development isn't reader facing. It's editor facing (WYSIWYG editor/etc, toolforge), community developer facing (wikimedia cloud services/toolforge/etc), improvements to the infrastructure (CDN data centers/DR/etc), wikidata improvements (which you see as a reader, but don't know you see as a reader), and lots of other things.

I'm pretty sure there's a public roadmap somewhere, and you could always follow through their bug system or PRs. Everything is developed in the open, even the infrastructure (disclaimer: I founded wikimedia cloud services, and opened up the infrastructure development).
I've often wondered why a wheel rolling against the wire wouldn't be better, after all at those speeds you have a wheel rolling against the track and bearing the weight of the train.
Using bacteria to create artificial cells with lifelike functionality
I'll leave the question of whether it's economically interesting to economists and sociologists (though I suspect the answer is it's not at least in this regard, as the pressure to use the same non-blockchain currency seems not too different across the sweep of history). The claim was:

> It turns out that "distributed linked list" is actually a difficult problem that involves very interesting challenges

It's not that.
I saw once a guy suggested to contact stripe for an account manager. I don't think he was very specific and I'm not sure if you can simply create a ticket or email them but I think that is a good step
There should be ranking charts for each combination.
And that election is why everyone now knows to not vote third party.
> Given the amount of information regarding adobe being a bunch of cntz over the last many years, you got anyone you actually want to blame?

I was asking for advice, so I’m a bit confused about your comment.

I’ve been using them since photoshop 5 and generally had a positive opinion for most of that time. I learned about the whole annual sub/weekly payments issue last year.

Come to think of it, I do blame them for dark UX and making the process unnecessarily difficult (which has worked in my case perfectly).
I was impersonated on another medium recently. Appending some sort of hash to the end of every message was my first thought as a countermeasure.

(Didn't end up implementing; easier to abandon the platform altogether and deny anything purportedly attributable to me.)
it's that one
There is a X Moonshot Factory or w/e the google incubator is called for unified power grid visibility. It is supposedly hard to do.
There's more to it than runway spacing, of course. The runway and the aircraft both must have the necessary equipment installed, and the flight crew has be trained and certified in its use.
Jet brain moved to subscription first.

The reason is that you do not want to start over each month sales wise.

Again, as a consumer you can "consume" what is offered in the market.

I.e. if you have an option to not buy, the seller has the option to maximize its profit.
Skimming the FRED data [1], we've had lots of ups and downs since the 60's, but are basically flat since 1980. It does look like Clinton's policies had an effect, but mostly to cause a small boom / bust cycle. The entire graph only takes place between 63% and 69%, so not that big of a change.

The Clinton-era policies did seem reverse the trend in the 80s, so that's something. Hard to say if post-pandemic inflation will disrupt that though.

1: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N
I hear "take time off for health" often.
You're nitpicking rhetorical flair instead of refuting the point.