skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The relative cost of repair labour has gone up, as well as the devices getting less repairable, so TV repairmen are no longer a major source of employment.

I think you're missing another important factor. TV repair was a major source of employment because early TVs were highly failure-prone! A TV was usually the most complicated piece of electronic equipment in the house. It would often have dozens of tubes that could burn out, and older models were assembled with point-to-point wiring (instead of circuit boards) which was prone to short circuits. It wouldn't be unusual for one to need repair or tuneup work a few times a year.

Modern TVs, by comparison, rarely require repairs. A new flatscreen TV is likely to provide continuous, problem-free service until it is obsolete. That's the real reason why TV repairmen are rare now, not because TVs are cheaper or harder to repair.
For the cable modem/bridge, here's the info for Comcast:

https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/list-of-approved-ca...

http://mydeviceinfo.xfinity.com/

I've picked up a used, supported DOCSIS 3.0 one for $20 before.

At those prices, you might want to have a cold spare, in case the main one gets zapped or dies from overheating. (I think you'll probably need to call your cable company when you swap in the spare.)

For the router and WiFi, you might want to use a model well-supported by OpenWrt:

https://openwrt.org/

When picking the router, besides one with good features like WiFi standards that are advertised by the hardware vendor, you might also look at the wiki pages for less-advertised specs, like flash space, RAM, and USB ports. OpenWrt has a large catalog of open source add-on software, and might prompt you to care very much about the less-advertised specs.
Here’s a lifehack: Attend college in Europe then move to USA for that high paying job.

Works really well. Cheap to free education, better skills because you’re not just living the college life and professors have little incentive to make it easy. It’s great.

Hell you don’t even have to fully graduate to get most of the benefit.
Peer to peer has been dead for more than a decade. Computers are all behind firewall/NAT, they can't connect to one another. Mobiles are behind whatever is the mobile network nowadays, it's outbound only, nothing can connect in.
The earth doesn't care the arbitrary division of it in countries, and any per country stats. Countries are irrelevant from the earth's perspective. Countries are an abstract concept. So saying that a smaller country means more license to use more energy seems absurd. If Catalonia separates from Spain, are they suddenly eligible for 2x emissions?

But people are not an abstract concept. With or without countries, people need to eat, sleep, wear clothes, get entertainment, have devices, all of which emit carbon per capita. Saying that monaco and India should emit similar carbon makes absolutely zero sense.

People in the developed world simply can't sustain their energy intensive life style if we want to reduce carbon emissions.

If somehow we ended on a per country stats, it will simply encourage creation of fake countries. A country can split in 100, create a federation like EU, but more stronger to join those countries and keep business as usual.

Per land area might be a better metric with some tweaks.
I don't think that's always or even often practical given constraints such as: firewalls, NAT, and varying bandwidth limitations of clients.
If you can figure out the reasons for university price increases, good luck. It's a combination of a variety of things.

One is that increased demand for employers for "certification" of ability pushes demand for degrees among students. Every recession there's articles showing that those with a college degree fare better than those without. We can argue about why that is, but that's what the average 17 yo sees, along with their parents, and they don't want to be left behind, regardless of the details.

Another is that loans basically prop that up and facilitate it. So schools don't lose money on people who say "I can't afford it" because they find a way.

Another is the increasing administrative bloat at universities, which are now largely run like for-profit institutions even when they are not on paper. I think this is similar to a lot of fields, but my sense is that (based on personal experience) things are much more hierarchical now, with more of a focus on exploiting the university for personal gain than anything else. So administrative salary costs, and administrative costs in general, drive up the need for costs.

The public colleges have to compete for private colleges for faculty, administrators, etc. which then increases their costs, which then drives them to bigger need for more tuition.

At the same time, states have been cutting their funding. If they cut funding and unis have all these fixed costs, where else are they supposed to get money from?

A major dynamic between public universities in the US and political circles in the last couple of decades has been an increasing pressure for them to operate as revenue generating, profit-making institutions in every aspect. At the state level, the idea is that their role is to bring in money, at less cost (an alternative is to see them as providing a service to the state and country -- can you imagine wanting K-12 schools to be treated as profit-making ??? ). As a result, what we've ended up with are institutions with a lot of profit-seeking administrators, pyramid schemes, taking advantage of federal funding loopholes at every chance to bring in money, etc.

Public universities should be able to offer a good value to students, but they're being run as profit centers. If you think of it that way, it's no surprise tuition isn't competitive.
The school admitting the student should co-sign the loan. If the school is confident in the value of their program they should assume the risk.
Because lockdowns aren’t sustainable, it’s unfair to compare Sweden’s short-term death rate to countries in full lockdown. Let’s see what happens once the lockdowns are lifted and the next wave of infection takes off.
Yeah, that makes sense. I don't think I have the enterprise experience to land an enterprise client, though, and the iteration length on closing a successful sale where I could learn which tactics work and which ones don't is super long. I imagine it would take many more years of experience than I have to pull that off.

Response to edit: I think you make some great points, but I'm not sure how applicable they are to a self-funded solo bootstrapper... how did you launch your company?

My goal is to reach $2k/mrr in the next two months so that I can go full-time on the startup and apply all of my time to making it better / marketing it better, in order to hit escape velocity where my books are completely in the black without having to work a day job.
Most developers don’t work for software companies.
Boeing was also a bidder for a recent cargo-to-the-lunar-gateway contract. 4 bidders, Boeing's bid was judged defective as well as having the highest cost.
Why calculate per country at all? A global carbon tax/market wouldn’t need regional differences and would allow the market to optimize allocation between borders freely.
I'd feel more safe as an admin by knowing I only have 1 port and 1 app (ie wireguard) being public than 10 with their own ports and security (ie redis and others).
One of the more famous ones was the classic game (now, series) Syndicate. The core premise was exactly as described above - a chip that would get wired into the brain to alter all sensory perception. The idea was that the world in the setting had become awful enough that this level of personal surrender was no longer outrageous - people were primarily just altering the perception to be "nicer".

The core plot of the game then assumed that once a critical percentage of people had these, it was a viable tool for criminal organizations to engage in massive campaigns of thought control and overthrow the governments of countries all over the world, essentially replacing states entirely.
Originally, SQL was sold as a way to make programmers redundant by allowing business people to write their own reports.

In theory, with SQL any executive could write his own report instead of having to wait for weeks for those pesky software guys to write the reports.

For many decades, different waves in the industry have tried to bring tools to the market to allow non-programers to write programs. The thinking is that the tooling or the grammar are the obstacles for regular people to write programs (applications).

The issue is that it is not the syntax or the tools that are the barrier. The barrier to write programs is that the author has to thing about all possible states and conditions and handle them. That requires patience and a certain mindset. If you are not able/willing to be that exhaustive, you will not be able to write general programs. Conceptually you could write programs (or web applications) that have been narrowed to very specific choices of workflows with most of the conditions already taken care of for you.

Creating a website with drag-and-drop tools is not that difficult; until you start to consider: what happens if the user shrinks the window below certain width? What happens if he views the site on a phone? What happens if I have to change the length of a piece of text?
You are right and that is what I meant.

Sometimes though installation is a real pain. (For ex. OCaml/OPAM on Debian)
Agreed, for me "full stack" really means the opposite: system and networks, backend / databases, and frontend. In most projects, even just mastering half of jquery does the job, as long as you at least know HTML with SEO and CSS well.

But then again, that's also IMHO
The problem there is not PayPal. It is the company formerly named GoPay, a Chinese company, that necessarily adheres to Chinese law.
"why do we need to pay a janitor, the bathroom is always clean"
Intel's TDP is just at base clock which Intel keeps at 3.7GHz. Pretty it's close to a hoax.

Power increases linearly with frequency and squarely with voltage. Higher freq. needs higher voltage. This applies to pretty much any CPU/GPU. Also AVX loads are significantly more power hungry.

230W would be a low estimate for a fully clocked one.
We are stepping on each others toes; the initial OP or Grand-poster or whatever was about installing Ubuntu on a Mac, and that was the context I was replying into. So whatever. The OSX thing is great, for whoever it fits to, it is surely better than windows, W10.x and, etc, but, whatever, gp, grand parent, was talking about ubuntuin'g a mac, so what's his point. I get your point, about being all about the macs, but, this is an Ubuntu insertion. From his side. (((Arch by the way.))) Yeah enjoy your OSX. You've deserved it. And let's go on our ways. Or Rust on our ways, since the Go language is a piece of shit anyways. I use Rust. Since Go is a piece of shit, I mean.

I've upvoted your comment since we've clearly misunderstood each other. I don't think we're at disparity, the bloke tried to install Ubuntu on a mac after all. It's all good.
This reminds me of that time I read about this LifeProTip: sometimes if you want to get something fixed yout should get the legal team involved instead of the support team.

The example was about some kind of elettrical switch having some wiring exposed. Letting the electric power company know about this via the usual means was unhelpful.

What was helpful was contacting the legal team via phone, let them know that the wiring was exposed and that it would have been a huuuuuuge liability if somebody got fried and after any kind of acknowledgment (even the smallest, even a simple "okay") on their side let them also know that the call was being recorded. Now the ball is in their field.

It's passive-aggressive, but (according to the story) that's what got the stuff fixed very soon.
Boeing seems like a pile of crap with the other issues stacking up against it. It had its time in the sun, but if you're career-minded, Boeing is probably not where you want to be.
What state schools are $60k+ for 2 years for in-state residents?

Berkeley was my guess for an expensive in-state tuition rate and they're $38k for 2 years.

Unless you're including housing/food/etc.
The University of California system did not charge tuition for in-state students until 1970.

https://www.dailycal.org/2014/12/22/history-uc-tuition-since...
3M one of the biggest n95 manufactures in the world, originated and still has factories in America
Any tax break being taken away makes people feel like they're paying "extra" with nothing new in return.

There is no reason for people in other states to subsidize your California state tax payments with a federal tax break.
It is indeed anti-efficient by design, because it is intended that the cost to attack needs to exceed the cost to run, otherwise, it would not be secure.

It happens that some people care about sound money enough that they need the security offered by this game theoretic model and they're willing to pay the electricity costs to get it, and your opinions on the matter mean nothing to them.

Although I'm not sure what non-bitcoiners mining "crypto" are wasting their money on, because they're not getting sound money, but useless fiat tokens.
I agree, there is a lot of context that comes with experience. However two things remain true:

1. Experience without knowing the latest stack is useless for a pure developer role.

2. Leaning into the deep memory of past failures is more consistent with a technical lead, which is one of the "other" growth paths.
Health insurer to investors: "It's safe to give us money because we can dupe lawmakers into bailing us out."
Student loans should absolutely be dischargeable. It will force tuition to drop to something affordable. It's advertised as a ticket to a good job and that's just false.
I have no idea since I've never tried to negotiate with Oracle Cloud. I don't know how hard they negotiate (but it's Oracle so probably pretty hard).

I'd say the analysis is accurate in directionality but maybe not magnitude.

But more importantly I think it's just Corey's way of poking Amazon about their high prices. :)

But I will say that Amazon is pretty clear that you'll get a better discount if your workload is 100% with them. Like if you put 1/3 of your workload in AWS, it will be more than 1/3 the price of putting your whole workload there. Or to put another way, if you triple your workload you won't triple your price.
There are a thousand different ways we can alter protocols to allow for a marginal increase in cases that our system can easily handle. There's a lot of things we need more of, including tests, tracking capacity, hospital capacity, medical equipment, new/better treatments, PPE, etc and they will all improve our ability to handle this virus. But at present, the situation we have is already stable enough to start tweaking the equation and seeking a better balance.
Obviously not the only reason, but he appears to be a helpful ingredient in the mix with good things tending to happen with him around. No idea how much of it is due to his technical vs. management skill, but there definitely seems to be some there there.
For me, it just isn't about self-satisfaction. It's just not that time-consuming to buy my own modem and router, spend a few minutes setting up the router with my preferred settings, and getting on with life.

99% of the time, if I have an issue, I just do a power cycle (same as I would do with something I was renting) and the problem is solved. In the 1% of times that it's something else, at least I have the option to look into it and possibly solve it. With a rented Comcast modem/router combo I haven't a clue what I'd be able to accomplish other than driving it back to the service center and swapping for another one.

The modem and router I'm currently using are both several years old and have required minimal tinkering. Most of that was limited to the 10-15 min of initial setup and maybe a few minutes here and there over the years forwarding a port or something.
We won’t get either before lockdowns become infeasible to continue.
PWAs on Edge were able to do it, when signed.

Hopefully they will do the same with the new version.
The Matrix is better, humans just sleep there :)
In Uber, Airbnb or Amazon they need to work!
I think the $50-$100 figure is a rule-of-thumb, and Jason goes into some great detail on how he arrives at those numbers in the video.

Something else which might seem more appropriate in that case is to determine your price based on the value you deliver rather than the cost it takes you to deliver that value.

If your value delivered is less than what it costs you to deliver that value, you have a broken pricing model and there's no way to make it work.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/23/webex_hid_url_for_r...

Cisco WebEx, secret backdoor that allows websites to run arbitrary code on your machine back in 2017.

Are you going to use it again?
COVIDSafe App Teardown and Panel Discussion
> "We need to bring back RSS which will improve discoverability of self hosted content."

I couldn't agree more. It's really tough to write and share on your own platforms because exposure and dissemination is not what it used to be.

> consumer web is done, its owned by private companies, which control discoverability (google ads let’s say) then monetization (google ads) the Platform itself (android which gains data), membership and enforcement (google dev account)

I sadly, also, agree with this. This is another article I plan to write.
Technically, Mega-pixel is an SI unit (right?)...
Hey all! I'm on the Codespaces team! Happy to answer any questions you may have.
Do they pay for other software to solve this problem?

What are the painful problems of the people with purchasing power in that market?

At the initial stage I would be looking for them to pay you anything or agree to pay and optimize the pricing model later.
Please get your parents off Facebook
It was acquired by TikTok: https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/23/it-looks-like-titok-has-ac...
I think they'd only be a public utility with respect to phone service. For internet service, you'd probably be out of luck.
WA State data visualizations for Covid-19 indicators [pdf]
Every company will say whatever it takes to get more money out of everyone. It’s up to everyone else to separate truth from bluster.
This is exactly it. I rent a house that costs $900,000 and it’s a 60 year old death trap. Just like most of the other houses in the neighborhood. It was built when LA County was more of a “build baby build!” Place lol.

When you buy a house here it’s more like you’re buying a $900,000 piece of land and getting a free house in the deal. Those houses are practically worthless and a lot of new buyers tear them down and build a new one.

I’d guess that doing that costs a few hundred thousand. But most of the time I see that, the new houses are way better quality. If you wanted to bare minimum meet code, it’d probably still be cheaper to build a new house than to refit the old one.
The Dispose Pattern Is Broken
Aren't European colleges the same price as American colleges if you're not European?
The US digital television standard is called "ATSC".

Officially, this stands for "Advanced Television Systems Committee".

Unofficially, the "A" stands for "always".
My only question with OpenAI is whether they will forever-more take existing AI research, throw $100,000s of dollars at it in training, then take credit for inventing intelligence
It's much easier to configure once wireguard than configure on each application the ssl mecanism. Redis for example is very easy to use normally, but adding ssl makes it quite harder to setup/use.
For the average college graduate, college is still a pretty good investment. I could write lots of comments about people without a college degree that live crappy lives and have trouble finding good paying jobs, and people with college degrees that live well and make a lot of money.

My prediction is that we'll see changes in the US system. The problem you're pointing out is the risk. Universities are the ones that IMO should be taking on the risk. If you graduate 3000 students a year, most will do okay and some won't, and that would be no big deal if college cost $800 a year. I predict that over the next couple decades we'll move to a system where you pay for college out of your earnings.

This would clean up another issue (not pointing any fingers with this). Colleges would nudge students into careers with better prospects. If they'd get paid less from students in certain majors, there'd be fewer of those majors. I could even see a system where "you're on your own" if you major in certain limited prospect fields. Universities that align their interests with those of the students will be the ones that thrive.

Disclosure: Professor for many years
Postgres Projects in Azure Data Studio
That tactic only works for as long as nothing breaks. So far the stuff Windows introduced for better security (ie. UAC) very rarely break things both by trying to emulate the older behavior (ie. UAC tries to virtualize writes to Program Files older programs do) and by allowing you to bypass it and just let the program do what it wants (run as Admin, compatibility flags in registry/settings in shortcut, etc). Even when that isn't possible there are often workarounds to make things work.

In general i'm very confident i can make any older program or game for Windows to run on modern Windows 10 - usually with minor tweaks.

If Microsoft breaks this, i'm certain they'll completely misunderstand why people keep using Windows.
This is true, but for a pure dev role (writing code, closing tickets, no technical leadership) I maintain that a C expert with 10 (recent) years' experience is functionally indistinguishable for a C expert with 35 years.
If we accept the definition "fundamental dispositions and traits of humans" then I wouldn't consider those examples to qualify, as they are not sufficiently fundamental in my view. They are closer to social norms. If we experienced a wholesale global economic collapse, I could easily see our great-grandchildren retuning to those and other barbaric norms.
Yeah but you'll never connect your own xfinity wifi point. Even if you use xfinity wifi there's zero reason to not turn off the feature from your home router. Tragedy of the commons, etc etc
So, $488 for 10x 3.7 GHz Intel vs. $409 for 12x 3.8 GHz AMD?

I'll take one AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, thanks MicroCenter!
Can't you run Kubernetes? (which is the open-source project from Google inspired by Borg)
Can I read more about these statistics somewhere?
> Peer to peer has been dead for more than a decade.

Source? Some apps like bittorrent have increased in the past decade, have they not?
What's in a Name? How to Select a Name for Your Personas
Could you explain how codebase size and bugs are related? Why age and death are related? Why touching a hot stove and getting burnt are related?
Generally speaking, As an IT person, if somebody from the legal team comes and says "fix this issue immediately otherwise we're liable" or "shut X down immediately" then I do that. Unless somebody above me (and above my pay grade) says otherwise.
Prioritizing users in a crisis: Building the California Covid-19 response site
A funny idea, but also a great way to make sure that schools only offer majors with a high average post-grad salary.
It's plausible to do it just to do it, but you're better off just renting a car.
OP here: take another look at the first sentence of that post-mortem doc. I don't think it's misleading to say that this was primarily driven by InfoSec. Though I don't disagree that the purported benefits of XWiki technology were considered as maybe a secondary factor.