skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't need the media to tell me either of those things. I can do arithmetic. Our economy relies on consumerism expanding infinitely. If people are having fewer babies that means fewer consumers. The easiest solution is to increase immigration but that's not such a popular topic in some political circles. It is easy to connect the dots here and see that there are problems on the horizon.

On having children, the math is even more clear and obvious. Where I live it is estimated to cost $350,000 to raise a child to age 18 and this number does not include any type of college investment. Let's assume I want two kids and on the second one I miraculously get a discount on everything of 50%. And let's also assume I invest in a 529 so I can give my kids $120,000 each to go to college. We're talking 2020 dollars.

I'll need to spend ~$3,000/month to raise the two kids. Not too bad when you put it that way. However... what is the opportunity cost of that? If I am conservative it's about $1.1 million. If the market works out well for me it's $2.2 million or more.

And that's the real cost to me to raise two children. Somewhere between $1 million and $2 million. And people wonder why American adults are having fewer and fewer children? Humans are great at adjusting to their environments and rationalizing their decisions so when people tell me about how much they love being a parent I take it with a huge grain of salt. You can learn to love just about anything, even captivity.
Single income household with three relatively recent babies here as well (4, 2, 2).

To me, the thing that strangles young families financially is child care. We've been able to sidestep that by having my wife stay home. The current response to single income households is "think how oppressed the homemaker is!", so they aren't really in vogue right now.

Yea, my wife doesn't have a career. The truth is she wasn't on track to have one anyway. She was managing a coffee shop before we had our first. That's not a "climb the corporate ladder" situation.
Massive inflation of health care, education, housing prices isn't helping. I probably won't ever have children due to those factors. (aside: I'm gay and would be adopting anyway, so I guess it doesn't matter, but my straight friends are in the same boat)

For people that went the college route (which 95% of the people at my high school did, for context), there was 4-5 years of study during prime child-making, partner-finding years. Now you're 22-23. Then it takes 10 years to pay off the 80k of debt (assuming a comparatively cheap 20k per year) before you can start saving for a house. Maybe you're very wise and are able to pay off your loans two years early. Now you're 30 - 10 years away from the presumed biological clock running out. Next, you've got to save for a house and find a partner. You could argue that renting is fine and you don't need a house, but it seems like home ownership is desirable to create stable conditions for the family. Housing is extremely expensive; a tiny home near me is going for $400,000. It might take another few years to save up a 10% deposit, assuming you're stuck paying potentially extreme rent.

Once you've got a house, you've got to be very secure in your career before you can risk having a child; insurance is very expensive. Even with an employer contribution, healthcare for a family likely costs upwards of $1,000/month; that's comparable to rent in many places.

On top of all of those structural barriers to parenthood, American society is facing massive uncertainty, deteriorating economic conditions, democracy under serious threat, and ongoing attacks on the environment and institutions that keep people safe and healthy.

And finally there's the culture part of it. For the last 30 years, there's been an emphasis on teens never, ever, ever doing anything sexual, because the horror. Then as soon as they turn 18, parents/society are suddenly asking about grandchildren.
Storing methane is cheaper, and you can use it for heating, it brings down costs when used in addition to hydrogen storage:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.05290.pdf

" 4.7. Methanation scenario - In the Methanation scenario the conversion of hydrogen to methane is allowed, which can then be fed into the natural gas network for use both in the heating and electricity sectors. Since the carbon dioxide required for the methanation is captured from the air, the methanation has a low overall efficiency (60%), but the resulting methane is extremely valuable to meet the peak heating demand.Despite the costs of the methanation equipment, total system costs reduce by 11% compared to the Heating scenario. In the heating sector, a substitution of heat pumps with gas heating can be observed in Figure 9. Significantly reduced CO2pricesand average marginal prices for electricity and heating are also seen in Table 3. Furthermore, the benefit of transmission reinforcement is weakened, since the methanation allows the use of cheap gas storage to smooth synoptic and seasonal variations of renewables. Optimal transmission reduces the total systems costs by only 17%, compared to 25% in the Heating scenario,and the optimal transmission volume is also lower. The total volume of synthetic methane produced with no transmission is 708 TWhth, compared to 795 TWhth from natural gas. With optimal transmission the volume of synthetic methane reduces to 263 TWhth as transmission smoothes more synoptic variations of wind."
Sure, hype isn't necessarily based on marketing. That's why there's the word "often" in my previous post.

I think in the case of OpenSSL, there was a huge need for what OpenSSL was doing which justified a lot of people taking a calculated risk to use it. I'll concede in that case that the risk may have actually even been justified.

That same logic doesn't apply to blahblah.io's "revolutionary" 0.x.y packages on npm or pip, or the bleeding-edge SaaS of the week.
There is limited eye time. TikTok is on the path to winner-takes-all in the space it is currently in. I would value it at $300B given its huge potential that none of its competitors or copiers can have. $50B is low imo -- likely caused by the political pressure.
It’s pretty common across the board. 30% is really high for sure, but payment processors gotta get paid at some point.

I think Apple should split the fee up. Make a portion what they charge for processing payments and the rest their commission.
No, they just use a VPN, incognito, clear cookies, etc. as they stated.

This isn't an either/or situation.
Does that stop them being recommended in the mean time? I normally just report this sort of thing, but I never go back to specifically see if it gets removed (hopefully it does). It's what always seems to happen. Of course, it could be from something else I'm watching too, is there a way to see why their algorithm recommends particular things? I mean, it's not like it happens every day, right now my feed is entirely full of mountain bike content, which seems to generate much more friendly and welcoming recommendations.
Intel has no leadership and their revenue is expected to go down because of that
> I was struck by this article (within the last decade) as mobile phones and texting have been ubiquitous since the mid 90s (early 00s in the US). Funny that popular literature took a while to catch up.

TV writers, too. Kramer had a mobile phone in an episode of Seinfeld (the one were people think he's a phone movie information service), and Jerry had a carphone for most of it. But these were only used for specific gags; in general it was assumed that if someone wasn't at home they were uncontactable and the existence of the mobile phones, after being established, was ignored.
That is not the right reason to refund. Price should have nothing to do with marginal costs.

it has to do with who is being made to carry the cost, and the griefing that can occur that way. Not worth the trouble IMHO.
They would never open the GFW because it would be a threat to their governance model.
Not to be that guy but: s/there/their

The title is "ThereTube" -- today I was that guy...
It will not cost them money, per se. Apple is keeping money from you.
I see what you're saying, but our choices really do result in either negative outcomes for us as individuals by having to eat increasingly large costs of child rearing at the expense of agency/disposable income/enjoyment, or negative outcomes for us as a collective in which we put a greater societal burden on the individuals of the next generations. We could ignore the latter choice's consequence and go about living blissfully, but I think that's a choice to delay our awareness of that consequence until it's right upon us. For the most part, people weren't previously coerced into having babies - it was a great cultural pride for my parents and their parents.

Nowadays, I hear my friends say "I wish we could have kids sooner, but we can't afford the house in the nice neighborhood/the detriment to our careers/a quality education/healthcare..." in contrast to the stories from a couple generations ago about how a union job could support a whole household or that almost everyone could afford healthcare. It's quite bleak.
> The concept of the “two pizza”/”autonomous” team arose from attempts to minimize communication between multiple teams and empowering a single team to be in complete control of delivering customer value.

> Before this idea gained popularity, the most common way of organizing teams was in terms of Backend, UI, DBA, Ops etc.. Building any feature required a lot of communication, collaboration, and alignment between all these groups.

I always thought this was called cross-functional and saw the term way before anyone started talking about two pizza/autonomous teams.
It's a legal defense argument. Of course it's not correct or intellectually honest.
The original article is my implied citation.
If x is the difficulty, the phrase either means “twice the difficulty, squared”: (2x)^2 or 4x^2.

Or “the difficulty squared and squared again”: (x^2)^2 or x^4.

The GP is asking why x == 2 in the second example rather than just “the difficulty”. English interpretation doesn’t explain that.
Source(s) for popular opinion across that date range?
It is thought to reacted less with normal matter because we aren't seeing it react with normal matter. So one potential explanation is a particle that is so tiny/fast, with no electrical charge, that it is can fly through planets without hitting anything: a "ghost" particle like the neutrino. The term used is WIMP (Weakly Interacting Massive Particle). Are we know is that it has mass, because it influences gravity. That's one possible explanation for dark matter.

Ideas based on extra dimensions are becoming less popular. We have evidence that gravity experiences the same dimensions that light does. Gravity waves from things like neutron stars merging seem to arrive at earth at the same time as light. So it is doubtful that extra dimensions can explain dark matter.
Is this just a release announcement?
I disagree, someone else deciding to use my 0.x.y version library does not obligate me to suddenly make it 1.0.0.

I think geofft sums it up best elsewhere in this thread where it is about interface stability guarantees being the deciding quality.
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My point is not to broaden the definition of voluntary, but to emphasize that voluntary exchange itself has never been a crucial part of Capitalism. So both slavery and Imperialism can not be discarded from the incentive structure set up by Capitalism. Capitalism will simply exploit whatever there currently is to be exploited, without any ethics. The historical record, both past and present, is very clear on this.
Per the linked twitter thread:

> Yeah Apple keeps their 30% no matter what. So if someone refunds an app they get the whole amount back, Apple keeps 30%, and the developer has to cover that extra amount
How do you know that?

The interface and what you can do/demonstrate in the store is severely limited.
I mean, I am a rock-thrower. Granted, I'm a rock-thrower for anodyne maybe-don't-leave-the-poor-to-starve social democracy because it has a track record of working pretty well.

"Let's get real amped up for mild and reasonable chaaaaaange!" is a weird place to be, admittedly.
Cause practically, that amounts to state sanctioned rape.
Yeah that's the issue with "do your own research" that's often brought out by the QAnon groups, etc. except I don't know how you possibly deal with one side having pages of pages saying XYZ politician smells like sulfur and is literal demon.

What's that person supposed to do put up a page on their website about not smelling like a demon?
“Sorry, we already spent it.”
The stock market is heavily regulated. Commodity markets are regulated. It's actually the slowness and corruption of the law makers that we're still without any regulations to virtual markets.
If you do this often Apple will ban your account. If you don't do this often it's not a problem.
So the reason Apple would buy Arm is to save itself money on the architecture license in the long run, right? But it could also save money on the architecture license if it switched to RISC-V. And you can be sure there's a tightly guarded spreadsheet somewhere inside Apple that models whether or not switching to RISC-V is a good idea.

Of course, Arm can figure all that out too, so somewhere inside Arm they've tried to replicate Apple's "should we switch to RISC-V" spreadsheet, and Arm sets the price of the architecture license so that the spreadsheet will always say "don't switch to RISC-V".

The other thing to consider: Arm's core design business is quite valuable; probably more valuable than their architecture business. But Apple does their own core design, and would not be interested in selling core IP to others, so they would get no value from that business. But if they were to buy Arm, they'd still have to pay for it.
Cool idea, I've always wanted to do this but instead of using political lines, I've always wanted to know what the recommendations of the peoples of Indian reservations, the black belt, other ethnic enclaves in and outside of America etc. This app seems to exist more for social media activism than for building insight into the lives of different peoples (which is absolutely okay and needs to be said, but still). Are there other websites like this out there?
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Speaking from a European perspective, raising children to be productive members of society used to be peoples retirement security. Socialised pensions where other peoples kids will be working to pay for your stay in the retirement home changes that equation completely.
> You might balk at SSDs being mere commodities

Why would I balk at that? SSDs, screens, RAM, CPUs, GPUs, laptops, phones, and are all commodities. I don't care about any of them past their specs and build quality.

> Samsung + Huawei -> Google

Oh come on. That's some serious reaching to prove your point right there.
Should I try Lemonade Insurance?
Because the customer is getting a refund because they're asking Apple to unwind the transaction. Apple makes the customer whole, Apple makes Apple more than whole, and Apple makes the developer less than whole.
This post is in the context of a PostgreSQL stored procedure. If you have ready access to a block cipher, you could use one with an appropriate block size; e.g., 32-bit RC5 for coupon codes, 128-bit AES for activation keys, or 64-bit Blowfish for something in between.
What is stopping TikTok from getting flavor-of-the-month'd as teenagers and young adults move to newer platforms?

Edit: this is a genuine question I do not have an answer for and I'd like to hear some takes.
Even weirder, things like this were still being marketed this century: https://www.theregister.com/2004/09/15/amstrad_e3_launch/
It’s still well below the IPO price in 2017, with net loss growing to $326 million, up from $255 million last year and EBITDA of almost -$1 billion.

Sure DAU is up, but we all know those metrics are inflated BS and monetization is all that really matters. It’s been 3 years since IPO and they’re still making a heavy loss.
> It dangerous to spread the idea that people aren't victims and they're just experiencing the effects of their own choice to live in an expensive city.

Mobility is much more elusive than HN, or the middle and upper classes, would have you believe. Also, that doesn't account for the fact people do not choose where they are born.
No it’s not fair. This can be a tool that competitors use to hurt you financially. If the customer gets a refund the slate should be wiped clean. That’s fair.
This is also common for most credit card processors. But keeping 3% is very different from 30%
Competitive? How many places are where I can host a web page and how many app stores ? The ratio is probably much larger then 10000 : 1 .
> Everyone is always quick to blame their economic hardships as usual when this thread comes up. The fact is women don't want to reproduce or even be seen with a man [...]

So let's blame women? Just making sure I'm reading this right. As a man who's been around the block a few times in corporate America, women are NOT outdoing us in "these three areas" like you seem to posit...

This comment feels like mental gymnastics to justify misogyny.
That 'hack' was made famous by Cory Doctorow's Little Brother in 2008. It's a good book for summer reading BTW.

https://www.amazon.com/Little-Brother-Cory-Doctorow/dp/07653...
Seems like a pointless technicality. If somebody refunds my $100 app and Apple "keeps" $30 from me, that means the next person who buys my app only earns me $40. I've lost $30 either way.
Didn’t they just recover both fairings on the last launch?

I don’t know how you want to work the math, but it is probably best to think of it in a fractional way. Between accidents and wear do they manage better than 4 launches in average? They just managed 6 for one lower stage, with tighter turnaround time. We don’t know how much of that rocket was reused. So we might be talking about expending 20% of a lower stage per launch, and some higher ratio of upper stages.
Is this a permanent shift? 20 years from now will people know Kodak as a pharmaceutical manufacturer as opposed to a camera company?
That is not time with children. That is time working remote with colleges remote while yelling at kids to stop making the noise. While also having second job as teacher.
Apple prices the exact same things into hardware distribution too, but when you ask for your money back there they give it back in full, not minus the “service” they already provided you.
Third world resident here. $5k a month income would get you living like a king here (with in house nanny) so to hear you have to spend that on daycare alone is insane. If i may ask, What is it about daycare that makes it this expensive? It seems demand is high and the business is profitable if they can charge that much so why isn't competition driving price to be affordable?
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For non-Emacsers out there, why is this news-worthy?
> For example, consider a regulation that standardizes a "social contacts list" and requires that ecosystems in which a use can maintain a list of contacts must be capable of import/export in this standard format.

Such an innocuous regulation may seem pro consumer and pro competition, but in practice is probably not great. To start, Congress is probably not qualified to come up with such a standard, leaving you with two possibilities, and new government bureaucracy to manage the standard -- who simply become targets of industry lobbying, or an industry consortium, which is not subject to lobbying because it is already controlled by industry incumbents. This bureaucracy now exists to protect incumbents through 'certification' hurdles and other gatekeeping and reduces innovation since by simply preventing changes.
Competitive between developers and perhaps platforms but absolutely a monopoly for iOS.
correct, there is a huge difference between taking 3% and 30%

one is the cost of doing business, the other is predatory
How will we solve the data privacy problem?
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How do you mean? Since its just a commit I wouldn’t really call it an announcement.
Someone with a blender and a warped idea of a healthy diet.
It’s still below its 2017 ipo price and its EBITDA is almost -$1B.
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Or maybe they're just drawn to the security aspects? Remote, isolated, underground, designed to resist damage from weapons...

As Freud said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Because of rules against housing discrimination, a high price is perceived as the only possibility for keeping a neighborhood safe. If a neighborhood could pick and choose that only law abiding people can live there, it could be both safe and cheap. But it's not like that will happen. So here we are.
My point is that the fee is about “delivering you the customer”. Apple delivered you the customer. That the customer and you were unhappy is no bearing on their ability to deliver that customer to you.
It seems like a pretty clear duopoly to me, Apple and Android are the only two mobile platforms, and rather than compete with each other on price they are just both leaving their cut at 30%. Personally it’s not even the 30% I mind so much as, maybe there are cool new products like new mobile browsers that are just forbidden by the app stores and so we will never get them.
How are app stores like stock markets or commodity markets?
Difference between the dropout and Stanford graduate is level of self awareness, inhibition, disgust, ambitions.
It sure breaks mine. I saw my cousin in a mask in a restaurant, she recognized me and I didn't know her until she spoke.

Maybe once we don't look at a person and think "Facemask!", once it becomes normal, we'll retrain to identify folks by eyes, head shape, body language etc. And quit relying on nose and mouth so much.
There was a picturephone booth demonstration at the 1964 world's fair: https://ethw.org/Picturephone
I don't think the issue is that Apple is keeping its fee even with a return. That on some level is fair. They are providing a service to the developer.

The bigger question is whether their cut should be 30% in the first place.

30% was chosen by the first store of this type and it's just never been questioned by platforms. I just read that Valve recently changed their agreement to be a sliding scale based on sales (30% to start, falling to 20% if you hit certain numbers).

But as far as I know, Microsoft, Sony, Apple, and Google all do a 30/70 split on digital sales.
From what I remember biggest difference is that Intel designs and produces chips. Where ARM only designs chips and everyone can build their own chips based on the design of course paying license fees. So Broadcom, Qualcomm and others are building ARM chips and would not be surprised if Samsung and Apple soon build their own.

Edit: Yes Samsung has something called Exynos, Cortex is from Broadcom, Qualcomm has Snapdragon. Basically there is much more competition in ARM.
Developers do have to pay an yearly fee to just be an iOS developer, so the argument that's because of the SDKs is incorrect
I don’t know how you can blame either party.

If my kid wants a dvd about beetles (the bugs), and I click on a Beatles (the band) documentary instead, that’s neither the seller or producers fault.
Pretty cool!. Only one glitchy part, the bottom of the screen seems to have a few drops that appear and disappear at random, that's the only thing that took me out of the realism.
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