skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically. When I first signed up for Red/Premium it was actually as part of a Google Play Music All-Access whatchamajigger, no particular reason other than I got access to more stuff for the same price, and I was able to create a family plan before YouTube had them.

I’m still not sure why Google couldn’t just focus their energy on one music service which seemed to be doing fine, but as far I was concerned it was a nice extra that at one point had a couple of albums I was having difficulty tracking down anywhere else. Maybe it’s a smaller scale version of their messenger ADHD. That said, their messaging was terrible, excuse me, is terrible.

Google Play Music + Ad-free YouTube + YouTube Music with what is it? Six family members including the main account for $15/month was a pretty amazing deal. I launched YT Music a couple nights ago to play some music you can really only find on YouTube a couple nights ago and it prompted me to import the small amount of Google Play Music I had before they totally kill the service (or maybe they already have?).
There were even celebrities using it to make funny videos. They had good timing and foresaw where social media was going. Baffling how they couldn’t monetize it.
Does it not signal something, that in all of the publication's history, all the world events it has existed through, that now is the time they decide make an endorsement? Instead of bemoaning that they made an endorsement, maybe it would be better to discuss why now? What's different about our current times that the publication has made such an out-of-character move?
That'd be an interesting additional feature - a minimum 50% toward general funds and the remaining 50% to the government programs of your choice.
Spotify says Apple One bundle is a 'threat to collective freedom'
While I appreciate the benefits of Lisp, there is still a tradeoff. PG said in one of his essays that in Lisp you write your program directly in the parse trees that in other languages get generated when the code is parsed. But that means that in Lisp you have to express everything in terms of parse trees, and parse trees can be cumbersome. That's why other languages have syntax; yes, in a way it's just syntactic sugar for parse trees, but syntactic sugar has uses.
Government is often significantly more effective at spending money for charitable works than private charities due to all the overhead involved in running charities. Further, as a private individual I dislike that my tax money is used to in part fund charities that I strongly disagree with.

If you want to use your money to support some private crusade that’s fine, but why must we support anything anyone thinks as a worthy cause? It’s in effect a blank check without meaningful oversight. Their are for example homeopathy charities whose donations are tax deductible.
> - Ban ALL single-use plastic (except for medical supplies).

This is just naive and irrational.

What if I really need a single use plastic thingy because for example, it is a wire buckle, and making it multi-use would make it effectively expensive single-use wire buckle?

Banning ALL is rarely a good solution.

Just tax it and that's it. And it doesn't matter, if it's single use or multiple use, because eventually all of them end up in the garbage.
I wonder if the same concerns were raised when wireless was invented and news could spread across the globe instantly.

Wasn't that a new 'social media' of the time?
Are you sure?

Say I make a training platform that does some interaction (one-to-many as is quite typical of training) and also handles the payments as well as tracking etc.

As I understand the rules "I" will have to give 30% to Apple in that case, but if my business model is fine with say 5%, won't she (the trainer) effectively pay the rest?

https://marco.org/2020/09/11/app-review-changes
Many engineers I used to work with now work for Facebook. I wonder how they feel about it. Do they think Facebook does no harm? Do they think that their job itself isn't doing harm? ("I'm just writing spark jobs"). Do they try to ignore it because the salary conditions are so cushy? What amount of money is enough to ignore your conscience if you know that Facebook is part of the problem? Would I work for Facebook for 500k a year? 1M a year? I've heard as a reason "They have two kids, that's why they took the job, you'd do the same if you had kids".

I don't know. It's not black and white. Social media apps aren't creating poisonous ideas like the flat earth, antimask, or anti-vax movements, but they're certainly essential to their spread. They have also had a positive impact such as during the Arab spring a couple years back. Would measles have made a comeback in the US without Facebook? Probably not? Does that mean that Facebook is responsible for the resurgence of it? At least partially yes in my view. Did Facebook sway the elections in 2016? Probably. But so do journalists. What if Facebook swayed elections in a direction that aligns more with my views? Would I be as uncomfortable? I certainly don't have enough information to say "facebook good, facebook bad", but with the limited information I'm comfortable saying that Facebook is dangerous. My perception is that the negative impact of Facebook outweighs the positive; I can't prove it, but it's spooking me enough that I won't work for them. Maybe it's because I don't have kids.
Does that happen a lot?
You don't need that many approvals a year. They're doing just fine. Check out the construction pipeline. They have 10.6 GW under construction right now. That's a 25% increase when it's built.

Tianwan-5 was just hooked up to the grid last month.
I don't think that seeking to be starving and on the street should be the ultimate end goal of philanthropy. I much prefer to limit my generosity via the First Rule of Rescue: be careful not give away so much that now you need charity yourself.
Spotify is being dramatic but it's true Apple is taking advantage of its position on the AppStore.

Apple not only has a 30% advantage over Spotify in terms of final pricing, it can also use the 30% it gets from Spotify to lower its prices even further.
Does nvdia even have product which would work at the power envelop that Mali works?
I really don’t understand the downvotes. I’m not experienced with either language - and this has nothing to do with a flame war.

The question, unstated and unopinionated AND intellectually honest was: does language impact community adoption - and if so, what are the drivers behind it.

If I were going to write a foundational technology, I probably wouldn’t write it in NodeJS, not that it couldn’t be done, but because I’d be concerned mainstream adoption might suffer. For example, I’d expect a hypothetical JsSql (a SQL engine written in JavaScript - assuming this doesn’t already exist) would achieve lower general adoption than writing it in C++.

Get it?
I really didn't explain it yet. Did I? Let me try this.
The battle is asymmetric. One side, Trump, is using fear. The other side, Scientific American, is using logic.

Fear actually gets voters off their couches and into the voting booth.

Logic gets people to nod their heads, but doesn't translate into actual votes.
> many poor people will decide that few rich people must pay more

I fail to see the problem, if you have more money than you could possibly use in a lifetime, why shouldn't that be redistributed through programs that benefit all of society, instead of whatever pet projects the rich person favors.
V is just your typical targeted scam. Most of people here wouldn’t even blink when seeing yet another “claim your $100k” email in spam, I wonder why they still consider this kind of thing in any seriousness? Especially if the author had long ago discredited himself in the most spectacular manner.
On the other hand, it's been what... 80 years since a conflict between continental European nations. Has there ever been a gap that long in recorded history?
Were asbestos manufacturers externalizing the cost of asbestos? Are car, plane and ship manufacturers externalizing the cost of CO2? Are cigarette manufacturers externalizing the cost of cigarette butts?

The difference between your examples and examples like plastic and the ones above is that yours are a one time cost with little to no negative externalities - hell most of them have positive externalities. I would pay money for a sewer system and electricity (and do!) - whiles the ones like plastic, asbestos and CO2 have no positive externality to anyone, including the people consuming them and stick around for basically ever. We then need to pay to remove them sometime down the line if we want a livable world.
Awesome! Any PR is welcome. In the meanwhile I’ll have a look at your rt-rrt implementation.
> The lightning connector for charging would plug...where?

Into the adapter that comes with it that lets is be connected to any lightning cable for charging?
Too obvious? It can’t be more obvious enough. I’m sick of this weird phenomenon where people talk like it was maybe some other way. See: hn and every thread that touches on pay.

Might as well say it’s a little too obvious that shoes go on feet.
May this giant of giving live well. He truly made it through the eye of the needle.
The 20-Year Hunt for the Man Behind the Love Bug Virus
I’m with you with your conclusions but not only you are not responding to OPs point about the complexity of cost calculations, you are adding further data that is irrelevant. “This is what Coca-Cola said” is not a valid rebuttal.
In my opinion, that's an unreasonable interpretation of: "asking a candidate how they feel about working on a product that made international news (in a bad way)"
Because naming rights have a very real, tangible value and you can sell them to further your mission?

I guess Jerry Jones could have named his stadium "Dallas Cowboys Football Stadium" and that would have certainly told you everything you need to know. But instead he called it AT&T stadium and pockets $400 million. Both Jones and AT&T are happy. Same principle applies to colleges and hospitals.
As a class they did. Some of it was built by billionaires past, but is maintained by the current generation of the well to do. Regardless, the middle income household certainly did not build it.
Inflation adjusted wages lower than 45 years ago despite massive productivity gain... there's nothing inherently evil about it ?
Where is the author getting the age ranges??

"Currently aged 16 to 25, we are forced to be grouped into this almost derogatory term, “Millennial”

Um excuse me but last time I checked someone who is 16 is not a millennial, bus instead gen z
If you enjoy WSPR, check out JS8Call. Its Slow mode has 30 second transmissions with extremely narrow bandwidth- very powerful even with low wattage, and it's a conversation mode and a beacon network mode :)
Matthew 6, 1-4 (NIV):

1 “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
I popped into Home Depot last Thursday and there were stacks of furnace filters and box fans available. Lowes and Ace Hardware websites show availability as well. Head down and take a look, YMMV in your area.
Looking at the current Amazon search results for “air purifier”: first one doesn’t ship to California, second is out of stock, third one is ridiculously expensive ($800!) and been shown to have a questionable effectiveness, fourth one can only cover a small room (and won’t arrive until next week), fifth and sixth ones are out of stock.

Also most people don’t enjoy wearing an N95 mask for a long time. Imagine wearing one for 8 hours while trying to sleep because you haven’t been able to get a filter. You can try to close every window and door and such in your house, but no one’s insulation is perfect and the air will get bad after a few hours.
The Concurrent Bug I Keep Writing
>Why in the hell should the Rockefeller’s of today be billionaires?

Because we live in a system which rewards good genes, and that is a very good thing. By instituting a generational wealth tax you will be killing the human desire for wealth on a generational timescale.

Where does the money go? To other people i assume, you have now created a system where the evolutionary incentive is to leech from the system contributing as little as you can get away with. We live in such a system today but at-least there are some benefits to contributing more, those benefits are inherently that you can turn wealth into more children and transfer that wealth to them.
if it didn't increase productivity, it surely increased happiness. which is also very important
Avoiding cgo would be a selling point for anyone else using go. Presumably other pure go kv stores like bbolt/badger/goleveldb would also solve that problem, but I don't know enough about them to understand the trade-offs.
Breathing (techniques) seems to be a semi-regular theme on HN, but I must admit I have never given it any more than skimming the articles.

Just curious - has anyone seen significant positive changes from introducing something like pranayama?
I thought the fragile part of USB C was the thin part in the port than goes in between the two sides of the plug.
That's because you are not a billionaire. The article makes it plain that he has talked to other fellow billionaires encouraging them to do the same.
I am very happy he donated all that money, and I greatly respect him for doing it without calling too much attention to himself, especially compared to others.

But it says a whole lot about Forbes that having at least $2M -- and I'm betting maybe a small apartment and a modest car and possibly even health insurance -- counts as "officially broke" in America.
This seems like boring work that people might not be excited about doing for free. What about crowdfunding materials that will be distributed under and open license?
Yeah, but it's more granular and you can deregulate it and still be safe, so you can leave it to the market to handle pretty easily.
Doctors recommend different treatments for patients than for themselves (2011)
What is a single inline math statement?
I'm curious what portion of new investment goes into IPOs, additional issues, VC, etc., compared to the portion that just changes hands between fellow 'savers'.

If I buy $1mil of MSFT, I didn't contribute a cent to their payroll. I didn't create jobs, or grow anything. I just transferred $1mil to another investor, who will probably use that money to invest in AAPL.

Seems to me a huge portion of investment is just moving money around a relatively closed system akin to sports betting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom#Production

hard to achieve as a practical effect, but still cheaper than digital.
Spotify levels antitrust criticism over Apple One subscription, Apple responds
Android Location API uses Google services to provide better location data using Wifi hotpsots and other devices. I wouldn't expect to be able to use Google services without Google. You don't have to use it and get accurate results without it as well.

As you can see they also provide examples of alternative apps that can be used that do not rely on Google, or you can install F-Droid and use apps from the open source marketplace that are open source as well.

This is much more than Apple, who won't even let you install apps outside their app store. While it would be nice for Google to open source their apps as well, they aren't necessary and there are plenty of alternatives and phone manufacturers who have built their entire reputation on providing an alternative to the Google experience while using Android.
It's like these companies can't hire marketing reps to establish a brand image that's new
Tesseract, 4th Dimension Made Easy – Carl Sagan
It is Buzzfeed after all. The lowest of the low.
Thanks! I've seen this before but forgot what it was called.
Why is this being down-voted? It’s a thoughtful argument.
I use uBlock on my laptop. At some point 90% of my youtube watching moved to TV. Yes I could have built a pi-hole or something.

But for $10/month (which it was back then) I was totally fine paying for it.
Stop Expecting Life to Go Back to Normal Next Year
How is positive pressure maintained? It seems like there would be continual loss of air to the environment that would have to be replaced. Ideally the replacement air would come through a filter, but at least in a central hvac system I don't think that happens. I suppose the new air coming in wouldn't be a big deal if the average air molecule doors a full cycle through the hvac many times before being lost again to the outside environment.
Unfortunately, the term "racism" has almost completely lost its meaning. In 2020, we have a large group of people who's professional existence 100% depends on finding and combating racism, as well as plugging themselves as a wealth redistribution middleman in the name of equality. It's the Cobra Effect [0] all over again. If you pay people to find racism, they will find racism, alright. They will also try to frame any criticism pointing to their own toxicity as racism, as otherwise they would risk losing their position.

I think, we need to distinguish actual racism (i.e. treating people differently based on their skin color) from criticism on specific social justice politics that are extremely inefficient, divisive, and make the problem worse in the long term.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
I happened to be at Home Depot the day after the skies turned gray with ash. I noticed a ton of people down one aisle and wondered what was going on. It turned out to be the Air Filter aisle. Oh right. I was able to grab the very last air filter for my furnace size. Everything else was cleaned out.
Any zealot could make the same argument about the object of his zealotry. “Schools should indoctrinate their students and teach them my way of thinking because it is so great!”

Not everybody gives a shit about free software. Most people—by far—have no practical use for the freedoms it provides.
Only if you assume it costs nothing to develop and market the platform.

Apple One is a boring and unattractive bundle of services.

Spotify isn’t helping anyone here.

And Spotify is benevolent to nobody but themselves - they are responsible for driving down artist royalties to line their own pockets.

There are good arguments about software freedom to be made, buy Spotify and Epic aren’t making them.
> they’re available from most hardware stores

Home Depot, Lowes etc. have been sold out of or have been donating their N95's since this all started. So you're wrong there. Try searching again, like I did.

> definitely from Amazon

I said genuine. Many of these have been found to be counterfeit. They may not be, but neither you nor I really know. Essential workers have been given priority everywhere in the US for 3M ones. Maybe they're not giving them the KN95's for a reason, or maybe they're mistaken and that they're actually fine.

> loose particle filters as spare parts are not uncommon and you can literally strap any filter on a fan, close your windows and start forcing indoor air through it to improve the ambient air quality.

...which don't do anything for smoke unless they're MERV8-ish or so or above. Which are all sold out until next week.

These are all the state of things regardless of how you "refuse to believe" or how much you "doubt." I, like every single person on the west coast, have been trying to track these down and this is what I've experienced.
Maimonides defines eight levels in giving charity (tzedakah), each one higher than the preceding one.

On an ascending level, they are as follows:

8. When donations are given grudgingly.

7. When one gives less than he should, but does so cheerfully.

6. When one gives directly to the poor upon being asked.

5. When one gives directly to the poor without being asked.

4. Donations when the recipient is aware of the donor's identity, but the donor still doesn't know the specific identity of the recipient.

3. Donations when the donor is aware to whom the charity is being given, but the recipient is unaware of the source.

2. Giving assistance in such a way that the giver and recipient are unknown to each other. Communal funds, administered by responsible people are also in this category.

1. The highest form of charity is to help sustain a person before they become impoverished by offering a substantial gift in a dignified manner, or by extending a suitable loan, or by helping them find employment or establish themselves in business so as to make it unnecessary for them to become dependent on others.

[0] https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/eight-levels-of-charita...
Home Assistant Tags
Yeah, probably a good call to not try to compete in the fitness VOD sphere, it seems to be a very quick race to the bottom. For the record, I do think your offering is a good and innovative solution to the issue of wanting to workout in the comfort of your own home but also wanting in-person classes and personalized training - I just don't think it's for me, personally.

> Fitness+ is only using Apple Watch.

While this is currently true, my original comment was stating that Fitness+ would be worth it to me, for $10/mo, if Apple were to make an integrated movement tracking system using multiple devices, as the comment I replied to posted.
The laptop I had before the last was an Asus Eeepc that developed a dodgy AC adaptor port. I still have it and it could be made to work, but it was never a very good computer in the first place. It runs loud and hot for what it is. Before that, and the oldest computer I still have in my closet, is my T60p thinkpad. I'd need to buy a replacement fan before using that one again, and I'm not sure it would be worth the hassle to resurrect (again.) If I were inclined to fix up an old thinkpad I think I'd rather get a second-hand X-series since they're not nearly so huge.
TSMC should have bought ARM
Not to take away from your comment but a $1 million car is very likely to be a great investment.

Cars turn into solid investments after a few hundred grand. People even make money selling their wait-list spots on some new cars.
Fair, but nothing is disconnected in this world. Your company could be serving some unethical company that does really bad things and at this moment you would invoke same reasoning people who work at FB about like "someone would be doing it anyways" or "there is no way to do this kind of due diligence" or "we just do X and not responsible for Y". It's not at the same scale but you get what I mean, no one is pure.