skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right it goes back to the whole concept of castle doctrine. Which is basically a wo/man is basically recognized as the king of their castle. This is where all rights are bestowed. When one enter into public some of those rights have to wane due to nature of now you have other individuals in public. So the law did not view you as king when outside of your property. To accommodate this the concept of privilege's arose. You have the right to own a car and to drive it, even drunk on your property. You are extended the privilege to do it via licensing in public. Privilege's require responsibility or they can be revoked. The government recognizes the right to self defense of each individual in public or private but it extends the privilege of allowing responsible people the ability to carry a firearm to extend that right of self defense to public places. This is why revoking a CCW permit is not an infringement on your second amendment right, you still have the right to "bare" arms, you are just not extended the privilege of doing so in public. It is generally accepted that the 2A is applicable to small arms / personal arms and is why a lot of restrictions on small arms get ruled unconstitutional, because they go against the right to own not the privilege to be in possession of in public.
The article says they put asterisks on the prices along with clarifications in the small text. That’s not being lied to, just annoying.
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> Isn't hackernews meant to be politics free?

No, though there was a brief experiment in that direction in, IIRC, late 2016 that was aborted before it had run its planned one-week course.
Bridging the Gap Between Slack and Email Users
Coincidentally, we just watched this last night!

I thought the best thing about it was how it evoked the semi-magical power of surrendering yourself to an environment. Forgetting yourself, focusing on everything around you, and allowing your mind to gradually be re-shaped by what you're perceiving. Sort of letting a small piece of the world gradually, over time, enter in and become you.

I've experienced this in small ways here and there; seeing the film made me hungry for a deeper level of that experience.
Post 2007, Hyundais have been excellent (and very much underrated). They brought in European designers so the aesthetic is much improved (though I don't care for their 2016-2020 grille shapes).

They've always struggled with resale value due to early reputational issues, but I'd say the build quality is now very close to the top 3 Japanese manufacturers. The 10-year powertrain warranty was a low-cost move to regain the market's trust -- I doubt very many people cash-in on it (the engineering is excellent nowadays)

When I was looking at cars some time ago, an accessories fully-loaded Hyundai was about the same price as a bare-bones Honda or Toyota. The discount rate may have leveled off these days.
Do you have a source on that? That's a mighty big claim.

Edit: Cool, so no sources then. Now it's a mighty big unverified claim based on what the governments might be capable and willing to do.
People think they have a lot more say with their insignificant purchases then they really do. Insignificant purchases by individuals can't sway how businesses run.
I don't think it's that strange. Orienteering maps use white to indicate "forest", because it's the thing you have the most of and therefore is of the least interest. As another commenter pointed out, the colour scheme helps the ice "pop out", especially the pockets of ice near land.
Ok, let's use your numbers. 0.1% of days is one service call every 3 years on average, seems reasonable but 10 min may be a bit low. So lets double it.

20 min of a fully loaded 50k employee is about 8 dollars to the company. Or about 2% of a $10 subscription. And that's when I've been pretty generous.

Margins may be so tight this isn't possible, sure; but it isn't obvious. Also note is is hugely higher level of service that what is currently offered, surely there is an in between that is affordable?

Or did I miss something with this back-of-envelope?
You can’t ignore the attempt to actively make early voting WORSE though, like Texas removing ballot drop off locations that were already in place and changing the rules to only allow one location per county. That isn’t “old rules are out of date and need updating”, that is “actively making the current system worse to suppress voting”
I'm impressed at how robust the service (in addition to the driving) seems to be. This is very exciting to see.
The Irrationality of Risk
If this evolves further I might make a tiny website about the progress. In that case I'll put a link in my profile.
Facebook, Twitter limit reach of New York Post article about Hunter Biden
The places that have better women's right FOUGHT FOR THEM. I'm not saying its fair, but leaving behind your comrades, whatever group you're from, isn't fair either. It literally perpetuates the colonial mindset that started this mess when privileged people think they can just "go where the grass is greener."

Also do you not think a further collapse of civil rights in the US will have a global effect? It absolutely will.
Used to email myself a lot, but now sending Telegram messages to myself. Nothing beats ability to send text, images, videos and audio messages, and with ability to set #tags to improve searchability... Still use email a lot, but email feels old and not practical.
The practice itself doesn’t really bother me, but I do find it to be a strange and questionable marketing technique.

This amount of money represents a 4% price difference at most.

That means that someone in Apple marketing decided that increasing customer confusion and reducing goodwill was worth a gain of 4% on some but not all of the phones they sold.

I get it - being operational is important for the success of the business. Considering every single detail from the packaging to the included accessories to the way the product is sold and priced is incredibly important. But it seems like Apple is getting into the dangerous territory of sacrificing customer goodwill over it. Buying an iPhone now feels like signing a contract for cable rather than something that’s fun and exciting.
That was back when they were trying to break the mobile networks hold on phone software.

There’s no reason for Apple to sell out now, except for being a sell out. It’s a shameful look for Apple.
The TMS9918 video chip is the common thread between those machines, and it's a fascinating bit of hardware.

The interface between the TMS9918 and its host system is dead simple: 8 data bits, 1 mode bit, 1 chip select bit, and nothing else. It manages its own 16 kB of VRAM and no other timing or clock signals are required between the 9918 and its host CPU.

As a result it was used in all sorts of machines of the era: TI 99/4A, Colecovision, Coleco Adam, MSX, Sega SG-1000, plus multiple different expansion cards for the TRS-80 and Apple II. It also supports genlock video input and was used in early-80s video production.

Most importantly, its programming interface is well defined and extensible. It allowed Yamaha and Sega to produce upgraded chips for the Sega Master System and MSX2 while maintaining backward compatibility, something that Commodore wasn't able to do with the VIC-II chip in the C64.
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/2u-how-to-build-your-see... or generally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21642686
I would actually still prefer IRV to FPTP. The center candidate's boundary can be unpredictable, but the other boundaries are in basically the same place as they are for approval and Condorcet. FPTP shifts all the boundaries and drastically reduces or eliminates center candidates' winning regions. (I'd also prefer it to Borda, which drastically enlarges center candidates' winning regions).

That said, I agree that approval seems to strike the best balance between simplicity and outcome, with the caveat that where possible we should also have proportional representation rather than winner-take-all districts, e.g. https://www.fairvote.org/fair_representation
Isn't that more an indictment of how we treat blue collar workers?
wtf?! why is the headline photo an upskirt shot? regardless of your opinion on how young is too young (these girls are too young), a professional news outlet shouldnt photograph peoples underwear up a skirt.

am i crazy/too old? no one else?
Except that they had clearly written themselves into a corner. Bringing the real actors into the show is the equivalent of writing about writing a story.
The only show I want to see 9 seasons of is The Expanse, and thats because they are following a 9 book novel series. Each season (after the weirdly timed first one) tells a complete novel worth of story, and the full series tells a complete and finished tale. No salty half baked Game of Thrones endings or whatever.
Isn't it practically $699 for most people? I would guess the vast majority of iPhone users have a contract with their phone with a major carrier. The $729 is the edge case pricing.

And phones have long been advertised at a subsidized price in exchange for a long term contract anyway.
Discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24778053
Pick your apple-sheep/skeptic variety:

Realistically, its a pandemic where they already delayed production and apple probably didn't have anything else big finished to present besides typical camera upgrades and a new body.

Or apple-cynically, apple stopped innovating and the iphone is now just playing catch up to android blah blah blah.
But this doesn't provide a justification for dropping the salary to match local COL of the remote employee. I realize that not everyone has this luxury, but more developers need to say "No, I'm not taking a pay cut". Firing someone is not free - there is a real cost to the company to hire a replacement.
New Features Coming to Signal Groups
The Collaboration of Mileva Maric and Albert Einstein
Only if you don't count T-Mobile/Sprint as a major carrier.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24776748
Large number comparisons are difficult for humans to comprehend.
If you simplify life to a DNA strand 256 nucleotide long (for the sake of math comparison) - then the search space is 4^256. To comprehend how large a search space this is watch 3Blue1Brown's explanation https://youtu.be/S9JGmA5_unY?t=38
> What time & money is spent on solving the galaxies mysteries, could be brain power backed capital used to solve our dire terrestrial affairs

This is often repeated but makes no sense at all. The time and resources humanity as a group spends on those activities corresponds to 0.1% of our output. Infinitely more is wasted on mundane stuff like manufacturing cars, golf carts, office jobs or reading online forums.
>Seems like it started with the AirPods page and will likely continue.

No it started with TrashCan Mac Pro, and then stopped for a while and it came back to AirPod.

The whole page is Janky, not smooth, and painful trying to consume information out to it. Although it must admit this is better than AirPod Page, and it is also better than Mac Pro. So improvement are being made, but it is too slow.
Because S. Jobs got rich via multiple market-changing products. It's as proof-is-in-the-pudding as you can get. There are not many practical alternatives. Careful scientific studies would be nice, but nobody is paying for them so far.

Re: "technique called Appeal to Authority"

More like "appeal to merit".

That being said, good factoring takes work. You need both raw logic and math-like ability to identify patterns and propose reworks, and also you need to understand the domain so you know what can be chopped, reworked, and/or consolidated without harming operations. Often when talking to the subject matter experts, I say something like, "I see a pattern here, but before we rely on it in the new system, how likely is it to change in the future, and what kind of changes are likely?"
> would you conclude that they must have started taking the necessary precautions?

Well funny you asked, because this is exactly what has been happening. Much like in the US, due to the double-down on the president's part on his "just a little flu" characterization of covid, brazilian regional governments are taking matters into their own hands. So we can expect a similar curve as the US, as state measures slowly kick into full gear to contain the spread and as people scramble to deal with the economic impact in their lives, negating the impact of policies. We're seeing poorer areas getting impacted more severely, much like it has been documented in the US as well.

On a more general level, it isn't particularly relevant what factors might be a confirmation or refutation of a claim in a hypothetical scenario, because by definition, hypotheticals are not data. Of course, if hypothetically, the US suddenly registered a dramatic decrease in new cases of Covid without any intentional changes in containment strategy, then it would behoove to re-evaluate previous assumptions and policies. But since that hasn't happened, we make judgments based on what we see is actually happening worldwide instead.

As for the definition of "necessary precautions", my understanding is that it's not some nebulous handwaving, but rather, it's the WHO guidelines that everyone references.
If you think that’s bad, wait til you see what the iptables-save output is like on an istio-proxy sidecar ;)
I think the last friend I made by first meeting them in person was in the early 90's - people I knew from my home town.

Every one since then was someone I knew online for many years first.
As a woman I totally agree. Leaning in had done absolutely nothing working as a software engineer on a massive government contract. Producing good work, good code, and a focus on getting the job done has (it seems) been the primary driver of promotions here. Maybe because it’s government, but the whole overconfidence and fearlessness just falls flat here and make you sound like a tool - male and female.
Absolutely. Good is what you enjoy. Mandalorian is predictable friendly format produced with maximum talent.

You can love just watch just the "production value" and not to be ashamed to like endless repeating of familiar.

Star Wars franchise also provides frequent scenes of characters taking a posture and saying some short sentence that becomes a meme you can share with friends.
The tweet is discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24780477
Is this one of those "mystery sandwiches" than L. Ron Hubbard wanted Scientologists to serve?
I went to school in Germany and famously a majority of schools in Germany are half-day. My classes started at 7:30 and ended at 12:45 pm.

I had the afternoon to myself, did a lot of reading and rode my bike around town and into the fields. I still know a lot about topics I just was curious about (alphabets and writing systems across the globe, must have spent hours reading books on those). All that I wouldn't have been able to do with a whole-day school. Although now as a parent, I have to admit that it surely is easier to have your kid in school all day while you are at work.
I wonder if DOW Chemical and P&G were backing the Federalists in the 1700s or not...
remember RDIO?

wow. I do now. Why did they shut down?
Anyone who is saying, oh it's just $30 is living in a bubble..

- Many people buy these on a monthly installment, so $30 can be 1-2 months of installment. (not sure which exactly I have not verified).

- From a Marketing standpoint the difference is $6xx vs $7xx pricing, which has a psychological impact. This is why a very very large percentage of prices end in .90-.99

- This seems to be the first time Apple has done this and it sets a bad precedent.

- More than the precedent, it seems Apple is willing to do this to derive a little extra revenue, which at least in my mind is a negative for their brand. So, it's interesting that they are OK with this.

- Based on this, In future, will they also be open to selling Data?? Who knows...
Ah, Cingular wireless, gobbled up by AT&T after the iPhone announcement.
> I always chalked it up to superstition.

I mean. It still is.
It took me about 30 seconds to find the red dot, entirely by visual scan. I am awed at the parallel power of our visual system, our "GPU". Doing the task serially would take days if not weeks!
Not a crypto expert, but isnt possible to remain e2e and yet giving you have a central middle-man, that this middle-man have access to all the unencrypted data?

The middle-man shares a temporary key where his end-point can decrypt the message at any time, generating a new key to deliver the message to its original destiny.

I mean, i've always understood e2e encryption with centralized points of distributions as whatsapp, having the understanding that they, and they only, could still claim e2e while at the same time being able to decrypt the messages themselves.

So i never trust the claim of full secrecy unless i know its e2e over a real p2p channel without a middle-man working as a broker between the parties (where the broken can generate and distribute the keys)

Its looks like snake oil to me. Of course far from the eyes of north korea, who is barely a treat to anyone, but with all we know about things like PRISM, probably being available to all the north-american agencies.
Changing the real system to add the hooks you need. Complexity often exists around waiting for events to happen (the real system doesn't need notifications, but you don't want your tests to run forever when they're failing), clocks (time.Now() is difficult to test), things like that.
Well in her case, she knew the gun wouldn't fire. It turned out the firing pin was assembled backwards for it to be used in a play. (The police took apart the gun and put to back together to charge her; it's in the evidence documents)

But I agree, she should have treated the gun like it was armed and ready. She flagged the back of her husband's head several times.

BUT, that isn't in and of itself criminal. In fact, nothing they did was criminal. They were in a gated neighborhood, people ripped the iron gate down, and I think it's clear they were reasonably defending their homes.

The law they're charged with says they were in violation of "brandishing a firearm in a threatening manner," but nowhere in the law do they define "threatening" .. it's ambiguous, it's a badly written law and it conflicts with federal laws and the 2nd amendment.

Viva Frei and Robert Barnes are two lawyers who have done some incredible breakdowns on this case:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRN-Xrcf8Co
I make more than my male peers. I think they would like the advice more. I don’t worry about making friends at work, I’m here to do a job to the best of my abilities.
It gets worse than that, if you buy a gun that was imported you are subject to the 922 rule. Which means that if you take that imported gun and put a US part on it, you are subject to being viewed as having assembled a foreign manufactured gun.

So to comply with the law one must change out a certain percentage of the gun with US made parts to not violate the law.

https://www.ficarettalegal.com/domestic-assembly-of-nonsport....
There are groups inside Facebook to raise issues like this. I can guarantee this one has already been escalated.

They wouldn't allow just any employee to "fix" these issues. Too often there is a lot of context that is omitted from the shared story, so it's not just a matter of hitting a button to remove a block.
That's an absolutely fair point.

One thing to watch out for though, is that it's only half of the rationale behind escapism: we're concerned about our own stewardship of the Earth, but there's a very real concern that a disaster could happen to it that's not of our own making. An asteroid, for example.

Mars would protect us from several categories of these, and becoming multi-stellar would protect us from several more.
That was amusing.
Hey, let's not get stupid here.

The content on the Quest may not be "desktop fidelity", but my time with the Quest 1 was VERY much enjoyable (especially compared to the Oculus Go), and often preferred over my desktop VR HMD simply for the convenience. And the content was quite good.

By this same metric, the Switch is also plagued with "mobile titles" given it's Android base and Tegra X1 mobile GPU. But most folks DON'T think of it like that, and for good reason: the Switch can keep up just fine in it's own market.

And if the Quest 2 has improved specs in every area over the Quest 1, then it's completely FINE for what it is.

It's just the company behind it fucked up a good thing.
> When you interact with people, be mindful of these roles and their constraints. When a recruiter messages or calls you about a rejection, know that they are often a messenger. They are as invested in you getting the job as you are! As much as both the resume screening and the interview process can seem like a black box, it’s run by people who try and do their best.

Thank you. I think it's important to understand and empathise with everyone involved.
Not when listening to Verizon talk only lasts for 5 minutes, but the U2 Album is stuck in your library for years.
The operators brought this on themselves. There is no standard definition of 5G, even though the industry knows the rollout of features will be in waves.

Does 5G for T-mobile technically mean exactly the same thing as for Verizon? Probably not.
Its hard to say until direct image comparisons come out. Historically, Apple computational photography has given it a edge over other phone cameras with seemingly better specs. However, that could easily change.
> people understand that you can’t be there at 1am (though, lord knows I’ve done plenty of support with customers on the other side of the world at that time).

That is the most pleasure I take. Underpromising, yet answering tickets or taking a call at midnight. It happens once or twice a month. For the call, she told me she was stuck with a customer demo, in exchange I made clear that I wasn’t « in a work environment » and all went well.

Those customers seem to get emotionally attached to us. In fact, they’re the only kind who give reviews on the Atlassian Marketplace (either those for positive reviews or the occasional disappointed person). They are a bit idealists though, and I don’t see them after two years, whereas corporate customers stay for much longer.
I asked straight up before seeing the doc about the cost and nobody knew. They finally estimated "about $1,500" and my total bill was around $5,000. And if I refuse to pay it, they send me to collections. It's insane what they are allowed to do.
It's a shame the scene is so quiet as the Saturn is a fascinating machine. If you use something like Jo Engine then it's not too difficult to get up and running. If you want to roll your own and still have something that performs it gets messy. Stuff like dealing with bus contention between the SH2s, the VDP access timing/slot system, that funky little DSP. You can see why it took so long to get decent libraries for it. It's still fun to see how far you can push the hardware.
Oculus founder Palmer Lucky promised you would never need an FB account to use Oculus. He said FB promised him the same at the time and seems to regret his naiveté. https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/ic4ye1/new_oculus_u...
Apple Finally Reveals 5G iPhones and HomePod Mini
Eh... it's $30, I'm not too concerned with that on it's own but I don't like seeing Apple get in bed with Verizon/AT&T. I was repulsed by seeing "Verizon" on the screen so much during that presentation and 5G is a joke right now for most Americans at least. It all felt very.... beneath Apple.