skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first major reason is that price controls influence and protect perception of value. The primary means a consumer uses to assess value when comparing product options is price. Lots of brands (particularly of the premium but still mainstream variety) such as Apple, Garmin, and Nintendo use price controls to influence the buyer's perception of value. Do you think that an iPad is never on sale because no retailer is willing to put it on sale? Do you think a Nintendo Switch is never on sale because no retailer is willing to mark down the price?

There is always a retailer willing to undercut the rest in pursuit of a sale. Some retailers are even willing to do so in a predatory way, willing to absorb losses until the competition is eliminated or in pursuit of add-on sales that might help recoup lost margin. But those brands strictly enforce the prices their products can be advertised and sold at because it helps maintain the customer's perception that their products are valuable and in demand.

Products in bike shops are almost always considered "premium". They don't sell the big box $100 bikes and cheap parts. They typically sell higher quality products targeted at aspiring enthusiasts or enthusiasts. So a price control is exactly how you can differentiate your product from the cheap schlock on the shelves at Wal-Mart or even Academy and Dick's Sporting Goods.

The second major reason is because (although this benefit has diminished over time) having products on store shelves provides enormous marketing benefit. Most customers that walked into my store didn't come in knowing explicitly what they wanted. Many of them had done some research to be generally aware of their options, but our recommendations were often a massive influence in their purchasing decision.

Bike, component, and apparel brands were often pretty myopic when it came to their marketing efforts (and that's why they are always exactly the same from brand-to-brand). They genuinely thought the average consumer in the market for an entry-level carbon bike (say 1500-2000 USD) was influenced by having a Tour de France team or having some great rider win races on their bike. While that sometimes made a different at the prosumer level, the meat-and-potatoes bike shop customer isn't influenced one bit by that type of marketing. But seeing an attractive bike at a compelling price on the floor of a reputable bike shop is how most sales begin. So brands making sure retailers can be profitable selling those options is essential or retailers won't bother stocking their stuff.

If the bike shops can't be profitable, there will be fewer bike shops. And that means there will be fewer opportunities for customers to see you brand and your products. And it also means there will eventually be fewer riders - at least among bike enthusiasts. Because in my experience, bike shops are the hub of bike culture in most communities.
That article "Microbridge" should really be deleted because it's not notable, but it looks like it was proposed in 2011 and failed so it isn't eligible for WP:PROD and needs to go through the full WP:AFD process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...
Rather depends on the subreddit. I subscribe to most of the VR subreddits. /r/vive has really strict moderation whilst /r/oculus has barely any.
Live music has literally been around for thousands of years. Excluding a pause this year because of the pandemic, can it even be "killed off"? The venues may change over the years, but musicians seem to be a fundamental part of humanity at this point.
The rule only Applies to small businesses.

Big companies buy accounts that have been used for years.
>can tell you that behind closed doors the only subject that ever crossed their lips was "power".

So you talked to politicians?
MS has actually changed, but not in the old fashioned way most people seem to understand, from BAD to GOOD.

Mostly, their business model has changed, and so their incentives about proprietary and free software, the second not being a thread anymore.

But as any big corp, they keep the power to be evil if their interests require so. The same as any corp.
Women and Leadership: Looking Beyond the Global Health Crisis
I think this whole topic misses the elephant in the room: STEM is a genetic lottery that our current economic and social system rewards with a better life and more resources. About 90% of the population are the losers in that game and they damn well know it. When humans get excluded like that, they often resent those who got the better deal and will work to nullify their advantage. With science, you can't really say "oh, that doesn't matter", so about the only realistic option is to not care about it, or proudly proclaim you don't know much about it, hence the behavior the author has witnessed. If society would even out the system, I would bet much of the impetus for this anti-science backlash would disappear.
Do what big corporations do. Buy old accounts and astroturf.

Aldi had great success posting "hauls" until they were caught astroturfing. They likely are still doing similar but smarter with their accounts.
I'm not familiar but I'll check it out, thanks!
I think a lot of it comes down to mindshare. Firefox has does some advertisement but what to we call it when we "search the internet"? We "google" something. Google has so much mindshare and they exploit that to push their browser. What is popular is often what is known and available, hardly what is best. IE is only not popular because it was so bad for so long.
Of course. Science can help you e.g. estimate risk. But balancing that risk against other factors has to be a political and/or personal tradeoff. There's no way it could be otherwise. Science, even if it could provide perfect information, doesn't have the tools to make policy decisions. Whether schools should be wide-open, hybrid, or remote only is not a scientific decision although, of course, whatever scientific data is known or thought to be known should of course factor into any decision.
macOS and FreeBSD user-land have some similarities (because some of macOS user-land is based on FreeBSD) such as ifconfig(8), route(8), and netstat(1) (only 1 of these 3 is mentioned). Knowing one makes using the other one (or *BSD in general) easier.
Indian regime is intentionally keeping its people poor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_in_circulation#Total_...
The commentary about the intensely saturated RGB colours vs the more naturalistic CMYK colouration is an interesting observation for me to see. There are a number of graphic novels that I considered purchasing but didn't because I wanted them to look more like the original comics. Graphic novel reprints published during a certain timespan thought it a good idea to go with semigloss paper and re-did all the colours to be super-saturated and dayglo like someone had visited a highlighter marker factory and was excited about the experience.

As an aside, who exactly was the target viewing demographic for Garfield? Garfield was never funny for me as a kid. Never.
Workers have achieved a huge lot in outlawing things bosses wanted throughout the history. I would love to participate in a fight against this one if people would organize.

Another thing to fight against are requirements to explain resume gaps and discrimination against people who have them and people already seem starting to raise against this.[1]

The society still has a lot of work to do...

[1] https://www.boredpanda.com/annoying-job-interview-questions-...
Why a Paid Newsletter Won’t Be Enough Money for Most Writers (and That’s Fine)
this, but unironically
The answer is right there in the text from K&R. `tm_mday` is day of the month, `tm_mon` is months since January. There's nothing else to it really. The first month of the year is not "1", it's January. In any case, this is all about how we display dates and it's all rather silly and it's best not to think about it too much.
I think you are misunderstanding.

Do you think that engineers designing the plumbing system of the F1 rocket engine knew pretty much anything about "compiler design" or "motherboard design"?

What you are in fact observing is a human system's tendency to adapt to growing complexity. Human systems adapt to growing complexity by specializing it's members to particular skills (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_specialization).

It's just a fact that way back then in the NeXT days, the computer was not as complex, the understanding of which was just about achievable by 1 human. Eventually, that metric exceeds 1.

For the case of the first apple computer, it was ~1 (Wozniak), in the case of Apollo, it was >100.

Cognitive Specialization is an aspect of all living things, but is very apparent in the Human species. Computers got more complex in just the same fashion as how farming went from a farmer, a bull, and a blacksmith, to gigantic conglomerates to make the fertilizer, tractors, watering system, etc., that comprise of >10,000 humans.
Why is it wrong for India to aspire to these? They have achieved quite a bit in the past decades.
hm I've worked at plenty of places that touted accessibility, and we would often leave out h1 on a lander page (there might be a few h2 instead as the highest ranking headers)
Isn't part of it that Steve was able to sell people on his vision though? So it's not just that he had power in the way that a judge has power or a school principal has power— those are powerful figures that you submit to because the alternative is punishment. Rather, he had power in the way that a beloved family member has power. People wanted to please him because they had bought into what the vision was and how their piece of the puzzle fit into making it a reality.

Was there abusive stuff going on there? Absolutely! And there's almost certainly some overlap here with other cases (actress submits to famous film executive because it's part of his "creative process"), but I don't know if the current/recent reckoning would do much to prevent a small, dedicated technical team from overworking themselves and tolerating abusive management practices in service of a new charismatic, visionary leader like Jobs apparently was.
Climate change poised to raise risk of global conflict – riots, war – by 14%
There are multiple mechanisms. One of the most common is membrane separation, where C02 is selectively allowed to pass through in a relatively high-pressure, C02-rich source such as a literal smokestack. Others are vaguely analogous to the chemical C02 scrubbers you might find in a submarine or in spacecraft.

At present, it's mostly from high density sources that are producing C02. Membrane separation has been around for quite awhile, and works well for that case. It's largely impractical for capturing C02 directly from the air, though.

Direct air capture is the hard part. The "chemical scrubber" approach is being widely tested, but it's hard to make the whole thing carbon negative. It's a tractable problem, but not an easy one.
Personally I haven’t seen much change in the features of office (that I use). Is there a reason for folks not to migrate to LibreOffice? Office 365 barely works nowadays without an internet connection, which is really annoying. Cloud first technologies are ridiculous, IMO. Developers out there: please test your code without and internet connection. Thank you.
Go ahead start your own company.

I tried a few times. I'll gladly be bossed around for 8 hours when I make this much money..
Can you list some examples of these “lesser and lesser” offenses?

I’m a manager, I treat my employees with respect, and no one has ever complained about me abusing them. I’d like to know how “small” these claims are getting.
Waterson ended Calvin and Hobbes at the end of 1995; slightly early for moving online but not by much.
The MS account switcher is also terrible. Maybe it’s because I have a mix of outlook-based emails, Azure AD emails, and full O365 emails, but the fact that you can’t easily open an outlook tab for each account is horrible UX.
Sorry, I haven't found a serious technical source of blockchain/crypto news either and I suspect this is because there are (still) few people that understand cryptos in depth, as well as have time to write news about it.

The vast majority of projects out there are pure speculations and a decent scan through their blog posts, whitepapers and activity on their public repos should be enough to decide if they're building something meaningful (and worth to follow long term) or not.
Bitcoin exchanges?
Abusive/abrasive bosses are still celebrated today. Jeff Bezos runs a company where employees urinate in bottles because they aren't given time for a bathroom break and asks employees in meetings "why are you wasting my life". Tim Bray has some stories to tell about AWS too. Elon Musk abuses his employees, his shareholders, his companies, and everyone else on Twitter nearly every time he opens his mouth. It's almost cheating to mention Elizabeth Holmes. Same with Travis Kalanick.

I think Jobs would be thought of exactly the same if he were around and in his prime today: a very controversial figure who produces amazing work but has his fair share of detractors for a number of reasons. Remember, Steve's behavior was barely tolerated by a large number of people. He was hated by many, loved by many, merely tolerated by most.
whoops! yes, thanks for the correction
Interim analysis shows 91.4% efficacy for the Russian Sputnik vaccine
Haha. 'Previous' work place :)
those metrics are so useless it probably doesn't even count as spying.

but seriously totally get how you feel.. it's been my first few months with an IT-managed laptop, and even with the creepier stuff off (hurray european laws) i'm nowhere near used to it
But were they right?
Yeah these things show uselessness when you have a senior engineer that's swamped but shows unproductive.

I've recently felt guilty walking away from my desk to think about a Programming problem. I used to do this all the time but with WFH I imagine there are more screen grabs.
Been there. I used to design (overly) complex applications for enterprise researchers. I partially agree with the article, but here are some thoughts:

There is a big difference between having a captive audience or not. By that I mean, complex applications reward commitment, and if your users have another alternative they can to switch back to, which they already know how to use to get their work done, good luck getting them to switch.

This is not advice to burn bridges behind you, this is to warn you from learning the wrong lessons. People hate a lot of the software they use every day. They only use it because weren't given a choice, not because they got over the hump and started to love it.

If you've got a complex application, orientation is important, so make don't make it an afterthought. Also, give people ways to learn without breaking things, and make sure they can undo their mistakes. Also, justify the value of investing their time: make sure your application is better than a bash script, and that users know why.
Is New York’s New Subway Map a ‘Geographical Mess’?
I never implied nix needed anything quite the opposite, it was somehow from-scratch thinking, on the other systems were more inspired by new linux features to solve a slightly similar issue.
Is it.. is it the Family Circus?
Really interesting thanks for sharing. Its not surprising to see the size of iOS grow so dramatically over the last 10 years. Some may so bloat, but i'd say it reflects the iPhone/iPad's evolution into a device that is integrated deeply into our lives.

Just look at how much space fonts are taking up in iOS14. My hunch is that reflects a growing set of emoji and support for hundreds (thousands?) of alphabets. It's hard to call that bloat.

Also initially I was surprised to see the networking code take up so much volume, but that also makes sense. I can only imaging how much custom code is needed to ensure a solid connection with the hundreds of wireless carriers around the world.
>>No, it hasn't. “Private property”, in the sense in which it is a defining institution of capitalism (ownership of the means of production by an individual as marketable property distinct from. ownership of or personal jurisdiction over land)

Modern capitalism's private property is based on exactly the same principle of exclusive control over a mass of matter as pre-modern society's private property. It is a more sophisticated version of it, that incorporates the advances of modern civilization to its enforcement and utilization, but that is to be expected with any institution as it evolves with the times.

>>requires the conceptual separation of individual property and public authority that is one of the characteristic features of the transition from pre-capitalist (specifically feudal in most of the West) to capitalist property relations.

I don't know what this means. Can you elaborate?
The Microsoft of the late 90's wouldn't have done something like this.

They did plenty of very different things, but this is something they only have done since the late XP days.
that is a pretty big claim. Care to explain a bit more?
> Right now there are people running around saying that COVID is as deadly as the flu

COVID is as deadly as flu. Some people just underestimate flu, as if it's something not dangerous.

> that the pandemic was faked

Technically all pandemics are faked, because what is and isn't pandemic is more or less an arbitrary decision made by some official purely for propaganda and obedience reasons. It doesn't actually matter if it's called pandemic or not.

> how the rejection of evidence and conspiracy-theorizing are harmful

Evidence based reasoning is not much different from superstition, it could be just as harmful as rejecting evidence to whatever you think rejecting evidence is harmful. To illustrate how faulty that reasoning is, here you are rejecting evidence that there was a literal conspiracy against general population with some officials and institutions telling people that masks don't work, an evidence they are liars, but somehow you don't want to consider that evidence in your evidence-based reasoning and suggest that others should not reject evidence from liars.

Of course you can't just accept evidence if you want something more than a superstition level decision making. For that you need to actually think and calculate, with all those base rates and probabilities, use something like bayesian reasoning or whatever, do some science. Even just quickly estimating this is still better than "accepting evidence".
Congress to Bring Back Earmarking and Pork Barrel Spending
I can see why companies don't trust their employees. Look at what just happened to GoDaddy.
"March" doesn't tell you anything until you know 2020. It seems like you need the entire date before you know anything at all, so I don't think this argument holds. I think it's arbitrary like most natural language. There is no logic, it's just like that because people do it that way.
This is my most recent message. Does it have a dot?
Or topple the trees and cover them with something that blocks air but which the next layer can be planted atop of? Seems like an extremely difficult problem.
This isn't really the drivers' fault though. When this happens, it's usually because the company is willing to reimburse them for fuel but not for electricity.
Reddit is a forum and to a forum of enthusiasts it is a personal space.

It's more akin to a bar in which they all meet and hang out.

It's possible to research via a bar, just get to know people first and they'll embrace and support whatever you're working on. But to those who wish to just walk into a bar and start trying to perform market research or sales... yeah, know that it comes across as an invasion of personal space.

If anyone wishes to use any forum for successful launch of a project... either your product has to be that good (in which case they'll only trust an existing member saying so) or you should get to know the community first and contribute to it and be a trusted member of it.
Elon seems to do fine
> The team brainstormed ideas for what we would like to build, and set to work.

This deserves its own chapter.
The incapable correctly fear that the capable will use the power of their positions for their own ends. When you decide who to trust, you have to make a tradeoff between how competent they are and how likely you think they have your best interests at heart.
Well, of course not. You can't "run" TypeScript.
Coinbase cracks into the top free apps on Apple's store
Just a smaller scale version of private property, that is exactly what you would expect with smaller-scale society, and the form you would expect modern private property's pre-historic progenitor to take, before codes of law, and the scaling up of production with agricultural and then industrial-scale capital.
Knowing someone's email can effectively be the keys to the kingdom.

I noticed recently on gmail with some XHR lookups they do when you hover over people's email addresses, it fetches their email, name and a couple of other datapoints. You can tweak the request to enter any other email address to discover those details about them.

Then there's the social networks. They do mitigate how easy it is to bulk upload contacts and correlate email addresses (or phone numbers) to profiles, but it's certainly not impossible- and people who are making it their business to data mine will exploit all these kinds of 'opportunities'.
Don't forget that the permafrost is thawing and it's starting to release massive amounts of CO2, much more than previously thought. The thawing is releasing massive amounts of Methane, and Nitrous Oxide which are far more impactful than CO2.

Due to warming temperatures more ice is melting and it's raising the temperature of the oceans and it's causing them to be more acidic, both of which is bad for phytoplankton populations, which have already declined steeply. Phytoplankton is the basis for the entire marine ecosystem.

Like most collapses, a declines happen gradually then suddenly it crashes, my fear is that the phytoplankton population will crash soon, and when it does we're in deep trouble. 20% of the atmosphere's oxygen comes from phytoplankton, more than all the world's rain forests combined.

The ocean is responsible for somewhere between 50-80% of the atmosphere's oxygen, there is no telling what happens when the phytoplankton population crashes. We could see a huge drop in oxygen levels in the atmosphere very quickly.

30% of the world's population relies on the oceans for their primary source of protein, and about the same number of people rely on the marine ecosystem for their livelihood, when the phytoplankton population crashes, those people will be in serious, serious trouble.

Reducing our carbon output isn't enough, slowing an increase still means we are increasing concentration levels, we need to be removing more than we are releasing, and I don't see any possible way to achieve that with any known technology.

I don't think we can stop, or even slow what we've started. The earth is now seeking it's new equilibrium state, it's hard to say if we are part of that equilibrium state.
Very interesting! Thanks for putting this together.
Do you plan on exposing an API connection?