skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I said it's fair to not be passionate about the job.

That's not what you said, though. This is what you said:

> If that's what you aspire to, and aren't passionate about software

Those are completely different sentiments and your original "aren't passionate about software" statement is the statement I took issue with.
> We know the price of the combined 3, and we know the price of the 1 unique unit, that gives us a very accurate idea of the retail price of the 2 matching units.

There is no retail price because you can't buy them retail new. That's the only point I'm trying to make here. I don't contend your math is incorrect in the abstract, but in the real world, it's irrelevant. That's all.

Case in point: A quick eBay search shows that a used working AirPod is about $45. If you are correct, and only the abstract math matters, why would anyone pay $45 for a used working AirPod when, as you claim, it is only worth $40 new? Is the market that irrational? I kind of doubt it.

I also don't contend that the original is worth $50 to Apple (this was a best-case high water mark). It's almost certainly worth less because their incremental cost is less.

I'm strictly speaking in terms of real markets as they are observable today. Heck, even a non-working AirPod is still worth about $10 on the open market. Exchange it with Apple for $49 (assuming the battery is the only problem) and that makes the market value of a new (-ish?) unit $59. (This makes Apple's goodwill worth about $15 per unit.)
What's the painless alternative?
Somebody who doesn't wear a seat belt can't cough on you in public and make you die in a car accident.

You can't catch overdoses by breathing too much near a heroin addict.

This isn't a time for using whataboutisms.
What's to prevent implementing sales tax to have the same benefits as VAT? I don't see how we need to lose the transparency of sales taxes to get the benefits of selective VAT. For example, in many places in the US, food bought from groceries are not taxable.

Having a sales tax does not mean you can't be selective about it. This is the main thing that the author missed.
FWIW, my gas water heater has a chimney, not a powered vent.
'Christmas Star' will be closest conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in 800 years
I would love for you to provide citations and references for your claims that people questioned the validity of the 2016 election. Many claimed Russian interference, many claimed that James Comey put his thumb on the scale, many claimed that the media provided Trump with a great deal of free media and that the mainstream media were easily whipped up with anti-Clinton stories, many claimed that the sitting administration erred in not publicizing known associations between high-level Trump campaign operatives and Russian agents.

NO ONE claimed that the vote was illegitimate. NO ONE claimed that the ballot boxes had been stuffed. The 2016 vote was much closer than 2020 and still the party that lost accepted the result and even if they mumbled about 'not my President' there was no one claiming that the election was stolen.

Please stop with the bullshit both-sides claims, it is pathetic.
The Ambrosia game portfolio's biggest impact was just being so much more polished than Mac games typically were at the time. The publishing model, I suppose, afforded them the resources it required to make everything really pop.

I remember the first time my brother and I ran Maelstrom. The splash screen was hypnotic. I was like, "Computers can do this?"

Back then their Zeus logo had me thinking they were a team of like a hundred people.

Also, I probably wouldn't have spent any time in ResEdit if it weren't for games like Ambrosia's that encouraged folks to make custom sprite and sound packs.
ah right, stock images :) and im not much of a designer, but will look into this
Cathie Wood Takes Crown from JPMorgan for Largest Active ETF
Thanks very much, this is really helpful!
Look at firms like Danaher in the biotech, same thing. Buy sell buy sell. 0 value added and lot of wreck in the path.
Sure, I should amend my statement to emphasize _running_ (as in away) rather than _big city_. You can certainly flee family support in search of riches from or to big or small cities.
Their CFO did not set the price, the best bankers in the world did. Whoever they were, they were smart.

There's an inherent degree of volatility in markets, there's no way to set a price.
Looks OK to me in firefox, and Qualys gives it an A+

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=emacssurvey.o...

Looking at CenturtyLink/Level3 on a business line in Washington looks fine too.
But thats not prototyping... thats testing in production. Two different things.

Prototyping would be an engineer in a lab with a scaled down version of whatever process he is working with. He tries 10 options, 9 of which blow up. But since its scaled down the blow up is just a little fizzle, so who cares. The 10th option that worked can be developed more and eventually brought to the full production plant
We can't even come up with an objective way to score software itself. So how in the world are we going to go even deeper and score the process and the people that create it?

Sarah and Bob make clocks, but sometimes they make hats, and sometimes they make screws, or hammers, or lamps. And sometimes the things they make get sold to customers, but sometimes other employees take them home, sometimes they make parts for each other to use when making bigger projects, and often they help each other and other employees out on unrelated projects. And sometimes they do repairs too. Oh yeah they also paint portraits that hang up around the office.

Try coming up with a measurement for their individual productivity that is easy enough to be useful, hard to game, and cheap enough to make it worth the price.

The first step is to figure out how to measure the value of all the stuff they make...
I kind of like the idea, in principle. But in practice...

Let's say you wipe out debts. And let's say that my pension was invested in those debts. That's going to be a bit problematic.

Let's say you reset companies. Including, say, Intel and AMD. The CPU monopoly is wiped out. Oh, yeah, and Microsoft. But next month I want to buy a computer. Can anybody make me an x86 chip? Can I get Windows, assuming that I want it? Or do I have to run Linux on a public-domain chip?

It's not going to be easy to maintain continuity of supply while shaking up firms that dominate important markets.
Author clearly doesn't understand how sales taxes work.

Sales tax is only charged on sales to the final customer. Resellers (aka, stores) are not charged sales tax. [EDIT: Note that a "reseller" is any individual or entity that has registered as a reseller with their state. This usually incurs an obligation to file a sales tax return at least annually.]

In contrast, VAT is levied on every participant in the chain of transactions. (Note that businesses can offset their VAT liability with the VAT they paid for services/goods received.)
I would invest in SpaceX in a heartbeat if I could.

The financial markets have both very low risk investment options (e.g. government bonds) and very high risk investments (e.g. options), and both ends are attractive to a range of investors. I would agree that you can't pivot a company like Microsoft to a high-risk strategy with uncertain payoff; their existing shareholders would rebel. But if you have this strategy from the start then you only acquire shareholders who are fine with this kind of strategy, and I don't see why that shouldn't work out.
"I've come to the conclusion that a degree I don't have and have never taken any classes in cannot help anyone and is a big negative for a person". Seems a very broad generalization, doesn't it?
In the past 5 years, I've used ThinkPads for work (a T-series, X1 5G, and X1 6G); All of them mysteriously like to wake themselves out of sleep for no clear reason while closed and not connected to any external devices/power.

(If someone knows which log file will tell me the exact reason behind a mystery wakeup after it happens, please share!)
related: Davos 2019: Historian Rutger Bregman berates billionaires at World Economic Forum over tax avoidance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5LtFnmPruU
GP said several laptops were flawless but one of them was problematic and required the custom scripts.
> You can expand the definition of "(enterprise) Productivity Apps" ad infinitum.

Perhaps, but in the case of Teams you don't even have to stretch.
Honest question:
Would/Could a elderly people friendly and oriented MMORPG help elderly feel less alone?

And if so, is such technology even possible?

My guess for first step would be finding out what kind of devices do elderly have access to and more importantly, what kind of devices they use.

Side-thought: Such a MMORPG could even have a subscription based financial model, as most elderly do get regular monthly income.

The moral question:
Is it better to be addicted but not alone, or is it better to be alone and not addicted.

I personally think that not only could this bring new light for the elderly and a opportunity to connect with others including the younger generations.

I think such a solution could help elderly feel less lonely, and it is a solution that could be provided at their homes.
I have Amazon Alexa devices in my house. The reason I'm ok with this is because my relationship with Amazon is very straight forward: they sell me stuff, which I purchase with money. They give me nothing for "free". It's also very easy for me to not use Amazon or their services in any way, and they know this which makes me far more comfortable.

Google and Facebook on the other hand... Completely different relationship where services are exchanged for the sale of my personal details.
If the effect of early employees and investors selling after the lockup is significant, it wouldn't manifest itself as a drop after the lock up, it's a known date and it would be anticipated ahead of time by other investors and traders with the stock price reflecting this.
Election integrity was not questionable in either 2016 or 2020. There were massive amounts of disinformation - both from foreign actors and from Trump - in both elections. But there was not significant fraud in either election.
It isn't, but IIRC refcounting is cooked into the python interpreter in so many places that everything that can be referenced must also be refcounted. If you get a reference to something, you increment its refcount. If you lose the reference, you decrement it. No ifs, no branches.
> Debts are already forgiven upon death.

Not quite. You should have life insurance and something the bank can seize to be able to get financing. So even if you die the bank can recover some of the principal. You can also file Chapter 11; that's actually a reset.
It should apply in all states that HAVE a sales tax. Sales tax is only supposed to be applied to the end consumer sale. There are a lot of similarities between VAT and sales tax along with the differences.
That's surprisingly reasonable for a $550 product with what's probably a custom high-energy-density battery.
I'm about this MRR life. I should call my Mom...
AirBnB units should have to pay the same tax burden as any other accommodation. Then we can see how that works with their margins.
“We can’t hire for x” almost always means “we can’t hire for x for what we’re willing to pay”
That's BuzzFeed for you.
The Next Six Months Will Be Vaccine Purgatory
Inaction on smoking is tragic, and it serves more as cautionary example to avoid inaction elsewhere than justification for inaction. I'll take a better response to covid than to smoking even if that's technically an inconsistency. Right?
There are other and more recent precedents for this - all debt periodically being forgiven. Graeber mentions this in is book "Debt: The First 5000 Years". Everybody knows it is coming, so the market works around it. I imagine it acts as a check on inflation via too many financial games.
You can in the sense that sales tax paid is part of the cost of acquiring the good resold.

However, you can only deduct items so acquired for business purposes, not for personal purposes.
Someone posted a terrific explanation for why companies are not “leaving money the table”. In short, if a fool pays $140 for 1 share of Airbnb, does that magically make the entire company worth 2X more? If I sell 1 share of my startup for $10, is my company worth $1B?
> We aren't optimizing to minimize deaths in individual years (or else we'd just kill everyone right now and the death rate would spike and then drop to zero), we're optimizing for general well-being of the population.

I disagree. If we were optimizing for general well-being of the population we wouldn't be doing things that will push hundreds of millions into poverty[0] and drive up suicide rates[1].

From my perspective all the evidence points to us optimizing either for healthcare capacity or for minimizing covid-19 deaths.

> "there is an alarming new source of deaths, and we should be working to reduce death as much as we can in the interests of maximizing the population's happiness."

Well, clearly a huge % of the population is not happy with the current actions and policy being performed in the name of saving lives as evidenced by this thread.

[0] https://unu.edu/media-relations/releases/covid-19-fallout-co...

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/japan-suicide-coronavirus-more-...
Looks like the data source is here: https://www.bls.gov/tus/datafiles-0319.htm

It's not a super easy to use format, but it should be fun to extract some more useful data out of it.

For what it's worth, the sample size here is very small. It is hard to believe that it's representative of the distribution.

This link [1] suggests the data come from 210k interviews conducted over 16 years (13ish thousand per year).

And the data is longitudinal (so over those 16 years, many of the interviewees are the same person).

Even if every interviewee was unique, this would represent <0.0001 (or less than .01 percent) of the ~240m americans in 2003 who were over the age of 20.

[1]: https://www.bls.gov/tus/atussummary.pdf
> We know it’s not true.

I'm 58, and spend a lot of time alone, but I am definitely not lonely. It's by choice. I am quite comfortable in my own company; which was not the case, when I was younger.

I won't go into the nitty-gritty, but there's a lot of unusual circumstances in my life. I know that the life I lead is pretty different from most folks.

But I would not be comfortable assuming that something "isn't true," simply because it doesn't apply to me.
Last time I tried, my code didn't work because it had to be renewed and the renewal server has been down for a while.
Oh, wow. You're right. Talking about "make lists, lock them up" is TOTALLY equivalent to "when the looting starts the shooting starts". Totally.
> I’d like to sit down all university professors who teach compiler courses and teach them a course on what’s relevant.

Courses should be used to teach general concepts while industry should be used to show those how to apply those concepts. The choice between using a packrat parser, LALR, or LL would be easier to explain to someone who has been exposed to those concepts and understands the advantages and disadvantages of each approach compared to someone who has never heard of the terms.

Best practices change with time, but knowing the base concepts and how to apply them will help people adapt. If they're only exposed to what's considered relevant at this time, then they won't have the necessary exposure to concepts that may pertain to future best practice.
> . Affiliates just get a payout of commission from the merchant, there’s no data-sharing beyond that.

Consider that LTT shows a spreadsheet of all the Amazon items bought of a specific item in their video "I can SEE what you Bought Online", and it includes the quantity, price, and date in which it was bought:

https://youtu.be/gHHyqoU8sQM?t=310
Correct, we shouldn't use modular small reactors (or molten salt reactors for that matter). We should use the pressurized water reactors we actually know how to build. France generates over 70% of its electricity from them, and the US already generates 20% from PWRs. For every existing PWR we need to build 4, and that's enough to fulfill 100% of our electricity demand. Larger reactors are actually more efficient, too. The price per watt is 2-2.5x that of fossil fuels but they remain the only way to produce carbon-free energy around the clock besides geographically dependent solutions like geothermal and hydroelectric power.

MSRs may be useful eventually for remote power generation, but as far as bulk power generation the decades of experience building and operating PWRs is too compelling an advantage.
The right wing has always had its fringe nutjobs and even terrorists; these seem (or seemed, until recently) to be trending down in severity and frequency, and everyone across the spectrum has typically condemned right-wing political violence. We're pretty good at marginalizing right-wing groups and mitigating their violence to the point where the odds of being impacted by right-wing violence were super low.

That feels less scary to me than watching hundreds of people descend on my neighborhood or a nearby neighborhood and set it alight or otherwise destroy it followed by the media and cultural elites (never mind colleagues, bosses, etc) tacitly approving of the violence (if not outright celebrating it--memorably a former ESPN reporter tweeted "Burn it all down!" and then when the violence approached his own neighborhood, "Get these animals TF out of my neighborhood"). This isn't to invalidate anyone's fear of right-wing violence; we all have different experiences and perspectives; I'm only sharing mine.

Note that we don't have to choose between left and right wing violence. We can and should condemn all kinds of political violence--indeed, it seems like every spike in the popularity of right-wing identity politics lags some much larger spike in left-wing identity politics, and every spike in right wing violence follows some spike in left wing violence and so on (e.g., you don't have proud boys without antifa). If I'm right, then it's kind of good news, because it means we can curb right wing violence and extremism simply by holding the left to the same standard.
It's not enough to purchase the goods intending resale; you must also be registered as a reseller.

In fact, if you can't provide a reseller's certificate (or license, the exact term depends on the state) then the seller generally must collect a sales tax on the sale.
A few I've recently looked at:

https://www.workatastartup.com/

https://www.remote.io/

https://www.jobfluent.com/

Any ideas on how to start as a freelance besides the usual suspects? sorry for the hijack of the thread
Apparently unrelated to Copenhagen Suborbitals. As much as I love Copenhagen Suborbitals, I'd rather not want to see them growing an atomics subdivision..
From an engineering standpoint any chemical reaction that changes the properties of a metal in an unwanted way will be called corrosion. It is something to prevent and/or monitor that will inevitably shorten the lifespan of the metal part. (Non-metals like fiberglass can also "corrode".)
The Evolution of Terrorism
Terrorism is a modern phenomenon but not as recent as we think
Really? Don’t most of us going into a store, find something, Google reviews, and competitors, and competitors’ reviews and then see if the convenience of being already here outweighs the effort of going somewhere else plus it’s marginal utility increase? Honestly, I’ve shifted a lot of my regular purchases into Amazon subscriptions.
> why not use a fold/reduce in order to get as much parallelism as possible for free?

I always wondered how this would then be configured in a convenient way. I mean, there are situations where you can not just let the compiler parallelize to the max (e.g. web services).
Me too. I happens just often enough that I get complacent and forget to check D-:

I have a habit now of just running:

systemctl suspend -i

Before closing the lid. Wake ups always work. That will suspend even if some applications is blocking suspends.
This. I live in a tiny pre-zoning code neighborhood where my neighbors and their kids are 100 feet away. I see and talk with neighbors every day when leaving the house, and not just people like me but people of different ages and backgrounds. My parents live 10 minutes away and we’re their multiple times a week. Same for my neighbors—one couple has their parents living in the same subdivision, another lives with her sister and young kid. It’s so much better than when I lived in DC I can’t even convey it.

My only regret is that my extended family lives on the other side of the planet. When I was little everyone lived in the same city (Dhaka, Bangladesh). My mom’s sisters were at our house several times a week. Moving to the US was depressing—so much so that my mom has always been quite bitter about it.
You're a funny guy

Completely out of touch but funny

This statistic shows the market share of mobile operating systems in Italy from 2010 to 2019. The market share of Android has been increasing since 2010 and was at 74.18 percent in 2019. On the other hand, iOS market share decreased from 49.83 percent in 2010 to 24.78 percent in 2019.

So no, Apple is doing terribly in Italy compared to how it did before.

You also brought up India.

Not me.

You also posted a link to an article that made you look like a fool, because the title said one thing but the content said that Apple shipped a lot of phones in the first quarter of 2019 but the market share was still largely in favour of Android (>80% vs <20%).

Of course you deleted it as soon as you realised it.

Choose more wisely next time

P.s. WOMP WOMP
It is if you consider the stock market to be reality
There’s a reason that when people have a good thing like this going they never tell anyone else about it. Don’t want competitors.
I'd take this over the endless indiehackers garbage where people write this kind of post sincerely, any day.
I think one of the issues (beyond media's propensity towards sensationalism to draw attention) is that the extremes at either end of a debate are very black and white. Black and white can be explained in a single sentence many times but everything in between is nuanced (or grey as you called it). The problem with nuanced positions is it requires more than a 280 character payload to explain...
No, it's not. The graph shows mortality rates without cause. Excess mortality rates are not that high at present, meaning that the total number of deaths is not that much above the expected death rate based on historical numbers.

But imagine the "extreme" case where excess mortality is zero - that is, even with covid19, about the same number of people die every day.

That would mean, presumably, that since covid19 causes some deaths that would not have happened historically (it doesn't matter what you think that number is) it would have to be balanced by some decrease in "more normal" deaths.

Obviously, one could propose all kinds of mechanisms that might lead to this. One could suggest that because people are either disgusted by or rallying around Trump, death rates are different. One could suggest that the impending conjuction of Saturn & Jupiter on Dec 21st has reduced death rates from non-covid19 causes. And to be sure, at present, there doesn't seem to be a particularly good way to establish this.

But it also seems rather reasonable to say that since the biggest change in human behavior at this point has been driven by attempts to contain covid19, that it is likely these changes that have caused the "balancing" decrease in non-covid19 deaths.

One obvious rebuttal is that the graph does NOT show no excess mortality. This is certainly true. But the magnitude of the it is smaller than would be expected from even the most, ahem, conservative estimates of covid19 deaths. Ergo, there is some reduction in non-covid19 deaths, and occam's razor would put changes due to anti-covid measures near the top of the list of likely causes for that.