skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The situation is that there's healthy competition between phone makers (Apple and Google/samsung/etc). If there was only one company making phones, that would be a monopoly and monopolies tend toward rent seeking extraction - which may require regulation, or consumers would have a bad time.

Apple has a clear, technologically enforced, complete monopoly on apps distributed on their phones. And google has a weak monopoly on their phones - you can distribute your app on other app stores, but its difficult for everyone. The situation on Android is slightly worse than Microsoft distributing IE with windows. And when that happened, the feds initiated a huge antitrust case against microsoft and nearly broke up the company.

Does the fact that there's competition in the phone market mean we should forgive monopolistic behaviour in the app markets on those phones? Thats a tricky question. Its too simple to just fall back on heuristics.

Is there monopolistic behaviour in the app market?

- Does the monopolistic provider use their position to block competition? Yes. Apple doesn't allow any competitors to their own software in the app store.

- Does the monopolistic provider rent seek, and extract far more money from the market than they would if there was healthy competition? Uncertain - I'm not sure if 15% is a reasonable or unreasonable cut. 30% almost certainly wasn't reasonable for the services apple provided.

- Do people buy phones mostly because of their app stores? If they do, then phone competition == app store competition. If they primarily choose a phone on other factors (cameras, etc) then these are separate markets and should be considered separately. Answer: ???

Is there a precedent? Its not exactly the same, but Australia didn't like telstra (an ISP who owned most of the cable at the time) renting their cables at unreasonable prices to other ISPs. They stopped anyone else from reasonably competing with them. You could make the same argument - "You willingly bought a house there so you can't complain. If you don't like it, move". But we regulated them anyway. Notably the US hasn't regulated comcast / etc from doing the same thing over there.

Longer answer than you were expecting. tldr; its complicated. Heuristics aren't enough. Personally I don't think competition in phones means its acceptable that we have monopolies in app stores. I find the justifications for letting apple have a monopoly in the app store unconvincing and I favor regulation.
Can Starlink travel with you? My wife and I are discussing purchasing a tiny home on a trailer and the ability to get a decent connection _anywhere_ would be an amazing amenity.
So glad to see this. I think it is common sense but it's the kind of thing that it is not in any specific person's interest to speak out on.
Good luck using solar cells when they're covered by 2-3 inches of snow.
Cancelling a membership at Golds Gym was the worst experience I have had so far.

I think this just beat it.
I'll grant you that it's entirely possible for this sequence of events to have happened spontaneously, without any malice, on the basis of misunderstandings. It could also have happened through the selective promotion of convenient metrics (which I'd argue does constitute rigging, just by a different party), or indeed through actual malice, though I tend to share your doubts on that front.

My invocation of the term "rigged" was not charitable but that's pretty far from saying it was actually incorrect. If I had to bet, I would bet on the middle possibility: metrics are built honestly but selectively promoted in accordance with political agendas in a manner that I would be comfortable to characterize as "rigged."

In any case, assigning blame is one thing and designing portfolios robust to this kind of mishap is another. Fortunately, the difficult parts of assigning blame are completely irrelevant to portfolio design. No matter who was responsible, the correct response is to avoid metrics that are easy to misunderstand (or rig!). Which brings us right back to favoring "assets hedge inflation" over "TIPS hedge inflation."
You cutoff the end of a sentence to make it sound like the opposite of what the author wrote. WTF?

> Those decisionmakers can be elected officials, with levels of authority ranging from governors down to individual city council members; political appointees of said officials; quasi-elected power brokers who sit on boards and are seen as representative of some local interest group; public-sector planners; or consultants, usually ones who are viewed as an extension of the public sector and may be run by retired civil servants who get a private-sector salary and a public-sector pension. In this post I’d like to zoom in on the managers more than on the politicians,
I cancelled a 200km kayak trip last weekend because it was supposed to rain. But it didn't. Thanks, SMN.
Not surprising, and honestly I didn’t think it was that bad comparatively speaking. Try canceling you home cable or your mobile service and see how that goes :)

That’s no excuse though, ideally we would be able to cancel any service we want through an online form, but in reality that is a pipe dream.

Most companies will take this as a opportunity to make a pass on you with a sales person. And honestly, it is their prerogative to do so I think. Once you’re gone you’re gone. I don’t blame them for attempting to retain your business.

While I don’t blame them, I wish it wasn’t the case.

Any person who lines up in the queue to cancel is just a ‘lead’ for the sales people assigned to this task. And they are sales people. Don’t be fooled and think you’re talking to a customer service agent.

In this case, it was a pretty weak attempt by ‘Antonio’.
I almost bought a WSJ sub during a recent sale, and decided against it specifically because I checked and it said I'd have to call them to cancel.
Good video demonstrating setup and first use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-nQOIZ1IwY
Robojox
> ~$90 per quadrillion BTU

I think this misreads the abbreviation MM BTU (where M in this case is the Roman numeral thousand or "mille" rather than the metric million or "mega"). 1 MM BTU = 10^6 BTU, not 10^15.

A therm is 10^5 BTU. Last month I paid $77 for 117 therms, or about 66 cents/therm. This would be $6.6 per MM BTU.

By the way that was 126 ccf (ccf = 100 cubic feet) or 12600 cubic feet (357 cubic meters).

As you say, $90 wholesale for something I'm used to paying less than $10 for, is a big increase.
This hasn't happened on Android where third party stores and side loading are available and have been since the beginning.
robert frost, classic late bloomer, wrote ts eliot a letter (unprompted) saying 'the problem with you is that you know 13 languages and all these texts but nothing about human experience'

eliot, an early genius, responded 'the problem with you is that you're stupid'
So what? So we should keep them in cages and walk them around on leashes?

Bad things happen sometimes. It's not a reason to emotionally stunt your kids by sheltering them from being able to leave their homes and experience the world around them.
This may not work for your case, but if you're good with Vim you could try the `:TOhtml` command, which converts a range into an HTML file matching the theme you're using.
Perfect! In that case I'll report to SE via the contact form. Thank you! It has been a while but the event still bothers me.
I wanted to read an article of the NYT that interested me, so I purchased a month subscription. I only used it for that one article. This same thing happened when I tried to cancel. They don't provide a way to do it without talking to a representative unless you set your zip code to California which requires a way to cancel the same way that was signed up (i.e. if you can sign up without talking to someone you can cancel without talking to someone).

If it were easy to cancel I'd definitely re-up my subscription when I want to read an article they have. Now when I hit the paywall I just move on or look for another source.
Here’s a kicker: once canceled, your card stays on file. But there’s no way to access that credit card management page anymore because you’ve canceled the subscription. How can you get back to the credit card management page? By signing up for the subscription again. Can you remove the credit card from file at this point? Nope!!

That’s right. They have your credit card forever if you put it in once.
Ontario Canada reporting. CAD$85/mwh (or ~US$65). We have several gw available on standby, and pretty much even on exports/imports. And we do export to USA as needed to/through Michigan/NY.

Parents got ~10" of snow yesterday night. But it's just business as usual.

https://www.ieso.ca/en/Power-Data
That’s part of of most states’ escheatment processes. Inactive bank accounts are typically closed after three years, and funds are given to the state to hold until you claim them.
I just got fooled by another Amazon dark pattern and ended up with a Prime free trial I don’t want. Went to cancel it immediately, and wow so many hoops to jump through. Hopefully I did it right. If they end up forgetting I canceled they are getting a chargeback so fast it will make their heads spin.
georgehotz was so wasted/hyped when he was playing with this on his stream
Not in the beta, no, they have not officially released plans for mobile terminals. I'm sure eventually there will be. It's in the faq on the website.
Seems a little short-sighted. Epic are not a charity. Discounts are clearly a ploy to capture marketshare from Steam et al... Games/products will always be priced the most the market is willing to pay for it. If just before launch costs drop by half do you really think the price drops by half?
Samsung Semiconductor Fabs in Texas Shut Down Following State-Wide Power Cuts
> we need to examine why American costs are so much higher than other countries

I read a paper on the cost of building tunnels. I remember two factors. The percentage cost of labor is higher than you might expect. And labor costs more in the US. And the US bids out contracts to place the risk if something goes wrong on the contractor. End result, fewer bids by only the largest contractors. And contractors pad their bids so they won't lose money no matter what goes wrong.
Same. I cancelled last week for one too many link-bait articles on the front page. After the usual page or two of pleas to stay, they let me go.
I feel really bad for the service reps. If you hate doing this every time you cancel, imagine how they feel having to do this all day every day, always with the threat of being fired from their minimum wage job if they're accidentally too helpful.
The worst experience I had with this involved 4 customer service representatives simply hanging up (after a 30+ minute wait) after exhausting their script. I simply recorded the final call, stopping paying the bill, and sent the documentation I had to the credit reference agency when the contract went into default

At some point they sent a debt collection agency, that was much less stressful than it sounds. They called me up, "you owe $telco money", "No I don't", "oh?", "Yes, I have complete documentation of cancelling it, but their CS reps kept hanging up. Sorry, you've been had.", "Oh, this again. Sorry to have bothered you.", never heard from the debt collection agency again.
It looks like an editorial/opinion piece. (Just to be clear I went through the same process and I hate NYT)
https://www.deribit.com/ and there are a number of decentralized crypto options markets out there as well.
It is pretty gross that the Australian Government executive have decided to play hardball with tech giants just before the vaccine rollout just because they want to cosy up to the news industry before an election next year.

In the past, the liberal government have shown that they don't know how to roll out a national broadband network (NBN), and now they are showing that they do not have a clue regarding how the Internet actually works, let alone how to regulate it.
That reduction in size is likely due to dynamically linking the C standard library, rather than statically linking it.
In principle, yes. They've demoed it on fighter jets.

But they don't seem to be selling that capability to consumers just yet - presumably to avoid issues with too many subscribers congregating in one place. See the faq answers on "Can I travel" and "Can I change my service address" https://www.starlink.com/faq
How often do you see NYT articles on the front page? It is very rarely for me.
Weights are just numbers (probably floats?), right?

This model has 3.12TB of floats??? That's insane. How do you load that into memory for inferencing?
I can't imagine calling Satyricon boring. Kidnapping a young hermaphrodite cult figure? A tour of Roman tenements? A pink sand villa? A raucous dinner party? It's unforgettable.
Arizona does this (see Palo Verde Generating Station, the largest power plant in the US by generation) and I benefit with $0.05230 per kWh off peak (off peak is 8 pm - 3 pm on weekdays, all day on weekends and 10 holidays).
This might vary in pre vs postpaid accounts. Postpaid typically includes credit check which requires submission of info that could later be used for collections.
Ask HN: Why is Wayland is discussed as replacement rather than alternative?
Whenever I see Wayland mentioned, most recently in the context of Emacs 27.1, it,s overwhelmingly discussed as a replacement, rather than alternative for X.

Does anyone understand where this perspective originated and the reasons for it?

It,s my understanding that in the FOSS world software is free to live and remain maintained for as long as someone is willing to use and maintain it.

Personally, I am very happy with X, and while I have no experience with Wayland, it sounds like it will be a long time before even basic functionality I need is usable. I don,t expect older hardware to be supported either.

It honestly feels like a threat or an attack on my computing world, and I want to understand it better.
Is the walled garden a key differentiator? When most people buy a phone, I think they're usually thinking about the camera and screen, or the security and privacy features. (And note the sandboxing features are part of the phone, not part of the app store.) I'd love to see data on this if you can find any.

I certainly didn't buy an iphone because I want to pay an extra tax whenever I buy apps.
There were attempts to use the ocean for a heat sorce/sink for downtown AC.
This is why I started subscribing to newspaper apps through the Apple App Store. The apps are somewhat inferior, but the ability to unsubscribe and resubscribe easily are worth it to me.
I just want to say, thay given how tense this conversation can be, the quality of the conversation in this thread (as of right now) is amongst the highest I've ever seen.

Excellent thread.
Freddie deBoer dishes out a savage burn to the NYT that is, in itself, enough reason to cancel your subscription. No amount of shade is too deep to throw on the NYT at this point, from their cancellation process to their editorial policies:

https://fredrikdeboer.com/2021/02/15/scott-alexander-is-not-...
You don't see any doublethink in never asking for overtime, never controlling their work hours, and firing them if they don't work the overtime hours you want at the time you want?
You clearly have not seen how much of Nepal is currently dependent on very costly geostationary satellite. Fiber and terrestrial point to point high capacity microwave isn't everywhere.

Or how much of Indonesia in remote places is dependent on satellite.
It's a lot, it's 0.9 $/kwh, which depending on where you live is about 10-30x the retail price of electricity under normal circumstances. If it's only for a few days/weeks, it's not going to matter a lot (financially) to most. Of course there are a few people who are going to get squeezed hard by this and I imagine some businesses are also going to have some hefty bills.

It's tempting to single out technologies or particular energy sources here as the problem or solution. But the bottom line is that this is fundamentally a policy failure and not a technical problem. Price incentives and signals are probably part of both the problem and solution here. Although none of that will matter this winter of course.

The long term effect of this kind of price instability becoming a regular thing combined with frequent blackouts are going to be interesting. IMHO it's a great opportunity for technology that is basically proven to be highly effective both in providing grid resilience and cost reductions; i.e. clean tech. Nothing like 10x spikes in bills becoming a regular thing to cause people to look for solutions.
When this winter storm set in, I switched from grid power to my natural gas generator. I have a 48kW Generac attached to a 1000 gallon natural gas tank. The tank also feeds all my gas appliances and fireplaces in my home. At the current rate of usage, I have another 24 days on which to operate.

Where most people are paying enormous rates, I purchased my whole tank of gas for $940, plus delivery fee.

I have strongly recommended to my friends to have generators installed and to buy their own natural gas storage tanks to power them. While my personal setup was about $20,000 fully installed and hooked up, you can easily get a 24kW model that would power most homes 2000-2500 sq. ft. easily, for about $7000-$9000.

Best part is, many whole home generator providers will allow you to finance if the upfront costs are too burdensome.
From the linked site: "You'll also be able to buy cheapETH in the crowd sale, 1 ETH for 1000 cheapETH."

That's not a testnet.
what about moving to a cabin in the mountains, or actually just find a city where this ISP is not available?
I was curious and I pay 11¢ in Colorado.
i agree, that was superbly written; i wish i had more to add, but don't
For saying it’s okay for pedofiles to be recognized for their other work

There is disagreement on opinions and there is outright immorality.
It isn't cancel culture to call out Google making poor decisions and not planning well and then doing what everyone was worried, vocally, they would do, which was pull the plug. Did you read the article? No one is canceling Google.
Facebook has blocked any page that provides news, as defined by the code, rather than just organisations covered by the code:

core news content means content that reports, investigates or explains:

a) issues or events that are relevant in engaging Australians in public debate and in informing democratic decision-making; or

b) current issues or events of public significance for Australians at a local, regional or national level

Weather info & especially anything emergency-related is covered by that second definition.

The definition of organisation covered by the code is stupid & arbitrary anyway. It's heavily weighted towards existing incumbents (requiring $150K revenue), and makes things even harder for an independent trying to compete.
I’m still receiving “spam” from the WSJ after a long long time, I unsubscribed when Murdoch took over, as it’s quality plummeted overnight!! It took the editor a few more months to quit and move on..
Half this article feels like whataboutism. Sure, child abuse comes from people known by the child, but it doesn't mean that if I don't let my kid out, she'll get abused by her mother.

The car accident thing is also unrelated. Kids are more likely to die from swimming pools than stab themselves with kitchen knives, but I'm not going to let them play with kitchen knives.

I also have doubt that "crimes have fallen" is a valid reason. Perhaps this is because of the prevalence of the Stranger Danger mindset?

That said, I think it has gone a bit far. Kids and teenagers used to run around several generation ago. I'd rather my daughter take a bike ride outside, than sit in her room playing with Omegle.
Abstract thoughts are conveyed with a class of language, this has not worked well in its predominance historically ( only math survived) similarly how music is communicated but not accepted as a universal language.
TFA is not about "management". It is about government. Government will always be inefficient, since it is spending looted money. You can't fix this problem by firing managers or some other micro-management strategy. You fix it by limiting government's scope and field of influence.
Is this project similar to Eclipse Vert.x?
How do I survive as a software engineer in this culture? What do I say and do to not be fired?
Your job isn't to code anymore homie.

It all becomes a bunch of soft targets as a manager and that's really hard.

The one big success I had when I was a manager was getting our client teams to unify on the bugs they were having and to be much more cohesive. When I first got there the android and ios and web people never talked and refused to believe they had the same types of issues/bugs. LOL.

I ultimately hated it because really... I don't want to yell at people for being late to standup, so went back to engineering.
It's not necessarily incuriousity or even really fear of change. It's job security. You have a giant organization that's built for an industry at a point in time and adopting to change likely requires rewiring your entire hierarchy and turning over a lot of staff. That's a hard pill to swallow. Made much harder if your workforce is heavily unionized.
Adding an SSL cert = minimal IT skills required

Understanding cryptoassets = Above minimal IT skills + more skills + more knowledge required

Not knowing how to add an SSL cert certainly does not bode well for one's expertise on crypto. Knowing how to do so but not caring is even worse.
A Pandora station based on other bands I like seems to work reasonably well for finding new music. Most are still terrible but it finds a good one often enough.
> 15 minute and real-time prices are an order of magnitude lower, despite the sun being down and electric heaters presumably consuming a lot of electricity.

Not everywhere. I'm seeing prices exceeding $900 when I select real-time. Perhaps I'm reading it wrong but take a look at so cal.
Building Consentful Tech Zine [pdf]
I felt this way for most of my professional career, with few exceptions.
It lifted off successfully multiple times, it just never reached orbit.
Can't ya all just file a CC chargeback attaching proof that it was impossible to cancel by normal means?

This will teach them a lesson.
But I thought iTunes-U is shutting down? Maybe that’s why the wording is as such.
Fun fact, California entities own 27% of Palo Verde Generating Station in Arizona.
How much of this analysis is driven by VC being asked by potential or existing LPs "Why aren't you beating the S&P 500?" and needing to come up with a plausible answer. "Well, we would've beat the market, but it's impossible with these low interest rates!"
This will be an interesting experiment to see to what extent people use social media as a news aggregator vs for its supposed purpose of keeping up with friends.

I also have hopes that news media will be able to invest in higher quality journalism if they're not fighting for clicks on these sites. Maybe they can even start to build monthly revenue from subscriptions again.
Alternative: Provide a privacy.com card, terminate card when you're done... it's cancelled.
Maybe that is the statewide average, but I've haven't paid anything close to that low in years.
also had a similar experience with wsj. never again.

and with a new subscription to the economist. tried to cancel a few months ago, mostly because i didn’t like how they would charge my card without warning or an invoice. it was all just super stealth. worst part was you couldn’t cancel online, you were supposed to call. but you couldn’t call either because their phone staff wasn’t working due to covid. so convenient for them. had to file a formal dispute with my card. also, never again.

ironically both free market publications. may the free market flush these awful, consumer hostile companies down the toilet.