skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The price of the phone increases by 21% and the price of the repair also increases by 21%.

Of course if the price of the new phone before tax is higher than the price of the repair before tax the same will be true after tax.

And if the price of the phone is 200 and the price of the repair is half of that it will still be half of the price of the phone after tax. But if taxes are 0% it's either 200 or 100 for the repair and if taxes are 900% it's either 2000 or 1000 for the repair. The repair may be prefered if you cannot afford the difference but it will still be half the price of the new phone.
Another well known consultancy took the Irish government for well over €200m for a payroll system they never delivered. [0] and they never had to apologise even once.

[0] is http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?id=8661
I gotta read about this guy!

His comatose film obsession is just as detrimental to his ability to make money as spending too much time with illegal sex workers. The commonality would be addiction, or more specifically neglecting other obligations. If neither of those things caused one to neglect other obligations, then there is nothing liberal and forward-thinking about not caring about the activity.
I'm in Australia, and here iPhones have about 50% of the smartphone market, with the other half being Android of course.

I obviously know many iPhone users, including my wife and many close friends. I know of no one who uses iMessage. Here everyone uses Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp (and to a lesser extent Telegram and Signal).

Is this iMessage fascinating a US thing? Why?
Historical routines are hard to compare against - because they weren't a day/night cycle like we have now. [0]

A lot of kids may have been asleep at noon, like the Spanish siesta, equally, kids may have been involved in the midnight harvest, or caring for the fire.

Things tended towards more of several smaller sleeping periods spread out over the entire day, and periods of activity at times that might feel strange now.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16964783
You'll find that dollars don't actually override physics. If you can't cool your extra fasty CPU, it's not going to be vey fasty.

For reference look at panasonic's "fully rugged" toughbooks. A baseline 31 will cost you $3700 for a 7300U, 16GB RAM, a 256GB SSD, and a 13.1 1024x768 display. On base spec it'd be a $800 laptop if you could find one with a screen that bad, and that outdated a CPU.

Except you can drop the 31 from 6ft, you can literally hose it down, you can rub it in a dirt pit, you can drive on it with a truck, and it's expected to survive and work fine. It also has a baseline 20h battery. That resistance, that ruggedness, comes with limitations. And it's not very useful to have an indestructible laptop if a gentle shake kills the electronics either.

Hence "thermal and reliability concerns". You look for parts you can cool with a relatively low thermal budget — which limits your performances — and you look for parts which have been designed and manufactured for industrial resistances, which also limits your performances. No matter how you slice it, a GTK Boxer won't outrace a Bugatti Chiron.
Have a look at https://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/educational/list-game...

Otherwise there's retro gaming and emulation of course.

And personally I enjoyed the Crazy Machines series.
My children all go to bed at 8:30 PM and only one of them naturally wakes up before 7AM.
Literally, Scapegoat as a Service.
Statements like this are technically correct, but not very useful to discussion of the problem of Google and other large corporations being in control of such large pieces of widely-used infrastructure that they effectively decide what kinds of things others will create.
this figures out something, but neither my personal finances, nor my life. nazibuxxx are not a good thing. the nazis have to die
The problem with this sort of censorship is that it has huge collateral damage that most people don't see. WPD is the best example because that kind of content wasn't hurting anyone. Go look at where it's moved to, and have a look at the kinds of people commenting there as opposed to the reasonably level headed comments on the reddit version.

Every time you kill a subreddit or facebook group, 99% of the users stop participating in that kind of content, and the other 1% scurry off to some out of sight echo chamber until one day they randomly pop up again to murder a bunch of innocent people because they've been corrupted beyond saving.

Everyone was talking about this for a hot moment after the Christchurch massacre, but nothing was done and now nobody gives a shit again.

It's important to let people with divergent views to feel some sort of social pressure to change. Those 99% of people that have no interest in blowing up buildings or murdering children are the best weapon we have to convince the other 1% of people with weird interests that the world as it is ok without them taking some drastic action. There's always going to be a small subset of people that will rebel, but the important thing is to make sure that otherwise normal people (that want to watch porn, or learn how to safely handle a gun, or learn about cybersecurity, or get desensitised to gore, or whatever else is on this week's "think of the children" hitlist) are integrating into civilised society and not being dragged into cesspits of violence and terrorism because their interests have been deemed by a bunch of fucking software engineers to be "bad".

We're well past the critical point where enough large platforms have banned all the "bad" stuff that any new contenders either need to ban it too or become one of those out of sight echo chambers themselves. The only way to fix it now is for everyone to agree to be less stringent all at once, together.

It's worth remembering that the internet wasn't very censored 20 years ago. Most of us grew up during that time and turned out fine. I'll take tubgirl and lemon party over neo-nazis and conspiracy nutjobs any day of the week.
Quite a few high schools in the US have flipped their start times, moving the older students to a later start. But, that's only relative to other schools, so might mean a 9am start for teens instead of 7am.

I haven't heard of any schools starting later than this, nor I have I heard any place discuss doing so (at least not as a serious proposal).
That only works if the IRS considers the price of the art to be $20m. If it were that easy then you could just donate anything at whatever price you want.

High art is valuable because high art is expensive. I'm not losing $450 million when I buy a $450 million painting any more than I lose money when I buy a house.

This whole thing is a conspiracy theory created by judgemental people with null knowledge of art to complain about the latest modern art pieces and it spiraled out of control to an urban myth in the level of "the Facebook app is secretly using your microphone" or "vaccines give you tracking microchips".
And it's never going to get fixed, because this is the USA and placing any restrictions on how employers treat employees is evil socialism.
The same applies to stocks, you definitely could not unload (or buy) the entire float in a day. I don't think crypto is too different in this respect.
I thought it was poorly written and fails to understand some simple financial terms. When people say value is created for shareholders, they don't mean shareholders created that value; they mean that the value of the thing owned by shareholders has increased.

I own shares of a company (I am therefore a shareholder), if the value of that company increases then the value I own as a shareholder increases, hence value was created for me as the shareholder. This is such a basic principle that the author failing to understand this is kind of embarrassing.

There are other basic things the article gets wrong, like saying that bartering doesn't create value which is patently false. Bartering does in and of itself create value by allocating resources to those who wish to consume it. When Alice trades an apple with Bob for a potato, it's usually done because Alice has a need for a potato and doesn't have a need for the apple, and vice versa for Bob, hence the allocation of apples and potatoes goes to where it's most desired. This increases the efficiency of resource allocation which in and of itself creates value. Furthermore the bartering in and of itself causes an incentive to produce more apples and potatoes.

Honestly this is really basic stuff and not worth writing an entire article bickering over semantics.
FWIW, the article now has an update clarifying that it's not the OpenJDK (or JRE) packages that are being orphaned, nor suffering from poor maintenance, but "software written in Java". I suppose that would mean libraries or applications.

The JRE and JDK should continue working fine, as should any third-party software that just requires one of those.
Is this NT API actually possible to be called from userspace? Or even from drivers?
I've always wanted to build a tool like this, but never went around to it. I am a FIRE nerd, and have used and tried many FI tools. I am an active YNABer and I was looking for a tool for longterm planning. This looked interesting enough that I actually went ahead and got the premium plan for a year. Thanks for the coupon code. It came out at roughly $12/year, which I think is a great value to the kind of insights you can get. To create something like this on my own would take months, if not years. I also like the fact that I am not linking this to any of my real accounts.
Fixed bedtimes works until your kids realize they don't actually need to go to bed when you want them to.
Getting Ready for Post-Quantum Cryptography [pdf]
Well, I guess the Fed's money needs to go somewhere:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL?fbclid=IwAR3qsddDi_D...

Uh oh ...
How did you find the piece was shared in here in such a fast manner?
I Stopped Using VPNs to Browse the Web
Joe Biden Wants to Reverse Trump's Tax Cuts and Tackle Tax Loopholes
It didn't occur to me that the Jeff in the title was Jeff Bezos until after I clicked. I probably wouldn't have read the article if I realized. That would have been my loss. I enjoyed the article.
Nuremberg trials are waiting for you ;)
The first advice is to disable hardware mitigations.
This could be OK in trusted datacenter setting, but SPECTRE/Meltdown could be exploited via Javascript, just by visiting the page -- so disabling them on the laptop, which is presumably used for day-to-day web browsing is a bade idea.

Some seriously bad advice here.
This is scary, intentional bullying. It costs the govt none of their own money (they have unlimited taxpayer money) to launch these attacks, but it costs Signal or other organizations a lot of their own money to defend against them.

It will continue until Signal agrees to become part of the surveillance state or goes broke and goes away.
Next.js 10.2
> The use case lies in the Wine implementation of the Windows NT interface WaitMultipleObjects.

This can't only be a win for emulating Windows, surely (future) Linux native code could benefit from this too?
Maybe we could have a society with basic income or improved government childcare benefits so only one parent needs to work. Alas, it will never happen in the USA, because it would involve taking money from rich people.
I agree with your points about sex workers and speech about sex in general, but your comments about people in autocratic regimes ring a little hyperbolic. Chinese [1] users were able to use Signal until the Chinese state seemed to block it at the network layer. WhatsApp is blocked too. That's unfortunate, but what's Apple got to do with it? And what exactly could they do to prevent it that the state wouldn't get in the way of?

[1] I'm assuming that "autocratic" here refers to China - though despite the lack of political freedom and the awful situation with regard to ethnic minorities, I don't think that's a very helpful or expressive label.
One of my friend works in one of these famous Indian outsourcing companies, one day the client asked her how much time will this change need, she said it can be done in hour.

Her manager who was not in that meeting got to know that she gave a 1 hour estimate and was furious almost threatened to fire her and also told the team not to give any estimates to clients. The manager then had a meeting with the client and then gave a 1 week estimate for that simple change.
You have to heat the Teflon to just under red hot to cause that. (Red Hot: 460°C, Teflon flu: 450°C.)

This isn't something that's going to happen in normal cooking.

And don't forgot what happens if you use a regular pan with oil, and heat it to that temperature - the smoke you get is equally as hazardous, and you can get smoke at a much lower temperature than with Teflon. Oils smoke at around 225°C.

Upshot is that (at least in terms of overheating) Teflon is much safer than cooking with oil.
I don't know if any systems actually work like this, but wouldn't it be possible to include in the client a short hardcoded list of entry points to the network which are all run by different entities (in different jurisdictions)?

Each entity could have their own public key (also hardcoded into the client), and the client could pick one at random and then bootstrap you up to the entire P2P network, where it would find the other hardcoded identities (or N out of M of them) to confirm you were seeing the whole network.
I pay for this out of my own pocket without hesitation. They allow you to use your license on 2 different machines. I do most of my work on my personal Mac, but also keep Tower on my work laptop, so I can do the things I need to do there. I briefly tried Fork, but went back to Tower (and Kaleidosope.) You can pry Sublime Text out of my cold, dead hands, but I find Merge to be confusing.
> Disclosure: I work on ads at Google

Can I ask why? I honestly can't understand how anyone could.
You are attributing profitability to the industry being "owned by people who were good at publishing" rather than a large variety of things like a rapid and massive increase in the entertainment options available to the average person.

Most people do not read for pleasure often. Those who do will most often read hits. Those who read outside of that are a very small portion of the population.
The pure lab test processing time is as far as I understand dependent on the specific test system and machinery used, with 1-2 hours being typical, but options that work faster being available for at least some scenarios.

Since tests are run in labs and in (often large) batches, the actual time it takes from sample being taken to test result known is longer.
Really curious, why is 4% improvement huge?
If me and my two friends buy paintings from each other for 1 Billion dollars in a circle, did we create 3 Billion dollars in value? No, we created 3 mediocre paintings. Bezos (and every other business, as you mentioned) plays the same game by double and triple counting and changing the definition of value to suit each case. You are right that what value means is up to debate; but Bezos here uses many different definitions at once to reach his number which isn't adhering to any particular ideology other than "Amazon good".

I think the most obvious example of this is with the workers:

>The most egregious misrepresentation of value creation in the letter is the $91 billion figure that Amazon has paid out in compensation to employees. This is patently ridiculous. Every single dollar of compensation paid out is done transactionally: it is used to purchase labor.

> And it estimates the time saved by consumers who shopped at Amazon instead of brick-and-mortar stores, and— in a particularly bold move, considering that just a few paragraphs ago it ascribed no value whatsoever to the time of its own employees— attaches a dollar value to those hours and throws that on the pile as well.

This is a shell game where amazon gets to take credit for paying its employees for their hours and also take credit for those hours as value.
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Hey HN,

I wrote this tool a while back to understand how a stocks price has moved around past earnings. There are websites that have this information but they all charge in one way or another.

I added a sweet feature last night where a user can add another stock ticker by:
- filling a form on the github pages site
- the submit button filling that information into an issue
- github actions detects the issue creation, gets the stock data and commits it to the repo
- new ticker is available on the site

Link to github repo (also on site): https://github.com/benkaiser/earnings
I doubt people are treating an old $500 lathe as a store of value. We are still in a pandemic and people are still cooped up in homes. Which means hobbies have exploded over the last year. Many of my usual purchases at Michaels and Joann have been difficult to find over the last several months. There are just more people collecting and more people doing flipping like you
I personally would like the second (like the data doesn't need to be realistic or anything but I would want to see what the scenarios are like that are being run), but a walk thru would work too.
> You can implement whatever you want, just not in a website. Write an app instead.

I don't want to write an app for it. By your logic websites should be plain text and we should all be learning N frameworks to do things that are way easier to do in a browser, available without having to install black box crap software on our devices.

It makes no sense, since you can do plenty of worse things than disabling zoom, in fact the browser allows a whole range of things that are not in the interest of users and they don't do anything to curb those, so your point is basically moot.

> In practice, making an inaccessible website is often more profitable because it's less effort.

This has no bearing in real accessibility, it's, as plenty of other things, a red herring, since real accessibility is not defined by zooming or changing your scrollbar appearance - as you can confirm by visiting a very large part of the internet.

> And in many cases, it is better for a website to not exist that for it to be inaccessible:

This is like, your opinion. Which besides being as the saying goes, isn't even backed by any rational argument. Just because you keep saying the same words they don't change reality, unless you're Dumbledore, and you're a character in a book, or a movie, and even then, it only changes the story there, not the story outside of it.

All the cases you mention can, and should be dealt with in legal terms - your school, employer, university, or state, are public entities, there can certainly be accessibility guides, references and standards, as there are in a multitude of others things, exactly to regulate that.

Your argument is like saying, that paper should not be used to draw, or do origami, or write in other languages because someone might not understand what it is, or what is contained in it. Of course, that's silly. And when it comes to government, schools, and public entities, according to the type of documents, printed and available in paper, they do have to follow a specific ruleset, without impacting what paper can be used for in other situations.
Jeff Bezos worked at D.E. Shaw not Renaissance Technologies. Different funds.
WFMO is indeed the api that the new futex_waitv is supposed to help accelerate under wine.
Fair enough, I admittedly haven't looked the iMessage protocol so I don't know much about it.

I just know that if you have an iPhone, you have to set your MMSC to Apple's servers versus the carrier's servers.
Something like $50-$100B in bitcoin is traded every day. It's not the NYSE but that is pretty liquid in my opinion.
It is true!!. A dispute that had no basis. If they had asked reasonable royalties it would have been OK, but they refused to licence many makers - yet they failed to make their own planes in volume for related bad business reasons.
Did you read where the early USAF on that era was forced to buy French a dn British planes due to the bad management by the Wrights
Sure, but the worthwhile ones are actual prose.

If you can brute force 9 8's from only English words (or whichever language), I'd still call that impressive.
> “ Because you literally don't get people in autocratic regimes killed because the single choke point of software that might enable them to escape detection is removed.”

If anything, Apple’s control here enables better protection for users. You think authoritarian regimes don’t own phones? You think Android is safer in China?
The old Anderson Consulting. Forced to change their name soon after they were spun off from the parent, so adopted Accenture. Which turned out to be a good thing because Arthur Anderson soon went bankrupt in the whole Enron debacle.
Wikipedia has pictures if like myself you have no idea what a vertical wind turbine looks like: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_axis_wind_turbine
I used to be active in crypto subreddits. It's incredible how many people don't realize 'for every buyer, there is a seller'.

A lot of the commenters did not grasp basic economics.
Strangely, everytime I've gotten into a consistent habit of going to bed at 9pm, I've lost some weight.

I prefer staying up late, really late, like 3am. But along with the shorter sleep comes late night eating and probably a less efficient body function overall.
The advantages of living close to one's place of work or education cannot be overstated.
Thanks for the advice. I don't agree with Apple, and don't buy their hardware or software.

When I'm buying a general purpose computing device (which is what smartphones have become), I expect a significant degree of flexibility in how I can use it, and don't need the vendor to arbitrarily start placing limits on that flexibility to "protect" me. Especially when those limits happen to coincide with the financial goals of the vendor.
Our workflow that is sox compliant:

A single team can write and deploy their own services. We deploy multiple times per day as a team and hundreds of times per day as an organization.

The dev who wrote it is not the dev who approves it. We have automated test suites. Tests pass and someone on the team acts as quality assurance by verifying code and tests that were added. Anyone on the team can deploy at any time.

For auditing, all code and configuration changes are tracked in jira. If it changes the system, it gets a ticket. That ticket links to the pull request (and vise versa). The pull request cannot be merged until another person clicks approved. The PR branch is ran through the test suites and after merging, the main branch gets the same treatment. The artifacts for deployment are gated by passing master/main builds. If everything is green, then the CI/CD system allows us either to automatically roll out changes or gate them with another manual step of clicking a button. At the step right before something would be released, the approver (who didn’t write the code but is on the same team) comments on the ticket that it is verified and approved.

That’s pretty much it. From the trenches of a public company. And I got to be part of going through a dozen person start up to a several hundred person public company and go from everyone has root access with the same account and password to the world of access controls. A wild ride for sure :)
Do you have any links explaining how art valuation works?
But the article is extrapolating, not interpolating.

Extrapolation is when you're extending to outside of the measured data range. In this case, the measurements were all of large values, and it's extrapolating (linearly) to small values. Just because the values being extrapolated to are smaller, rather than larger, doesn't make it interpolation.

Which is precisely why this has the risk of false conclusions, like you say.