skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Paying lower unit price for higher volume customers is literally how the entire economy works.

That's not how the economy works - it's a very simplified view which IMO is incorrect in this instance.

Companies in theory only offer volume discounts when it makes commercial sense to do (i.e. 'second degree price discrimination'). Price discrimination opportunities happen when you believe that you will sell more to a customer by changing the price for a particular segment / volume target (companies in theory always try to sell at the maximum price that the buyer will accept, and price discrimination is just strategy to help sell at a higher price to certain segments if the market will accept it). Companies will also only do deals which are profitable (sometimes higher volume deals are profitable while lower volume deals aren't, for instance it might be practical to sell 1 million cans of beans to a large supermarket chain for 20 cents, while it's only practical to sell 10 cans of beans for 50 cents each to a smaller shop).

In the AppStore in reality this would mean you would need to believe that the reduction in fees would encourage enough big developers to the platform to offset the change in fees (at the moment I'm assuming the profitability threshold is met - as Apple is clearly already making money on the bigger apps here).

Now in order to pay for the 30% to 10% swap, you would need to bring c5 times the number of big developers to the platform to offset the reduced margin, which is very unlikely to happen, particularly as Apple have the dominant platform (i.e. most developers are already probably on iOS that are going to be on iOS).

Now if the industry was heavily competitive, and mobile developers could leave and go to another platform with lower fees and reach the same audience, then the competitive pressure would exist to do what you are describing and volume discounts may become a thing - but because Apple can block any competition in this space they don't need to offer any discount to encourage these big developers to use their platform - the developers have to keep using them (which is what the lawsuit is about).

i.e. Apple's market position allows them to act as a market-making monopsony, which means it's not in their interest to provide a discount as they can exploit the situation to generate super-normal profits. Economics & business strategy 101.
Companies pull out of countries all the time when changes in the socio, political, economic and most importantly regularly environment make their business untenable.

Case in point: China or post-Brexit UK.

You use this hyperbolic rhetoric to describe the situation but it really is an every day occurence.
> Oh, you don't feel that way huh?

> But what is that in the face of your feelings?

You know damn well that was a idiomatic way of saying "according to my not-necessarily-infalliable estimation of the relevant information".

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Good, I hope this will give Australia the power it needs to finally crush disinformation and right wing terrorism. The two go hand-in-hand.
Summary:

* 2019 Revenue: $68M with a net loss of $33M

* 2020 Revenue: $102M (50% YoY growth) with a net loss of $24M

* 2021 (Jan-Jun) Revenue: $72M (up 56% vs $46M same period 2020)
It's because AU is used as a test bed for all the really fucked up laws that the powers that be would love to pass, but can't due to significant citizen pushback and/or armed citizens.
As I say, very different time. I didn't even really have email prior to entering the workplace and, while there were conference calls to manufacturing sites and the like and other (frequent) phone calls, it was a very in-person swing by offices/desks/labs sort of environment. But that's obviously different from what a fresh engineering grad has been exposed to.
Whats the mechanism for long covid from vaccines? Didn't think any of the links mentioned that.
It looks good! When I wrote duphard, fclones didn't exist. :)
It's spinning pinwheels all the way down
“Disrupting data” sounds like a hell of a lot of fun.
Depends on the thing. Children tend to be fine at self-directed learning, e.g. figuring out how to play a new video game. Some—most?—adults chafe at even the idea of engaging in an activity that requires self-directed learning. (To the point that we even have an English word for those adults that don't: "neophiles.")
F5 load balancers have an absurd amount of features, and can load balance 100Gb traffic flows
Like I said I don’t have the data, so maybe take 90% with a grain of salt :-) But some 6 Nations games in recent years have been pretty frustrating wrt scrum, and I don’t see it getting any more interesting or safe
I have no idea. I didn't think to check their Men's line. The typical variation is that "typically women's" colorways are simply not offered in men's, so if you want a shoe that has any sort of red hues (such as pink, purple, lavender, lilac, wine, maroon, etc) then you're out of luck, because most retailers only offer "typically men's" colorways in their men's sizes. You'll also see stylistic variations, heel size variations, and "these shoes are intended for use with or without socks" variations.

Still. I'll go check now, though, and I feel kind of dumb for not thinking to look sooner. Thank you for the pointer.
From 'The Matrix':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pill_and_blue_pill
It doesn't: The average startup goes bankrupt.
I use a tenkeyless on my desktop for exactly this reason. I could always shift a normal keyboard over to center it, but then my mouse is way off to the side.
PAE can't be used in consumer Windows versions (unless you install 3rd party kernel patches)
Their product and pricing page is extremely vague and full of dark patters, and doesn't really describe what "Docker Desktop" even is. Can I use the CLI without downloading Docker Desktop? Can I launch the daemon and interact with it via the API?
That means the government and media successfully manufactured consent with the population.

A majority of the US supported the War on Terror. That was manufactured consent with thanks to the corporate press. It was only the outliers that protested from the beginning, only proven correct after 20 years, thousands of lives and trillions of dollars wasted in Afghanistan.

Now that this has ended, be on alert for the next campaign of fear that will be used to erode freedom and increase the surveillance state. Australia is a look at the near future of western "democracy" if they are successful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
Adapting the OCaml Ecosystem for Multicore OCaml
NZ also used the FF Tarrant attack on the mosques to take everyone's guns.
After they introduced that feature I hit a bug where it would try to force an upgrade to version "null" and then crash. I ended up having to uninstall and reinstall it to get things usable again.
I wouldn't call "display a chair in a web page in an inexact and implementation-defined manner, with air quotes 'interactivity'" a "very basic need".

This seems like a very specific use case, which I think is best left to custom code.
For video and audio gear, https://www.rtings.com/

For lots of stuff, Consumer Reports. Online access to CR is included with many US library systems. For example, all Seattle Public Library cardholders have full access to CR’s site: https://www.spl.org/online-resources/a-z-online-resources?al...
I think the challenge is most of our major tech corporations love to publicly tout their progressive bonafides at every possible opportunity.

Right until it hurts their pocket book that is. Then suddenly all of the politics they've been pushing go out the window and they want to have an apolitical workforce.

If corporations want to be non-political, they should stay non-political.

I've personally become quite cynical about their motives. I think these woke tech companies are happy to talk about equity and climate because it doesn't cost them anything -- it's basically free marketing -- but if their workers organized or their taxes were raised, they'd suddenly show their true colors.
> and people like me who can barely tell you the interval between two notes

And a musician probably couldn't tell the difference between = vs == or & vs &&. If you don't recognize that someone that spends all of their time doing something will be better at that something compared to someone else, then there's just a large disconnect. Also, the concept of "practice" yielding improvement is not a new concept, and I'm surprised it seems to be so shocking of a concept.
But what you're suggesting is that they'd have to do a house visit in order to tell coworkers about this slack workspace -- that anything using company resources, including company grounds, should be a violation of the rights of the company.
I always thought of dad-jokes as inherently clean / punny.

Dude shows up in #dad-jokes to pull some blue / edgy stuff I'd be surprised.
Yes, it would. Wouldn't detectives watching through your windows as you type on your phone be functionally the same as having your phone surveilled?

Warranted, targeted surveillance is less bad than surveilling everyone to see if they are committing crimes, which less bad than recording what everyone did so they can be charged with crimes retroactively, which is less bad than charging people for crimes they're only predicted to commit.
*shouldn't
He was born when Christ was just 10 to 15 years old. Not sure why, but this somehow fascinates me.
The 9th and 10th amendments to the US constitution limits the US government only to the powers explicitly enumerated in article 1 section 8.

But in the real world, unfortunately, you are absolutely correct. Even the idea that there are only a short list of things that a government can do is a foreign concept to most folks.
WSL1 didn't run a Linux kernel at all - it was implementing the Linux user-space API over the Windows NT kernel. Well, some of it - not enough to run Docker, for example.

Docker on Windows and Mac does the same as what is described above - it runs a Linux VM and runs the docker server inside that, and then does a little magic to expose native OS paths and so on to that VM. On Windows, it uses WSL2 by default now, but WSL2 is also a Hyper-V VM in the end, with some Windows magic to blend it more nicely in Windows workflows.
Pre-covid, there was almost nowhere to go to the bathroom in downtown SF either.
Agreed. My company (Pinterest) recently opened "new offices" for engineering talent, but they were in Mexico City and elsewhere.

The idea that we'll be competing with other US-based workers is wrong.

In the long run our remote-work "more freedom" fantasy will come to an end.
I was responding to the idea that neural network-based software/hardware as a whole is an unprofitable industry trend, no comment on Tesla's specific hardware here.
No, it's more the difference between a fake certificate of authenticity for a real Picasso, and a real certificate of authenticity for a real Picasso. An NFT is no more an artwork than a certificate of authenticity is an artwork. The artwork in this case isn't what got sold, the NFT (certificate of authenticity) is. The artwork isn't fake, the NFT is, though since it's of a real artwork the distinction between a "fake" NFT and a "real" NFT is pretty much meaningless.
As an extension to the soap, there are single squeeze detergent bottles now that precisely meter on a one handed squeeze. So simple, yet phenomenally useful.
The works council system in Germany and Switzerland (and some other countries) works a lot better than American unions. I'm not sure why. It seems they are more co-operative and have fewer BS rules.
> Keep in mind it’s different to America, you get paid decent money from the state to stay at home.

I wish this meme would die. People in the US got paid decent money too.

The federal gov spent $3 trillion more on transfer payments in Q1 2021 than it did in Q4 2019. This is more than a doubling. That's nearly $17,000 for every human in the US.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/B087RC1Q027SBEA
And yet American gun owners also tend to be the Americans who most believe their government is already totalitarian. Maybe they think waving their guns around just stops things from getting worse?
Here is how to disable the many forms of advertising on Windows 10:

https://www.howtogeek.com/269331/how-to-disable-all-of-windo...

Also don't forget that there is a ridiculous amount of user behaviour telemetry and metadata that Microsoft has permission to use for any reason.
I’ve always wondered how hard it would be to start your own country, people start new companies all the time to solve problems, I think it’s time we start a new country for the first time in how many years? Maybe a government that actually does respect privacy and doesn’t just throw it out the window because of “terrorism” or whatever the thing of the moment might be. Also would be nice to live somewhere that doesn’t have atrocious wars on its historical record or hundreds of years of exploitation of other peoples.
I disagree. It is almost as if at work talk on work provided media like slack, should be work related. What is next? People complain about mutiny related chat rooms being banned by the Navy?
That might be a different discussion but the mentioned police surveillance law was voted in a national referendum.
Or you could tag a little more optimally.
> I just think recorded info like this hosted by the employer is inherently a bad idea and everyone would be better served if the employees ran some channel of their own hosted elsewhere.

I wonder if the employees would be allowed to set up their slack channel elsewhere, or if Apple would prefer having control.
Maybe this is common knowledge, but I saw an ad recently for a company that offers money to snitch on your employer for using unlicensed software, or not paying for free-for-personal-use" software
Nope, there isn't (at this time, at least).
I don't think it has anything to do with "major tech corporations" or even "progressive".

It is anyone once their interests / income matters.
> The biggest showstopper for podman is that it runs entirely in userspace on Linux.

As I see it, that's the whole selling point. Need to have something with limited rights or build a container without root? Podman is the way to go.
Unfortunately fdupes does not do this or at least nothing in their docs points to this functionality.

I say unfortunately because before writing duphard, I tested fdupes and a couple other utilities (duff and duperemove) but none offered the functionality I needed.
More anti chinese propaganda. I'm sure Robert Potter, chief executive officer of Internet 2.0, an Australian cybersecurity company that this entire article is based around has nothing to gain from this kind of hit piece.
Fascinating and well-written. Informative and, in places, scathing.

Thanks for the post!
Absolute pitch may not be possible to learn as an adult, but what they're describing is having good pitch memory, which is different from absolute/perfect pitch, and is definitely something you can develop with a bit of practice.
That's not a valid argument given that it is just as feasible to price individual transport out of the market while simultaneously raising the price for public transport in such a "capitalist oligarchy". Fossil fuel companies will again go on a public transport buying spree, this time around with the intention of keeping the trains rolling while raising prices to the point of maximum profit.
> one thing right out of the union-buster handbook is that you first remove the ability of workers to organize themselves at work

Simplest way around that is handing out pamphlets near the company entrance/exit containing information about the union. And of course you point to non-employer-hosted resources such as a member-only forum.
Is that person a gcc-rs dev? I didn't think that was true.

One argument in favor of gcc-rs is related to bootstrapping; right now you need both a previous Rust compiler, as well as a C compiler, to compile Rust. With gcc-rs, you need only gcc. I don't personally think that the bootstrapping situation is onerous, but there are some folks who are looking forward to that.
This is true, and that's why there's constitution. Constitution makes sure that government power is limited to issues that don't change power balance from people to government or from minority to majority groups. It makes sure that no matter who runs the country, they can't ruin it.
Crossplane v1.4
I don't want to drone on about this too much longer since we obviously disagree about some of the big points here (and agree about the "direction," which is more important anyway), but:

> I don’t see how there was anything holistic about HyperCard. It wasn’t really much different from Visual Basic except for the Card and Link metaphor, which was good for creating scaffolding without having to start coding first. Database builders like FileMaker or multimedia tools like Macromedia director, and Flash, are in the same family of tool. Even PowerPoint. There was certainly nothing specially integrated about it. It was just a tool.

If you look at, say System 7 and the versions of Hypercard that ran on it you'll see that this isn't true. One could control important "outer" functions of the whole operating system from within Hypercard using its own conception of the world, which I would say counts as special integration. The UI even looked quite similar to the rest of the system, making it "real". There was a kind of seamlessness there, and it came before things like PowerPoint etc.

Also it was more than just presentations. Non-"programmer" Mac users were building all sorts of things, from zines to point-of-sale systems for their local businesses. At one point in the early 1990s Apple estimated that there were 4 million authors creating their own stacks.

I definitely agree that today -- with the current systems we have and the environment that the companies who make them operate -- the problem is extra hard. My recurring thought on the matter is that we need to toss aside things like backward compatibility and software portability (ie, recreate a computing system from the ground up) in order to have what we are talking about. At the end of the day we are still in the world of C and Unix and I don't think we're going to find what we are looking for so long as that remains the case.
you _could_ use your other device (the one you're connecting from) as the controller.
whomst amongst us doesn't have a 3rd machine or VPS?
a lot of computers being sold today are still 1366x768
>>Slack channels for activities and hobbies not recognized as Apple Employee clubs or Diversity Network Associations (DNAs) aren’t permitted and shouldn’t be created.

Clearly the solution is to have an "LGBTQ+ and pay equality" channel.

/s if it isn't obvious.
Since you're paid to review chairs, and likely didnt come out of pocket for this chair... I respectfully request that you send me a chair so I may review it on my own, unbiased.
Hmm, I don't think I'm advocating for anarchy. I find it hard to put this into words in a coherent way; but I think it's preferable that the state's capabilities are somewhat matched by the populace's. Not just the legalities of checks & balances. The people need to be able to watch the state if the state is watching them.

This capability is currently very much lacking. We (by which I broadly mean western countries in general) are seeing less and less government transparency. Trade deals are brokered in secret, surveillance bills are rushed through parliaments, terrorism and child abuse are being used as blanket excuses for pretty much everything. Journalists get less and less access. In some countries (Italy comes to mind) there are very strong ties between the government and the media.

And sure, we have some form of representative democracy, but it seems like governments in many cases don't represent their people, but rather their own interests. The people are often unaware of what their governments get up to (various atrocities in the Middle East come to mind). By the time the next election comes up, the damage is already done, with zero accountability.

Long story short: it's good for governments to be able to enforce laws that benefit (all? most?) people, but the people need to be able to stick it to the government if need be. And with all this government surveillance, that's become virtually impossible.
Since both countries have had issues with vaccine supply, both have extremely low vaccination rates. The lockdowns are an intermediary measure to prevent loss of life until vaccination rates are high enough to warrant leaving it.

Furthermore, the response has enabled New Zealanders to lead an almost completely normal life aside from the two lockdowns - going to work without even thinking about the necessity of masks or social distancing. Attending concerts without a fear of contracting Covid-19. Stadiums full of people when the US and other countries have been in limbo for 2 years now. Your idea of `insane` is quite bizarre to me.
Crafting the 3 most scrutinized sections in your Pre-Seed Pitch Deck
Yeah but they use a lot of oil in those woks, and they get them really hot. Any Chinese street vendor with an open fire and cheap steel wok can do shit I can't dream of doing in my fancy ass American kitchen.
I make the same observation as other people have made. These types of laws are being passed with increasing intensity and scope in most western countries.

They seem to follow the same idea. Purportedly they are being passed to stop crime or at least aid the investigation of suspected criminals.

The other set of laws are purportedly meant to stop the spread of infectious disease.

But the laws are clearly not well balanced in terms of privacy rights and personal freedom.

There is also this ominous synchronization between government and trans-national bodies such as the WHO with major technology firms; having the latter act as uncritical propaganda arms of the former - no matter the evidence or reasons for doubt.

Rather than discussion and reasoning, there is this flow of labels thrown around at dissenters, regardless of who they are and what they say.

If they critique transwomen competing with women they are called transphobic and accused of hate speech.

If they prefer not to take a vaccine shot and/or critique lockdowns and restrictions; they are called anti-vaxxers and accused of spreading misinformation.

All of this points in the direction of tyranny and totalitarianism. All we can do is vote with our feet.
Each of the Five Eyes benefits, so one doesn't need to be the target of just Australian law enforcement.
I'd be down to fight for Right to Pee: https://newrepublic.com/article/162266/doordash-uber-eats-de...
Isn't 1080p way better for battery life + its mostly indistinguishable in pixels? unless you are like, looking really close at the pixels? remember its 1080p inside a 15" monitor, not a 24" monitor a PC has.
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Not starting out adversarial with management is a big part of it. Unions in the US feel like they need to have strict rules because otherwise management will take advantage. Management in the US is often very strongly anti-union. This is a situation where social conventions and government regulation could yield better outcomes than an adversarial system. But Americans love adversarial systems.
Should be good up to 24"
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While you're right that the brand is not listed, every single drive in the configurator lists NVME. The "Storage" specification you show is just what the M.2 connection supports as far as interface. So if you have an existing SATA M.2 drive, or want to buy one to save money, you can.

The graphics are integrated into the APU, so you can look up their specifications.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/apu/amd-ryzen-5-5500u

https://www.amd.com/en/products/apu/amd-ryzen-7-5700u