skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is Econ 101, and of course all this is theory - but that's the idea right, we are describing why it is in Apple's interest to do what they are doing. You are prescribing a change that goes against basic economic theory and also isn't the behaviour being observed, so I personally don't think that criticism is fair!

The main thing your comments miss is how apple is going to make up for the immediate shortfall in profit from your proposed changes. Bear in mind, they need to increase revenue 5 times to make the same amount of profit.

It's fine to hand-wave about how Apple should provide volume discounts because everyone else does, but you don't really provide a reason for why they should do that from a financial perspective and how they can do it without loosing a majority of their profit (everything is a soft-benefit which doesn't account for the huge financial losses this would incur).

I don't mean a bullet point, I mean like "I think a reduction of the fees to 10% would translate to a 20% reduction in the price of apps, and that would encourage people to buy 5 times more apps".

Or that all the money these big companies make will be so inspirational that 5x new developers will enter the market and these will, on average, be just as successful as the previous developers with zero cannibalisation.
> accepted the offer verbally with enthusiasm

> Now that we got close to the date to make it official

> he's sort of soft-backtracked on his initial enthusiasm

He agreed. According to you, now he is trying to unagree.

Run. As fast as you can. Sounds like he was agreeable during the time you were used for free labor and it sounds like you recently finished something for him that he no longer needs you.

> spent about a week in the evenings and on the weekend (for free) helping out because of my personal interest in the field he's working in and to see if we'd get along further.

> helped automate part of his process, saving him manual work and I've started building out a new backend as well since his code was hastily written and is just a bunch of isolated scripts.

Did he ask you to do these things or did you look for things to do?
I could care less about the attitude or acumen of Jeff or Elon personally.

From a business perspective though, it's absolutely bonkers to see Amazon wasting such an immense amount of resources in an attempt to slow the competition down, rather than speed their own up.

It's like watching a child flip the monopoly board after realising they can't buy any more properties and remain on top.
So I tried installing it on my barebones Windows 10 box:

First try: "Install C++ resdistributable" Okay...Done

Second try: "Could not find MediaEncoder.dll"

I added the NAudio and SharpDX packages from nuget thinking that might solve it, but no...

Sorry I don't know how to use your software!
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For doing these sort of things quickly, try getting the Twinkle gadget (enwp.org/WP:TWINK) — you get a giant searchable list for tags to add. Heck, you can put a BUNCH on at a time!

Also, {{advert}} is a thing.
What a great article.

> Doing so can boost the number of job applicants by as much as 400%, Amazon says in one message, without explaining how it came up with the statistic.

> [...] said one, who requested anonymity to discuss the issue because Amazon discourages delivery company owners from speaking to the media.

So as usual, and as the article even mentions, there is no "employee shortage". There is a employee equilibrium at the shitty wage Amazon pays.

This should go on the list of desperately misleading titles along with "Drug XYZ shown to cure cancer [...in mice]"
You might want to try ScreenToGif (https://www.screentogif.com/) for Windows and Kap (https://getkap.co/) for macOS.
If you really are interested in the answer to your question about pollution this is a good video to watch

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C4VHfmiwuv4
> Software can be tested more thoroughly than humans, and cannot override safety protocols.

Humans have had millions of years of testing and can be robustly relied on to take action to avoid dying.

I’m not saying humans are perfect, because obviously they are not. But software isn’t either.

And software and software testing are done by humans too, so the issue is not fallible human vs machine. Pilot vs automation is just comparing two different modes of human fallibility.
Even before 'things you don't understand' I was thinking about things you don't even see or overlook.

Most ahhh moment are realizing you had everything before your eyes.
> Not only did Google not write Fucshia in Go, they explicitly made it a forbidden language (listing a litany of reasons to exclude it and any other GC language -- the same reasons that apply to most "low-level" code), they set a goal to migrate any parts imported in. Maybe not the best example.

It helps when the Go guy on the team is no longer there to argue for it.

> Which programming language would one write "COM" in? ....

VB 6, Delphi, .NET, C++ Builder, C++/CX, C++ with MFC/ATL/WRL, whatever language speaks the COM ABI.

Yeah, maybe you were doing it wrong.

> The "Linux bubble" comment is especially weird. I spend my day in macOS, with most of my day being in XCode slinging Swift and GoLand spinning Go. Somehow I can evaluate the world without trying to mangle it to fit whatever my current primary skills are.

Good for you then, happy future.
Creating with whatever brain you have
> If s/he has a barcode scanner or an Apple ID scanner, then that scanner can log your visits

This system actually lets you only supply your age to the reader and no other info, to avoid the tracking. In other discussions of this, I've learned that many shops and bars in the US already optically scan IDs to verify them digitally (not trusting staff to verify security features), so this is actually an improvement on privacy compared to before.
If you like elaborate[0] typing and immutable everything, Go really is not the language for you.

[0] I don't know Haskell that well, but my understanding is that its type system is capable of expressing more intricate types than the Go type system.
The point is that McD-corp gets IceC-corp big money by mandating a single machine from them. IceM(achine)-corp do this through broken maintenance process. Hence IceM-corp see machines very often and ensures as a third party that food-safety of ice-cream produced by these machines is satisfied. This is what McD-corp is getting back from it. They don't trust die Franchises and let them pay money for their own inspection.
> To ease the usage of the compiler as a library and later on bootstrapping, it is written in C11 with no external libraries apart from LibC and my custom utility library. A large portion of the coding is recorded and posted as videos on YouTube.

And the relevant Youtube playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvdK1vRmp8wMzH4w_8sQ3...
Web server, rate limiter, fronting actual servers (api gateway / reverse proxy), user auth / user data (db), and file hosting (downloads).
At some point I realized I'm quite bad at engineering skills as well as politics skills required to be promoted at big companies, resulting in significant slower promotions than most people in the company.

After some years, I realized I'm better at the game of pretending to care, and put less effort and hours while still being paid 100% of compensation. Even more so thanks to remote work with covid. Now I find gratification in projects outside of work with this time.

Note that both strategies (getting promoted vs just working less time) increase your pay/hour, so just do whatever you're best at.
Yet another reason to not upload 100,000 selfies to Facebook.
Would love to know this as well! I never use the GUI of Docker Desktop, I just need the docker and docker-compose commands on the command line (on macOS).
Thank you for this reference - it's taken me on a lovely journey of reading!
Good old falstad.com. used his applets religiously throughout undergrad, many years ago.
The brand reputation cost is difficult to measure, though.

If the ice cream machine is always broken, customers may come to expect a low standard of service and quality.

You also have the people who skip McDonald's entirely because one member of their party wants ice cream.
Also why (fake) cycle to a rocket launch in an attempt to reinforce eco credentials when rocket launches are anything but environmentally friendly!
Lisp had images from day one -> already in 1960. The feature of saving and restarting was already developed then.

Yes, one can save all and restore it later. Problems are then naturally: open files, network connections, native threads, ... those are usually not restored after load. The state of a network connection is not to be restored.

Interlisp had also image-based development which is another step up: source code is managed and stored. Most Lisp systems nowadays save source code in files and can keep track of locations, etc. Thus the source code management feature is usually stronger in Smalltalk. Smalltalk usually also has a VM with machine-independent code, where Lisp systems often have machine-native code. Thus in Smalltalk one can transfer an image to a different machine architecture, where most Lisp systems only transfer images on the same machine architecture & operating system combination.

The Java VM lacks this easy memory image feature.
A CRT moves the electron beam direction from top-to-bottom, left-to-right. If it sends electrons, the corresponding position on the screen lights up for about 1/50 s. So you can encode your pixels as a 0/1 pulse train, although you do have to take care of the time it takes to move the beam to the next line, and at the end to reset it to the top.

Idk what "NET" is, though.
Thinking of this as "the system" just sheds personal agency for no reason. Or at least, no good reason.
You risk being murdered and your business put on fire?

Stop romanticizing it.

Yes, some states started from violent protection based tribes (not all of them). This was not taxation. There were/are states and actual laws in the places Bedouin extort people for money under threat of violence. They provided no service in return execpt the promise that they themselves would not harm you.

Absolutely no, extorting "protection" money is not OK and it is not taxation.
“Some of it is essential for life, some seems useless, and some has its own agenda.”

It’s like you have a bookshelf filled with books. Some books you haven’t read, some were gifts, some were acquired, some you didn’t finish and some book you will read over and over again. All of them were kept for some reason.

I don’t believe nature would create something that’s completely useless. I just know that often I fail to see what the use might be.
If you really want to convince them, you have spend the time to watch their videos to understand what they are thinking

Even if their videos are wrong

Sorry there's no shortcut for that
I get locked out of gmail using NordVPN with increasing frequency. I was locked out of my account this week for one night.
You 100% dont have to memorize proofs for that. If you put in work to understand to proof, then you have to remember maybe one tricky step or something like that to reproduce it. Again, just because the proof is on exam does not imply you have to memorize it.

Also, way better way to test is to put similar made up theorem on exam. Which means you cant just reproduce what you memorized without understanding.
Doesn’t it pass that quickly because it got enough votes? In other words there wasn’t enough dissent to require further readings and debate because enough people were happy with it.
Counter-acting this negative train of thought is a goal of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for depression, and it's very successful. But also way more expensive than pills.
" ... moved to OPNsense running on decent SuperMicro 1U edge systems ..."

I agree with what you have done here and I will echo the sentiment to run away screaming from Ubiquiti/UniFi.

It's easy to be confused by all of the professional ISP gear that Ubiquiti used to produce and think that the UniFi products (like the "Dream Machine") are professional networking equipment. Try blocking ubnt domains at your network edge losing the ability to log into UniFi ... you'll see how "professional" it is right away.

I will also say that it is ironic, and sad, that you mention Supermicro as an alternative. Their recent moves make it quite clear that they are trying to move in the same direction ... which is to say, making wonderfully built products that fulfill useful (but boring) use-cases is never enough.

Supermicro circa 2010 was making people rich but not billionaire rich ... and that is a problem they are working hard to fix.
How anyone can look at the world and say this with a straight face just blows my mind
See the Youtube playlist I linked in another comment. Plus the author has several blog posts and the code is in the Github repository. There is plenty to see and read, but it is true that he hasn't seemed to have made any releases yet, but it is WIP, so...
If you use flashcards for learning, you are doing rote learning by definition. There is nothing more rote then making cards and then memorizing their content.

It is also absurd way to learn stuff that has relationships in it.
Japanese princess rejects $1.36m payout for commoner life in US
This is a false dichotomy: low risk hospitalization vs unknown long term side effects of the vaccine. The correct choice is unknown long term side effects of COVID-19 vs unknown long term side effects of vaccine.

In other words: you will get your immunity either by becoming sick (and maybe get well known short term side effects of being sick, including hospitalization and death) or by getting vaccinated, with other set of short and long term known and unknown side effects. In the first case you will put more pressure to public health system (even by staying home and consuming self-prescripted basic drugs). Otherwise the choice is yours.
In the README: "Windows 10 or newer"
ShareX might be what you're looking for.

https://getsharex.com/
Location: Antananarivo, MG

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Go, Django, Flask, Postgresql, Git, Docker

Résumé/CV: http://thomas.ayih-akakpo.org/assets/documents/Resume.pdf

Email: thomas@ayih-akakpo.org
The usual argument has been shown false by many studies: piracy, in fact, spreads awareness of cultural products and thus creates sales that would otherwise never have happened. It is essentially free advertising.
Stacker (YC S20) Is Hiring a Growth Engineer
Copy down a sentence that you've read today that you feel was the least likely for you to come across in the entire duration of your life:

The rabbit is the antagonist in a major set piece battle[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_of_Caerbannog
Is the legacy vcs ClearCase or DesignSync?
Pentel Graphgear 1000 puts Staedtlers, Rotrings, and others to shame...

Staedtler can't even make a good block eraser.
Well, division by 0 could be handled with pattern matching without crashing. Excuse my rusty pseudoerlang.

(edit) formatting

handle_zero(data, 0) -> {:error, "division by zero"},
handle_zero(data, _) -> {:ok, transform(data)}.

handle_input(data) -> handle_zero(data, data.divider).
If you want to self host, thehelm.com is one that I know of. I also keep tabs on getumbrel.com which is a personal server (with built-in appstore-like package manager) on Raspberry-Pi.
Shouldn't some non-trivial % of VPN companies popular on the market be run by intelligence agencies by various countries as a honey pot operation? Or is the idea that intelligence agencies have better means to monitor internet traffic?
Shuttle99 | Full-stack Python developers | Full-time | Fully remote

We do web development. That's it.
We mostly use Flask, Redis, Postgres.
They are our own websites, no client BS.

Apply here: https://shuttle99.join.com/jobs/2788525-senior-python-web-de...
Expire-Span: Scaling Transformer by Forgetting
I'm currently learning JavaScript and React from Scrimba[0].

I'm not affiliated with them in any way, they have an interesting video-editor-learning tool.

[0]: https://scrimba.com
Nice write up. We set up a very similar system using, Serverless instead of SAM, and our costs are about the same. I need to take a good look at MJML. Our templates our stored in S3 and editing them is somewhat primitive.
Cancelling subscriptions like gym memberships, NYT, LinkedIn Premium, ...
Bransons ‘businesses’ are anything but conventional…

Mostly setup and then portions sold off, with Virgin licensing their name to the business.

Even before Covid, Virgin Atlantic is a real shit show financially with virtually everything (planes, landing slots etc) pledged as security for debt to some lender
It's purely a performance increase. Its definition of valid will need to be that it matches the output of the non-ML version.
I am old enough to remember :-)

Hive01, those sites and the umbrella site opendeskop.org were started by Frank Karlitschek, who was very involved in KDE ~15 years ago. Then he sold the company and went on to found OwnCloud, and later on to fork as NextCloud. Actually, before OwnCloud there was an attempt to create a company to assemble and sell PCs with Linux and free software but that failed.
"For router hardware look at the PC Engines APU2"

I use a lot of these in my personal networking setup but I am going to start moving to a raspberry pi CM4 built into this dual-ethernet board:

https://www.seeedstudio.com/Dual-GbE-Carrier-Board-with-4GB-...

It's a smaller footprint, more CPU horsepower, etc., and I like mounting little devices onto DIN rails more than I like trying to rackmount the 7" or 9" APUs ...
True. I pay even more, as I rent a small office within walking distance of my house since the pandemic started, to have a quiet separate space for working.

But, I can't complain. While I don't like to pay for it, objectively the cost of the office isn't more than the cost of fuel for the commute and all those expensive lunches at the office.

And my commute is now a couple minutes on bicycle and I can be home any moment, run local errands during the day (impossible when I was an hour away), I no longer need to drive anywhere, etc. Life is better.
And even in the middle ages there were criminals. People that rubbed villagers on the side of the road. People that brunt down their fields and asked for money. There is a difference between violently robing people and taxation.

This discussion is somewhat sureal to me.
I think if you're able to run LXC containers, you don't need a virtualization-based approach to run Docker containers. Iirc Docker Desktop isn't even available for Linux because of that.
> I wish there were more instruments and built-in sample library.

That's costly and time-consuming. Think of all the licenses. There are enough free VST plugins to get you started, though. Here's a starting point: https://www.kvraudio.com/plugins/instruments/free/newest. Change the search to match your platform, and don't forget to look at the effects (although I couldn't see if Helios supports them).
Expiring messages were proposed but are not in the Matrix spec yet, see https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2228

Message notifications work in Conduit.

Another thing I forgot to mention is that Conduit only supports room versions 5 and above while Dendrite supports all of them.
Just note that if you run ZFS, it's difficult because overlay2 doesn't work, AUFS is deprecated, and ZFS nesting is not supported.

It will fallback to VFS which is very slow.
I am vaccinated but didn't get a passport. In the EU there are QR codes to verify your status. I made a picture of it. If that isn't enough, I take my business elsewhere.

Not feeling too safe to have a picture of it on my smartphone (Android) and while this is an exaggerated fear, I will delete it as soon as the panic is over.
> Let me use a password if I want, these security requirements are becoming increasing absurd - I could realistically see people just checking out of services if these invasive procedures continue. Just kidding, a lad can dream. Yeah it's not rocket surgery to add the ssh key and then clone it to your different machines but if you have strict sprint deadline or something and you haven't pulled from your repo in a day and suddenly you can't run your workflow, then that's really pretty annoying to have to run the context switch and do some random bullshit to appease your vendor's obnoxious requirements. If Millenials ever learn software engineering en-masse maybe they would decry this lack of consent in daily software engineering operations. (Haha jk... not really, but I'm a Millenial so it's ok for me to say this)

Passwords are just not viable for public-facing services any more. If they let people use passwords, those people would keep getting hacked, and the support burden (or the reputation burden if they just shrugged their shoulders) would be too high.

Frankly, between using passwords that you're forced to rotate / expire / use x special characters and y numbers, using some opaque ML system that blocks your login whenever you're travelling, and just actually using ssh keys, I know which option I prefer.
BrakTooth: Causing Havoc on Bluetooth Link Manager
As far as I know Amazon doesn't do uplevels on team transfers either. You don't get to skip the promotion process.
In my personal opinion (and I recognise that this is a controversial view on Hacker News) Apple should be entitled to the same thing Epic Games asks for—which is the right to decide how much their intellectual property is worth when used by other developers to build commercial products.
That's the point: it looks like space is the new "Far West"...

Can't we learn from history and - for once - try to talk and agree on common rules and management together BEFORE doing something to a world shared resource ?
Problem is that, with COVID, you can be completely asymptomatic and yet still highly infectious. If the problem was as simple as telling all the sick people they had to stay home, that would be easy.
On another page[1], you can spot NET being OR'd together with PAD1 and PAD2 to VIDEO. I would guess that it's abstracted away on this page for simplicity.

[1] https://www.falstad.com/pong/paddles.html
Correct, E2EE over federation works, but you can't verify the users yet
For what it's worth, I'm fully on board with most aspects of the right to repair movement.
I wonder if there will be such a thing as a tech center if more and more people are working remote
Spatial Software (2020)
> ...say people who are on the blessing side of inequality.

This isn't an argument I'm afraid.

> Note: I am on the blessing side as well. I have no experience whatsoever about what it means to suffer from inequality.

Yes you do.

Not everybody who is less well off than you live a life of misery and unhappiness and desperation. There would even be many very poor people who have happier and more fulfilling lives than you do I would wager.
Haven't played with it yet, but yes. Its strengths are: free, oss, multi-platform, and a different way of interacting with the notes. It probably has good handling of micro-tonality, too.
"Really glad to see this write-up. I love my current PiHole setup, but replicating it for family/friends (especially with my blocking so many sites they might want) hasn't seemed doable."

A few things ...

First, you can make pihole-like DNS ad-filtering available to everyone you know by using nextdns.io as your DNS and (basically) moving your pihole into the cloud. It's a tremendous product and I wish I had thought of it.

Second, aren't all of these things (pihole / nextdns) already obsolete ? Browsers (like firefox) are enabling DoH by default and devices in your home as well as apps on your devices are going to migrate to DoH as well.

Unless there is a solution I am missing I fear that we had a brief golden age where properly configured ad-blocking, via DNS, was a simple and useful solution but now that's falling apart ...