skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inflation is a negative interest rate on cash. But you can't control it by making decrees, that's silly. Of course you can say "banks should confiscate a share of deposits" but all that means is that people stop using banks. Yes, there is a convenience factor for using banks, but it's not 30%.

The result of making the currency less desirable is that people stop using the currency and transact in something else. That already happened -- both the Venezuelan government and the Venezuelan currency are doomed, the later already abandoned and the former kept in power only by Cuban mercenaries sent to Venezuela in exchange for oil. When Venezuela can no longer send enough oil to Cuba, the government will fall. The question is how many people need to starve before that happens and how many times will they need to keep removing zeroes from their bills. Soon they wont have the capacity to even print new bills, so that, too, will stop.
Apple execs describe a “unique arrangement” with Netflix
1920x1200 on the 2009 17” MacBook Pro, pre-Retina.

The consumer MacBooks and iBooks before them definitely had frustratingly low resolutions.
Openbsd is very competitive with Linux performance wise for a thinkpad user. Runs plenty fast enough on my vps, also. I haven't run any benchmarks but I've never waited on anything. I believe you that linux is faster, but it's speed that I don't need.

I never heard of eBPF before. Is that like dtrace? I gather there was some working on adding that to bsd. I haven't missed not having either of those. Maybe more for lower level coding?

The simplicity, consistency, and documentation are a bigger deal to me. I realize needs and preferences vary.
Ok, but that's just because they have covert levels:

https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Netflix,Google,Facebook&trac...

The pay raise between levels at Google or Facebook is about 20-30%
It’s weird.
The unwanted consequences of the green revolution, it produces a lot of subsidised trash
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Googles process here is fundamentally broken, and so easily improved.

I have had issues with them before and there should be:

- a portal to see your status (it's often impossible to know if they even got your comment)

- all comments and next steps clearly listed

- send warnings before bans in all cases unless there is some kind of extreme safety thing

- let developers respond to accusations before banning them

These would be minimal technical effort on googles part, negligible safety impact, but dramatically improve the developer perspective of them.
One has to wonder how far this guilt by association goes. If my personal Google account is banned for one reason or another today, does that mean all the companies I have worked for in the past are also at risk of being banned? Could an app that I haven't had anything to do with for years get removed?
Netflix doesn't pay stock. So the offer is straightforward. Their competitors pay stock which employees have to valuate, which is hard and employees usually undervalue it.
Windows 11 review: An unnecessary replacement for Windows 10
In what way is it misleading?
OMG. I thought this was a joke/hyperbole.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/10/lorillard-ke...
It cuts both ways. Having more species is not inherently better.

Climate change is a battle against ourselves, for ourselves. We will be the ones to pay the cost (potentially with our lives, or way of life at the very least); nature will persevere whether we win or lose.

Life will always find a way no matter how much humans (or ice ages, or asteroids, or whatever) screw up this planet.
When I lived in my car in SF a waymo would pass me right when I left and at many key intersections and at my destinations. I know it was not random but I don’t go down the rabbit hole of trying to figure out how they did it. If I get proof then I’d be vindicated. I tweeted about it as a human rights violation often, having no way to retreat. I long ago took it as a given that we have no privacy. I can only imagine where the data comes from and goes and how it is augmented.

Why would they care about me? Anti-terrorism, anti-competition, who knows. I tried not to think that much about it. I simply noticed the extreme regularity and improbability if it and thought in those terms and went about my limited life.

The vans are very menacing with their spinning sensors and black helmet, I’d hate to have been an actual criminal. Built charachter ignoring them.
Its good because that is what is paying for all these apps.
LTSC is our friend...
Can someone please tell me about blobcity cloud?
I've heard Netflix also has a perform or get managed out culture. Can you comment on that side of things?
I would suggest pivoting to a different non-mobile ecosystem.
Avoiding CORS with a Proxy
RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo”
Do you also rail against speed limits and any form of giving up “rights” under the social contract that is government? Or is it that you don’t want a truly Mad Max-style every-man-is-an-island and might-makes-right existence and we’re now talking about a matter of degree?
I've been curious about Common Lisp in the past but never really got started because I can't seem to find very good documentation. What do veteran CL users use as a reference? This maybe? http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/index...

I suppose I've "become accustomed to a certain lifestyle" coming from Racket's excellent documentation. But even if you ignore Racket, the R6RS reference (for example) seems way more readable than the CL spec: https://docs.racket-lang.org/r6rs/r6rs-std/index.html Same goes for Clojure, which I've never used: https://clojure.org/reference/documentation

This is not meant to be an attack on Common Lisp; I'm just trying to learn.

EDIT: I just saw https://lisp-lang.org/spec/ which says "We're currently working on parsing the TeX sources of the specification to generate a more modern version of the CLHS. This might take a while." I'm looking forward to seeing the result!
This is a very US-centric point of view.
Those are preinstalled apps with system access just like the Play Store itself though. It is still true you cannot do auto updates with user installed app stores like F-Droid unless you root.

Personally I don't mind just hitting update all in F-Droid every now and then so it's no big deal to me, just saying it is functionality only apps with system permissions (meaning pre-installed only if the phone isn't rooted) are allowed to have.

If, as you said in another comment, this will change in Android 12 that's a cool development. I hadn't heard this previously.
Ah, good point! I might try to create an eslint rule that incorporates it.
It might be a good idea to follow twitch.tv's business model.
In Austria, you have to earn at least 3700€ (before taxes) to have noncompetes.

https://www.wko.at/service/arbeitsrecht-sozialrecht/Konkurre...
While it can be put into a work contract, its never been in any contract of mine (I assume it is in contracts for union employees and for some executives). Many states do require that companies above a certain number of employees have to give notice, usually called WARN acts (and it looks like Oregon's requires 60 days notice according to https://www.oregon.gov/highered/institutions-programs/workfo...). Employees do need to pay out any unpaid holiday or sick time (which is why unlimited vacation is bad, since you don't get cashed out).

Normally when you get severance, it's in exchange for liability from lawsuits and to prevent bad press and sharing of trade secrets. What this does is make it much harder to sell Treehouse since there's now a fair amount of liability attached.
Actually no, they didn't seem to admit any violations.

I've been in this game awhile, dealing with Google is a continuous stream of "we have a new policy and you now have 30 days to provide the URL of your official formal legal privacy policy." or whatever new policy they invent.

Usually its not terribly exciting or controversial. For example by next month ALL updated apps must target Android 11 aka API level 30 (AFAIK unless they've recently altered the date, etc). I'm not having a significant problem with that, but historically its been a pain occasionally.

AFAIK all in-app subscriptions have to support account hold and restore as of next month, as a policy example, I'm not in that game, but as I understand, its perfectly OK to not support that today; just make sure its all good by Nov 1st.

I see there's a new "data safety section" on the play app content page as of next April. I would casually interpret that as being similar but different from the privacy policy requirement in that the priv pol seems to cover all activities of a company whereas the app data safety section will lay out exactly what OS calls your app is making. Which begs the question of why the play store or the OS don't simply automate the whole thing seeing as they have a pretty good idea what the binaries are calling...

Anyway the play store list of requirements is in continuous flux and has been for years and probably will continue to change until it closes someday.

Just because they haven't announced the official deadline date probably sometime next year when you'll have to upload only Android 12 / API 31 as a minimum doesn't mean that just like clockwork "everyone" knows its coming in a year or two.

The legal contract says they only have to give 30 days warning; honestly they're almost always far more generous.

On one hand its continuous lifetime work for me until some random bot accidentally inevitably wipes me out; on the other hand its also not productive work and most of the changes Google demands don't really help anyone, not even GOOG. They're so random sometimes.
That's an inspiring video!

The thing that strikes me about it is the cultural shift from seeing Nature as a resource to exploit to seeing Nature as a partner and guide.
I thank myself every day that I was never an employee of Facebook. I remember being in boarding school and having kids point to others and say, “he thinks he’s so cool but we all know where his family made their money,” and I never wanted to leave future generations with that baggage.

As for the rest, well... Unfortunately Thiel-Gawker means you’ll never get reporters to give you the factual run-down you need, because they’re scared of being sued. So, until there’s a court record, which will inevitably happen at some point, you’re stuck with insinuations for which you should do your own homework.
It would be nice to have maybe SVG export option.
FFS, they still do and what's worse is that bringing up the VPN manually on the command line trigger a notification and a temporary vpn entry in the network panel. But it disappears when bringing down the VPN.
In those 8 years you propably wrote less to the SSD as If it was a cache device for a write intensive server in a day ;)
That probally kept it going for a while?
Normally I would have blame Google for it. But the whole post doesn't rhyme with me for some reason. The tone, the lack of information about themselves. I had to google it and found 6AceGames [1], all of their games are gambling games. Email address, Facebook and Twitter registered in May 2021. Lots of other small things.

[1] http://www.6acegames.com/#contact-section
My point isn't that there aren't some exceptions it's that there are tons, maybe literally hundreds or thousands of factors into the supply/demand equation here.

what kind of internet is available in the area? How close are you to grocery stores? Is there a HOA that you have to pay dues to? What's the weather like? Is the home up to date or is the wiring and plumbing likely to need a lot of work? How big is the lot? How walkable is the neighbourhood? Is it near a smelly dump? What's the crime rate like? What are the schools in the area like, how close are they? How much access is there to transit?

It's not as simple as just "Build more housing" society also has to adequately service the people who want to live in that housing. If our lower income housing is all just bare minimum roof over your head and no access to anything then no one will want to live there, which also means that supply will not affect the demand on housing that has better access to amenities.
Sure, the subthread here moved to more general helmet statistics.
I have yet to meet anyone that hasn't at least come close to falling on clipless peddles.
I agree. It's strange to me that a common reaction to the premise that Facebook is more powerful than government is to say, "welp, guess we need to codify our free speech rights within our new Facebook government" rather than "Facebook can't be allowed to be that powerful."
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the first CT scan!

https://twitter.com/ARRS_Radiology/status/144391762570111388...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_R47LDdlZM
If it’s the same “SKU” they get commingled. Regardless of seller. You may think you are buying from a specific seller but you are not. All the same products are comingled.
I don’t think Amazon is co-mingling RX like they do with FBA.
I'll go even further and say that so long as the platform is run for-profit, this continues to be a problem.

I'm pursuing the idea of trying to better enable self-hosting of your online social presence with Haven[1], but it's difficult to get a framing that resonates quickly with people--in spite of the prevalence ofthese types of news stories.

[1] https://havenweb.org
I saw "Red Hat" on the login screen of a retail cash register a few years ago. If Ubuntu is ready and able to be installed on old workstations with Win 10 that are otherwise about to lose security updates, that could be millions of dollars cheaper than replacing 10,000+ Dells just to get Win 11. And there are still enterprises around that financially reward bean counters that successfully cut costs to increase profitability. So does this create an opening for enterprise Linux?

At the Windows-centric companies I've worked for it was mostly just running Outlook that was the thing we all absolutely had to do every day, with only occasional use of Word.

So many businesses now have replaced Windows native business apps with either web based ones or (less and less) Java apps. Both work on Linux.

Question: How good is Thunderbird nowadays as an alternative to Outlook, from a business decision maker perspective? (Or is there better than Thunderbird for businesses deeply entrenched in Outlook?)
Recently got my Adsense account banned, but did't use it since 2017, their ban system triggers randomly on any account:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28628849
My point was more about social interaction - not the lockdowns. It's an example of how social interaction is clearly a choice as much as being fat, drinking, cycling, etc.

Almost everything is a choice but we have a system setup to incentivize people to do certain actions more than others... making certain choices easier to take on than others. That's the problem I'm having with your argument. Present better and easier options for people and they will take them.
They simply reached their end of life and are progressively replaced with newer models.
Mostly great suggestions but number 3 is hilarious. "We are banning your account as it appears to be associated with a previously banned account".
Thinner wires can be used, which significantly reduces weight, complexity, and cost.
Wow. I am so bummed about being lied to about this.
How is the Rwandan genocide relevant?

Rwanda is 1000 km away from the area this book is about, populated by unrelated ethnicities, speaking unrelated languages, and was colonized by different European powers, and (except for the Apartheid struggle) the independence struggles the book is about culminated in 01975, 19 years before the Rwandan genocide.

This is like complaining that the role of cannon in Guatemalan independence from the Federal Republic of Central America is "curiously absent" from a book about the role of cannon in the US Civil War, which similarly happened 1000 km away and 19 years later. There's nothing curious about it!

(Yes, Virginia is a lot more than 1000 km away from Guatemala. And Cape Town is even further from Rwanda. 1000 km is roughly the shortest distance between the regions in question, to be maximally charitable to your thesis.)

I think the main thing these different events have in common is that you know almost nothing about them.
Don't Use T-Mobile Money
I'm curious why this upvoted (on HN, not reddit). It boils down to whining to me, with a bit of insecurity, "cowardly.. take forever.. lacking in discipline" tacked on the end of the post. Maybe the work they do doesn't matter, and maybe they are quite mediocre.
Since we are talking about ethnicity here, I've heard that Rubik's father's ethnicity was Armenian. I don't have a link, though.
My credit card issuer locked out my Visa after I bought some clothes from a French web site. They didn't notify me and I didn't find out until my card was declined at a restaurant, which was fairly embarrassing.

People get locked out of their financial accounts all the time and despite persistent rumors to the contrary, it is way more likely that your bank or credit network is using a blackbox AI to do it, with a shit vendor like Feedzai.
Appeal to evolution is silly. First thing you learn when skating or any real parkour like things is how to properly fall.

So, I can't say you are wrong, but I would love actual studies to settle this.
It's fine, morphine is used as a 'standard' for opiate and other pain killer efficacy. So often that the term 'morphine equivalency' exists in medical documents.
Thanks for all this years Max E4!

This train was quite a jump on Shinkansens with double-decker cars.

Sadly there are slower than more recent series, just limited to 240km/h compared to the 260km/h of the E7 series or the 320km/h of the E5 series.

Also, the article contains some nice photos: https://mainichi.jp/english/graphs/20210930/hpe/00m/0bu/0010...
This is some next level victim blaming for something that we don’t know happened, and can easily be handled by adults with communication channels.

It’s not as if devs go around with a visible scarlet letter for any malfeasance they get into. Nor is it reasonable brand people permanently.
You have no clue what information Google used to reach this decision.
The Obsessive Life of the Fisherman Who Discovered the Loch Ness Monster (2020)
Amazon-backed EV maker Rivian discloses nearly $1B losses in IPO filing
Sorry, "like" was a bad choice of words. I was assuming that the test audiences had a certain level of musical education and understood that the goal was to produce a Beethoven-sounding result.
As a U.S. citizen, I do not endorse these people and approve of jokes. God forbid someone gets a chuckle once in awhile.

Let's call this problem what it really is. It's not the USA in general. It's leftist/politically correct politics in the west (primarily US and Canada though Euros have their share of it too) that get brought into everything. Outside of the internet and media, I only know a handful of people that endorse this crap.

And isn't the person that proposed this change not even a programmer? I looked and his (hope i dont misgender) github and didnt see a single original repo. If that's the case this is another problem of HR types that have nothing to do with the field pushing their crap.
App stores that come baked into vendor ROMs are granted special privileges that user-installable app stores aren't.
Disneyland should be deemed a public space so I don't have pay high prices to enter. LOL, keep dreaming...
They actually don't know that they are "securing humanity's industrial course." Our global engineering capacity is finite, and we could have spent all this time, money, and brainpower on tractable problems. Regardless of whether they think they are lying to us for our own good, it's not their decision to make. If anything, time has shown that it has not been for our own good.

It is a bald faced lie. They know exactly what we think they mean when they talk about energy gains.
Duh, both EU+US needs groundbreaking legislation in this area.

I guess US is not as motivated as the EU, so, they'll follow, as usual.
With how many banking startups that are showing up with fairly polished products, Google really reminding us how much they struggle to execute on anything
It's a pain relieving plant. You got problems mate. Go to the nearest pain clinic and start your protest there. Make sure you slap the opioids out of every patient's hands who are suffering from chronic pain. Call them an addict for kicks, even when they have a perfectly normal life.
Tesla is past the cash raising phase though - they are massively profitable and actively retiring debt early.

https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/0000...

"On July 16, 2021, we issued a notice of redemption to the holders of the 2025 Notes informing the holders that we will redeem the notes in full in August 2021 at a redemption price equal to 102.65% of outstanding principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any."
I actually believe programmers/software engineers are the new physicists in this regard.
Power is volts x amps. The more amps, the thicker the wires need to be (volts are irrelvant).

So to minise weight/wire size, use the highest voltage possible (and thus the lowest current). Losses are purely related to current (I^2*R) so the incentive is to squeezee the current (so needing to increases the voltage).

There's a reason the high-voltage overheads are 432 kilovolts (or more); 10 amps at 432kV = 4.3MW (MegaWatts) while 10amps from a stock AC outlet is 1.2KW (KiloWatts). The wire thickness required for both is the same (though the HV wires need to be better insulated, out of the way of crazy fools etc).

So a 60V system for a car carries 1/5 the current of a 12v system, and the wires can have 1/5 the cross-sectional area.

(yes, I know there are caveats when it comes to AC).
Those are baked into the vendor ROM and are granted special privileges that user-installable app stores are not.
I think we let them get too big and now the discussion will very much revolve around the capital, value, industries and "jobs" that will be affected by a FB or social media ban or some other legislation.

You can't even effectively "mobilize" the populace for some sort of popular movement against social media because most of that sort of thing these days can only happen on social media. It's not even like we can have a revolution with 50k people and storm FB headquarters and "physically" stop the behemoth. It's headless for the most part. And good luck getting 50k people even. Pretty much All the platforms will stop you before you get anywhere because of "threats of violence".
I'm not sure what your criticism is. There is no way to describe a sentient being without those two words. A sentient?

I think it is naive to believe anyone can live a perfectly moral life. The difficulty of the project doesn't mean we should delude ourselves about our choices and actions.

I commend anyone who acts. Even reducing meat consumption to only six days a week, or what have you, is praiseworthy. I give myself, and others, no quarter when it comes to ethical living. I don't hesitate to admit that I fall woefully short of sainthood.
Blame the awful trend of lazy, ambiguous software naming
Just out of curiosity can they not just upload all the games again with a new account?