skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I flat out disagree with this sentiment.

Sure, everyone is entitled to an opinion. But really we're all just guessing. My guess is that the iPhone 12/13 Mini has potential appeal to two markets:

• Someone who wants a flagship device, who places positive value in smaller size, and is not price sensitive;

• Someone who wants a premium device, who places negative value in larger size, and is moderately price sensitive.

With the anemic sales of the last two generations of mini iPhone, Apple has shown that this first market is smaller than hoped. The question is: is it nonetheless big enough to warrant Apple making an iPhone 14 mini? If it is, great.

If not, your preference is moot because the device won't exist. My argument is that this second market is likely much larger and represents an opportunity which Apple hasn't quite honed in on—yet. If it's necessary in order for an iPhone 14 mini to exist, a device with wider appeal is preferable to no device.
A McDonald’s Knockoff Became the Immigrant Dream
You can short the proxies: Coinbase etc
If money aren't backed by anything (gold, goods, services etc.) and are just some bits in a computer or just some paper printed when someone deems necessary and can be invented and multiply out of thin air through the fractional reserve system whenever the banking system wants, then the current situation is absolutely normal.
> I don't know why you're commenting, since you're not the original commenter,

This is a multi-user forum not a peer2peer chat client.

> and your very comment shows how you already recognize the generic accusation-of-privilege to be the problem

No, I'm saying the accusation of privilege is correct and it's not a problem to point out to people on here that we are privileged. Because we are.

> You already knew how and why it would be inflammatory.

If you're in the top 10% and can't stand being called privileged then the problem isn't the tone of the accuser, it's the person receiving the comment. The sooner privileged people stop acting like the victims, the sooner we can start fixing the worlds actual problems.

> their first sentence (and general tone) is quite counter-productive, and you know this.

Actually I was arguing that it's not counter-productive. It was the point of their post and a point very much worth making.

I've seen both sides of the social scale and we are definitely not on the side that should be getting offended when people should "privilege" ;)
We have seen over the last decades a great reduction in "exponential" dangerous technologie, that gets handed out to the people. We will not have flying cars with little fusion bombs at there hearts. We will not have road cars with plutonium rods. We will not have software centralization, after Amazon hosting gets its first machine jumping virus.

It turns out that humanity can be limited by policy and moderated by social engineering technology. So im now careful optimistic about these things. We will not perish because we handed weapons of doom to one of the uncamped billions.
Their other two options are to buy Unity, Roblox, or make their own game engine. Or perhaps fork some of the work that's being done over for the Open3D engine?
How to create an in-cell dropdown list in the Google spreadsheet?
Investors use AI to analyse CEOs’ language patterns and tone
Unfortunately can't use it: I'm on my private VPN almost all the time (need it for work). VPN is hosted as OpenVPN service on German Digital Ocean server to have static public IP. The VPN is mine only (sure IP is not), I'm the only person who uses it. Brave Search shows error on accessing: https://ibb.co/72L3mc5 . Other search engines open without problems. Turning off VPN helps, but I don't really understand why my (Digital Ocean's) ip is related to opening the web search page? Even if someone "compromised" that IP - it should not be a stopper to open the search from my point of logical view.
Okay then don’t sign up. I’m personally tired of hearing this: Do you see a detailed homepage for Twitter and Facebook? No. Because they are a social networking tool - you see a little description and then a log in form, this isn’t a SaaS
> But it fails to discuss if the chunky profit margin can be sacrificed without raising prices too

In recent years the mere suggestion of lowering profits is utterly taboo in American society, and is usually received about as well as if you were talking about selling beer to kids, or weddings for children.

I honestly believe a ton of people have been brainwashed (or maybe just tricked) into believing that McDonald's actually needs to make $10B [1] in profit per year, and that literally everything would fall apart if it didn't.

Nobody wants to admit that McD's could increase wages for tens of thousands of front line workers who need it most, keep prices identical and still make, oh I don't know, a hefty $2B profit each and every year. Instead they just recommend employees get a second job to make ends meet [2]

I can only assume the topic being so utterly taboo is because that would mean the wealth of the rich would increase slower than it is today (but of course, it would still increase)

(I'm using McD's as the example here, though I think it applies equally to every large and wildly profitable company)

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MCD/mcdonalds/gros...

[2] https://www.motherjones.com/food/2013/07/mcdonalds-budget-mc...
>Shareholders are going to continue to try to hold on to as much of that increase as possible for themselves.

I mean the small shareholders generally don't make much comment about anything, and certainly not about wage control at a company they invest in.

>Those profits aren't sitting in a big vault at Amazon. They are sitting in the bank accounts of every Amazon shareholder.

sure, if the company pays dividends quarterly or if the board doesn't make some other decision on what to do with the money, and of course until the dividends are paid it does sit in Amazon's accounts.

on edit: I see nly made the same point with more technical observations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28927742
Having worked in a healthcare setting and having had a patient come through who had undergone gender reassignment surgery, it turns out to be easier get the surgery than to get their gender and name changed in the healthcare database.

I said I’d help them get it fixed, but I couldn’t get this done.
You say this, but the fix is literally sending and email / phone call for inevitable fuckup.

I recently got a fine when my plates were scanned but I’ve entered them incorrectly to the machine. Pretty stupid when you think about it. Emailed and resolved in 5 mins.
Also very popular in Denmark, not uncommon to see groups of people socialize in cementaries. Also, cycle routes through the cementaries can be quite nice.
That hardly sounds like a recommendation.
What makes people “add to cart”?
Why are 401k's evaporating in significance?

Curious Brit here.
> When the KiCad Project formally became a registered project under the Linux Foundation, we attempted to secure the rights to the original domain name from Dick without success.

And then

> Please do not contact Dick about this. He cannot undo the damage at this point

There's got to be more to this story. What happened?
Ours is collected locally, you just leave a bag of your batteries on top of the bin and it gets collected at the same time as the recycling. They will take small electrical items as well.

On top of that all supermarkets in the UK have a battery return box where you can drop them off.
What about people who keep snakes as pets?
Water almost always has water on it.

It’s extraordinarily rare to interact with a single H2O molecule.

Therefore, the overwhelming majority of water is wet.
Code quality also matters in the parts that a new joiner needs to read to make sense of the application and do their job.
Electronics shouldn't go in the trash either.
I’m a bit young to comment on this, but we did have identity cards for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Cards_Act_2006
IPv6 solves a problem that the big players want unsolved. IPv6 adoption would be a de-centralizing factor, and central powers are therefore against it. I have a hunch that the only reason that IPv6 has gotten any traction is because the absolute largest players needed it internally.
He simply sold it. What's more to need to know about? Nothing.
I usually can barely browse the internet using VPN through OVS, Digital Ocean, Scaleway and others. All websites assume my traffic is not from a person but from an automated server.
I'd like to form my own opinion on the trade-offs.

Can you share a use case please?
The premise itself was good (especially in the second book) and I think the female characters were fine. I enjoyed the trilogy.
Samsung devices (and I read, Xiaomi devices too, but to a lesser extent) have shitty performance. Yeah, they have excellent specs, but the software is horrible. I know this because Pixels are almost always guaranteed to be extremely fluid, but my comparable S10 suffers from significant stutters and lag.
In the UK identity cards are considered an intrusion on freedoms. Boris Johnson once wrote this which I think sums up that sentiment: "If I am ever asked on the streets of London, or in any other venue, public or private, to produce my ID card as evidence that I am who I say I am ... then I will take that card out of my wallet and physically eat it in the presence of whatever emanation of the state has demanded I produce it."
Also IBM announcement here:
https://research.ibm.com/blog/single-photon-switching
How to make color conditional formatting by for dropdown in the Google sheets?
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SSH --V on Windows 10 returns
OpenSSH_for_Windows_7.7p1, LibreSSL 2.6.5
If you can trade single-core speed for parallelism cluster of traditional electronics make more sense, but for some algorithms you can't.

Imagine a CPU with the complexity of Arduino but running at 100 GHz.
Their queries (such as "best food for reticulated python") are unlikely to have results from "python.org", so such rules would not affect them.
How to Fix This Copy of Windows Is Not Genuine Build 7601
lol...paid for by Google
Safety and boundaries also come up with taxi drivers, day laborers, pizza delivery folks, and many others - and objectively they end up dead more often near as I can tell.

Most folks here live pretty safe and cushy lives that the majority of humanity doesn’t get to enjoy. Real life for most people requires understanding and defending these things and making conscious decisions to protect them. it doesn’t require someone be doing sex work for it to be that way.
you'd be shocked how much bullshit occurs on universities
across the world, even in EU.
A calculator, for me, really doesn't replace the utility of being able to do some basic mathematics in my head. Even if you don't run into a lot of uses for mental math, I'm in the camp that thinks learning 1-10*1-10 and building a sense for numbers will aid in understanding of other concepts and in developing other cognitive abilities. Some carefully designed experiments could convince me otherwise.
I've had some lovely picnics in beautiful cemeteries in Germany, they're often walled, which dramatically reduces traffic noise, and resemble botanical gardens with their mixture of trees and flowering shrubs, in contrast to the "lawn with headstones" I'm familiar with in New Zealand.

They're real sanctuaries in busy cities.
You can skip the whole memorization pain by rigging at most 3 additions together. You just have to know that adding a number to itself is doubling and adding it again is tripling and multiplication by 10 can be done by simply writing zero on the end.

2x = double it.
3x = triple it.
4x = double it twice.
5x = ...
6x = triple it then double it.
7x = ...
8x = double it thrice.
9x = from 10x subtract it once.
10x = put "0" on the end.

That gets you everything but 5x5, 5x7, and 7x7. That's just 3 things to memorize instead of 55. I usually get the 5s by just halving 10x, which then handles every case but 7x7. The overhead of doing 2 (sometimes 3) mental additions isn't much worse than memorizing everything as a singular operation and this way of doing things makes it a bit clearer what multiplication represents rather than being an arbitrary thing to memorize because teacher said so.

To hell with primary school. Memorizing is for suckers.
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You are expressing widely different things though. You said you would consider out right rejecting someone and question their mental health for having rust on their resume.

Having a tool on a resume, or listing experience with tools, should certainly not be interpreted as someone being a rust zealot, evangelist, "pratting on endlessly", and all the rest of the examples you gave. So, maybe you initially wrote something different to what you actually meant.
i think a lot of people never really understood googles business model.

google absolutely wants to protect their users privacy from third parties. their ideal situation would be if they're the only one's knowing everything about their users so they can allow third parties to advertise things to their users.
if they'd leak any of this information, they'd be compromising their main business model.

so yes, people can trust google to do their everything to keep their information from reaching anyone else, including forcing said third parties to undergo paid audits to verify that nobody is leeching their user data.

for some reason, a lot of people got it into their head that google literally sells information. i'm not sure why this ever started, as - at least as far as i am aware - google never tried to do anything even remotely like that
I hate it to say it, but for CS beginners python.org isn't a good resource: it's simply too technical. Even for motivated students it will take them at least a few months of learning from a more beginner-friendly resource before the official docs on python.org make sense.

That's not to mention the multitude of other materials on python.org other than the docs, like PEPs, pypi (third party libraries), bug reports, etc. Can you imagine a student searching for how to use a Python feature, but found a PEP illustrating the design of that language feature?
>When we really looked at the situation, we determined that that’s just too complex for someone who really just wants to build a spice rack.”

hmm, I think the secret of this text is actually the hardware salesman has ESP and is messing with Fredrik Holmqvist.
Braver search works if you are searching in english but for my native tounge DDG delivers much more reliable results.
It’s a good point, especially considering retail profits in sectors like food can be as low as 2-3% of revenue, so a 40% increase might be an extra 1% of revenue, while labour costs might make up 30-40% of costs, so if those went up by the same absolute percentage then the chain would be losing money (which would presumably then allow them to cut everyone’s wages by the same proportion by the same logic?)
Sure, I won't!
Amazon warehouse employee in Poland dies at work
Why pay for Windows if I am not going to use it?
Just to provide some background, what the city requires is to bring an ID together with one of:

1. white vaccine card
2. photo of the card on your phone
3. QR code from an approved app
4. screenshot of QR code from an approved app.

https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/files/vaccine-verification-...

Note that the actual QR code is only valid for 24 hours, but due to issues with the software, people were told to take a screenshot and keep reusing the same QR code. Restaurants don't have any online connection to the CDC database (or private card servers) to verify the QR codes anyway.

Obviously this system is trivial to bypass as you can photoshop an existing image of a card and put your name on it. There is no online verification happening, the restaurant just checks that the card looks filled in, or the QR code looks sufficiently QR-like, and then verifies that the name on the card/QR is the same as the name on the ID.

To help understand the issues local businesses face, there is an article in mission local:

https://missionlocal.org/2021/09/vaccine-card-mandate-pushes...

There appear to be two big frictions here:

- a lot of people either don't have IDs or are uncomfortable showing an ID to eat (SF does not require an ID to vote).

- the CDC database used to generate a good QR code is filled with incomplete and dirty data, with customers identified by email address or name or phone number, and lots of inconsistencies. This means a lot of people have trouble generating a valid QR code even if they were vaccinated. Maybe they used a phone number for shot 1 and an email address for shot 2, and the system isn't able to tie these together. Here the original policy of "You don't need an ID to get a vaccine" is coming back to bite people.

I would add a third:

- People coming from overseas have neither of the above (note that the in-n-out that was shut is in fisherman's wharf, which is filled with foreign tourists).

I happen to know from hearsay (friends still living in SF) that a lot of restaurants are not checking, so it's not just in-n-out -- perhaps the city is trying to make an example of them. It's also true that restaurants have lost a lot of business even though if you eat outside or takeout then you don't need to show proof of vaccine status and 73% of restaurants have setup outdoor areas for people who don't want to deal with the ID stuff. Here the issue is the people most afraid of covid stopped going to restaurants a while ago and switched to Uber eats or take out. The ones still showing up for indoor dining are the ones who care the least about the disease.

It's also a lot easier to just go to Daly city and eat there without needing to provide an ID. SF is just a 7 by 7 mile city, it's a little odd for it to be creating its own vaccine policy as if it was a country. Needless to say, a majority of SF restaurants oppose the policy:
https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/61-of-restaurant-operato...
Bad UX is not an obstacle for a successful business
It's not about having a calculator. It's about making quick connections when encountering new facts or numbers.
Without sizeable core of memorized facts, results and numbers you will miss a lot of those. It's the very definition of being not that smart.
How many google ads are on github or stack overflow compared to the other pages you find? They know exactly what every little change to the algorithm does to their bottom line.
SO MUCH THIS.

It's ironic to me that the "Hammer Factory Factory Factory" post was recently doing the rounds again.

I have recently been working with a client whose "senior" dev swallowed some books with opinions on "quality" wholesale and uncritically.

Thus in the simplest project, implementations that could literally be a lambda function (on receive message, write row into DB) are a festival of multiple tiers of objects, mappers, mediators, IoC frameworks, wrappers, Nuget packages, etc., etc.

Everything is in multiple projects. Simple constants (like: API routes - '/api/foo/bar') are indirected into files containing those strings, so there's a huge cognitive overhead and much clicking around to make sense of it. God help you if you don't use an IDE.

This isn't quality. It's the antithesis of quality. Devs have to understand a whole load of abstractions just to get simple things done. But the author is proud of his tower of 'best practice' - blissfully unaware that adding the simplest feature is now hundreds of lines of code, where one would suffice. This is burning through, literally, thousands of euros of dev time.
Eh, it’s a tricky question when indulgence becomes over-indelgence.

The USA inherited a world where colonial exploitation, brutality, and genocide were the accepted norm. In fact, like all adolescents raised by abusive parents, the USA took it out on someone even less able to defend themselves.

With that said, the type checker is going to say that we’re going to compare like with like, and as utterly dominant hegemonic global superpowers go, the USA isn’t really pushing the scoreboard on innocent lives taken or ruined. The Empire or the USSR or the Mongols would be embarrassed if they had a weekend when they failed to genocide more people than the USA ever has.

It’s a sad defense to be less evil, but if there’s ever been a world-spanning empire that didn’t slaughter innocents in job lots, I’ve never heard of it.

Heavy lies the head that wears the crown, as the CCP is about to re-learn. When it’s your job to carry global stability on your back, you might unwind with an over-indulgence in some OPEC output.

For better or worse, this is pretty much the PRC’s problem now, and I for one am looking forward to a world where being American doesn’t make one a priori complicit in the fucking Raj.
The bonds in question are Treasuries, so when the money is repaid it is repaid by the Treasury.

Every one of these bonds represents future borrowing (if rolling over the debt) or future tax revenue.

It's the secondary effects of buying these bonds that is stimulative. Lower treasury yields means investors seek higher yields elsewhere (e.g. in stocks, corporate bonds etc etc.). They buy those, driving up prices, which in turn drives down yields there too.

In any case, bond yields have been falling for decades, so if anything the GFC and COVID have just nudged things along. People are now questioning whether it's even worth owning investment grade bonds. People who want a hedge against the stock market are beginning to look at other asset classes. The wealthy are moving in to increasingly exotic and diversified asset classes. Things like forestry, commodities, private equity etc are now becoming accessible to the moderately well off and not just the super wealthy. Money managers are pushing ever more speculative investments to retail (crypto, ARK funds etc)
I'm wondering why a net vs. a cage trap? I guess it's a weight thing?
Being able to easily calculate e.g. $/100g to a rough degree without reaching for your pocket is super handy.

I think we could gain from emphasizing math with orders of magnitude, and knowing 1/n's would be super handy too.
"An asset swap of newly printed cash for bonds."

What the hell is printed cash? QE just means banks get bank reserves which a have become a claim against the treasury bonds. Whether you own the bonds directly or indirectly via central bank reserves doesn't matter at all. Imagine the fed issues a new currency called the treasury dollars. All you can do with treasury dollars is buy treasury bonds from the fed. That's what QE does except with bank reserves which can also be used to lend out money to businesses and consumers.

Really, QE is a nothing burger. It doesn't make consumers, businesses or governments more likely to borrow. It should be stopped because it is completely ineffective. All it really does is tighten the treasury bond market which means technical buyers (money market, insurance and pension funds) who really need the bonds will bid for increasingly lower yields on the bonds. You know that is a huge surprise, the idea behind QE was that people start selling their government bonds and buy higher yielding bonds from corporations. That didn't happen as much as the Fed wanted.
Your child is the justification for your relentless consumerism?
Seriously, this comment and similar comments is why I'm pretty much convinced that Rust will be booted from the Linux kernel altogether.
This trick is used all the time. In my previous SaaS company we used to write case studies to show the impact caused by our product on the business' bottomline. A typical impact used to be like conversion increased from 10% to 12%. However, this impact used to seem very tiny and absolutely not case study worthy.

Hence, we would deliberately calculate impact by taking not the previous sales but the previous conversion rate as the denominator. Thus, would 10 to 12% growth would go like "we increased Y's conversion rate by 20%."

Can't be mathematically disputed and totally clickbaity at the same time.