skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well they obviously can make sure the money is spent as intended. The problem is they wont.
I disagree. They do care. They just feel powerless to do anything about it. People across the world are devoting a full third of their waking lives to create wealth for those who spend their time and resources devising ways to maintain their positions atop the system.
Apple is a (system) software company. While that includes procuring and integrating individual hardware components, they're not a hardware company.

They've recently been branching out into designing their own hardware (or claiming to, it's not clear to me how much they've done in-house vs contracted out or off the shelf, but I digress) but they've been making software to put on other people's slightly-customized hardware for a much longer time.
I'm getting real sick of websites I use becoming less and less functional the bigger they get.
I'm not even ambivalent. It is clearly hostile toward the viewers, but helps content creators (or some content creators).

Google is an ad-supported company. They are there to sell you soap, and have no more morality than P&G or Walmart. Their slogan might as well be "Evil for a buck".
The atolls are made of coral - the rock of the top of the volcanic mountain is more than half a kilometre (> 500 yards) below.

- Drilling explorations at Funafuti from 1896 to 1898 resulted in 340 m long cores comprising shallow-water carbonates. Subsequent analysis of the drill cores suggests a subsidence rate for Funafuti of approximately 30 m/Ma [30 metres per million año/year].

- report on a refraction line in Nukufetau lagoon, concluding that volcanics are capped by approximately 760 m of limestones.

The pdf has great information.
And RMS and the invention of copyleft created a magnitude more.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29168350
YouTube is removing the dislike count on all videos across its platform
> Different metrics aren't a different language.

You aren't citing a "different metric". You are citing an unscientific internet poll by Bankrate.com, whose results were released as a PR announcement meant to encourage people to open savings accounts. The "no savings" means "no money in a savings account" by those who answer the poll. You know nothing about whether these people were even in the labor force, how old they were, what money they had in checking accounts or 401Ks or money market mutual funds, and whether they were a representative sample (N=hundreds). Because an internet poll is not a study, and a marketing campaign is not scientific data.

This is clickbait. If you have a quality study not published by bankrate.com, then please cite it. And also explain why you are ignoring the US Census and the SCF, which is what everyone who studies household wealth uses.

I am citing the gold-standard academic study of household finances -- the survey of consumer finances, and the gold standard study of income as determined by the Census. This is not a situation of "different metrics", this is a situation of bad data versus good data leading to bad conclusions versus accurate conclusions.

Please look to the Census and academic studies to form your worldview of the state of US household finances rather than Bankrate.com's marketing department.
Thanks for replying to all those points!

I agree that all news is in principle good news for psychedelics, but the private interests still have a bigger reason to exaggerate the positives for any treatment for financial benefit. We even see this with how prevalent the "latest" SSRIs are vs. treatments that have existed for a long time. New research with fancy articles isn't always better than old research, especially when the people prescribing it to you fall prey to the market pressure of prescribing the costly solution to you vs. older solutions for a tenth of the price, for which on the other hand we'll exaggerate the side effects...

Do you happen to have any interesting link regarding what you mention as being psycholitic and how it relates to a placebo? Because from every page I've been finding on the subject, none seems to indicate that the substance acts specifically as a placebo but only that noticeable psychedelic effects aren't present, which is slightly different. I've done some digging to find something[1] supporting the idea that "microdosing == placebo" but given that there's pretty much only studies that have self-reported data in that domain, I'm not sure I've ever seen anything conclusive regarding microdosing being a placebo, nor at what dosage one can consider each psychedelic substance as microdosing/placebo. I might have very much missed something big in the domain and you seem to know your stuff, so if you happen to know something to link I would happily take a look :)

As for long-term positive effects, are you referring to this study [2] ?
It certainly looks interesting for significance over long periods of time, but not necessarily to alleviate depression. I have a few DMT trips in my life that are amongst the most significant moments of my existence, yet I'm into my third decade of debilitating depression - those things don't necessarily have to overlap.

I also agree about concurrent treatments not being absolutely contra-indications, but I think we're being particularly kind to whatever is the new kid on the block and unfairly harsh to old treatments in comparison. I had the chance to meet a psychiatrist who's been doing their job since the 60s, and they were the first to offer trying a RIMA (moclobemide) which significantly helped compared to multiple SSRIs, and had less negative side effects than SSRIs and even some positive ones (libido) - despite a truly horrible reputation everywhere you look, and in young psychiatrists' minds.

I believe there's a good place for psychedelic treatments to contribute to the well-being of a suffering person, but as a pretty experienced "psychonaut" I've always remained keenly aware of the potential for these substances to induce a certain degree of collective delusions too -- even more so if we're talking about a multi-billion dollar new market opening up.

[1] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/216134/citizen-scientists-sh...
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3050654/
That's interesting.

But Julia really does that already. Check out Unitful.jl
There used to be a ton of shopping "comparison" and "review" site spam. There still is. For a while google shopping seemed better. I actually liked google's involvement.

Then they seemed to turn into ads? Now I ignore it along with most of the others as I'm sure many folks do and just shop through a few places (which is only marginally better).
If your body was perfectly efficient at converting calories into gravitational potential energy, the calories in a single can of coke would be enough to carry you 1km into space
I think the solution is a better access control model for operating systems. If applications are sandboxed effectively, and users are asked to opt in to specific permissions in a granular way, the risk is not so high.

To paint an example, as a default an a process should only have access to its own memory, and maybe a sandboxed directory in the filesystem. If the process wants to access the network, or access other directories, it should ask me as the user permission before it can do so.

You could then imagine extending this through a federated trust model. I.e. if I as a user don't want to bother with granting fine grained permissions each time, I could give blanket trust to all applications verified by a given source. This could be for instance a 3rd party app store, or something like a package manager, which I trust to vet the applications which it hosts.

There are always going to be challenges with security, but the solution cannot be that 3 corporations get to unilaterally decide which code is allowed to be executed.
I'm not sure a distinction really matters at this point. Supply chain issues are complex and not within the direct control of policymakers. The money supply, on the other hand, is.

"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output" -Milton Friedman
440,000 Shipping containers

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28%28srt%2829%29*1000...
Doing business from the US is a minefield today, not at all like it used to be. Almost any other country is better if you just want to focus on running a business, so not so surprising that they relocated.
What percentage of your personal monthly budget gets spent buying a used car?

That is, not in servicing loan payments, but actually buying cars.

Inflation is weighted for this reason.
I'm curious. Do you have kids or have you been a kid somewhat recently? The latter is true for me. I find it pretty surprising that you'd imagine that you can keep kids away from social media. Even if you explain it, an 11 year old isn't going to understand the long term psychological implications of social media. They're just going to understand that you're keeping them away from their friends. Do you honestly think any average child will wait until college to circumvent their parents?

That said, I'm sympathetic to your viewpoint. I would certainly not provide unfettered access to social media to my children (if I had any). And there should be some amount of advertising/training around healthy digital habits. But it's a little more nuanced than just blaming parents for being incompetent.
I suspect it's a not trivial amount of money. this reminds me of the San Francisco subsidy (the ability of people living in San Francisco to utilize a venture capital back startup for almost every aspect of their life at a tremendous discount) from a couple of years ago, anecdotally living expenses can be reduced by nearly 30%
Good luck getting an appointment within 4 hours at Apple stores near here. The three nearest me have no appointments until November 19.

Dell laptops I can get serviced with an onsite tech within 4 hours if I want that level of service.

Experience 1: MBA wouldn't charge battery. Machine functioned just fine on AC power. Expected maybe $300 in parts and labor, out of warranty. No, "this will be $870. Maybe we can look at getting you into a new Mac today?".

Experience 2: reproducible kernel panics on demand from GPU (later acknowledged as an issue by Apple, over a year later). Despite the tech being able to cause the panic too, "our diagnostic tool says there's no problem, nothing we can do".

Experience 3: screen adhesive delamination. "Within normal limits, expected/not abnormal behavior". That one was belatedly acknowledged by Apple, too.
I brought this up last time (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29066760) but:

https://github.com/reinderien/mimic

It applies to other contexts besides code. For our user table we have a mariadb collation on the unicodes confusables list which avoids confusable usernames (treated as already existing).
Perhaps it's time to give Linux on laptops another try? ;)
CEO of Square, but also kind of a crank who's long on crypto, so he has a vested interest in convincing people to YOLO their savings into crypto so he can cash in. I take his statements with several blocks of salt.
Two things:

1)Hardware is key.
2)Tobii is supporting PyGaze with Tobii Pro SDK https://www.pygaze.org/2017/09/pygaze-supports-tobii-pro-sdk...
> the judge also rules that Apple was entitled to a licensing fee, which it could still claim for payments made outside Apple's IAP system

A lot of the commentary on Twitter has missed this important point.

People were quick to dunk on Apple's assertion that allowing links would require massive amounts of engineering effort [1], because on its face it does sound stupid: just let iOS app developers link out to external purchase options, right?

Nope. Apple still has the authority to take money from developers even if they are no longer using Apple's payment services.

That's where the engineering effort is going. To make the external linking process as onerous as legally possible for consumers and developers.

[1]: https://twitter.com/thedextriarchy/status/145819565972781056...
Awesome! We have a dedicated teams support channel on Discord, if you ping me after you join or email me (kevinlin@dendron), I'll be sure to add you to it!

It terms of the presentation - thanks for the tip. We have a backlog item to swap it out with a higher res video
Reducing what the worlds gets to see, what feedback/visibility we have, is going to be such a sad sad ongoing theme for this ultra-consumerized/consumptive information-technology. There's no reason to let us be informed consumers.
Santiago would be quite what you are looking for. Plenty of trees and grass :)
That's the price for full synthetic 6 qts. If you like search Groupon for their non-discount prices. Sometimes you can get a 40% discount at the shop near you, but not always. I don't always have the time to drive to the place with a discount.
That's not quite right, we significantly outnumber them.
class provocations are misplaced -- the business process cuts people out every day, its not about where you went to school. I object to this class-based commentary because it is a giant distraction from applying solutions
Managing dependencies in a Python project – Jacek Kołodziej
When it comes to something like Ayahuasca, I make a point of not recommending it. I lean into the woo of it, and allow "the ready people" to help realize their calling to it through me. I know, bear with me, but advocating something this wildly, impossibly potent and transformative is something I cannot do, and so I defer to greater wisdom.

For small doses of psilocybin, it is - both in my experiences and in a lot of scientific contexts - considered very, very safe. Greater doses, 2.5 dry grams, you start to introduce risk triggering latent psycho-affective disorders.

For most people with common neurotic conditions, anxiety, depression, etc, it is very low risk. Out of 100M, I'd say .1% is at risk having a very negative experience due to significant, untreated issues like schizophrenia.

All of things things require support. Community, a guiding hand, will truly improve the outcome.
Yep. we actually share almost everything in terms of source code and strategy. For business plan, see https://handbook.dendron.so/notes/f6d9bc09-04b7-4a02-a6aa-a2...
I still contend that many of these types of "startups" are merely elaborate ponzi schemes.

Actually, I think a lot of businesses are just that.
Original source: https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1458482029817860096
A small part of why I stopped using Netflix... it became harder to assess what I wanted to watch.
Dr Mobeen Syed presents the article

SARS–CoV–2 Spike Impairs DNA Damage Repair and Inhibits V(D)J Recombination In Vitro , https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8538446/

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Still watching to attempt an abridgement, it will take time. Meanwhile, some provisional bits:

> Researchers from Sweden found the spike protein to be going into the nucleus, and also impairing, reducing, stalling the DNA repair. [...] The study is focused on the vaccines: they said that it is important to maybe not create full spike protein vaccine, instead if you have partial pieces of the spike protein then this whole thing does not happen

> [When] the B cells are making antibodies, when new baby B cells are being made in the bone marrow or the T cells are made in the thymus, they their binding region (the region with which they bind with the antigen) are variable, different for each B cell; that variability is produced by intentionally damaging the DNA and then repairing it, so every time it would form a different shape, and that would give rise to a different variation of the binding region. Now imagine [the immune system's deficiency] if you try to damage [the DNA] and repair [it to] create variations to fight in the immune system, and we could not repair correctly because sars-cov-2 present is stalling and impairing the repair. The authors think that maybe that is the reason that some people cannot actually handle sars-cov-2 well and end up dying.
This seems comically complex and wasteful compared to the extremely old fashioned "restaurant hires person with a bike" solution.
Do they not indicate strike through already in another way?
L-Citrulline DL Malate gives you a fantastic pump in the gym.
Apple has had success in certain sectors of industry: the creative space being a large focus where they had success often in spite of being Apple
Politics, too. The White House has been on the receiving end of quite a showing of popularity lately.
I thought a lot about this comment. I deeply would want that Apple-1 in a way, massive piece of Apple history. But then I think about owning it - what a pain. It needs to be in an air conditioned room, bugs nibble at it, dust gathers, where do I put it in my house anyway? It's so cool in my mind but the glory of having it seems less so.

However, with an NFT, there's no maintenance cost, it's always the same, it's pristine. I can do whatever I want with it, shrink it for socks, grow it to put on a blimp, make cakes, whatever.

For the first time I can see why people spend millions of dollars on hashes of pictures of randomly generated monkeys.
Thanks for the reply, I kinda get where you're coming from though 99% of the time, certainly here in the UK, we never see those fees - all debit card transactions and contactless payments in physical stores are close enough to free that the store pays, not the customer. Online though, yeah, totally with you. And also with you on the rather unsavoury practices of the banks.
... and that's why the EU has high fines for shit like this, to make sure $Y > $X.

It's also why tech companies keep complaining about EU regulators.
"It's on the same scale of facebook, youtube or twitter, activity wise." {citation needed}, as they say. Some parts of the Wikipedia "global" movement are so small, they didn't even realise for example, most of "Scots" Wikipedia was pure gibberish. The so called movement is a galaxy of tiny rocks revolving around one massive black hole, English Wikipedia, and even that project is so small as to feel quite parochial. As a result, there are backlogs everywhere, especially in important but difficult work, like copyright problems.
Worth to whom? Have you listed it for sale? The market for used Tacomas and 4Runners is off the hook.
Looks like magic
Privacy-Preserving Split Learning
Stop buying shitty GM's. I learned my lesson back in in the late 90's when I couldn't keep a GMC Sonoma running long enough to sell it (was like 3 years old). In 2000 I became part of the Toyota family (worked for FORD at the time) and never bought anything else since.

The 2 Toyota and 1 Lexus we own are between 14-11 years old and look and run like they came off the assembly line yesterday (all 3 were bought used). I figure I am still good for another 5 years minimum on all of them.
Yeah, the upside of the dryer is that it's really easy to work on, the downside is that it breaks easily. I have no plans to buy any more Samsung appliances, I've been bitten three times now.
I agree that the article comes off a bit strong and the headline even stronger, however the underlying advice I think is still helpful in this case. I have a terrible habit of trying to make my first draft my last draft by self-editing incessantly.

I'm partly writing this out for my own benefit, so apologies if this sounds perscriptive.

Even if you haven't anything interesting to say, you're mind is thinking something regarding the topic.

One might not know the first thing about "Luminal Collapse in Early Breast Cancer", but I bet you can write a million questions.

"How 'early' is early breast cancer? What exactly is collapsing and how can I see it? This luminal collapse thing sounds ominous, what exactly does it mean for outcomes? The 'collapse' part is particularly ominous sounding. If I suffered from breast cancer, that word would be pretty scary. I wonder what the relation is between scariness of medical terms and the decisions of patients to undergo treatment."

Immediately, you've something on the page and some off-topic ramblings.

By the time you've answered those questions and filtered out the truly off-topic material, you'll probably realise there's a better framing or some underlying truth. You've achieved an early draft and are ready for editing!

tl;dr: I don't love the tone of the article but the general and common advice of writing drunk and editing sober is probably good advice.
I've done significant work to a 20-year-old car recently. Over $4k. It's easy to justify when you consider how much replacing it right now would cost.
Your perception of contrast is entirely dependent on the ambient light level.

If you're in a room with big windows and direct sunlight, a cheap Dell will have a good contrast ratio. If you're in a windowless room in pitch darkness, a MacBook Pro XDR display will show clear blooming.

I have a 2017 iPad Pro that I use in what I would consider moderately dim lighting, and the contrast / black levels are fine.
>Only Apple with their M1 seems to have any will to venture outside of the status quo

I find this an interesting opinion considering that the M1 is really just "The same, but a bit larger" - IE slightly higher performance at a higher cost.

What exactly do you see with the M1 that makes it so different?
What do you call selective defense of speech while denying same right to others, the responsibilities that come with rights, real world power inbalances?
So funny that a lot people still tries to pass down votes or dislikes as something essential. It is already more or less proven that it does not work the way it is sold in many contexts.
Yeah I'm done with Samsung after this washer & dryer hit end-of-life. Speed Queen is definitely first on my list of replacement options.
Python Software Foundation 2021 End of the year fundraiser
Apple Car Looks Doable in Patent Renderings
Right, I'm aware it uses MMS; my other comment mentions this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29176484

Whether it's SMS or MMS on the backend doesn't matter to me as a user, it's still a fundamental enough feature of a mobile phone for me that I can't consider one without it.
Cool code transformations
Yeah, its almost as if money like (or as) information routes around damage.

* Gilmore puts it, "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."*

https://web.archive.org/web/20210408023213/https://kirste.us...
This is the biggest reason I use ad-block. I read a book Pre-suasion by Robert Calidini and he talks about how online ads often don't registry consciously but will subconsciously effect decision making.

He ended the book by flipping people's voting preferences with a 64% effectiveness rate using only some subtle online ads. My brain is my own.
It’s because they aren’t objectively bad outcomes. For the content creators it may be bad. But if the content creator is creating, say, authoritarian propaganda, the outcome for the audience is good when the dislike count goes through the roof and helps spread the message that whatever has been published is being rejected by the audience.
You know what would be great? to add the date in which the source became available, or the date of the "accepted answer", or the date of the last edit. Many SO answers and answers in forums are more than a decade old. I signed up and will try t out, I am doing all my searches in you.com now
This repetetive inner soundtrack thimg can be really annoying sometimes, hampering or even killing concentration on "real thoughts".
Any pro tips on how to turn that off? Best approach I found is bulldozing it over with a really powerful but not too beautiful/memorable song. The famous "rickrolling" piece seems to work OK for this. (I.e. not by actually hearing it, just by intentionally "playing it internally".)
Because why would they when they can just not and make even more money.

It all makes sense when you realize that luxury car brand economics apply to pretty much every Toyota (other than arguably whatever their most subcompact hatch offering of the year is) because that's who their buyer demographics are.