skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, all "evil" should be eliminated. I don't think they're evil in the sense of Hitler or anything like that, they've just learned to play by the current rules and maximize their power under them. I don't think ultimately that it's ethically correct to do so, but it's understandable, and I'm sure a lot of the actions come from a place of wanting to do good. Nevertheless, I wish the world becomes a better place on this aspect as well.
Folks interested in crypto on reddit are probably more aspirational than expert
Intellivision Development Back in the Day [pdf]
What makes it fair is not that that other companies as you list have similar practices.

What makes it fair is that Apple is a private company, entitled to these kind of business decisions. As such, free market forces should then determine if the true cost of distribution (which is basically what App store provides) is more or less than what Apple charges for it. It does seem that this is still one of the most efficient ways to distribute an app to the end user, as witnessed by the sheer number of developers (silent majority) willing to take the 30% cut vs a loud minority (usually big companies on their own) that isn't.
I'm not advocating that drivers only be paid 30%. Just that Apple is over exaggerating their value add to the ecosystem.

Netflix ran a global quasi experiment[1] to see if it was worth dropping IAP with Apple's rates. Consumers want to watch a movie and are willing to pay for it. The same as they just want to get home safe after a bar session and are willing to pay for it.

Netflix was able to drop IAP because the web is a viable platform. Apple's platform is their justification for their slice of the pie, but it pales into comparison to what drivers and filmmakers actually do day in and day out to actually add value to the economy.

1: https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/21/17764424/netflix-feature-...
No Dichotomy there, its one thing to 'charge more' for your services, its another thing to ask for 30% of your client's SaaS subscription revenue, because you built them a website.
The screenshot is taken from the video talk he linked further up, and is mentioned as an F15 in that video, so it's a typo.
What is likely to happen in America is that all states adopt some form of California's Prop 13, capping taxes for existing homeowners and crippling future generations
As long as it says why not what (and in which case inherently doing a worse job of it than the code) it beats the vast majority IMO!
I saw the "20" and my brain was already preparing the next word to be "years" so when I saw "weeks" it was a shock.

Asking questions is fine, but making a claim like "dark matter is not a real thing" with certainty is premature and does not predispose others to taking you seriously.
Selection bias? I doubt there are many rich people on subs to get rich (crypto, stocks, etc). Except for entertainment and gambling.
In places where some degree of rule of law exists, to the extent that that's at all compatible with some knowledge being forbidden, not actually having the forbidden knowledge yourself will also protect you.
Having worked in video production for a time, my understanding of the intent/marketing of the procell line is that you always use a fresh one for each production. Therefore, they are lower spec than one that might sit in a device for a long time as they're going to be done with their intended life in a few hours, and they're cheaper than the retail cells with better longevity.

I certainly never ran them through the qualifications that the article did.
As far as I know, PostHog uses ClickHouse, Redis, and Kafka among other things.

https://posthog.com/docs/self-host/architecture

From the use cases you're describing, you might want to check out https://customer.io
The "charge more" advice I've seen, e.g. from patio11, seems to be aimed at charging _new clients_ or for _new contracts_, and in almost all cases has the caveat that one should almost never up-charge existing clients for the same service that they already have. You can add a new higher-price service tier, or grandfather them in _forever_ at the original price, etc, or quote them a larger price for the next consultation ("My fee is now X"), but in every case they have the option to walk away.
I doubt the customer's cost goes up by 20%. That seems pretty extreme. In fact, I'm not sure of the mechanism that makes that costs go up by that much. I guess it depends on the number of Uber drivers around, maybe? In economic theory, it would primarily come out of Uber's profit margin.
Poorness here exists as a relative self identifier since this is a statistic based on a voluntary action.

People who think they're poor aspire for a substantially better existence and have lives of fear and uncertainty.

That's the real correlation here, it's why there's also a strong correlation of purposefully optimistic subreddits and other types of fear abatement.

What does uplifting news, Walt Disney world, firearms, mgtow, and cryptocurrency have in common?

They all collectively feed the same desires, not necessarily describe the financial holdings of the participants
r/poor is only a subreddit with 7.2k members (tiny!) so I wouldn't read too much into things, in addition to what others have to say about overgeneralization.
I wish this post said why they did this.
Nice article. I'm in the process of absorbing it. Question:

> scylla-rust-driver issued at least 1 syscall per query, which might be the source of elevated latency – and with a super-fast network (of which loopback is a prime example) it also means that throughput suffers – a latency of 1ms means that we won’t be able to send more than 1000 requests per second.

Is 1 ms measured? Buffering and reducing syscalls is good, but still: that seems horribly slow for a small or EWOULDBLOCK-returning read/write. Why would it be that bad?
Everything can be taken to unhealthy extremes. It’s one thing to “charge more”, when people can actually take their business elsewhere.

It’s a different thing entirely when you’re the sole gatekeeper between hundreds of millions of customers and anyone wanting to sell them apps and digital services.

It might not qualify as monopoly in the legal sense, but you’re still being a bully, abusing a position of power in the market.
It adds up. But not as much, percentage wise, as compared to something with less sugar in it, like iced tea.
This can only point to one thing - Dark Web will have its own Darker Web which doesn't abide even by the rules of the Dark Web. It will however have its own rules, and justice. And so on, recursively.
It’s also worth noting that you’re talking about the US allowing the country with whom they have the most adversarial relationship investigate their labs. In reality, we’re taking about international bodies doing the investigation. The fact that China has isolated themselves so badly that the best analogy for “anyone investigates China” is “Russia investigates the US” says plenty.
Victors don't necessarily write the history, but they greatly influence what part of history survives and how it is presented to the general public.

Trying to get rid other cultures herritage is quite a common activity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_destroyed_heritage

History classes in primary and secondary school are often extremely light on any criticism of the own nations past if mentioned at all. In my own case in Switzerland, some things we were taught were outright lies, fabricated by a historian from Zürich almost a century earlier to promote patriotism. The European colonial period is another thing that got completely misrepresented for example.
i hate the new blog site. It’s a pain in the ass to search, so i have to go digging through my pinboard.

Thank god the RSS feed got unfucked.
Ha yeah for sure not assuming I'll get rich, probably just overworked. :D

Also I wouldn't be the only engineer they're planning on hiring around ~10 or so and I have prev experience in the field they're building for. So I'd say I'm more of an intermediate dev.

Probably leave, depending on how well the startup is going, two in the hand and all that. That said my general goal at FAANG has been to meet people + stack cash and learn to eventually start my own thing. (And not be homeless if it doesn't work out lol.)

So if this startup pays eq/similar comp in cash and not monopoly money I'd say sure, just not sure of the quirks of working at a seed company hah.
Yes! 2013 and the mitigations since then and planned should work.
>It is important to appreciate that if masks contained filters capable of trapping viruses, the peripheral gaps around the masks would continue to permit the inhalation of unfiltered air and aerosols.

We all made a bunch of mask makers rich for no reason. Good thing I never wore one.

Also I remember seeing a video of some of these disposable masks being created in absolute squalor conditions in a third world country, newly assembled ones being thrown on a grimy pile in the floor. That's where your masks are from.
Springfield
Yes, but only the ones that does not require charging in pairs. Most people only use the bundled chargers and they all work with pairs.
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I wonder how many of these "Execs" are Libertarians, who oppose any form of tax.
When my house was being significantly remodeled one of the crews set up shop air every morning using an electric compressor.

One of the crews left behind a battery charger typical of those used for drills, so the building trades are not unanimous on air vs electric.
the negative publicity regarding Evil Corp A is certainly a good thing, agreed. and like I said in another reply, I tend to try to support the smaller businesses _outside_ of the stores, knowing they would benefit that much more.
Your argument is essentially the same as for patents... "I invented this tech, everyone can use it to create whole new things, I deserve a cut for my investment."

But Apple didn't invent GPS, it didn't invent the barcode scanner. Apple sells a hardware with a ridiculous profit margin. Devices that only have value through the software that is written for them, Uber is not selling a device with a GPS, they are selling a taxi service (for better or worse), and they will use whatever is available on the device to make that work well.
Not a lawyer but that’s probably illegal in the states. (Also hilarious username is hilarious!)
I feel like this is reductionism, failing to permit any duality.

Perhaps some day non-capitalism means might eventually create entirely separate possibilities. But these here examples of non-capitalist ways of living are meaningful & significant to me, to these peoe, today, and i tend to accept their claims of legitemacy. To disregard some people's deliberate attempts at living otherwise for their lack of complete purity in doing so seems beyond the point.

Maybe some day we can build alternate modes, where all ends are satisfied internally. But being able to host & share, to cooperate together in alternate modes with one another seems like the defining behavior & characteristic that is essential, to me, that is defining. It's enough. It's valid.

Lets test the extremes. What about a hyperadvanced group of oligarchs, owned an advanced automated industrial world, & competed among themselves under capitalism. But provided food & shelter & surplus to the rest of humanity to live under? There's a vestigial capitalism working at some level, but the mass of humanity operates at some other level. To me it feels like the lived perceieved experience of an individual is what counts. We dont have to chase back the entire dependency tree; something new that happens will almost certainly be evolutionary, less revolutionary/apart. Im ok if we want to introduce the idea of a continuum, but i dont feel like some interaction with capitalist production negates the validity.

(Also, thanks for the interesting, quote heavy comment!)
Exactly, if a small company decides to charge more for their work, it's a risk they take, and their customers might just decide to go elsewhere. But if tomorrow Apple decides you owe them more, what are you going to do? Not stay on the Apple Store? I don't think so.
I certainly have.

We literally LOST a place to buy groceries, as a good part of a town just burnt to the ground after (it seems to be coming to light[0]), a local cult decided to burn a railroad tie and left it smoldering while 100mph+ winds were being recorded.

My King Soopers closed for renovations because of a domestic terrorist shot and killed a few people last year[1],

And today, workers at King Soopers are starting their strike (which I support!).

Given I also live in a unique enough geographic area where the land west of me for a few hundred miles includes mostly mountains, no groceries stores exist there - so the stores that are left are getting (to put lightly) hammered.

And also Covid, shipping logistical problems, shortages with delivery drivers - pile it on.

Affording to eat is getting more and more difficult.

[0] I want to make clear that these are allegations, and no arrests have been made, but it's not looking great for the cult.

https://kdvr.com/news/local/twelve-tribes-property-history-o...

[1] https://kdvr.com/news/boulder-grocery-store-shooting/records...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/workers-nearly-8...
> Yet every time a company actually does a “charge more” type move

"Charge your customer more for your work" is VERY meaningfully different from "Charge someone else's customer more for someone else's work, because you own the storefront for someone else's business".

Sure, building the storefront is hard and high leverage. But figuring out the moral answer to "who reaps the rewards" is an entirely different journey.
I don't get the point of this. Am I supposed to feel bad for Uber and Lyft? Am I supposed to feel some need for justice against Apple?

What's the narrative?
Barry Marshall
> I don't think you need to be 100% anti-capitalist to see the harm. It's a bit of a false dichotomy

What I mean is that this is not something exceptional, literally every single billion dollar tech corp operates this way, the only way you accumulate insane amounts of profit is by cynically examining every possible angle to extract more revenue from the business.
A week ago I bought the last package of chicken in a supermarket. Someone had been to three stores and couldn't find milk.

Your anecdote is as good as mine.

Investigative journalism with many samples is worth more than either anecdote.
The only thing that is interesting to me is that you somehow have no idea how to mentally differentiate between a solo developer trying to find a way to be successful on their own, and the world's biggest company with cash reserves large enough to purchase entire countries. It's almost as if advice is naturally context dependent!
How Startup Narratives Form: Frontier Tech Case Studies
r/poor is an extremely tiny subreddit with only 7.2K subscribers.

r/povertyfinance has 975K subscribers.

https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/povertyfi...
Here's the thing though.

What (businesses) say is "sucky" behavior I like.

CVS blocked apple pay forever. So did Walmart. They said Apple sucks for wanting control (and providing privacy etc). They launched their competitor CurrentC I think which was of course totally hacked:

https://techcrunch.com/2014/10/29/retailer-backed-apple-pay-...

The reality is that a lot of these startups have almost NO controls over user data relative to inside actor threats. So I'd much rather sign up and have all my details / home address etc on apple's servers. Is this walmart alliance designed with privacy in mind or to exploit my data? I'm serious?

Ny Times is a good example. My subscription let me use their app, but I couldn't cancel it inside the app. Instead its the phone call BS (maybe they've stopped that).

So as a user, I actually kind of want apple to have a ton of market power, because the folks like DOJ / SEC etc are toothless in these areas. The only thing these agencies seem good at is stupid cookie banners (which are pointless).
The alternative to H1-B is not open borders…

The alternative is a sane program that is detached from your employer’s whims and provides you some stability and control. As of this writing, that program in the US is called a green card. But don’t get me started on how hard that is get.
I believe this is the original post: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2006/08/14/you-can-probably-stand-...

And here's a comment with more; it has definitely been a theme:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15828115
I had some old (built in the 80s?) handheld radios that included a dummy battery for when you were using alkalines, and you'd populate all the positions with real batteries if you were using rechargables. I think it was something unusual like 8 batteries in series.
I can't help but think of this very similar argument from HHGG (Douglas Adams):

> Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen it to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.

> The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

> "But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."

> "Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

> "Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets killed on the next zebra crossing
Meat shelves have been cleaned out at the supermarkets in Australia the last couple of visits. Hopefully encourages people to try their local butcher instead.
I do this with my child. Shrug, I just buy more amazon rechargables and while it feels expensive its still a fraction of what buying non-rechargables cost over time.

The only exception is his collection of lightsabres. Its like 3 AAA per and he and he has 6 or 7 of them, maybe more. So for those I bought a pack of alkalines and forgot about them. I needed batteries and just bought them from CVS because I was in a hurry.

Amazon lists the EBL 20 pack of AAA batteries for $22. This is about $8 more than the alkaline pack I bought. Now I regret not just spending a little extra for rechargables because those alkalines will drain and leak sooner than later. Or the lightsabre will break then the batteries can go back into rotation.
It will be forever sabotaged by mountains of cash
By 40% market cash and integer equity is that 40% of market rate total comp?

Makes sense, do you have experience "walking back on"? Interviewing is such a PITA and I'd like to avoid it if I can.

It would be a big derisk to just go along for the ride for like a year with a pay cut, and if it doesn't work out come back.
The big problem with that hypothesis is that you have to explain why we see so little matter falling into these blackholes and they don't seem to: dark matter you can basically pass right through and have your trajectory disrupted a little, whereas a black hole once you hit it becomes a zone of infinite attraction - i.e. a black hole passing near a star is pretty likely to setup in orbit around it because any matter that gets close enough inevitably gets sucked in. Dark matter - having finite mass and no singularity - doesn't have this problem.
> To the point I will not use an a subscription on my phone that doesn’t go through their mechanism.

Well then I have good news for you: Apple forbids you that option.
You can't just say "capitalism", there are many flavors.

"Competitive capitalism" is the one which is generally best for consumers, as businesses must compete, which drives down their margins (thus passing savings to consumers).

"Free market capitalism" is effectively hands off. Monopolies can form, and without any regulation it can become quite bad for consumers. Typically monopolies rarely form, but obviously in areas like utilities it happens quite naturally.

Most people strive for competitive capitalism, when used colloquially, IMO. In the general case they are one in the same, but owning whole platforms that are broadly used is new territory, where it bleeds into anti-consumer impact IMO
I honestly dont think that was ever the case, unless it was some mainstream media reporting. In reality Intel has been making record profits YOY for 4 or 5 years in a row. Mostly due to Datacenter revenue. Optane, or NAND / Storage business is a tiny segment on Intel's profits. Although the narrative that Optane will create a lock in on Server Sector certainly helped a tiny bit. But now the threat is coming from elsewhere.
> There could be solid position there, as I have argued in the manner you have stated here.

I may have done the same!
Parent and gp are scrubbing any nuance and leaving cartoon version of arguments, then fighting that strawman. Not all immigration is the same, IMO, sameness is a requisite for arguing the only "rational" positions can either be pro-immigration (all of it) or anti-immigration, which is absurd and reductive.

This is not about Apple charging more - it's about Apple charging for something they did not add any value to. This is closer to Oracle's billing tactics, that rightfully get pilloried on HN, the only difference is I'm yet to encounter anyone on HN defend Oracle's billing practices.
Agreed. Apple's profit margin on the App Store was ~80% in 2019[1], and the trend for the margin is to continue to increase over time.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-01/apple-s-a...
> For example I have no problem if a third party store forced one payment option only, but only allowing one store and one payment option is just milking your market position/rent seeking.

See that’s _exactly_ the problem I have. I don’t want to use your shitty payments system that’s likely less secure than anything Apple is doing. Allowing a single payment source that’s not Apple would directly harm consumers from a security and privacy perspective.
> ununionised

ionised then?
I'm not worried about my bank, my credit card company, or my personal loan company - something tells me they'll come out of this OK, if history is any indication. If they don't, I'll be taken down many moons before them.
I wonder how this model compares to things like videogame consoles where the device is (afaik) sold below cost but then made up in licensing fees and royalties on sales?

I think it's a good comparison and would give insight into how a similar scenario has played out in adjacent industries
I mean, that is effectively what happens. It's dangerous to give validity to a potential solution when the impacts and side effects of it are unknown.
The App Store and new iOS APIs is an ongoing fee, much more akin to a developer charging a fee to continuously support their (for example) Wordpress theme than a one-time fee for creating the Wordpress theme.
In situ detection of water on the Moon by the Chang’E-5 lander
Your loop body code is choking probably because you have imagined that the loop induction variable is still an iterator. It's not. It is a direct reference to a container element. So, keypair.second, not it->second.