skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are offered life saving vaccines for free and still don't take it.

I don't want to throw completely baseless statistics, but I would guess over 95% of the world either a) does not have access to that kind of thing, or b) has other priorities, financially, or c) does not care about this because they are either not informed or they know this exists but is not important enough for them to actually do it.

And if you are from US remember, western countries where these things are easily available and people can generally afford it are only small percentage of the world's population.
Right, so the political discussion in New Zealand, Sweden etc. appeals to the lowest common denominator even more, because they are more democratic than the US? I don't think that's true.
We receive vendor allowances for various programs,
primarily volume incentives and reimbursements for specific
costs such as markdowns, margin protection, advertising
and sales incentives. Vendor allowances provided as a
reimbursement of specific, incremental and identifiable
costs incurred to promote a vendor’s products are included
as an expense reduction when the cost is incurred. All other
vendor allowances, including vendor allowances received in
excess of our cost to promote a vendor’s product, are
initially deferred and recorded as a reduction of
merchandise inventories.
That's because it was used mainly to print the Bible (work of devil from their point of view). The west also needed 300 years to disvover algebra (work of muslim barbars )
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Netherlands has a strong voice in the EU; I'm betting that Apple doesn't want to cease all business in the EU. Heck, they bent to China.... they'll bend to EU, make no mistake.

This is an mind-blowingly-risky move on Apple's part. They show malice here - if they are acting like a government, they invite governments to fight them. I.e. they're nuts.
If you are in any sort of leadership position -- either a formal manager, or in that you have respect from your peers, I strongly urge you to read Deming.

There are few authors that have taught me so much about people, motivation, systems, quality, statistics, what high-leverage effort looks like, and so on.

I first picked up a book by Deming a few years ago, and not a single day has passed that I have not had use for what he taught me through his writing.

The things he says are only becoming more and more relevant with every year. I honestly think it ought to be compulsory reading in school. The world would be a much better place that way; kinder, more efficient, and less superstitial.
Easy. Google Reader.
> A good example of the type of mismeasurement done in non-manufacturing contexts is the ridiculously stupid burn-down chart.

Bad management can find a misuse for any tool, I don't think burn-down charts are a particularly attractive nuisance in that regard.
As much as Best Buy did, since they required vendors to reimburse them for markdowns and unsold investory.

We receive vendor allowances for various programs,
primarily volume incentives and reimbursements for specific
costs such as markdowns, margin protection, advertising
and sales incentives. Vendor allowances provided as a
reimbursement of specific, incremental and identifiable
costs incurred to promote a vendor’s products are included
as an expense reduction when the cost is incurred. All other
vendor allowances, including vendor allowances received in
excess of our cost to promote a vendor’s product, are
initially deferred and recorded as a reduction of
merchandise inventories.
That is fair. I suppose then it is a question of faith in Apple's security abilities. I just happen to trust Apple to be more than their App Store.
This tactic is in no way specific to Apple or Lego, in many businesses with high markup they want to (in specific cases) sell at a lower price without breaking their contracts, insulting their costumers and inviting scalpers. So they sell items that can’t be resold, aren’t wanted by the costumers that buy at the original price and are not covered by their contracts.
When will it be available on the app store?
A powerful and intuitive online journal to encourage a daily writing routine
So poor Apple would only be left with the 1000$ for each iPhone sold?

I wonder if such arguments existed decrying Microsoft's immense charity in allowing others to make money off of its platform back when Windows was the dominant way of computing and connecting to the Internet with 0 fees for installing software on Windows...
By the same logic BestBuy, Verizon, and other hardware retailers should get a cut of Apple’s revenue.
Nothing worse than Batch processed vegan food fit for prisons and schools. Vegan food is for wealthy socialites not suitable or good for mass production/consumption
To what degree does Wayland solve this compared to X?
So you need to be an experienced dev to speak up against a toxic work environment? I do also cringe when I see comments like yours attacking the guy for doing something you wouldn't do. He probably mentioned the amount of lines of codes as a way of saying he did put a lot of effort(is common knowledge that on itself is a shitty metric). Maybe he, also wouldn't want to be hired by someone like you either, not would I.
Ask HN: Why can’t we have sideloaded apps that can only do what web apps can do?
There’s a subset of native iOS app capabilities that's equivalent to what any unvetted web site can do today in Safari.

So why can’t we have sideloaded apps with such capabilities?

(so I’m not talking about VPNs, access to all your photos, your contacts, etc)

There would be great benefits in the user experience, because even though the functionality might be equivalent, native apps often look & feel better, are more familiar, and automatically have an icon on the home screen.
They don't? The CenturyLink landlines around here sure do. (KS)
If anybody wants to help solve this problem, hit me up. :) Working on it...
Yeah, please don't take the pitchfork thing personally, that was more intended for anybody reading that comment who immediately assumes the worst.

As for high level docs about how it works, I haven't been involved in quite a few years, so I'm not 100% sure about the best source, but this link looks like a good place to start:

https://docs.telemetry.mozilla.org/concepts/history.html
Holy cow, now I'm waiting for that too!
Sensible question, we took this into account in our assessment. I stand by it.
Ultimately every debate boils down to the behaviour of some obnoxious clowns; it is analogous to, say, entropy.
>they are just rent seeking on their market position.

No, they're providing a service and charging for it, just like anyone else.
I hadn't heard of these headsets. Is public developer documentation available?
I think Apple would actually have more of a case if they charged different rates for different types of apps based on technical reasons (i.e. Basics - web/touch/image/audio, video media, gaming/ARKit):

1.) web view/touch/audio streaming app - 10%

2.) accelerated web view/SDvideo app - 15%

3.) HDvideo H.264 app - 20%

4.) 3D Graphics/ARKit SDK app - 30%

3D and ARKit which are pushing the boundaries of the silicon probably do have associated R&D costs as well as silicon COGS costs that perhaps do need to be recouped in a manner similar to gaming console SW licensing agreements (i.e. Xbox, PS, Nintendo royalty payments).

In the court of public opinion it would also minimize the effectiveness of "think of the solo iOS dev" type scenarios that the big guys such as Epic, etc. like to hide behind.
I Used Vertex AI and Nvidia’s Jetson Nano to Catch a Bus
Apple is acting a bit petulant.
Also makes sense on numbers and other patterns where you can logically enforce exhaustiveness.
It's a term for teenagers and young adults that left the small town they were from by literally jumping on to a moving cargo train.
I'd be careful about taking that particular author's interpretation of management literature at face value.

His understanding of High Output Management (a seminal book by the CEO of Intel) was so flawed that the CEO of Dropbox had to correct him.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21088425
There are altered states of consciousness that occur naturally and don't lead to a sense of euphoria. Sleep paralysis for example. It happened to me once and it made me see things differently, nothing religious or mystical, just an enhanced perspective.

To give an example, during my episode I had what is usually described as an out-of-body experience. I felt myself walking around my bedroom as if I were awake, only to find out that my body never left the bed. Now if the sense of being "out of the body" is an illusion, how can we be sure that being "in the body" is not just the same illusion? (I'm tempted to think we are not anywhere and that space itself is the illusion, but that is beside the point)
The definition given in Chalmers (1995, facing up to...) following Nagel, i.e. using the linguistic construction "what it is like", is incomprehensible and ill-defined. I believe this is the origin of the term "hard problem". Some other arguments for the existence of a hard problem build on the dogma that "philosophical zombies" are conceivable (which we can deny by saying they aren't). Others depend on inverted qualia thought experiments, which we can deflate by denying that inverted qualia are possible at all (or by denying that "qualia" is a coherent and well-defined concept). If there's an unambiguous and clear explanation of the concept of "hard problem of consciousness", or a clear argument for the existence of such a problem not built on shaky assumptions, I'd love to hear it.

By the way, there is a whole line of debate on the sense or nonsense of the ever-present "what it is like" phrasing:

>‘What it is like’ talk (‘WIL-talk’) — the use of phrases such as ‘what it is like’ — is ubiquitous in discussions of phenomenal consciousness. It is used to define, make claims about, and to offer arguments concerning consciousness. But what this talk means is unclear, as is how it means what it does: how, by putting these words in this order, we communicate something about consciousness. Without a good account of WIL-talk, we cannot be sure this talk sheds light, rather than casts shadows, on our investigations of consciousness.

(Jonathan Farrell - ‘What it is Like’ Talk is not Technical Talk)
I won't have to wait long at all. Tesla's sales in the U.S. and Europe have been slowing. Most of their growth is now in the Chinese market.

Between the FSD problems, the joke that is Cybertruck, and Elon Musk, Tesla's been doing a great job of turning away potential customers who are now looking at anything but Tesla.
Never thought from this angle and it does make sense. Probably doesn't explain all the difference, but a considerable part of it is not unreasonable to assume.
Like everything Google it’s a half assed program
I dont understand why you think you little language lesson is relevant. As you write yourself the true (german) meaning of the term is strange. Laymen thought they were bizarre and maybe ugly. But for most other they were seen as very aesthetic from the onset. Which is why these new fonts absolutely dominated the fraktur fonts. The reaction to them was more about a culture shock than an aesthetic disapproval.

It is a historic term and any interpretation were you call CS grotesk would be suspect.
There is no easy way to answer this question. The best you can do is talk to people working on that group and ask the question. However, even with this knowledge there is no guarantee, because Amazon is always changing and doing reorgs, so what is a great group today can become a nightmare tomorrow.
Unless the stablecoins are preferred over traditional fiat USD for some use cases.

For example with stablecoin cryptocurrencies I can move an arbitrary amount to another party with no risk of censorship, no permission required, on an arbitrary Saturday morning at 3am if I wish - all in about 10 minutes. This is impossible with USD fiat.

Because of this utility, there is significant demand for stablecoins by traders and institutional investors who prefer stables over fiat and are willing to pay a premium for this utility.

Also my 50x claim on interest paid on savings is based on a typical US bank paying 0.1% APY.

50x 0.1% = 5% which is lower than many stablecoin savings products offer today.

What makes you so certain that a 5% APY on stablecoins is unsustainable at scale or a scam?
You were replying to my top-level comment, which isn't limited to America, and your reply didn't say anything about America, but Argentina is in America.
I wonder how many of those defending Apple position also own Apple stocks.
I will never unsee this.
I go back and forth.

I like to buy things myself, but I generally have a purpose of some sort, or having used similar things, am targeting a very robust thing that I can camp on and use for a decade or two.

A good friend is always buying products, trying them out, gadgets and such. And they spend a lot, but they are always super happy with their new things and frankly, give me a lot of their older things so they can get more new things!

(that's crazy, but they do them, and we are great friends, and I make good use of the stuff falling my way too)

That said, I generally don't gauge off the AD campaigns. Big spends are a rational choice as are modest ones and or guerilla type campaigns, which the latent rebel in me is a sucker for.

What I can say, knowing someone like that, is they are entertained by new things. I'm sometimes that way, but it's rare. Like a great watch might do that, or some cool tech thing I can use with my hobby computing / making. But, my entertainment is more centered on doing stuff, and or hanging with people, maybe doing things with them.

I do hate getting a thing that sucks. Shuts me down for quite a while.

I LOVE a good score, like a thing that is just awesome and I know it will perform for ages.
Because Apple given the third party access to you via a marketplace.

And you are a participant of this marketplace, because Apple spent billions on R&D and ended up being so good, that developers and consumers abandoned other platforms in droves.

Apple also smoked previous multibillion competitors (BlackBerry and Nokia) into shame, and they’re now part of history and MBA lectures on how a young and innovative player can kill your slow and boring business in a short time.

That’s why Apple is a market leader, with the best vertically integrated hardware and software devices, as well as a marketplace with billion people that both devs and consumers eagerly want to be part of.

The same marketplace developers agreed to join by paying up 30% of revenue 10+ years ago, while abandoning Windows Phone and others, and playing part in the shaping the market where it is today.

And suddenly developers cry wolf that it’s a basic human right to have access to a marketplace with 1 billion people for free, which they played active part in building.
In a thread that is broadly about giving users the choice in how their personal data is tracked, analyzed, and utilized for the sake of ads, how is my comment off-topic? I mean, OP posited that perhaps we're better off without companies whose goods rely on targeted/invasive advertising, you provided the perspective of someone who might really rely on that sort of advertising, and I suggested that my right to privacy should not be superseded by someone's "need" (though I think "desire" would be more apt there) to get the word out about their product.

Privacy is incredibly useful to society, as is advertising I suppose, so I'm not quite sure how you can have a conversation about targeted advertising's societal usefulness without also talking about the impact it has to other things that are useful to society, eg privacy, that that advertising depends on.
Using Replay to fix my first Replay bug
They are most likely referring to the Korg M1, not the Apple M1. Similar vintage as the DX7, so probably no electron microscope needed.
I'm describing an issue with the article, not with the kernel development ideology. What I don't understand is why Corbett decided to write this up as an "assumption" rather than a "bug" which it clearly is.
Shouldn't we read the docs for everything we use?

I'm appalled everything I realize most developers don't actually read docs... It's unbelievable. Do we expect things to work the way each of us imagine? Or what do one expect when starts using something without reading the documentation?
Meta to bring in mandatory distances between virtual reality avatars
+1 for Ben Eater's 8-bit computer, the videos are very well put together and easy to understand. It's even a bit addicting to watch them because you always want to get to the next step. I binged it in a matter of 3 days. His 6502 is also very good, I wonder if that can be a good computing platform OP is talking about.
If they do it, it's because they know they can get away with it. They studied the risk and cost associated with a lawsuit, and estimated it was more profitable to keep the commission high.

Which is one more hint that our legal system is not working as it should. It is completely ineffective at enforcing laws above a certain threshold of power.
I agree with you, but it's important to note that the 8 bits of dynamic range are not in constant luminance steps. The gamma of most monitors is about 2 (1.8-2.2) or square law. This is done to roughly match your eye's sensitivity. So those bits have a range of about 64,000,000:1 in brightness. What your monitor can do?? Well, that depends a lot on your monitor and the background illumination of the room.
There is something very wrong eith the expectation/situation where an academic institution is providing mental health support to students.
Doesn’t Google allow alternative app stores to be loaded onto Androids though? If that’s the case I’m not sure the comparison makes sense because consumers aren’t forced to use the Play Store to install software. Give Google 30% of sales or have no sales at all the way it is for iPhone developers.
I feel bad for the LinkedIn poster here, I think he had a lazy manager.

That's funny, because from the other things you said:

There is an intense pressure to force a certain amount of attrition each year.

As an SDM, I wanted to maintain the illusion of great Amazon culture for my team.

It sure looks like this wasn't the case of a "lazy manager" at all -- rather, that manager was doing exactly what they were told: to force attrition for attrition's sake, regardless of objective performance criteria. In fact, at Amazon that manager would only be seen as "lazy" for not meeting their attrition quota.
Anybody out there using this? Thinking of trying it on my older thinkpad.
Separate cartridges or disks for the OS, the various programs, the user files. When we switched over to internal storage and started putting everything together, the end user lost something. Children (people) need freedom to experiment but also need a way to put things back to square one, like they CAN'T mess the os up when it's on a write protected disk that's already been ejected.
Building a house is an incredible feat, the caveats of it are hard to understand for the casual bystander. There's a lot of comments here criticizing this project based on personal preferences, it's great that you managed to create something you are satisfied with!

My experience from building our first, and so far only, house are quite different. Having a limited budget (unlike what the blog post let you believe) was extremely stressful due to a large number of economical factors hard to foresee as a novice developer.

Land development comes with so many gotchas and bills needs to be paid, else, the build stops. Groundwork are most important and the economical impact will be great. We also had the romanticised view of "minimal site disruption", and modeled the house for it. In the end, the result was inevitable "site disruption" anyway. Make choices based on what you want, not based on whats there, the site will be so different anyway, it might be better to "create a new one" from start.

I can relate to the post. It took us 5 years from buying land, design grandios, re design more down to earth, permits, sourcing materials and finding-, firing-, re-hiring- local contractors, digging and building, until we finally where finished with the body and interior of a house. The sheer effort in doing this is astounding. We live in a beautiful one of kind house as a result. The one of kind also brings problems; Flat roof, Shu shogiban facade, oiled hardwood floors, limestone, large fixed windows, mosaic tiles. We have it all; great to look at and too feel, not so great when salt from outside makes stains on limestone, dogs make large pee stains on oiled floors, windows unreachable to be cleaned, tiles collecting dirt and open floor plans supporting sound travel more than we could previously understand.

In retrospect, it's very easy to make the wrong decisions, how ever prepared you previously thought you were, as new decisions needs to be made a la minute onsite, all the time.

The author seems well read about the technical part of their house, I cant help but feel they where overrun by contractors deciding what and what not should be installed. It is a shame they could not find a solution the geothermal heating. Nothing is said about ventilation or insulation. Not much feels "modern" to this build except the shape of it.
Rubymine's autocomplete got to a state where I barely ever have to grep anything.

Look what you're describing can happen, it's just not that often or is the norm. It's usually some crappy legacy project no one wants to upgrade or touch that reaches such a state, there's absolutely no reason why what you described can't be refactored. The fact it isn't being refactored tells you more about the company/teams working on it than about the framework.
This is pretty interesting - some tension between what C guarantees and what Strictly Conforming POSIX requires. I’m not saying there’s no confusion in the real world (it’s obvious there is). Is Postel’s Law

Be conservative in what you send; be liberal in what you accept.

relevant here? I’m not sure.

The interesting looking parts of @tedunangst linked document are:

The argument argv is an array of character pointers to null-terminated strings. The application shall ensure that the last member of this array is a null pointer. These strings shall constitute the argument list available to the new process image. The value in argv[0] should point to a filename string that is associated with the process being started by one of the exec functions.

[…]

Early proposals required that the value of argc passed to main() be "one or greater". This was driven by the same requirement in drafts of the ISO C standard. In fact, historical implementations have passed a value of zero when no arguments are supplied to the caller of the exec functions. This requirement was removed from the ISO C standard and subsequently removed from this volume of POSIX.1-2017 as well. The wording, in particular the use of the word should, requires a Strictly Conforming POSIX Application to pass at least one argument to the exec function, thus guaranteeing that argc be one or greater when invoked by such an application. In fact, this is good practice, since many existing applications reference argv[0] without first checking the value of argc.

The requirement on a Strictly Conforming POSIX Application also states that the value passed as the first argument be a filename string associated with the process being started. Although some existing applications pass a pathname rather than a filename string in some circumstances, a filename string is more generally useful, since the common usage of argv[0] is in printing diagnostics. In some cases the filename passed is not the actual filename of the file; for example, many implementations of the login utility use a convention of prefixing a <hyphen-minus> ( '-' ) to the actual filename, which indicates to the command interpreter being invoked that it is a "login shell".