skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many don’t just prompt you to install an app, they borderline force you. Reddit is guilty of this, as is Instagram and TikTok.

Presumably this is because they can gather much more data via a mobile app.
You're comparing income with market cap. Apple's net income in 2021 was around $100B of which $10B is a significant sum.
But people sure do want cheap fuel and electricity.

Cheapness comes at a cost, and people consistently choose the cheapest providers when given a choice. Absolving ourselves is responsibility is why progress has stalled for decades.
You are speculating as much as the op does. It's just not based in truthful statements. Ofc everything you and op are rhyming together can be true but at least don't state it as fact like op did.
A good lesson I've learned over the years: there are 2 sides to every story, and on the Internet you usually get just one.

Not saying this guy is wrong, his manager is right, or vice versa. I'm saying you don't know by this post, and by many of the pitchfork comments I'm reading, a lot of folks feel an unwarranted sense of surety in their outrage.
I can't speak for other people but I personally believe most of the folks into Bitcoin aren't crazy libertarians longing for a world without a functioning society. It's a loud minority.

With regards to practical wins I can see a number that are even playing out today:

- The ability to skirt sanctions making it possible to donate to organisations that are deemed "illegal"

- Banking for those that are deemed unprofitable by banks. El Salvador has a large portion of unbanked citizens. Making it possible for them to interact with the wider world economy seems like a good thing to me?

- The ability for people in extreme situations to store value in something other than their governments currency. Think Lebanon, Argentina, Venezuela, Turkey, etc.

- Promotes the build-out of new energy production; especially renewables since they are the cheapest form of electricity. This is a topic that deserves a thread in itself so probably not worth going into here.

You should care because the world doesn't exist solely in the privileged western hemisphere.
I think it is impossible to understand Consciousness because Consciousness creates the brain and the whole universe.

If you think of Consciousness as the thing that is first and which creates all the rest, it answers a lot of hard questions - questions like why is it so hard to even define Consciousness?

Or weird paradoxes in QM.

Or things like: why do we all share the present moment?

Once you start to see Consciousness as the foundation of everything, it all makes a lot more sense. Everything fits together much more easily.

A lot of religions have also come to this conclusion.

There is a book called Biocentrism by Robert Lanza, which I thought was really good and went into details about this.
New Zealand surely has a decidedly non-little cultural divide. It manages to avoid populism despite extraordinary pressures.
Jail in the real world is also just a financial transaction. I was only in there for 8 years because I couldn't afford the fee to get out.
in the loop, you set cp[i] to a reference to the variable value.
value is the same variable through the loop, with different values copied inside it, first A then B then C.
So at the end you have cp having three times a reference to value, with the last value in it, namely C.
Yes. It’s taken me a while to say PR instead of CR. At least I’m not quoting LPs at my girlfriend anymore
Yes, Ubuntu includes some hooks in the package management for snapshots related to installing packages. I haven't had need to use them so far.
Well you need two guys, one from the US, one from Denmark and they booth need a calorie counter machine.
Asking for money is not a dick move. First, it would be good to know if they are interested in continuing the contract. If so, state your price.
There are quite a few grants available for things like improving insulation, but you're right; a landlord doesn't really have an incentive to go through the hassle of applying for it and arranging for the work to be done. An EPC (Energy Performance Certificate) is required when you let a property, and it has to be at least an "E" rating (A: best, G: worst) but that's not really saying much.
> Inheriting million dollars is luck not privilege.

I'll take the bait. I can't tell if you're confusing things on purpose but here goes.

If you are Richard Pryor in Brewster's Millions, sure, it's just luck. Most people do not mysteriously inherit money, but get it from older relatives they are close with. If your parents die with a million bucks to leave to you, your life was already very different than someone whose parents die nothing, or worse a mountain of debt. People who can't afford to send their kids to college, for example, probably don't have a mil to leave them. I am not sure I've ever heard of someone just randomly lucking into that kind of inheritance. It probably happens sometimes.

But getting that million dollars suddenly enables you to live a very different life, and you get to take advantage of things that people who live paycheck to paycheck cannot. You cannot say that does not fit the definition you linked.
Exactly. I’ve been here for two years, not a long time by any means, and I don’t personally know a single instance of anyone getting pipped.

I’ve never felt pressured to work overtime, haven’t had to race to meet an unreasonable deadline, and I’ve been rated exceeds on both of the performance evals I’ve been though.

The Amazon I’ve experienced is much different than the one I read about before joining.
You can always vote for the politicians that are willing to go after the gas leaks, you can choose to buy from companies that are sourcing from leak-free gas pipes or use renewable energy sources etc.

Just because you don't have direct access to the pipelines so you can close the leaks with your bare hands doesn't mean that you have no power over it. None of us have any control beyond 2 meters of our existence because that's how far away we can reach with our hands but because we live in a society the things we say or choices we make have impact everywhere on the globe.

That's also why we can eat things that are further away than a few meters from us and the leak in question is from the machinery that facilitates all that.
There's a weird relationship between the worker and customer if one asks the other dance, and they acquiese, knowing that it will be fodder for short video entertainment.

Considering the ones who dance don't seem to be pressured into it (given that the majority ignore those requests) it's harmless, but I don't see the end goal, or upside. Maybe the virality will in some way bolster a future potential career? Maybe the dances are cathartic and a bonding experience between two humans who decided not to engage with each other physically?

I don't know, but the practical fact remains that they really should fix those mirrors, because that's a misdemeanour in my country, and who wants to get a misdemeanour during work hours.
Amazon's Financials Through Charts
This might not be the case here. As the OP theorized, they were already on the way out of the team, so why not use them to fill up the PIP quotas?

The manager might not be incompetent, but they sure are an asshole
But why is that? Phones are more expensive at retail and more profitable than ever. Why should it be so difficult to make one even with a billion dollars? And it wasn't hard to run a video rental store 25 years ago. What changed?
I always thought negatives was people who either haven’t had sex yet or haven’t had sex outside a closed loop.

I’d be interested to see percentage effected normalized by number of partners. (Not interested enough to look it up now though)
Will journalists write about the fact that Bezos gave $500 million to the local Dutch economy, which I think the locals would rather have over temporarily disassembling this bridge?
What's the difference between unprofessional and classless? It does seem Rimap is in the right here. They have a right to rebuke someone not engaging in good faith.
> Why Are Mathematicians So Bad at Arithmetic?

Why are Programmers So Bad at Programming Bug-Free?
> Life is short, learn interesting things.

The interesting thing about software engineering to me, is not the features of the languages, its the programs I get to write in them.

I don't learn programming languages because I want to know the latest concepts in language design, I learn them so I can write interesting software.
The provision of cryptocurrency exchange services is also decentralised, yes.
I recall; miniature incandescent bulbs embedded into push switches that could display/set registers, it was very important to test the bulbs before trusting them (a long press) else a burned out bulb may catch you off guard. Right next to the core memory cabinet, someone accurately patched it to show huge "$" during idle time!!
> The little guy is a how the brain tries to make sens of itself.

That still doesn't explain consciousness itself. Though I think there are many different interpretations and definitions for the word consciousness so we might be talking about a different one.

> Without some sens of self any creature would have a pretty difficult time surviving, as it wouldn't be able to tell itself apart from the rest of the world.

A cell just replicates because that's what the molecules in it happen to do
I mean, analysis paralysis is a real thing. But I think people vastly overestimate the value of having a golden hammer solution like Ruby on Rails on your ecosystem and downplay the disadvantages.
Quoting Apple engineer Brady Eidson: "We (Apple) intentionally do not want the ability to script favicons."

source 1: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95979
source 2: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75877#c1
Ask HN: Instagram disabled my business' account before I ever logged in. Help?
I created a new Instagram account for my business. Right away, it was locked and I could not log in without adding a phone number. I'm guessing it may be because I created the account from a Linux system. I added a phone number and it informed me that my account had been disabled and that I could not appeal this.

I have logged into the account 0 times and just want to create a business profile so I can connect with my users and potentially advertise in the future. Does anyone here know whom I might contact? There is no way I can find to talk with a human. There is a phone number that is entirely automated; I left a message and received no response.

Thank you.
Sometimes it feels like I'm the only person using profiles. All those access and secret keys flying around everywhere. AWS_PROFILE FTW.
I know people that use Lightning frequently at a local coffee shop via long term tabs there is no rush to close. Saves them a ton in Visa transaction fees long term even after they eventually pay a Bitcoin transaction fee to close the tab.
> they'd block Google from the platform too.

To be fair, they didn't block Facebook from their platform. Users now just need to agree that they want to be tracked (spoiler: practically no one wants to be tracked).

I don't disagree with your general take and save for an iPod classic I don't own any Apple gear. But in my book that was one of the better moves that Apple ever pulled.
Ice that took roughly 2k years to form on Mt. Everest has melted in around 25
Depends on your definition of "organisational" but note that it is the architecture that converts one to the other.

In fact it is this that makes event driven so attractive, rather the solving a difficult problem right now, someone will need to sort out the mess later.
I just like the phrase. Tyranny probably brings along a bad assumption, but it really just means that most people will stick with the default. It's something I learned independently, though it had been realized many times before I did. I'm also happy with the outcome in this case.
The Tories have renationalised many of the train companies, and are currently toying with nationalising the General Practice (GP) service in the UK - which most of the public would not realise was private sector (albeit GPs have strict rules against private practice, unlike dentists).

There are some obvious reasons to want to renationalise critical infrastructure like water and power, particularly given the absolutely piss-poor job done by the private contractors. And in many areas - like the trains - the "private enterprises" running the services turn out to be commercial arms of other European public sector bodies anyway, and are not private sector in any meaningful sense.

I don't think this is Left vs Right any more. If the Tories want red-wall voters and broad appeal, they have to move a lot more than Labour needs to stay in the middle ground. Left vs Right does not capture the complexity of what's happening here.
> ... you have access to the exact same processes as the Epic or Microsoft.

No you don't. Netflix and Amazon got special deals (before the whole Epic saga) [1] [2]. From partial waivers of the Apple Tax, to Apple-run editorial promotions, to bundling!

"The emails could serve as evidence that for lucrative and powerful partners, Apple seems to be willing to make concessions."

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/5/22421734/apple-epic-netfli...

[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/3/21206400/apple-tax-amazon-...
> As part of the grid operator’s emergency response service programs, the mines get paid when they volunteer to do this.
“The miners are able to sell their power back into the grid to cover some of their losses for turning off,” Bratcher said. “Depending on the price of Bitcoin and the price of power, they may even make more from selling their power back than they would from mining during a demand spike.”
This fulfills a long-held vision shared by miners, crypto advocates, and Sen. Ted Cruz
I have faith in David Murray. He's got a good track record of pushing things through and seeing them to the end.
I agree, I'm not knowledgable to argue about the finance aspect of things, but simply seeing how the media talks about Gamestop decided me to hold on to the few shares I still have
Why ask why? That’s their stated preference.
See, the content of your post is formed by the words you choose. Which other words are contradictory (or at least not necessary) to what you are trying to say? And what is it you are trying to say? It's really hard to find that out for us if you yourself aren't sure about that.
Quick answer is the last 3 paragraphs.

When your body responds to a virus, it creates many kinds of antibodies against its many constituent components. This is why new CDC studies show that natural immunity is far better than the vaccine which creates ONE antibody against one part of the virus (the spike protein).

A virus can mutate in a lot of ways, but usually not at the same time. If your body has 50 different antibodies against different parts of Delta, when Omicron comes along with a bunch of changes, you'll get sick while your body develops additional antibodies, but your body will still keep the disease from multiplying too quickly with the antibodies that still work (or partially work).

The vaccines force the creation of a specific spike protein either through messenger RNA (pfizer/moderna) or through infection with a different virus (Johnson & Johnson -- for the record, the only two other vaccines like this were emergency vaccines approved for ebola in 2016 and 2019) or a more recent one that delivers attenuated virus (but was denied by the FDA because they "had enough vaccines").

Your body sees a massive jump in these spike proteins and marshals a big immune response that floods your system with antibodies against this protein (myocarditis and some other symptoms are believed to be caused by these antibodies attacking your body's very similar ACE2 receptors). When you catch the disease with all these antibodies flooding your system, they can slow the disease down while your body creates the rest of the antibodies to finish the disease off.

Delta had a moderately different spike protein, but the antibodies against the original spike still seem to work at reduced effectiveness which is why so many vaccinated people caught delta. Omicron has an even more different protein that almost completely evades the antibodies which is why everyone is catching it.

So why does the vaccine reduce death?

I'll say that "with covid" and "from covid" are a real thing (even the great Dr. Fauci has said this on national TV). Not being boosted is also sufficient to get you on the unvaxxed list (among other things). Politics and political pressure on places like the CDC further muddy the waters.

That aside, exponential growth is important here. If you are unvaccinated (and aren't one of the 10-15% of people who somehow already have partial immunity), the virus enters your body and begins multiplying. If you have 1,000 viruses in the droplet, they invade cells and become (for example), 10,000 and then 100,000 and then 1M within just three doublings.

Now, let's say that the antibodies are just 20% effective. Only 800 viruses can invade creating 8,000 copies. Of those, only 6,400 survive creating 64,000 viruses. On our third round, only 51,200 are left creating 512,000 viruses.

After 3 rounds, the vaccinated person has HALF the viruses in their system. They'll still have symptoms, but they will be nowhere as severe. This gives your body a lot more time to create the rest of the necessary antibodies and fight off the disease and prevent severe reactions or death.
> Really not sure what you're talking about.

Have you considered reading?
Good Lord, Man!

28?!?

You're over the hill!

You're as good as 6 feet under!

Stop now!

If 28 is "too old" ... then how do you think us OLDER THAN YOU must feel?

Geez - you've got, probably, 35-40 years of career life available to you yet

You're not the same person that asked 4 years ago on Quora "Is 24 years old too late to make a career change and still make good money?" (https://www.quora.com/Is-24-years-old-too-late-to-make-a-car...), are you?
That seems overly cynical to me. People can tell when they are being guilted.
I have already explained how banking is decentralised. What part did you not understand or agree with?
It's too bad there's no open source version of something like Print Shop Pro.

I find LibreOffice to be very buggy when trying to design signs and banners (at least on the Raspberry Pi, some features don't work properly with huge fonts, and the option to print a large banner spread across multiple pages doesn't seem to work properly). Inkscape is okay but is a little too advanced for kids and doesn't come with clip art. There's currently no build of Krita for the Raspberry Pi so I haven't been able to try that.
Arguably the best implementation would be a backtracking-based implementation that goes fast, with some sort of strong API for controlling the amount of effort the implementation puts into matching, because the major concern is the truly pathological cases. For the most part I'm not all that concerned about cases where one or the other implementation is slightly faster on this or that input, I'm worried about the DOS attack. However, determining the correct amount of "effort" to put into a match could be nontrivial; there's the obvious "time out after this amount of clock time" which has its uses for security, but if you want something more sophisticated (including measuring by actual effort applied rather than just clock time, which only loosely correlates with how long you've actually had to run) it's difficult to even know exactly how to express what you want, let alone implement it sensibly in the current programming environment.

If such a thing exists, I haven't seen it, but that's not to say it doesn't exist. In general, though, programming languages and libraries have poor-to-nonexistent generalized support for bounding the amount of resources to spend on a given internal computation. Because that's obviously a rather niche use that's hard to justify a lot of effort, especially since "bound the amount of resources for a given program", a well-implemented bit of functionality, tends to hit a lot of the use cases.
because you aren't paying them to do that.
Raspberry Pi with a free Mathematica license. You can do a lot with a little code. Geography, graphics, natural language parsing, everything is built in w/o having to learn about package management etc. I mostly enjoy generating crystal lattices and searching for convex polyhedra, casting shadows of 4D objects... its great for making art out of math equations. Docs are second to none and the online getting started book is a great intro to programming IMO.

Edit: +1 for LEGO mindstorms, thats how I learned code as a 10 year old. If you haven't read Seymour Papert's book "Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas", check it out. You can put a marker on a LEGO bot and have your LOGO turtle in real life.
“I care a lot about my privacy. That’s why I use Google”…
Actually, I would seriously consider putting a small-scale nuclear reactor in my backyard if it were possible. My neighbours might object, but since you said my backyard: I'm perfectly ok with that.
Thank you! I thought I was insane for being the only one who noticed this, though on my natural gas bill instead of water. I have a mandatory $16 base charge and $1.50 payment fee on every bill. That's huge relative to the variable part! [1] So, estimating from non-winter months, I could avoid all cooking, laundry, and hot water for showers, and it would save me ... $5/month.

They should amortize the cost of the infra over actual usage, so that incentives are properly aligned -- your bill should mainly depend on how much you use!

[1] Total bill is like $45 for winter, $22 otherwise.
It does make it less useful, in an objective sense. Before the web, the practice of linking to other work, through footnotes, references, or just mentioning it in the text, was essential for anything to be taken seriously, and an absolute requirement for any scholarly publication. The web is, potentially, a wonderful evolution of this custom. You’re right about some commercial sites avoiding outbound links, but none of the ones I write for; all my editors encourage it. And there is no excuse to find this tendency to isolation on a personal site. I tend to avoid reading, and especially linking, to resources without good outbound links.
News Corp breached by suspected Chinese hackers
Yeah, and they have floods, too (Re: Fukushima). I'm a proponent of nuclear fission energy (to complement solar/wind/hydro) but it has to be done safely. Hopefully in the future we don't have to rely on it (switch to nuclear fusion or something else), or solve the nuclear waste issue somehow.
Those countries are either very strong union countries or countries that have lower standards of living.
Reddit in a nutshell. Read highly upvoted posts about any topic you really understand and it becomes apparent how much of its content is just kids spouting half remembered bullshit.
But people often don't want to "run their own bank", they want to run something like a bank without the hassle of running a bank, i.e. way less regulations etc. (which is why it is happening in crypto space, not in real money space). Otherwise, why not create a little coop bank with like-minded people? For me, the option to "run your own bank" does actually exists for small-ish groups already.

While the current level of financial and banking regulation is certainly debatable, creating super lightweight version of banks might not necessarily the way forward.
That's not really an issue because big mac advertising rarely mentions "bread" explicitly. They could make it out of actual cake, and probably be fine as long as they called it a "bun" rather than "bread".