skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The relationship between the licence fee and the BBC isn’t that simple. You must pay the TV licence fee if you receive any broadcast television generally available to the public, regardless of if it’s BBC content or not. If you only watch Channel Four, and never BBC, you must still pay the licence fee. Your viewing habits are completely irrelevant.

The TV licence comes from law, and the government happens to delegate responsibility for collection to the BBC. But the BBC doesn’t get the money directly, it’s handed over to the government who then allocates to a number of different public broadcast functions. As it happens the majority of that money ends up back with the BBC, but not all of it.

In short the TV licence fee is really a tax on receiving public broadcast. It just so happens that the majority of that tax is used to fund the BBC.

Also the BBC isn’t a normal company. It can’t unilaterally change its funding model, only the government can do that. As the U.K. primary public broadcaster it can’t raise funds by charging a traditional subscription, or by advertising, the law prohibits it. Additionally the BBC is also bound to create radio broadcast, which is also funded by the licence fee.

So the BBC hands are tied. It’s unfair to criticise an organisation for failing to change something it has no legal ability to change. I’m sure the BBC would love to explore other funding options, but politicians aren’t interested in playing ball. They would rather trade on peoples dislike of the licence fee for cheap political points, than engage in a proper conversation about how, or even if, we fund public broadcast in the UK.

The BBC is held up as one of the best, if not the best, public broadcaster in the world. It would be a shame to see it die, or heavily diminished in its capabilities. The BBC provides far more public good than just news and TV. It produces incredible amounts of educational material for schools, and has provided an incredible venue for some of the UKs best journalists and documentarians like David Attenborough to truly hone their craft, and educate billions about the world we live in.
> That's true, and you still might be stuck fighting politics to do it.

Yeah, politics are kind of built into the human condition. You can't avoid them entirely, and even if you could, I'm not sure it would actually be a good thing. You need to able to convince people, to recognize them and boost them up when they're doing good work, and to get groups onto the same page. And all of this involves "politics" to some extent.

But a company's politics might be relatively healthy, or completely poisonous. Or anything in between. The best organizations are the ones where the overall goal is important, and where ethics are important, and where the politics are mostly positive-to-neutral.

Finally, if you want to save the day, you have to convince someone to take a risk on your plan, and your ability to implement it. After a couple of successes, this can become easier the next time. But there's politics involved in that, too.
If I have one wish for AMD, I wish that they would make FPGAs (and Xilinx) a more open and diverse platform like the PC. Not that the PC is perfect (there's still closed-source firmware), but any improvement to the current state of FPGAs would be welcomed.
As `treis was pointing out, what matters is demand/supply of what. Assets? Labour? Cash?
Recieved approval from the Chinese anti-trust body. Still waiting for the FTC sign-off, but that should be a rubberstamp at this point.

This acquisition brings AMD up to par with Intel's market share in the chip market.
You were overtraining and covid forced you to rest for once. No 40 year old should be doing 100 pushups per day 7 days a week. That's ridiculous.
Not sure what the reasoning is here: of course it's a demand/supply issue. There are too many dollars in the economy. Because people have money, they want to buy cars, and houses and furniture etc. Why do you want to ignore car prices? Haven't they always been a part of inflation? Some people say housing and cars should have a bigger weight in the CPI, because that's where a lot of the money goes for a huge number of American families (that and education+healthcare)
> If you walk into a grocery store, and cameras record

In the EU, this would fall under the same data protection regulation as websites, and other local regulations regarding camera surveillance. In short, a store owner can't just secretly record customers.
(Just to throat clear ahead of time... I obviously find what Apple is doing super shitty. I just want to find some reason besides "Apple bad" for why they would do this.)

Could they be doing this title change, at least in theory, as an information security measure? Competitors and journalists could potentially corroborate (or have an easier time corroborating) leaks if they can verify that a former employee is the position/level they claim to be.

I worked briefly at Apple as contractor doing some professional services integration type stuff in the datacenter space, and one thing that struck me was how secrecy seemed to ooze it's way into super unexpected places. This was to the point that I wondered if an infosec team had a hand in designing some of the systems I was working with that were way closer to the power lines than they were to the products they were designing. This was also around the time that I was reading about Apple's "Worldwide Loyalty Team" and how they would plan operations to catch people leaking.

As an aside, does anyone know how accurate the reporting was/is on the "Worldwide Loyalty Team"? Looking back it seems absurd, to the point where it makes more sense to me as a myth than fact.
What a happy coincidence. Just as prices of flash memory have stabilized.

Manufacturers of commodity parts like storage or LCD panels are infamous for price fixing and gouging. All the disasters are great excuse for unjustified price hikes.

I remember how a decade ago I was building my PC and HDD prices were painful.
Came here to say this. As far as I’m concerned this is a privacy protection.

It’s trivial to verify someone’s position at Apple with a reference check.
If I am understanding the numbers correctly, I am pretty sure inflation adjusted wage growth outpaced inflation (barely), so assuming both trends continue, it’ll just be a wash.
I'm struggling to understand how inflation is only 7.5% when every major line item comprising inflation is up much more than 7.5% over the past year.
What Is “Surveillance Capitalism” and Should We Be Concerned?
Well a lot of the demand that creates this shortage is for replacement of 'old' phones or laptops which are not truly old
So is it likely the European Commission did this in an attempt to block US companies from offering internet services to the EU (or at least, internet services that handle user info)? It's pretty hard to make a profit or operate in the EU if you literally can't control that entity.
Oh fun fun fun 'we didn't think we'd break the firmware written in spark so we broke the ISA' https://blog.adacore.com/when-the-isa-is-the-weakest-link
They to use the web from inside the EU. It is ruined.
Microsoft has seen this one - they have a subsidiary in the EU that holds the EU data. Yes, the US-based parent company is legally bound to provide the data at the request of the US gov agencies. However, the only way that they can get hold of that data is to ask the EU subsidiary nicely. The EU subsidiary is legally bound to not hand that data over.
People hate bad advertising, but they also hate paying for things. There is a happy medium where good advertising can subsidize things people only kind of want to pay for.

People are largely indifferent or sometimes like good advertising. Super Bowl ads, for example, often draw as much of a crowd as the game itself because the ads are well produced and entertaining. The problem is there is always pressure to make more and more money and eventually that leads to bad practices in advertising.

Examples of Bad Advertising:

- Popups or other types of digital ads that compromise the user experience
- Privacy compromising tracking
- Misleading / false advertising
- Over-saturation of advertising
- Outdoor ads that block a beautiful view

The whole digital advertising landscape, unfortunately, is filled with some of the worst advertising we have seen in the modern era. The ads are sold too cheaply and at too high of a volume causing over saturation.
6% core inflation with wage growth flat. And that doesn't even include housing prices, which went up 25% last year alone where I live.

Am I the only one feeling entirely hopeless about the prospects for my financial future? How does everyone else deal with this?
This conversation is not productive, nor helpful.

Powell/GS has promised it is transitory and so has President Biden. The fact that you are paying more for everything now is just temporary. Soon things will be back to normal, especially after we embrace the new green deal and approve the 3 trillion $$$ stimulus. It's different this time, Powell has the ability to create trillions with the snap of a finger and buy all the US Government debt indefinitely.
> I’ve seen a VP of Engineering at a startup start as a junior engineer at a FAANG.

This is a fringe case.

In turn, there are widely available spreadsheets where you can find the equivalent levels across dozens of companies, most popular of which are FAANG.
Exactly. No information is better than inaccurate information.
This seems like a classic whataboutism. Mortgages being bad or good has absolutely no bearing on the quality of cryptocurrencies or NFTs. If crypto was actually good, you shouldn't need to deflect criticism with "but the existing financial sector also sucks!"
The negative impact and cost of losing a good engineering leader and manager
As long as Personal Data isn't being trasferred, there is no need to ask.
Bauhaus was a mistake. An evolutionary tail that should have ended.
We lost all sense of beauty and craftsmanship. The same emptiness everywhere.
I’d rather have a Louis XIV chair mass produced for everyone.
About 20 years ago I read about an experiment, where they played a game involving a ball with some young kids that had just started to learn to speak. They did a test to evaluate their vocabulary and played the game. Then they came back a year later. Again they evaluated their vocabulary, and asked if they recall the game.

The interesting part was that the kids that had not learned the word ball when they first played, but since learned it, would not use that word when recalling the rules of the game. Based on this experiment, they suggested that there was a close link between the available vocabulary and formation of memory.

I told my dad about this. He had his major in Norwegian (our native language) and had taught Norwegian to immigrants from Pakistan and similar in the 70s, and had a keen interest in languages.

He found it very interesting, as he had read studies showing that immigrants who lost their native language also lost knowledge they learned before they emigrated. Things they had learned at school or university for example.

So both sets of studies seemed to point to the same cause, that the memories formed were closely linked to the language you know at the time of formation.

As such I'm not terribly surprised that the same seems to be happening with visual memories, as this article suggest. Then again, totally not my field.
Their point was that most people already have the technology they need, and getting the latest shiniest thing isn't as much of an issue.
Or have chosen to not be aware of. We live in an age of abundant information with many opportunities for pursuing self-awareness. But people are very good at avoiding thinking about things that would make them feel cognitive dissonance.

E.g., look at religion. They can't all be correct. Fully rational people would surely want to get something so important right, so they'd work hard to discover the sources of confusion and sort things out. Instead we see religions and religious factions multiply. Thanks to fMRIs, we can even see that "what god wants" is just people "unconsciously" reading their own preferences: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/creating-god-i...
I was waiting in line yesterday at Costco to return something. The return line was packed and clerk came by and ordered people to wait outside. There was a guy that took issue with this because it was cold outside. The clerk called the manager. The manager came over and he said, "Look I got 2 shoots and a booster. Why do you want to make me wait outside when it's cold" The manager smoothed things over, and let the guy wait inside. But over the entire commotion I ended up talking to a guy behind me. This was a man in his 70s. He was returning a chrome book. He bought it to stream TV and the thing couldn't play back smoothly, and he didn't like the quality of the speakers. He started complaining about whats going in the world. How he feels sorry for the new generation. Seeing kids masked up and not able to communicate and play freely. How expensive things are, especially housing. How expensive organic food is now, and how it was the common food back before. And he concluded that what we are seeing is Bill Gates and tech companies take over the world. For his age, he looked very fit and healthy. Maybe this was just a rant, but I can't help that this is a pretty common sentiment now.

People got the shots, and things still didn't change. People feel lied to. The tolerance for mandates is eroding quick. Willingness to take more booster shots is not there, people are dropping out. And its questionable if more booster shots will even work.

Mental health, and well being of society needs to be the much bigger consideration.
Also you can't look at covid in isolation. Look at the overall mortality rate.
And those numbers are up. Deaths unrelated to covid are up too.
Both Swiss and German people seem completely deluded about the activities of their own governments and intelligence agencies.
I think the point being made is that the portion of inflation caused by used car inflation is likely transient & due to a well-known cause (automakers shut factories due to Covid) that is being remedied. The question all along has been how much of inflation is due to obvious transitory effects like this one.
Maybe something like this?

https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/devonthink

I haven’t used it personally but I think it could be used for this type of research.
Yeah how is this not the big story here? I had no idea there was a public database employers could use to look up everything about me. Can I check this database to make sure my records are correct and who do I talk to if they’re not? This is pretty wild
I dunno, I am not really questioning why some limited-run sneakers are being bought for thousands of dollars. Or why people spend 50k on their bathroom. Or why old Nintendo cartridges go for enormous prices. Or diamonds.

I don't see the difference here.

Now, I also don't get why NFTs have taken off AT ALL. But I don't see how they're really different than anything I listed above, except maybe more unstable or even more useless than a 2000$ pair of sneakers, which you could still wear if you ever ran out of shoes.
This is only mentioned in passing in the article, but the penny dropped for me when I read somewhere else that you should first think about negative numbers. They seem pretty real, but they're not. There's no negative quantity in nature. You can't have -5 rocks. Negative numbers are just the solution to equations of the form x + n = 0. Now after you let that sink in, imaginary numbers don't seem so weird after all. Just another kind of number defined as the solution to some equation.
They dont want others to pouch their employees - so they screw those who leave by deleting their title?
Siloxanes are serious contaminates in several industrial processes. Another big one is powder coating "paint". It can be bad even if only comes from a personal care product used by an employee at home.

And you called out their near-infinite ability to be spread around.

Very useful and interesting class of chemicals.
This seems very impractical given the way the internet currently works. Most startups use dozens of SaaS products, let alone more basic/foundational things like global CDNs. You're being logged at every step of the process if only to prevent spam/DDoS/etc.

What you're asking for would require a fundamental restructuring of the internet, and of software business models, and a lot of other stuff. I can't see that happening any time soon.

In the meantime you can try using Tor, but good luck not getting blocked on half the websites you want to visit - and you can't blame the website for that (they need DDoS/spam defence).
Not sure what type of coding, but if it is Web Dev, I know there are a lot of excellent instructors on YouTube that would love 100k dedicated students. Brad Traversy is a great teacher, really good at instruction and explaining his code and difficult concepts. He has a handful of Udemy course too.

If it's php or more specifically Laravel, maybe send them Jeffrey Way's way at Laracasts.

(This post makes me wish I'd started the web dev tutorials I said I was going to when COVID first sent us working from home :/ )
Nope, stock market already "pricing in" rate cuts after "policy error". But that's pretty stupid to price in right now.
I thought memories as reconstruction not recall model was an already pretty commonly accepted view.

I don't see any other explanation for, for example, forgetting someone's name and having it disappear from every memory you have of that person.
Right, so are you telling me that an associate and an “associate VP” are the same thing?
Are they though? I agree that there is not symmetry.

There are many groups, doing many different activities. There are plenty of vaccinated people who are done with masking, done with isolation, and going out in public or traveling. While there are also people who caught covid while doing a necessary job before a vaccine was required.

It's false to create only two groups. This completely ignores symmetry, undermining your entire argument of saying I'm ignoring it.
It was $200 initially, then increased to $500.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/05/apple-dtk-credit-for-de...
My cynical view is that it's more profitable to treat life threatening issues than trying to keep you healthy which would only result in less profits for hospitals. The whole incentive structure of health care leads to very bad outcomes.
Should we allow it just because there is a vocal minority really bothered by it?
> Corporate attempts to be meritocratic. They have every incentive to be. Executives want to hire the more effective people to perform tasks so they can maximize profits.

Not where I work. They hire people who they think will make them look good, and it's not always by hiring the most productive. They'll deny promotions to their most effective workers out of fear they will leave. They block transfers.

Companies make a show of being meritocratic, but most of their rewards system fall apart under the smallest scrutiny. On average, those who self promote are more likely to get rewarded than those who do the better work. Some companies even formalize this by insisting the managers are not supposed to know who is better, and you have to convince them by writing your semi-annual review yourself.

Lots of managers who want "yes-men" who'll reward those who say "yes" and fail and punish those who correctly say "no".
Most likely they don't feel comfortable enough with the quality of their extracted data. The original text is in the public domain though, so it's only a matter of time before other replicate this work and make their version more easily accessible to others. For example, Wikidata is a publicly downloadable, general-purpose database which provides a way to enter detailed, referenced information about "lexicographical" entities, including sense definitions and quotes. So anything that's in the Johnson could easily be posted there.
So it's somewhat inaccurate that GP calls it an "interface", it's a specification. Ada packages have two parts: specification and implementation. The specification isn't really comparable to Java or C# interfaces and I don't think they're comparable to Rust traits either. Nor is it like typedef'ing a function pointer. The better analog is C's header files containing declarations, but not definitions, which are then implemented in various C files. A major contrast with C is that Ada's packages are named scopes and occur in pairs of spec/body, whereas in C you could have one header that is implemented over many C files, or one C files that implements many headers.

And like C header files, the range of things you can declare in a package spec is essentially any valid thing in the language: types, variables, functions, procedures, more packages, tasks, etc. But C permits the definition and declaration of anything to be in the header file, there are restrictions on Ada package specifications in that regard (some things have to go in a package body). C header `#include` order also matters (since they're text inclusion, a conflict in definitions or the use of macros can impact the outcome), whereas the `with`ing of Ada packages can be done in any order.
Car prices are being driven by supply chain issues more so than a surplus of dollars.
To be fully honest, I don't understand why companies do so much business in China. Yes, there's money, but there's so much danger and risk involved it increasingly looks like betting on Bitcoin for your retirement.

An example of this would be what happened to the ARM China division, which has gone completely rogue and the Chinese government couldn't care less.

There's also the fact that, Intel and AMD for making the most high-performance parts should have the upper-hand. If they refused to do business in China, the Chinese government and citizens would be forced to mass-import their CPUs and not be able to control them. ARM is not even close to ready to run Chinese data centers.

Of course, this would incentivize China to immediately do everything they could to replace Intel and AMD, but they could be forced to grovel in the meantime. And Intel and AMD can feel comfortable they aren't supporting genocide (at least according to the UN).
What's the addictive virtual dystopia? Qanon, Facebook?
I think the metaphor for technical debt is leaky, but I don't think engineers sound like idiots when using it. The bigger problem, as I see it, is that so much of the technical organizations in the world are run by non-technical people who often use a top-down approach. Much of the technical debt is created, not due to "rushing things", but rather that there was insufficient problem analysis and solution design prior to writing code, because the top-down approach encourages authoritative statements of intent without enough detail, and each successive layer has to fill in those details with best guesses, any time the guess is wrong technical debt gets created. There are two ways I've seen technical debt addressed successfully in a fairly long (~18 years) career:

1. Technical founder-led companies which have enough technical understanding to have a realistic conversation with engineering leaders and make a decision as to how to approach the problem space to balance time to market vs quality of abstractions.

2. Developers with high autonomy who can set their own timelines as long as features are delivered in expected form. In this case, the timeline can simply encompass either resolving previous technical debt or be extended so that there is enough problem analysis time to prevent the accrual of technical debt in the first place, as long as the feature works as expected at the end, but it's on the developer to deliver to expectations that may not be fully defined. These are usually organizations where engineering has high political capital as department, but the larger business treats it as high magic.
Also the one in Dessau has an ongoing exhibition (https://bauhaus-dessau.de/ausstellung.html)