skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

>The investment bank predicted that the country’s retail energy price cap — which limits how much households pay for heating and electricity — would be raised to £4,567 in January and then £5,816 in April, compared with the current level of £1,971 a year.... Nabarro said Citi’s new forecasts had taken account of a 25 per cent increase in wholesale gas prices last week and a 7 per cent rise in wholesale electricity prices.

No price controls can account for the fact that energy prices are up a lot globally. Pretending they're not up and keeping the price cap in place is worse. First it doesn't discourage energy usage. That's a big purpose of prices in a market economy. Second, when something is priced below market price it inevitably leads to shortages. This will have to be addressed through some kind of political action that will be sub-optimal. Rather than a young person seeing higher energy prices and adjusting their AC, while an old person may choose to pay the higher price, you'll see ham-fisted conservation measures.

If you're against having the customer's price reflect more closely the market price, you have to propose an alternative. Do you want people to use less? If so, how do you do that? Or do you want people to continue using the same, pretend the high prices don't exist and just pay for it through taxes? Either way, the money will have to come from somewhere or rationing will have to take place. There's no free lunch
The cheap ones also have a blazing fast non-android menu. This was my last samsung
if it's that insidious let it connect to a dummy SSID that appears to be working but can't do anything useful
CF Industries shut down their two nitrogen fertilizer plants in the U.K. back in September 2021 due to high natural gas prices.
Who knows? Because when have those choices simultaneously existed?
https://twitter.com/bert_hu_bert/status/1561466204602220544
The invoice itself doesn't solve anything, but it requires a "handshake" step where trust is established with the payer, with the result that things don't just turn off automatically when something goes wrong.
I follow what you're saying and completely agree, especially with the "look how superior we are that we are completely void of instinct.." quote - there are many things this could apply to nowadays in today's instant gratification and influencer (for the likes) driven culture.
I remember watching this video. If I recall correctly, he was including the cost of the tools to repair as well and not just components.

I'll need to re-watch and update this comment.

edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3kggpE9W8A

I was wrong, parent comment is correct. Program is priced to be more expensive and less convenient than taking it to an Apple Store or buying/upgrading to a new phone.

this is why right to repair needs to exist. apple is just paying a lip service right now.
A lot of people seem to think Apple purposely made the components less modular for profit purposes, but I think the bigger reason is that Apple took was limited by the tolerances of the case design and took shortcuts with the component assembly to make manufacturing/QA cheaper.
Tax those who can afford it to help those that can't.

At some point if the rich continue to demand sacrifice of the poor to prop up their gathering of wealth, it'll be guillotines in the streets. Historically Britain's upper class has been sensible at offering compromise to avoid extreme change, but it appears the current crop think their control of the media is enough to keep the population placid while they suffer.

So far, they appear to have been right. Who knows how long that'll continue as things get significantly harder for the average person.
> I live in the north of England where temperature varies from 38F in Jan to 57F in August

38F = 3½C

57F = 14C

Not sure why you used Farenheit, but I live in the north too and it's colder and warmer than that. Currently 22C (61F) here in rainy Manchester.
When did rural Oregon find out that there was in fact several layers of central government available to help them? Didn't they feel a bit foolish at that point?

It's great that they were all working so hard in grinding poverty and just letting the weak die or whatever, very inspirational, but being vaguely aware of reality might have served them better overall.

The New Deal agriculture subsidies must have really confused them if they didn't even know about the state government.

https://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/narratives/the-world-ru...

Hopefully they can ditch those unhelpful socioeconomic adaptations they picked up now they've rejoined society.
About 3% of the global human population (or 70 to 85 million people) died in WWII. Following WWII, NATO was developed to make every military leader in the world grok that attacking a NATO country meant certain annihilation, and as a consequence, every NATO country has known only peace at home since WWII.

Last year, I would have responded to your position with this quote from Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dissent in Shelby County v. Holder, "t]hrowing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet." and reminded you why you're dry. But this year, with the umbrella being on full display and not only stopping rain, but also stopping a genocide by the murderous LGBT-hating Siloviki class ruling Russia, I'm just kind of confused about how you could argue that we've got way too much umbrella.
if it's Google it's always going to have ads at some point

sad
Looks neat! I'll have to dig in more later to learn about the process of writing text to a PDF document; the only PDF generation library I've used for .NET was one that took HTML as input and created a PDF from that. Being a web developer that was easy enough to reason about. Hopefully this one is easy to use as well as a side project for automating messaging and invoicing for my HOA lacks code-based generation of PDFs at this point (generating a web page and saving as PDF is sufficient for now: is more steps but I'm not getting paid for this and it's typically a once-a-year thing.)
Past success is not a good predictor. Probably the Roman senators at the end of the Roman Empire also thought "oh well, we've been dragging our feet lately, but somehow things will work out".

I would say the most likely outcome is a further diminishing of the UKs international importance, together with some risk of Scotland breaking apart.
I've been seeing a lot of projects lately that use Rust for database-related work. How can someone get started writing a database these days?
Don't you need a proprietary firebase SDK in your app to use it? Do you know what data are included in the requests? I would argue that anything as simple as IP + UA/OSidentifier can be of interest to Google
OMG it has a carrier board for an RPi Compute Module built in:

https://i.imgur.com/D3p8bCA.png

That's amazing!
A ChromeOS remote memory corruption vulnerability
Don't you need to backup apks if you want app data?

As for hosting... I just rent colo space and cut out all the cloud stuff.
Probably for the convenience of the userbase here.
Imagine if French citizens were facing energy bills as high as the UK (£5,816, €6850). French citizens would never tolerate such levels.

From Reuters: "France has committed to capping an increase on regulated electricity costs at 4%. To help do this the government has ordered utility EDF (EDF.PA), which is 80% state owned, to sell more cheap nuclear power to rivals"

(Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/europes-efforts-shie...)
Well, you may still end up needing a faster vehicle, and perhaps a BEV is indeed better for you. The fun thing is: most people live or are projected to live in cities, so this is still applicable to them. Different people may use different modes of transportation.
Some older cameras that did have replaceable light meter batteries also used mercury cells which are likely hard or impossible to find. There may be size compatible non-mercury substitutes but they probably won't have the right voltage characteristics to work well.
> Tabloid papers have been on the front page here. I wouldn’t it hold it in such high honors.

Who said anything about honor. Its attention which gets things changed or noticed or something otherwise.
These one-dimensional, judgey comments are forgettable.
I cancelled prime due to those prerolls

I've already bought the service... why show me ads for it?
Why do you need root? How is google and all able to do it with their apps?
> and have the greatest customer satisfaction in the industry?

How much money does that translate to? They're still getting users, and lots of them. They're being paid in service fees, ad fees and data.

It's not a question of how expensive the 10k people + training + HR + management structure +... is, but whether it brings more money than it costs.
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So last week I was quoted, by Apple, 680 EUR to fix the cracked screen of my 1000 EUR MacBook Air M1. I'm giving them the finger but, to add insult to injury, I still need to pay 50 EUR to get the computer back.

It's sad because I was satisfied by my two previous MacBook Air (non retina / non M1) and I was satisfied by my Mac Mini.

But now the Apple love story at home is done. Now recommending Chromebooks to the 65 years+ around us (where we used to recommend Apple).

In case there's any class action lawsuit in Europe over this new M1 bend-gate I'll be sure to join and donate to the cause.

Typing this from my MIL-SPEC LG Gram, which is an actual proper, sturdy and lighter than any Mac laptop.

This comment is what you reap for screwing people over.
I must be misunderstanding something, because based upon my understanding (16/3)^4 ~= (5.333)^4 (or 65536/81) ~= 809.
The problem for europe is that solar panels, windfarms, and nuclear power plants don't produce natural gas. Electricity is great, but it's not a replacement for natural gas by itself. In Germany, only 25% of natgas usage is accounted for by electricity production.
> And I am annoyed at people who ignore messages, even a basic “hello”. Seems pretty rude.

Good! If you went up to someone in person who is in flow state and say HELLO! you'll probably get a rude response too.
They will simply come with a cellular modem built in and you won't be able to block it. These things are so cheap now, and with virtual sims I think this is pretty much inevitable.

At some point everything will be internet connected just because the tech will cost pennies. We're not there yet, but for a big ticket item such as a TV or a car it's either already there or about to happen.
Thanks for posting this nerdyadventurer! I'm Tobie founder of SurrealDB. We've got some really big things planned for the database. Any feedback is really welcome!
Sanas Silicon Valley startup wants to make the world sound whiter
Ahem. CSMA/CD. 10BaseT implies wired connection.
Cigarettes cause cancer. Some people (not me) actually get value from ads and AFAIK they don't cause cancer.
I have used FF for many many years and the way to keep it fast is, on exit, to delete all data.
> I really can't understand why anyone would use any of their services.

I can speak to this because a few months ago when I started a project, I went with Firebase. At the time the rationale was, I need something more complex than Netlify/Vercel, but not AWS that will suck up all my time figuring out IAM roles and other dumb stuff.

It helped speed things up in the prototyping stage, but I will likely move my infra over to AWS soon.
Also a lot of priors for what happens to things near explosives that go off. I'm not sure naive extrapolations from such experience is sound.
exactly. I heard only the good words about fly actually :) You don't break things like google services with their clients.
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I see, I guess I have been lucky in that regard.. I have my NAS plugged in, libtorrent with autoirssi and just a plex server running for the actual streaming though.
Most people in their 20s and 30s today aren't getting social security anyway, so maybe this is decreasing in importance?

Personally, I don't have much faith in pension systems either. The growth ponzi scheme for US stocks can only go on for so long, and many pensions have gone belly-up in the last decade or two even though the market has been incredibly good for most of that time. If we enter a recession that lasts more than 1 or 2 years, those pensions are going to end up in worrying places for anyone who isn't already cashing out.
Last time I used AKS (~1yr ago) it was a joke compared to GKE.
I've just been using XMLHttpRequest and the Firebase REST API, no SDK. I imagine Google can see the IP address, but I think that's it?

(This is my first time building anything that involves a "backend", so I am pretty new to this!)
Thanks for pointing this out. I've never heard of that approach and now I'm curious to know more. My first thought is that it seems like a very simple way to implement service discovery
Peter Zeihan thinks that the US is in the best position to weather the coming years :-)
Are they still presenting anecdotes as established trends?
35mm is the width of the film itself. The size of the exposed image is 36mm x 24mm in normal use. The camera in the article exposes frames of (roughly) 18mm x 24mm. Roughly, because of the space between the images that shows up as a black bar in the images in the article.
One of the problems is that truly 'fixing' a Macbook is impossible. If your Logic Board has water damage, 90% of the time you'll need to replace the entire board instead of the $0.50 component that's failing. That's why Louis (and other repair shops) have used donor boards to attempt actual repairs instead of just replacing your whole mainboard.

I reckon that's what Apple is going to do here, too. Of course they don't have the gall to sell consumers their Texas Instruments ICs for board repairs, it's likely they're only going to sell piecemeal topcases, Logic Boards, and if we're lucky, batteries too.
I assume this should be good for EU economy on the long run?

Like exports from
EU to US are now more profitable.

Or am I missing something? Can someone with more understanding/background explain how this might effect production and exports?
You can have a large wealth gap, while still having a high bottom standard of living. A great example of this is Sweden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E0dWHCnic8
I remember when stealing peoples iPhones and iPods on the subway was affectionately referred to as “apple picking” by the perpetrators. iCloud locking has cut that down to almost nothing.

Rather not go back to the “fun” old days.
"ban loads of our low paid workers"

wait until you learn how much lower people are getting paid now that they depend on a work visa. hint: a lot less than europeans coming in pre-brexit.
for my case with google ads I don't even get any reasons to be suspended and no luck to fix it somehow. I was promoting my indie games with no income actually.
Why is Snowflake so expensive
Sure. But Disney+ in 12 months will have the ad-based version at today's ad-free prices. (And the ad-free subscription at a premium price.
Yeah, it dropped by 20% inline with my 20% drop in hours, which was fine by me and what I expected.
I have a simpler method, which is to simply have different profiles open via command line shortcut.

One per monitor with different extensions and security setting, which I use for different accounts.
Inflation aside, does anyone think that they’ve really screwed with society with the lockdowns, the money printing, the vaccine mandates, and the work from home mandates?

Everything feels very broken. Nobody wants to work. Even people who have been asked to come to the office are screwing off at least 1-2 days of the week and no one is able to do a thing.

A massive group of people are essentially walking around with zero faith in their government. If they’re not hostile, they’re apathetic.

Money is still completely wonky. All older economic indicators have stopped meaning anything because money has stopped meaning all that much.

Healthcare feels even more broken than before. You’ve got more deaths than ever and chronic sufferers are the worst hit.

I feel very pessimistic when I look at the world right now. Everything feels very chaotic and I don’t see a way out of the disorder.
Will we be able to upgrade RAM on M1
Your downvoters don't know that that's exactly what happens. I see cookie consent popups on the TV, every time. I have no idea where they are coming from.
I have actively returned to using my computer to watch YT/Hulu because the overhead of seeing the ads is just too high on our TV.
And how does that change anything else he says?

It doesn't. Thats also not how "literally" works either.
Your commentary surely tells the reader to use caution, but not how you think it does.
Was this the case where the screen cracks on its own? You seem to [edit, reworded] be much more angry about it than I'd be if I'd damaged the computer myself.
The problem with fighting "fake news" is that I've not seen a coherent definition of what "fake news" even is, much less a consistent definition among the media of what "truth" is or if it's an objective or relative standard. "News" sources these days have to get ratings/views/clicks/engagement in order to sell advertising which is an inherent conflict of interest against the idea of simply informing the reader/listener/viewer. As dependent as news outlets are on advertising do you think they are going to run afoul of their biggest buyers of ads (Big Pharma and the defense industry)?

"Fake news" cannot be fixed until the funding model for news is fixed.
Europe is going to come out strong out of this whole mess.

The political unity so quickly after the start of the war was unexpected (and admirable).

Ten years from now, Europeans will drive electric (if they'll drive at all), solar panels will be everywhere, and the continued flex-work-from-home revolution will have created an enormous amount of extra time for everybody. They'll be comfy in their sustainable homes and healthy cities, those few years of inflation a memory only.

It's a tough transition, that eventually every country needs to make, but Europe will be ahead of the rest of the world by miles.

And in the US, 10 years from now, the next gas price spike will again have people start to whine (yet again), we'll still be coughing on fumes when dropping our kids of at their school, the energy grid will continue to be unreliable in face of every minor or major natural disaster, and we'll wonder why nothing really materially has changed (and then blame the government).
Words have meaning. I despise the insertion of ads in every form of media, but it is not violence. That's just silly.
I'm sorry but I don't understand the comment.

First, I'm not in Manchester, considerably more northern, so why try to compare?

Secondly, Manchester's average temperature in August is close to 16C (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester#Climate).

Thirdly what is strange about the temperature on a given day being higher than the average?
I should have specified a non-rooted phone. Years ago I used to root androids, install cyanogenmod or similar, and sell them locally. People would pay a premium for that. But I am no longer in the camp where I want a rooted phone as my daily driver.

I am also weary of giving "random" third parties access to my browsing. I think that my least bad option on iOS is Mullvad, with all blocking turned on. But the bad part there is no browser integration to whitelist sites.

I wonder if it would be possible for Mullvad to present their system as an ad-blocker to Safari, if you are running Mullvad VPN.
How about not sending them to Russia against their will in the first place?
The ruble isn't strong. You can't sell meaningfully sell it on the open market. When you buy it, the price goes up. When you can't sell it, the price stays up.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-ukraine-ruble-currency-r...
And because it isn't "really" firefox. Firefox is forced to use webkit, the same used in Safari.
Why are these numbers proving you right? Those people that made an decision to transition to a sustainable lifestyle by:

- Isolate their house and/or live in a small, well isolated apartment

- Buy solar panels and a heatpump.

- Save gas by wearing an extra sweater and setting the thermostat a bit lower.

are affected far less by this massive inflation.

Of course, for the 37% in the UK that do not own a house (probably because they cannot afford it) and/or convince their landlord to isolate their property, it is unjust.

Since more people own their house than rent it seems that this particular inflation wave makes the economy more just rather than less just, given that the biggest polluters are hit the the hardest.
Does anyone else not like the design of this website or is it just me? I find the articles fascinating, but the design I don't jive with...
Society doesn't pay enough for TV as is? No one even wants the hundreds of channels they stuff into the cable subscriptions.
Working with large json files is hard to parallelize. Just filtering the objects in a root array can take very long. jqr and gojq both die with OOM when running on large files like

https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/latest-all...

A fast tool to split a json file like that into a format with one json file per line would already help a lot.
Every article about the EUR/USD ratio talks about gas prices.

But the current rise of the Dollar started 15 years ago.

Over these 15 years, it has become more and more apparent, that software is eating the world. And the US keeps extending their lead in this area.

I would not be surprised if that contributes to a long term trend in the EUR/USD ratio.

(I'm sitting in a cafe in Germany, writing this text on laptop made by a US company, running an operating system maintained in the USA, into a browser made in the USA and posting it to a website of a US company.)
Google Cloud is the Clown Shoes offering amongst major providers. I’d much rather bet my business on DigitalOcean or Vultr before I ever touched Google Cloud.
Depending on what you mean by bashing the trans movement, almost half the coworkers and neighbors I know talk about US backed bio warfare labs and how Putin was justified in his attack, how the vaccines sterilized Taiwan, and the election was stolen. They also typically say something like "I don't care what adults get up to, but letting kids make permanent body modifications before they can drive is wrong" I can't cancel almost half the people I know outside my friend circle. Some of them are family. These people span working class to PHDs in hard science from top tier schools, and backgrounds of midwest evangelical Christian to fertile crescent Muslims to west coast atheists, and I don't have a theory about what line of thought they all followed to get where they are. I try to have calm conversations with them when I can, but there is always some anxiety there, I suspect they don't talk about that stuff unless they think people are like them, and when they realize I have a multidimensional political spectrum they get nervous. At least at work I try to engage with them only on the merits of their work. I think we can do that with creator's like this, but I also don't want my money funding hate groups, so there is a line. I suspect in progressive environments people with these viewpoints are pretty quiet. I've bumped into them in fairly progressive cities as uber drivers or ML researchers. The "silent majority" is no longer a majority, but they aren't just a handful either, and their views have shifted.
They have had the parts available for the iPhone for a while now. The general consensus is that while the program is a good step forward, it isn’t nearly good enough and all the parts that authorised repair stores wouldn’t fix like charge ports or power buttons, is still not possible to fix.