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> This comment is what you reap for screwing people over.

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Have you attempted to get it repaired by a third party? What do they quote? Is it possible that the part + labor is worth around $680? It does sound like an absurd price, but I would expect the display to be a relatively expensive part (a replacement is $600 at iFixit[0]) to replace depending on the extent of the damage. It might also be labor intensive considering how unrepairable Apple products are.

> I still need to pay 50 EUR to get the computer back.

Presumably this is for shipping? $50 is expensive sure (unless you're talking expedited shipping), but I suspect you'd be mad even if this was a more reasonable price.

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It sounds like you're just being vindictive because you feel slighted by a company. If you actually want a solution it seems that tomorrow you can buy the part yourself and replace it.

[0]: https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Mac/MacBook-Pro-14-Inch-2021-A2...
"Ask HN: Do you love your job?"

Hell no.
I think it also has to be a problem that is able to be constructed in a way where incorrect solutions destructively interfere with each other while correct ones don't.

Think of it as being able to simultaneously calculate a bunch of inputs but only being able to report the "sum" of those calculations to you. So to make it useful you'd need to be able to reconstruct problems such that the incorrect answers when computed cancel each other out. Otherwise your desired answer would just be mixed in with garbage and you won't be able to get anything useful out.

It's not actually that easy to make useful quantum algorithms that work and there's only a handful of them around...
> I'd suspect most of those customers have rapid migration plans written up.

I can assure you from experience that most large customers do not. For either major cloud, most large customers will have adopted proprietary services like AWS Redshift or GCP's Cloud Bigtable or Bigquery. None of these have anything like the possibility of a "rapid migration".
I'm the opposite. I hate working in an office and the politics and the commute.
The US used to have rates of 70% or higher for the highest brackets[1]. There's plenty of headroom vs. historical norms.

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/historical-income-tax-rates-bracke...
Your organization and your IT department expect you to work around these issues by doing development on your personal machine, and then copying it to your work machine while pretending like you never tunneled to your personal machine from the office.

That's what it feels like with some of these policies.
Several years back I wanted to try my hand at making an Android app and putting it in the Play Store. I knew ahead of time from reading all the horror stories that it's best to make a second dedicated developer Google account because once you turn an account into a developer account you're basically painting a target on your back to be randomly deleted by the powers that be. Additionally, not sure if this is still the case but at the time once you converted to a developer account you could never change your account's country again.
So...you're suggesting people should riot so they can get that, too, right? Not so they can tear other people down to only get the same pittance they do?

The public sector employees getting generous retirement packages are not the enemy. They are not the reason the rest of us are getting pissed on and told it's raining. That's the very wealthy and the politicians they've bought.
haha - I rec just getting the cheapest option at ultra.cc ($5-6/month) and load whatever apps you want on it (e.g., rutorrent/sabnzbd) connecting that to your media player/app/stick of choice (e.g., firestick with kodi) - haven't tried it with super high bitrate content but seems pretty quick
It could be, but this would be an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence. A huge chunk of society suddenly changing their outlook on wealth and work-life balance and then committing to a radical new lifestyle as a result would be a major deal, like a country embracing a new religion.
It's an unintended consequence of the reduced (5-15% flat) taxes available via "regime forfettario"[1] which only applies to businesses with <65k income. Otherwise you have to pay much more (23%-43%) via the regular progressive tax brackets.

Somewhat similarly, in the USA there is a "welfare trap"[2] where earning more income would reduce other benefits (eg housing, food) enough to result in an effective >100% tax on income.

[1] https://publicnewstime.com/travel/explained-the-pros-and-con...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_trap
Not going in to the office is not the same thing as slacking off.
We sort of filter out bad memories and every time we reminisce about the past, it's always in a nostalgic and lighter note.

I see a lot of people around 35+ remembering how things were better before social media. Things were better because they were kids, or adolescents. It's youth they're nostalgic about.

My father, who is in his 70s, always talks about how his peers always talk about how the 60s were amazing, and how they associate its being great with the things that existed then or didn't exist then. But he always concludes with this: it's not that that we miss. We miss being young.

Social media surely stirred things up, and I personally am for just getting rid of the whole thing anyway. But we have to take the whole "things were better before social media" with a grain of salt.
Electricity, if the price is low enough, can fully replace almost every use case for natural gas. This will require some level of investment, of course, such as replacing gas ovens with electric ovens (or better, heat pumps) as well as replacing gas machinery with electric alternatives for most industries.

There MAY be a few cases where alternatives are harder to find (where you need the chemistry of the gas rather than the energy), but that is a pretty small percentage overall.

But to produce energy at prices that are competitive to typical prices for NG is pretty hard without either coal or cost efficient nuclear, at least in colder climates. Solar is perhaps close to becoming cheaper in sunny, dry areas further south, but wind power looks like a poor alternative at the scale needed, since it's so unreliable. Maybe one day batteries or other storage will be cheap enough that we can store wind power for a week or more, but for now, it looks like the only low-CO2 option is nuclear.
The word you probably want is "insulate". A thermally insulated house (it's common to skip the word "thermally" but we can insulate for noise for example) will retain heat better and thus be less expensive for the same volume to heat during a cold winter.

If the house was isolated that might actually make heat loss worse, because it suggests other homes are quite distant. For example my sister's house is an "end terrace" so one wall of it won't lose much heat since the other side is somebody else's house and no doubt they also keep warm in the winter. In contrast my mother's house is perched up on a hill, I wouldn't quite describe it as "isolated" but certainly she's going to spend a lot of money heating it.
I found the Azure reps to be completely useless for any of the actual problems.

I worked for couple of really big enterprises, one of which had such a high commitment that Azure sent two engineers to sit with the teams working on their cloud. Highest level Enterprise support .. and yet for actual non-obvious problems it took them a month to reply with: can't help you with this, you must be doing it wrong.

This was techsupport tho, I'm sure the billing for multi-million commitments was just fine and dandy including wining and dining.

One other company was a big AWS user (and some Office365 so there were Azure pitches too) and GCP tried to get in with the business as well. When we went to their offices the level of patronizing smug that came from their reps was astonishing, so off-putting that I refused all further interaction with them as I wanted to barf.
Import/export is really about money flow though, it's not (directly) that important where the goods are made or end up.
Somehow this sounds to me like you would rather support pedophilia than see your precious right to "go where you want" restricted.

Standard hedonism of the typical climate change deniers here. Go on, people, nothing to see ...
At least in the US, the opposite is true. The IRS targets small businesses rather than large corporations because the small business are easier targets, while the large corporations have lawyers who fight on every point.
I'm sure 1% of their users will do that. I'm also sure they'll still make money from ads.
That's a feature not a bug.

They went from: (Remember, companies are people!)

We have to make choices about big expensive things. - 0 people to blame besides them.
Vendors / Consultants make choices about bigger and more expensive things for them - 1 person to blame besides them.
Consultants + "The Cloud" to blame - 2 people to blame besides them.

It is a feature to have many people to blame, in these type of environments.
> Do people really think Google just gives away things for free because they're being nice?

No, I assumed they gave the low tier away for free so people would eventually upgrade to the higher tiers.
As soon as you yield, things become non-deterministic, so aren't compatible with real-time requirements.

If you have 50 threads trying to access the same thing then what you have is a software design problem. Most synchronization should be done through spsc queues, which are easy to make lock-free (or even wait-free) and efficient, so long as you're aware of how to deal with backoff on the producing side and idle work on the consuming side.

The Optiver model you're describing is pretty much how I'd build any low-latency application. It doesn't really require special hardware to do these things (you can use io_uring to bypass the kernel context switches for anything). It's also much simpler than what you hint at.
You seriously believe that a screen replacement (even after including labor) costs 70% of the price of the laptop? And that OP is irrational for thinking otherwise?
You don't need to use a separate provider to address the problem here, where using a separate provider may not address the problem at all:

> "We're fully redundant across AZs, regions, and even cloud providers!" crows the engineer with a single corporate credit card backing the entire house of cards.

https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1288275701389389825

You could backup to a different account, possibly in a different region, with the same provider, as long as the other account has a different payment method. Using one provider would in most cases reduce the amount of effort to get back up and running.

The key piece would be how DNS is structured and hosted/billed.
Every answer here is "buy this other thing, no wait, that may not work for your use case, buy this other thing to lug around or that makes your laptop effectively a desktop".

This is strictly worse than the previous status quo.
Luckily for you, all of the jobs are like that now. :)

Enjoy your pod.
Should this have [pdf] in the title?
You would think they would be saving (and charging the customer!) a bundle not enforcing constraints on their tables.

I’d be very interested to hear the Snowflake side of this decision, but to the customer it’s simply unforgivable to have cosmetic constraints on a database.
Whoops I think my statement above wasn't specific enough. Roku promises official support in 18 countries across America and Europe [1], but I'm in Asia.

[1] https://www.roku.com/intl
In this case I’d expect the office to have a dock present in all meeting rooms.
None of that changes word meanings. Violence is physical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence
Universal basic income: the basic trade-offs
Maybe you're just not TV people. That's OK. But plenty of people on the other side would say the Golden Age of TV is still ongoing. There are more shows and productions being made than ever, maybe that's led to an abundance of mediocre content, but there have been many great shows made in the last 10 years.

Try Kingdom on Peacock.
> the article does not explain how a "gas crisis" leads to a weaker currency.

> What does lead to a weaker currency? On the EU side, central bank accommodation in the face of inflation ripping higher. Germany recently logged a 37% YoY annual increase in producer prices:

The producer prices are rising because of the gas prices
This is sound advice in my experience. The last company I worked with who was utilizing Google Cloud had a great experience, an account manager and a reseller who offered training as well.
lol, bring it. tech industry is still strong, I wont tolerate such behavior
As I read it, the data about emissions specifically is self-reported by facilities:

> We reached out to each of the top 200 facilities (ranked by the level of nearby cancer risk) to ask them if their emissions reporting was accurate — and if not, whether they would resubmit 2014-18 data to the EPA. Of the 109 companies that responded to us, 71% confirmed that their reported emissions were correct, and 29% noted errors, which we asked them to correct.
Absolutely arunc!

You can actually see the Golang version - it's on a separate branch in the main repository.

We had written our query parser from scratch (which would read character by character). This worked well, up to a point, but was hard to extend. Building in Rust we've used the nom crate for parsing, and it has enabled us to do some pretty clever and advanced stuff with the SurrealQL query language (futures, embedded JavaScript functions, while at the same time remaining performant.

Other things we wrote from scratch (at the time), were our own binary serialisation framework (similar to MsgPack, but with slight differences and performance improvements). We then had to write our own serialisation logic on top of this, so that each data type would serialise and deserialise efficiently. With Rust, using the Serde crate, this is done completely differently, and allows us to have the same performance (or better), but with no custom writing of data tags!

In addition, many other improvements, especially around generics mainly. It made building SurrealDB much quicker, but it also means that all data passed around throughout the system is able to be reasoned about easier. Instead of brute-forcing with the race checker, you really have to have a concrete idea of how and where your data will be used. This starts out harder (fighting against the borrow checker), but in the long run it makes writing safe and performant software so much more pleasant.

I'll try and go into this in detail in one of our future blog posts!
I build and use Conjure[0].

It's focused on personal objectives, habits, time and behaviour tracking.
It has also has an API and several integrations (including Health Kit).

For some of the methodologies you can implement with it (eg time based goals and habits), check out the guides[1].

[0] https://conjure.so/

[1] https://conjure.so/guides
The NYT does run, centrally, what they call "narratives" which I think is what people are referencing here. This has apparently been in practice for quite some time but only has been a point of discussion as people leave.
During the 1750s the average work day was 11 hours, 208 days a year (2288).

During the 1860s the average work day was 16 hours, 311 days a year (4976).

During the 1920s the average work day was 8 hours, 243 days a year (1944, and productivity was up according to Henry Ford).

Most tech employers in China pre COVID, 10 hours a day, 297 days a year (2970).

Netherlands pre COVID, 5.8 hours a day, 234 days a year (1357).

US pre COVID, 6.9 hours a day, 239 days a year (1649).

Which one of the above examples cared the most about their jobs? Which was the most productive? In terms of business profit PPP? And wage PPP?
Proceed with caution.

I was once a msp monkey and casually mentioned to someone, who described their job of doing various operations in excel, why not just write a macro and stop doing that? Work smart, not hard.

She went ahead, learnt macros and automated her entire job. She finished her day's worth of work in a few minutes each day. Her mistake, she started talking much more. Coworkers snitched on her but her boss checked if she got her work done and she did.

Boss was sneaky and asked her if she could do a little extra work for the day. She said yes and she completed it right away.

She then went on to basically automate an entire department out of a job. She saved the business oodles of money. Those people got laid off, but they really disliked losing their job. They firebombed her car middle of the day in the corporate parking lot. She ended up being protected by the police briefly. Couldnt tell anyone where she moved but she got an awful lot of money from her employer and was promoted.
Kodi has Netflix and Amazon Prime apps that I've used. They get the job done, though they ain't pretty.
The claim is not that the problem is in the code. The problem is something like "database is unreachable" and yes, this is exactly how you build complex and extremely reliable systems -- it's the underpinning of how Erlang systems can have uptimes in the years. Fundamentally it's also how kuberbetes works. One of the containers has pulled it's alarm, so the pod "supervisor" restarts it.
I think the issue here has historically been something like... the government should not be in the business of mandating taxes, and then preparing taxes... as that could be a conflict of interests. But that seems like classic FUD to me, but it's an issue we should monitor.

Obviously it's in every US taxpayer's self interest to pay as little tax as legally possible. If a government run system can achieve that reality, then fine. If however a government run system doesn't have a fiduciary duty to optimize the return, then it's probably not great, if not unethical
Could you link a source regarding inflation decreasing in Germany? Only days ago German central bank chief Joachim Nagel said it will soon breach 10%.
On exactly what assumptions and calculations could you come to the conclusion that 6k GBP / year is reasonable energy spend for an average household in the UK?
Fake news is the responsibility of anti-revolutionary forces, wreckers and saboteurs, unenlightened reactionaries attempting to subvert Progress.

Right? That's the usual line.

Why does the Emperor brag about his birthday suit? To demonstrate and exercise power, to remind those who dare not say the truth why they won't call out his bare ass; and bait those who will into a conflict on his terms.
Haven't a lot of torrent sites gotten in trouble or implemented rules to mitigate against their sites providing content before the official release since they come out so fast and not always from official sources?

I've never heard of issues of having to wait any significant amount of time from an official release on the streaming companies.
Wow very nice, thanks for the share. Though I admit I first saw the janky url and was not expecting such a pleasant website UI. They really should get own domain
On what visa do these students move and work on in the US? The US visa process is extremely onerous
1. Because they'd probably have to hire several hundred humans and give them benefits. It's much cheaper just to trust the robots.

2. Unlike a small hosting company, Google is so big it will suffer essentially no financial consequences if their robots make a wrong decision for credit card customers a few times per month.

So there is no cost to Google for leaving the system as is, and a high cost for your solution. The decision is a no-brainer from their point of view.
Most pirating is done via torrent. If you’re downloading content, you are also uploading it.

But no it isn’t legal to download content that wasn’t authorized to be uploaded.
Thing is, MBAs end up in roles under existing business that are already implemented because they don't know how to implement business. An experienced developer is likely in a better position to implement business, but it is still going to be hard.
Google is the outlier here. Relative to their competition, they're both new at public-facing corporate Cloud offerings(1) and new at non-scalable customer service issues.

They're playing catch-up, and customers are at risk while they do so.

(1) AWS had a head-start on Google and Google's been chasing AWS's monetization strategy and away from their Google App Engine approach, which was fundamentally different. Azure may be more contemporary to Google's Cloud, but Microsoft has a tried-and-true large-scale corporate customer support engine that Google's only now being forced to build out to support its Cloud offering (the customer support story for ads was fundamentally different, and Apps for Domains didn't have the scale Cloud now does).
This is the unintended consequence of anti discrimination laws (and other laws, like those protecting unions, that defeat at-will employment). Easiest way to fire shitty employees is to document a bunch of technical rule violations. That will create a rock solid paper trail that will stand up in court. Otherwise, they will claim some kind of discrimination and it’s your word about their performance against theirs calling you a racist/sexist/whatever.
after Azure sunk my employers project with no recourse or discussion allowed, I always advise everyone I meet to run far away from Azure if they value a reliable service.
How do you break that circle?
I imagine there are still camera clubs with darkrooms around for those who want to give printing a shot.

But, yeah, for most people a decent home setup is challenging. I had the equipment so when I got an apartment after graduating from school I gave temporarily setting things up in a bathroom a shot. I quickly gave up because I found it really frustrating after having had access to real darkrooms in school--and also realized I was sort of done with the hours in a dark room with chemicals thing.
A drop of 10% of currency is not enough to offset the other components. Costs for manufacturing are rising fast. PPI (cost of producing) is rising by 20 to 50% in several key EU countries. Lead by energy but also by commodities.
The entire student loan debt issue has been framed badly, because hardly anyone understands the real problem: "As of March 2021, 54% of borrowers with outstanding education debt owed less than $20,000; 45% of the outstanding federal education loan debt was held by the 10% of borrowers owing $80,000 or more." https://research.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/trends-college-p...

Forgiving $10K across the board is dumb and mistargeted. $50K would be better but is still mistargeted. What we really need to do is get the unmanageable >$80K balances down to a manageable <$20K amount. It's the 10% minority of borrowers who are really hurting.

In my opinion we should be talking more about years of debt held rather than amount of debt held. In theory, college is supposed to "pay for itself", but if some people are continuing to hold student loan debt 10 years, 20 years, 30 years after college, then college obviously did not pay for itself in those cases.
I think there are phase transitions happening in terms of how much the population can accept. And usually these occurs rather quickly, after a prolonged stalement. Let's see if the current upper class can read the signs before a critical threshold is reaches.
Cthugha did similar on Linux. Many hours were spent 'watching music'. Even in a sober state it was amazing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthugha_(software)
> the NYT isn't a monolithic actor with a singular mind.

Isn't there an editor?
Surely it depends how you define social media - I'd expect to see features like having a list of connections/"friends", ability to share messages to said group, and arguably that should include more than just plain text content. Six degrees (1997) was about the earliest, and Friendster then MySpace the first that became "viral" (not a word used back then!). Were there ever any genuine non-web social media platforms?