skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you asked most people, out of this context, if remembering an ad jingle or having one stuck if their head had a negative, positive, or neutral effect on them what would they say?

I don't have any studies, but this is the first time I've heard anyone state this as a negative. Most people don't seem bothered or might even associate a good time with some jingle.
I'm curious as well. The context is film, so I imagine it refers to the chemical process of developing the negatives in some way.
Kodi didn't the last time I checked.

Note that unless you're running Windows or Mac, 4k from Netflix is not available anyway. In fact, 1080p would not be available, according to their system requirements. Linux tops out at 720p on both Chrome and Firefox. I have to assume this would extend to Kodi on whatever platform you're running Kodi on.

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742
I'm mostly with you in spirit but I'd stop at big fines and jailing the executives. Most of the employees are probably fine and someone better can take the helm without too much disruption to their work. Jailing executives might be enough on its own but the fine is useful as well, to pay compensation if nothing else.
Even that doesn't really work. I'm "not paying full price" only because they force upon me hundreds of channels that I don't want, including really pricey ones like every sport. The bullshit I actually watch, I'd be shocked if I'm not paying more than full price for.

The real problem is that content creation/disribution industries are addicted to ridiculous pricing and distribution policies. Nobody can buy what they want, at reasonable terms, we're stuck with them playing stupid games that hurt everyone (likely including themselves).
Welcome to the Western world then. Where time of a human is typically the most expensive component. I guess...
The only way to "forgive" loans without causing inflation would be to screw over the banks by writing off the debt, forcing a credit crunch.
Would love to hear about the pain points you had with go.
The only thing broken on the Mac was the glass display, which I guarantee you does not cost more than $100 to replace wholesale, even with labor. However, Apple doesn't offer this repair for you. Instead, they sell you an entire topcase to replace the entire top half of your computer, even if your aluminum case, display, hinge, backlight, microphone and webcam are all fine. Your only option is replacing everything, at which point, I think OP has reason to be mad. Apple simply doesn't invest money in making their devices more repairable, they make too much money off selling replacements for it to be lucrative. That's fine, and their decision to make, but there's a real human/UX cost that comes with making fragile hardware.
3) take it in to Apple for repair.
Do what the energy companies are suggesting - fix the cap at or about the current price. Establish a government backed fund that will ensure the continued operation of the energy companies. Accelerate the already underway efforts looking at realigning how the UK energy market works (that is - reduce and/or eliminate the link between gas and electricity pricing - due mainly to our over-reliance on CCGT generation). As energy wholescale costs fall over the coming years the energy companies re-pay the support costs.

It does mean we customers will endure higher energy costs for longer - but it will greatly soften the impact on the massive spikes we are set to see over the next 6+ months. It will also have the knock on effect of reducing inflationary pressures, making the need for rapid interest rate rises less likely, reducing borrowing costs.

Look again at what can be done to further enhance and accelerate investments in alternative energy production and storage. This includes looking at tackling planning regulations which so often tie up critical infrastructure projects in the UK for years (sometimes decades), too much nimbyism. Often by peeps who moved next to an existing facility (be it a windfarm, a nuclear plant, etc.) and then complain when it's suggested the plant be extended ... shocker ... who'd have thought that could happen! Invest in a massive, nation wide home insulation scheme - properly invest, not the silly little schemes they've tried so far. Which were badly thought out and badly implemented, and probably full of corruption and wastage.

At the same time continue (and back-date) the "windfall" tax on exploration and production - this wasn't "profit", this was "free money". The companies did not generate this income from improved working practices, efficiency drives, deployment of new technologies, etc. etc. - it was in nearly all senses a windfall. The oil majors are unlikely to invest it ("we don't even know what to do with all this income!" ...), and even if they did it will have absolutely no impact on the lives of UK citizens for years and years - the problem exists now, it needs a solution now.

The whole situation is made more infuriating given the UK produces 50% (+/-) of its own gas. But thanks to our exposure to the prevailing market and the ease of transport to the continent we are suffering as much (heck, more than) many other nations in Europe.
Given the current uncertainty that people will be able to heat their homes in the winter, the threat of widespread power outages, and the rising cost of living across the board: No, it won't come out stronger. Once the first blackout hits, support for economic sanctions against Russia will evaporate, and people will demand a return to their previous living standards. The idea of a green fantasyland without cars is fiction.
In fact Microsoft built these features straight into Microsoft 365 under the name "Insights" (I think now being rebranded again to viva something)

They say it's all anonymized but it's really easy to correlate back to users by playing with settings.
You can often do similar things with timers and dma or a serial device. It isn’t as easy as the PIO model is more familiar for people who are used to thinking in terms of code running, but timers in combination with gpio can be crazy powerful.
I think it's that Russia is pegging the Ruble to a fixed value of gold and requiring all nations importing from Russia to use Rubles to buy their Russian exports.

The only way to get Rubles to buy your imports is to give Russia gold at the rub-gold exchange rate set by Russia.

This peg, iiuc, is one-way. As in, Russia gives you X rubles for Y gold. You can't, however, redeem your rubles the other way around.

So... is the Ruble really strong? idk.. it all sounds very artificial given exchange is only in one direction.
If I try to reverse engineer the requirements for IPv6 and 5G it really seems like they are just key pillars of a world surveillance apparatus. Certainly IPv6 is completely unnecessary for most cases -- but if you criticize it you will get the hysterical tell tale vax or 'climate' treatment -- you are a bad person for stealing the last IPv4 from children or something!
C# is the easiest language and I already know it. Facebook was written in PHP, not because it was the best choice, but because Mark already knew it. If I was doing ML stuff I think I'd have to learn python. To be honest I wish I was some emacs genius doing everything on linux, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>This is great for German exports. Expect to see more Mercedes Benz in the streets of America.

A lot of MB sold in the UK are made in Mexico.
Unless you use your television solely to experience encryption-free OTA programming, any cable provider or streaming app has the capability to sell your viewership data to third parties.
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

2000 to 2020 seems like a steeper line upwards than 1980 to 1990, but yea, since 2011, it does seem we've rounded the corner.

I will adjust my belief. Thanks.
I’ve recently watched Brazil, and the film has one of the most chilling dystopian views I’ve ever seen because it’s easy to see yourself as part of the machine doing your best just trying to get by.

Similarly, I can see how the people working in this software slipped into this- they identified a need in the market with WFH, tried prototypes that were well received on the market, and keep iterating. Many of them legitimately are interested in time tracking and optimization, but of course the market for personal tools like that is very small and lots of employers want to pay you for this because they want more productive employees. Meanwhile the people buying them don’t really know what they are buying, they want to believe they have found a solution to the problem they are terrified of, employees pretending to work and milking them. And the employees exposed to it aren’t in a position of power to change it. And next thing you know we have a dystopian monster with enough funding to be responsible for people’s jobs itself, where no one individual has incentives to buck the curve or much ability to fight back.

What’s the solution then? Doctorow mentions unions, and I’d agree that could work. I think there must be another faction to join that doesn’t ruin you, something to compete with the monolith in case the monolith gets sick in this way. Being able to quit and find somewhere else only works if that somewhere else is mostly differentiated by the fact that it doesn’t do these programs you disagree with- many people will put up with this and worse if there is a large pay differential between it and the next option, or if they would have to move and uproot themselves. And if a government gets sick in this way it might not let you quit the country. You have to be able to form collective groups that can bargain with the behemoth, like a union, or political party, or other action that relies on people for it’s power and not capital. That’s one reason why money in politics is so worrying to me, because the way I see it, it messes with this crucial release valve of political action.
I think one point you might have missed in your analysis is the form factor. I'm in Europe and I'm seriously considering getting a Pixel 6a because it's the smallest one amongst the phones in this price range. It's not small, but it's also not a comically large slab that doesn't fit any pocket as some of the other "good enough" phones out there. That, plus 5 years of security updates and a stock Android experience are enough to justify the price difference which is not even that big anyway - 469 Euros vs 400 Euros for Nord 2T, same price for Nothing Phone etc
The display on a laptop is almost certainly not a small part. When I got the display replaced on a 2015 MacBook under warranty (Apple extended because of screen mottling due to a manufacturing defect), they replaced the entire display assembly, i.e. top half of the laptop case and all.

In general, I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect the manufacturer to make parts available more granularly than they do to their own repair centers.
It's funny that you haven't actually said that less work is getting done. It just sounds like you are saying that "working from home" is equivalent to "slacking off", even if you didn't intend it to come out that way.

Maybe people were always "slacking off" at their jobs, they just had to work harder to hide it when people were in the office?
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, because that's exactly what they're doing.

Do people really think Google just gives away things for free because they're being nice?
same, except I go even further and instead other online thingy I just use USB driver loaded with movies/TV shows for me and kids, I don't understand nowadays people addiction to streaming, offline experience is much better/smoother, i decide what I wanna watch on computer and just load it to drive

but I guess some people can have moral reasons to pay for some service and/or it's not legal in their country to download and watch video content for free (though many EU countries allow this)
or just cluster over several other providers and make sure to test failover

the main problem with azure/aws/gcp is that their parent companies will track everything you and others do, and then close every related thing because they have enough market share to not give a fuck about you.

There are more than enough blog posts of enterprise customers running into random issues with the big thing, buying "big three, promise edition" isn't much of an assurance.

I'd suspect most of those customers have rapid migration plans written up. For a reason.
i changed careers and leveraged it into a business.
A support agent is supposed to speak on behalf of the company. If they say "your account will not be suspended for this issue", and the company then suspends the account for that issue, that should be grounds to sue.
One comment here, there don't need to be sales!

Sales are a marketing gimmick, to pull in shoppers via loss leaders. So all that work you described, is on purpose.

That said, the store needs to take inventory, audit things regardless, monitor when to order new product. Price changes are merely a part of that.
There are certainly better ways to communicate your point than this.
Was hoping that said 10GB - need a couple 10GB devices for load testing a network lab if anyone has any cheap suggestions :)
And you can't harvest parts from a dead device.
Banks haven't held any standard student loans since way back in the Obama administration.
https://www.rxlist.com/desoxyn-drug.htm

Take a look at the generic name for desoxyn. I mean, if I can get it from a doctor, I'll give it a shot.
Isn’t income over a certain number already taxed at 45%? How much higher are you proposing?
>The bossware problem is a boss problem, in other words.

I think this is basically the core. Bossware, like all technology is essentially about increasing efficiency. If your boss is shit, this technology is going to make them far more effective at being shit.

They aren't just going to do all the traditional things that make them shit - unclear goals, over-rewarding presenteeism, being sexist, racist or misogynist. Now they're going to do all those things but a lot more effectively.

Maybe in general this is a good thing, it's going to increase the gap between good bosses and bad bosses and that will in the end cause the good bosses to outperform the bad bossess and the bad bosses' will be identified, or at the least the companies that have bad bosses will be outperformed.

I would say the problem of this bossware is actually worse in schools and prisons - because those environments lack the same feedback paths that regulate this.
> Why assume something is a “small” part necessarily would result in a repair price that is less than x% of purchase price?

It's not a mere assumption. There do exist people who do many repairs better than Apple for hundreds of dollars less, in the US.
Last time a major war was in Europe, currencies tanked much more. I'm glad the EUR is as stable as it is while Europe is bombed by Russia.
This is not how such storage systems work. If the whole storage system is for you and you only store compressed video files on it then perhaps.

But we are talking about multi-tenant systems here. You will get better performance and/or better prices if the system finds compressible data for other customers.

All the benefits hold, even for you with non compressible data, if there is an overall benefit.

Hitting a bottleneck less often then this will reduce your tail latencies, too.

It is just that _your files_ won't contribute to these improvements. But you get all the benefits as well.
The problem they're having is with natural gas, which they need for winter heating
How does this compare with Supabase?
Unfortunately no support for previous gen Intel machines. The ones that were notorious for keyboard failures. Guess that means my keyboard will never work again.
Indeed. My company forgot to warn the the credit card had been updated, emails were being sent to the work email of an employee that left... Took 4 months before they started turning off stuff, and even that was quite gradual, just enough to draw attention
Yes. And boses don't want to admit that they have no idea how to measure employee productivity, because that would mean that their own productivity is bad. Now maybe there is hope that the boses boss could detect lack of work of those teams, but he may also be afraid of saying the truth.
I should have said "designing" which there also isn't much evidence of but it seems fair to give them the benefit of the doubt that its at least real enough to drive category decisions for their other models.
That's why they used a throwaway. No doubt, some people will get adderall or w/e for that reason, perhaps, but all people like the feeling of being productive; people with a real issue just very rarely feel that unless they slow down the giant double-lane roundabout of their thoughts.
Yeah, if tech is developed with the explicit purpose of surveillance on workers, it's definitely not some dubious case where "well maybe it's done with good intentions". Nothing good comes from putting extra mental strain on your workers, showing you don't trust them and being an invasive boss overall.
Will you add support for connecting from IntelliJ/DataGrip?
> There are multiple studies and theories being put out on why inflation occur, both now and in the past. I don't really see a major consensus on a single explanation.

I wasn't suggesting a general explanation for all cases of inflation. I'm saying that the current inflationary period has some easily identifiable causes and the measures that central banks take against general background inflation are actively harmful in this situation and instead should be tackled by government directly.

The second theory is the closest explanation for the current inflationary period and the measures are perfectly fine if you're talking about curbing the consumption of luxury goods and services. It falls down when you're targeting the necessities of survival because at that point you're effectively choosing to kill off some of your population because of a refusal to regulate.
Fair enough. Yes by 2020 VW had sorted themselves out.

My point really is that the traditional manufacturers wasted a lot of time faffing about. Lots of glossy promises about the future and not many actual EV cars being made. Possibly internal power struggles. I'm glad things are happening now.

e.g. BMW had the i3 in 2013 which was good for its time, then closed the whole program down and didn't come up with anything new until (correct me if I'm wrong?) last year?

In the UK, until the Jaguar i-Pace launched in 2018, Tesla were the only manufacturer with a 200+ mile range EV. In the States you had the Bolt but that never came to the UK.

But there's a lot of good stuff happening now so I'm happy.
FWIW I drive a kia.
> But I could definitely see a point where everything comes with its own 4G module just for advertising usage

I guess those Google Maps cars can hook up to everything they can while driving around your block without the need for sim cards.
A public list of open-source challenges from jobs around the world
RealmDB is the best one I've used in the past. I haven't used them since they got bought by Mongo however.
The trading cost of a currency is hardly impacted by one industry outperforming.
Financial policies have a much stronger impact when it comes to currencies. Right now, the U.S and the E.U (and its member) are not handling the current rise in inflation the same way, after also not handling the COVID relief efforts in the same way.
Just look at the graph[1] the fall of the EUR as started since January 2021.

[1] https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=EUR&view=5Y
And its opposite is blue-collar so nothing to do with racism. Unless smurfs feel discriminated against :)
Would you say it’s good advice if someone needs to know how to change a tire - “I haven’t owned a car in 10 years. Just don’t buy a car?”
Let the Russians bomb and invade Washington State and we'll see how the dollar does.
All of that is still paid for by consumers, and we already tax profits. Where do you think the money (including the profit taxes) comes from? Consumer prices.
"all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" - George Orwell

I think it comes back to the fact that some views are absolutely wrong in all cultures at all times. However those are often not what is being discussed.

Many popular topics are actually collections of trade offs vilified by the opposing parties.
if I spend a few hours thinking, planning, designing the system etc. and "only" spend an hour putting all that work into code, I'd still think that's more productive

The biggest boost to my productivity was when the company gave me an iPad and an Apple Pencil to sketch out flows and logic and design iterations, then AirDrop them into the computer to turn them into code.
> screw over the banks by writing off the debt

The banks don't hold this debt, the federal government does. That's why the federal government can forgive it. That's why the federal government has been able to suspend payments for 2 years. The government can't forgive debt held by someone else.
I will never buy another Apple product without AppleCare+. It seems like with these ridiculous repair costs that's exactly what Apple was going for and it worked. If you had AppleCare+ ($199 for 3 years), it would have cost $99 to fix. The funny thing is that in my country (Czechia) you cannot even officially buy it and have to jump through some hoops to get it. Fortunately, once you do have it, it's accepted everywhere including authorized repair shops regardless of your country.
I don't really see the point of making something so low level accessible from HTML. Or maybe I underestimate how much React made people love using declarative/reactive programming for everything ?

React and Vue integration of ThreeJS or BabylonJS seems more suitable for people wanting to simply add some 3D things to their page using DOM elements and the react/vue syntax.

But this project is still really cool ! Maybe I'm just old and it will find a great user base.
Agreed, they should add a 30 day expiration and send people a reminder to set their device to stolen if they haven't done so yet (if it was actually stolen). If the device is lost give them the option to extend the auto removal of the lock. If by expiration of that time period and the device was not marked stolen it should be unlocked so that it doesn't become e-waste because someone forgot their password and reset their phone.

Second Apple should provide a way to verify if a phone is locked to allow people who purchase phones on eBay to not get f'd. I see no reason for Apple not to provide this service again.

Third, apple should to take back all phones that are marked as stolen and recycle, refurbish or whatever without compensating the person who brought it in.
Worthwhile for the individual.

The business itself pays tax on the net, but the individual pulling money out of the business receives income and must pay income tax AND the additional social security tax.

Alternatively, if it's cash only, they receive 100% of the cash and skip all that.
I believe in many states it's illegal for you to be recorded at work. I'm not sure how so many places are getting around this. If the claim is that it's audio vs video, then I say that's a bunk argument. A) we can reconstruct some audio from video (lip reading software), and B) a lot of what would have been "verbal" conversations now happen in text chats, recorded by cameras perfectly in the clear.

Not to mention that I'm always a bit nervous typing passwords into a computer under the eyes of recording machines.
As I said, it does suck. There are use cases where it helps, but it's much rarer than just letting you listen offline and checking once a week or whatever. I doubt it was Spotify, as opposed to the music labels, who thought it was a good idea to check constantly.
If USD falls against what? Exchange is only meaningful with a counterparty.