skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inflation means that currency is losing value. That's what happens when people receive money that they don't deserve (I.e. they didn't actually provide an equivalent amount of value back to society); it ends up devaluing the currency. IMO, what we're seeing is the tip of the iceberg. It just took some time for reality to catch up. If I'm right, inflation will only get worse because the mis-allocation of resources only seems to have become worse. I'm not seeing any improvement - I'm seeing people doubling down on bad decisions; people with money appear to be increasingly erratic. I'm not seeing anyone adjusting their strategy.
Why assume something that is a “small” part necessarily would result in a repair price that is less than x% of purchase price?

There are myriad factors that affect repair place, especially for something as technologically advanced as the newest laptops. Labor prices, design of the laptop, parts supplies, etc.

Of course, the ability for only one entity to source and supply those will tilt the scales towards a higher price, but that is unrelated to the “small”-ness of the damage.
Sonarr https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr and radarr https://github.com/Radarr/Radarr are two popular .net apps mostly used on Linux.

There's a few GUI apps using https://avaloniaui.net/
I tend to agree. I expect that kind of prose will not age, imagine reading a piece from 2009 which opens with -

"Two words to describe the WH response to the financial crisis: EPIC FAIL."

Sure, in the 2020s answering 'yes' to a question of quantity is a cheeky way to suggest hyperbole, but I feel like in 5 years it's just going to seem lame and dated.
This thesis only holds if MB can afford to keep running its factories. Modern economies cease to function without energy, or when the price of that energy is sufficiently high.
A few people I know inherited couple of apartments, its not so hard to live off rent from couple of properties here in Europe, you can get a part time job if u really need to supplement your lifestyle.
I pay for YouTube premium and although it stops Youtube's ads, the in-video ads from content creators are much more distracting and annoying.

My brain can easily block a banner ad or tune out until the "skip ad" button appears. But when a content creator spends 90 seconds on message and then jarringly shifts to trying to sell me a mattress or a water bottle (Linus Tech Tips) for the nth time, that makes the video lose all value for me.

Content creators gotta eat, I get that. But the ad-supported model is garbage.
Signage displays are the solution, that is, those big screens used in malls, airports, stations etc. they're sturdy built and guaranteed to work 18/7 or 24/7, so don't expect to pay them like a shiny but crappy consumer Smart TV. However pay attention before buying since manufacturers started to add Android based crap and "smart" features to them as well. Usually the lack of any networking, both Ethernet and WiFi, on their technical sheet is the indicator they're dumb enough to be worth of trust. This arrangement of course requires an external receiver since they're essentially beefy monitors. They also make almost-dumb TVs for the above markets.

As for the brands, I'm aware of Swedx.com in the EU and Sceptre.com in the US. Samsung also makes some interesting products employing the Tizen OS (any jailbreaking available?).
I don't have any direct experience with any of those however.
Yes because it takes great insight to know that a Google based product probably exists to gather information about you for targeting advertising. It’s not like Google is some obscure company.
At a minimum they could build cohorts of people who use your app and use that as a bit of information for ad targeting.

The SHA-1 thing is a complete non-sequitur, but since you asked, small amounts of data run through unsalted SHA-1 can be brute-forced very easily if someone cared find out where you are.
Would it really be that bad?

Now I work very close to home, but when I didn't, I'd meet people commuting the other way. If it was no longer profitable to commute, we could either move to be closer to our job or switch jobs to be closer to home.
Yes. Sequences of «fiddly electrical impulse[s]». "Make it so it gives some momentum to these, then pull a bit those..." - again, attempting a sketchy description of the "waveforms".

Edit: by the way: I would not say that 1-pigment E-Ink is that «straight-forward»: tricks like the 'Regal' waveform, abatement of ghosting (etc.), were not born immediately.
For more info:

https://picolisp.com/wiki/?home
Its way easier to write scripts in dotnet than bash. I'm trying to build a startup with dotnet + kestrel + cassandra on linux.
Did not read; I just looked for the likely URL.
It won't. Stories about it happening on the internet is plentiful, but actual evidence is scarce.
You can do innovation, the problem is scaling up to the mass market. The EU is supposed to be a massive single market at scale to rival the US and China, and in some ways it is, but it still has a fragments cultural and legal landscape. The gravitational pull of the US on European dev talent is really hard to ignore. Every year the cream of European IT graduates move to the US because that's where the big companies and top paying jobs are. It's a powerful self-reinforcing feedback loop.
Exactly our experience too. We are extremely happy with the stability and quality of their services.
Privatizing everything is great when things are going well. When the shit hits the fan it's nice for elected representatives to be able to force essential utilities to lose money.
Objectively, what is the difference? With no real information, how can you tell?
From his profile:

> Cofounder and former MD of Bytemark, a British hosting company.
Benchmarks and comparisons to other popular databases? Landing says no complicated new languages but introduces SurrealQL?

Would be nice to see a Jepsen test
You could just use last good version.
Entire host macOS was crashed. Must be a bug with macOS. May be it is fixed by now, I don't really want to try as I don't like when my OS crashes. You can inspect qemu command line from UTM, I'm not sure if I saved my scripts, but there're some weird flags which I had no idea what they're for, but when I removed them, it was boom, reboot.
Last year I gave our smart TV to a friend as a gift and bought a “dumb” TV for $190 from Walmart. It has two inputs: one for an old fashioned antenna lead, and the other is HDMI.

I plugged an Apple iTV black box into it, and except for a slightly funky remote, it is a fantastic viewing, navigating, and discovery experience. I did give up image quality but I am much happier.
I like the term "bossware". I think I will use it the next time I wiggle the mouse to make my Teams status green again.
There is no threat, unless you do exactly what I say.

Yea, that's the threat.

> I should note that I used to have the same opinion as you! No judgement!

Common thing to hear. I have never believed anyone has ever gone from a strong atheist who reads the bible and can so obviously see the cruelty and madness, and then suddenly turn around and become a christian apologist? It's just as believable as the bible in the first place.
Caveat: repair now available for Mac Notebooks "with the M1 family of chips" - this is reasonable, I think. However, I do feel badly because I have a 2017 with a noisy fan that needs to be replaced, but I don't think I'll ever be able to get the precisely OEM Apple-blessed one. This is important to me because of the non-annoying whoosh sound that the varied blade spacing of the OEM fans normally provide. My options are (1) used or (2) rando cross-your-fingers 'brand' fan. I guess I could just try a variety of those no-names and use the least annoying one.
Depending on the service you may be paying a subsidized price.

Around 1994 my parents were paying $110~ USD for a cable package in suburban NY. It was basic cable, the extra premium channels, and HBO. Adjusted for inflation that's $210, I know that inflation doesn't always tell the entire economic story but now I'm paying

Netflix $20, HBO $15, Disney+ $6.76, Hulu is free with my cell phone plan but let's say $10. That's $52, my internet is $65 however I would have that anyway for many other reasons. Even if you added that in it's still much less expensive that in the past. The quality is also significantly better, and I can choose to watch most shows when I want.
intellectronica:

> For example, if you're paying with card, have at least one extra as backup payment method (which most providers allow and recommend).

Please don't generalize. There are many countries where credit cards aren't common, and applying for just one (and getting it approved) can already involve a lot of work and take lots of time. Such as: the bank and the national credit authority needing to do a thorough credit check, you having to supply proof of identity and stable income, the bank having to register your new line of credit with the national credit authority, etcetera. Applying for multiple CC's, if at all possoble, only adds more trouble: your registered total amount of credit will rise (even if you haven't used any of it yet) which can limit your options for any other loans like a mortgage, a car loan, a subscription, and so on.
Even Javascript rode on the Java hype/marketing albeit having no correlation with it.
Mine can :)
The conceit that there's some objective "not fake news" out there to which "fake news" doesn't measure up is fake news.

News reporting is integrally and inextricably laden with bias, motive, and perspective.

The 20th century corporate media monopoly which purported to be the ministry of truth is dead, and lamenting over its grave won't bring it back to life.
"Smart" TV can connect to public Wifis and other devices from the same manufacturer around you. I don't know if they do that already, but they could.
> Just getting the equipment or placement to break the door must take more time

Firefighters stroll up with a Halligan Hook and an 8 pound axe. Entry can be fast. Even a lot of medium-weight metal doors and frames will yield in less than 10 seconds of skilled use.

Not quite as quick as the handle, but if the handle usually doesn't work...
Don't make the mistake of conflating carbon emissions with transportation. So much of our society is built on carbon and personal automobiles are only a part of it. Cement production, globalized shipping, fertilizers for growing food, natural gas for making steel and other heavy industry. No matter how you slice it, wind and solar can't replace any of that stuff.
Do you have evidence as to the negative mental effects and how bad they are?
Linus "reviewed" some 3D TVs 3 months ago and asked the same question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbjb2spwQVg
Desire is the cause of suffering. Advertising, in its way, generates desire where there was once none and therefore causes suffering. And, it does so on industrial mass-scale!

Worst of all, there is no mechanism, at all, to restore the bliss advertising has destroyed. Because, money cannot buy confidence, friendship, fulfillment, or (most famously) happiness. So, once exposed, you have no way to regain what has been obliterated from your soul.

Advertising is not harmless, adblocking is not immoral, and your well-being is more important than anyone’s profits.
Not necessarily - it's what the market will bear, not the cost itself. This just means the target market will tolerate the ads, not that they are subsidizing the cost of the TV. The extra revenue could just as easily be gravy - especially because this is probably the result of some implicit collusion.
"Token" hints at everything-is-metered B2, not their unlimited backup plan.
Sure, I agree that we're nowhere close.

The parent comment said that no amount of renewable energy would make larger houses sustainable. That makes me think he believes that the real issue is about land use, building materials for larger houses, or some other point aside from energy.

I should've been more direct rather than focusing on the energy point, but I suppose I was hoping the commenter would reply about why energy isn't the problem.
> Buying these parts in most cases will not be cost-effective

Apple also requires a serial number when purchasing these parts and the parts are paired to the device. So even if you wanted to start a repair shop that just replaces those parts you can't stock or even install them.
Why would you use it over, say Python, for example? I'm really surprised something from Microsoft works well on Linux. (Not saying they aren't technically capable, just lack motivation to get it work well).
There is also a class component to ads.

I find ads intolerable, but I am privileged enough to be able to afford to make them go away in almost all cases.

For those on a very tight budget, Disney+ with ads, Kindle with ads, podcasts with ads, etc. are the only thing that is affordable.

I suspect for many in the lowest income brackets, traditional cable TV with good old fashioned commercials is a primary source of entertainment.

Thus, we also need to keep in mind that those who cannot afford to make commercials go away are subsidizing this further for those who can in an unfortunate irony.
I feel like life finds a way even if it went down this path. People will create bots that randomize opening up a list of programs you use and make various gestures to throw off any tracking tool.

I’m less worried about the Orwellian bossware and more about the Huxleyian warning of an abundance of so much information that bosses can hardly decipher what work is even being done.
Mexico City becomes 'work from home' haven for US expats
Worse, they think they need an TV because its "used by 95% homes in the US".
I find it so weird. Aren't there any bosses that say "Yeah, fuck you we're not doing that." That's the point of a boss. If I were in charge of a bunch of programmers and a mandate came down from on high to rate programmers based on commits or keystrokes, my first response would be "Eat shit." and my second response would be "No, really, I'm not treating my people like dogs. Eat shit."
This is the mystery, precisely why I wanted to ask the question. Some of it is due to asset prices going through the roof (real estate in some western countries have doubled over the last 3 years).

But this can't be the sole reason. For one thing it is hard to monetise asset prices to get cashflow. But the truth is it is one gigantic puzzle in the macro economics world and you just have to read some central banker transcripts to see how perplexed they are by the entire thing.
Its as if they dont realize that fake news is not only the product of crazy people online. How many hoaxes from recognized institutions like the NYT do you need before you stop trusting just anything?
> The SHA-1 thing is a complete non-sequitur

Sorry about that. I just couldn’t figure out where GP was going.
The ever-prepared Swiss are preparing for the possibility of riots this winter. https://www.blick.ch/politik/oberster-polizeidirektor-fredy-...

Hyperinflation and energy crisis are here.
>The only filter anyone has for this stuff is to actually read the Bible to know what is in there. Otherwise you’ll have no basis for questioning the weird things that people tell you.

True, but this is also how fundamentalism/evangelacism/etc came about. You have to choose what to believe regardless of how you read it.

Many Americans believe the earth is 6000 years old, which they derived from the bible.
If anyone could ELI5 the whole web link in the style of my comment above, I'd really appreciate it, because I am curious but I can get nothing at all out of it. I do not really understand any of it.

WebGPU?
Reactive?
Declarative?

It's... some kind of Javascript thing (?) that lets you program (?)... fancy animated (?) graphics (?) in a web page (?) that are hardware accelerated?

That is about all I can get, and I don't think I am all that dim.

I got the Arrested Development reference, and almost nothing else.
I couldn't disagree with your points more, so I'll address them in detail. Thinking of in-house software as a product is useful at modern, flexible companies; and here's why:

> It does not have real pricing.

It absolutely does have real cost pricing, in terms of the number of engineers working on it! This is why internal tools or developer productivity teams at the typical Dunder Mifflin Paper Company style orgs are chronically underfunded, and generally seens as a joke by the business people — which naturally leads to bad hires and a generally weak effort in that direction. It's self-fulfilling downward spiral.

A bunch of modern companies counteract that by treating internal tools and developer productivity as a product, which communicates not just the cost, but also the effective advantage that the company gains, and improves it over time just like the company's external-facing products would.

> You can't sell more of it and increase the customer base.

There are innumerable exceptions, but a single 27 billion dollar one is Slack, which started off as an internal tool [1] for Stewart Butterfield's company Tiny Speck.

> You can't drop money-losing products.

Wrong! In fact, you can absolutely drop "money-losing" products that don't have enough internal customers, and do a much better job than a tired team without a product mindset complaining that "no one uses this tool anyway" as they try to fix a ticket that was filed 7 years ago.

> Here's a classic memo on that subject

I don't know about "classic", it seems to be the experience of one company selling proprietary software that was founded 40 years ago, and very likely has a captive market due to a first mover advantage. I strongly counsel anyone starting out today against having over-applying this narrow "What business is the company in" mindset. In my experience, it encourages frat-house "I am working on the real product" attitudes, and destroys internal productivity, because zero people are incentivized to think positively about that.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_(software)#History
> Advertising needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking

I’ll hold my drink while you convince America why it should pay 10x for a TV because ads are bad.
Many academics believe Judaism was originally polygamist, according to r/academicbiblical. Interesting stuff.
iPhone 13 mini vs every phone on the market with a headphone jack?
Nobody is willing to pay the price difference, that's why scaling up big tech in Europe natively doesn't happen. If someone were paying it, then we would have big tech natively in Europe, and we haven't.
It's really just the font I hate. In the past I've used Reader Mode in Firefox to make it readable, but just now I went into Ublock Origin to change the font to something I like, using the suggestions from this Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/r4gzzl/how_do...

pluralistic.net##*:style(font-family: Fira Sans !important)

If you like your default browser font, you could instead just unset it:

pluralistic.net##*:style(font-family: unset !important)
Ask HN: Onlook on Contracting in a Recession
I'm a software engineer working as a contractor with my own Ltd company. I'm based in Europe (Ireland), and since all signs indicate that we will be in a recession by autumn or by the latest by winter, I was wondering if I should expect less contract opportunities during a recession, or about the same (or even more). Should I consider moving back to permanent? Is contracting riskier during a recession? I feel like Cassandra in that I can see the dark clouds of a recession looming in the near future but I don't know what can I do to prepare for that to weather the storm. Any fellow contractors have been contracting during a previous recession can give some insights?
What sites use this?

Seems like Hilton is mostly what comes up when I try searching for "sites supporting tmtp"
Objectively, the result is a mountain of e-waste.

edit: and of course, "Mark as lost" is a separate thing from iCloud locking. That's the difference.
Why did you quit in the first place?
This is such pointless pedantry. Heat pumps having an efficiency greater than 1/100% is well known, well publicized, and you're trying to make some artificial distinction here that added nothing to this thread/context/discussion.

See:

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/489467/can-a-hea...

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/06/heat-pumps-work-miracles/

I won't be further responding to this sub-topic, since it has nothing at all to do with the UK's inflation/energy prices. Plus frankly I feel like you're trying to confuse people rather than inform, I'd point people to the Department of Energy link above if they want to understand the benefit that modern heat pumps could offer to energy usage.
The NHS is great. I've lived my life with access to it and in a society provided for by it, and wouldn't trade it for anything. Taxes have paid for it, and should continue to do so.

What alternative are you offering? Not taxing anyone much leaves us with a society that simply doesn't function, we see that right now. FUD about "well, they could tax the wrong people" is pretty irrelevant when we are already in a situation where most people are facing poverty and ruin. If this is all we can expect, then might as well roll the dice on doing it right.

Of course, the idea there is no way to actually tax the rich is absurd, we can do it, we have just had decades of government with no will to do so.
A suggestion for engineers that lack business experience. As soon as your project grows beyond the non-hobby scale and starts making real money, invest some time to reach out to company providing the services that keep it alive and find an account manager that will take care of you.

We're a Google customer and of course we had our fair share of issues (btw: it's the same with Azure, based on our experience), and we always escalate to our account manager. That usually starts turning the wheels much faster.

Also, do not be afraid to ask your account manager for additional discounts. Everybody in sales has some wiggle room to get you a better deal. With Google their account manager actually suggested that we work through a reseller and we're getting % off the list prices.

Dealing with Google, Amazon, etc.. is not like dealing with code. It's not only transactional and you need to invest some time in the relationship even if you're the customer.
I doubt it was ever an official Google product because open source packages generally aren't. But there was a team at Google working on it when Angular 1.x was big.
This is a posted price, marked by the store. They'd need to forge it, the logo, font, etc.
That said, there are usually security cameras, and that would be fraud.

People shoplift too, so it is a similar type of crime.
semi-randomly, I was reading about the colonial Spanish mining city of Potosi in the South American Andes today, before opening YNews. The Spanish Viceroy (administrator for the King) oversaw the conscription (slavery) of 1 in 7 adult males each year, over a vast area, to service the poisonous and intensely profitable silver mines. Stories of courage and death predictably follow, while the administrators, unconnected to the daily life in the mines in that region, made record profits, among the largest wealth in Europe at the time (late 1500s). Comments on the social structures that supported that, left as an exercise to the reader.

Consider history; Do you think for one minute, that a Viceroy somewhere, and legions of new administrators, won't inflict endless and strictly enforced conditions on anyone they can find, using software?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/1776_Pot...
That's good info -- thanks!
I've seen a few of them. They usually start with nudging for the first few weeks ("hey, you should really plug me in and get an OS update!") before eventually refusing to work at all.
The *Right* Way to Use 1Password SSH Keys to Maintain Multiple GitHub Accounts