skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't they forgive a massive amount of bank debt during the 2008 financial crisis?

And that didn't cause any worrisome inflation.

Forgive these kids loans, who were just trying to go to college to learn and gain job skills to compete in the world and are now debt slaves.
Don't forget that private companies like Google very often create value not by collecting data as such, but by crawling through 50 different US state datasets and untold thousands of county/town datasets to figure out property lines, ZIP code maps, address numbers, etc. There's a symbiotic relationship here, much like research in the natural sciences: basic research and basic data collection is a public good, but there's plenty of value to be added by private industry. It's a win-win as long as the people at large are able to recapture some of the value created by private industry (rather than it being concentrated in the hands of a few stakeholders).
The new prices are here:

https://dmedmedia.disney.com/news/ad-supported-disney-plus-s...

> Premium (No Ads) $10.99
I think all the behaviour you mentioned is not part of the GR. Changing desk jobs or getting new title/promotion doesn't have the macro impact I am talking about. It is more about people quitting desk jobs for entirely different sector (farming, nursing, RE development, day trading,....) or just radically cutting out time they work.
I don't know.

For people who want a React wrapper around pdf.js, there are open source alternatives such as react-pdf: https://github.com/wojtekmaj/react-pdf
Yes, all outlets are biased. It is literally impossible to have a neutral news source.

But there's a world of difference between, say, a random article on the BBC and Alex Jones saying the kids in Sandy Hook were crisis actors.

I think we can agree that there is a material difference there.
> Edit: Big power retail companies in the UK are making record profits, and so is generation.

The largest gas provider in UK (British Gas) profits in millions of pounds:

2009 147

2010 226

2011 258

2012 291

2013 153

2014 96

2015 73

2016 43

2017 11

2018 8

2019 -5

2020 27

I couldn't find more recent data but please provide it if you have it. These are in millions of pounds. Suppose their profit jumped to 100 million pounds (4x the 2020 profits). Do you think 100 MILLION pounds would solve the problem? To put this in context, public sector fuel and energy expenditure in 2021 was 456 BILLION. And this is only public sector. Profits aren't even a rounding error.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/521474/centrica-energy-e...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/298887/united-kingdom-uk...
"However, this is code I wrote in my free time and I am rather unwilling to give it away without any benefit."

Good luck with that. You just posted that you came up with an idea directly related to your job. Your employer will most likely block you from making it commercially available and claimnit as their own. Even if you offer to let your company use it, they likely won't reward you more than a pat on the back and a gift card or trinket.

Basically, nothing beneficial will come of this. The best you can do is let your manager know about this code and that they can use it and hope the other people aren't too pissed.
although looking at the latest google results today, it seems like none of the top results agree on anything that is going on anymore. Hopefully I can track down my original source.
If we're providing anecdotal evidence, I've never stepped into my Tesla and discovered such things either.
This is a great way to look at it.
As i say, neither bothers me too much. But I'd imagine various groups that want their own space would not like their complement making a space just for themselves, and not letting them in.
>specifically a tech (right-)libertarian political leaning

What part of HN have I missed over the last ~decade and a half?

I could be with you on the "libertarian" aspect ... but "right-libertarian leaning"

No way - this site leans notably left (albeit often with a libertarian twist)
https://support.apple.com/keyboard-service-program-for-mac-n...

The page says it applies for "4 years after the first retail sale", but in practice they seem willing to replace covered models older than the cutoff. If you've got broken keys, might as well take it in to see if they'll replace the keyboard for free.
wow, what an abstract and deplorable example of NIMBY.

i.e. "we want people to suffer crippling debt because we are worried about bananas costing 10 cents more"
Or capacitors, as well.

Keep in mind though, that even 10BASE-T works with high enough of a frequency, that you need to think about impedance matching and line termination. And 3 galvanic isolation options (transformer, optocoupler, capacitor) all have very different impedance characteristics. For optocoupler that impedance is moreover voltage-dependent - i.e. that part is non-linear. Yikes. Say hello to harmonics.
I agree with you and understand the sentiment but "all" is not quite accurate.
Was on fire - according to comments further down-thread, this was a year ago
A replacement costs $600 at iFixit: https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Mac/MacBook-Pro-14-Inch-2021-A2...

That seems like a pretty normal price for recent MacBook screens: https://www.ifixit.com/Parts/MacBook_Pro_13%22/Screens
The good thing would be for the companies to report profits where they make them but apparently we can't rely on their good nature to do that.

I don't have a problem with governments resorting to tactics like this in order to get market participants to pay their fair share. But then, I'm not a billionaire and never will be so it aint ever gonna affect me.
In many debuggers, there is an option to break on unhandled / handled / all exceptions.
Shameless plug - I wrote sdf-csg[1] as an attempt to have that cake and eat it too. Basically, build things out of SDFs, then create meshes out of them for efficient rendering.

[1] https://github.com/wwwtyro/sdf-csg
I think if the Russians bombed Washington State, the rest of the US would actually help defend it by attacking Russia. While the military help that the EU is giving Ukraine is great, it is far below the level that the other states would provide Washington. I know that isn't exactly your point, but you can't say that Ukraine is as intrinsic to the EU as Washington State is to the rest of the US.
> sounds like burning to me, even at the improbable 10% level

Fair enough. It’s a steeper drop than I expected before looking it up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty

https://www.historyonthenet.com/walter-duranty-new-york-time...
Rents and general cost of living keeps rising.
Yeah but my understanding is natural gas is the real driver of crisis for Europe right now, esp Germany, but Americans sometimes misunderstand when it's referred to as just "gas"
> this is why right to repair needs to exist. apple is just paying a lip service right now.

This "service" is how Apple is trying to fight right to repair.
Right, but that's kind of my point. Adding it to the language spec now creates an additional and frankly somewhat unnecessary point of compliance for other implementations. Python is already so damn big and complicated, my opinion is that we shouldn't makes its spec even more complicated, even if its reference implementation adds more features like this.
Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)
Hello everyone!

As someone who's constantly on the look for new music to discover and being very deliberate about the things I'm listening, I needed a better way to organize the albums I want to listen to, listened and liked. And also I would like to see the discoveries of other folks who I know I like.

So I started creating the tool I wish I had in the first place. In Digs, the basic idea is that:

- you can add music releases (albums, EPs, singles, mixes) in three lists: Want to Listen, Listened, Digged. You can also use tags and notes to better organize these lists.

- you get a public profile where your activity is visible (i.e. what you added to your lists). Example profile: https://digs.fm/alskn.

- you can add other people as friends. Then you'll see their activity in your home feed.

- you can either like or add a comment to any activity of your friends (or yours)

- you can explicitly recommend a release to one of your friends

You can think of it like Goodreads, but for music. I would assume it's mostly targeted to people that like to listen whole albums and would like to keep track of what albums/mixes they want to listen to, sometime in the future.

This is very early yet and there are a lot of rough edges.

You can find a few screenshots of the basic functionality in the homepage, from where you can also create an account - https://digs.fm.

I'd appreciate any feedback, thanks in advance!

---------

EDIT: I figured it's worth expanding a bit on some highlights:

- In the search box, apart from searching, you can copy/paste any release URL from Discogs/Spotify/Bandcamp/Mixcloud/MusicBrainz and it will basically fetch the release and then you can add it to your lists.

- There are browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome, so that when you're on some of the aforementioned sites, and you stumbled upon an interesting album, you can click the extension icon and the item will be added to your "Want to Listen" list.

- For certain releases, you'll notice there's an embedded web player, for convenience.
> What's the point of using the medically accepted definition of a condition when it is wrong?

Since you seem to have no opposition to using personal definitions of things based on personal opinions without feeling the need to clarify, I'm glad you agree with me 100%
the small azure project that got canned by Azure I was working on, credit card was the only way to pay, and Azure suspended my employers Azure account with no explanation why (though it appears in hindsight to be credit card related), but they refused to explain why. this victim blaming gaslighting is ridiculous.
Its a catch 22 - people are too stupid to understand £0.50 per kWh up from £0.28 per kWh will be the new price cap so they do the really stupid average annual bill. However, it turns out people see the headline say £3,000 or whatever, and believe that is what their bill will actually be, irrespecitve of their usage.
And do it soon, or the 7 year “legacy” period might kick in. Apple has a cut-off past which they will not service or support their products. It’s usually 5-7 years from when they were first or last sold. (Actually, it’s a bit arbitrary if you ask me, because Apple is the one that sets whether a product is still serviceable or not, regardless of how long it’s been.)
It's so that they can claim people can repair their stuff, while making it more expensive than bringing it into an Apple store. Then they'll argue that nobody does this, so strong right-to-repair legislation is not necessary.
This!

you see post after post of people complaining about things but doing little about it.

Returning products as "defective" is pretty hard on manufacturers as stores do not like this happening.
Europe is not bombed by Russia and there is no 'major war' disrupting the continent.

There is very localised war in Ukraine, which objective impact
so far only concerns what Ukraine exports, mostly wheat at this point.
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In America, we stopped being objective a while ago and everything is "The other side is out to get us. Other side BAD". One side there are people who are pissed because they had to pay off loans and why should kids get it for free now while the other side is crying about the uncontrollable rising costs of education where a History Major costs $80K for 4 years. No one is looking at this problem objectively which is to understand why and where the costs are rising and how we can control it instead of just band aids.
I'm not sure if I agree on the dichotomy of technical vs. social solutions.

Where would you place something like efforts to increase a population literacy rates? It's not a new technical advantage, but it doesn't suck or limit possibilities. If anything, it creates them, since a literate population is one you can teach to drive, where employers can assume literacy for training purposes, where governments can give information to their people in writing, where people can read their own religious texts without intermediaries, etc.
> Jackett

Prowlarr is the new cool kid in town
Jeff Geerling talks about this very TV in one of his videos a while back: https://youtu.be/-epPf7D8oMk

If my partner wasn’t so hell bent in decor when choosing a TV, I would have loved one of these!
Not to make this my personal tech support but... I thought my 2017 model was 'vintage' status and not repaired at Apple anymore? I'll see what I can find out...
I wonder why Apple would even want to protect a battery charger IC? All of the interesting stuff would be in software anyway. Maybe the reason repair shops can’t buy it is more mundane. Basically it’s an expensive part, particularly to Apple’s logic board, and distributors don’t believe there are enough Rossmanns out there to sell through a 100k part factory order. When I made PCBs for a large company I had parts I could buy direct from Maxim, at 250k parts minimum, that weren’t on Digi-Key for just that reason.
This is pure anecdote. Any evidence of this besides personal experience? I've had a WFH job since before COVID and everyone seems very engaged in what they're doing.
I don't care how many hours a day people work or about your abstract economic figures.

What I care about is that when I go to book a driving test, I can get one. I could do that pre-2020. I now can't.

This experience has been replicated across the economy.

Things have stopped working properly.

As far as I'm concerned your "PPP" is intellectual masturbation.

The population is unhappy because structural changes, not only limited to coronavirus, have meant that work doesn't pay.
I’m tentatively looking to begin with BBS (potentially CompuServe), but I’m willing to go back as far as needed to paint a comprehensive picture.

This is also one of the bits I’m having difficulty with — what was it like to actually use these systems? For instance, how did one even maneuver the process of posting on CompuServe or on Usenet?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25804869
Sure, no world war. But Russia has lost 45.000 people (roughly the same as US combat deaths in Vietnam) and 2000 tanks.

Most European powers are involved with weapon deliveries and target of economic warfare as well as targetting Russia. Several European states are targetted with cyberwarfare attacks.
You talk as if the corporations havent kept squeezing more labor out of their employees throughout 20th century. Regardless of any laws and regulations. They would keep doing it even if anti discrimination laws did not exist. They may be using that for an excuse now. They would use another excuse to make people work until death if there weren't any such laws.
"Most lenders are huge institutions, such as international banks or the government. After a loan is originated, however, it represents an asset that can be bought and sold on the market."

Source: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/08121...
NDAs are expensive to review, usually over broad and always badly written.

Just say no to NDAs.
> Because "the government" -specifically, the executive branch- has its upper leadership torn out and replaced with a completely new bunch of people with hugely different ideology if not an explicit political interest in dismantling the work of their forebears every 4 or 8 years.

And what's worse is that one political party has been running a decades-long campaign to literally make government worse in order to get people on board with dismantling big sections of it. It's not even a conspiracy theory, it's an actual part of their public campaign platforms that people deliberately vote for.
How extreme do you want to go?

- Tax capital gains and dividends that are classically the rates actually paid by the megarich rather than income tax.

- Tax wealth directly rather than just income.

- Tax much more heavily generally and commit to a significant basic income to ensure everyone has a solid baseline.

This is just off the top of my head, we have an entire government of people and a huge field of existing research and ideas, not to mention other countries and historic data on taxing more than the UK right now to look at.
Monty Hall is really a trick question (you need to know Monty knows the answer and is using that info to know if he should open the door) and the intuitive answer to Two Envelopes is correct.

To be honest, I'd expect most people's intuition of this type of thing would be correct. Like, if I'm looking for a needle in a haystack and find one, and the haystack has other needles in it, and the victim of the needle can't pick the needle out in a lineup, and the needle doesn't match the description of the needle that poked the victim... I think most people would say this isn't the needle the victim was poked with. It's difficult to imagine a pre-historic human surviving without understanding this.

I think what probably happens is the jury just sees themselves are rubber stamps for the police. They just want to get out of jury duty with a thank you for doing the right thing and putting the baddy behind bars. The facts of the case are half-relevant at best.
https://www.helium-one.com/helium-market/

Apparently 8%. But all of these industries waste it unnecessarily, due to our failing to price in or consider the future scarcity.

Helium as a waste product of fusion reactors is such a pipe dream, and will produce such tiny volumes should that ever happen, that it is not a remotely realistic solution to the problem.
That's some pretzel logic there. They can't arbitrarily implement/enforce rules without first disclosing them, and it looks bad in a court of peers if they start doing this haphazardly. I would actually say it's easier for them to get away with this in an at-will environment without these rules.

"Position was eliminated" works pretty well (in the US).
Unfortunately AC+ is not available in many regions. :(
> It's implying women aren't welcome.
The macroeconomic literacy of your average voter is pretty poor unfortunately.

https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/393584/ameri...

https://morningconsult.com/2022/05/18/power-to-control-infla...
It's time to inflict massive pain for the south. Can't spend any more decades wasting money.
iFixit has to get those screens by salvaging them off of MacBooks. The cost to Apple to produce the screen is almost certainly closer to $100-$200.
> Like banning plastic straws while the cups are still plastic.

I don't think there is a single person upset at the plastic straw ban because they didn't ban even more single use plastic.

I'm not even sure that's logically possible, because that's not being upset at the straws being banned, it's being upset at the other things not being banned.
No that’s ridiculous. These retina displays go for $400 on eBay (for a used one) and labor isn’t going to be less than $100 on top of that.
The young will be expected pick up the tab for the old, despite owning none of the assets.

It would not be a surprise if there are policies announced to further tax the young to give 'Granny' more free money off her bills (the existing winter fuel allowance is not means tested), and further free transport round major cities (over 60s travel London free). Then there's the echoes of the lockdown nightmare, mass punishment of the young so the old could feel safer.

The response to any complaints about this generational vampirism is always of course; "you'll be old one day". Inheritance is rare to appear, all too often you hear that Granny has given it all to the local cat sanctuary. Patience is running thin and apathy is higher than ever.

If you're young, this country actively punishes and steals from you, then tells you to stop complaining. Finding hope in anyone under 60 is a tough task.
You’re correct, but I expect that the need to invent those features arose with limitations in existing systems (those that were just plain text content or non-web, as you say).
Ok. I was 12.
USD to RUB

Average Daily Volume Traded 100 Days: 514

Average Daily Volume Traded 200 Days: 24602

You can buy it from Russia, but you can't sell it to Russia. That is how you can buy but not sell.
> (...) but I feel like in 5 years it's just going to seem lame and dated.

Not an expert on media writing[1] (or writing/language in general), but I observed this to be true in at least a couple of languages. Dunno about the time spans involved, though. But I know that stuff from 90s and 80s sounds a bit "dated" to me (I'm a 90ies kid). This is true for at least English and a few Slavic languages[2].

I don't read a lot of media writing (helps with my mental health), but I do read a lot of fiction. And to me it feels like here's usually a bit of the author's era's "personality" (or memes, if you will) that inevitably bleeds through in writing (even in fiction). I mean, it's a core part of our day-to-day expression.

Going back to the time spans: I think that this is probably something that will keep happening more and more frequently. I guess a few factors contribute to this, but I think it just boils down increasing globalisation and speed at which information (incl [sub]cultures, memes) travels

[1]: By media writing I mean stuff written for magazines, blogs, news, etc.

[2]: Slavic languages are similar so most speakers have a degree of cross-understanding. FWIW, it feels to me the languages had sometimes different and sometimes similar trends in the 80-90s and they do today. These are just layman observations though

Edit: Some wordsmithing/formatting
Anecdote leading the comments that is basically labor/victim blaming. One where you admit 1/3 of the teachers were the problem in a profession that burns out and makes people cynical. I also believe private school teachers are paid less than public school teachers in general, and often its a religious school so there is that litmus test that further degrades the pool.

Teaching is a difficult job. I've never heard anyone say its easy. It doesn't seem to be well paid. It's gotten harder over the years with the steady collapse in social services and prevalence of two income households. Standards and micromanagement increase year by year as part of the war on public education by the far right, functioning exactly as designed. It's rewarding for a time but wears you down.
as in it's only worth doing if you have nothing else to do with the energy (like when you have too much wind/sun etc)
> I personally don't think gender segregation should have a place in tech discussions, or any discussion in general,

Segregation happens naturally in any human society. It's not something we can avoid. Though, there are supporting elements, and in that regard this site is quite good, as there is not much infrastructure to support community-building here.

> as long as conversation is held in good faith and in a respectful manner.

It's not that simple. Even with good faith and respect can you create an unattractive environment for someone, without being guilty of it.
And it's not like discussions here are all in good faith and absolut respectful. Tone and messages here can be very harsh, just with less swearings.
It was definitely noticeable when coming from a smart phone, but it didn’t really get in the way. And after using it for a little bit you get used to it.