skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In practice, the Russians have captured a large nuclear reactor and may use it as a dirty bomb if things don't go their way

This is still theory unless they actually use it for that.

Also, Russia's own Kursk 2 isn't very far from the captured one. They could turn that into a dirty bomb too. Recency bias on a threat shouldn't overwhelm normal analysis.
> How do you break that circle?

I think it’s intrinsic to the models. The U.S. pays top performers better. But the average European has a more-stable lifestyle. The same regulations and labor protections that grant that stability slow down growth, so apart from an internal restructuring it’s tough to see the situation changing.
Just make student loans easier to eliminate in bankruptcy. Problem solved.
The federal government doesn't forgive debt, it just changes who's paying for it
That's precisely the point he was making. If you want to understand music and make good music it's important to understand these stylistic conventions. If you deeply understand them you can understand the situations in which they do and don't apply and figure out ways to achieve the result you want.

Bach didn't invent the rules of the contrapuntal Baroque style any more than he invented the "rules of music theory". Which is what the actual FA is saying. However, Bach is a particularly good example of this style and so for a long time people used to study chorale harmonizations in particular and even in my music study I was taught chorale harmonization in the style of Bach. When you're taught this you are taught lots of rules (eg "avoid parallel 5ths") which help to achieve pleasing counterpoint but of course when you look in the Bach chorale canon you can find instances where he violates all of these rules.
> So they are _adding_ a new plan that's cheaper and ad-supported, and they are not touching the current plans. So nothing will change for my current subscription plan thankfully.

Fundamentally the problem with paying for ad-free content is that the people who can afford to pay for it are the people advertisers want to target.
A huge group of Americans have less than $1000 in the bank. A student loan of $20k can still be a huge financial hardship for them.
Alibaba.com: $167 for generic replacement. Considering Apple's buying power it would cost less than that.

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/New-Laptop-Apple-Scre...
I assumed they would fire live rounds back then lol
>I mean, the screen is a major part of that initial 1000 EUR cost. Could easily be half.

The macbook air m1 here is 1100 euros, the mac mini is 800 euros.

So the keyboard, trackpad, battery, screen and form factor are worth 300 euro according to Apple. So that LCD screen they put there even though has a high res, is definitely not worth half the price of the laptop.
I’m not an economist, but it would seem reasonable that the printing of money would cause inflation, yes?
Please burst your bubble and consider that there is WAY more going on in the world than tech and software. The idea that you can point at something as complex as monetary economics and say "I know what's happening and I can trace it back to 15 years" is absurd and over-simplistic.
Really weird take. It's like saying in 1493: "the new world sucks, nothing to do there."

But like, its new land. Of course its valuable. And by analogy VR is a new experience, it's only going to get better. Doesn't anyone doubt that? This the creation of experience as a product itself. There isn't anything else to make once you figure that out. It can't be a bust.
Depends entirely on the car and the wheels. For cheaper cars with cheaper wheels it’s cheaper to have two sets of wheels instead of paying someone to dismount and mount your tires.

For a fancier car with expensive wheels, it’s generally going to be more expensive to buy another set of wheels than pay for 5 years of tire mounting.
I'm currently reading "The Tyranny of Metrics" which provides a decent analysis of how over-measuring things that don't have anything to do with the real goal often serves as a deterrent to real progress.

What managers want to know is how much do their workers contribute to the success of the company. What they measure is how much time do workers spend doing X. They're completely glossing over the middle step of how does the time spent doing X contribute to the success of the company, which is usually taken as some kind of linear equation.

Over-measurement is often worse than not measuring anything at all.
> Apple will offer rental kits for $49, so that customers who do not want to purchase tools for a single repair still have access to these professional repair tools. Customers will have access to the tool kit for one week and it will be shipped free of charge.

Shipping isn't free. It's just included in the cost. Wish it was possible to force companies to stop using bullshit marketing tactics.
>Because we'll never achieve a 50/50 split, we must learn to live with each other and adapt. Plus there are also other minorities we need to take into account, not just women.

The best way to improve "inclusivity" is by not worrying about "inclusivity"

Let people do what they want

>It's just a fact that there's far more men in the industry, it's been like this forever. Even if suddenly we had a women majority of new people, it'd still take many generations for us to hit 50/50.

Why would a 50/50 split even be desirable? Should there be a 50/50 split in every industry? Why (or why not)? How would that be enforced?
I strongly disagree. The host must reach out to the customer, person-to-person, before shutting off a service.
You're not wrong, but I personally would like to see the job of being a reporter like public defendant, a lawyer, judge. Sure none of those are non biased either, but at least people try to hold on to that ideal.

This seems like a lazy defense of bad reporters who turned out to become propagandists instead.
https://medium.com/macoclock/is-apple-fleecing-you-a682c851a...
Fake news fairly often originate in corporate media, including Fox and talk radio networks.
Right, they change the who from "former student" to "no one".
The asymmetry between the costs for the returns process and the 'happy path' of sales is such that even a relatively small percentage would throw a giant spanner in the works. You need to sell three more to make up for one return or so.
That's why Sony TVs have always been ahead of the competition and the only ones I ever buy.
I interviewed with them years ago. The technological challenges seemed cool but ethically I wouldn't want to work on tracking what people are watching.
I can point to examples for at least 80% of these.

Mostly not in public, though.
To add to the "correct", I have noticed that a "yes" gets often chewed up by background noise or someone talking over, specially in teleconferencing. To me a "correct" gives a clearer acknowledgement.

My personal tick is "sure". A sure will nearly always prompt me to bark back a "does this mean a clear yes, or a 'sure I guess, if I have to, if there is nothing better'?" This drives me bonkers when we are talking about non-reversible decisions.
Absolutely debuggerpk. My answer to arunc above goes into it in slight detail! We will definitely plan to do an in-depth look at the decision to transfer from Golang to Rust in a future blog post!
and make the endowments of the Universities eat the loses.
Ideally you'd be able to look at baseline age and body weight data in a broader area, and then compare areas with comparable average ages & body weights that do and don't have high-carcinogen-emitting facilities nearby. You could even look specifically for less-emitting industrial areas as a control for lifestyle, access to medical care, and other forms of industrial pollution.
I think the difficulty is (ESPECIALLY with Google and suspected fraud) that when they make a mistake, getting it corrected is basically impossible unless you know a person on the inside like an established account manager or a highly ranked exec.
Alternatively, one can think critically on a case-by-case basis, instead of either trusting nothing at all or giving uncritical trust based on a source.
Do you mean the taxpayer absorbing the debt should target loans given to people who did job skill-related degrees?
It’s been discussed for years in dozens of articles on hacker news and everywhere. At this point the burden is on you to show us on how being plugged to social media 24-7 is not harmful.
But why would one buy it from Russia instead of buying it from someone trying to sell it that can't sell it to Russia? I don't understand how Russia could prevent me from selling the RUB to anyone else? If people are buying from Russia they would like to buy it for cheaper from me, no?

What am I missing here?
but isn't that equivalent to just forgiving the loan?
That's a really good note/point/addition mijoharas. We'll get it changed ASAP!
That is not related to the quoted statement.

As a hypothetical, suppose the camera glass or lens was made with materials or a technique that caused it to be 90% of a phone’s cost to produce. Then replacing this item would cost >90% of the phone’s price, even though it is “small”.

Or you have a huge transport ship that has an issue with a propeller or a small part of the ship on the bottom, but it needs a dry dock to repair, and there are only a couple dry docks in the world that can handle it. Then the price could be a very high percentage of original price due to the extreme supply and demand curves involved.

Repair costs are not a simple a function of the “size” of the damage.
For totally fungible assets (e.g. stocks) that’s true.
Not so much for gas, where it is sold and bought with a regional restriction. Exchange rates are transparent to the market situation.
At which point you're not actually arguing against pagination, you're suggesting a higher page size.

I agree, page sizes are usually far too short by default! Especially when I'm on a desktop computer and a fiber connection. I think people using phones and cellular connections probably appreciate short page sizes, so it would be nice if sites had different page sizes for different clients.
If I mortgage the singular life supporting planet we are aware of and don't pay back the debt...
Delete Your Gmail or Google Account (2021)
I agree with the printing a lot of money being a problem. But in terms of low cost labor, I don't think that labor expenses are a huge expense to energy production.
Don't know why parent comment is in gray, but it's spot on.

The one and only genuine business reason for Google Fonts is to vacuum visits data from sites that don't have GA installed or by users who have GA blocked. That's it. Free cheese and all that.
I think there are two reasons. First, most people might be mildly annoyed by the ads at most, and certainly wouldn’t make a buying decision based on them. Second, it’s almost impossible for new companies to compete on both quality and price at the same time, unless they’re subsidizing the product somehow (ads, perhaps? :) or as an unsustainable VC funded business I guess). How often is it that we see a new company that can make a smartphone that has the fit and finish, camera quality, and specs of an equivalently priced iPhone/Samsung/Pixel phone?
Eh, I prefer to see one upfront total cost than a bunch of smaller fees that only appear later and later in the checkout flow.
For travel, I have a Raspberry Pi with a second wifi stick to transmute hotel wifi into my own local network. This avoids having to modify every phone/tablet/Chromebook/Switch the family has in tow or fight with buggy hotspots. I keep meaning to add a VPN back to home (mostly for performance) but I haven't got around to it yet.

An upgrade I keep looking for is an external directional antenna so I can get a stronger signal when RVing.
<< The irony, of course, is that bossware is now coming for execs, and, what's more, they lack the engineering skills to optimize their work so they can get a high score and do the job, so they have to settle for just getting the score – and hang the job itself.

I will believe it when I see it in action. If there is one thing that remain constant is the golden rule ( "He who has gold makes the rules" ). And boss class has the gold.
Archive of Justin.tv life stream would be of most interest. Not just the broadcast content, but building the early infra ;)

Nettime archives dates back to Oct '96. Mostly net art, but plenty of discussions around "user generated content":

https://www.nettime.org/archives.php
Yeah did not expect any different from Labor and Lib Dems, was curious about the 2 candidates. Interesting to see Sunak taking a non "modern conservative" approach, quite different from Grover Norquist school of thought. Wonder if any R candidate from the American side would even be able to take such a stance.
Do they? Or are they (the gov't) just paying the loan using taxpayer money?
I agree. LinkedIn still shows plenty of office jobs but that's only the tip of the iceberg. There are tons of "unsexy" jobs that don't show up on LinkedIn or Google.
I don't know how you can have a blanket forgiveness of student loans without also addressing college costs. Otherwise consumers become even less price-sensitive, expecting another round of forgiveness in a decade or so.
What's the underlying storage engine? I've been doing some design work on a new hybrid LSM/Extendible Hashing system in Rust and am curious what this is using underneath.
Parts? Manufacturing? Shipping? Labour? Storage? Distribution? There's more to a part than the cost. Now whether or not what they're charging is over the top, then I doubt you'll find much disagreement; however, the GP doesn't say how the damage happened. I don't know of a single vendor that will cover accidental damages on a screen, and no-one is responsible other than the party that caused the damage. Also, late 2020 MBA (M1) goes for $465, with ~$30 for the parts, ~$15 for shipping.

Edited words...
...this is really what you're upset about?
a more ... active aggressive would be to instantly halt talking, and then as soon as they are done continue with "..continue where I got interrupted"?
It just means that they don’t charge an extra fee for shipping. Of course the cost is included, just like the cost of employee time to design products is also part of the cost and not something we need to disclose.
I know that DAC is solved problem. But parent claims external "DA is better than anything that's ever been on a phone".
No, loan forgiveness doesn’t wreck your ability to get a future loan.
Even for the people that own their own home there's also the capital required to install insulation, solar panels or a heat pump.

How many of those home owners do you think have tens of thousands of pounds just laying around that they can spend on those upgrades? (and that's after taking in to consideration the grants available)
> if there is an overflow from a Play Store ban to GCP etc

This only happens if you're using personal google accounts / @gmail accounts to manage gcp resources. Even if you don't use Workspace as your main directory, you can set it to be a SAML consumer so you still get full Workspace data governance.
> These one-dimensional, judgey comments are forgettable.

Agreed. This is the laziest most boring snipe you could make:

> How many times have you made the front page of a prolific website?
The problem with Reddit is that the sorting isn't by time, so the content order changes.

The only solution I can think of for that is to track which individual posts have been shown to which users, which is quite a lot of work to do.
This is complete nonsense. The easiest way to fire shitty employees is to fire them for being shitty, which you should have documented to begin with.

This has absolutely nothing to do with anti discrimination law.
Of course. That's why I said "the bigger reason" instead of "the only reason."
I can't recall the name of it but there was a pre-pandemic startup for remote teams where it took a picture of you at your desk every few minutes to share with your team, supposedly to achieve less lonely remote-only workplaces. They marketed it as pro-worker, lol.
> a random article on the BBC and Alex Jones saying the kids in Sandy Hook were crisis actors

A tiny fraction of people follow Alex Jones and the vast majority disagree (or have no idea who he is). I have yet to see someone who actually believes the kids in Sandy Hook were crisis actors.

The reality is that the US corporate media (literally billion dollar media companies like NY Times or WaPo) are angry about losing their monopoly on what the "truth" is.

Now, they have to compete with independent journalists publishing on Substack/YouTube (read how critical the NY Times is of Substack. It's absurd.). They're trying to get YouTube/Facebook/Twitter to censor anyone who's not "an expert", where they get to decide who counts as an expert.

So, the media is trying to push a narrative that Alex Jones is a bigger threat than he really is. They're also trying to paint all independent media as Alex Jones-type so they can maintain their monopoly on the truth.

Meanwhile, they continue to run million dollar marketing campaigns where they're trying convince everyone that they're the truth ("Democracy Dies in Darkness").

Frankly, the media did the exact same thing with Trump in 2016 (and continue to do so). Trump was a fringe character during the beginning of the RNC for the 2016 election and Jeb Bush was the frontrunner.

The media (left especially) proceeded to talk about Trump 24/7 and give him unlimited free air time (and they got a ratings bump in return). They took someone who was a fringe character and made him seem like the mainstream. The Streisand Effect kicked in and Trump immediately shot up in the polls.

Then, when Trump ended up winning, the media pretended they had 0 culpability and spun up a false narrative that the Russian interference gave Trump the victory (The Russians interfered, but their interference wasn't what swung the election, it was a laughable attempt if you read their strategies. The media talking about Trump 24/7 was what gave him the victory).
This is my expectation of the market, based on at least the following two points:

1) Video games are sold at full price and still include ads and microtransactions

2) Cable TV was originally ad free (and marketed as such), until they realized they could include ads and make even more money.

I hold the opinion that executives at many of these companies hold the view, "Why only get some of our customer's money when we can get all of it?" (though they probably word it differently, something about recurring revenue and monetizing the existing customer base).
I've been on calls where half a dozen people are trying to find someone to complete some repetitive technical task that isn't easily given to automation. I suspect the idea was to find some poor junior type person to take on the task (preferably in a "best-shored" location). Typically it was me, a senior, who would say, "let me put on some headphones and listen to music, and I'll just work on it". But if I wasn't in those calls, I wonder how many more person-hours would have been spent on something that would take me an afternoon at the most to complete.

All that is to say is that it seemed like there are tons of people caught in a Bullshit Job situation where the job seems to be mainly trying to foist the work off on someone else. And I suspect that a lot of the work they're trying to find owners for is of highly questionable value in the first place.

This was long before the pandemic too, but it does seem like an awakening that other people had in pandemic times.
You seem to be unaware of your communication style. It would work better if you took some time to work out why your comments come across as hostile and unproductive.

So tell me, how long have you been in the patent-lawyer industry?

See, that does not come across as a good faith attempt to communicate. It is similar to your posting style throughout this thread. Instead of interrogating people and demanding replies, how about you read the patents and explain if you think they are overlapping / inter-locking or not. Out of interest, which company in the display industry do you work for?
Optimistic that OpenGL 2.1 will be available by the end of the year on Asahi - well that is news. It's only 2.1, but that's enough (as stated) for a web browser, desktop acceleration, and old games.

Also RIP all the countless pessimistic "engineers" here and elsewhere saying we'd be waiting for years more for any graphics acceleration.

Edit: It is true though that AAA Gaming will wait: "Please temper your expectations: even with hardware documentation, an optimized Vulkan driver stack (with enough features to layer OpenGL 4.6 with Zink) requires over many years of full time work. At least for now, nobody is working on this driver full time. Reverse-engineering slows the process considerably. We won’t be playing AAA games any time soon."

Still, even if that be the case, accelerated desktop is an accelerated desktop, much sooner than many expected.
Good idea. I should start first with just graphs. Later we could video or gamify it.
R/K Startup Theory
I said get ready for the surge in monkeypox in Singapore, now that the Gov has sanctioned anal penetration
How many nits? Does it support the P3 colorspace? Does it support TrueTone?

How do you know if it is even a remotely comparable screen qualitatively?
That doesn't sound intuitive to me. Who are these people with $80k balances of debt? How did that happen? Are they maybe correlated with higher earnings e.g. med students? Would they benefit the most from aid in terms of actually improving society? They might not actually be the "poorest" even if they have the lowest net wealth, if they have high incomes.

More surprising to me:
> As of March 2021, 23% of the $1.59 trillion outstanding federal loan balance was held by borrowers who were 50 or older, up from 18% in 2017. (Figure SA-12A

Off the cuff, this group seems like the least important to pay off
They've had thirteen years to stop their Wile E Coyote approach to fiscal policy and they've chosen not to do so because they wanted to ride the gravy train a little while longer. End of the line.
I actually checked before I commented. All 2017 models are still eligible for repairs
The weight reduction seems like a significant advantage
That’s a good suggestion - it worth noting it comes with a cost (eg X% of your cloud bill) but you get much better interaction with the support and service team.

AWS sometimes even connects small players with service team PMs and managers. It was really great but probably only for greenfield services
Look at the source of investopedia's stats:

"The outstanding federal loan balance is $1.620 trillion and accounts for 92.7% of all student loan debt." https://educationdata.org/student-loan-debt-statistics

So yes, banks do hold some student loan debt, but most of it is held by the federal government.
It’s great that you think that, but what I described is what the government does (because of civil service protections) and what every sane HR department with a high legal risk workforce does. Any US employment lawyer would advise that you follow this practice.
Thank you, we appreciate it. Specially when just a few weeks ago Central Europe wanted the south to be solitary with the rest of Europe and save gas, gas they don't get from Russia and always paid more for.

This is why the EU is a stupid idea. When it is the south, they should suffer, when it is Central Europe, everyone should come together and sing kumbaya
Re : documenting transgressions.

Local food co-op. Very modern hippy. Nice place.

Every employee has a dossier on file. Every time a rule is broken it goes into the dossier.

If, for whatever reason, you are fired. The dossier is cited as legal justification.

I guess this is perfectly rational from a businessy perspective, and a common tactic. But still.