skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it is possible that they hire surrogates to post on HN, the simpler explanation is that they have rabid fans that stick their necks out for a trillion dollar company. The proof is that this behavior has been around Apple even well before their re-rise to dominance.
Yes, the pandemic motivated me to take an earlier retirement that switched into part time work, and perhaps a career change.

Wife and I had worked toward FIRE for a while. In 2021 it became financial viable. We have been transient in North America and Europe since October 2021. Our plan was to never work again, but some friends convinced me to take a contract job that is ~25 hours a week.

My motivations for leaving: New manager due to re-org, company's goals changed, non-necessity of work for survival, identity issues around career, pressure from family because I wasn't happy. All those motivations lead to suicidal thoughts. I have always done ux, design, and front end development. I think I am going to start a more traditional computer science education path because I find it enjoyable and could be fun for a second career.
Not really a career change. But I got a job that allowed me to permanently work remotely. My increase in pay allowed me to “retire my wife” so she could pursue her passions and we decided to rent out our house, sell our cars, and be “digital nomads” staying in hotels across the US and flying everywhere while I work.
This is a great example of misaligned incentives.

Another example of misaligned incentives is LinkedIn. LinkedIn charges $3/message. The more messages sent on their platform, the more money they make. They are not incentivized to help sales or recruiters target the right people. It can be a cash cow in the short term, but it creates a negative experience for your users.

The fact that it has worked for so long is a testament to how strong network effects are.

In the case of Snowflake, high switching costs will protect them for a while.
If someone sends me an email about a product without any prior contact, I immediately blacklist that product; it's got to be pretty amazing and unique to make it off that blacklist. Space in my email inbox is space in my brain, and that's precious to me.
The two week period is "typical" in US, in the EU countries usually payment for personnel is monthly, JFYI (though in some firms/fields there can be an "advance" around the 2nd week, usually less than half the pay).
https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/child_passenger_saf...

Car seat use reduces the risk for injury in a crash by 71–82% for children, when compared with seat belt use alone.
Booster seat use reduces the risk for serious injury by 45% for children age 4–8, when compared with seat belt use alone.

Seems like reasonable benefits to me.
I don’t know, although there are some rigidly standardized curricula in use in the US. One is in military base schools—since kids might move from virtually any school in the system to another, the curriculum has been designed so that, e.g., every Algebra I classroom covers the same material on the same day and every Freshman English class is reading the same book at the same time.

The other case is the Integrated Math curriculum which specifies lesson plans on a daily basis.

I have no direct experience with either.
When blog is too much
The top layer: a solution to z-index:10000
Microsoft’s moves in this regard strike me as particularly evil. By packaging it into their product and rolling it out by default they’re helping normalize it.

For now the parts that are enabled by default (Daily digest etc) seem to only be visible to the user and announce that fact prominently.

But that does a lot to shift the conversation and acclimatise users to tracking. The jump for the hr module to be enabled is already much reduced vs installing 3rd party spyware software
Yet when we move north we are able to be productive, so maybe we are failing to bring that cultural change back home.
Valve's approach to the Steam Deck has been a refreshing approach in all this. It is a well-built product and replacement parts are a few clicks away https://www.ifixit.com/Parts/Steam_Deck
People keep asking me why I don't like Apple products. I actually like most of their actual products, but their attitude as a company is frustrating. I don't want to pay a premium to feel limited.
> This is a clear case of the value that governments can provide with your tax money, and something that almost certainly would not be provided (free of charge!) by the free market.

Pretty sure an HOA could fairly easily collect this data (I have a setup for various chemicals in my back yard). I have shared said data with my HOA to change the treatment plan for common areas. If an HOA did that they can sue a plant for any issues and alter emissions.

Government (big g) is nothing but an organized group of citizens agreeing to certain rules. There’s no reason any random organization can’t gather information, sue, etc. exactly the same as government.

We’re raised to think government is necessary, but I’m apart of many organizations that effectively function as self-governance and collective bargaining. At the same time they don’t need forced taxes paying for bombs in other countries either…

All it takes is a minor amount of organization. A great example of this is the HAM radio community, farming co-ops, churches, etc.
> I obviously went to different stores and checked the reviews before, but it didn’t help.

This is an issue with reviews in general: most people critique the wrong things.

They have no idea how to review the finished product, but feel compelled to review anyway and beyond “it turns on now and it didn’t before” (which I guess is a great minimum bar), focus on the cleanliness of the shop, politeness of the staff or their hours. All of which I consider less important than fixing the issue properly.
My hypothesis is that a lot of people were willing to work for the system when they believed the system could protect them from bad things. Covid upended this sense of security, since the system was not capable of handling it and/or guaranteeing protection, so people re-evaluated the social contract and whether promises to them were being met.

I also think that it kicked people in the pants and made them realize they had no idea how much time they had left. Confronting their own mortality made them realize what they actually wanted out of life.

It was weird for me to watch, because I was diagnosed with MS in 2016 and went through a personal version of that, just to come out the other side and watch everybody else have the same crisis.
What makes it secure is that by law government entities (ministries, departments, etc) should not store data that can be queried from other available registries. So when I go to some official then they look at personal number, look up where I live, and don't have to ask me to fill forms about where I live and what car I have or whatever, data that is already stored in one place. The advantage is this: it is a lot easier to keep data secure when it's in one place (for example.. your address), than when every department had their own databases about addresses of people who have interacted with it.

Why do you think our current system is scarier than the alternative that exists in most other countries? Where every ministry has their own random databases, with data that is probably outdated.

Also, the cyber attacks by russia are always DDOS attacks, they can't achieve anything else.
Application submitted for US molten salt research reactor
Show HN: WebGL Ray-Tracing for product packshots (Desktop Only)
instashot is a virtual photography studio for product photos creation with 3D model.

underlying it's powered by Next.JS / R3F / ThreeJS / WebGL PathTracing
I started my coding career in the early 90s and at that time there were a buttload of non-TCP network protocols running on small computers (Macs, PCs, etc.) Netware, LANtastic, AppleTalk, Netbios stuff... Even though they all had something going for them I'm glad they have been steamrollered by TCP/IP
You actually think that's a useful point? It's not. Mozart's father was an extraordinary musician, and had support from royalty. Obviously, most kids, the vast majority, don't have that privilege. Furthermore, you're missing the social aspect.
As far as MOOCs are concerned there are many great courses. I compiled a list on https://courseskipper.com/best-machine-learning-courses-for-... and suggest that you just read descriptions and see if anything seems like a good starting point for you
I do t think this is necessarily true for many of the users here "defending" Apple.
It's likely that many people just use their mac and find that the hardware quality, etc is nice compared to other competition. If the company now wants to make it possible to fix your computer, I would imagine that would typically be celebrated by HN, since apple has had such a history of lock-in/non-customization problems with the professional computing demographic.
The note here about affecting small businesses is nonetheless a good point, and should be recognized for the potential problems it may bring; however I don't think discrediting the users by making it 'their identity' to defend some hardware is correct.

There are reasons to not like Apple products, but there are also quite a few great qualities about them as well. For example, the ARM processors they're making right now are excellent (best in class by a lot, as far as I can tell) - for battery life. While they may certainly have lower benchmarks than some i7s, they are doing fantastic for only using 15W. In today's age, few developers use their laptop for more than ssh and firefox, so it makes more sense for a good Linux dev to be on asahi Linux with an M2, while the 'typical business user' or 'creative type' would be more likely to use a Falcon Northwest TLX with a nice dGPU for their heavier workload.

So, again - there are plenty of reasons to not like Apple such as all the lock-in associated problems - but you can certainly use a device and it not be 'your identity'.
This isn't the first time someone has predicted an end to economic growth soon because of peak raw resources having been attained. We can go all the way back to the numerous failed predictions of Elrich's Population Bomb book. The idea that we're close to the pinnacle of what technology and science can achieve is ridiculous given the immense cosmic time scales and resources available. We're nowhere near the limit of what's possible.
What do you mean “swapping creature comforts for free time”?

What are some examples of creature comforts here? And what does it mean to “swap” them for free time?

I understood the rest of your reply.
What does your startup actually do? Your linked Github and Twitter only led me to hackernews.ee but I doubt that's what you're trying to build a company around.

I see a reference to Unikie on your LinkedIn but that's much more than a startup at this point; it's got over 250 workers and has acquired several other companies if https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/unikie is to be believed.

Maybe you're working on something behind the scenes that you're not ready to reveal yet, but I don't see the connection. Not every tech company is a startup, nor does it have to be. The digitalisation found in Estonia is nice, but I haven't really heard of anything that the Dutch government doesn't allow you to do online as well.
and that db expert you just recommended against hiring could surely tell you that... The intern won't.
Considering Thunderbird still doesn't support a multi-line message list after 19 years[1], if you need that feature I suggest using the addon linked earlier because Mozilla does not move quickly.

1: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213945
In the comments he mentions he has a mac mini m1 dedicated to music. I realize he's probably in the apple music ecosystem, so he can't just swap them, but it feels like he could be putting that hardware to better usage if he actually had an issue.
Designing the Tampa Devs Logo
Likewise the doctors in Netherlands move to Denmark, and the circle goes on.
(Author here.) TMTP clients maintain concurrent (possibly intermittent) connections to any number of TMTP services, and each service gets its own inbox. So you don't need a separate app instance per service.

Inboxes for a set of related services could conceivably be merged, tho I haven't done any work on that yet.
Some people have way too much time on their hands. People that can truly afford to have 3+ kids can likely buy a large enough vehicle to fit more seats (ever hear of a minivan). Better yet have kids with multiple women like Elon does.
The decorative, colored corns can make for interesting flavors when crossed with sweet corns. We've grown Peaches & Cream sweet corn with blue kernels on it (10-25% i'd guess) and the flavor was amazing, still sweet but with a meaty body to it. The first time was an accident but we experimented extensively for several years after and got good results from several crosses.

Ya gotta keep the "Sapphire Gems" stuff a long way off from everything else, it seems eager to use any pollen other than its own.
Not giving them your money in the first place would be the easiest solution.
When 5 minute job turn to days
Why the US Army electrifies this water?
Someone should invent a sue-as-a-service ("SaaS") where you can just sue companies in a couple clicks if they shutdown your services or have bad account management that leads to downtime.

Considering the problems are repetetetive, the legal documents can easily be templated and reused and the victim would not have to waste much time or effort in court. Scale the lawyers just like we scale cloud instances.

Maybe even have a way to programmatically sue based on automated downtime metrics.
Solving my truck’s TPMS sensor problem with the help of an RTL-SDR dongle
Okay.

I looked at Russia.

They have different biases, motives, and perspectives than you do. They understand events through a different prism than you do.

Journalism isn't a hard science. All kinds of seemingly obvious stuff isn't actually obvious.

Go watch 12 Angry Men.
Covid-19 is a vascular disease. Turns out several organs (not just lungs) have a lot of vascular area.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7556303/
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2022.8248...

Similar to, say, an ABI but more so, there's no reason to think that cases would present identically. Complex systems-of-systems in homeostasis can be expected to have breakdown behaviour that clusters around some targets with a very very long tail of other less common features.
When vitamin D comes up, I always wonder if levels are merely a marker for how much time a person spends outdoors. In other words, it might not be vitamin D levels themselves, but outdoor exercise which might be the factor in health outcomes.
If you have a fleet of devices you are probably big enough to insure the fleet via a traditional insurance company.
At an object level, "not having XYZ actions occur from the government" is a problem with the government, not any tech company. You almost certainly live in a western style democracy, and so you possess mechanisms to modify the government behavior (if you don't, I suggest moving); it's absurd to complain about tech companies when you're actually upset with the government. This does doubly so when the primary threat to the ads tracking business model in the West is government legislation produced by elected representatives.

At a meta level, this is just a list of grievances. You've not suggested a workable alternative business model that, on balance, provides more net good. It's possible that all your complaints about tracking ads are legitimate and it's still the best business model for providing the sort of massively positive societal value Google search provides.
There are no shortages of alternatives to Apple. Apple doesn't hold a monopoly on anything. They're also a known quantity -- they value form over function, are very expensive, and very hard to repair. You know what you're getting.

This doesn't mean we shouldn't ask for Apple to do better, or try to get changes made. But, I do think it's completely ridiculous to rage about repair-ability like the parent did.
Someone would need to make an x86 -> ARM recompiler like Rosetta 2. That's not an easy task, but also not the task she's tackling with the GPU driver.

It's not unprecedented in the open-source space though; the PCSX2 PlayStation 2 emulator for example contains a MIPS -> x86 recompiler, and the RPCS3 PlayStation 3 emulator contains a Cell -> x86 recompiler.
Because their business is providing a solution that IT failed to. Despite the large cost, which the business was already accustomed to from previous IT attempts, pales in comparison to the additional costs of doing it themselves.

It's like the cloud in general, the cost is high but so is the hype. When all that dust settles over the coming years the business will start shopping on price. They will then realize they have been locked in to some extent and will need to start wriggling loose of the lock-in.
I had some asshole from DataDog not only do that, but also fucking call me unsolicited in the middle of the goddamn workday.

Non-response is a fucking response. Is that data that DataDog doesn't have? Because DataDog seems to think it's fine to harass people relentlessly and call their personal cell phones.

Why would a company like DataDog act like such an asshole to someone they want money from?
Ok, thanks for clarifying. Are there any studies actually showing productivity boosts in healthy adults from ADHD medications?

I've heard about it, but it seemed more anecdotal, and it's not uncommon for drug users to rationalize their consumption in some way, eg based on their first experience.
> I am going to assume they ended up that way because they made poor decisions

That's a fairly flawed assumption.
Cut it out with the sarcasm. It’s not about blissful ignorance, it’s about avoiding an unhealthy environment.
The page is doing something strange on scroll, it's almost unbearable on Firefox mobile
I personally love the Apple products I own. I also have many other products from brands I trust that I love. When someone has a bad experience with a product I love, I try to help them, I don't put them down for trying to destroy my preferred brands reputation.
The current state means you deal with “refurbishers” that mass sell used components (possibly fixing common issues at a micro-level), buy “broken” units yourself to harvest for parts or grab them off eBay et al.

Sometimes the manufacturers do run extra production runs so you get new OEM parts. Or there is cross compatibility.

I’ve covered a fair bit of the expense of my new Mac units by parting out my old ones.
Yeah, I've noticed that at least the way Pelias is configured in Headway, searches for administrative areas don't seem to work, like at all. I'm not sure if that's a config issue or an issue with Pelias though. Address search should definitely work as long as there's an appropriately tagged OSM node for your address, but the server's load average is 40 on a 6 core OVH box in Germany so you might have to be (very) patient to get anything back until the load drops to a level it can deal with.
No doubt, feel free to find a service in Shenzhen you can ship your Mac to and employ them. It's not even implausible if you speak fluent Chinese, there are uh. Limits to your ability to recover if you make a bad choice, but it might work out.

And locals can import those screens right? Little bit of markup. Anyway let me know what the actual price is where you are, from someone who will actually do it, and isn't Apple, all of this is legal and the service is available. That will give us a point of comparison.
These categories may not be perfect, but it looks a lot more realistic than many of the various behavioral studies that have been appearing.
Ah I thought I picked the M1 Air because I wanted to be generous, but it looks like I was wrong.
So truuuuu, tech companies are imprisoning people or killing them, not governments.
Firefighters wear rubber insulated boots. There might be some sparks but they would be OK cutting residential voltage power lines.
Macbook air M1 was released in November 2020,all electronical goods in Europe have a 2years warranty, so unless the person bought it on a Grey market/2nd hand, it's strange. I believe most credit cards are also offering extended warranty (Switzerland, 3y and 5y with a debit card).

Europeans generally knows their rights on warranty and warranty period.
could we.... uh, have our server for a specific city or town for example if the use case is around that area only? that would save a lot of resources
> Nothing you can do about latency, with speed of light and all that though

Why do we take this for granted? I understand the laws of physics and all, but 120 years ago we didn't think humans could fly through the air, and now we have a million+ humans flying every day, and occasionally one goes to outer space.

Why do we consider communication faster than the speed of light so unbreakable?
On OSX you can install this to get audio: https://github.com/espeak-ng/pcaudiolib
Good job but a heads up: this has been done a gazillion times... loads shutdown after a short run. Worthwhile researching others for reference at least
While I tend to whinge at that kind of writing, I at the same time remind myself that Stephen Fry had a beauitful essay about how to use language, and how we can be wildly innovative with it.

At the end of the day Shakespeare was the first to table a meeting and that must have sounded novel and too out there back then. Not everything will age well, but I would rather we try new things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY
But isn't this how it always goes? There's an informal policy because writing up every single thing in a contract is tedious for both parties. Then someone comes up and figures "hey, free vacation, I'd be stupid not to take advantage".

So, they do take advantage for a while, until everyone realizes they're a jerk, so now everyone has to go through the new "process". Because they can't just be fired "for taking sick leave", which "is their right".

This is why we can't have nice things.
You can buy a car (although not a new car) for significantly less than £10k, so, no, that's a nonsense comparison. A very brief search on autotrader showed me about 80 cars for under £1,000 within a ten mile radius, for example.

Also where the hell can you lease cavity wall insulation from? And what happens if you stop paying, do they come round and suck it back out of the walls?
Suggestion: A Thunderbird plugin that makes people on your shitlist talk to GPT-3.

I wonder how fast spam would cease if that became the default behavior of mail clients. Spammers would need to manually wade through literal seas of garbage to find the one mail that's actually a legitimate reply.
Never thought I'd see Cerf in a t-shirt. I just assumed he was born and would die in a 3-piece. The man made POTUS look like a schlub when he accepted his Medal of Freedom.
Same experience. I think the most interesting and most public example of such a pipeline is Google/ building a search index. This is also where a lot of the methods originally came from.
Nowadays a lot of this will be used to build recommendation systems / feature pipelines for ML.
I knew a lawyer that did workers comp and that's how he ran his firm. He kept a private file on every employee since they started to cover his ass waiting for when he wanted one gone.
Then you have to use your data plan. At least with the previous AppleTV, you could AirPlay directly from your iPhone to your AppleTV without the AppleTV being connected to an external Wifi network.

It didn’t work with all iPhone apps though. For instance it didn’t work with Netflix.
Thanks for clarifying. I learned something.

I guess it might be more accurate for me to think about pull requests as Github's reification of the social protocol of pulling among kernel developers.