skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discretionary income is highly unlikely to be of sufficient magnitude to overcome the wealth thresholds that VC investment syndicates require for participation.

There is no upside for a venture capital syndicate to include non-accredited investors.

And while being an accredited investor is necessary, it is unlikely to be sufficient.

Think about it from a VC's perspective.

Which is better, A two billion dollar fund with 100 investors who have diverse portfolios of investments of similar magnitude or 10,000 investors who are gambling the rent money?

Which is better, working with 100 experienced professionals or 10,000 amateurs?

Why would a VC want you to jump in its pudding?

Good luck.
Aww so sweet. I love stories like this. My wife and I met by chance in Seattle in 2014, having grown up on different coasts, but there was a period in the 1980's where we lived <50 miles apart and I always wonder whether we ever met by chance as kids. That's so amazing you found that photo. We will have to combine photo albums like you and see what we learn.
I still willingly make sequence diagrams to fully document what is happening in a complex system or architecture. I find them to be very useful to get everybody on the same page for the "order of events".

The class diagrams were something I was taught heavily in college and haven't really used since then. Feels like it's just as easy to write down "this object has a one-to-many relationship to this object"
Queue hackernews-ists jumping down your throat
Actually the vaat majority of anti-gun funding comes from a very small set of billionaires: Everytown is very heavily funded by Michael Bloomberg.

Meanwhile most firearm manufacturers are not super viable and the NRA gets almost all of it's money from donations below $1,000.
The hard to tell part points to issues in society, not the satire.
No, Lightning was great because if you saw a lightning cable, you could plug it in and know exactly what it's going to do. USB-C has been an absolute fucking mess, half my cables don't charge half my devices with USB-C ports, and you have no idea from looking what a cable is supposed to do. Everything plugs into everything, but it's a completely different story if they'll actually interop how you want.

I can't believe people are celebrating the government getting involved with the design process of the only tech company that actually holds themselves to a standard on design. And by forcing them to use a port where the spec is such a mess.
this is a stretch but let's assume the post is in good faith, and that the post-writer does care deeply about their issue. The tactics described here do make some sense. It may be that proponents in political-marketing and policy-activism do in fact, plan and execute this kind of thing. But let's be more specific. It is a sophisticated legal action, takes patience to implement in steps over months and years, requires valuable know-how to execute the lawsuits, and for all of those reasons requires funding over time and planning. Let's notice that groups of lawyers are needed for this.. and that groups of lawyers seek paying work. Average active citizens and wage-workers, people with young families, peoples with chronic distress, primary caregivers, lots of others .. can't think of and execute these plans.

This is specialists work and there are a finite number of specialists in even large society. I propose that daylight rules, disclosure of funding and declaration of activity, would do quite a bit to take the threatening nature of this kind of thing away. Let groups work toward their political goals, yes. But in the open.
> Are you old enough to remember the early 2000s when every […]

One does not have to be that old enough.

Look no further than personal care and small home appliances (electric shavers – yes, Braun, I am looking at you; electric toothbrushes – and you, too, Philips! As well as household and kitchen appliances) the vast majority of which still come with incompatible proprietary chargers that are so hard, expensive or inconvenient (usually all of the above) to procure to replace that the entire gadget oftentimes gets disposed of because of the failed charger.

Governments ought to crack down on those ones as well, and crack down real, real hard.
I don’t think that was a big deal. For example, I am sure there are truckers who inform the FBI of fellow truckers who might be right-wing neo-Nazi sympathizers.

In terms of human misery and body-count, I am sure Communists are right up there with Nazis on the spectrum of evil.
> Snapshots are incremental

They are but, unless the -i flag is specified (it isn't in my example above) then zfs send will send a complete replication stream, not an incremental.
That reminds me of the GCU Arbitrary from the Culture novella The State of the Art - which liked to matchmake its crew members.
Was region locking really that big of a deal?

No. Not in the US either, at least. Even if there was a part of the world where it was a big deal, I imagine if you were so big a cinephile for it to matter, you would know how to deal with it.
You can have nicer things, you just have to pay for it.

But because of economies of scale, you don’t just pay the difference in BOM cost, you pay that difference plus the difference in fixed costs divided by a much smaller unit run.

USB UPSes exist, and they’re really not that niche. Amazon has one for $50. That’s mass-market pricing as far as electronics are concerned.
said differently "Buy ... the right to make it available at will at the place of purchase as long as the content provider licensing does not change, and as long your internet connection allows it"
Firefox gives me a great ad-free YouTube experience.
The EU regulation has a stipulation to re-visit the chosen standard at set intervals (IIRC 3 years?), it's not "for all time"
I had a very bad experience with billing and Hetzner. My card failed on a personal project without me realising it. When I noticed it was already too late and they had wiped out all my servers and all my data.

Yes Hetzner is cheap, but I'm scarred from that event.
I am also not an expert on the topic, but citing a MDPI paper to argue against a Nobel prize seems also unconvincing.
> Anthony Novak spent four days in jail over a Facebook page he created in 2016 that mocked his local police department.

This whole thing should be an Onion satire but it's reality.
Just as a point of balance: adult onset ADHD, while possible, is quite rare. Many other more common disorders, such as anxiety and depression, will share the same symptoms as ADHD.
> but it’s actually a UTF-8/Windows-1252 issue.

Or possibly ISO-8859-1, which is, helpfully, slightly different.
If this had passed earlier,
we'd be stuck with micro USB for ever.

I want USB-C instead of lightning as much as anyone on my phone but I wonder what this will mean for innovation in the future.
This isn’t a good idea.

ZFS needs to be kept in sync with the kernel version. If you use Nix on Ubuntu, Ubuntu manages the kernel, so Nix can’t do anything.

ZFS on NixOS is pretty neat though. The exact version pinning means that ZFS and the kernel can be updated together and only once both packages build at a new version.

There’s also an open issue for more extensive checks, so hopefully eventually NixOS CI will be able to check not just that the ZFS and kernel are compatible (header-wise), but actually go through the motion of creating test ZFS dataset and make sure it actually works.
There's something sort of horrifying in the fact that I can't tell if the posts in this thread are real ... or fake in pretending to be a bureaucratic, ridiculous joke.
Note 11 of [1] states that the geometric mean is used. So this would be different (and lower) than the 'average' in the usual sense of the arithmetic mean.
Doesn’t sound like an actionable issue to involve the government.

Just like the 555 number, thats just an industry norm.
I currently "own" 493 movies on iTunes. I don't use any streaming servies because my experience with them has been horrible--a couple dozen movies I want to watch with hundreds or thousands of filler movies that I have no interest in. When I started buying, I went into it with my eyes open. Apple seemed to be the safest option for companies that would be around for some time and unlikely to pull the plug on a service that wasn't doing as well as hoped. I've never had content pulled.

I'm the sort of person that like to rewatch things. As a kid I rewatched Star Wars so many times that I knew the lines in the entire movie by heart, these days the Big Lebowski is comfort food that I'll throw on when I'm bored. So the "rent" option on iTunes never made sense to me. And my concern with something like Netflix is--will it be there when I want to rewatch it?

If Apple ever gets out of the game I hope they give an out for people who have bought things, but I'm not optimistic. I'm less worried about them pulling content they lost a license to because I hope that licensing for purchase is a different world than licensing for free streaming.

(Also, remember that this is exactly the same for app stores. I did have an app pulled that I paid for. So it does happen, I'm just hopeful that it doesn't very often.)

EDIT: I just looked and I own two copies of David Lynch's "Lost Highway" (a mistake since I already owned it, and later saw it on sale and bought it without checking my list. It had changed hands and was being sold by a different distributor.) I searched for it on a non-logged-in computer and its not available to purchase at all. While this is a guarantee of nothing, it suggests that Apple's licensing with the movie rights owners may retain rights beyond the termination of the license.
The new "cheap" plan is only two dollars less so I don't think it is an alternative for many. I will most likely move infrequently used apps to another platform.
It's my fault that you got that impression, so I quite appreciate your letting me clarify.

I know there are people who really are suffering and I'm glad that help is available to them. Thanks for reminding me to not lose sight of that very real human element.
Samsung gears up for 2nm chips in 2025, 1.4nm by 2027
It's only inert if you're not transforming it (for example, calling toLower on all strings passed in) or doing equality checks. Many applications use these and it is a minefield in Unicode.
> The safeword is in the title: The Babylon Bee

Yep. The Babylon Bee is sort of “double satire”: that is, it is an (unintentional) parody of a satirical newspaper, which at first glance looks like a joke before you read more closely and realize that the authors are barely literate and without a sense of humor. Like a written analog of Ben Garrison cartoons.

We get such gems as Amazon Blows Entire $1 Billion 'Rings Of Power' Budget On Making It Look Like A Woman Can Hold A Sword; Russian Spy Awarded Presidential Medal Of Freedom For Being First Openly Transgender Traitor To Country; Biden Vows Next Hurricane To Hit US Will Be Named After A Woman Of Color; 'Did God Really Say You Shouldn't Kill Your Baby?' Hisses Slithering Newsom To Frightened Pregnant Woman; Pelosi Drafts Articles Of Impeachment Against New Prime Minister Of Italy; Stacey Abrams Claims Obesity Is Just Numbers Manufactured By Her Bathroom Scale; Disney Chooses Bald Actress To Play Rapunzel In Live-Action Remake; Where Are They Now? Catch Up With All Your Favorite Laid-Off CNN Employees! ...

Even incompetent and tasteless parody is still clearly speech protected by the first amendment, as the Onion brief author explains.
"There were doorknobs and doorbells
where one touch had covered another
beforehand.
Suitcases checked and standing side by side.
One night, perhaps, the same dream,
grown hazy by morning."

https://poets.org/poem/love-first-sight
Have you ever been part of a civil lawsuit? The lawyers will absolutely lie through their teeth to make their cases. They will introducw any “evidence” that they think will help them. Would you really trust a jury or a judge to understand and believe that this report is not accurate? Having been through the process, let me tell you straight up: you should not put your faith in the justice system.
I doubt we would invent it. But there are artefacts of the analogue age that have more value than people think. My understating is that “grain” on vynil is perceived as increased resolution to the brain (or so I’ve read). Thus giving some scientific reason for the preference of audiophiles. It would be interesting to know if there’s a similar effect to grain in film but I don’t know.

The other interesting thing is how beautiful and different grain is when it’s from silver halvide film. I’d dare say it’s truly gorgeous to watch. Such film was used in the 1900-1930s age and if you watch a great print or restoration of that time the effect is quite stunning. I believe John Ford’s Stagecoach is a good example that should be relatively easy to find.

unfortunately I think the same epoch has lost immense amounts of film due to the flammability of the materials (which is extremely high, as seen in Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds). Which is why every once in a while you’ll get a huge fire in some film archive and so much of it is lost.
> EU regulators are now forcing companies (and therefore you) to use whatever they think is best.

All those shady un-elected EU regulators...

Oh wait, which ones do you not elect again? Was it government officials or company managers?
I don't think Italy made a good choice here although I don't know the details. But just like Twitter I just don't know and people have a right to know or learn why she may be a bad choice. The recent strategy of large tech corporations is devastatingly bad, clearly demonstrating their inability to vet and validate content. The people that expect that to do just that are just as much a problem as Twitter itself is here.

Censoring these voices will not help, it will not make their ideas or wants to go away. On the contrary, any differences will become insurmountable.

> please remember to remain consistent when these platforms start to shadowban you.

The people supporting this deserve far more condemnation. They should know better and if they do not they are incapable to make such decisions in the first place. Far more likely is that they plainly spread US propaganda.
I think getting rid of the deception and forcing companies to be upfront about what they're selling would be a significant improvement.

Hard to get companies to change when people don't even realize the problem.
Is it me, or does he skirt over Europe not working increasing the supply of gas locally? I'm not saying they could replace Russia or the US, but they could almost certainly produce more (whether via fracking or whatever).
No such thing as a naturally sharp knife.
It’s constructed and sharpened by work and effort.
Samsung actually had done their own thing - their early tablet lineup also had a 30-pin connector, and of course incompatible with Apple's 30-pin connector.

[1] https://www.amazon.de/Original-Samsung-USB-lDatenkabel-ECC1D...
The author glances off another problem in the "Incrementality" section. Assume you have a few projects scaffolded. How do you retrofit any updates you've made to the scaffolding to an existing project that has probably diverged from the original vanilla scaffolding in non-trivial ways?
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The original title is "Roger Waters: I’m on a Ukrainian ‘Kill List’" I altered the title to reflect more accurately the content. The content is a contentious interview touching many topics among which the 'Ukrainian kill list' only briefly pops up.
> USB-C is not much different than lightning for charging / connecting a phone...

As far as I understand, there are no Lightning cables that support anything over 18W. Data transfer tops at 480Mbps, or roughly USB 2.0 speeds.

These are specs many other companies have surpassed several years ago.

> ... so the blowback from consumers will be huge when all their accessories are no longer compatible with the next phone.

Apple is the same company that went through 4 different charging connectors for their MacBook line, in about 15 years: MagSafe, MagSafe 2, USB-C, and now MagSafe 3. Their iPad line is 12 years old and has gone through 3 different connectors: 30-pin, Lightning, and USB-C.

I fail to see how this one would be different.
A lot of past decade news sound like onion satire. Both in europe and the us. We have to be careful which way we steer things as a lot of things appear to take a very very non democratic non western direction.
The trick is that everyone is both in my experience. I had weeks where i worked barely 10 hours (well, a week actually, but in my defense, the onboarding was shit), including meetings and mails. Most of the time once i understand what i have to do (and that can take some time), i'm around 20 to 30 hours. But i know i can whip myself and work 45 full hours (legal duration in my country is 35), as i did during august when the team was on vacation and we had a lot of fires to tend to, for two weeks.
I’ve bought and worn out SO many lightning cables.

Never before have I dealt with such a poor connector. All my usb c is working fine. All my lightning cables work about half the time, need to be jostled. I know if I buy all new ones AGAIN it will sort out the problem.

I don’t understand this take and replies.

Also, lightning doesn’t power external devices. Love that I can run a midi keyboard off my new iPad. The same on my iPhone requires a powered usb hub.
Wow, I didn't know that! Gonna check it out.

Making an MMO true to the name is probably my dream lifetime project. If I had f-u money it's absolutely what I would be doing.
You're not really, it just doesn't cost YouTube any more in terms of licensing the music for their music streaming service than it does to clear the rights for YouTube Premium, so they literally may as well include it.

A YouTube Premium lite is available in a few territories, but where it isn't that's because the music situation means it could cost single cents a month less than the full service and therefore isn't worth doing.
Referring to the mention of the gig economy:

The gig economy works well if you rent your capital (e.g AirBnB) but has poor ROI if you supply labor (Ubereats, etc.). Do you get cash for your time? Sure. But the opportunity costs are large.

I apologize I don't have a clear reference, the research project was reported through JPMC Institute[1] but my memory is coming from conversations with Fiona Grieg and Chris Wheat who were working on this topic at the JPMCI.

[1] https://thebusinessjournal.com/why-the-gig-economy-may-not-b...
They mandated the standards bodies to issue standards to adopt for those who wanted to, but didn't mandate manufacturers to adopt the standards.

Or they would have spent the past 10 years fining Apple for violating them.
It's funny how predictive that is. There was a woman in the dorm we'd lived in -- we were definitely not friends but knew each other. A few years after graduation we ran into each other at a party on the opposite coast...and ended up together for a few years.
I value freedom of speech in general for the exact same reason that I don't endorse the absolutist position of supporting it always:

Speech is powerful, and it can cause great changes to the world. But, while all improvements are changes, so too are all diminutions.
I got the same bug when I clicked create button without filling the "character name" field.

Great demo btw!
You've somehow avoided USB-C cables? That's confusing to me since I have an iPhone and other Apple devices. My phone uses lighting but my Beats earbuds, My Macbook Pro, and my iPad pro use USB-C for charging. Plus plenty of other non-Apple devices.
Then why does Apple use lightning if the EU mandated otherwise?

Surely there must be a difference between the old and the new law. And this difference can then still be stifling innovation.
> which at first glance looks like a joke before you realize that all of the authors are barely literate and entirely without a sense of humor

You just don't find their humor funny and that's fine.
Same, but for Vice Magazine
damn, you're way ahead of me, almost double my number. I haven't looked into local backups. I'll have to see how that is done (and buy a bigger harddrive.) I didn't really realize that Apple made this possible since I only use an AppleTV to purchase and view movies.
I really like the author's sentiment, but for an article published in 2022 it seems to not really consider the last twenty years or so. Their references to a better, less exploitative internet seem to exist in a 2000-bubble. Today, videogames are right smack dab in the middle of what he perceives as the big grift, and I'm sure books would be too if only publishers had an easy to implement model for doing so.

I'd be more interested if the author gave clear examples of where this works in today's internet, because saying you are part of the Geocities or Neopets forums side of the internet is like the old man yelling on his lawn lamenting how much better things were when he was young.
They will 100% remove grain for restoration. It’s the same process as VFX really, essentially restoration involves a lot of what’s called “cleanup” work in the industry. In a Marvel movie cleanup will be removing wires from actors, in restoration it’s scratches and other issues.
There is a difference between proving that all events have share a causal relationship (which is an assumption of every mechanistic model of the universe), and proving that that causal relationship between distantly related events determines very precise restrictions that happen to match the predictions of QM.

To take it to a more human realm - we can all agree that if Caesar weren't killed by Brutus, the world would be so different that it's very unlikely both Biden and Putin would be presidents of their respective countries today - this is an almost trivially true statement I would argue. However, if we observe that at every public appearance Biden and Putin wear costumes of the same color, it's very hard to come up with a theory that explains that their choice of costume is caused by Caesar killing Brutus.

And this is essentially what the super-determinism argument gets at: the same thing that caused this photon emitted by a quark to be polarized up 1 billion years after the Big Bang also caused Alice to measure the polarization of that particle along 30 degrees 13 billion years after the Big Bang.
And if you ordered a disc from abroad, you could completely legally import a disc player from, say, the UK and play your region-locked Blu-ray Discs and DVDs that way (and still can, eBay.co.uk works fine). It's inconvenient but it does work, and is 100% legal and hack-free.
I've always wondered what the NSA actually thinks of me. Consider it a psychoanalysis paid for by taxes. Extra creepy, but we're already at the party.