skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple uses price points rather than having developers explicitly specify prices because they're currency-independent: you specify a price point and Apple chooses appropriate prices for each of the ~175 different storefronts where your app could be available. Apple then periodically adjusts the international prices as exchange rates fluctuate, to keep them in parity with the US prices at the same tiers.

The alternative would be to have developers manually specify prices for each region, which wouldn't really scale for a lot of developers (keeping track of exchange rates for 175 different regions is work). Or to do automatic currency conversion from {developer's native country here}, which would eliminate some of the manual work but lead to "ugly" prices in other regions (no x.00 or x.99 pricing), unless they had some rounding scheme to make them look nicer, and then you're almost back at the current price point scheme.
LMAO
unintended consequences anyone?

Next years headline... Maternity leave costs shoot through roof at Twitter HQ
>countering scientific consensus with harmful conspiracy theories

You mean "harmful conspiracy theories" such as previous suggestions that COVID might have accidentally come from a lab accident? or that the vaccines didn't work as wonderfully as first advertised, or that they may just cause harm to some people? How about others that also later proved to have some truth to them. All of these things would have been perfect candidates for using your supposedly moderate "harm reducing" stance on free speech to snuff out worthy debate even if some of it is colored with tones of irrational conspiracy thinking.

And that is exactly why free speech moderation is so dangerously stupid. It allows reasonable sounding people to crush attacks on reasonable sounding ideas, right up until both these reasonable ideas and the people supporting them become unreasonably authoritarian, and attack even wider ranges of open expression.
So what else is new? There's people on here second-guessing expert authors about every damn topic from science to the economy.
this is sort of the deep strike platform which could deliver devastating ordnance to the targeted country's energy and food production infrastructure, degrading it's war making capability. Good weapon to have
This probably happens on a miniscule scale, given the big Russian diaspora in Europe. There are also practical "problems" - a westerner (even western Slavic speaker) has no chance to distinguish Ukrainian language from Russian (or even Russian speaking Ukrainian).
I've read various reports of Russians in Europe supporting war (while escaping from mobilization). Reminded me that SOME Russians escaping Russia want Ukrainians killed, but do not want to do die trying.
No, they raise taxes to crush middle-class, deny permits to oil drillers (to this day), and kill small wildlife by allowing dumping of cadmium waste (solar panel by-product) waters into gullies and culverts and with ground-covering solar panels (killing shelter plants) while ignoring the cheaper carbon-tax energy sources, and not cleaning up SuperFund sites to this day.

It is all about making a certain technology prohibitively expensive so that they can protect their pet projects and their paying constituents.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2022/03/31/the-m...
You can do many different things with crypto, it's up to you to decide what to do with it. Trading crypto is immediately useful, but you have to know the risks, which can be difficult.

But that's not my only view. E.g. Ethereum and what it can be used for is still interesting to me, but not immediately of any use to me either.
This comment is an indirect appeal to nature: protecting yourself from exposure to pathogens is better than low level exposure if your intention is to not fall ill. I've seen a number of ill-looking grocery store employees (coughing, sneezing, sniffling, the works) before, during and "after" COVID.

Wearing masks does not compromise one's immune system: it just shields you from exposure to respiratory bugs. Kids are getting hammered because people have relaxed on wearing masks, so they are now more exposed than before.
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This might not be what you want but Apple Arcade has slowly become the place I search for games. Quality of games is very high.

No ads, no IAP. As a parent it is also handy for the same reasons as far as the kids devices go.
Indonesia passes criminal code banning sex outside marriage
Part of it is that people want to be tricked. If I want to buy something but I'm on the fence about whether it's worth $5 then I think the $4.99 price works as like a semi-subconscious plausible deniability mechanism to let me allow myself to buy it.
Gas prices (determine costs of transactions) haven’t been too high lately, though there can still be spikes when transaction volume surges. Gas prices will become less sensitive to such surges once the mainnet is sharded (plus L2s) because the chain will be able to handle a much higher max volume of transactions at any given time.

https://www.gasprice.io/
Not sure how many have discovered but ChatGPT works well with many languages, for example asking a question in estonian gives an adequate answer in estonian, just the grammar is a tiny bit more off.
Like many things in life the difference between a murdered out car and just a black car is in the details. a matte black car without tinted windows is just a black car.
I notice that you do not propose any actual alternative (I mean, unless you have specific actionable plans for fixing everything.), so I assume your choice would be to allow them and those they infect to die as economically as possible.
In addition to the other replies (which I agree with) about the psychological aspects, another aspect historically is that avoiding round numbers meant that change had to be given when making a purchase.

I.e. if you bought something that cost $5 you could just hand the $5 to the cashier and they could just avoid ringing you up and pocket the money. In contrast if the object cost $4.99 or $4.95 say they would have to ring it up in the till so they could open it to provide change to the customer.
> That's the critical selling point of CMake in my estimation. When I'm on Windows, I can generate a Visual Studio project and use its excellent debugger and code analysis tools. When I'm on Mac, I can generate an XCode project. Or a CLion project, or Makefiles, or...

I've already addressed some of this in another comment ([1]), but you bring up more points, so I'll address it here.

CMake's model forces it to generate build files for other build systems. The better model does not force the build system to, but it also does not preclude doing so.

Separately from actually running a build (and that's important), my build system will be capable of generating files for VS, XCode, and other IDE's, but the files it generates will simply tell the IDE's how to integrate with my build system by telling them how to call it with the correct build profile. And yes, it will generate multiple possible build profiles, allowing VS users to select the solution the want to build from within VS.

But this means that my build system will not only integrate better with IDE's than CMake, it will still retain full control of actual builds.

This includes using debuggers and analysis tools, by the way. I wouldn't consider my work done on IDE integration until all of that is as easy as possible, and definitely as easy as CMake.

> Isn't that exactly what an INTERFACE library is for?

Maybe? It might be enough. At first glance (and I fully acknowledge that I could be wrong here), it seems like CMake expects the "target" to be a library of some sort. That's not the sort of thing I would personally want.

I would want to be able to depend on any target for any target.

But again, I could be wrong. I've never been able to understand the CMake docs.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33885476
> Apple Music Sing will be available on all compatible iPhone and iPad models as well as the new Apple TV 4K.

Does this means that only the newest version of the Apple TV 4K can run this? I have a old 4K, what does it mean for it?
YC isn't just HN though. Was he funded by YC at all?
SBF also donated an equal amount of money to Republicans. He just did so using dark money PACs because he was afraid of a PR backlash - said journos would freak the f out. He donated about $40 M to both parties.

Src: https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/11/29/sam-bankman-fried-poli...
I did something similar the other day - told it about piglatin and I wanted it to create a comparable language that was based on English and restructured words.

It came back with a language it called "flip-flop" that swapped the first and last letter of each word.

Blew me away, but I have to remind myself that it's likely something it just encountered in training data and isn't actually capable of creativity.
EU and US has already told Musk that his content moderation, trust/safety, compliance teams are woefully inadequate and would need to be significantly increased to comply with existing decrees and regulations.

Also whilst some employees may find it fun and others on H1B have no choice but working 80+ hours is not sustainable.

So before making conclusions about whether Twitter is some innovative new approach to headcount I would give it a little more time.
heck, in MY time, variables could only have 2 (significant) letters, so we were stuck with "hi", "jk", "ah" and things like our initials....

The good thing is that since only 2 letters were significant, the variables "fa", "fart", "fan", "fall" etc. were all treated the same, which could cause some confusion to people not familiar with the intricacies of C64 BASIC ;-)
Don't Be a Jerk: Why Kindness Is the Key to Success in Tech
My comment's point was that it's theoretically possible for healthcare to allow for shopping around, but in practice it's not. Due to lack of price transparency and lack of incentives for consumers to care (max out of pocket)
I LOVE DDG (regardless of it's shortcomings)
Any Search Engine but Google!
Google nears 1B investment in SpaceX (2015)
> doesn't break the concept that we should be able to choose for ourselves the amount of risk we want to be exposed in

I'm not sure that this right to regulate one's own personal risk environment is actually a thing. It sounds rather vague; you could use it to justify almost any act. "I think you're a threat; I choose not to expose myself to the risk you pose, so I eliminate you".

You can't eliminate risk. Living is risky.
I don’t get it. You don’t need to be better than everybody else. You don’t need to be better than AI tools. You just need to be better than the colleagues you have around. Become that person everyone in the “remote” office goes to to ask questions, resolve problems. Be that person who brings value not just by implementing algorithms, but by being an essential member of a team.
> 90% of the job is NOT overcomplicating.

I totally agree with this, but

> Most patterns like CQRS, DDD, fully event-driven etc are complete overkill and a sign of a BAD architect unless there is a real cause for it.

Once your application gets to a certain size, DDD, CQRS, and events will make your life far simpler.

Avoiding these patterns is a bit like saying that the solution to moving a piano is to get a bigger bicycle.
Like I said, I agree with you that a naive, purely DNS-based PKI would be less flexible in that regard. That was a good point, and well noted.

However, the current status quo is sort of ignoring the big DNS-shaped elephant in the room. You can build all the validation and transparency solutions you want on top of the CA system, but it's still fundamentally dependent on the security of a DNS system that currently requires no cryptographic assurances that the records the CAs are validating against are actually correct.
New clue discovered for how and why cancer cells spread
I wasn't laid off but after my company announced layoffs I received ~25 messages on linkedin from recruiters so I think things are still pretty good if you have a decent resume.
I am currently in interview process with about 5 companies which signaled that they could match or exceed my current comp. Too bad I suck at interviews though
But they don't fairly translate the price. They just make up numbers for different currencies. $49.99 translates by Apple's standards to 59.99 EUR - which is roughly 10 Euros too much.
As someone who'd hoped to start an industry-focused instance, I found Kris' Medium articles about Hachyderm's growth really interesting: https://medium.com/@kris-nova

The latest post, "Yelping: Action Through Criticism", includes links to additional Hachyderm-related content near the top, then talks about they handle an obnoxious online behavior they've experienced because of the recent popularity of Hachyderm.
Also guessing (my finishing experience is more on electric guitars than cars), but I would guess the other way. A purely flat color will show slight imperfections more than a paint with flake in it, because the flake provides visual noise that can hide imperfections.
I just replicated something very similar in a few minutes using the prompts in the article
Taiga is a category of boreal forests. Common words are bound to create collision, unless they share an industry there's not really any issue with that.
> I don't think it's true that OSS devs don't value design. Maybe 20 years ago there was a bit of vestigial dismissiveness.

I'm not sure, I still see this dismissiveness. Hell, open any HN thread about design and see how many will ask what designers even do all day, or talk about them as if they're "less than" developers.
Ask HN: Toys or materials to teach 3 year olds “programming”?
Hi, I'm looking for some fun materials that would help my boys to develop interest in basic concepts of programming like procedures, types or loops. I know some of you will probably tell me it's too early and that at this age it's all about building relations and whatnot, but they already seem to be way smarter than I expected them to be so why not point them in a new direction? Anyway, any ideas are appreciated :)
In this day and age, this is more of a white elephant, which main use is to keep the industry afloat and know-how state of the art.

For the money, drones and missiles would probably deliver significantly superior results, or similar results for much less money.

Edit:
Actually the fact that it is launched to publicly suggests to me that they know that it's not that operationally useful...
I think it's frequent when professionals in an area are skeptical about massive changes coming to them, even when those later prove to be significant.

However, if there are some courses, videos, detailed documentation about the new way of doing software development, I'd be interested to look at that.
I didn't know painting cars with non-grey, non-metallic paint was a lost art.
For anyone who is interested, after about [edited] 40k requests, this has cost me $10 in OpenAI charges and another estimated ~$100 in domain verification.
Company laptop?

Easy, setup a guest WiFi at home.
According to the Epic v. Apple decision:

* The vast majority of app store revenue is from games.

* A small number of "whales" spend almost all of the money -- presumably rich kids and adults, and people with an unfortunate gambling addiction.
Likely the byte-pair encoding at fault. It doesn't see the letters.
> A 3-bedroom rental unit is considered "affordable" if it rents at $4000/mo

This is an oversimplification that has been repeatedly pushed by Carlo Pablito for clicks. He knows it's not quite right, but the incentives for media these days are what they are...

I would summarize the situation like this:

- Vancouver wants to incentivize some % of new development to be rental instead of condo

- For various reasons (some dumb, some legal) they ended up using the word "affordable" when defining some limits on said rental developments

- Newer-than-average buildings are understandably more expensive than average, so the limits are fairly high

It's a bad choice of words but the program is generally more ambitious than what other municipalities around the Lower Mainland do for rental housing. Please think twice before sharing this misleading information again.
They don't have shared interests, they have shared job descriptions and "managing people " is extremely vague.
You're right, piping water from point A to B is perhaps one of humanity's most challenging problems.

What's really sad is that so many people are brainless enough to believe that this is not possible to solve, and easily so, once incentives drive it forward.

Your comment does remind me of many of the 0.1-0.5x engineers I've worked with though. We need hundreds of people to maintain a mobile client, it's not possible to do it with a handful!
As I mentioned above pretty sure this was a limitation of their SAP based system and the way it was integrated with the iTunes Store (what App Store used) that required you to pre-define price points.
Ketamine, psilocybin, and therapy have all made me a much better father, FWIW.
Do you mean
```
def add_item_to_list(item, list_to_add=[]):
list_to_add.append(item)
return list_to_add

a = add_item_to_list(1)
a.append(3)
b = add_item_to_list(2)

```
> Third, patients often reported to be unable to perform unpleasant tasks because of their symptoms resulting in release from obligations at school and home, while symptoms temporarily completely disappear while conducting favourite activities.
I found the misspellings and shortenings ("yr" instead of "your"?) to be distracting. It also made me immediately question whether the author would have any knowledge-based insight beyond what just reading the question in the title would give me.
>and we're all still working

Because governments attempt to maximize 'job creation' via a number of methods including tax benefits to businesses. Businesses don't really give a shit about unemployment unless it is too low, they benefit from low wages when it is high. When unemployment is too high the government risks getting burned to the ground by angry mobs with pitchforks and tends to optimize around preventing that.
Really good point. 1500 now removed from the title

For context Peta says 110m animals killed for science each year
https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation...
I'm glad this article was published. Now I know it's okay to count the names, races, and groups in every walk of life and point out any overrepresentation I see and I can call that science. Interesting.
Preferably you want an internal CA.

The easy alternative is to purchase a domain, and use let's encrypt to create a wildcard certificate for you. I use the integration with my reverse proxy and it's pretty easy. You want a wildcard certificate because of the Certificate Transparency Logs, if you do it by subdomain then the list of registered subdomains will be public.

Certs on multiple devices - you can most likely still use let's encrypt as most things nowadays have native integration. Otherwise you'll likely have to do it manually

I recommend a domain you don't use for other things online
Must have been before rvalue references.
-- had it create a chose your own adventure book - unfortunately resulted in me being beat to death by a gang at the bottom of namsan tower - but the 30 minutes of exploring korea with it was - creative & fun --
Neither of those earns any particular confidence from me.
I know there are serious logistical and maybe marketing considerations but I don’t know why Tesla, and perhaps any other brands that are primarily ordered online, couldn’t have a ton more colors available. Even if there’s a significant fee a ton of people would jump in it.

The last time I bought a car it was my Camaro. I wanted orange. They didn’t have orange. They had orange-red along with two other reds. I would have loved a deep forest green, but all they had was a neon green.

So I got white.
Apple needs to make it easier for people pricing their apps fairly for international markets.

So many applications and subscriptions are incredibly expensive when they're priced for the USA which has been over valued for so many years now.
I've bought smaller amounts of gold before (up to a couple ounces), and yeah, its just normal ecommerce. Some try enforce KYC, most don't.

Interestingly, most gold I've seen above an ounce come with a cert and a serial number.
More advanced than chatgpt from my experience
Great list! For mine (2.5YO) I'll add:

- go to the library and pick out books

- go grocery shopping, discuss what foods we like/don't like, practice remembering something I'm supposed to get

- play with model trains and make up Thomas stories

- go to the aquarium store and talk about the fish

- go to the park (One time we stopped on the way for fast food and ate it at the park, which was fun, but it created an expectation for a while that there would always be chicken and fries at the park.)
> In the context of wet-putty whips and other contemporary consumer products, though, this strikes us as a hedged, half-stepping, and underhandedly infantilizing approach to color design all the same — a way, basically, to sell millennials “grown-up” toys within a smokescreen of ersatz refinement.

You're mileage may vary of course, but in some way this reminds me of modern superhero movies. Sure, you're still watching Batman, but its gritty and serious now, acutely aware of the wider societal implications of delegating the fight against organized crime to a guy in a bat costume.

Nothing against enjoying childish things as an adult, but it's notable that those movies do a lot to pretend they are actually thought-provoking culture pieces dealing with current issues - and not the latest adventures of characters which were invented almost 100 years ago to amaze children.
Seeing prices list from 2008 having "today's dollars" is really scaring me.
Moore’s Law (formulated 57 years ago) by definition applies to dense ICs. It’s true, there were a bunch of advancements before the invention of ICs, but those were 60-80 years ago.
lol. The Communist Party of China is made up of millions of Chinese, so how are the two not the same? And no, the Chinese government has never pushed its ideology onto the world, unlike the US.
Im not surprized by this. The Angular 1.x codebase is significantly different to the 2x architecture (which is still what modern angular runs on). Also back then the ecosysten and tooling wasnt as stable as it is now. Migrating from 1.x was pretty much a big rewrite if you where doing anything remotely interesting.
"Tax incentives" like writing off Capex have been there for the taking. So yes, the improved tax incentives with bipartisan support translates to stability for investors.
It just struck me that Rick and Morty seems much less weird and random than it used to..
This is one of my favorite novels so I hope so. Hell, I'd even settle for the other two sprawl books.
Reminds me of Verlan in French, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlan
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