skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I decided to get vision insurance. It was what, ~20 bucks a month? Free glasses, optometrists visit, why wouldn't I?

The optometrists visit wouldn't give me a prescription for contacts without extra money. Insurance didn't cover it. Even though the data they need they already have from the eye check, they wouldn't write it on the paper unless I paid.

Getting glasses, they only covered a limited selection of frames, all crappy frames. The lenses wouldn't be anything but bare lenses with one or the other add on but not both, no scratch resistance, no glare protection, and there was a copay. So I compromised on what I got.

In the end, with the insurance cost for the year, I wound up spending a little more than if I'd just walked into the optometrists office and handed them cash and bought what I wanted, and I didn't get what I wanted. Vision insurance is a rip off.

A couple of years ago, I ordered 2 pairs of glasses, one for regular with anti glare and scratch resistance, and one prescription polarized sunglasses, for a grand total of 70 bucks with a 2 year expired prescription (my eyesight problems are from welding irresponsibly as a teenager and not degenerative, it hasn't changed since I got my first prescription) on a popular glasses buying site online. Still using them, but I have since ordered one additional pair with that same prescription that I don't really wear, for like 50 bucks with all those lenses add ons.

I plan to go get my eyes checked next year again, just to make sure nothings changed as I've gotten older, but I will never go back to doing things the usual way with yearly checks and insurance and buying glasses at the optometrist and all that, it's a giant sham. My way isn't exactly $2 glasses like in India but for an average cost of 40 bucks per pair with the addons I like and maybe one optometrists visit every 5 or so years, I think I'm doing OK.
Yeah, for hard layouts that the vendor has already done, that is true. Either way, it's transferred encrypted and protected so you can't screw with it.
This situation with Unity looks very similar to the recent blunder by Wizards of the Coast attempting to change their license and triggering the exodus of their customers: https://www.ign.com/articles/wizards-of-the-coasts-new-dunge...
Maybe a joke but just in case, https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
Genome-wide prediction of disease variant effects with a protein language model
London's not even Europe. Oh well, people refer to Microsoft and Amazon as Silicon Valley too.
That's literally not how buyouts work. The public stock price is certainly one factor of many that go into calculating the acquisition price, but it is not an absolute floor. One counter-example that comes to mind is Yahoo!, which was purchased by Verizon for less than its market cap at the time.
Not me, I avoid KDE and Gnome and use XFCE which is still being worked on. have a very strong preference for minimalism and have just been taking baby steps to mayyyybee flippinng over to DWL.
That only requires you to scrap the word "other" without really changing the underlying point...
The question I have is why is Match Group allowed to have a monopoly on online dating?

>Match Group is an American internet and technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It owns and operates the largest global portfolio of popular online dating services including Tinder, Match.com, Meetic, OkCupid, Hinge, Plenty of Fish, OurTime, and other dating global brands.

I can't even name another dating site.
In your analogy, you assume that you already know a murder happened, and it's a question of who did it. Obviously words matter there.

But for antitrust it's using words to try to show that a crime even happened at all.

That's definitely weirder -- more like if Tom said he killed Fred, but we don't really know who Fred is or whether he is alive or not, and we still put Tom on trial using a series of his statements.
> Unlikely to last that long,

That's what I keep coming back to. I've known two classes of Chromebook, shelved and about to be.

Most of my customers tried them. It seemed reasonable their office could use them for light web app use. Every one was in the closet within 6 months.

They're commonly slow. Printer support is a crapshoot, MFP doubly so. Corporate plugin support is a crapshoot. Whatever unforeseen new computing experience arrives, they probably can't do it.

I was at my mechanic's shop last month. He stopped mid sentence to say 'I hate this thing; I'm about to throw it thru a wall' while he's trying to lookup parts online. It's an Acer Chromebook and will likely be gone by my next visit.
There’s a lower bound to how useful a hire is if they can only work part time. Not all of the fixed costs of employment scale down with hours worked. Not being available during 2/5 normal workdays for everyone else makes scheduling meetings pretty challenging too
I don't see any indication in the story that the police were involved in the return.

The hard part, as with most transactions of this sort, is trust. I'm curious how Brand convinced the returner he wouldn't double-cross them.
> KolibriOS has forked off from MenuetOS in 2004, and is run under independent development since then. All our code is open-source, with the majority of the code released under GPLv2 license.

https://kolibrios.org/en/
having that somehow trace back to you in the physical world

I think most people should not do this. Society goes through cycles. Right now people are very divided and enraged by the social media rage machine. That rage machine has the potential to get exponentially more divisive with LLM's and it will be much easier to dox, trick, bait people with LLM's. Adding to this there are a plethora of unhealthy and unstable individuals that are always on the lookout for someone to direct their rage onto.

I can not think of any real benefit to everyone using a real identity. Well, not a benefit to the individual but rather a benefit to corporate capture, corporate tracking. This does not even begin to get into the issue of the collusion of corporations and governments working together to distract, divide, control narratives and so on. All of the big platforms have former cough cough government employees retained in highly influential positions that are totally not using Signal/WhatsApp to chat with active government officials.

As others mentioned ones views and opinions can change or evolve. Setting ones words on the internet in stone is a mistake. The masses are not forgiving and few put themselves in other peoples shoes. Corporations will do anything to cover their image. This forces people to wear a mask throughout their life, not voice their opinions. Some like this idea as it gives them the perception of having control over others, perhaps to compensate for the lack of control they have in their own lives.
Use a CARP floating IP as 192.168.1.1
KeepassDX allows you to create and copy/paste custom fields which could be used for security questions (on Android).... It doesnt generate random strings for them thought
Panda3D is your best bet.
And how long will my windows laptop, or linux laptop receive updates?

Answer: Basically forever.

Google is playing the game of "See, we got everyone in mobile to think 3 years of updates is good. Maybe we can do the same with laptops?"

10 years is good, but frankly for a laptop built on linux it's an embarrassment. If google would instead support a standard distro like debian we'd see way better support. (but then, they couldn't track everything as easily).
Absolutely agree! I’ve pushed back in the past when more analytics-type data was being considered. It can definitely be done anonymously and I believe users should always be given transparent options.
This is silly because you don't have to imagine any scenarios. Good economic models are based on empirical data, not on imagining things, and "immigrants don't increase unemployment or decrease wages" is just about the strongest empirical result there is.

The reason being that someone moving closer to you increases demand for labor more than supply, and immigrants generally have complimentary (slightly different) skills to natives. So the person whose labor the immigrant most competes with is another immigrant.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-immigration-doesnt-reduce-...

As for remittances/brain drain, there are certainly theoretical issues but it seems to be okay in the end because it boosts investment in the originating country.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-skilled-immigration-usuall...
I need to get serious about this and get more cats.
Why not like a T-Mobile prepaid?
France bans iPhone 12 sales over radiation levels
I do, but I don't think a lot of people on HN consider them as such, which is a fun jab at the hivemind. You'll see a lot of threads where people deride social media but say "HN is the exception." Maybe that's what you meant by sarcasm, and if so you're on the nose.
Because you end up paying around 50 times as much as what the glasses actually cost.

But because of how they do it they hide that. $40/month for 2 years = $960 "for insurance" which gives you the right to buy glasses worth around $20 or so.

All the number are inflated leaving people with the impression that glasses cost $400 - they don't.
It seems you completely misunderstood the parent comment. They are arguing against the existence of the repugnant conclusion, by pointing out that happiness -- like the economy -- is not actually a finite pie to divvy up.
https://archive.ph/3pdwa
That's pretty irrelevant if it only represents 10% of the total equity, though. It's not like you, as a retail investor who owns a few shares of a company, have any say in whether it gets acquired.
This sounds more like you are bitter about an ex than anything else.
Chasing stars is like chasing likes in social media - it has zero bearing on the quality of the repo. It just shows how nice of a job the author did with the README and how aggressively they’re advertising the work
If you observe an action that's wrong, you can work backwards from there to discover what you need.

If you have to use dragnet searches, that means you don't have any clear bad action to work from, and you're trying to construct it from statements.
This is a big relief. I have a Samsung Chromebook Plus that still works fine and I like the form factor. I recently got notified that ChromeOS updates were EOL, so I reformatted it with PostmarketOS, an Alpine Linux derivative. Installing was easy, and I want to like it, but it almost works. It has no sound, won't play videos, and the touchscreen behavior is janky.
Data isn't "sold to advertisers" under any account plan, but there are stricter controls for Google Workspace for Education users.

https://workspace.google.com/terms/education_privacy.html
The deception. False advertising is a crime for good reason.
Yup. It basically started as a dating site by Brooklyn grad students, for Brooklyn grad students.

Grad students love writing essays. But if you want to expand, you have to face the fact that most people aren't grad students and don't love writing (or reading) essays.

The trajectory to "just another dating app" was inevitable.
but then you face the same problem as when you have a VPN to a VPS, sites will see your IP address, see you are coming from a cloud service provider, and block you.
And the password is limited to eight characters maximum and it must have uppercase, lowercase and punctuation in order to limit the amount of rainbow you have to calculate.

The password update app will news SSL protocols and cryptography that are vastly out of date.

There will be no synchronization of passwords across various systems used in the company so you will have to memorize multiple passwords which means writing them down.
Just seems like more trouble than it's worth. You're disconnected from the contiguous 48 states logistically and physically, located in a unique timezone and isolated from massive talent pools. I don't think the advantages of being on an island will necessarily sweeten the deal, but then again I've never been to Maui.
Same price and better in so many ways. Skipping 3 generations of CPUs, doubling the memory, and using NVMe instead of eMMC all noticeably better. The dangerously bright backlight is just a bonus. The problem is the machine is bigger and heavier and although quiet, not actually fanless like the Pixelbook Go.
Blame the Linus Torvalds personality cult. Only way that terrible UX got traction in the first place. If anyone OTHER than Linus had written it, it would have been mocked, and deservedly so.
Who did Google forget to pay off?
> By continuing the way we are, toward ever-increasing consumption of resources and ever-growing inequality, we are racing towards humanitarian disasters the likes of which have never been seen before.

We aren't doing that. Increasing human populations don't increase resource consumption because 1. resources aren't always consumed per-capita 2. we have the spare human capital to invent new cleaner technology.

It's backwards actually - decreasing populations, making for a deflating economy, encourage consumption rather than productivity investment. That's how so many countries managed to deforest themselves when wood fires were still state of the art.

Also, "resources are finite" isn't an argument against growth because if you don't grow /the resources are still finite/. So all you're saying is we're going to die someday. We know that.
most folks use opnsense now instead of pfsense
I'm not familiar at all, but seeing that a musical artist known for fighting ticketing systems and ticket brokers with an "open letter" while purporting to be an honest broker just already strikes me as something that I'm not going agree. It's just has the air of something like big oil running a website called clean-energy.

That's just from reading the link. After reading the TFA, I'm not impressed at all
You raise a really interesting point that I hadn't really thought about before - the possibility that the move to mobile first is directly responsible for making things worse, dumber, simpler with less functionality.
As I understand it they have been losing money for years at ever-increasing rates so it's not like what they were doing before was working. Maybe they are doing the wrong thing now but business as usual probably had no future.
Do you have kids? If so, learn to write a game with your code by your side! That's what I'm doing, and I generally feel the same as you (NO GODAMN TIME!) :)
It had that stuff 120 years ago for sure, imagine what it has now. Visuals from Webb that are 10,000s of LY away could seem barren of life, while they are currently bustling with space faring civilizations
Yeah but this is reasonable with or without antitrust violations. Its the same principle as the 5th amendment and not incriminating yourself.
>one of the things I most appreciate about Sabine Hossenfelder (a physicist) is that she highlights the limits of knowledge in her (and adjacent) fields.

I suppose you missed her recent video about economics? Her content is getting more and more clickbaitey by the day. Some really half-baked data creeping into her videos.
Nothing that you said addressed what the person above you wrote.
> OkCupid had excellent growth in the first half of the 2010s, but as that growth started to plateau, it was pretty clear that the focus moved to following Tinder's trends in an effort to match their level of growth.

Okay... what was the ratio of active men to women on OkCupid each year? How about on Tinder? You worked there, and that's an unfair assessment of Tinder.

The fundamental trend in these dating apps is that ratio, and the relative growth (or decline!) of that gender's active user base. And it's not something Match, or for that matter Dataclysm ever discussed, even though it's kind of the most important single metric for a dating app.

I mean ask demographers, they talk about 3m:2f being a crisis ratio [1]. And on Tinder it's probably closer to 10:1-20:1, I'm sure they pay AppAnnie (or whatever they're called now) to push out some fake ass numbers here and there. If it wasn't a horrible number - anything worse than 3m:2f is pretty horrible! - they would write about it, and they simply won't.

On the one hand I really liked Dataclysm, and I was bought into the ideas it put forward. There's this post from 2018 by the author that used to say, oh well the reply rate to black women was 20 percentage points lower, which is the same in 2008. Well, trends showed about 18 percentage points more interracial marriages, the data was totally counter to trend: that indicated a problem in OkCupid, not in the user base as the author claimed. The Tinder PR team kind of put the kibosh on that kind of transparency for the wrong reasons, but it was the right idea.

So this big essay prompt format that the app used to use, I don't know if it was part of the problem where OkCupid was fundamentally against trend. In some respects, clearly, the essays versus swiping didn't matter. It certainly seems intuitive that the essays matter, it appeals to a sense of superiority in a particular audience's way of believing how online dating should work, but those guys are operating in the vacuum of the single most important data point (the actual ratio) and are forced to essentially generate fictions for why the apps work the way they do and why it worked for them.

I appreciate that from your point of view, 2013-2017 was a focus on "mobile" and that in your opinion that was "bad." But c'mon, show me a category of free app that didn't have a focus on "mobile." I personally think the apps are doing the best given the circumstances - the ratio! - and that everything else is dancing around this because, if people knew, you know, they'd stop using them.

[1] https://www.google.com/books/edition/Date_onomics/7GDVBgAAQB... (page 22)
The unity devs at my last game were constantly providing feedback and fixes to Unity. That’s a lost resource I haven’t seen anyone mention.
OEMs rarely make money: they get the design in but don't get significant payments until volume gets up (if ever). And once the original version is designed, the buyer wants to increase margin and/or lower costs, which they do by pressuring their suppliers.

Furthermore, ARM isn't even an OEM; it sells licenses (patent licenses plus rights to use copyrighted designs) so Oppo is paying someone to design a chip using ARM IP and paying someone else to fab it, and then a little goes to ARM.

All in all, a shitty business unless you get lucky, which ARM did. They took advantage of their luck, don't get me wrong, but luck was what gave them the opportunity that so many others either didn't get or didn't know how to take advantage of. Microsoft was another lucky winner who knew what to do; Intel went the other way and made their own luck until they got distracted.

Unlike, say, NVidia, Intel and Apple, ARM is not in control of its fate, or rather has limited control. And despite those first three having control, that doesn't guarantee anything: one of them lost the thread, one of them had a near death experience, and one of them has so far managed to stay on top.
Gotta love the description on theses:

> No need for power, just press on the battery and use it.
The $20 glasses increase in price sharply when you add vague “nice-to-haves” like blue light filtering.

Likewise, store bought lenses are available with $20 out of pocket expenses.
I feel like the single words referenced in the title are taken way out of context. The actual texts of these trainings unambiguously tell workers to not break the law, why the law is important, and what Google's philosophy is instead. That that includes not miscommunicating those intentions isn't a bad thing. None of this is ambiguous to anyone who has taken the actual trainings.
Thank you. This is precisely what I wanted to reply but didn’t trust myself last night to not get in trouble with dang.

He is the one who specifically brought up profits as a potential reason to accept catastrophe then got all offended and aggressive, name calling etc when people challenged this. Even going as far as to deny bringing profits into it THEN admitting he had no idea of the numbers but STILL doubling down on the ‘don’t believe your lying eyes about what I wrote’.

I genuinely questioned whether it was just me until I checked back in the thread this morning.
There might be a ton of duplicate issues. There might also be a ton of duplicate issues not brought up by a FAQ. How would you measure those?
But why did Apple choose to do that if they could have saved money,
never paid Arm Inc a cent, and gone with RISC-V? Arm brings a lot of things to the table, and while Apple is alone in having done a CPU architecture change successfully not once, but twice, it's not something they do just for funsies, so I doubt a switch to RISC-V is imminent.
Insurers are often mutually owned by their customers, so they don't need to profit.
Xreal Air: ultra portable, lightweight AR glasses
You must be new here - welcome to HN. Tangents are part of life here my friend.
The value a company brings to society and the value that it captures are two different things. Arm operates in an industry where it is hard to capture value, the semiconductor industry, and its moat is strong but only upheld by them not charging a lot. The semiconductor industry is mature at this point, still having a lot of development, but also a lot of competition.

If they charge too much, the bleeding to RISC-V will accelerate: many of the customers of Arm simply don't have the profit margin to afford paying more for them. Arm has competitors in the higher priced segment (Intel/AMD) and they have RISC-V for the cheaper priced segment.

I understand why SoftBank wants to diversify their investment.