skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would have been a lot more aggressive about finding better roles in my early career. I had 2 good experiences for 4 years each, but I could have left both jobs after 1 year and had the same career progression.

I think my upbringing focused a lot on “stick it out” and “work hard and you will get recognized exactly like you deserve.” It was a passive laborer mentality from a blue collar area.

I took a sabbatical and after some soul searching realized it was more like “sharks that stop swimming drown.” Career and compensation took off after that.
I'm not convinced that this would result in lower prices for me as a customer. The current prices that work for a company to stay in business and make a nice profit (think anyone from Netflix, to whoever makes Clash of Clans) show that there is a willingness to pay those prices.

If a developer union of sorts succeeds in negotiating down Apple's charge, there is absolutely 0 chance that this cost savings will make its way on the whole to consumers precisely because developers have already proven that customers are willing to take a higher price.

As an end customer I think it's a good thing if an indie developers get more money in the abstract. I don't think I care if it means that Netflix gets to keep more of their money instead of Apple.

I'm much more sympathetic toward lower fees for smaller companies. Once you are the size of Meta, Google, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, etc. it's just jostling between multi-billion (trillion) companies and I'm not really concerned one way or the other, especially if these actions result in more annoying behavior that I have to deal with, like multiple app stores, increase in spam and ads and spying, and the dissolution of the power of features like Sign in with Apple that allow me to generate fake email addresses.
Ah yes, better that we throw our hands up in the air, declare it unsolvable and acquiesce to big tech.
Yeah, when posted publicly they get scraped immediately. Invite people you know.
Correction: That's "The re-emergence of one of the world's economic superpowers" after being stripped of treasure by Western nations for 3-400 years.
I'm not an expert here but my understanding is that most generational wealth is gone by the third generation anyway. Even if you outlawed inheritance entirely it seems like it wouldn't make a huge marginal difference?
Put everything I possibly could into a Roth IRA starting at 21.
What is the right amount of profit margin? Would this apply to households too?
I would leave jobs that weren't working out sooner. When you have a good job, it's hard to leave. But there were times when I had a good position but didn't enjoy my job or wasn't very well thought of. It's easier to be a star when you are starting out, but when you get to middle or senior management you are much more likely to be controversial or get into difficult situations that your talent isn't going to save you from. Things aren't going well and you think, well I will just work hard or try to adjust to feedback. Sometimes it is best to just move on. My favorite jobs have been fun at the start and fun years later as well.
It's been a while since I've used Perplexity, but I've been finding the Kagi Assistant super useful. I'm on the ultimate plan, so I get access to the `Expert` assistant. It's been pretty great.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/assistant.html
iPhone 14, 146.7 x 71.5 x 7.8 mm

iPhone 7 138.3 x 67.1 x 7.1 mm

iPhone Mini 131.5 x 64.2 x 7.7 mm

That is not what I would called similar. The iPhone 7. 4.7" sits between iPhone 14 and iPhone Mini.
2014....let's see.... I'd finish the move that took years too long, and saved a ton of money in the process.

I'd have coded up a BitGrid and had chips done a decade ago, instead of just starting on it now

I want to go back to the 1980s, after high school, but before life wore me down. Marry the same girl, but 15 years sooner.
well, it's not as banal of a point as you think because plenty of players treat Hamas as a legitimate organization, including Turkey and others. Palestinian politicians from the West Bank are on record, for example, that future governments should and will include Hamas. Once you agree it's very bad, there are further implications that follow from this assessment and then we arrive at where we are now.
I still haven't come across a summary I liked so I'll try:

Refractive index of a material, typically ~1.5, is not a fixed single number for material. Rather it is wavelength dependent, because diffraction is of course quantum interference thing strengthening at new directions and canceling out elsewhere. Wavelength-index plot shows some sort of exponential or asymptotic, monotonically decreasing curve from UV towards IR.

This means any convex lens always has a higher than intended magnification at blue, higher still at green, okay at red, and only technically right at Sodium vapor yellow, creating "aberrated(NOT after Ernst Abbe)" color-shifted image at its focal point.

To counter this, convex and concave lenses built from different chemical compositions that show different rates of decreasing indices are used, such as Schott BK7 and F2, so that extra positive magnification for blue at first convex lens cancels out with extra negative power for blue at following concave lens, and so on. The chain of lenses can be continued to cancel out effects at as many additional wavelengths, as well as side effects and other types of imperfections, as desired.

Significance of Fluorite or CaF2 crystals in this context is, this material shows a completely flat curve on that wavelength-refractive index plot, referred to as "abnormal dispersion". It naturally focuses all colors across visible spectrum to a same point, skipping over a lot of lens and lens canceling out. Challenge is scaling out camera-sized crystals of Calcium and Fluoride with optical clarity is hard, which Canon has been trying for a few decades.
Done grad school immediately after undergrad, rather than waiting until my 2nd kid was on the way.

Missing that time with my kids was so... amazingly... stupid.
Admit it, you just did it because the name is perfect.
Billy Mitchell should get into the boxing ring with Jake Paul.

Somehow, at this point that would sort of make sense, at least to me.
Ah yes, this again. "We can only have nice things because of the golden handcuffs Apple has blessed us with!". Except that there's plenty of counter examples. And you might not care, but thousands of independent app developers getting bent over the barrel by Apple certainly care. In my view, it's not even really about the end consumer price.
Ruins of ancient cities have been found on different sites in the Amazon. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuhikugu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marajoara_culture

We often assume that the Amazon tribes have remained unchanged since the dawn of time, but at least some of them are likely to be survivors of urban collapse.
> "They are not weapons, they are enhanced tools for war."

It's really common for people to make arguments that would become completely incoherent if translated into another language. This is a fun example of one of those. The Chinese word for "weapons" is 武器, literally "war tools".

Compare "It would be illegal for soldiers to do that, but these are police, which is fine."
The causes may be complex, the outcome however is extremely simple.

Worth noting that a few down votes have no reflection on the truth or accuracy of a particular comment, they are merely an expression of opinion and/or ignorance - in much the same way my comments are simply an opinion and/or ignorance.
You can't.

You can use your credits from your subscription, but you cannot pay for a new audiobook in the app.
Considering a random brew install bumped my postgres to 14.10.1 and I didn't even notice until 45 mins ago, maybe I should.
I haven't seen any "digital nomad visas" that make much sense for a typical nomadic remote worker. Why go through all the bureaucracy when I can just quietly work while on 30-90 day visa-free (or cheap and easy visa-on-arrival) tourist entry stamps?
I would brake up with her earlier.
I was brought up in a household that was anti military.

Only as an adult was I able to form my own opinion.

Without a strong military in the past we would certainly not be here today and without a strong military now, who knows what other nation might decide to attack our sovereignty.

It's childish to be anti military - it shows you do not understand the interconnectedness of our society - good and bad.
I just went back and skimmed "Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint", I think it's worth reading that one, but it would be a lot more fun to read to a kid than to read on your own (the writing level is clearly for kids).

It's archived: https://archive.org/details/dannydunnantigra0000jayw/page/n1...
Even if that's all true, the subthread is a generic tangent in the sense that we use the term on HN. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39021809.

The GP was starting a political flamewar of the most predictable type—two types at the same time, in fact: ideological and regional. That's not a borderline call, especially given the flamewar style it was written in.

None of that means the issue isn't important; quite the contrary. But HN isn't primarily a site for hammering out the most important issues in the world—if it were, then it would be consumed by political battle, and that's the opposite of the intellectual curiosity which the site actually is for.

We have to be proactive about moderating in this way, because the default tendencies on the internet are all flameward. That means the default end state of this site is scorched earth, unless we put in a lot of energy to avoid that. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Btw, phrases like "calling out" are usually an indication that a comment is headed further into the flames. We're mostly trying to avoid the online callout/shaming culture here. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...
I recently had "needling" done to my back. My scapula and neck were riddled with "knots".

Needling provided temporary relief... but I it was just that temporary. It's a bandaid.

What has actually started to provide a lasting fix is dead hangs throughout the day.. it makes sense. It reverses my forward shoulder, gets blood flowing to those areas, AND strengthens.

I'm so... soooo.. disappointed in professional physical therapists. I've gone through many of them and they all seem to apply basic heuristics without diagnosing the root cause. And I feel that sometimes the root cause - and the fix - can be something super specific that needs surgical precision.

Or perhaps the fix just isn't as profitable as "needling".

I think PTs need to apply more of a engineering/debugging mindset. They're using hammers when they need scalpels - just NOT these "needling scalpels".
See also: Reinsurance

> Reinsurance is insurance that an insurance company purchases from another insurance company to insulate itself (at least in part) from the risk of a major claims event.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinsurance
I personally welcome cooperation with the Pentagon for OpenAI and other American companies. The disdain that seems to infest so many when it comes to working with our national defense organizations is both annoying and bewilderingly naive and that's even when we take into consideration all of the bad things that happen.

Strengthening partnerships with our government certainly doesn't make me mistrust OpenAI.
The Deliciously Dark Escape
Just the first sentence is a bit of an eye-opener:

> This year’s World Economic Forum at Davos is focused on the theme of “rebuilding trust”.

That this would be the theme chosen for Davos in 2024 speaks volumes about the state of institutions post-2020.
Apple may be selling a little more iPhone, ( we dont know since all the Data are not official and are guess only ). But the real reason is not because Apple is doing so much better but that Samsung / Android has significant drop in Shipment numbers.
Apple already forces you to sometimes, for example if you want to buy a Kindle e-book.
That is a pretty common accusation during labor campaigns, that’s why they sing “Which side are you on?”
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They have aligned themselves with he people you should exactly NOT trust. Corporations and governments.
Should’ve talked to my doctor ages ago about my chronic nausea and stomach pain and pressed them until they discovered the cause was my Pentium 4 gallbladder.

Wasted a lot of time being sick for no good reason that I can’t get back.
I'm not your parent but similar issue. I doubt it's the CO2 if he's anything like me. I can drink coke all day long (well sugar free one anyway - but I don't drink pop except in rare cases)

Beer? Not much and it's worse the more days in a row I drink it. So 3 beers over 3 days total is worse than 3 beers one evening and then nothing.

And the alcohol doesn't matter. Same issue with alcohol free versions of the same beer. Hefeweizen like Erdinger which has lots of yeast on the bottom of the bottle is worse.

It's like the yeasty parts of the beer just take over my gut and wreak havoc.

I got things under control by both not drinking beer and switching to hard stuff if I'm after the alcohol part or just completely different drinks if I'm after the taste part as well as finding a probiotic that works for me.

Nota bene: for me I also got headaches with it all. Like really bad migraines and even with certain foods. The probiotics made it all go away as long as I don't overpower them with beer or Pizza for that matter. Ordered in Pizza, if I eat too much guarantees headache a day to two later.
> Ruby 1.9 didn't have this problem. It was much easier if not trivial to write code that worked on both Ruby 1.8 and 1.9.

Oh yeah, that is hugely important, and I agree ruby does this; it's usually not hard to write code that will work on at least the last handful of ruby releases.

The keyword arg changes initially made this difficult in one particular case -- and this was seen as a problem, so they introduced the `ruby2_keywords :method_name` thing, to make it possible with an opt-in to make sure you had identical behavior in all versions, before the ruby version was released that would have made it impossible.
I think I misunderstand what mono implies in monopoly then.

If there is another - more popular provider. Isn’t it at the very least a duopoly? Or are we redefining words now?
It isn't, unless you squint real hard and pretend it is. We all understand and accept that we're unlikely to find a place to host content that doesn't also host some content we find objectionable. Cloudflare, Digital Ocean, AWS, GCP, etc they all host some stuff we find objectionable.

However there is a pretty clear line between someone hosting objectionable content and someone promoting objectionable content which is what substack is doing with some of their new tools that highlight other creators you might (or might not) want to read. Digital Ocean doesn't promote any content hosted by people using their platform, they aren't a content platform, same with Cloudflare and others.

So a more apt comparison would be she refuses to use Faber-Castell because they have a weekly newsletter that occasionally suggests Nazi content, and will instead use California Pencil Co. pencils because they don't have a news letter at all much less one occasionally suggesting Nazi content.

Not sure why you have an objection to people taking a principled stand against companies that promote Nazi content.
Exactly what I thought. Makes total sense.. 3% for payments. I’m surprised anyone is surprised as this is what was discussed many times
I don’t think so. This entitlement is something devs have to explicitly opt in for.
I think this is a game of hot potato being played. TSLA is overpriced. When that bubble bursts the finger of blame is going to go all over the place. Elon is positioning himself to say "See, you should have incentivized me do more ai and robotics." And if the board actually buys that line, he gets back all the money he lost in Twitter.

It takes some audacity to say "I alone can maintain Tesla's absurd PE ratio."l Especially after doing what he did to Twitter's valuation.
I'm reminded of the Itchy and Scratchy clip where they each pull out bigger and bigger guns on each other, until finally the earth explodes.
Because that’s typically illegal?
Also, "Capital in the 21st Century", in nice hardback editions barely used, are available in many used bookstores. :) All joking aside, it is a good read.
They have had impact outside of USA.
This was always what the outcome was going to look like. People have been talking ever since the ruling as though dodging Apple as a payment processor was going to magically exempt developers from the full 30% fee, but that was never going to happen and it was never the intention of the ruling.

Apple argued from the very beginning that the 30% was its fee for running the App Store, marketing the apps, and storing and delivering the app bundles. The in-app payment system was a convenient way for Apple to collect its commission and a way for Apple to create a unified payment experience for its customers, but it was never the Achilles heel for Apple's business model.

The best case scenario here is that Apple is forced to walk back some of the more onerous requirements they've imposed for whether and how links may be shown. Them putting a price on the payment processor portion of the fee and discounting developers for that portion was inevitable and isn't even malicious compliance, the judge explicitly called this out as a likely outcome in the original ruling:

> First, and most significant, as discussed in the findings of facts, IAP is the method by which Apple collects its licensing fee from developers for the use of Apple’s intellectual property. Even in the absence of IAP, Apple could still charge a commission on developers. It would simply be more difficult for Apple to collect that commission.

> In such a hypothetical world, developers could potentially avoid the commission while benefitting from Apple's innovation and intellectual property free of charge. The Court presumes that in such circumstances that Apple may rely on imposing and utilizing a contractual right to audit developers annual accounting to ensure compliance with its commissions, among other methods. Of course, any alternatives to IAP (including the foregoing) would seemingly impose both increased monetary and time costs to both Apple and the developers.

https://casetext.com/case/epic-games-inc-v-apple-inc-2
> 1) Many App Store apps are completely free, paying nothing to Apple except the $99 per year fee, so they have no stake in this issue.

I don't see that as a problem.

> 2) My understanding is that more than 90% of developers in the App Store make less than $1 million per year and thus are covered by the Small Business Program, which charges only 15% rather than 30%. Revenue in the App Store is extremely top-heavy, with most going to a relatively small number of the top developers (such as Epic, previously). How much are developers willing to risk just to lower the 15% cut somewhat?

I can't answer that question for any particular developer. But if my PSP charged me 15% I'd be looking for another one and if my PSP arranged for things in such a way that I'd owe them anyway by virtue of developing for a particular piece of hardware that they already sold and made their profits on I'd go and do something else with my time. Which is why pianojacq.com is on the web and free instead of an App in the App store because that way Apple/Google don't get to increase their grip on the market regardless of whether or not it is free. I disagree with their business model to the point that I'm not partaking in it at all.

> 3) Let's be clear, you're talking about a strike. Many developers derive their entire income from the App Store, so withdrawing their apps means no income. A wealthy corporation such as Epic can survive, but what about little indie developers?

What about those poor dockworkers? Any kind of battle with the likes of Apple (or your merchant marine overlord) comes at a price. In some cases people died to fight for their rights. 'little indie developers' are still business owners who will either stand up for their rights or they will have to live with the consequences of not doing so. More likely: those that do stand up for their rights will find themselves kicked out of the App store (monopoly power abuse...) and their competition will thrive.

> 4) An individual developer uniterally striking would be futile and self-destructive. Developers would need to be organized and all strike simultaneously.

Yes, you got it. That's exactly what they should do.

> 5) Strikes are very difficult to organize. Forming a union almost always has to come first. And union members typically work together in the same building, which greatly facilitates organization. Whereas there are a huge number of App Store developers scattered all around the world, and they speak different languages. How would you even communicate with all of them to organize?

I would start with looking for places where App developers congregate and start spreading the message (SO / HN / Reddit / whatever remains of /. / any other forum), write a bunch of press releases and build a movement, then, when the numbers are there for the GADA (the Global Appstore Developer Association) I'd announce the first collective action and take it from there.

It will be work, but so what, if you think it is worth it then it's worth doing well.

As for language barriers and such: there's an app for that...
The Baltimore Sun bought by the executive chairman of Sinclair media
I’ll share it at Medium. Thanks for mention this Twitter feature
If you believe in a fair market with competant reporting requirements to functional agencies...

I've got an Eiffel Tower to sell you. I accept bitcoin.
All of that can easily be funded by the margins Apple makes off device sales alone combined with the fees you pay to become a developer.

Even if for some reason you believe that's not true, there's no way they need 27% of all purchase revenue on the store to fund that stuff. The numbers simply don't check out. 30% was an arbitrary cut and that's why they can easily drop it to 27% or (for small devs as of recently) 15%.

In the situations we're discussing, both the app developer and every customer have already given apple hundreds if not thousands of dollars worth of revenue. Out of that, Apple has a healthy margin.

Now we're talking about Apple sticking their fingers into developers' pockets for every single transaction even if Apple's participation in that transaction is limited to updating a couple database rows to indicate that Customer XXXXX bought DLC Package YYYY in App ZZZZZ. There is simply no way that is worth 30%. They're not doing that much work.
Lawrence said it best in the movie Office Space.
This is one of a reason to prefer self checkout. Here in Japan, cashier people are careful but they move products from basket to another basket. After payment is done, I need to move products from basket to my bag. It's two LIFO-like moving operation, it's inefficient. Though in defense of traditional system, it should be efficient for POS system utilization .
I think they failed due to not having the courage to admit why they removed Altman.

Their messaging was extremely weak and uncertain, a complete failure to communicate anything of value, until everyone was rallying against them.
Counter take: Being 'interesting' is over rated ..

At 50+, I'm actually glad how 'boring' my life has become. When I was younger, 'interesting' was generally code for drama...

Now my son is grown, the bills are paid, my health is decent .. I'm happy to just be 'boring' and relax.
Personally for me, my sleep started getting a lot easier and better after I started lifting weights.

I lift heavy weights for 1-2 hours every other day. My body forces me to sleep 8-9 hours/day to recover.