skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A more sophisticated thinker would ask questions like "from which people's perspective?" and "at what point in time?"

These questions would give you access to critical insights, one of them is that it's never persuasive to take a rough estimate of hypothetical aggregate good and bad and then attempt to weigh it using one's personal intuitions at present to derive a universal claim.

Peoples who were ethnically cleansed at scale to facilitate settler or US commercial expansion or currently suffer under US-backed dictatorships will tend to have a negative view of the US as an empire.

People whose countries need the US as an ally to protect them from an aggressive regional power and/or currently experience economic prosperity and political stability within a democratic government because of the US will tend to have a positive view of the US as an empire.

Telling a Guatemalan whose entire family was massacred by US-trained death squads in the Guatemalan civil war that you've done the math from a god's eye view and the US is the best possible hegemon in aggregate is unpersuasive, bordering on absurd.

It would be like arguing to a Polish person whose entire family was executed in stalinist trials of the 1940s that the Soviet Union was in aggregate benign because of all the aid they gave out to peoples fighting wars of liberation from european colonial dictatorships, which in aggregate killed far more people than Stalin did.

If you can't understand that the second example and the first are equally absurd, you are wearing ideological blinkers that make it hard for people outside the US to take you seriously.

Attributing malice to other empires but "good intentions gone awry" to your own is a fundamental attribution error, and one you should be wary of to avoid unpleasant surprises in foreign policy outcomes.
Not only CAN you cross-breed them, they do it by themselves, and generally just end up being wild-type, which is what you see all over California. Just a kind of spindly plant with no elaborate leaves or flower clusters, greenish yellow flowers.
It means the gap between what Musk promises will be available, and the cost thereof, versus the reality of what is available, when, and for how much, is "rather sizable" at times.
Any tool can be used for evil. It's stupid to pretend there could ever be any kind of boycott of the blanket concept of tools. I shouldn't have to point that out to you.

She's no longer giving her business to a service that does something she finds wrong.
But use of said IP is required because Apple forbids side-loading. Therefore Apple App store is a monopoly. So hopefully the court result will in the end help get the Apple App store shut down / opened up.
Say that again when they use AI to spy on you even more than they already do
It’s ok - so it’s neutral… but then I have to deal with annoying things like multiple app stores and so now it’s just a net negative…
Maybe its region specific ? There is a brand 270 sqare meter new train layout based on Vienna in Prater, Vienna:
https://www.praterwien.com/en/attractions/details/kingdom-of...

And its just a branch of another big layout in Prague:
https://www.kralovstvi-zeleznic.cz/en/

Also I know a few people who are into model train and I would not call them old. Also they use quite modern tech (resin 3D priters and fully automated train control).

As for the space issue, they even sorta sved that as well via modular layouts - you build a certain part of a layout that conforms to an interface spec (rail placement at edges, electrical connections) and then you can join other enthusiasts at events where they build massive layouts from these modules in a rented hall somewhere for a couple days.
I don't know much about South Korea's immigration policies, but why should this specific program accommodate permanent immigration? This visa is the opposite of a worker visa for a person that may want to become a permanent resident in the future - its purpose is to let someone live on their land while still being considered a citizen of their origin country for all other purposes. I'm guessing that there are better visa options out there for people who want to live and work in SK full-time.
There’s that, and also “I’m capable of so much more than I realize.” Too much of life is consternation about bullshit that doesn’t matter. In moments of indecisiveness, sometimes I use the “look back” tactic where I imagine a future version of myself reflecting back to this moment. Will he care? Will this have actually mattered?

Helps me get through some bs.
You said:

> If you have evidence of Apple or Google cutting a cheque to any lawmaker

And then

> That's a campaign donation

Use newspeak and call it whatever you want, it is VERY clear MONEY WAS PAID TO A LAWMAKER, which is EXACTLY what you wanted evidence of. This very clearly means you need to cut me a 6 figure cheque.

Again, other countries very clearly call this bribery, the US just invented a new word for it.
Fundamental bias against the demographics it’s currently biased against seems to be exactly what American military wants. The foundational models are trained on mountains of propaganda and propaganda-inspired content against America’s enemies after all, much more than the other direction.
On Compositional Window Management (2023)
I used to sell shareware back in early 2000s and have never sold a box, only online. There used to be payment processors tailored just to this, who were charging way less than 30% for the privilege.
Fine, I'll start by not playing Ubisoft games.
Again no mention of taxation
To add, I'm not sure what legal basis there is for "you're charging too much". My only guess is filing against Apple and Google jointly for being a duopoly, but Epic has made it extremely hard to do something like this because of their existing jury trial against Google which gives a lot of concessions to third-party app stores in terms of functionality.
Some Canon lenses like the EF 17-40mm L use "replica" aspherical elements...

Replica aspherical lens elements are produced by using an aspherical surface mold and ultraviolet-light-hardening resin to form an aspherical surface layer on a spherical glass lens.
I might work a little less. If you plot money and time, you gotta wonder what the optimum is. There are always crunch times when you need to get something done to advance something, but there are diminishing returns in putting in endless hours every day for long periods.
Is there any reason a combustion engine couldn't power the electric motors directly? This would seriously simplify the overall complexity of the car.

Yes you'd need a larger electric motor, but that feels like it should be less expensive than all of the traditional drivetrain components?
> Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get Comfortable with "Not Owning Your Games"

-> Gamers say that Ubisoft needs to get comfortable with "not getting your games bought".

:-)
The optics/branding are inversely correlated with awareness of the problematic ownership and management history, which is increasing.

Not to mention the ethical aspect. It's tone-deaf at best to prefer .io in 2024.

https://www.v01.io/posts/2023-io-domain-dilemma/

https://www.thewebmaster.com/archived/io-tld-top-level-domai...
If you find people, places, institutions work or just generally a flow that you jive with, stick to it. Work, learning, exercise, friends… it all comes down to appreciating the good things you’ve got. Really deeply appreciating.

As you get older you’ll realize how rare it is. I transferred schools, but I was in a good flow at the first one so I should have stayed. (The reasons I left now seem tiny in comparison to finding good people and a good learning flow). I have a trail run that I love. Exercise is easy when I do that run because I love it.

One thing I wouldn’t change is sticking with good people. I’d try to be a better friend and lover though.

I realized recently that maintaining good connections is not just about your behavior. If someone’s behavior is about to cross a line and alienate you, you have a duty to yourself to check them before it destroys your relationship. I have lost people due to their behavior that I should never have allowed to get to the point where I had to walk away. This is especially true of family, because walking away doesn’t delete the relationship. You’ll have to continue dealing with it. There are probably five important relationships I could have saved by setting firm boundaries and just putting my foot down.
They haven't changed their principles page yet: https://openai.com/safety-standards

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Minimize harm
We will build safety into our AI tools where possible, and work hard to aggressively reduce harms posed by the misuse or abuse of our AI tools.
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And I think they can still do that. If they corner every big usecase while they are the top ai models - they get to set the standard and define safety for all upcoming ai use cases.

At this point, the ai genie is fully out of the bag. If not openai, it would have been some other company...
They changed this recently, and do allow direct in-app purchases now. In some random podcast interview with an exec at Amazon, I remember them saying that each team gets to make their own independent decision on this, and Audible as a unit decided to allow in-app purchases and pay Apple their cut.
Apple Vision Pro Lacks Wi-Fi 6E Support
That’s a nice spin and I see why you’re determined to use nicer terminology, but in this case it’s a cartel, so own it since it’s your idea here. The aim is to fix a price, and the price you are trying to set is the price at which another business buys units of your software or services for resell. The price is 30% of purchase, 30% of in-app purchases, 30% of in-app subscriptions for the first year of an individual unit’s subscription term and then 15% for subsequent terms[1]. If you use a separate payment processor, you can reduce these figures by 3 percentage points. That’s the price, and their right to charge it has been upheld, but your proposal is to band together the small, medium and large businesses that virtually fill the App Store and have them War Doctor around going “No more!” or dictate a lower price. That’s collusion, that’s price fixing, that’s a cartel.

[1]: through some silly chicanery requiring an application process, and only if your business earns $1M or less a year. Apple may be within their rights but damn do they make themselves look bad when it comes to this shit.
If the apartment is 1800$ a month, the deposit will be more like 15000$
> I am a professional brewer and this is hilariously incorrect.

Could you elaborate?
At 21, I needed just about every dime I had to live on. If I had worked as hard as I could without affecting my grades, I could maybe have saved $2k.

In an index fund for 40 years with an average rate of return, after inflation, it would be worth about $35k.

Not enough money to make any difference at all, and to save any more would have probably had a negative rate of return because it would have negativity impacted my job prospects.

Now that I make more than enough money to save for an early retirement, I’m glad I had the experiences I did rather than save every penny I could through my 20s.
So I'm about to embark on a submission process for an iOS app that has a subscription currently, and I'm wondering if any app store pros can give advice, especially in light of this.

The app is a reddit-like site where you subscribe for an amount you choose (say $10/mo), the site takes a $1 cut, and the remaining $9 gets distributed between everything you upvote that month (creators get sent this money into their stripe connect account).

How much does Apple take as part of this? Do they take 27% of the $1/mo server fee, or 27% of the $10/mo total (thus taking away from money users would be sending from each other)?

It's a weird situation because it ends up being a subscription-based digital wallet, and I'm unsure how these are treated or what the right approach is when submitting the app.
>So, why is it okay to install whatever you want and pay for it directly on desktops, but on phones it is not?

On desktop you have similar stores like Steam. The store takes a 30% cut from all sales on the platform and they require apps on the platform to use their payment processing so that they can take that cut.

The difference between Windows and iOS here is that third party stores can be installed without being limited to PWAs or requiring hacky workarounds like AltStore.

Why does Apple have the sole app store on the device? Well it's because it ensures they have a closed platform that they fully control. They made this app platform so it's up to them to decide how open it should be from a range of first party only to fully open to any app from the internet. It's up to Apple to decide what kind of openness will allow them to provide the most value to users. Apple designs their app platform from the hardware all the way up to the operating system and libraries for developers to use. Apple has created a great app platform that brings value to a lot of users.
There was side-loading on Symbian and Windows Mobile phones before iPhone and the App Store existed.

You know what the experience was in one word?

Shit.

For both developers and consumers.

Then comes Apple with amazing hardware, software and APIs with focus on developer experience.

Developers decide to ditch side-loading & stuff like xda-developers in favor of 30% fees to develop for iOS (and then Android) because it’s so amazing for them and the consumers.

It got to the stage where developers were so happy with the 30% fee and Apple/Google duopoly, many even didn’t even try to develop anything for other mobile OS’s including the Windows Phone store.

Microsoft tried to fund app developers and spent millions, without much luck.

No modern apps, no consumers, no sales.

Microsoft then had no other option than to admit defeat, write off billions and shut down the era of Windows on mobile phone devices.

Even Epic never released Unreal Engine on Windows Phone, and cries the loudest today about the duopoly they helped to build.

So now you’re saying after abandoning side-loading, agreeing to 30% fees for an access to a worldwide billion people marketplace, suddenly after 15 years it’s terrible and we should go back to side-loading again, because greedy Apple?
> just quietly work while on 30-90 day visa-free (...) tourist entry

dude.
> (an odd choice for a boy)

Our library had a four book limit and we could only go once a week. So I always read my sister’s books and she read mine.
People can’t simply decide to move to the US, Australia and UK and spend the rest of their lives there.

The same applies to South Korea. You want to live there, you need to apply for a visa like everyone else.
I’m disgusted that there are 5-10,000 luxury yachts in the world while infants are dying of malnutrition and people have to worry about feeding their kids while attempting to save for retirement on salaries that have hardly moved for anyone except a few fortunate elites since the 80s.
ok - there are several different lenses with which to look at this story.

try - personal story; wider market for new MBAs in 2024; importance of the MBA degree at all; then much larger topics about business size and structures, level playing fields, advantages and leverage of established entities in the finance environment, other things.

Can we agree that employment replaced by automation is in the news daily; capital asset bubbles as well; post-covid, brick and mortar retail, restaurants, and local small business of all kinds, continue to die off in most of the USA. replaced with a single Walmart or Home Depot for example. It is a given that most business, business is very competitive even in stable situations.

Here is a charismatic and recently trained person who completed an MBA. The degree is for increasing their own business skills, to both maximize personal gain perhaps, and to be saavy in practical ways to lead, sell and manage. (I agree that the MBA itself is oversold by its nature, and that plenty of graduates are looking for personal gain first) One could cynically say, and not be wrong, that this MBA found a way to get some publicity, often an asset.. and really, why does this one person need so much attention.

but .. is the whole society really so overflowing with able people who commit to formal training that they are "not able" to work with their training? lots of caveats to that but.. this is a trend on a large scale. Other societies may not work this way at all.. (thinking Asia and Islam offhand). In this environment, can this MBA really just "easily work in some other capacity".. I know a guy that got a real ulcer from working in a demeaning situation in an office, while looking for other jobs.

so - any empathy at all for an individual who is making clear advances but ends up badly .. or any concern for a system of economics that may be overcharged heading in a destructive direction .. or in the middle thinking about how real people start to fit into non-trivial, competitive business environments.
I live about 10 minutes away from Sinclair office in Hunt Valley, MD and about 3-4 years ago, went through interview with them. One of the first things they have asked are my view on political topics and hinted that they are "conservative".
I find it amusing that in the same article it talks about how Spirit is struggling to turn a profit, and the reasoning for the justice department saying it a merger is anticompetitive is because it would remove the pressure that Spirit places upon the other airlines because of its lower prices.

Here's a thought. Maybe there's a reason Spirit is struggling to turn a profit. Maybe their prices are too low.

Sounds to me like the pressure from Spirit on the other airlines to lower prices won't last long anyway. If not a merger they probably can't survive as a business with their low prices.
I could make literally the opposite argument.

Other countries antagonize the US because of its military interventionism. If the US had lower military spending, other countries wouldn't feel the need to be aggressive.

It's childish to be pro military. It shows you think arbitrary lines on a map determine who's good or bad.
Absolutely second this. I've done it both ways and the one where you're on the hook for website updates will eventually wear you down, no matter how good your intentions.

Most recently, I helped my hairdresser get Squarespace set up for his business. We had a few follow-up chats for the things he couldn't figure out, but other than that he's been fine updating it on his own. Most importantly, there's a frontline support team and it's not me; I'm happy to help, but I don't want to be on the critical path.
No.. it's not the people meeting at Davos who are largely responsible for creating the social conditions that drive income inequality.

It's income inequality _itself_.

Well, notify Interpol and get a warrant! :|
> They should've been spending they $100 million attempting to make...

I'm not sure you understand how the world works. You don't get to decide how institutions spend money that is donated to them, and I really don't know why you think you do.
Not allow myself to be so spooked by freshman Calculus that I switched to the least-technical major possible (American Studies), and ultimately dropped out of Stanford after two years. Now I'm 12 years in to an accidental career as a software engineer. I often think about going back to get a Computer Science degree, but there isn't any point at this level of seniority; it would just be for the love of learning. That feels like too big of a luxury for a guy nearing 40 with a family.
nah, unless you were the intern, you should be safe

it's like Star Trek where you're fine unless you're the one wearing the red shirt
Like 17 years ago I wrote an article describing how to capture frontend telemetry to a server. I thought it was a really simple, stupid idea and just left it at an article. Now RUM is an entire industry. I could have invented it if I'd been entrepreneurial or knew the right people.
Yeah I understand skepticism over the USE of our military, but being categorically against our military having expanded military capabilities is just intentionally weakening ourselves. It's like saying our soldiers in Iraq shouldn't have had modern rifles because the invasion of Iraq was wrong.

I can only surmise that Silicon Valley has a sizeable contingent raised by hippie Vietnam protestors that produced a generational vibe of "military bad".
This is exactly the reasoning that every entity involved in doing this will say and is what leads to an arms race.
Human relationships can be more nuanced and supportive than business centric and transactional..
Neither Ukraine nor Israel have reached this hypothetical technological era in which a draft is not required, and those facts are inescapable to any American in those countries observing it.

One reason the US military doesn't need a draft is because its proxy forces which are supplied by US equipment do have a military draft.

This is not a complex argument nor are there any facts which are not mutually agreed upon by all parties here.

I'm not able to follow the ideological contortions that would be required to not understand something as simple as:

"The US supplies the equipment, and the local US-backed government uses a draft to supply its army with the number of soldiers it needs to use the equipment."
Start exercising early in your life. Its net beneficial in all kinds of ways both physically and mentally.

Don't underestimate the value of repetitive processes. Automating them out of your life can be counter-productive: People bake bread, for a zen experience, sometimes, even though they've done it the same way 1000 times before.

Forgive yourself. Don't carry burdens in the past. Sure, we can all remember mortifyingly stupid, bad moments, but dwelling on them is counter productive. Of course you need to learn from them and avoid them but stewing over it at night when you should be sleeping? not helpful.

Rewards are complicated. Sometimes, the doing of it is the reward (see baking above). Sometimes, the outcome is the reward. Sometimes, the outcome is the reaction from others. Sometimes, its renumeration, sometimes it's just recognition and sometimes, there is no reward but its the BATNA. Value all of them in some way.

That said, small kids learn beneficially from SOME reward structures because before you learn to be patient to a long term goal, the short term reward builds muscle and brain memory of the task. So rewarding kids for good behaviour is not actually totally counter productive. But, contrariwise, there cannot be only winners and teaching your kid to refuse to accept second place or last is .. not helpful. If you genuinely don't win, don't pretend you won.

Habits take time. 6 weeks isn't unusual.

Don't be a dick in meetings.

Don't be contrarian for amusement value. Devil's advocating has limits.

Be kind.
Compare phones to game consoles.
Every time I reflect on "what if" in my past, I get very anxious and sick, because I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. It makes me NOT appreciate the things and accomplishments I've done NOW and where I want to go in the future.

I think mistakes are a part of life, we should learn to accept them, and learn how to grow from them.
human soldiers already do that, if they can get it down to lower levels than humans it would be an improvement.
One difference: physical goods suppliers can theoretically choose to sell and deliver direct any of their goods to any consumer willing to pay for them. With the app store, at least in the US, the captive audience can’t side-load, and now Apple is introducing even more absurdity with its bad faith “revision” to the policy.
Discovery of second ultra-large ring structure challenges standard model
> But seeing the hilariously absurd lengths that people will go to justify Apple's outrageous greed grows old.

Define greed. Seriously, I'm asking for an objective definition, not just ipse dixit.

They're charging what the market will bear for a _vastly_ better product (iOS vs. Android).