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I’m trying to understand the implication. Is your point that the thing we should be angry about is actually just all of us? Since it is our personal wealth in these funds?
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I miss how solid these connectors were once screwed in, compared to e.g. USB or HDMI* connections of today.

(*once had an HDMI soften over time due to all the heat spewing out of the graphics card it plugged into, took a few cables before I found one that didn't want to melt)
Damn, I was burning mine using silver oxide. I went a little overboard with that I have chemical burn scars to proove it.
So the government reaches through the company to take money from shareholders, and then the shareholders sue to take it back from the company? Seems like you just get to the current system with extra steps.
Introducing Copilot+ PCs
>Do you think he was laying on his deathbed thinking about all the great hours of work he put in at Apple before reaching the pearly gates?

Yes, I could easily imagine him reflecting on his contributions and legacy, and it was known he was thinking of his family. https://www.rd.com/article/the-rumors-and-truth-behind-steve...

>Or was he reflecting on the $5,000 he stole from Woz in the name of "accomplishment" earlier on

Absolutely not

> Apple II, Lisa

I have a hard time thinking Steve Jobs was thinking of nearly 30 year old commercial failures on his death bed

>Wozniak is living proof that you can be both a smart and productive person without destroying everyone and everything around you

Woz was nowhere near as productive as Jobs and you know it. He had numerous failed business attempts you haven't mentioned, most of his accomplishments seem to be philanthropic and funded by residual Apple wealth. He's regarded as a "darling of the valley", that's it. There were other Engineers who could've designed those early products, but far less Steve Jobs.

It takes more than a big cuddly gullable teddy bear to curate something as impactful as the iPhone, arguably the most significant consumer electronic product in the past 20 years.
You still leak at least length, so not a full destruction
Bruno is simple & no bullshit
https://www.usebruno.com/
Looks good, I have seen many people using Featurebase for this.

One feedback - The first screenshot should have some legit feedback as a product demo, the gibberish in the image is not very appealing.
Ahh, I'm looking at a much more recent case in New Jersey, not this one from 10 years ago. The test you're talking about isn't an IQ test; it's a heavily and obviously culturally-loaded literacy test. The whole point of actual IQ tests is to isolate intellectual aptitude from cultural literacy.

(I'm writing as if I think real IQ tests are a good idea, and they are not --- in fact, that's my whole point: there's a mythology that IQ tests aren't used because they're illegal, but they are not that; what they are is ineffective.)
PDF forms don't require JS.
I use macOS’s Preview which lets you redact text through (Tools -> Redact).
You can now try it out! :) Thanks again for pointing it out.
Recall is Microsoft's key to unlocking the future of PCs
Not OP but I have a hunch they used
Cimetidine as there has been much debate over it throughout the years. One example:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14693487/

It’s typically used for stomach acid but I know of doctors who use it off label in higher doses for viral warts … which I thought all warts are fwiw, but perhaps I’m wrong.
> the owners who profited from the bad acts need to be punished too.

Only where culpable. Else it risks the major impediment of weaponisation.
> Is your point that the thing we should be angry about is actually just all of us

Yep.

Either drastically reduce expected returns on your 401k and SSA, or live with the current changes in the world.
> Is this new? Did it not used to be this way?

There is no or little liability when a grandparent or older sibling/cousin is taking care a toddler. And there didn’t used to be so many desk jobs available for everyone to compete with taking care of infants/kids. Also, once the kids exist, which used to be a foregone conclusion, it wasn’t an option to do other work.

Now people are making a conscious decision, tabulating the cost/benefit of having the kid versus working a desk job.

I also think there are more viruses floating around due to more travel, but that is my armchair opinion.

> So why are these types of services exploding in real terms, but haircuts and food and personal trainers and massages and mechanics and other types of services are not?

I don’t know what constitutes exploding, but the price of un-scalable labor services have increased a lot. Some might be more than others, but US wage data indicates that the lowest quintiles have experienced higher wage increases than the others in recent years.
> Another factor is urbanization - there are more people living in places with high cost of living, and the childcare businesses simply have more expenses.

Unless those people are living outside the city and sending their kids to daycare in the city (unlikely) that would be reflected in the rent price (the denominator).
Modern for Hacker News.
https://www.modernhn.com/
Ignore those people and carry on.
Don't blame yourself. Not everyone is here for the money, many of us are here for the tech.
How is pixelation easier to apply than a simple black box? Not every app can pixelate — almost everything that can edit at all can draw a box.

Is it aesthetically more pleasing?
I did that for a while and then even just hearing my wife suffer through it made me upgrade to the family plan. Now I invited some other family members and we are all enjoying that premium bitrate no-ad lifestyle.
> Woz was nowhere near as productive as Jobs and you know it.

Now I need this quote as a stitched sampler to hang over my toilet.

Why didn't Jobs do the Atari contract himself? Why didn't he build the Macintosh alone? Why didn't he build his Phreaking business without the help of others?

Such a vast mystery. The world may never know! It's just so hard to tell... obviously Jobs' genius surpassed Woz's weak intellect!

> He had numerous failed business attempts you haven't mentioned

And Jobs didn't?

> most of his accomplishments seem to be [...] funded by residual Apple wealth

And Jobs wasn't?
System 1 and System 2 Thinking
Inspired by this comment:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40417591
I loved working in a HIPAA regulated field- "we literally can't do that without breaking the law" would actually work to make people remember that security is important. That said I lucked out in that one of the two cofounders actually understood why this was important (and he gave me permission to revoke all access to sensitive data from the other cofounder).
For an extra data point, I was taught in 1995.

Zaner-Bloser looks the closest to what I was taught, but is not a perfect match.

I think I suffer from ‘what I was taught is correct’ syndrome. Of course multiple ways can be correct, but it certainly does address the ‘not matching up’ point
As programmers, we’re often tempted to leverage design patterns, language idioms, advanced language features, and well-known libraries, which is certainly advisable. However, it’s essential to put on the KISS/YAGNI glasses before diving into these techniques.
I'm grasping at straws looking for a counter example to my overall assertion, that it is not a great counter example does not undermine my case. I made a genuine good faith effort to find them - you could help me out a lot if you could list these companies that boast publicly about administering IQ tests. That would go a long way to demonstrating that such tests are not in effect illegal.

My assertion is that IQ tests are already known to have disparate impact and with laws as they are in effect they are illegal. My next assertion is that aptitude tests will suffer the same fate as IQ test because they too will be shown to have disparate impact for the same reasons. That not all such aptitude tests have been sued already under this law does not make them safe from lawsuits as the burden of proof is on the company using them.
What do you think of Cimetidine?
> minimum wage is down substantially in real terms.

I don't know if perhaps it is where you live, and regionally lots of things vary a lot, but in California:

2010 MW was $8. $8 in 2010 is worth $11.58 in 2024 dollars according to a BLS calculator.

Today the minimum wage is either $16 (or $20 if you work in fast food for some reason)

Minimum wage is up substantially in real terms here.
According to TFA, what may have worked is the tape.
So how do you convince companies that they should be responsible to their communities and the world at large instead of focusing on shareholder profits?

Corporations are created by and controlled by governments. Maybe stricter laws and heightened enforcement?

> what is fact and what is conspiracy

Conspiracy is criminal collaboration. It is not "falsehood."
The best way to redact a document in practice is not to go over it with blur or black boxes, but to completely delete the text you want to redact, and replace it with a placeholder such as REDACTED. This means you won't leak length or anything else. Of course, it can change formatting and page numbers, so it's worth being mindful of that.

Just make sure you don't use a file format which supports history (such as PDF).

If you have to redact with black boxes, the safest way is to redact-rasterise-OCR. That obviously breaks some stuff though and degrades your document quality.
HypoPG: Hypothetical Indexes for PostgreSQL
I'm a middle-aged white-skinned American and I do it sometimes. Probably about 20 minutes per week in the summer?

I'm not trying to get a deep dark tan or anything. I just want to make my back and my chest match my arms and face a little bit more closely. Otherwise people laugh at you at pool parties!
> getting circulated back into the economy

They are, into your Blackrocks and KKRs and other funds who will invest it in the economy to help drive further returns. Some of that money goes into VC which has funded most of our employers on this forum, and some of that has gone into consolidation like mentioned in the article, and others into helping IPOs or currently listed companies.

> driving costs down

No, because more people are growing old and entering retirement age, so funds need to higher returns to remain solvent.

And it's not like you or I want our retirement's living standards to be at poverty level - we'll most likely target to median American living standards.

If you target 5-8% YoY returns, A LOT of financial engineering needs to be done.
It's not clear if they actually need to do anything to achieve this explicit goal—I'd think it comes for free with lack of analytical ability.
k8s supports stateful data just fine. The advice should be "keep your data out of dbs where clustering is an afterthought (if a thought at all) in the year 2024"
Baumol's Cost Disease:

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

Basically low-productivity industries like health care, education, childcare, etc. compete for labor with high-productivity industries like software engineering, particularly over long timescales. Over a couple years, software engineers and daycare providers aren't really fungible (although they may be moreso than you think: my son's first daycare provider was an ex-Google software engineer who got laid off in 2022). Over a decade they absolutely are. Nobody will go into teaching for $35K/year if they can make $200K/year as a software engineer, or drop a million in med-school debt to make $350K/year wages in your 30s when the software engineer is making $600K/year at that point and has a couple million in the bank from being able to work for a decade. So over the long run, wages in low-productivity fields like teaching or childcare need to rise to match the prevailing wages in high-productivity fields like finance, tech, or biotech, or else there will be a shortage (and poor service) in those fields.

Except by definition, these are low productivity fields. A daycare worker can still take care of max 4 infants by law, while a good software engineer can serve a million users. So you need many more of them, and if they make as much as those high-productivity professions, the total cost of providing that service will go through the roof.
I think the original author makes a good case that a) the shorthand approach isn’t going to fly as we formalise b) different mathematicians mean different things by canonical and these details matter when trying to combining results and that therefore 3) it would be better to provide a proper definition of what you’re talking about and give it an unambiguous name.
Seems like it’s a grudge-site, if your tenancy ended badly.

Regardless, if the info did get leaked or the landlord did some basic investigation, or the property was just small enough that the data pool was small, what’s to keep the tenant from litigation by the landlord?

I’m thinking about all those review-sites for hospitality where a bad review starts a whole lot of grief for the reviewer.
> opportunity for children themselves to participate in the kind of education they want to have ... schools should be run like consumer/workplace coops. With real, tangible, participation from all their actors.

In a perfect world where kids actually want to learn, actually want to not be bullies, actually want to not disrupt the learning environment of everyone around them, sure. Unfortunately kids who can guide their own education already ARE an elite:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Teachers/

Granted, the OP article is incoherent and pretty uninformative, not clear what the author has in mind.
It was interesting to read the comments about how many different cursive styles there are.
> (i.e., it depends what order you go)

At the risk of utterly derailing this with irrelevant discussion: path-dependent systems are particularly tricky for some people IMHO. I think in a more state-based way, and my first rigorous dive into path-dependent calculation was during my chemical engineering degree -- I learned to be extremely vigilant about memorizing what was path-dependent and triple-checking if that affected the situation I was calculating.

I do wish there was more rigorous exposure to them at lower levels of education and younger age. Because while I'm perfectly capable of handling path-dependent systems with proper focus and effort, my brain doesn't feel "native" when deriving solutions around those spaces - it feels similar to being "fluent enough" in another language. I feel this way about a lot of things -- I really feel I'd have been happier and more fulfilled if I'd been immersed in super rigorous first-principles education beginning around age 8-9. I didn't do well with things like "memorize this procedure for doing long division" and did much better with conceptual derivations of physics/math/science/historical arcs, etc.
Insurance actuary. Math degrees are mandatory in the insurance industry all the way to the C-suite.
Just to be sure, "TFA" is Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow", I assume ...
It’s very situational. Not everyone has this option, or this option isn’t reliable or available daily, and often times people end up not working because child care is so expensive.
Yes I did. It definitely caused some nausea for me when taking on an empty stomach, but taking it with even a small amount of food seemed to eliminate that entirely.
I once got asked FizzBuzz in a take-home interview, and the tool they were using flagged me for completing it very quickly and with an answer the tool had seen before.

Fortunately they gave me the opportunity to explain that it was a well-known interview question dating back to 2007 (with that blog post as evidence), and that I had previously asked this question in interviews, so I basically had the answer memorized. (I think the fact that I had correct, unique answers for the other questions helped me also.)
That's because these are generally valid arguments. The phrase "the dose makes the poison" did not just occur in someone's head for no reason.

There's a couple things to note about "forever chemicals":

They're around "forever" because they are extremely unreactive.
The concentrations the public is concerned about are ridiculous.
With such small concentrations, huge timescales for the cause-effect chain to take place and countless confounding factors in between it's basically impossible to make the bold claims the general public makes.

That being said:
Workers are exposed to much higher concentrations and they should have been protected from it.
New chemicals shouldn't be used as widely as they do by simply assuming they're safe.
There are uses (like cosmetics etc) were no risk is really warranted so they should be more restricted with what they use.

At the end of the day though, when you ban something you need to really understand and take into consideration what kind of damage you'll do to people by banning a substance and all the products that depend on it vs. what kind of damage the substance will do. You can't pretend that you can just ban a whole class of really important compounds without any societal side effects.

And that's coming from someone who's really concerned about dangerous chemicals. If you know chemistry, and look around you, you can tell there's a lot more dangerous issues than PFAS that aren't being tackled and nobody seems to care about.
Primarily how nobody seems to check what's really included in tons of "cheap" (in terms of manufacturing, not always of price) imported cosmetics, personal hygiene products and parapharmaceuticals.

People are buying protein powders and supplements of unknown producers, raw materials and manufacturing methods by the kilos, plastic cooking utensils from the internet and boil/oven bake them with their food, buy sketchy adhesives for their PVC water pipes, and then complain about some 1ppt concentration of inert chemicals in their drinking water. I understand how the public is easily swayed on things that are technical, and I am happy with people being aware of potential dangers, but the focus is really misplaced on something that looks new, scary, unsolvable and interesting instead of tackling the old, boring but important and serious issues we come across every day.
That's an amazing life.
$6M... isn't that much?
Thanks for the feedback, Which backend is that if I may ask?
Ah no, it was the article we were all discussing here. The one the HN thread is about.
They are screwed. But this isn’t why - even with high enough income it would not be great as a sole parent. Raising children is incredibly difficult - a lot more difficult than people think until they go through it themselves. That’s if you have two parents with high paying jobs. Even if you have the funds to hire help, outsourcing your children isn’t exactly great. Children need their parents, not just a rotating set of random caretakers who don’t have the same skin in the game. In reality, what’s happening is that most parents are letting one aspect or the other go, in order to make it all work. If you are a single parent with low income, you have to let go of a lot of things where it is guaranteed to result in severe neglect of the child. Having a child at all in that situation is honestly something like a crime against the child. Even in the best conditions, it’s not going to be great for them.
While I agree with you, it's easy to remember using a simple rule. A*10
Very few of them are carrying openly (why make yourself the first target?), but I stand by my statement that I'd be shocked. A youth league bowling tournament would be an exception, given the preponderance of children.

There was a combined six minutes between shots fired at the two locations and officer response, four at the youth league event, and only two minutes at the bar.

I didn't say nobody's ever going to try it. Some people are going to break, and show up with a lot of firepower and a plan. All I said was people will try it later than they might if they were sure most of their victim pool wouldn't shoot back.
I think there's some connection between your comment:

For example, if outside developers had more capability to explore different ways...

...and these 2 sentences from the article:

For the sake of this argument, let’s posit that there exist tens of millions — perhaps 100 million — users who love the iPad for what it is. People who feel empowered, not hamstrung, by how it works, and who have no or very little need for a computer that exposes the complexity of a desktop OS like MacOS or Windows. And that there exist tens of millions more people who enjoy having an iPad to complement, not replace, their desktop computer.

If someone did come up with an iPad competitor that had all of the ease of use, UX simplicity, and ecosystem benefits, but also better enabled power users with something nearer a desktop replacement, then this would simply kill the iPad.

The fact that Apple seems reticent to do this themselves, indicates that there is a kind of organizational blind spot there, driven by self interest. Either that, or there are typical Apple long term plans that we're not fully aware of, and they're taking their own sweet time.
Show HN: I made a freelancer focus tool to manage projects and companies
Hi HN,

I create websites for many clients. Recently, I started thinking about how to manage my time, projects, and client relationships. I couldn't find a simple and easy-to-use application that helps with this. I didn't want to use CRMs, which are complicated and expensive. So I gave myself a month and created my own system.

I would love to hear your feedback about it.
Heh? Yeah, and a C FFI exposed Rust function will also not care about, well, anything, let alone whether you handle the error case or not.

I don’t see your point. Reflection is not the primary way of accessing methods, it’s used similarishly to unsafe in Rust, you have a safe wrapper around them. Its exception type pretty much means that you knowingly entered here, proceed with care.

As for JVM-interop, sure, checked exceptions themselves are only a java compile-time feature. I don’t really see it coming up all that much though, you can easily wrap in some language-specific way, but java can be much more lenient about error cases like this — you can at worst just do a catch-all at the top layer, and restart the operation. The VM can’t go off the happy path in any case. This is unlike rust’s unsafe, for example, which only needs a single unintended data race, and afterwards all bets are off.
Bear in mind, it is stated in the article that "It is a well-studied phenomenon that humans react with empathy towards artificial systems that display certain human or animal-like characteristics." Cars, boats, airplanes don't have to have consciousness to have "aliveness" or be worthy of naming and is commonly accepted and internalized by humans everywhere. This falls short of the epistemological religiosity required by "AI is alive" when the only proof that other humans are alive is indeed an act of faith. But I digress.

So a falsifiable hypothesis might be:

Sociopaths have no empathy at all. Their perception that some other empathizes with them or that their empathy with the other is recognized by the other is some random function based on their internal dialogue and whether they think they get a better cookie by stating that empathy exists when prompted by the experimenter. By comparison, people who score higher on some Empathy Scale (tm) state that empathy exists at a higher or lower rate than the sociopathic control group.

HTH. I don't claim that hypothesis personally, as stated that's what I was maybe hoping to find. I'm just a programmer, whether that's programming computers or minds is sometimes unclear.