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See e.g. here: https://ai.meta.com/research/no-language-left-behind/

> If you did look at the eclipse without protection and are experiencing pain, you should seek medical assistance.

I wonder if that's true. It would seem that there's nothing a doctor could do at that point.

Yeah I found that pretty strange. I felt the earthquake, and searched Google for "earthquake nyc" results in the last hour - found nothing.

10 or 20 minutes later my phone starts buzzing informing me that there had been an earthquake. Seems rather pointless.

> If your on a playlist that isnt yours, there is not a good way to figure out the year the song is from (is it new, is this from the 60's ... ). Then its 3 clicks to get back to your current play list.

Right-click song, go to album, look at album year (2 clicks).

Click back button. (1 click)

Also Gärtnerplatz, named after the famed architect Friedrich von Gärtner.

Fun fact: The Gärtnerplatz is located on the street Klenzestraße, which is named after the other famous architect and von Gärtner's rival, Leo von Klenze.

I unironically like it, too.

It might not look nice in photos, but the semi-permanence of scaffolding in NYC has resulted in some pretty nice-looking scaffolding structures, some even with lighting. (John Wilson made a great episode on that.)

Beyond that, as a pedestrian you start ignoring the "ugliness" pretty quickly. The scaffolding almost feels kind of cozy, and protects you from the elements.

Saudi Arabia's GDP is only 833 billion, but Saudi Aramco's market cap is 7.43 trillion.

This is just to show that GDP is not necessarily reflective of investment power.

> just over two lines of "9"s on a 1920px display

I love this unit of measurement.

So obviously the new terms are worse for almost all business cases. That said, it's interesting to look at cases where they might be better.

If you have a F2P game app averaging 50€ revenue per user per year and you introduce a limitation to 1M users, you can avoid the Core Technology Fee and end up with 0€ fees, as opposed to 15M€ yearly fees under the current terms.

I don't understand why we're acting like preventing obesity for society at large is an unsolved problem. Looking at Japan with an obesity rate of 3%, it's clearly possible.

> We further found that the more sexual partners a woman had had before marriage, the less happy she reported her marriage to be. This association was not statistically significant for men.

This is interesting. It's the only factor in the article that only affects one gender. Are there any studies on why this only affects women?

Assistant is included on most Android devices nowadays.

Assuming smartphones in general have 90%+ market penetration, 42% market share for Android, and an average household size of 3, it seems reasonable to assume that 50%+ of households will have at least one device running Assistant.

Do you have a citation on that 0.1%? I'd love to learn more.

I'm not an Elon Musk fan by any metric, but frankly, this article, or rather the sentiment behind it, is ridiculous.

It just goes to show, you can revolutionize electric cars and private spaceflight, build a successful business empire, and become the richest man in the world, and people will still claim that your drug use is destroying your life.

The people quoted in the article claim that his drug use may be causing erratic behavior on Twitter and elsewhere. Besides the fact that erratic behavior clearly doesn't require drug use (see Trump), even if we assume that Musk's personality is a result of his drug use, how about the fact that that same personality was the one that made all those concerned people rich in the first place. Or are only negative personality traits allowed to be attributed to drug use?

Unsuccessful person using drugs: "You're unsuccessful because of your drug use."

Successful person using drugs: "You're successful despite your drug use."

I'm sure they're talking about crypto.

Right. I think the point of the article was to determine what's best for your business at large, not what would make a few customers happy at the expense of your overall success.

> Disappointing by whos metric?

By all metrics relevant to Apple's business, as evidenced by the fact that it was discontinued after just two iterations.

A common pitfall that isn't listed in the article is listening to a loud minority of customers.

If you had been reading Hacker News or any other tech-savvy platform, you'd have been well excused for thinking there's a huge demand for a capable iPhone with a smaller screen.

In reality, the sales numbers for iPhone minis were disappointing. It turns out that people spending a lot of time writing online about tech hardware are not representative of the iPhone customer base at large.

I'm really surprised by the many comments feigning surprise at the view that Apple's actions in this case are anti-competitive.

Previously, Google was found liable of anti-competitive practices for only showing Google Shopping results in the carousel at the top of the search results page. The argument was that Google was abusing its dominant market position in search engines to gain a market advantage in comparison shopping services. As a result, Google was ordered to allow third-party comparison shopping services to integrate.

How is this different? The problem with iMessage is that it has that premium, native, and out-of-the-box OS integration including the SMS fallback. No other messaging app can compete with that.

Every other app needs to be a separate app that must be downloaded from the App Store. No other app can have the SMS fallback because iOS prohibits third-party SMS apps.

They are abusing their dominant market position in smartphones to gain a market advantage in messaging services. They have previously stated that they profit financially from a strong market position of iMessage, because that in turn boosts iPhone sales.

If Apple doesn't want to integrate third-party message services into iMessage and/or Messages, they are free to compete on even ground. They'd have to extract iMessage from the Messages app, change it to a non-preinstalled app that must be downloaded from the App Store, and remove the SMS fallback.

It's more like $50 if we assume the net hourly rate of a SWE to be $100. That's higher than the usual parking ticket of ~$15.

Why happened to blogs and RSS?

I find that Apple indisputably has better hardware and build quality, but Android has the better operating system.

This is actually a really interesting story by itself. Thanks for sharing.

My understanding is that Ukraine never really had a choice.

The matter of Soviet nukes being stationed in Ukraine was so existential for Russia that a refusal to give up the nukes eventually would have led to a full-on invasion by Russia.

Ukraine had only been independent for a couple of years at that point, so they did not have the necessary military structures to defend themselves like they are doing this time around. The US would not have engaged in full-on war with Russia just to let Ukraine keep the nukes – at the time, nobody knew how Ukraine was going to develop, so the West preferred Ukraine giving up their nukes to avoid the scenario of a rogue post-Soviet country with nuclear weapons.

You have to remember, at the time, Ukraine was not yet seen in the West as this brave independent anti-Russia that it is perceived as today.

Finally, the Ukrainians could not have used those nuclear weapons in the hypothetical invasion. The nuclear command & control was headquartered in Russia, so the Ukrainians didn't have access to the launch codes. Even if they had somehow managed to circumvent that and actually used the nuclear weapons, that definitely would have united Russia and the West against Ukraine.

> I am discounting non-liquid assets like the main residence.

That's pretty unusual. Do you consider someone with $1.5M but no house considerably better off than someone with $500k and a $1M house?

$2-3 million in a 401k by retirement age is still 30-40x the median amount. [0]

[0] https://www.bankrate.com/retirement/average-401k-balance-by-...

As someone who has been moving countries and subsequently changing phone numbers, every couple of years, SMS 2FA is such a pain.

It's hard to recall all services that have your phone number for migrating them, and even if you do, many won't accept a foreign number.

I've resorted to holding on to my old phone numbers by transferring them to prepaid SIMs.

That would make sense, except it was mentioned elsewhere on this thread that there is a 50% quota for OBC people at IITs.

Are you saying that OBC are so far behind their peers at the time of admission that only 0.6% (1 in 180, as mentioned in OP) of those 50% manage to catch up academically?

That's really hard for me to believe.

This is a strange comment. You're pretending I hold some opinion about the participation of Asians in the IT sector in the US, and then proceed to explain why that opinion is wrong, all the while never answering my question about the topic at hand.

For reference, the comparison to Asians in the US job market seems misplaced.

From the numbers I found, the representation of Asians in admissions, industry and faculty seems to line up pretty accurately. They represent 10-11% of STEM students, 13% of STEM workers, and 11% of STEM professors. I didn't find detailed numbers for IT specifically.

On the other hand, according to what was written in this thread, OBC people represent 50% of IIT students, but only 1/180 or about 0.6% of IIT professors.

I know very little about the caste system, but it does strike me as odd that only 1 in 180 professors is from a group representing 50% of the population. It becomes even more suspicious if there's a quota for admissions as you say. At some point between admission and tenure, there seems to be a great filter.

How do you explain that, if not for discrimination?