skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think in a Jevon situation where there is a game-changing technology jump in a consumable commodity, there will be pent-up demand being expressed at the same time better efficiency means prices can decline and profits can rise simultaneously. This can be more sustainable if these factors are better in balance to begin with and stay that way. The improved efficiency is then enjoyed and absorbed into the regular operation of everyone involved and soon or eventually becomes the new normal. Ideally the companies never need to go back to the old normal which may likely not be very economically viable any more so that becomes completely forgotten.

But with growth beyond a certain point, cash flow becomes so significant and so many fewer people are handling it that the room for misguided actions, not just unforseen but often hidden or obscured, can quickly overcome the profits from much earlier technology milestones which took much longer for the entire org to implement. Which can not be replaced unless more technology breakthroughs are forthcoming, but even when a steady stream of excellent new technology keeps coming down the pipeline it could still be a sinking ship. Then if only the top people think it's not seaworthy, or know what they've done that might make it so, they're going to completely deceive the rest of the crew as effectively as possible or all the lifeboats could be used up.

When it comes to building cash flow, profits, shareholder value, and overall company valuation not every economically sensible executive is going to pursue or achieve the same balance among these, regardless of motivation.

When a company originally thrives because the early talent can make profits that are good, it can be the firm foundation for what could be long-term, even exponential growth.

Later leadership which does not always have equal talent for profits will often have more experience utilizing cash flow itself to substitute as a resource for bonuses, dividends, and things like that when much needed technology boosts are not the windfall they once were.

The net effect is people make money for a while then the technology is wasted.

Because profits actually weren't pursued enough, and cash flow too much instead

Like when a huge company acquires a rapidly-progressing technology group but no more progress occurs after that, or progress becomes intentionally discontinued or even reversed.

Like a gravitational field so massive that it draws in other planets and absorbs their potential for continued growth, rather than leveraging progress using the overwhelming resources.

A smallco that made excellent profits primarily from innovation itself, looks excellent on paper because it is actually a good acquisition target. When absorbed into a bigco their impressive profits no longer add up to more than a drop in the huge bucket so focus ends up being placed elsewhere besides the profit-making innovation that was supposed to be so promising.
Perhaps it should have been tagged as "show" rather than presented as a news item.

Is you thing a "bot" or a "job board". Your website seems to be both. If the jobs are simply scraped from some other site, what value are you adding?
This seems like it might be useful for people who are doing DTP type work and don't want their entire document to reflow itself because they changed the font weight of one word.
yeah totally. I'll rage against the 40 hour work week any time anyone will let me. Personally I think I've got around 5 good coding hours in me in a day - ideally around 7:30 to 12:30. Schedule meetings for when I'm useless after that please.
Yes, it mostly is a different problem. My point is that with regard to energy wastage we have hugely more important issues than unnecessary light output. And the switch from incandescent light bulbs to LED has already reduced the energy wastage from lighting. I'm all in favor of reducing light pollution, but not because of energy concerns.
I’m sorry what are you talking about.... are you still talking generators?
If you believe that #ImaginaryProperty makes any sense at all I've got some "Dry Water" to sell you.
You can't buy food with a printout that says you're going to get some money next year.
Multiplayer Tilt Brush - Looking to the Future
Here's a trick my coworker invented that helps me fall asleep: Spell the name of an author you like forwards, and then backwards, and then forwards again, and backwards, repeating and repeating until you fall asleep. I've gotten to the point where I do it 2x and am out.
> Yes, but wouldn't the dropping shorts mean increasingly people bought overvalued shares?

That's the point. When its 100% shorted and hedge funds all need to cover, they would be the ones buying these worthless stock from sellers. If say there are 5 hedge funds right now shorting 100% (20% each), you wouldn't want to be the last one shorting cause the 80% short sellers that are covering could very well bankrupt your fund. The underlying stock value doesn't matter as long as someone else is paying for it (i.e. hedge funds).

That's why business schools always say a) don't short sell and b) don't over leverage your short sell or you will get into a short squeeze. Short selling in my personal opinion is really dumb because your upside is limited, but your downside is unlimited.

I very much suspect that this will be in the textbook in the coming years as a prime example of black swan/ short squeeze.
Cryptography is the Bombe: Britain's Enigma-cracker on display in new home
"The UK National Museum of Computing will open its new Bombe gallery this weekend at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes after a successful crowdfunding campaign to put the WWII code-breaking machines on display."
It’s not a trick. It’s that we don’t know how to study these things yet, but that shouldn’t be an excuse for throwing our hands up in the air and not trying to investigate them. Gravity wasn’t always well crystallized. It took us time to develop and understand it.

I highly recommend Stafford Beer’s writings and the Designing Freedom book and/or lectures.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1973-cbc-massey-lectures-...
Your build time is someone else’s runtime.
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I think many users feel that RH affected both their money and convenience
Games will simply use more power as the average user's rig becomes more powerful. Do you really think we'll solve low power ray tracing before we solve streaming? Streaming also scales better. Rendering double the frames requires double the power but streaming double the frames does not because frames are mostly similar and compression helps a great deal.
> No society can police everything all the time, least of all a democratic society. A healthy society rests on a consensus about what is a deviation and what is normal. We venture out from the norm, but we know the difference between the outfield and home, the reality of everyday life. Without that, as we have now experienced, things fall apart.

> [...]

> Society renews itself as common sense evolves. This requires trustworthy, transparent, respectful institutions of social discourse, especially when we disagree. Instead we are saddled with the opposite, nearly 20 years into a world dominated by a political-economic institution that operates as a chaos machine for hire, in which norm violation is key to revenue.

> Social media's no-longer-young men defend their chaos machines with a twisted rendition of First Amendment rights. Social media is not a public square but a private one governed by machine operations and their economic imperatives, incapable of, and uninterested in, distinguishing truth from lies or renewal from destruction.
What power imbalances are you thinking of in the case of tech companies?
"My parents can hold conflicting viewpoints simultaneously, in sentences one after another, and have no problem with it."

They probably say the same about you. The hard truth is that most people hold conflicting opinions. It usually takes about 20 years of being an adult to come to this realization.
eBay? https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057...
I'm not sure the author read Ram Dass' book or knows of his life as the author mentions Buddhism several times but clearly Ram Dass is a Hindu (his name means servant of Ram, a Hindu god, and his guru was Hindu).
Vim’s great if you live in it, but most people don’t because there’s really no need to. Any time you have to spend enough time working on a file that you can really get the most out of vim, you have enough time to get that file into an environment that you can use a more “friendly” text editor.
I like vim and appreciate it’s potential, but for most people it’s a waste of time.
I think Keynes captured the essence of reflexivity nicely in his beauty contest:

"It is not a case of choosing those [faces] that, to the best of one's judgment, are really the prettiest, nor even those that average opinion genuinely thinks the prettiest. We have reached the third degree where we devote our intelligences to anticipating what average opinion expects the average opinion to be. And there are some, I believe, who practice the fourth, fifth and higher degrees."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
Oh man, reading what you wrote out, it just occurred to me that learning is actually caching.

We already have a multitude of machines that can solve any problem: the global economy, corporations, capitalism (Darwinian evolution casted as an economic model), organizations, our brains, etc.

So take an existing model that works, convert it to code made up of the business logic and tests that we write every day, and start replacing the manual portions with algorithms (automate them). The "work" of learning to solve a problem is the inverse of the solution being taught. But once you know the solution, cache it and use it.

I'm curious what the smallest fully automated model would look like. We can imagine a corporation where everyone has been replaced by a virtual agent running in code. Or a car where the driver is replaced by chips or (gasp) the cloud.

But how about a program running on a source code repo that can incorporate new code as long as all of its current unit tests pass. At first, people around the world would write the code. But eventually, more and more of the subrepos would be cached copies of other working solutions. Basically just keep doing that until it passes the Turing test (which I realize is just passé by today's standards, look at online political debate with troll bots). We know that the compressed solution should be smaller than the 6 billion base pairs of DNA. It just doesn't seem like that hard of a problem. Except I guess it is:

https://github.com/opencog/opencog
The lack of maintenance is updating the circuit panel first and wires second, I believe this is the _
$15k you're referencing. Cloth wiring, no grounds, no gfi around water, and fuses create for a very dangerous fire and electrocution hazard; any electrician or home inspector would have recommended changing it out 20 years ago; without electric cars being in the conversation.

You don't have to rewire the rest of the house to extend the 240 across the width of the house. 240 is the least integrated wiring. And every house (new and old) that needs a driveway or garage placement requires the same wiring change.

If you wanted, the cheapest option is to move the service point (no cost)
I get an unpleasant feeling that Free Software was never really popular. It was somewhat popular early on, because it formalised the way things were done at the time. This is why it received relatively little friction. So it wasn't really accepted. It was ignored.
We need read-access to your production environment to survey your infrastructure. Then, depending on the services you're using, we need the ability to backup data, share it with your recovery environment, and cleanup old backups. We make it easy to set this up by giving you a CloudFormation template that includes the roles, policies, etc.

Some of the actions we need to perform can't be completely locked down via IAM policies. An example is the ModifySnapshot API that is used to share EBS snapshots with other accounts. IAM policies don't allow you to constrain which accounts those snapshots are shared with, and we don't want to be sharing your data with any account that isn't yours.

So, instead of asking for ModifySnapshot permissions directly, we include a Lambda function in the CloudFormation template. This function wraps the ModifySnapshot API, and adds validation of the target account. Our role has Invoke permission for this function, but not of ModifySnapshot, thereby eliminating that exfiltration vector.

In the recovery environment, we need more permission to create/modify/destroy the infrastructure that we are managing for you, but we still take a least-privilege approach. We also include a Lambda function in that CloudFormation template to constrain the potentially dangerous APIs.
I've read the Investopedia article, but I struggle to see what's the big deal about it? Where's the conflict?

The best I could summarize it is that "reflexivity" postulates that economic equilibria are usually not stable, but metastable. That is, they can be easily pushed out of their stability regime, at which point the feedback loops will no longer balance, and the equilibrium will get re-established elsewhere (if at all).

That's the only thing I can see that requires some empirical justification. Other than that, the postulates seem to be basically "feedback loops 101", and the "mainstream economics" concepts, as I understand them, are built on the same principles too.
My guess is that they're testing the waters for enterprise software. Think Google Docs but for CAD. There's a lot of money in that market and people are used to paying $1000+ monthly subscriptions anyway. So if you can move that onto a remote desktop server, you'll have amazing performance and healthy profit margins.

And if it works well for games, it'll surely work well enough for regular software.
A single solar panel will produce the equivalent of half-a ton of diesel/year for his location. There is no way in hell a generator is a better option for a permanent installation.

There is a reason all remote meteostations, etc. have long switched to renewable.
> Of course, it doesn't immediately follow from either physical property or intellectual property that it will be abused in the way Doctorow describes (by "keeping customers by making it impossible for them to leave"), but it certainly could be. For example, suppose a relatively small number of individuals or companies owned most of the land, and most of the industrial machinery, and all the investment capital - then everyone else would have to go work for them, and produce whatever the property owners wanted to produce, instead of what they wanted to make for themselves. Someone might describe such a dynamic as fundamentally abusive in exactly the same way that intellectual property is.

I completely agree it can be extended in that way and it has been done so in the past; There are even countries that have political parties that generally agree with such a statement and work towards (albeit imperfectly) to limit or abolish such monopolies of capital.

(The US on the other hand left their anti-trust laws to rust on the side and let monopolistic entities gain power such as Amazon and Facebook; here is a report on how Amazon has been using sale and review data to launch AmazonBasics products undercutting other brands: https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-competition-shopify-wayf... on the "Amazon's Version" section)
Sorry, I copy pasta'd the wrong article. I meant to link this one (and didn't see the news guidelines, found the ShowHN ones):

https://info.kotoo.earth/hc/en-us/articles/360062548413-r-Wa...

With respect to government will make more permits - historically the government has reduced the number available (and does 3% each year by design) when they weren't used due to NG/coal switching (see 2014). If this goes completely nuts, then yes, the government would likely make more but the permits are still funding renewable energy so having it go nuts also spells doom for coal powerplants. It's like having coal powerplants match your investment in utility scale renewable energy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Greenhouse_Gas_Initia...
Latency is the most important thing. There's a reason high refresh monitors are loved by serious gamers.

I can deal with 1080p playing old ps2/3 games through an online service, or modern with the same resolution but high settings with snappy controls.

I cannot play a game with noticeable input lag whatsoever, even if it was at 4k HDR 144hz.
I don't understand.

What evidence do you have that "all" information is public? If shady people did manipulate WSB into a frenzy to create a bubble, you'd expect them to create the appearance of a public process, wouldn't you?
The search terms you want is “T+2 settlement”. TLDR all trades take 2 days to settle but brokerages abstract that via “loans” and collateral.
And I think more importantly, Webull said from the beginning what the issue was and communicated their efforts to fix it. Robinhood put up a blogpost that made it sound like everything was their choice and then went completely silent the entire day.
https://medium.com/@tjwaterman99/web-scraping-is-now-legal-6...
Yeah, sorry, I can't edit it.
Ah, the 70s. Hair got bigger and chips got smaller. Thank you for all this. It's both pretty, and educational.
I would love to have the time for afternoon naps. I mean if I could fit it sure I'd have better cognitive functions but what's to say that staying awake and doing what I do is not more productive anyway? Maybe I don't need that jolt and can function fine without the nap... I'll have another coffee.
Ask HN: Who do you recommend for coaching a startup founder?
I have been going to psychotherapy (different categories of psychotherapies) for the last 6 years. I have managed to have a lot success with my companies, but with every new company started, I have something new to learn and new kind of challenges. As I have never tried Executive coach, I was thinking to try and I don't know where to start, but to ask here :)
>the assumption that every healthy adult should have a full-time job - is unsustainable.

Inflation makes sure that everyone can get a job. The fact people you even entertain this though is hilarious. The entire point of capitalism is to maintain growth and that growth can only be maintained by employing people.

People hate on growth but what's the alternative? Imagine being in the 15th century and saying: This is it, people will never have a full time job again, ever.

The 21th century wouldn't have happened if people thought like that. The dark ages would have lasted forever.

The reason why we have so much underemployment is quite simple. Inflation has been way too low. Honestly, we have so much inflation to do that even the measly 2% that the Fed targets is way too little. Inflation has slowly picked up and it shows. Underemployment is shrinking in the US.
Here's a great observation:

> “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” grew out of Curtis’s response to the populist insurgencies of 2016. Curtis was struck by the fury of mainstream liberals and their simultaneous lack of a meaningful vision of the future that might counter the visceral appeal of nationalism and xenophobia. “Those who were against all that didn’t really seem to have an alternative,” he said.
Ah yes, The Before Times, back when we still worked downtown and there was life outside.

A lot of places it’s easier to fit in a walk or short bike ride than a nap, and it’s just about as good for clearing the mind.
Between this list and the list of biases [1], I feel like anything I have to say will probably fall into one of these fallacies or biases including this very comment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
How do you feel about the revolutionary war? Or the Jacobite uprisings? Or the troubles? Or the French Resistance? Or the Yugoslav Partisans?

I’m all for peaceful solutions too, but if you look through history you’ll find plenty of morally righteous violent resistance. In this case it seems inevitable to me. The aggrieved parties here mostly come from a place that was previously violently conquered by the Mughal Empire, then later violently won their independence to form the Sikh Empire, shortly after that they were violently conquered again by the British Raj. The British Raj was ousted by nonviolent resistance, but that’s an incredible anomaly in history, and was only really possible because the British had largely lost interest in holding the colony.

The result was the partitioning of India, which worked out terribly for a lot of people. Especially the Punjabis, who’s state was cut in half and split between Islamic Pakistan, and Hindu India. Hindu Nationalism on the India side of the border has lead to decades of often violent oppression of minority group in India. Why would violent resistance not be a morally defensible response?

I also find the international coverage of this issue quite funny. If you only read international sources you might come away with the impression that this conflict is just between “farmers” and the Indian government. If you read Indian sources you’re more likely to get the impression this is a separatist conflict between “Khalistani terrorists” and the Indian government.
I think this goes to show how many beneficial routines or habits are untenable simply because of the society we live in.

See also certain diets, not drinking alcohol, etc
The use of 9/11 to further surveillance policies is really unfortunate because the existing intelligence agencies mostly got it right before hand. The administration was briefed that a threat was imminent. I am curious if anyone could build a legitimate argument that internet surveillance would have made the intelligence accurate enough to stop the attack.
I mostly agree, but the only evidence we have is Robinhood's word which industry people seem to have taken as gospel. It's not implausible that they're lying, given that Citadel is their biggest customer, and they could've done what they did without breaking any laws, e.g. by purposely failing to arrange the appropriate credit lines in time, thereby guaranteeing that they'll be able to go "oops, we don't have the capital, we have no choice but to shut her down now".
this is great, python debug tooling seems to be getting a lot better recently.