skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's important to note that price, the last traded price, and value are all distinct concepts. The last traded price is the only one of these we can measure ahead of time, so we often use it as a metanym for these other concepts. But we don't know the price of something until we make a binding offer on it and it is accepted; that doesn't necessarily mean the next transaction won't be very different, we just have heuristics about how the next price ought to look. But it's the process of negotiating a deal or bidding on an auction that defines the price, not the historical prices. If you go to a grocery store and see that milk costs $5.25, and you remember last week it costs $5.00, you don't say the price is wrong; you understand that this is the offer the store has made you, and that the price has gone up since your last visit.

When the oil futures went negative, it wasn't the case that the value of oil was negative - this was about the structure of the market and the sorts of positions people were caught in when the pandemic hit. We continued to consume oil throughout the pandemic, and so I'd say we continued to value it.

Another example would be, if a rancher has a lot of cow poop, they might pay a farmer to take it away. You could say that the cow poop has a negative price on it. But the farmer is going to make use of it as fertilizer; from the farmer's perspective, this is a commodity that has value.

It's true though that there are a million theories of value and it's impossible to say what something's value is definitively, you can only make a decision about what is value is to you.

But when wash trading is and to impact the perceived value, it does so fraudulently; it supplies information to traders - "there is a lot of interest in this security, and the (last traded) price is rising" - which is a lie. Some people will argue this too is a normal and healthy part of markets, but I don't think they've given enough thought to what sort of equilibrium that game will settle into.
Just to spell out the results: Adding the primary key appears to improve SQLite performance but still falls short of DBM.
> Is there a general name for this sort of bias?

selfishness?
A phone number isn't a number, it's a string of digits. It should not use a number field.

It's not even just digits, it can also start with +.
I think Spanner has always been targeted largely at mid-enterprise and bigger companies. Its potentially a VERY sticky product that may be tremendously difficult to offboard from. Small concessions like this 90 day trial doesn't really change that.

Especially with my understanding that a lot of GCP leadership is ex-Oracle, the whole vibe of Spanner seems to be a run at Oracle's marketshare.
Yeah, I just started a contract denominated in USD which has been nice. Time zones are kinda annoying.
gotta pump those ARR numbers baby
I'm not saying RCV failed, I agree it worked as intended.

"Condorcet failure" is a phrase meaning a failure of the voting system to select the Condorcet winner. If a candidate beats all other candidates in a 1-on-1 election, they are what is referred to as the Condorcet winner [1]. If a Condorcet winner exists, and an election system fails to select that candidate, that is a Condorcet failure.

Whether or not you think Condorcet failures are important or not is a matter of opinion. But they are important to many people (at least on an intuitive level).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_winner_criterion
It's just that having a recurring revenue allows you to offer features that you wouldn't be able to otherwise, and people WANT those features.

For example, as a B2b software company, there is no way I'm offering customers any complex cloud functionality, especially involving data storage, if I can't guarantee that I will be able to cover the costs in the future. Thus recurring revenue is a must.

On the other hand, if you just need an offline app that can work fine without being updated frequently, probably a single upfront payment is better suited.

This is nothing new by the way, multiplayer games have worked this way for a long time. In general a multiplayer game that asks you a subscription fee has a much higher chance of being kept online for longer. See WoW. Without subscription fees they would have probably shut down a long time ago.
As someone who runs a retail (eCommerce) business for a living, I think it's also worth pointing out that people get far more "rational" about their purchases when you ask them to spend a large chunk of money at once.

The same person who would think "do I really need this?" when faced with spending $1200 on a high-end automatic espresso machine wouldn't even think about spending $5 a day on a takeaway latte (which ends up being an order of magnitude per expensive once you amortise the cost of the machine over the number of cups produced).
You're going in circles. We're not discussing why Russia started CSTO, but why CEE nations felt the need to enter NATO. The fact that Russia was also invaded in its history bears no relevancy in this matter.
Tesla 80 is basically useless at this point. AWS stopped recommending it in 2017. It is nearly 10 times slower than 3090.
This is the big one. It's far easier for both sides to use the "cloud hosting" model. The seller only has to worry about deployments on their own systems, and the buyer doesn't have to worry about deployments at all. It really is a win-win.
> the digital nomad isn't participating in the local labour market.

Yes he is. If the firm's willing to employ someone in Costa Rica, there's no reason it couldn't be employing a local.
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You use a 3rd party payment orchestration platform. Spreedly and Very Good Security both offer this and we use them for our business.
yes. the paypal horror stories were very common and frequent ~10 years ago. that's how Braintree, Stripe, etc. got started.
This isn't "rotating payment providers", though, this is sharding customers across them. Which may be a good idea, insofar as it could reduce your blast radius, but it doesn't allow for portable customers--which seemed to be what the GGP was implying.

'pc86 has an interesting solution in a sibling comment, but I don't think you can do this across the high-touch providers, eg Stripe+Paypal.
I think you're looking at it backwards, other stuff as a service is the OG, and SaaS is the relatively new thing.

Food as a Service: Restaurants, Cafes, Uber eats, Door dash, and other services that rich people use where they order food to be made and delivered by a private kitchen (not an open restaurant)

Car as a Service: Taxis, Yellow Cab, Uber, Lyft, car rentals, and car leasing

Fridge as a Service: there are stores that would rent you a fridge, it's not as common, as most rental places come with fridges, but I've seen many in Houston without. I've also seen Laundry machine and Dryer rentals

[Anything] as a Service: they exist, but not common or unknown to people like you and me. For example there are dog walking services. Another one that appeared in the past decade is related to clothing where you get a box every month that contains some clothing articles, or others that would assign a personal stylist to help you shop for clothes... Etc
"Did not have to form a new business in FL"

You may want to double check this. May be your HR System filed stuff on your company's behalf but you absolutely need to have a setup in the state where your employees work and that includes Florida.
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Ironically when Apple acquired NeXT, it was essentially a reverse take over, since almost every significant executive and technical position of the merged company was from NeXT.

It was NeXT that saved Apple with their tools (including Interface Builder and the use of Objective-C) that gave Apple the technological lead that allowed them to grow into the company they are today.

Scott Forstall was the NeXT guy that headed the iOS (née iPhone OS)team and we know how that turned out.
Yes, all nft collections suffer from supply dilution if the creator wants to keep making money.

The “NFT” aspect distracts most from the obvious:

The physical collections market is hugely profitable, supply is hugely manipulated and unknown, and we just had no transparency into any of this until it went onchain

None of the consumer activity in the NFT collections market is really unique, we just get to see issuer revenue numbers in real time and supply

All the market is saying is “wow I should really be selling stuff to collectors“
This isn't true at all. Where are you getting your numbers from?
Many years ago as a junior developer, some of the very first non-trivial Python code I wrote was an effort to do this programmatically. It was fun! I remember working on it over time, trying to make it faster and more clever. I learned a ton about graph traversal, parsing HTML outside a browser context, data structures for caching/memoization, and Python itself.
The old one did around 20kWh/km and they claim 32% less CO2 per passenger. Perhaps including the construction too, but that shouldn’t change a lot.

So let’s say 14kWh/km (or about 8 times the recommended food energy per day for an average person, per mile).
Why not both! Not everyone uses a linter (unfortunately). Compiler would be a nice second catch (for any tooling that has a compiler)
car leasing is a subscription payment, everything else isn't
I'm not sure that slowing the cars down would help more. Its much easier to drive literally right behind a car at a slower speed than a higher speed.

Afaik, the general trend is to put a stoplight going into the roundabout for the few directions that cause a problem so that the "side streets" get a chance to go.
We had a program that was sending a pickled session state as a cookie. We solved that by packing the cookie as a random string, a timestamp, the object, and a MAC. We validated the MAC, then checked the timestamp, and finally unpickle the object. It still bothers me that we are unpickling data passed by the client but I ran arguments against doing it.
This is a very important point.

Others have alluded to this, but I'll make a larger claim: human artists actually are doing very little that is original. The styles, composition, and subjects are all derivative works. That means their "essence" can be recreated without them.

Another fascinating consideration, if artists names were excised from future models, either by law or by choice, the "mirror" artists (fake) could be the ones which become famous and the humans forgotten.

AI could become more generalized or there may be millions of models, doing specific things, strung together like with APIs. Either way, if an artist or trademark owner chooses some kind of explicit blocking, from the input side, it is possible that it would be the equivalent of your keyword censored from Google's index, Google Maps, Amazon, and so on. Disney? I don't recognize that word.
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See: Adobe Cloud

I cant think of a more exploitative “SAAS” off hand.
Two big differences. The distance between US cities is much further than Europe (aside from the NE USA which does have high speed rail). Also European cities have nice downtowns and good public transport so people do want to go from one city center to another. As opposed to the USA where no one wants to go from say downtown Houston to downtown Denver.
I see little point in forcing a separate run-off of Smith Set candidates if there are multiple (i.e. there is no Condorcet winner). After all, we just had everybody indicate their preferences in a ranked list. A runoff could only give new useful information if: 1. one or more voters change their minds. 2. one or more voter gave misleading preference information. 3. The voter's true preferences are not representable as a ranked list (e.g. they Prefer Mr Rock to Ms Scissors, prefer Ms Scissors to Mx Paper, and prefer Mx Paper to Mr Rock.)

So i think the tiebreaking methods are reasonable. It is probably also worth noting that for some Condorcet methods, attempting to vote dishonestly to exploit some flaw in the system is has great risk of backfiring. The impact that the dishonest vote will have when a Condorcet winner does exist can differ from the impact it will have if a tiebreaking method come into play, such that it is only safe to try to strategically vote like that if you already know there will be no Condorcet winner. (Which would be very hard to know. Polling can't even reliably predict who will win with single vote elections. Existing polling methodology would be way too under-powered to detect if there will be a Condorcet winner or not).
Why not disable all notifications by default? Is there something you actually really want to get interrupted by? I want to know when I get a call or an text, but pretty much everything else can wait until I'm actively engaged with it.

Every new app I installed gets every permission I can disable disabled including notifications and if it continues to function well enough for my needs why let it do anything more? Why even give new apps opportunity to be obnoxious?
> . Then, I have a small shell script that uses the etherwake Linux CLI tool to send a Wake-on-LAN magic packet to wake my server when it's sleeping. For full server reboots, I have the server on a remote-accessible power switch that can be cycled from the same Raspberry Pi.

A long time ago, Facebook wired wake-on-lan to do a system reset. (With selected ethernet cards that could customize the wake-on-lan packet). They abandoned that in favor of OpenBMC, but it's an interesting idea for low spec control.
What is the advantage of using this compared to plain Nginx or Envoy? Is it just static vs. dynamic config for routing?
I cannot get behind a property tax - if you own and have paid off a house, the idea that the state could seize it is abhorrent. Tax transport, wealth, sales - almost anything else in preference to property. Housing is a primary need.
It's a database that in full-stack culture has been relegated to "unit test database mock" for about 15 years that is (1) surprisingly capable as a SQL engine, (2) the simplest SQL database to get your head around and manage, and (3) can embed directly in literally every application stack, which is especially interesting in latency-sensitive and globally-distributed applications.

Reason (3) is clearly our ulterior motive here, so we're not disinterested: our model user deploys a full-stack app (Rails, Elixir, Express, whatever) in a bunch of regions around the world, hoping for sub-100ms responses for users in most places around the world. Even within a single data center, repeated queries to SQL servers can blow that budget. Running an in-process SQL server neatly addresses it. Conveniently, most applications are read-heavy, and most performance-sensitive app requests are reads.
Letting your employee be out of the country for 3-6 months every year on a tourist visa is a lot different from actually getting incorporated in that country and paying income taxes there.

>for your US employer

US/Canada have a very interconnected labor market, so in this context your comment is perfectly valid, and I would guess there are additional rules for this specific case. For literally any country other than US though, I don't see why it would be an issue for Canada or the country of origin, even if you do it repeatedly year over year.
You are assuming that all tourism is a net positive for any region, which itself is a faulty premise. In a lot of cases unchecked tourism, immigration and foreign money only increases the income divide among locals and contributes to inflation and gentrification.

Not all these foreigners are living in tourist towns. They aren't staying for a week or two, but months at a time. They aren't staying in hotels meant for tourists, but rather competing with locals for apartments (a lot of them having turned into Airbnbs because of it).
You can simply run wireguard yourself, no devices needed other than your laptop and a server in your home.

You can run wireguard on a raspberry pi (which are hard to source these days) or something like an HP SFF workstation which will run you ~$50 on ebay. Both of which are useful for other things asides from vpn tunneling.
The other stupid thing about Carmel roundabouts is where they put them at every 3rd road crossing when it would have worked absolutely fine just to have the traffic going one way stop, because it's a neighborhood with thoroughfares and cross streets, and there is NEVER traffic on the cross streets.

It just makes the thoroughfares slower for no clear reason.
Or just do Instagram ads to Millenials.
How so? At the very least, you need to have some sort of payment method on file with the company.
I bought a Raritan KX IV-101 at the start of the pandemic, and it was single handedly the best home office purchase I've made. They're going for about $300 more than what I got it for, but it simply out-performs the PiKVM for an actual KVM replacement, where I'm able to use my personal desktop setup for working on my work PCs.

Being able to do 1920x1200 at 60fps is so much more fluid and useable. 24fps is distracting to me even for simple things like text editing.
Acoustic quine? Polibius effect
Warlords typically 'compete' for your allegiance by conscripting you to fight for them, and killing you and your family when you refuse.

Or, if you and nobody in your family is of 'military age', they 'compete' for it, by rolling into your town, and stealing half of what you own. The 'competing' warlord that rolls in next week will, of course, steal the other half. If you're lucky, they won't make an example out of your town for 'supporting' the first warlord.

I'll take a strong, stable government over that horror-show any day of the week, but if you'd like to give it a try, much of Mexico has quite a bit of that sort of thing going on right now. Anyone who moves to the right parts of it can enjoy life amid 'competing' cartels.
It's a work of art because it was created by someone with a great sense of art - Johnathan Gay, who developed Dark Castle using tools that would end up becoming Flash/Director. [0]

[0] https://quorten.github.io/quorten-blog1/blog/2019/05/18/sili...
The offshore california current transports cold surface water from the Gulf of Alaska down coast, and there's wind- and current-forced upwelling of deep, cold nutrient-rich water from the deep Pacific Basin. The interaction of cold water and warm air leads to condensation at the near-ocean surface, aka fog (marine layer) formation. This effect persists as far south as Point Conception north of the Los Angeles basin. A warmer climate implies an atmosphere capable of holding more water vapor before condensation takes place, but the transition from clear moist air to opaque cloud is complicated and hard to model precisely:

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/western-geographic-science-cent...

> "Fog pushes against, over, and through gaps in the coastal mountains, transporting water and other aerosol materials into coastal ecosystems. If the temperature or pressure differences (gradients) are too strong, winds will be generated and the additional turbulent mixing will dissipate the fog."

Across most of California the Coast Ranges block the inland movement of the offshore marine layer in summer, with the break in the ranges at the San Francisco Bay the marine layer can flow in and out without having to climb the ranges and waterfall down the other side (that's an impressive sight when it does). As far as climate, the physical flow of the California Current is driven by planetary rotation, but the Gulf of Alaska has been generally warming and experiencing heatwaves, so perhaps some warming of the California Current is expected:

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/central-gulf-al...

Sometimes the atmospheric outflow from the hot Central Valley through the Bay gap is strong enough to keep the fog bank well offshore (or dissolve it altogether). It comes down to the dynamics of local winds, the temperature differential (colder ocean = more fog, hotter valley air outflow = less onshore fog). Climate-wise, the California Central Valley is getting warmer with more extreme heat days:

https://blog.ucsusa.org/pablo-ortiz/climate-change-impacts-o...

Thus, less fog coming into the SF Bay is a reasonable prediction.
American Express and Chase. I have both and they are awesome... so far.
Again, your argument is flawed. Just because something was the law 50 years ago doesn't mean returning to it wouldn't be radical now.

When has the Swedish government ever considered the majority population to be "indigenous"? If it never happened then it can't be an indicator of becoming "insane and hostile."

How does "Keep Sweden Swedish" affect the Sami?

Are the Sami Swedish?

Are Swedes the indigenous population of Sápmi?
Sure, but Graz - Vienna train route is still slow as shit and that's Austria's second city. The train travels at like ~100km/h average or something, which is pathetic compared to high speed trains in Germany or France.

I get that this could be a limitation of the Austrian landscape making fast train infra challenging, but even a Flixbus traveling on the slow lane on the Autobahn gets you there ~30 min faster and at half the price of OBB.

The trains are nice and the service is great, but the speeds are a joke for the price of the non-discounted tickets as even traveling on the autobahn by bus can be faster on most routes.
GraphBLAS is underrated and underused IMHO. If you use e.g. scipy.sparse, NetworkX, or similar, you should check out GraphBLAS. It is really fast even compared to scipy.sparse, and more capable in many ways.

They've actually started implementing the NetworkX API

https://github.com/python-graphblas/graphblas-algorithms

with python-graphblas

https://github.com/python-graphblas/python-graphblas
For 1), what exactly are you expecting to happen to enable this cloud backup to continue working?

You pay once for someone to set up a hard drive in the "cloud" you can put your photos on?

They charge you enough for a lifetime of transfer bandwidth?

What happens when the hard drive dies? Do you want redundancy so that if one drive dies the photos aren't lost? Who pays the tech to go change out the first drive when it fails so it can recover before the others in the array also die?

What's your personal risk aversion for losing this data? Even a two-drive RAID array can lose all of your data in some scenarios.

For 2), you want an app that connects to all of your accounts. How does it do that? Usually by using web APIs or a third party interconnect like Plaid.

What happens when they bank you use updated their API? Who is going to provide you with updates to keep all of these account connections working?

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Both scenarios you describe have ongoing maintenance. Things weren't SaaS when they existed solely on your local computer and continued working without constant maintenance, but your two examples that come to mind show how our expectations of technology have changed and we expect things to work online, backed-up, and to keep working even as integration partners, OS vendors, etc. update their systems.
The feedback loop here isn’t a problem. It’s what incites production.
Are you facilitating the use of Stripe's API for accounts that are wholly owned by your customers or are you offering the use of your Stripe relationship for managing multiple accounts that you hold in custody for your customers? For the former, I think you shouldn't take responsibility for Stripe's behavior toward your customers, but you should have them set up an additional merchant account somewhere else. For the latter, I can see how that would put someone into a situation that might be both open to abuse and against the TOS.
Market cap is not really significant, if the sales are down. Most of the market cap is from old sales.

I could create a new coin with a huge market cap very easily: I'm creating 1,000 billion coins, and I'm selling to a friend one coin for $1, then never selling anything again. The market cap is now $ 1,000 billion right?