skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
groceries are traditionally thin margin so you can reduce overhead in the administrative, marketing, supply chain parts of the business. you also get bargaining power with producers. most packaged food producers are already "massive" and you generally see the same brands with only minor regional variations (like some different kinds of bread) from store to store across the country. they would also have a better ability to purchase from local producers, pushing out smaller grocers and making it harder for them to access the limited supply of local farms and creameries etc. basically all the advantages of a streamlined supply chain would happen here (instead of running two competing supply chains in the same region they can now run one which knows the stocking demands of all the stores). There are actually a lot of good reasons for the food business especially to have only one retail outlet, since it would reduce food waste from overbuying, and simplify consumer choice problems (i have to go to a few stores if i really want to get all the brands I like) except for the fact that it means inevitable monopolisitic pricing and ends up punishing producers because they have no other options for who to sell to.
Xi Jinping and the revenge of the ultra-leftists
I’m glad this galaxy ended up with mosquitoes instead of the wraith.
>Personally, all I see are a string of obvious scams collapsing.

I think you and rational people agree, it's just the rational people see the whole space as a scam, and they're not wrong.

It's been, from it's very start, a Dunning-Kruger trap sold on lies. First it was supposed to be a currency, but was created from the ground up to be deflationary, which is a death knell for a currency and leads to perpetual recession.

Then it was an asset that can only go up, until the price crashed and people realized its intrinsic value is 0 and there is no floor.

Then it was an inflation hedge that would keep you up when markets went down, except it turned out to be largely correlated to the market.

Every use case they come up with is a bag of magic beans with the sole intention of getting you to carry their bags. I've heard it described as digital beanie babies and that moniker is more apt then most could have imagined.
I've never worked a professional job that didn't have some sort of recapture of hiring expenses if you left early. It may not be training, but moving costs, signing bonus (usually linked to getting set up after a move), equity grants.

It was clearly stated in the hiring contract. I was more than welcome to not take the job if I didn't feel like I could meet the obligations.
Don't knock it, it's still useful evidence even if just one data point. I don't like the HN habit of pinning anecdotal on things just so as to dismiss them.
How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil - It is an interesting book because the author does not paint a rosy picture of what needs to get done to solve our energy and food problems in the coming decades. I really enjoyed it.

The Afghanistan Papers - A book similar to the Pentagon Papers and goes over the 20+ year War on Terror in Afghanistan and how much it failed.

I read a lot, but these were the some of the last couple of books I've read in 2022 that I found interesting.
“No shit”.

Wait, you mean something that literally tracks any and all actions in a literal chain of history that is immutable is easy to track?!?

You mean that pattern recognition can be applied to even “randomized” in both size, time, and destination of transactions can be done to track like how they can track burner phones?

I’m shocked! Shocked I say!
> Nuclear weapons have killed about ~200k people in all of history.

So far. Present performance is not indicative of future returns. All it will take is one nut job (who could still be Putin depending on how this turns out) escalating to even a "regional" nuclear war to add a zero or two to that number, and it could happen very quickly.
Do you remember what distro used to do this?
What We’ve Lost Playing the Lottery
OpenBSD's X distribution (xenocara) is based on X11R7.7 + updated components, it's just a historical naming convention. Other systems have merged X into /usr or /usr/local, OpenBSD kept the install prefix.

https://man.openbsd.org/hier
Perhaps this is relevant: https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1549527748950892544
It's a contract. Don't sign it if you don't like the terms.
Codeberg recently took down the repository for Wikiless project without any explanation to the project.

It was only days after the project maintainer contacted them that they wrote something back about an IP complaint from Wikimedia foundation.
> They used 6months of code camp training while being paid, and as soon as they could they left.

Frankly, then be a better employer. Pay more, foster a better culture, provide better working circumstances. Plenty of people stay at economically shitty places because of a sense of duty, a love for their co workers, a 4 day work week or excellent benefits, etc. Welcome to a competitive market.

Otherwise you'll end up with people who only barely work to not get fined, training new people (and you have to get new people because people leave asap, fine or not, some people might even pay the fine to leave) who are immediately entering a workplace culture where no one wants to be there. Smart enough people to google the company beforehand and see the shitshow in glassdoor reviews et al. will avoid the company, potentially even years after whatever management gets its head out of its ass and rights the ship. A total disaster.
> Tesla got lifetime cashflow positive after burning $6B in accumulated losses, and has now paid all of those back prompting investors to ask for stock buybacks.

Sorry to be dumb, but can you explain this sentence a bit further? What do you mean by "burning $6B in accumulated losses"?
Netflix (NFLX) Ads Mark Seismic Shift to Raise Stock Price
Similar thing happened with Amazon and their investment in Rivian. Q4 last year was like a 10b gain and then by q1 of 2022 it was a loss.
oh I totally get that, but I would expect that they would be doing their testing on Chrome. I mean I get not liking chrome but ignoring it for testing is... a choice.

I would have expected the worse behavior on Safari... not Chrome.

Or am I just being nieve about frontend development? I really only do it for any personal projects so don't really have any insight into it professionally
Why do you believe open source developers should attach themselves to the same 'Companies who generate billions in revenue using open source products'?

I think that would negate one of the primary attractions of being an open source developer, not being financially tied, or have any kind of obligations, to any specific group.

Also, being able to credibly claim that they are not financially biased towards any outcome, position, decision, etc...
The main purpose was militaristic and science benefited as a result. Like others have said, the technology has advanced to the point where it didn’t have much scientific value and we no longer need it to spy on the Russians so I highly doubt anyone is willing to pony up the billions just to have something cool and inspirational when it won’t even be cutting edge anymore
The entire point was to have public ledgers showing every transaction on the chain. Who is this a surprise to exactly?
Building software is not a job scheduling optimization problem (2020)
That's exactly why there should be a distinction made. The term is too broad for a specific subset of deep fake technology that has matured far beyond its fun monster phase.

Facemask and soundmask are good terms for a democratized warping of visual and audio data.
What Is Dry Code, and Is It Always a Good Thing?
Please… get specific and share the losses you speak of.
Why in the world would you count in 5 second intervals? If the measure is accidents per hour you don't then divide it by 5s.

Reliability with 1 accident per 2k hours would be 99.95%.

Reliability for 1 accident per 20k hours is 99.995%.
transparency

Has anyone seen the financial records for Tether?
I did an Ubuntu ZFS install for the first time recently, and I can confirm that a similar list of datasets arrive automatically.

It also taints the kernel, which is interesting.
For clarity:

1. Bitcoin addresses are 100% traceable from the first to the last transaction that's ever taken place.

2. Tracing a Bitcoin address to an individual depends on the individual's OpSec.

For example: bank account to exchange to Bitcoin is traceable with the help of the exchange's KYC records, assuming they have them. From there, any further Bitcoin transactions can be traced to an individual. Buying Bitcoin with cash in person may make traceability to an individual more difficult, but then you'd have to trust who you're meeting in person to not take photos / videos or have a meeting place swarming with CCTV, and both parties not already be using individually traceable Bitcoin addresses.

Monero and / or exchanges with little to no KYC (therefore, use at your own risk) may allow for some level of 'cutout' in the traceability. Or tumblers or coin mixers or other shady, questionably trustworthy services.
> it's unlikely to fool anyone no matter how well the face is animated

Call me a cynic, but I believe humans, myself included, are easy to fool. If the face looks good enough, plenty of people will fail to spot the Invisible Gorilla.
If you own significant sums of money and its completely anonymous, or the origin is untraceable, you can't use it.

Just like drug cartels know how to collect and store anonymous money but find it very hard to use it. Every time you try to buy something expensive or normal financial assets, you have to explain where the money is from or you may lose it.

Try to buy a house with anonymous crypto and find out.
> having a mechanism that provides detailed logs—including the POST bodies passed to the API—is invaluable.

He includes a caveat later to avoid logging PII, but this should have a flashing red warning sign attached.
Don't use AML/KYC entities?
Heh, “don’t buy a car built on a monday” is a saying that continues to this day because everybody showing up so hungover to their jobs.
I agree, there is some proposals in there that I doubt they fit well with the culture. However what has actually been accepted that makes you think C in the heads is not C in 2022? In my head, the biggest practical change from 1990 C is declare-anywhere (including declare-in-for-loop) which in my estimation has afforded a lot of added ergonomics at practically zero semantic cost. The next most relevant one is standardization of memory models, which is a good one AFAICT (but I used it only a little, so far). One unfortunate addition from 1999, VLAs, has even been demoted in the following revision.

In 2022 I can jump into basically any C codebase and be immediately productive. Which can't be said of some other languages.
New study, the sky is blue the majority of the time.

Anyone with a "dark personality" will use any means of manipulation they can. This includes playing on people's sympathy.

Slight tangent to the article which is more generic:

The sad fact is things like acceptance of mental health and acknowledgement that sexual assault is far more common than people want to amit, will result in more people claiming these things falsely. Which causes further harm to the people this would help.
Making the characters somewhat amoral jerks was very much intentional - the mantra of the show was "No hugging, no learning."

>I realize the character is not the same as the comedian, but it's hard to disentangle the two

No, it's really not.
> Bad for customers to be sure. Most have no idea what they're doing and have fallen for a scam hook, line, and sinker.

I wouldn't call it a scam, it's written into laws we should all be pretty mad about. It's only a matter of time before KYC companies are the only way to engage legally with cryptocurrencies. While I don't think having all your transactions in a public ledger was ever a smart move for your average joe, just one de-anonymizing event and you're out to dry. I think the bigger issue is the ever eroding privacy policy in many countries.
Even if a single crypto coin is limited in supply, there's an infinite number of (potential) suppliers of coin.
Repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33232099
It's already kiddie tech. Just google deepfake maker and you get dozens of hits for free services to make passable fakes.
> When the US justice department declared that credit card companies had to stop processing donations to wikileaks I could still donate through bitcoin.

If any appreciable amount of money was sent this way you would see blacklisting of bitcoin addresses where sending / receiving money from that address would get you in legal trouble. Bitcoin creates a situation where you cannot be physically prevented from sending the money but everyone including the gov’t will know you did it so it’s so it’s not censorship resistant to any gov’t that cares to get a wrench.
After reading your comment I had an image of a New York City cab driver and his medallion and the meter, him looking over his shoulder saying “Welcome back” as he hits the meter.
> This could definitely never happen today, for so many reasons. Which is a bit sad honestly.

In 1994, the internet wasn’t ubiquitous. Today they could have released it free on the App Store for Mac and iOS or for Mac just throw it on a web page.

It would have been harder to get noticed though.
> Cyberpunk sure, but fantasy? Not at all.

The fantasy is the idea that doing what you describe will matter.
That's a violation but not what SD is doing. It's not copying it's recreating a similar (sometimes extremely similar image).
> they will start trading at a reasonable P/E ratio

As in, a positive one?
Employees voluntarily agreeing to contracts means very little without a lot of context. Generally speaking the power differential between companies and employees is too great for any meaningful "voluntary" action on the part of employees.
Show HN: Online Pomodoro Timer Tool
this is amazing such smooth design, does anybody know if the source code is available somewhere?
Changing a major doesn't occur financial penalties, and colleges also allow you to take extremely extended leaves (3+ months, aka a semester/quarter) for emergencies as a normal point of cause and your education credits don't expire for several years (I think a decade?) so if an emergency happens you can step away and return even years later with fairly minimal penalty academically. Credits aren't even charged if you quit early enough IIRC.
Why is blockchain needed for that and not any other immutable ledger?
How much runway do they have left? Will Uber ever hit a wall and just die?
Because, while in fact neither is a "free-speech" platform, Parler brands itself as one while Twitter does not, and the person who posted this article has an axe to grind (adding "free speech" to the title when it isn't in the headline of the article).
What a nested rust iterator is doing, semantically, is creating a struct containing a struct containing a struct... that calls a method that calls a method that calls a method. The compiler has to do a lot of work to make that into anything approaching a C for loop. Just try running unoptimized rust code and you'll see.
When this happens, the amount of uber cars will probably decrease. So there'll actually be a shortage again the taxi market.
The more I ponder this post, the more it rings true with my experience. Insightful.
As a frequent Kroger customer, my immediate gut reaction was no way should this happen.

But then looking further, how much geographic overlap is there between the two companies? Not much from my quick search. Certainly not in the area I live.

And a stated goal of this merger is to fight the evil empire, Walmart. So I'm warming up to it...
I don't think you're giving them enough credit.

Having the type system be able to tell you that you may have a null reference exception in a complicated code base is magic. I've inherited bad code bases and refactored them to use nullable references and watched lots of bugs fall out.
Let's see what the pricing calculator says. Assuming you stored 1GB of content, with 4MB images, and you transferred out 40GB of content each month:

1 GB per month / 0.00390625 GB average item size = 256.00 unrounded number of objects
1 GB x 0.0230000000 USD = 0.02 USD
100,000 GET requests in a month x 0.0000004 USD per request = 0.04 USD (S3 Standard GET requests cost)
40 GB x 0.0007 USD = 0.028 USD (S3 select returned cost)
0.023 USD + 0.04 USD + 0.028 USD = 0.09 USD (Total S3 Standard Storage, data requests, S3 select cost)
Internet: 40 GB x 0.09 USD per GB = 3.60 USD

Total: $3.69

And for 1TB stored & transferred & 1M GETs each month:

1,024 GB per month / 0.00390625 GB average item size = 262,144.00 unrounded number of objects
1024 GB x 0.0230000000 USD = 23.55 USD
1,000,000 GET requests in a month x 0.0000004 USD per request = 0.40 USD (S3 Standard GET requests cost)
1,024 GB x 0.0007 USD = 0.7168 USD (S3 select returned cost)
23.552 USD + 0.40 USD + 0.7168 USD = 24.67 USD (Total S3 Standard Storage, data requests, S3 select cost)
262,144 number of objects x 0.000005 USD = 1.31072 USD (Cost for PUT, COPY, POST requests for initial data)
Internet: 1024 GB x 0.09 USD per GB = 92.16 USD

Total: $118.14

Assuming Cloudflare had a significant cache hit rate, you'd save a decent chunk of change.
Submillisecond: A lunatic web framework for the Rust language
But how can you seriously compare a statement like 'capitalism is the problem', which is an opinion about how society chooses to organise itself, to bigotry and prejudice against what people were born as, including anti-semitism?

It's self evident that there should be separate standards for that.
Presumably the company making the car/software/hardware – whichever part is at fault. If one company is making all three (Tesla) it's pretty easy.
Tesla lost a total of $6B until it finally started making money. The tables turned in mid-2019 and every quarter since has been profitable.
We had that before -- e.g., your nerds had grown up on s.f. allegories about society, as well as general education -- but it was obliterated by the frenzied influx during the dotcom gold rush.

Since then, "the victors write the history books", including formative influences on children's thinking.

It's encouraging if we manage to collectively scrape our way back from that, and have genuine concerns -- despite the noise of fashionable posturing, "influencer" conflicts of interest, etc.
Not OP but I assume that’s what you get if you add up every quarterly loss from their financial disclosures.
Business Impact of Code Quality
Yeah, LCWO is the gold standard for Koch training on the web, and I'd second the suggestion for CW Academy. Having a commitment to learning with other people tends to help you ride out the rough patches.

To help with my own learning, I built a mobile friendly web app/game which includes Koch as an option. It's also open source - https://github.com/mdp/morse.mdp.im - morse.mdp.im
Here's an amusing exercise: count up how many top FBI executives over the neoliberal period (roughly beginning in the mid-1970s under Ford/Carter) have gone to work for various Wall Street-linked investment banks, hedge funds, law firms, etc. after 'retirement' (the number is comparable to that of generals and admirals who migrated to the corporate boards of defense contractors post-'retirement'). This reality supports the notion that the FBI's central role is to serve as the enforcement arm of the organized white-collar crime cartel known as 'Wall Street'.

A competing monetary system relative to the Federal Reserve isn't something these interests are all that thrilled about. Hence, regardless of the soundness or unsoundness of various cryptocurrency approaches, ex-FBI officials should hardly be viewed as independent credible third-party voices on the issue.
> Monopolies can and do occur outside of mergers.

You're right - and we might want additional rules to address that.

But IMHO it's one thing if facebook gains market dominance because users choose their product - that might just be a sign they've got an excellent product. On the other hand, if facebook feels the need to buy Instagram and Whatsapp because users aren't choosing facebook's product? That's a completely different matter.
I would expect the mosquitoes to die but their eggs to survive until warm enough
> Saying "no" by default because a system is not entirely perfect at the beginning is a destructive discussion tactic that only serves those in power.

Who are these people in power, and what are their goals? I don’t see what this has to do with my comment—I’m not arguing against trains, merely in support of autonomous vehicles, in areas where they might be useful, like far away from cities.
I agree, it should have been (void*)0. I doubt that nullptr_t will see much use (as much as _Generic is a fringe addition), but we'll find out.
If this merger goes through it will result in a grocery store chain that is more than 3 times the size of Publix (in store count).
Ok, so I will just show up and do nothing until you fire me?
That guy is bankrupt and homeless now. His medallion was worthless because of uber and the large loan he took to get it ruined his life. etc etc.
Nothing will beat taking a bunch of cash and exchanging it for goods. Yes you could theoretically be traced by serial codes, but entirely impractical at any scale.

That’s why government and banks will push for banking apps and going entirely digital.
A big part of the problem is our ongoing and increasing legislative gridlock. When one of the two major political parties has as their stated goal preventing the other from getting anything done, and undoing anything they do (leaving aside their open efforts to replace democracy with autocratic fascism), it's very, very difficult to make any meaningful progress.
This is my long term safe place desktop if Ubuntu slides further down the slippery slope of advertising.
Upbound Marketplace
Quite a potential. I hope it wont suffer from performance penalty or something.
'Kamikaze' drones are the latest threat for Ukraine
One of my employers gave every employee 5000 per year for education with no strings attached. Want to get a Masters in Basketweaving? No problem. They gave up to 10k with manager approval.

Typically places that will totally fund expensive degrees (JD, MBA, etc.) will have you sign a contract and you typically are required to stay on for X years after you finish the degree they paid for.
It’s cheaper than lawyers for some things.
What "value" is there in this publicity that the author hasn't already received? I have to imagine that it's exceedingly easy to find the screenwriter for a published script, and as such this additional publicity gets them little to no additional benefits.

The downside of having this published for free is that the author now has a more difficult time profiting from the sale of the script. This is the same for any author that profits from the sale of their writing. This conversation would have a much different tone if the site was publishing novels, wouldn't it?
Assuming that well-tempered would be the primary alternative here, does it enable one to differentiate between keys? Asking as someone with very little experience / knowledge of music theory.
Iirc this has been an issue with Mac os/osx for many years. Seems like a very tricky bug to hunt down, I only encounter it maybe twice a month.
Indeed, I thought this was a little weak sauce. I currently have 38 cameras installed, with another 10 to go in my Fortress of Surveillance! To boot I installed about 21 miles of fiber and CAT6 cabling, motion sensor, presence sensors, and lots of contact switches.

It is, however, all pretty unexciting in what it produces. Still fun!
Yes, and Commodore is absolutely an American company.

I wish the Amiga had been British! :)
I have recently gone down this path and the observation of the animal life of all kinds moving around the area has been a pleasant unintended side effect as well.